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Monitor Plugin
Version 0.7
Released 07/31/06 16:05:20
The monitor plugin is meant to be a simple WhatsUpGold replacement. Its displays the host's status by using small icons. Green for up, Red for down, and Blue for recovering. It gives audible alerts whenever a host has gone down. It also displays some basic information about the host when you mouse over the icon. The plugin use's cacti's internal status of the host, but also includes a "fast" poller that can be ran at a faster schedule (like every 1 minute) to give better accuracy and allow quicker responses to down hosts.
Changelog wrote:#0000044 - Modify device image to link to device's graphs
#0000052 - If the Threshold plugin is running, change the host color to orange if a threshold is breached
Add option to select an different alarm sound from the available wav and mp3 files in the sounds directory
Update tab image to better resemble the original cacti images
Add option to add an icon legend to the Monitor display
Moved sounds to their own folder
Fixes to the fast poller
CyberTech wrote:Is there any way to change the sort order of hosts, or preferably to allow grouping of hosts based on their grouping in the tree?
Nope, that would take time and effort, neither of which come cheaply when your having to feed your family.
I had planned on adding grouping, but its not high on my priority list, since I don't see much use for it (Why have to click several times to drill down to find the down host). Instead I would probably have an option to either sort by "Status" (which I wouldn't use, since I can tell which host is down from 30 feet away by the position of the host on the screen. If I had them move to the top, I would actually have to walk over to the screen!). The only other reasonable option is to have it display only down hosts.
now for my question - do you still have a plan for making groupings for your plugin? because most of the time the people who looks at cacti in my company are non-tech people who just don't know what the different icons that they are seeing in the screen (mostly NOC people) so i wanted to have a grouping on the icons so if ever they see an icon in red they would immediately know where the equipment is located and could call the network admin assigned to that place or site. we run a 24x7 company but network engineers are not 24x7 only the NOC poeple are 24x7.
aboyz wrote:can someone upload a copy here cuz the cactiuser.com website is no tworking as i wanted to download the file but its giving me a blank page.
Hi I would like to know the set up of the fast poller,
I understand that the fast poller updates cacti internal host up down status and threhold email based on this for downed hosts.
What I would like to know is where I can configure how the fast poller pings or find out what it currently does.
Does it send out only one ping if there is no response it is classed as down, does it send out a series of pings, what is the milli seconds time out etc
The fast poller is just a stripped down version of the Cacti poller. It will poll just as often as you set a cron to do it.
It will ping the host, and update the up / down status appropriately. It does nothing with Thold, as thold relies on the normal poller and the actual data it collects. The fast poller does not collect data, it just pings.
Thank Cigamit but I would like to know a bit more info.
I use the fast poller to update monitor and also because I have the thold installed and notifing on up down host status it will email me as soon as a device goes down, So far this is great.
The question is how many times per poll does the poller ping a device before it classes it as down. Example the poller ping a devices and gets no response does it then ping again or is it flagged as down straight away. What is milli second time out.
Sorry if these are stupid question as I am new to linux and cacti.
I have a router that only work with SNMPv1, the cacti pooler is ok, but the fast_pooler.php int the monitor plug-in try to contact like SNMPv2 and show like host down, somebody have this problem?
