Cacti 0.8.7 Manual published

gandalf · Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 5:05 pm Post subject: Cacti 0.8.7 Manual published

Please find the new Cacti Manual for Version 0.8.7 here
Reinhard

rony · Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 5:07 pm Post subject:

gandalf · Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 5:11 pm Post subject:

Awful lot of work, I tell you!
Reinhard

rony · Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 5:15 pm Post subject:

I know...

Thanks for doing it!!

Smux · Joined: 10 Sep 2007 Posts: 40

This link have some errors:

BSOD2600 · Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 1:26 pm Post subject:

Naw, more like additional problems with the cacti website....again.

gandalf · Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 2:33 pm Post subject:

rony · Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 3:42 pm Post subject:

We are working on those issues.

TheWitness · Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 8:20 am Post subject:

Gandolf, is there any way to make those tables a little more pleasing? They are a bit crushed everywhere.

TheWitness

gandalf · Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 2:32 pm Post subject:

What are you referring to? Any pointer? I simply put in the html stuff rony sent me some days ago (with some hours of reformatting html so that drupal accepts it. I'd like a docbook2drupal filter).
Reinhard

chrisgapske · Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 10:07 pm Post subject: Guys

This looks really nice.

I really like Drupal. Great Job..

Howie · Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 3:19 am Post subject:

Would it be possible to add some explanation for the new one-minute polling stuff? I haven't seen any documentation anywhere for it, and wouldn't mind giving it a try.

gandalf · Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 6:33 am Post subject:

Surely. But this will turn out to be complicated. And personally, I'm afraid, that a documentation would turn less experienced users into using stuff they don't understand. And there are some drawbacks, especially when it comes to using 1 min polling with already existing rrd files. It will require a lot of tweaking around and fiddling with rrdtool command line tools.
Only for new setups, a quite straightforward walkthrough is possible.
Reinhard

Howie · Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 7:32 am Post subject:

Sure. I understand that. I can see why a howto-style document would be difficult or even dangerous, but I don't see *any* documentation.

In the data sources list, it has a poller interval per data source, but I don't see where that comes from.

In the poller settings there are two settings for poller and cron interval - what's the relationship between them? If the poller interval is 1 minute and the cron interval is 5 minutes, what happens?

Obviously the rrd tuning side of things is a complex issue, but having at least a little explanation of the poller settings would be helpful.

I have a new install for a specific customer to try all this stuff out on, but it would be easier if one knew how it was supposed to happen.

gandalf · Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 11:09 am Post subject:

Perhaps I'll make up my mind to write that walkthrough for new setups. Going to be a busy weekend. Who will tell my wife?
Reinhard