OMG, thank you for this information. I have been trying to get squidstats working for a while now. After editing my snmpd.conf file as you suggested, it is all working now and I am getting graphs. http://forums.cacti.net/about3158.html&highlight=squid Thank you, Troy On 3/1/07, Karl R. Balsmeier <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
basically you have to set your system up like this: ##### SQUID: In addition to special snmpd.conf configuration covered elsewhere, you need to edit the squid.conf, as follows: acl snmppublic snmp_community click snmp_port 3401 snmp_access allow snmppublic localhost The ACL is for localhost, since Cacti queries snmpd, which then proxies the request to localhost. After adding these lines, you can avoid a restart by issuing the following to the main squid executable: squid -k parse squid -k reconfigure SNMP for squid requires a compile option. Modern RPM packages seem to have it enabled out the box. ########### SNMP Guidelines: /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf If you dont have it, you can install net-snmp via yum, which I had to do on my centos machine to get a workable snmpd.conf going. * add or edit snmpd.conf: com2sec notConfigUser 192.168.100.0/24 your_community_name_here (your_community_name_here designates the SNMP community name, just use one word) (your internal IP range and /block -I gave a fake one for an example, just put your internal network) * add systemviews. Not all lines are necessary on all servers: view systemview included .1.3.6.1.2.1.2 (for Ethernet interfaces) view systemview included .1.3.6.1.4.1.2021 (for disk space checks) view systemview included 1.3.6.1.4.1.3495 (for Squid checks) * for Squid and Java, it's also necessary to proxy squid connections. Squid / Java listens to SNMP requests on port 3401, which Cacti doesn't work well with. proxy -c your_snmp_community_name_here -v 2c localhost:3401 .1.3.6.1.4.1.3495.1 # squid All of the above goes, in order of occurrence, into snmpd.conf. ####### Test it out: After restarting Squid or -k parse and -k configure, you can do a netstat -an|grep :3401 to make sure there's a listener running for SNMP request. You can also tail -f /var/www/cacti/log/cacti.log | grep your_machine_name to see your target machine and if it's showing up during the 5 minute polls. ######### XML Template As far as the Squid XML Template, my co-worker did most of the uploading of it, and configuration, so i'll figure all of that out. Basically we grabbed the Squid XML template from the online cacti forum, i'll go check it's name out and see if I can export it to you so you guys can see squid in action. We truly depend on this metric, it shows when we have to add new cachers. -karlski Adrian Chadd wrote: >On Thu, Mar 01, 2007, Karl R. Balsmeier wrote: > > >>yep, we are tracking squid via snmp/cacti, and I can give you a full >>description of exactly what you'd need to do to get it to work. It's >>easy. I run it on centos (squid). >> >> > >Yes please! > > >Adrian > > >
