CACTID : TCP/ICMP Ping wont work ?

ruud · Post by **ruud** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 4:24 am

After switching from the cmd.php to cactid for polling my devices i ran into trouble.

I run cacti as a special user "cactiuser" as recommended however cactid has some problems with this.

CACTI set for UDP Ping :

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cactiuser@<hostname> /root $ /usr/sbin/cactid
CACTID: Using cactid config file [/etc/cactid.conf]
CACTID: Version 0.8.6f starting
CACTID: WARNING: Falling back to UDP Ping due to not running asroot.  Please use "chmod xxx0 /usr/bin/cactid" to resolve.

CACTI set for ICMP Ping :

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cactiuser@<hostname> /root $ /usr/sbin/cactid
CACTID: Using cactid config file [/etc/cactid.conf]
CACTID: Version 0.8.6f starting
CACTID: WARNING: Falling back to UDP Ping due to not running asroot.  Please use "chmod xxx0 /usr/bin/cactid" to resolve.
CACTID: Host[2] ERROR: HOST EVENT: Host is DOWN Message: SNMP not performed due to setting or ping result, UDP: Ping timed out

As you can see, my cactid binary is available for every user, the mentioned chmod 7770 only makes it worse.

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cactiuser@<hostname> /root $ ls -al /usr/sbin/cactid
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 58516 Aug 22 09:33 /usr/sbin/cactid

If i run cactid as root user it will work just fine.

Am i doing something wrong or is this a bug ?

fmangeant · Post by **fmangeant** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 4:31 am

Hi

in Settings -> Poller -> Poller Host Availability Settings, see this comment :

Ping Type
The type of ping packet to sent. NOTE: ICMP requires that the Cacti Service ID have root privilages in Unix.

You can try to run cactid through sudo, or use the setuid root (chmod +s).

ruud · Post by **ruud** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 6:56 am

Thank you for your reply.. However, i have this same problem using UDP ping !!..

fmangeant · Post by **fmangeant** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 6:59 am

Can you try this :

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# chmod +s /usr/sbin/cactid

Fred · Post by **Fred** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 11:25 am

ruud wrote: As you can see, my cactid binary is available for every user, the mentioned chmod 7770 only makes it worse.
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cactiuser@<hostname> /root $ ls -al /usr/sbin/cactid
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 58516 Aug 22 09:33 /usr/sbin/cactid

The output from your ls -l is are '0777' permissions. The instructions were suggesting you make it setuid-root (basically makes it run as the root user instead of whoever executes it).

Note: You do *NOT* want it to be both world writeable and setuid. That's a major security hole. If you want cactid to run as root, you'd probably want to 'chmod 4711 /usr/sbin/cactid'. Then your ls -l should show '-rws--x--x root root' (notice the s in the 4th spot).

zgamer · Post by **zgamer** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 10:09 am

Older post but found another fix, I had the same problem with cactid being in /usr/local/bin/cactid as mentioned in this post it was in /usr/sbin/cactid. In either case move the cactid file to /usr/bin/cactid and it will run.

zunyhuang · Post by **zunyhuang** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 6:36 am

where is my cacti's cactid,i can't find it

Post by **gandalf** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 5:25 pm

Either in the same directory as cactid itself, in /etc/cactid.conf or in the snmp directory, wherever you've put it.
Reinhard

killshoot · Post by **killshoot** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 3:24 am

Hi, I've tried to do a chmod +s to my spine without success.

My spine is in /usr/local/spine/bin/spine

What I need to do to fix the problem?

Best regards,

Vince

jamberbamber · Post by **jamberbamber** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 5:22 pm

killshoot wrote:Hi, I've tried to do a chmod +s to my spine without success.

My spine is in /usr/local/spine/bin/spine

What I need to do to fix the problem?

Best regards,

Vince

symlink it to /usr/bin/spine -- that just worked for me.

anglet · Post by **anglet** » Mon May 16, 2011 5:41 am

didn't work for me :S

Cacti version: 0.8.7g with spine

Post by **gandalf** » Mon May 16, 2011 2:54 pm

anglet wrote:didn't work for me :S

Cacti version: 0.8.7g with spine

Which OS are you using? Where is your spine located? What is entered under "Settings -> Paths"? Where is spine.conf located?
R.

anglet · Post by **anglet** » Tue May 17, 2011 4:32 am

Eventually worked for me. This are my final settings:

Cacti version: 0.8.7g with spine

OS : Centos 5.6

Settings -> Paths : /usr/local/spine/bin/spine

spine.conf path is /usr/local/spine/etc/spine.conf

Crontab line is */5 * * * * root php /usr/local/share/va-cacti/poller.php > /tmp/poller.log 2>&1

Finally, I "chmod +s /usr/local/spine/bin/spine" and it worked.

Thanks!

quicky2g · Post by **quicky2g** » Thu Dec 10, 2015 6:46 pm

Tried everything else from this thread and still having the issue. ICMP ping isn't working for me. Any ideas?

Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS
Cacti 0.8.8f
Spine 0.8.8b-1

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classen · Post by **classen** » Mon Jan 09, 2017 6:07 pm

Has anyone figure out how to get ICMP ping working on stubborn systems?
I'm running cacti 1.0.0 checked out from git repo (commit 1f8d38f787caf0609c4bbc90195b5d4a957790d8)
I'm also using the latest spine.
my spine binary is owned by root and I can ping from the command line either as root or as the cacti user.
Here is my crontab:

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[cacti@www cacti]$ crontab -l
# cacti spine poller
* * * * * /usr/bin/php -q /www/cacti/poller.php > /logs/cacti-cron.log 2>&1

I've been struggling with this for awhile now. I'd really like to get this sorted out.

Cacti