BigTime Performance Enhancement -> Take a Look At This!!!

[TheWitness]

Ok,

I'm going to brag. I have spent all weekend working on enhancements to Cacti and Cactid both under Windows and Unix and I believe that it's paid off!!! Take a look at the image below. The fixes/enhancement that I have made to Cacti and Cactid allow the following:

- Multiple CACTID instances from the user interface (just as many as your CPU can take).
- No more timeouts when your servers are down (yea@!!!)
- Enabling and Disabling the Poller from the UI (although, it doesn't kill it)
- No more either CACTID or CMD.PHP, just schedule POLLER.PHP and select which one you want from the UI!

Right now, it is working with both CACTID and CMD.PHP. It scales Windows "DRAMATICALLY". All you have to do is replace 2 PHP files (I think, Ian will let me know), replace your CACTID source code, recompile , schedule a PHP file called "poller.php", create a new directory for the autogenerated poller script file and refresh your display to fill in a few variables and check boxes. You then can interchange between CACTID and CMD.PHP at whim from the UI.

Here's what isn't fixed/enhanced:

- Multiple threads in CACTID - I have confirmed that this is a problem with the RRDTOOL. Unfortunately, I am unable to compile it to perform debug or direct integration with CACTID. I will work with Tobi....
- Non PHP Scripting in CACTID. I am still working on this. It's a path issue in the data_cache...
- System Logging (Event Viewer/Syslog)
- Some settings that I don't like quite yet.
- ICMP/PING Logging and RRD for everything.

Anyone interested in testing under Unix???

TheWitness

[Lux]

COOL! I'm going to try this out!

One comment from your screen shot though... (sorry, I'm an English snob) the first line "Poller Enabled" should read "if you wish THE poller to stop operation, uncheck this box."

Ok, enough troubleshooting people who are smarter than I am.... Now on to my testing.

Mike

[BSOD2600]

So since this became a sticky, that mean these new features/fixes are going to be incorperated into 0.8.6 ?

[dieter]

not sure, you can choose to make it a sticky by yourself when posting a new thread

[skaminski]

That looks great!

Ok, so how can I test this out on my setup? I'd like to get this implemented before I begin my full deployment. I was able to get cactid to work but it didn't seem to offer the huge performance improvement I was reading about. Possibly because of some of the queries that are running...regardless, I'd like to implement your changes....

So...where can I find the changes

[TheWitness]

Let me talk with raX and see if has has had time to look at the modifications. Then I will post a reply. The changes to cactid and cmd.php were significant and I don't want to give you something that is not planned for the mainline code (although I can't see why not).

You can e-mail me at LarryJAdams@comcast.net

Regards,

Larry Adams
Warren/Michigan/USA

[flagg]

Very Neat. This would solve many of my performance issues.

How much testing has been done?

Are the modifications posted somewhere?

[TheWitness]

Yes, the beta build has the Multiprocess enhancements incorporated as of today. I have just fixed the CACTID program to be thread safe and functional in Windows as well. This is BIG news for Cacti lovers.

Please be advised that the beta build is just that. Use at your own risk.

TheWitness

[skaminski]

Any idea when this will be released to production?

[TheWitness]

You can play right now. Pretty stable on Win32, but I am still toying with Cactid. There are issues around scripting and POPEN commands. Send me an e-mail and I will forward a zip file with additional information.

TheWitness