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Cacti version 0.8.6b has been released after a few major bugs have been discovered in 0.8.6a. I apologize for the recurring bugs, hopefully this is the end of poller and RRD-related bugs for a while. Sometimes these problems are difficult to identify during testing since many poller related problems only manifest themselves under certain very specific conditions.
-bug#0000318: Only delete the Cacti system user when uninstalling the RPM package
rather than during each upgrade.
-bug: Problems with the 95th percentile and bandwidth summation graph variables.
-bug: Problem with random gaps in some or all graphs caused by staggered RRDTool
update times.
I just installed it over my 0.8.6a.. will report in for any problems.
Just one minor thing. When I check the about box. it still says I am running 0.8.6a... i donno if i upgraded properly or not. win2k3 box, copy over rrd/rra files, copy over scripts, replace entire cacti directory completely with the new version, change the config.php.. am i missing something else ? (and of course, backup the sql database to the new one)
(and my PHP SNMP Support stills say No .. but so far still okay!)
I deleted the tmp.28195 file from /var/spool/cron and restarted the cron daemon and everything is back to normal.
I assume this release was meant to fix the first issue (-bug#0000318) - starting from this version - and not just for subsequent versions!
Do you have any idea why the second issue came about? How does the RMP install the cacti cron job? From what I understand it should be creating a file called /etc/crond.d/cacti - but the above cron problem suggest a problem with cron for a particular user.
Regards,
Mon
'They'll be sorry. They'll be sorry if I die - except that I can't. Whatever you do it ends up raining. What's it all for? What's the point of it all? And if it hasn't got a point, what's the point of that?'
Monkey (2:2)
I just wanted to give a quick thanks for the speedy fix for the problem with gaps in graphs. I just upgraded to 0.8.6b and all seems to be working. I will keep you informed.
Great work here guys.. Now if I can just get my boss to let me implement it company wide and not having to do it on my own here in the branch office.
monideth wrote:I assume this release was meant to fix the first issue (-bug#0000318) - starting from this version - and not just for subsequent versions!
Actually I have a feeling that this fix won't take effect until upgrading from 0.8.6b or higher. When you do an upgrade, RPM probably executes the %postun section of the older version before installing the new version.
monideth wrote:Do you have any idea why the second issue came about? How does the RMP install the cacti cron job? From what I understand it should be creating a file called /etc/crond.d/cacti - but the above cron problem suggest a problem with cron for a particular user.
This problem is probably an after effect of the first. Once the rpm deleted your 'cacti' user, the reference to this user in /etc/cron.d/cacti became invalid.
Hopefully both of these issues go away starting with the next release.
I did a complete 'fresh' reinstall of cacti 0.8.6b everything seems to go well ( i sorta messed up my previous installation ) - my about box shows the proper version(maybe the upgrading manual steps needs to add something?), i can see "PHP SNMP : YES" now, no more ugly gaps in graphs (hooray!!!)...everything's fine and dandy so far
anyhow.. does anyone have this problem I am having?
whenever the 'query' list of interfaces go *way* too long.. I am not able to click on the row and have it selected and highlighted as yellow.. like what I am doing now here (here it is possible because the snmp interfaces I have is just a short list. I realise that when the list is way longer.. i can't do that anymore. is that a bug?)
Not a bug, but a feature to prevent this feature from killing your browser . The default maximum number of rows to use this feature for is '96'. You can change it by going to "Settings" -> "Visual" and changing the value of "Maximum JavaScript Rows".
Any idea when 0.8.6b will be available for Gentoo?
raX wrote:Cacti version 0.8.6b has been released after a few major bugs have been discovered in 0.8.6a. I apologize for the recurring bugs, hopefully this is the end of poller and RRD-related bugs for a while. Sometimes these problems are difficult to identify during testing since many poller related problems only manifest themselves under certain very specific conditions.
-bug#0000318: Only delete the Cacti system user when uninstalling the RPM package
rather than during each upgrade.
-bug: Problems with the 95th percentile and bandwidth summation graph variables.
-bug: Problem with random gaps in some or all graphs caused by staggered RRDTool
update times.
cdukes wrote:Any idea when 0.8.6b will be available for Gentoo?
According to the online package database, the 0.8.6b build is still masked for x86. Guess you'll either have to wait for them to mark it stable or install the masked ebuild...
O well, couldn't wait, I compiled from src (and I'm running gentoo sparc)
raX wrote:
cdukes wrote:Any idea when 0.8.6b will be available for Gentoo?
According to the online package database, the 0.8.6b build is still masked for x86. Guess you'll either have to wait for them to mark it stable or install the masked ebuild...
everything seems to go well ( i sorta messed up my previous installation ) - my about box shows the proper version(maybe the upgrading manual steps needs to add something?), i can see "PHP SNMP : YES" now, no more ugly gaps in graphs (hooray!!!)...everything's fine and dandy so far 
. The default maximum number of rows to use this feature for is '96'. You can change it by going to "Settings" -> "Visual" and changing the value of "Maximum JavaScript Rows".
