Boost Plugin v1.6 Released

gandalf · Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 9:35 am Post subject:

Larry et.al.

ViewCVS IMHO includes an option for downloading current SVN as a gzipped tar. So we could provide kinda "Nightly Builds", hopefully without too much trouble. But AFAIK, SVN for plugins is not yet linked to main cacti site, is it?
Reinhard

Rael · Cacti User Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 128

Ok, my firewall is killing me. Can someone please download the SVN version and make it available to dl here in this thread?

Pretty please?

telvary · Joined: 05 May 2007 Posts: 2

Can you open port TCP 3690 ?
I was firewalled too until I found the Enable password ...

Rael · Cacti User Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 128

not externally I can't, no. I'm not the FW admin.

Rael · Cacti User Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 128

Ok, I've gotten svn to work. Where can I get the latest version of boost?

I don't see it on the cacti svn?

dawald · Joined: 02 Feb 2005 Posts: 22 Location: Zurich, Switzerland

Hi there,

I just wanted to show you some I/O statistics from our test-cacti machine. We had a big I/O issue without the 'Boost Plugin', so that one polling cycle couldn't finish before the next one started. After using the Boost Plugin we are now able to reduce the I/O massively! Thanks a lot for this wonderful plugin.

Datasources: 48929
RRD's: 19291
avg-Pollingtime: 46.8776 seconds

I attached two files, both of them are showing the polling time over time (yellow-orange) the io-wait (red) and also the cpu usage (%user: blue / %system: yellow).

Rael · Cacti User Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 128

Ok, figured out how to get the latest SVN version of boost

svn checkout svn://anonymous@cvs.cacti.net/var/svnroot/cacti_plugins

I'm still firewalled though and keep forgetting when I get home to grab it.

Rael · Cacti User Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 128

Ok, had a friend DL the SVN for me and I installed it.

My rcaston issue is gone and so are my update timings.

Now the new problem is my graphs aren't updating?

What would cause that?

CORRECTION:

My graphs update fine when I don't use the boost server.

When I enable the boost server my graphs don't update.

msw1970 · Cacti User Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 153

With boost 1.7 is it now possible to use the multiprocess server feature?

Also, I keep seeing poller boost abends in the log and have to restart the cacti_rrdsvc.

Any ideas?

Instigater · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 7:00 am Post subject:

Can I use boost 1.6 on 0.8.7b?

TheWitness · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 8:03 am Post subject:

dawald,

What graph tool are you using for those graphs. Very nice, but not RRDtool of course.

TheWitness

dawald · Joined: 02 Feb 2005 Posts: 22 Location: Zurich, Switzerland

TheWitness,

I'm using a handmade MS-Excel solution

1. write the output of `sar`to a file

greginmadison · Joined: 07 Mar 2008 Posts: 29

Hi, I am fairly new to using cacti (fantastic tool), and need a sanity check.

I need to monitor around 60000 snmp variables (two large data centers) mainly consisting of Cisco Catalyst 6500 router/switches (in/out traffic,cpu/ errors/discards with 64 bit counters). I am going to do a new Cacti install using Cacti 087b on a Intel duel Xeon with 8 Gig of memory using SUSE 10.1. The disk are not local but will be on a EMC SAN.

So, is there a chance that just running cactid will work or should I jump directly to running Boost? How "mainstream"/stable is Boost? Is it hard to move to Boost if I find my poll times are close to 5 mins? Will Boost be incorperated in a mainstream release soon?

I just don't want to get 75 percent into the config and find I have to redo it.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts and experiences.

greginmadison · Joined: 07 Mar 2008 Posts: 29

Does Boost run on v0.8.7a or v0.8.7b? And under what PIA? Can I use PIA v1.4 with 087b and still use Boost?

The plugin announcement says "v0.8.6i" only and the zip files says 0.8.6i or Above and Plugin Architecture v1.x

What do I loose by sticking with the v1.x PIA (I am currently only running thold plugin).

bldewolf · Joined: 15 Apr 2008 Posts: 4

I'm not sure if this is the best thread for this post, but I'm not sure where else it should go. I found a bug in poller_boost.php in SVN revision 211, regarding the "Abend" detection. Basically, when reading the time from the previous run's entry, the text is exploded on colons to split the time from the rest of the text. However, the time itself contains colons, so the time gets split up as well. This means that every time it does an Abend check, it thinks it has Abended, and it starts another poller_boost.php process. Running multiple of those is not pretty.

Anyway, here's a patch. It's not the best way to fix it, but I'm not sure if anything else is dependent on the text string appearing in exactly that format, so I changed the delimiter to something that only appears once in the string and at the same location (in this case, "time:").

Index: poller_boost.php
===================================================================
--- poller_boost.php (revision 211)
+++ poller_boost.php (working copy)
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@

/* detect for a terminated process */
if (substr_count($boost_poller_status, "running")) {
- $status_array = explode(":", $boost_poller_status);
+ $status_array = explode("time:", $boost_poller_status);

if (!empty($status_array[1])) {
$previous_start_time = strtotime($status_array[1]);