Comments on: Sensible Graphs with Cacti

By: Coert Waagmeester

Coert Waagmeester — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:35:58 +0000

Hello Hans,

Thanks for you awesome Graph Templates!

Regards, Coert from South Africa

By: Mxx

Mxx — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:39:42 +0000

I confirm these changes work in 87d

Memory Used (Hans)
item1: d,a,-,b,-,c,-

Swap Used (Hans)
item1: f,e,-
(not e,f,- otherwise swap is negative amount)

By: Martin W

Martin W — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:56:29 +0000

The memory graph is a bit strange. First the cdef for the swap should be f,e,- otherwise it will become a negative value, it did here at least. Secondly item #24 in the graph template should be removed, because it fills no purpose and breaks the graph(it adds a stack with swap free). I’ve tried this in 087d btw.

By: Jon Smith

Jon Smith — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:02:41 +0000

Really simple change for the Load Avg graph. Never really thought of doing that way, always accepted the default. Thanks for the tip.

By: Kaan

Kaan — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:27:35 +0000

Hey Hans,

The updated templates work perfectly with 087d.

By: Hans

Hans — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:11:39 +0000

Thanks Billy. I’ve made that change blindly, if someone can redownload it and verify that it imports cleanly in 087d that would be great.

By: Billy

Billy — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:01:08 +0000

The article shows the correct cdef to use with 0.8.7d, its just not correct in the template. Editing the cdefs as follows seems to do the trick:

Memory Used (Hans)
item1: d,a,-,b,-,c,-

Swap Used (Hans)
item1: e,f,-

By: Hans

Hans — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 23:52:39 +0000

That would explain the pain and frustration we’re all feeling, thanks. I will happily post an updated template for it here if someone sends me one that works for 087d. When I end up upgrading to 087d I will do it myself – but when exactly I do that is unknown but probably at least October. (Ubuntu 9.04 appears to still have 087b, but if someone sends me a .deb or a link to a .deb for 087d that works with Ubuntu 8.10 or 9.04 I may be able to do it sooner.)

By: jnojr

jnojr — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 23:22:58 +0000

http://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?t=32593&highlight=

According to one of the cacti developers:

“The given CDEF refers to other DEFs (data sources) by position (in this case: by letters >= c). But those letters do not show up in that graph statement.
We recently fixed an error with 087b, where 087b unfortunately created a lot more DEFs than required. If the given template was tailored to 087b, it should be changed to 087d by the original author”

Is there any chance this can get fixed? The whole purpose of a template is so that people who use cacti do not have to get a Ph.D in atomic rocket surgery to use it.

By: charles

charles — Sat, 23 May 2009 02:31:37 +0000

How can I run cacti verbose query locally in my cacti box command console?
I want to make a script and place it in the cronjob so I wouldn’t need to update it manually, by clicking on verbose query in cacti web interface, whenever I change any port names on the switch. Any one knows how?