[SOLVED] Need help with a new boost install

[stormonts]

Thank you Larry for all of your help and guidance!



First question, computing the total number of rows in the poller cache. I did this by looking at my poller cache (which was 2182 pages of 25 items per page) and that gave me a total of 54,550. Do I also need to look at the SNMP cache (9,081 pages of 25 items per page) and add the two totals together to get th maximum number of rows?

I installed Boost 3.0 using the steps from: http://docs.cacti.net/plugin:boost

I then ran mysql -u root -p cacti
(entered password)
and then ran:

alter table poller_output, modify column output varchar(50) not null default ””, engine=memory;

alter table poller_output_boost, modify column output varchar(50) not null default ””;

I then exited mysql.

I edited my.cnf and added "max_heap_table_size=66M" (which was assumed using a 100k row poller cache value, although that should probably be higher if I have to add the total of "poller cache" and "snmp cache".

I then restarted mssql.

Enabled the plugin in plugin management. And configured it as the screenshots below show. The first time I did it, "Total boost records" went above 54,550 which I didn't expect given my math noted above.

Whenever boost is enabled, no data is drawn on the graphs. As soon as I disable boost, the blank spaces in the graphs are filled in (like it was updating the rrds, but not updating the display, if that makes sense). Ownership of the RRA directory is:

drwsrwsrwx 4 cactiuser wwwrun 78032 2010-03-18 12:19 rra


And permissions for files in the RRA folder are:

-rw-r--r-- 1 cactiuser wwwrun

I noticed that the README file included with Boost 3 lists a lot more steps than presented on the cacti.docs page and I wasn't sure if those steps were leftover from an older version or if they were necessary.

Please help!

Thanks.

[msylvain]

Hello !

I'm setting up the boost plugin on a quite big cacti, and i'm curious about things dealing with it.
You marked your problem as "solved", but what was the problem ? I noticed you followed instructions from the boost plugin homepage, but did you start the boost_server.php (as init.d or inittab process) ?

I ask, because if not, i think your web server won't have the rights to write to rrd files.

I may be wrong.

regards,

sylvain

[stormonts]

It was actually solved because Larry showed me that our site wasn't really big enough for Boost and instead gave me direction in switching to Spine.

Sorry I can't be of more help.