running cactid from 0.8.3a

chadw · Cacti User Joined: 17 Jul 2003 Posts: 52

I've just upgraded to 0.8.3a and compiled cactid on Sparc/Solaris.

The 0.8.1 version of cactid ran as a daemon, it appears that 0.8.3a cactid runs once and is meant to be scheduled with cron. Is this a correct assumption?

Chad

raX · Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2003 1:05 am Post subject:

Yes, this is correct. I made this change to simplify certain memory issues that were cropping up and causing crashes after long runtimes. I have since run cactid through a memory leak detection program and cleaned up most or all of the leaks. There is no reason for cactid to be a daemon at this point though since it can only poll at a fixed interval.

-Ian

fletch · Guest

After reading the disclaimer in the cactid README:
"This code represents the future replacement for cmd.php. As you can see
from the short changelog, development on this code has only just begun. It
has been included in the main release for *testing* purposes only! Please
stick to cmd.php for now.

-Ian
"

Was wondering howmany are running it with success.
My cmd.php is sometimes taking longer than the 5 minute cronjob interval to complete.
I've configured and compiled cactid and thought I'd ask before replacing it in the crontab (assuming that is all one must do?) !

Whats the worst that could happen

??

eyechart · Joined: 25 Apr 2002 Posts: 49

I'm running cactid no problem on a mandrake 9.1 system.

Search the forum for more posts regarding what rpms need to be installed in order to compile cactid successfully.

-ec

raX · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 9:14 pm Post subject:

If you were having any problems under BSD or Solaris, give the latest pre-release a try as I just made some autoconf updates.

With regards to the usability of cactid at the moment, if you can get it to run, it is probably good to use. Most of cactid's issues at the moment have to do with library detection and compatibility, not stability. I am currently using it on a production system with about 600 targets and it works great.

-Ian

Guest · Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2003 3:04 pm Post subject:

I'm curious if you have run into any memory leak problems in 8.3a; I'm running a box with RH7.3, Dual PIII 1G, 1G RAM, PHP 4.3.3, Apache 1.3.28 and MySQL 4.0.14. Currently, I'm scanning about 6 devices, which range in ports from 24-96, and the process consistently sucks up memory to the point where the machine crashes and requires a manual reboot. I haven't honestly done too much debugging yet, but if you have any suggestions as to what might cause this I'm more than open to them.

Aside from running a TACACS+ server with almost no usage, the box is dedicated to this service.

Any suggestions would be warmly welcomed.

Thanks,

raX · Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2003 9:43 pm Post subject: