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spine(1)

spine1

Data collector for cacti

Usage

spine [options] [{[firstid lastid] | | [-H/--hostlist='hostid1,hostid2, ... ,hostidn']}]

Overview

SPINE 1.2.30 Copyright 2004-2024 by The Cacti Group

Options

-h/--help

Show this brief help listing

-f/--first=X

Start polling with host id X

-l/--last=X

End polling with host id X

-H/--hostlist=X

Poll the list of host ids, separated by comma's

-p/--poller=X

Set the poller id to X

-t/--threads=X

Override the database threads setting.

-C/--conf=F

Read spine configuration from file F

-O/--option=S:V

Override DB settings 'set' with value 'V'

-M/--mibs

Refresh the device System Mib data

-N/--mode=online

For remote pollers, the operating mode. Options include: online, offline, recovery. The default is 'online'.

-R/--readonly

Spine will not write output to the DB

-S/--stdout

Logging is performed to standard output

-P/--pingonly

Ping device and update device status only

-V/--verbosity=V

Set logging verbosity to <V>

Either both of --first/--last must be provided, a valid hostlist must be provided. In their absence, all hosts are processed.

Without the --conf parameter, spine searches for its spine.conf file in the usual places.

Verbosity is one of NONE/LOW/MEDIUM/HIGH/DEBUG or 1..5

Runtime options are read from the 'settings' table in the Cacti database, but they can be overridden with the --option=S:V parameter.

Spine is distributed under the Terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License Version 2.1. (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.txt) For more information, see http://www.cacti.net

History

  • Debian 13 (Trixie): the text shown here
  • Debian 12 (Bookworm)
  • Debian 11 (Bullseye)
  • Debian 10 (Buster)
  • Debian 9 (Stretch)
  • Debian 8 (Jessie)
  • Debian 7 (Wheezy)
  • Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)

--snmponly until Debian 11 (Bullseye).

From cacti-spine 1.2.30-1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.