Category: Cacti
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Monitor Bind With Cacti
If someone puts in a support ticket saying they are having DNS issues with your server, what do you do to quantify how your server is acting…? This is the “boat” I found myself in a while back. I decided to use cacti to poll my devices. I happen to run Bind9. I built off…
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Modify Cacti Alerts In Mass
So I’m updating syslog and thold alerts in mass…removing an email address actually. Here are a couple of quick find and replace statements: Syslog Alerts use syslog; update syslog_alert set email=replace(email,', [email protected]',''); Thold Alerts use cacti; update cacti set thold_data=replace(notify_extra,'[email protected], ','');
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Google Maps For Cacti (GPS)
This is a good option for WISPs that use Cacti. It basically gives you the ability to use google maps to place your devices. You can use the GPS coordinates to specify location information. Link is here.
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Send Test Syslog Message
I have test emails send daily, but what I failed to test was my syslog server. Now that I’ve had it brick on me, I’m now doing daily test syslog messages. I use this PHP script. If you can’t happen to pull it from that site, here’s the file to download:. I then use this…
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Cacti – Syslog-NG – Duplicate Entry For Key
If you notice that your alerts stop coming in from syslog or notice that your syslog isn’t showing any results, then check to make sure the syslog-ng service is running. service syslog-ng status If it is running, then try restarting it. service syslog-ng restart If you are having the same issues I have, then you…
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Cacti Template – Tripplite SNMPWEBCARD
This will graph most of the important bits about your tripplite UPS via the optional SNMPWEBCARD. I put thresholds in for temperature and output source. The file is here:
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Cacti Polling Issues – OID Not Increasing
I’ve run into this a couple of times and finally fixed it…err…well…bypassed it. Some devices don’t properly respond to snmpwalk requests. Net-snmp will return the following error: Error: OID not increasing: Net-snmp has a command line parameter that will ignore this “-Cc”. Though you run the risk of having an object loop indefinately when you…