[CentOS] Cacti/snmp question

[Les Mikesell]

On 6/14/2010 3:29 PM, Whit Blauvelt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Trying to follow the recipe at
>
> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Cacti_on_CentOS_4.x
>
> Which has a bit of an update for 5.x, but no joy.
>
> Anyone know what this from Cacti should suggest?
>
> Data Query Debug Information
> + Running data query [9].
> + Found type = '6 '[script query].
> + Found data query XML file at '/var/www/cacti/resource/script_server/host_cpu.xml'
> + XML file parsed ok.
> + Executing script for list of indexes '/usr/bin/php -q /var/www/cacti/scripts/ss_host_cpu.php 127.0.0.1 1 2:161:500:1:10:public:::MD5::DES: index'
> + Executing script query '/usr/bin/php -q /var/www/cacti/scripts/ss_host_cpu.php 127.0.0.1 1 2:161:500:1:10:public:::MD5::DES: query index'
> + Found data query XML file at '/var/www/cacti/resource/script_server/host_cpu.xml'
> + Found data query XML file at '/var/www/cacti/resource/script_server/host_cpu.xml'
> + Found data query XML file at '/var/www/cacti/resource/script_server/host_cpu.xml'
>
> The problem is that's returning no information to Cacti to any of the SNMP queries.
>
> My whole goal here is to get something working to graph CPU core use on a
> handful of systems.
>
> Or is there a better tool than Cacti (or better documented - hopefully in
> the form of simple recipe rather than many haphazard - often out-of-date -
> pages of RTFM)? Cacti admits to serious security flaws, not that this'll go
> on the public net, but I'd be happier to run something safer nontheless.

I happen to like OpenNMS (http://www.opennms.org) but it is considerably 
more complicated than cacti to set up.  And I think your SNMP server 
setup is the real problem.  Do you get a response with snmpwalk using 
the same community name?

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   Les Mikesell
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