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.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE!  It was generated by help2man 1.49.3.
.TH SPINE "1" "March 2026" "SPINE 1.3.0  Copyright 2004-2026 by The Cacti Group" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
SPINE \- Data Collector for Cacti
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B spine
[\fI\,options\/\fR] [[\fI\,firstid lastid\/\fR] \fI\,|| \/\fR[\fI\,-H/--hostlist='hostid1,hostid2,\/\fR...\fI\,,hostidn'\/\fR]]
.SH DESCRIPTION
SPINE 1.3.0  Copyright 2004\-2026 by The Cacti Group
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
\fB\-h\fR/\-\-help
Show this brief help listing
.TP
\fB\-f\fR/\-\-first=X
Start polling with host id X
.TP
\fB\-l\fR/\-\-last=X
End polling with host id X
.TP
\fB\-H\fR/\-\-hostlist=X
Poll the list of host ids, separated by comma's
.TP
\fB\-p\fR/\-\-poller=X
Set the poller id to X
.TP
\fB\-t\fR/\-\-threads=X
Override the database threads setting.
.TP
\fB\-C\fR/\-\-conf=F
Read spine configuration from file F
.TP
\fB\-O\fR/\-\-option=S:V
Override DB settings 'set' with value 'V'
.TP
\fB\-M\fR/\-\-mibs
Refresh the device System Mib data
.TP
\fB\-N\fR/\-\-mode=online
For remote pollers, the operating mode.
Options include: online, offline, recovery.
The default is 'online'.
.TP
\fB\-R\fR/\-\-readonly
Spine will not write output to the DB
.TP
\fB\-S\fR/\-\-stdout
Logging is performed to standard output
.TP
\fB\-P\fR/\-\-pingonly
Ping device and update device status only
.TP
\fB\-V\fR/\-\-verbosity=V
Set logging verbosity to <V>
.PP
Either both of \fB\-\-first\fR/\-\-last must be provided, a valid hostlist must be provided.
In their absence, all hosts are processed.
.SS "Without the --conf parameter, spine searches in order:"
.IP
current directory, /etc/, /etc/cacti/, ../etc/ for spine.conf.
.PP
Verbosity is one of NONE/LOW/MEDIUM/HIGH/DEBUG or 1..5
.PP
Runtime options are read from the 'settings' table in the Cacti
database, but they can be overridden with the \fB\-\-option\fR=\fI\,S\/\fR:V
parameter.
.PP
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