The Thorns of Cacti
Learned a lot about cacti today.
First, had a problem where I couldn’t get anything to go into the $argv variables in php. Even in a dummy “print_r($argv)” script. Nothing. var_dump claimed that the $argv array was null. I finally gave up and forced it to use the right php.ini file with the -c (path to php.ini) flags.
Second, had a problem where the mysql version didn’t support the global use of “show status” — so I had to make the adjustment to the mysql_stats file listed here… http://forums.cacti.net/about6108-0-asc-105.html
Third, had to remove the texts in “unit grid value” and recreate all my graphs. http://forums.cacti.net/about12327-0-asc-15.html
Fourth, and I was starting to feel kind of old-hat at this; some of the servers I was configuring were deduced by cacti to be “down” — and it refused to make graphs for me. I had to remove the snmp community string and cacti figured out not to check that for those servers (those servers didn’t have snmp running ).