Hi Paolo, Thanks for your response. I agree that Pedro Sanchez, author of <http://www.pmacct.net/docs/cacti.html> is difficult to reach five years after he wrote the paper.
Kind regards/ldv On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 5:47 AM, Paolo Lucente <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Larry, > > Wanted just to say briefly the best person to support you is the author > of that document (which btw is not on this list and not really reachable > recently). I can't help you with that as i'm not too much into Cacti and > pmacct seems to return expected results. > > I'm certainly available to collect feedback on that document and edit it > accordingly. Perhaps is an idea to move it to the wiki so that everybody > is potentially able to modify it. > > Cheers, > Paolo > > > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 09:39:38AM -0500, Larry Vaden wrote: >> First, thanks for the great software. >> >> 2nd, feel free to direct me to another list if that should be the case. >> >> Following the example at <http://www.pmacct.net/docs/cacti.html>, the >> result is the infamous RED X (missing file) rather than the expected >> graph. >> >> Centos 4.8, up to date, using pmacct-0.12.3 and cacti-0.8.7.e (g won't >> run at the moment on CentOS 4.8). >> >> nfacctd is started with (as root) >> >> /usr/local/sbin/nfacctd -f /usr/local/etc/pmacctd.conf >> >> and the contents of /usr/local/etc/pmacctd.conf follow at the end of this >> post. >> >> The permission on the /tmp/in.pipe and /tmp/out.pipe are as follows >> >> [r...@saguaro cacti]# ls -l /tmp >> total 16 >> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 6 12:27 cactiupgrade >> srwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Aug 12 09:18 in.pipe >> srwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Aug 12 09:18 out.pipe >> >> >> 'pmacct -s -p /tmp/in.pipe' and 'pmacct -s -p /tmp/out.pipe' return >> the expected results when run as root. >> >> [cactiu...@saguaro ~]$ pmacct -s -p /tmp/in.pipe >> >> and >> >> [cactiu...@saguaro ~]$ pmacct -s -p /tmp/out.pipe >> >> and (after 'su - apache') >> >> -bash-3.00$ pmacct -s -p /tmp/in.pipe >> >> and >> >> -bash-3.00$ pmacct -s -p /tmp/out.pipe >> >> produce the expected results. >> >> There is no sign of the expected files in /var/www/html/cacti/rra: >> >> [r...@saguaro cacti]# ls -l /var/www/html/cacti/rra/localhost* >> -rw-r--r-- 1 cactiuser apache 3651280 Aug 12 09:30 >> /var/www/html/cacti/rra/localhost_load_1min_5.rrd >> -rw-r--r-- 1 cactiuser apache 1218368 Aug 12 09:30 >> /var/www/html/cacti/rra/localhost_mem_buffers_3.rrd >> -rw-r--r-- 1 cactiuser apache 1218368 Aug 12 09:30 >> /var/www/html/cacti/rra/localhost_mem_swap_4.rrd >> -rw-r--r-- 1 cactiuser apache 1218368 Aug 12 09:30 >> /var/www/html/cacti/rra/localhost_proc_7.rrd >> -rw-r--r-- 1 cactiuser apache 8517104 Aug 6 12:20 >> /var/www/html/cacti/rra/localhost_rrdsprocessed_8.rrd >> -rw-r--r-- 1 cactiuser apache 2434824 Aug 6 12:20 >> /var/www/html/cacti/rra/localhost_total_9.rrd >> -rw-r--r-- 1 cactiuser apache 1218368 Aug 12 09:30 >> /var/www/html/cacti/rra/localhost_users_6.rrd >> [r...@saguaro cacti]# >> >> The contents of /usr/local/etc/pmacctd.conf: >> >> [r...@saguaro cacti]# cat /usr/local/etc/pmacctd.conf >> ! >> ! pmacct: In + Out >> ! >> debug: false >> daemonize: true >> interface: eth0 >> plugin_buffer_size: 2048 >> plugin_pipe_size: 2048000 >> networks_file: /usr/local/etc/networks.def >> ! temporarily remove mysql from plugins: >> plugins: memory[in], memory[out] >> aggregate[in]: dst_net >> aggregate[out]: src_net >> imt_path[in]: /tmp/in.pipe >> imt_path[out]: /tmp/out.pipe >> ! >> nfacctd_port: 2055 >> ! >> sql_db: pmacct >> sql_table: acct >> sql_table_version: 7 >> sql_passwd: redacted >> sql_user: pmacct >> ! from wiki OfficialExamples for sql optimization >> sql_refresh_time: 300 >> sql_history: 5m >> sql_history_roundoff: m >> sql_dont_try_update: true >> >> Again, thanks for a great software! >> >> Kind regards/ldv >> >> Larry Vaden >> Internet Texoma, Inc. >> Serving Rural Texomaland Since 1995 >> We Care About Your Connection! >> >> _______________________________________________ >> pmacct-discussion mailing list >> http://www.pmacct.net/#mailinglists > > _______________________________________________ > pmacct-discussion mailing list > http://www.pmacct.net/#mailinglists > _______________________________________________ pmacct-discussion mailing list http://www.pmacct.net/#mailinglists
