Stupid SNMP error
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Well, the reason for my hesitation, is ping requires certain rights, sometimes running poller as root. Make sure that after changing that setting that all your other hosts are working.
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I wrote it, so maybe I should comment. Today, those settings are global. In 0.9, the will be per device. As far as risks go, if an snmp community changes, you polling times could be extended greatly.
Also, if ICMP or the UDP port is question is blocked at some point, Ping may not work. I am happy to say however, we have things planned to take care of both those scenarios.
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Also, if ICMP or the UDP port is question is blocked at some point, Ping may not work. I am happy to say however, we have things planned to take care of both those scenarios.
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Great I will be looking forward to .9 that will fix (or at least lessen the effects) the effects that using ping only potentially could cause.
Thanks for the comment and the continued development of Cacti. It is by far the best monitoring program out there!
Still one more question that I have not found an answer to. The SNMP/PING option if one fails will it fall back to the other and assume the host is up. Does it weight one more than the other so if it responds to snmp will the ping still be carried out?
Thanks for all your help rony and TheWitness
Thanks for the comment and the continued development of Cacti. It is by far the best monitoring program out there!
Still one more question that I have not found an answer to. The SNMP/PING option if one fails will it fall back to the other and assume the host is up. Does it weight one more than the other so if it responds to snmp will the ping still be carried out?
Thanks for all your help rony and TheWitness
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Currently both have to be successful in order to proceed. If snmp fails, there is no need to perform a bunch of snmp pings. I guess we could change that behavior... it's one line of code. But in any event, it will all be left mute in the next release.
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