[SOLVED] Creating stand alone values CPU,packetloss,latency?

thomasj · Joined: 27 Mar 2008 Posts: 7

Hi!

Been fiddling the last few days with Cacti via a CactiEZ installation and are looking through the different features and plugins.

I have got a map running and i must say im really impressed of this plugin and i am sure this will become permanent in our monitoring setup.

One small thing that i have not found how to do... How do i create standalone values like packetloss, cpu or temp? Is it a Node that i have to use?

I run 0.941

Howie

thomasj · Joined: 27 Mar 2008 Posts: 7

Thanks! Now i got some values up!

laamidd · Joined: 17 Feb 2006 Posts: 48

Hi Howie,

We really appreciate your work on this, we love it...we use it now in production in lieu of Compuware's ServerVantage & Vantageview.

I've read and re-read the manual section on special tokens and the page that your link above sends me to several times. I'm still at a loss. I just don't get which special token will get me the values I want.

I have the Advanced Ping Data Source for all of my switches.

How do I get packet loss and latency values to appear seperately under my nodes?

I know the basics, insofar as creating a node that doesn't link to anything...but how do I get a value(s) under that node?

Thanks,
Bob

laamidd · Joined: 17 Feb 2006 Posts: 48

Howie · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 2:25 pm Post subject:

laamidd · Joined: 17 Feb 2006 Posts: 48

I wrote my last post hastily. It's packet loss % that I'm trying to get, not latency. I was trying both at one time.

I should have mentioned that I tried:

Howie · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 4:00 pm Post subject:

laamidd · Joined: 17 Feb 2006 Posts: 48

We've had the day from hell here today. I scrapped my attempt at getting loss and latency numbers (for now) and started from scratch to see if I could get something *simple* going.

So, I have this as my code:

Howie · Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 2:39 pm Post subject:

I don't see what you're trying to do. If you want to show bandwidth between two places, you don't need to do it like this...

laamidd · Joined: 17 Feb 2006 Posts: 48

I was trying anything yesterday before I left for the day, because I didn't get a chance to work on it all day and I figured I'd try anything at this point.

Sorry if it's a little schizophrenic, but that's the kind of week it's been.

When I was trying to get a loss or latency value from the advanced ping template I tried:

nowplaying · Joined: 09 Apr 2008 Posts: 2

I'm having the exact same problem. The title of this thread says (Solved) but I don't see a resolution here.

According to this thread and the posted How-to, the below code should return the sessions count but it's returning 0 for me.

Howie · Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 2:48 pm Post subject:

nowplaying · Joined: 09 Apr 2008 Posts: 2

I figured out the root of my problem. The RRD files were created by root. I forgot to add the apache user to run the cmdphp cronjob. Doh!

laamidd · Joined: 17 Feb 2006 Posts: 48

I'm trying to use this as an example. I can't use {node:this:name} on my AtlanticCityWCIN node, because I want a value for AtlanticCityWC. Is that right?