EDIT: Advanced Ping Template Version 1.3 for Cacti 0.8.6g

The00Dustin · Post by **The00Dustin** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 12:32 pm

Hey all, here's my output:

[12:31:45] admin - /usr/local/cacti> sudo php script_server.php
Password:
PHP Script Server has Started - Parent is cmd
/usr/bin/php /usr/local/cacti/scripts/ss_fping.php ss_fping (server) 20 ICMP
PHP Warning:  Unexpected character in input:  '' (ASCII=15) state=1 in /usr/bin/php on line 3796
PHP Warning:  Unexpected character in input:  '' (ASCII=15) state=1 in /usr/bin/php on line 3796
PHP Parse error:  parse error, unexpected T_STRING in /usr/bin/php on line 3796
Content-type: text/html
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.9

Any suggestions? TIA

KaiB · Post by **KaiB** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 5:05 am

Managed to sort my problem out.

Found out I had to explicitly state the path to php.exe

I changed this:
php <path_cacti>/scripts/ss_fping.php <hostname> <attempts> <protocol> <port>

Into this.
c:/php/php.exe <path_cacti>/scripts/ss_fping.php <hostname> <attempts> <protocol> <port>

And now it works excellent with cactid.

chercen · Post by **chercen** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 4:06 pm

Hello,

I would like to try the "Advanced ping", but I am running cacti on RHEL3 and this distro offers only php 4 packages. I have found some php5 rpms for RHEL3 compiled from CentOS SRPMS, but I am not sure if this will affect stability of our server...

I suppose the new version of "Advanced ping" is quite better, so I would like to try it (old one did support php 4...). Do you know if there is any way to workaround this? Any "Advanced Ping 1.3" for php 4 with the updates you have made to the new one?

Regards,

Cesar

TheWitness wrote:Hello,

I have made some additional speedups as well as support for IPv6 in ping.php. Please keep in mind that you must have PHP 5.x or better.

Also, please note, that I have moved to the dark side (Linux) as of yesterday and saw some nasty things relative to DNS caching. Therefore, I made some additional changes to speed that stuff up.

I think you will like these enhancements.

Regards,

TheWitness

claranet · Post by **claranet** » Thu May 11, 2006 2:08 am

Hi all,

I have still problems with this template.

Versions:

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ii  cacti            0.8.6h-3
ii  cacti-cactid     0.8.6g-2+b1
ii  rrdtool          1.2.11-0.5
ii  php-net-socket   1.0.6-2
ii  php4             v 4.4.2-1
ii  php4-common      4.4.2-1+b1
ii  php4-mysql       4.4.2-1+b1
ii  php4-snmp        4.4.2-1+b1
ii  php5-common      5.1.2-1+b1

The OS is debian testing (etch).

I have also installed the last versions of ping.php, ss_fping.php and the xml template (v 1.3).

In manual mode all is ok:

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gauss:/usr/share/cacti/site# php script_server.php
PHP Script Server has Started - Parent is cmd
/usr/share/cacti/site/scripts/ss_fping.php ss_fping 80.48.53.32 20


min:0.4700 avg:0.5365 max:0.9800 dev:0.1216 loss:0.0000
/usr/share/cacti/site/scripts/ss_fping.php ss_fping www.google.es 20
min:25.3100 avg:25.5655 max:25.9400 dev:0.1961 loss:0.0000
/usr/share/cacti/site/scripts/ss_fping.php ss_fping 80.48.53.32 20
min:0.4500 avg:0.5690 max:0.9800 dev:0.1656 loss:0.0000
quit
PHP Script Server Shutdown request received, exiting

And the poller is cmd.php.

But, the graph is not painted (always NaN) and the return of the cacti.log is:

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05/11/2006 08:44:02 AM - CMDPHP: Poller[0] Host[4] DS[141] WARNING: Result from SERVER not valid.  Partial Result:
05/11/2006 08:44:02 AM - CMDPHP: Poller[0] Host[4] DS[141] SERVER: /usr/share/cacti/site/scripts/ss_fping.php ss_fping 80.48.53.32 20 ICMP, output: U
05/11/2006 08:44:03 AM - CMDPHP: Poller[0] Host[9] DS[142] WARNING: Result from SERVER not valid.  Partial Result:
05/11/2006 08:44:03 AM - CMDPHP: Poller[0] Host[9] DS[142] SERVER: /usr/share/cacti/site/scripts/ss_fping.php ss_fping www.google.es 20 ICMP, output: U

Olny when I make Advanced Pings to TCP 80 is ok:

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05/11/2006 08:50:03 AM - CMDPHP: Poller[0] Host[9] DS[142] SERVER: /usr/share/cacti/site/scripts/ss_fping.php ss_fping www.google.es 20 ICMP, output: U
05/11/2006 08:50:03 AM - CMDPHP: Poller[0] Host[10] DS[143] SERVER: /usr/share/cacti/site/scripts/ss_fping.php ss_fping www.google.com 20 TCP 80, output: min:0.5200 avg:0.8650 max:1.4500 dev:0.3385 loss:0.0000

But I need to do ICMP pings.

I've change the user to the poller, but nothing solved:

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gauss:/usr/share/cacti/site# cat /etc/cron.d/cacti
MAILTO=root
*/1 * * * * root /usr/share/cacti/site/poller.php >/dev/null 2>/var/log/cacti/poller-error.log

Only works a litle bit when I change the poller from cmd.php to cactid, but if I do that, the perl scripts for localhost doesn't work:

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gauss:/usr/share/cacti/site# php poller.php
CACTID: Host[1] ERROR: Empty result [127.0.0.1]: 'perl /usr/share/cacti/site/scripts/linux_memory.pl MemFree:'
CACTID: Host[1] DS[3] WARNING: Result from SCRIPT not valid. Partial Result: ...

I've said a litle bit, because the ICMP pings to the router (the IP), still doesn't work:

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05/11/2006 08:59:02 AM - CACTID: Poller[0] Host[4] DS[141] SS[0] SERVER: /usr/share/cacti/site/scripts/ss_fping.php ss_fping 80.48.53.32 20 ICMP, output: U
05/11/2006 08:59:03 AM - CACTID: Poller[0] Host[9] DS[142] SS[0] SERVER: /usr/share/cacti/site/scripts/ss_fping.php ss_fping www.google.es 20 ICMP, output: min:0.5200 avg:0.7065 max:2.2000 dev:0.3622 loss:0.0000
05/11/2006 08:59:03 AM - CACTID: Poller[0] Host[10] DS[143] SS[0] SERVER: /usr/share/cacti/site/scripts/ss_fping.php ss_fping www.google.com 20 TCP 80, output: min:25.3900 avg:25.7840 max:26.2300 dev:0.2357 loss:0.0000

Any idea to fix one thing or the other, in cmd.php or in cactid, and achive the ICMP pings to 80.48.53.32?

Sorry for the extension, but I am desperate

...

ste81 · Post by **ste81** » Mon May 15, 2006 4:59 am

Ok, smokeping is very very great and usefull, but for example: I need to trace smokeping not from cacti server to another host, but throught two different host.

How can be deployed? It's possibile?

Thanks
Ste

Post by **TheWitness** » Mon May 15, 2006 6:09 am

Cisco SAA stats. You can utilize the smokeping like graphs for it's statistics.

TheWitness

Here are some relevant posts. It works best as a data query for pre-defined SAA probes, but bulek has a point.

http://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?t ... hlight=saa
http://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?t=2807
http://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?t ... hlight=saa
http://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?t ... hlight=saa

iep · Post by **iep** » Tue May 23, 2006 8:58 am

I'm experiencing one little problem with this template.

I would like to just do a smokeping to an external host. So I added this host to my devices.
Since this device is not mine and thus not responding to snmp packets, I get an SNMP error, and this host gets marked as down within cacti.

Now when this happens I do not get any graphs for my ping, because the ping does not get executed since the host seems down for snmp.

Can this be fixed in any way ?

Thx
IEP

Post by **TheWitness** » Tue May 23, 2006 8:46 pm

claranet,

To run the ICMP version fo the advanced ping template in *nix, you need to either set PHP as an "asroot" permissable application, or run the poller as root.

TheWitness

qwertz · Post by **qwertz** » Wed May 24, 2006 1:34 am

Hello,

I tried to monitor cisco with this beautiful template but i have often holes in the graph. Do you know why?

Thanks

Qwertz

Post by **TheWitness** » Wed May 24, 2006 6:09 am

1) Server duplex mismatch
2) Ping timeout set too low.

For item 2) see Settings->Poller for more information.

TheWitness

claranet · Post by **claranet** » Thu May 25, 2006 5:11 am

Hi WitNess,

I do execute poller as root:

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gauss:/usr/share/cacti/site# cat /etc/cron.d/cacti
MAILTO=root
*/1 * * * * root /usr/share/cacti/site/poller.php >/dev/null 2>/var/log/cacti/poller-error.log

But nothing

qwertz · Post by **qwertz** » Thu May 25, 2006 11:43 am

Thanks Witness

Below is my poller settings.

Do you thing i should change something

Thanks
Qwertz

Post by **TheWitness** » Thu May 25, 2006 7:31 pm

It all looks good to me. Don't know what's going on.

TheWitness

qwertz · Post by **qwertz** » Wed May 31, 2006 10:51 am

It seems to be because of my Netscreen NS 500 FireWall because the script are working fine without going trough it. I jhave to notice that i have a problem with a another perl script (weathermap) where the TCP connection stay ESTABLISHED and never close. this causes the processes to increase without limit ... until the crash
For me it must me a "problem" with the FireWall Netcreen NS-500

Thanks
Qwertz

deneken01 · Post by **deneken01** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 2:06 am

Hello,

When using this script I get a strange output;

On my localhost the script works without a problem, but when I am using this script on a Cisco router the graph is not being updated. From the cli I can see that the script is working fine, also in the log file the script works fine,

I am using the latest version of CactiEZ.
Could any one tell me what is going on, or help me to solve this.

Thanks in advanced.
Lucas Deneken

Cacti

EDIT: Advanced Ping Template Version 1.3 for Cacti 0.8.6g

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