Tag: cacti
Cacti – PA 3.0 wrong path for plugins
After upgrading a CactiEZ installation to cacti 0.8.7h including PA 3.0, I had some problems with the different plugins. The default path for the plugins was configured incorrectly. The plugins were looking in the wrong directory for their images. In the httpd error log I see the following errors. [root@localhost html]# tail -90f /etc/httpd/logs/error_log [Wed … Read More
Configuration Example, Management
CactiEZ – configuration basics
Every time I install CactiEZ or Cacti on another platform, I am searching for the commands to basically install the most common parameters, like static IP addressing, NTP sync and time zones. Several times I thought about writing a simple article with the necessary commands and final I had time to create it. Networking netconfig … Read More
Cacti: corrupt database
After rebooting a Cacti server, the customer complained that no new graphs were drawn by the server. I tried to run the poller.php script with the –-force option and noticed the following output: 06/16/2011 10:34:48 AM – SPINE: Poller[0] ERROR: SQL Failed! Error:’145′, Message:’Table ‘./cacti/poller_output’ is marked as crashed and should be repaired’, SQL Fragment:’INSERT … Read More
Cacti – Superlinks not working
After upgrading Cacti, like shown in the previous post, the Superlinks plugin stopped working correctly. When opening a Superlink tab I got a blank page in Google Chrome or a half page in Internet Explorer and Opera, like shown below. After some Googling I found the solution for this problem on a Cacti forum. The … Read More
Configuration Example, Management
Upgrade Cacti 0.8.x
A lot of people use the CactiEZ virtual appliance to install a running Cacti environment. The latest CactiEZ virtual appliance (CactiEZ v0.6) uses Cacti v0.8.7c with Plugin Architecture 2.2. Of course a lot of people are developing Cacti and the latest stable version is Cacti v0.8.7g with Plugin Architecture 2.8. I always have trouble with … Read More
Cacti and HP Procurve
Finding a template for HP Procurve switches wasn’t that hard. I needed to find a template for HP Procurve 2510G switches. The place to look for templates is forums.cacti.net. I searched the forums on the key word “procurve”, which resulted in many hits. I used the template from the article HP procurve 2600 series. After … Read More