Cactid: SNMP works / Script input does NOT work

[ichoudhury]

Tivoli depends on cygwin to run various unix type commands. In fact, I even manage almost everything over a ssh connection and treat everything as if I am in a unix/linux box. I have installed cygwin-ssh for that administration function and every now and then my cygwin installation goes out of whack (due to duplicate cygwin1.dll).

[claudio]

After a long time, I have an update to this post.

I had no solution before to get script data sources working since I had to move my cacti installation from a Windows 2000 server to a Windows 2003 server.

Because of the Tivoli scripts on this new server - which are not managed by myself - I couldn't install cygwin on the server like recommended earlier in this post.
After I compiled cactid 0.8.6g and rrdtool 1.2.12 with the same cygwin version and placing them with the cygwin1.dll in seperate directories which are not in the path environment, everithing works (inluding the tivoli scripts).

Since I upgraded my cactid to version 0.8.6g and scripts are no longer executed through the poller with a shell, it is possible to get valid data from my scipts.

[TheWitness]

Yes, in order to do so, you must provide the full path to the binary required in order to execute them. So, instead of just:

"perl my_script.pl"

You would need:

"c:/perl/perl.exe my_script.pl"

After you update your Data Input Method, you must clear your poller cache.

TheWitness

[gabe4all]

Yeeehaaaa!
Using the full path worked for me too!

Thanks,
gabe