I'm really struggling to get this working
I think I'm really dense, but here's what I did (this is on Linux, Cacti version 8.6g).
I just want to plot the latency to Google.com.
So I add a host. I name it Google and give it a fully qualified hostname of "
www.google.com"
Questions: What host type do I give it? None? SNMP Host?
I give it an "Advanced Ping" Graph Template.
I go to my Data Sources for "Google Advanced Ping" and tell it to pint TCP port 80 with 20 retries.
I run my poller from the command line:
/usr/bin/php /var/www/localhost/htdocs/cacti/poller.php > /dev/null 2>&1
And nothing happens. I don't even get a graph with default values. I get the little icon that says there will be a graph as soon as it polls (it's some text that says: "Google - Advanced Ping" and then has the icon of a magnifying glass.
I can add the ping to the device that represents my desktop machine, but I've read that the way to do this is to add a device for every host you want to ping, correct?
