The developers of Cacti released two new patches for version 0.8.7g recently, one to fix an issue with the ping library, another to fix an issue with 1-minute polling intervals.This brings the total number of patches for this version to seven.
I submitted the updated SlackBuild script to SlackBuilds.org and uploaded the new package to my site.
If you prefer, you can download the patches from this link and apply them manually to your already installed Cacti setup.
]]> http://underpop.online.fr/n/nielshorn/2010/09/cacti-0-8-7g-patch-level-7/feed/ 0 http://underpop.online.fr/n/nielshorn/2010/08/cacti-zabbix-and-ntop-updates-new-slackware-packages-available/ http://underpop.online.fr/n/nielshorn/2010/08/cacti-zabbix-and-ntop-updates-new-slackware-packages-available/#comments Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:40:26 +0000 Niels Horn http://underpop.online.fr/n/nielshorn/?p=526 It was time to update the monitoring packages on my server, so I spent some time to get them all up-to-date to the newest versions that were released recently:
First of all, there is new version of cacti, with several patches from upstream. It corrects a few bugs that appeared after the release of version 0.8.7g. Since there have been five patches, I called this version 0.8.7g_p5.
The second update is for Zabbix. I created new versions for zabbix_server and zabbix_agentd and added a new module, zabbix_proxy. All use the new 1.8.3 version that was released a few days ago.
I also implemented some suggestions I received by e-mail, mainly corrections in the documentation.
The third update is for ntop, which released a completely revamped version 4. I actually waited for version 4.0.1, as I had some stability problems with the 3.x series. This new version seems to be quite stable and adds some nice features.
The new SlackBuilds have been uploaded to SlackBuilds.org and packages for Slackware (32 & 64 bits) are available on my site.
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After the problems with Cacti release 0.8.7f a few weeks ago, the updated version 0.8.7g was released this week.
I successfully updated my server, which was a very simple process.
After installing the new package, the web-page automatically redirected to the upgrade-page and with a single click Cacti was up-and-running again. 
The new SlackBuild is in the pending queue of SlackBuilds.org and the pre-built package is available on my site.
]]> http://underpop.online.fr/n/nielshorn/2010/07/cacti-0-8-7g-released/feed/ 2 http://underpop.online.fr/n/nielshorn/2010/07/cacti-0-8-7e-patch-level-6/ http://underpop.online.fr/n/nielshorn/2010/07/cacti-0-8-7e-patch-level-6/#comments Tue, 06 Jul 2010 02:28:31 +0000 Niels Horn http://underpop.online.fr/n/nielshorn/?p=458A few weeks ago the Cacti developers released version 0.8.7f of Cacti, but it was removed from their site shortly after the release because of some new bugs that were introduced.
While we’re waiting for the new version to be re-released, I built a package for the current release (0.8.7e) with all the patches that upstream made available on their site.
This way we can have a stable and secure Cacti installation while we wait for the new version.
The package can be downloaded from my site.
]]> http://underpop.online.fr/n/nielshorn/2010/07/cacti-0-8-7e-patch-level-6/feed/ 0 http://underpop.online.fr/n/nielshorn/2009/11/monitoring-your-network-and-servers/ http://underpop.online.fr/n/nielshorn/2009/11/monitoring-your-network-and-servers/#comments Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:22:00 +0000 Niels Horn http://underpop.online.fr/n/nielshorn/blog/?p=63 I’ve been busy over the last few weeks evaluating some software to monitor servers, network utilization, etc. I have tested several programs and ended up using three: nagios, cacti, and ntop.All of these are free & open software. For nagios and cacti you can download SlackBuild scripts from slackbuilds.org maintained by me. For cacti, if you prefer a complete package, you can download one for Slackware here.
For ntop, I adapted a SlackBuild originally written by Michiel van Wessem to install the newer 3.3.10 version. The ntop authors decided to automatically download & install some dependencies (Lua + GeoIP), even if you already have those installed. Since this is a very bad idea (they install it the way they like, while with Slackware YOU are supposed to be in control), I adapted their ‘configure.in’ and ‘Makefile.am’ scripts to simply check if those programs are installed and exit if they are not.
Then you can install them the way you like (and following the normal standards) and install ntop afterwards.
With Michiel’s permission, I submitted a new SlackBuild script for ntop so SlackBuilds.org that is currently in the pending queue.
Over the next few days / weeks I hope to have some time to elaborate on these three packages and write some hints on how to install and configure them.
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