NAME¶

SPINE - Data Collector for Cacti

SYNOPSIS¶

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

-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
-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
-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

March 2023