Access Points at high elevation are not being honored to represent site, random hosts within the site show instead

[squad1534]

Debian Buster
Cacti 1.2.2
PHP 7.0
GPSMAP 2.1

As I've added more sites GPSMAP seems to behave less predictably. Devices templated as AP's no longer represent the site and hosts at high elevation. Hosts within the site now populate the high elevation map (see ms393 tooltip and red pin), and due to the various states those hosts could be in my map looks like a bowl of fruit loops. The only changes I've made to the system are periodic "apt-get updates" which pull the latest stable system updates, e.g. php, maria, kernel updates, etc. Any ideas?

I'd be happy to supply any additional info upon request.
Respectfully,
Chip

[TheWitness]

I'm sorry, I'm still stuck on Fruit Loops. That was too funny. Can you do some mock-up of what you would like?

[squad1534]

My bowl of Fruit Loops, it's an affectionate term. When teammates see it they ohh and ahh like some thing is wrong. I seem to have made things a little better, What I had was one host (my cacti box,this host is not being plotted) setup to answer for all the Access Point site hosts - the blue pins - I would call it e.g. Spartanburg but give it the address of my cacti box.First, using Heidi to access cacti's mysql database I moved all these AP's to a host ID of 20-50, the lowest numbers available, I did this without disrupting or trampling on currently used IDs. I did this on a hunch because things didn't start to go colorful until my deployed base expanded, once it grew all sort of colors would be popping up. Another thing that seems to have helped is I split up the ip address/hosts assigned to the Access Point, I spread them out using a fileserver and another another win10 host that is not being plotted. That seems to have helped prevent some of the random outlier pins that would show up instead of the Access Point. A problem that continues to occur is never is the map correct if when I fire-up cacti I go directly to Maps, it's a mess. And if I use 'Start Over' at any time it's a mess. The only way I can get the Map to present properly is to go from Monitor, Logs and Graphs, sometimes it takes 2 attempts. Below are images of what I see: Four Maps to follow: (each blue pin represents a group of hosts that could be in good (green), down (red) and recovering (orange) state, I show a drilled in example below. Here's a good Map Here's what the Map looks like when I click 'Start Over' Here's what the Map looks like when open Cacti and go directly to Maps (from the console Intro page plugin) And here's a Map that is drilled into so you can see the hosts. I plot a 30 meter radius around the Blue Pin, my center point. As I mentioned ealier, this all worked fine until I started adding more sites (AP's) and added hosts. Thanks a ton for taking a look into this. Respectfully, -David

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[squad1534]

My AP's use the Map Template and designate facilities spread out across the US, when you drill down into a AP you see the hosts which belong to another Template. In the process of updating my Cacti hosts I deleted several that belonged to various AP's/Facilities, this action cleared up the issue I was having with gpsmap having a problem with just showing the AP/Facility at high elevation, host pins in their various up/down colored states would appear instead of the blue AP pin. Not sure what the issue was, it may have been related to hosts that had been 'down' for a long time, I have no way of knowing. Just following up here, in the end gpsmap is back working fine and behaving as expected.