Killspike integration in webinterface

WizardofAus · Joined: 09 Nov 2006 Posts: 7 Location: London

However when I actuallt try and kill a spike as attached that is widly different than normal it brings back the undefined error that went away when I added the nav code. Any ideas?
I have ckec the setup.php, checked the r/w access on rrd files - a bit lost.

timi · Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 9:38 am Post subject:

when i use the "kill spike" i get an error "Limit set to 0.6
No peaks found!", but the spike is there...

Alice · Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 6:19 pm Post subject:

WizardofAus: you can ignore that error.
WizardofAus,timi: limit is set to 0.6, check the perl file.

vaiojunkie · Joined: 19 Nov 2006 Posts: 9

It's not working for me. I have 2 errors

1, Notice: Undefined index: local_graph_id in /var/www/cacti-0.8.6h/lib/functions.php on line 1407

2, Fatal error: Cannot break/continue 1 level in /var/www/cacti-0.8.6h/plugins/killspike/killspike.php on line 11

I can set permissions for my user and I've added "return $nav" but I do not see the Kill Spike Icon. I get the above errors when I browse to killspike.php. I'm running 0.8.6h all other plugins run ok and there are no errors in the Apache2 log

timi · Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 2:54 am Post subject:

abadaba · Cacti User Joined: 23 Nov 2005 Posts: 52

Is set it up like ive done every other plugin. Granted admin privs too the remove spikes. And i dont have a remove spikes icon on any of my graphs. What could have been done incorrectly? I have like 5 plugins, and they all were installed the same way with no probs= \.

Alice · Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 2:59 pm Post subject:

I THINK it's not working with 0.8.6h. Sorry

laurent · Joined: 30 Jan 2006 Posts: 13

Oh!!! , that's it so , almost lost my mind trying to figure out what was wrong , no killspikes icon as well in the graph windows and using version ... 0.8.6h

Bummer ...

WizardofAus · Joined: 09 Nov 2006 Posts: 7 Location: London

Alice - I don't ignoring the error is right as if I run the cmd at the prompt is works correctly and removes the spike... just doesnt; work using the icon.

Hope that helps

Pumpi · Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 5:33 am Post subject:

I have installed this interessting plugin, but i see no difference after clicking the killspike icon. Spikes are still visible.

I get always messages like:
Removing spikes for: /srv/www/htdocs/cacti/rra/router1_5min_cpu_2424.rrd

but nothing happens.

Any ideas ?

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macdaddy · Joined: 13 Jan 2006 Posts: 16

I can't seem to get the plugin to work. I upgraded to 0.8.6i. I've added the security permission for my user. I've made the "return $nav;" change to setup.php. rra is group-writable by apache, as all all the file inside of it. Every time I click the kill icon I get the same error as was reported earlier:

PHP Notice: Undefined index: killspike.php:kill in /var/www/html/cacti-0.8.6i/lib/functions.php on line 1420

Any suggestions? My /var filled up early this AM. When I fixed that problem later in the morning Cacti added a huge spike to every graph. I'd love to get this fixed.

Thanks
J

Ahuber · Joined: 16 Nov 2006 Posts: 44 Location: BC, kootenays

Just a word of warning,
I like this plugin, but a few minutes ago, being hasty as I usually am at around this time, I clicked the killspike button before the graph was finished loading (I already knew there was a spike), I realized later, that it killed my entire graph. It had 2 weeks of data on it, now it only has 2 minutes.
Fortunately it wasn't important. So if you're hasty, wait it out.
Thanks for this plugin, saves me some time.

Alice · Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 5:05 am Post subject: Re: Word of warning

macdaddy · Joined: 13 Jan 2006 Posts: 16

I've got it working now. You're last comment pointed to the error. I didn't have the removespikes.pl script executable. Then again no other script in scripts/ is executable either so why would removespikes.pl have to be? Anyhow, when I didn't have it executable I'd get the output page that says "Removing spikes for:..." followed on the next line by the "Back" link. With it executable I get these 2 lines in the middle:

Limit set to 0.6
No peaks found!

Maybe that will help someone else out.

BTW, I still get the same PHP error that everyone else mentioned even after implementing the fixes mentioned above and the executable bit change on the Perl script.

PHP Notice: Undefined index: killspike.php: in /var/www/html/cacti-0.8.6i/lib/functions.php on line 1449, referer: http://noc.sktc.net/cacti/graph.php?local_graph_id=5&rra_id=all

Now, for a related question, when I run the script on that weekly image it doesn't remove the spike (see attached image). It says that it can't find any peaks. Well, there's a large peak on there that's 7 times the normal rate of traffic. It was caused by /var filling up and not being fixed until the next day. I have this on every graph in Cactu. How do I eliminate these spikes? Can this plugin do the job or is there another tool that's meant for the task at hand? Ideally there would be a way to configure Cacti to not log a difference after it hasn't been successfully run in long time and to keep track of the offset between itself and the remote device so that a spike isn't created. This is a simple fix in MRTG. Not so simple with RRDs apparently.

Thanks
J

Alice · Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 12:44 pm Post subject:

Ok, my mistake, forgot about +x.

The reason is that the script file is called directly by cacti, not with <perl_bin_path>/perl <cacti_path>/scripts/removespikes.pl.

The removespikes.pl script is not made by me!.
The original readme is here.Sorry, I tought it's in the perl file too.

About "PHP Notice: Undefined index: killspike.php: in /var/www/html/cacti-0.8.6i/lib/functions.php on line 1449, referer: ": sorry, don't know how to fix that.