[solved] Graphing non SNMP data

[fgiugliano]

I've been using cacti for almost 2 years now and I absolutely love it. My set up graphs our windows and linux servers using both SNMP as well as WMI for the windows boxes. I've been able to do it all just by searching until now.

I found this really interesting article:

http://penguinman-techtalk.blogspot.com ... thout.html

And this absolutely blew my mind with the new possibilities this would allow me to graph, but my graphs are blank. There's no errors in the graph debug and no errors in the data debug and I'm not sure how to troubleshoot this issue. I've been messing around all day with this and I've finally given up.

It uses a command for data input method: wget --quiet --no-cache -O - http://<hostname>:<data_port>/myapp/statistics
this page is simple as it just textfield:textvalue textfield2:text2value textfield3:text3value etc...

The only difference I see is this guy is doing this with version 0.8.7d and I'm using version 0.8.7g. Is there anyone out there who's willing to take a crack at this and see what I'm doing wrong here?
I appreciate all your time and hard work.

[Mattie112]

Tis can be usefull: make sure it's PLAIN TEXT not unicode. I had a simulair issue and converting it from unicote to ascii solved my problem

[fgiugliano]

Thank you!

You were exactly right. It wasn't getting the data from my php page. So I just took my php page and dumped the results into a text and changed my input string to

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php /var/www/filelocation/file.php && wget --quiet --no-cache -O - http://127.0.0.1/filelocation/file.txt

Thanks Again!!

[Mattie112]

No problem, that's the way i'm doing it :p

[fgiugliano]

This wasn't creating the txt properly

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php /var/www/filelocation/file.php && wget --quiet --no-cache -O - http://127.0.0.1/filelocation/file.txt

So I switched went with curl instead

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curl http://127.0.0.1/filelocation/file.php && wget --quiet --no-cache -O - http://127.0.0.1/filelocation/file.txt

All is well and 100% working for sure.

Edit**

Just in case anyone was wondering here's the php file:

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<?php
$file='textf.txt';
$content = strip_tags(file_get_contents('http://someplace.com/filethatlistsyourvariables.php'));
file_put_contents($file, $content);
?>