How to install Plugins on Cacti 8.8a

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bushrat
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Re: How to install Plugins on Cacti 8.8a

Post by bushrat »

yes .. my apologies ... so we have :
/usr/share/cacti/site/plugins/monitoring
/usr/share/cacti/site/plugins/mactrack
/usr/share/cacti/site/plugins/settings
invotec
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Re: How to install Plugins on Cacti 8.8a

Post by invotec »

/usr/share/cacti/site/plugins/settings
/usr/share/cacti/site/plugins/monitor
etc...
enyap
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Re: How to install Plugins on Cacti 8.8a

Post by enyap »

Hmm, that appears to be OK. If we focus on Monitor at the moment, what happens if you check the "show icon legend" box under Settings|Misc?
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If that displays the legend, can you check that you have monitor enable on some devices.
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invotec
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Re: How to install Plugins on Cacti 8.8a

Post by invotec »

No legend. Still a blank screen. Do you still have to do some manual config that I may have overlooked?
bushrat
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Re: How to install Plugins on Cacti 8.8a

Post by bushrat »

Same here .. nothing happens when I enable that button .. besides it had always been set like that. I unchecked it, saved and checked it again just to be on the safe side
enyap
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Re: How to install Plugins on Cacti 8.8a

Post by enyap »

I'm running Ubunto as well, with Cacti 0.8.8a and mine works fine.

Is there anything in the Cacti logs that might give an indication of what may be going on?
invotec
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Re: How to install Plugins on Cacti 8.8a

Post by invotec »

I also installed thold plugin and the only thing that is in the log file is system stats. About the time I installed the thold plugin, I started to get thold stats in the log as well. I dont know what else to look for.
enyap
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Re: How to install Plugins on Cacti 8.8a

Post by enyap »

What do you get in the Cacti log every time the poller runs? In my case, I get something like this...

08/01/2013 09:25:05 PM - SYSTEM THOLD STATS: Time:0.0043 Tholds:0 TotalHosts:35 DownHosts:0 NewDownHosts:0
08/01/2013 09:25:05 PM - SYSTEM STATS: Time:3.1968 Method:cmd.php Processes:1 Threads:N/A Hosts:36 HostsPerProcess:36 DataSources:43 RRDsProcessed:41
invotec
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Re: How to install Plugins on Cacti 8.8a

Post by invotec »

I get the attached.
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enyap
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Re: How to install Plugins on Cacti 8.8a

Post by enyap »

All very odd. Once again that looks fine and it's clearly picking up Thold as a plugin.

What do you get on the Thold tab under "Host Status" with Status set to "All"? Hopefully 5 devices.
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Re: How to install Plugins on Cacti 8.8a

Post by enyap »

I think this may help...
http://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=50263
I've just checked my Thold .php files as recommended and yes, I did change them and it works. Looking at monitor it has the same chdir, so worth a go. Looks like its something Ubunto specific.
Please let me know how you get on.
invotec
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Re: How to install Plugins on Cacti 8.8a

Post by invotec »

I altered the line in /usr/local/share/cacti/plugins/settings/email-test.php that the forum you mentioned suggested and the test email worked. I will try the other recommend files.

Thanks so much!
invotec
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Re: How to install Plugins on Cacti 8.8a

Post by invotec »

I also modified cli_thresholds.php, listthold.php, thold_add.php, thold_graph.php, thold.php, and thold_templates for the thold plugin, and it now works.

I modified monitor.php in the monitor plugin and it is working as well.

It looks like it is a symbolic link problem, and I will have to do this for every plugin I install.

Thanks for the all the help.
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Re: How to install Plugins on Cacti 8.8a

Post by enyap »

My pleasure :) Let's hope it fixes the problem for bushrat as will.
datboy
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Re: How to install Plugins on Cacti 8.8a

Post by datboy »

Hi Hi Gentlemen,
i'm using ubuntu 16.04 and cacti 0.8.8f, and now facing the same problem
i changed

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chdir('../../');
(that still work on centOS)
to

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chdir('/usr/share/cacti/site');
but still cannot show any thing on the monitor tab, please make more detail what you modified
Thanks
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