[solved] poller opens ss_host_cpu.php in editor

Mr_Smoke · Joined: 01 Sep 2008 Posts: 4

Good morning everyone,

I have an almost fully-working install of Cacti 0.8.7b running on Windows 2003 Server :
- Apache 2.2.8 (Win32)
- PHP 5.2.5
- MySQL 5.0.51a
- Net-SNMP 5.4.1.2-1
- rrdtool 1.2.15-cygwin-1.5.20

I'm happily graphing disk usage, bandwidth etc. However, using the Host MIB CPU usage template yields strange results.
Everytime the poller runs (5 mins), it will open the file ss_host_cpu.php in an editor (notepad++ in this case) as many times as there are CPUs to monitor.
The scheduled task will then wait for me to close the editor (twice in my case, two CPUs on that host), and then resume normal operations.
Needless to say, CPU is not getting graphed, since that script is obviously never run.

Wild guess : it looks like the command that is passed to the system (probably some kind of php -q c:\cacti\scripts\ss_host_cpu.php) is actually broken into two tasks, the second one being just the script name, and therefore opens it in the associated editor.
I have no idea why though, and that's where your help would be appreciated.

Cheers,

Romain

BSOD2600 · Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 8:07 pm Post subject:

I would only have the scheduled task run poller.php.

I'd guess its opening up textpad since .php is associated with that program, instead of php.exe (as it should).

If you don't want to see those popup windows every 5 min, then don't have the scheduled task run under your user account which is logged into the PC.

Mr_Smoke · Joined: 01 Sep 2008 Posts: 4

Mr_Smoke · Joined: 01 Sep 2008 Posts: 4

Working with windows is just great ...

Associating PHP files with php.exe is not enough, you need to edit the association and make sure it reads

BSOD2600 · Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 12:52 pm Post subject:

Yes, poller.php is the only thing a user needs to run under normal circumstances. It'll fire off the scripts, etc which are needed to run.

Spine should work, but can be a lot more finicky than cmd.php. You using its latest version? I hope that path to php doesn't contain any spaces, otherwise that'll be another source of headache.

Mr_Smoke · Joined: 01 Sep 2008 Posts: 4

Okay so poller.php works fine.

As far as spine is concerned, all the paths are correct. However, since it's workign ok with the php poller, I'm probably going to leave it as is. If it isn't broken ...

Thanks