New to Cacti

[crilly]

Greetings all.

I have installed Cacti on our Debian Linux ('uname -a' = "Linux axe 2.6.26-2-686 #1 SMP Mon Jun 21 05:58:44 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux") development box (called "Axe") and I'm having issues with it not monitoring a host that I add. In fact, I'm having issues with it not monitoring ANY hosts that I add.

I'm asking Cacti to monitor another Debian Linux box on the same LAN (amongst other things), called "Gamma". From Axe I can ping Gamma and I can also do an 'snmpwalk -v2c -cpublic gamma', which yeilds a huge amount of results (as you would expect). However, despite these manual tests being successful, Cacti simply does nothing after I have added Gamma to the list of devices, defined it as a "Local Linux Server" and added the following graph templates:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2664389/Images/ ... xample.JPG

Yet, after five minutes, ten minutes... AN HOUR! Anything? Nothing. It doesn't ping it, yet there are no errors in the Cacti log:

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01/05/2011 10:50:03 AM - SYSTEM STATS: Time:1.4374 Method:cmd.php Processes:1 Threads:N/A Hosts:4 HostsPerProcess:4 DataSources:5 RRDsProcessed:5
01/05/2011 10:45:03 AM - SYSTEM STATS: Time:1.4329 Method:cmd.php Processes:1 Threads:N/A Hosts:4 HostsPerProcess:4 DataSources:5 RRDsProcessed:5
01/05/2011 10:40:03 AM - SYSTEM STATS: Time:1.4380 Method:cmd.php Processes:1 Threads:N/A Hosts:4 HostsPerProcess:4 DataSources:5 RRDsProcessed:5
01/05/2011 10:35:03 AM - SYSTEM STATS: Time:1.4395 Method:cmd.php Processes:1 Threads:N/A Hosts:4 HostsPerProcess:4 DataSources:5 RRDsProcessed:5
01/05/2011 10:30:02 AM - SYSTEM STATS: Time:1.4389 Method:cmd.php Processes:1 Threads:N/A Hosts:4 HostsPerProcess:4 DataSources:5 RRDsProcessed:5
01/05/2011 10:25:03 AM - SYSTEM STATS: Time:1.4512 Method:cmd.php Processes:1 Threads:N/A Hosts:4 HostsPerProcess:4 DataSources:5 RRDsProcessed:5
01/05/2011 10:20:03 AM - SYSTEM STATS: Time:1.4319 Method:cmd.php Processes:1 Threads:N/A Hosts:4 HostsPerProcess:4 DataSources:5 RRDsProcessed:5
01/05/2011 10:15:03 AM - SYSTEM STATS: Time:1.4364 Method:cmd.php Processes:1 Threads:N/A Hosts:4 HostsPerProcess:4 DataSources:5 RRDsProcessed:5 

I do not understand what I am doing wrong here. What am I missing? What haven't I done?

Any help would be appreciated, even if it's a wig to replace the hair I've pulled out trying to use your product.

Kind regards,

Mike.

[mgar]

go to "*Create Graphs for this Host" in the upper right of the device, select all you want to graph and create.

[Linegod]

Recreate it as 'Generic SNMP enabled host'

'Local Linux' means the box that Cacti is installed on.