perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Jason Zurawski <>]

Hi Herbert;

In the 3.2 release there was a change in the way cacti should be 
configured, and it does not look like we updated the default 
configuration file to refect this.  Old way:

        # Sample Cacti configuration
  # metadata_db_external                   cacti
  # metadata_db_external_source            /etc/cacti/cactid.conf

New way:

        # Sample Cacti configuration
  # cacti_database     cacti
  # cacti_host     localhost
  # cacti_password     12NPT00LK1T
  # cacti_username     cactiuser

Try to add these new entries to your daemon.conf file (making sure that 
the cacti user/pass are changed for your system) and let us know if the 
error disappears.

Thanks;

-jason


On 11/5/10 7:26 AM, Herbert Monteiro wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried to install the SNMP MA and I got:
>
> [root@snmpma
>  ~]# /etc/init.d/snmp_ma start
> /opt/perfsonar_ps/snmp_ma/bin/daemon.pl
> --config=/opt/perfsonar_ps/snmp_ma/etc/daemon.conf
> --pidfile=snmp_ma.pid --piddir=/var/run
> --logger=/opt/perfsonar_ps/snmp_ma/etc/daemon_logger.conf
> --user=perfsonar --group=perfsonar
> Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at
> /opt/perfsonar_ps/snmp_ma/bin/../lib/perfSONAR_PS/DB/Cacti.pm line
> 106.
> Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at
> /opt/perfsonar_ps/snmp_ma/bin/../lib/perfSONAR_PS/DB/Cacti.pm line
> 106.
> DBI connect('database=;host=','',...) failed: Access denied for user
> 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) at
> /opt/perfsonar_ps/snmp_ma/bin/../lib/perfSONAR_PS/DB/Cacti.pm line 106
> /etc/init.d/snmp_ma start: perfSONAR SNMP MA Service could not be started
>
> I think that change the privileges in MySQL it's could work fine but I
> won´t. Is there another way? In daemon.conf there is a parameter for
> cacti configuration file but in new cacti version the configuration
> file is PHP.
>
> Regards.