Boost setup

[stormonts]

Currently, we have Cacti setup to use Spine with 1 minute polling. We are using Cacti 0.8.8a

We are attempting to setup Boost and have run into an issue where we either have big gaps in graphs or there are no graphs displayed for hosts at all when we have "Enable On Demand RRD Updating" enabled. Currently, when a new data source is created, the file ownership is as follows:

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-rw-r--r-- 1 cactiuser wheel 182624 Aug 21 10:14 almond_hdd_used_5816.rrd

Our web server runs as the user "nobody". And our Boost settings are as follows:

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Running "php -m" shows that posix support is installed, so shouldn't the rrds be updated on demand by the cactiuser? Even though "nobody" not a member of the wheel group, shouldn't the "Effective User ID" setting override that?

[stormonts]

I was able to resolve this. Even though we had posix support in PHP, we require users to use sudo, so entering the "cactiuser" name wasn't working. Turning off the boost server and giving o+w permission to the account that runs the webserver fixed the issue.