[SOLVED] want the exact time that a device down?

[saya]

hi
I'd like cacti to include the down time in the alert message like: device name(ip) is down at 15:02, 25 Feb
so I add status_fail_date to the alert msg in thold/setup.php function: thold_update_host_status(). It works, but it's not exactly what I want...
let's say cacti polls at 15:00, 15:05...and the device does actually turn down at 15:02. If do it in the above way, it returns me 15:05. But I want 15:02 in fact...
How can I get this 15:02 from cacti?

Thanks a lot!!
Saya

[kyosanim]

hi
I'd like cacti to include the down time in the alert message like: device name(ip) is down at 15:02, 25 Feb
so I add status_fail_date to the alert msg in thold/setup.php function: thold_update_host_status(). It works, but it's not exactly what I want...
let's say cacti polls at 15:00, 15:05...and the device does actually turn down at 15:02. If do it in the above way, it returns me 15:05. But I want 15:02 in fact...
How can I get this 15:02 from cacti?

Thanks a lot!!
Saya

i think there is no way to get the "down-information" between 2 poller runs.

you can change your polling interval and all your templates to 1 minute polling. the "down-information" is a bit more exact.

[saya]

i think there is no way to get the "down-information" between 2 poller runs.

you can change your polling interval and all your templates to 1 minute polling. the "down-information" is a bit more exact.

Thank you for ur reply...
but is it possible that a device push an interrupt to cacti to notify the down information in stead of cacti itself pulling the information each other 300 secs?

[fmangeant]

Hi

is it an option to use 1 minute polling interval (with Cacti >= 0.8.7) ?

[saya]

Hi

is it an option to use 1 minute polling interval (with Cacti >= 0.8.7) ?

yes it could be a way..and would return things like 15:01:00, 15:02:00...
but I did see some one got message like 15:01:24, 15:02:48, it's also showing the seconds...I guess they made a shorter interval for polling

Thank you!