Manage Plugin 0.6.2 for monitoring networks, servers...

[mcutting]

Reinhard - Where did you download your tarball from ? Also, you need the TCP template from the forums for port monitoring to work.

I am monitoring ports, and this works fine. Do you see any errors when yoou click the Manage tab, or just a blank screen ?

[gandalf]

Giving up now. Will revert to 0.5.0
I removed the manage tables using the provided sql. But it leaves following items

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manage_double_email
manage_thold

I'd like to recommend deleting "Settings" by

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DELETE from settings where name like "manage%"

to get rid of all items.
Reinhard

[mcutting]

Reinhard - I think you get this error on the Manage tab because php short tags are disabled - could you confirm this in your setup ?

[gandalf]

Reinhard - Where did you download your tarball from ? Also, you need the TCP template from the forums for port monitoring to work.

I am monitoring ports, and this works fine. Do you see any errors when yoou click the Manage tab, or just a blank screen ?

Thank you for your support. I downloaded the tarball from page 1 of this topic. It's an external link. What TCP template are you referring to? And when I clicked on the MANAGE tab (before my last post), I saw a perfect web page with the nice legend, but simply not a single host in there (find screenshot attached).
Reinhard

[gandalf]

Reinhard - I think you get this error on the Manage tab because php short tags are disabled - could you confirm this in your setup ?

Found this in /etc/php.ini

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; Allow the <? tag.  Otherwise, only <?php and <script> tags are recognized.
; NOTE: Using short tags should be avoided when developing applications or
; libraries that are meant for redistribution, or deployment on PHP
; servers which are not under your control, because short tags may not
; be supported on the target server. For portable, redistributable code,
; be sure not to use short tags.
short_open_tag = On

So they are enabled.

Now I've checked error_log again. This time I've found

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[Sat May 19 20:45:26 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function bcmod() in /var/www/html/workspace/cacti-plugins/plugins/manage/manage_ajax.php on line 601
[Sat May 19 20:46:25 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function bcmod() in /var/www/html/workspace/cacti-plugins/plugins/manage/manage_ajax.php on line 601
[Sat May 19 20:51:40 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function bcmod() in /var/www/html/workspace/cacti-plugins/plugins/manage/manage_ajax.php on line 601
[Sat May 19 21:02:01 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning:  mysql_fetch_array(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /var/www/html/workspace/cacti-plugins/plugins/manage/manage_ajax.php on line 349
[Sat May 19 21:02:01 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning:  mysql_fetch_array(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /var/www/html/workspace/cacti-plugins/plugins/manage/manage_ajax.php on line 1578
[Sat May 19 21:02:01 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Notice:  Undefined offset:  1 in /var/www/html/workspace/cacti-plugins/plugins/manage/manage_ajax.php on line 1595
[Sat May 19 21:02:01 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Notice:  Undefined offset:  0 in /var/www/html/workspace/cacti-plugins/plugins/manage/manage_ajax.php on line 1598

What the hell is bcmod()? Not a php extension (php-bcmod)?
Reinhard

[gandalf]

It's not a PHP5 issue, he has some bcmath call's that were not compiled into this users version of PHP. BCMath is not that popular mainly because it is in the core of PHP now.

I'll take a quick look at his code, although I wanted to get it into the standard format, he's moving to quickly for me to keep up. Maybe it will settle down and I can spend another weekend on it.

TheWitness

Found this one concerning my bcmod issue.
Documentation at php web site says:

These functions are only available if PHP was configured with --enable-bcmath.

But unfortunately, I'm running

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php -v
PHP 5.1.6 (cli) (built: May  9 2007 11:47:50) 
Copyright (c) 1997-2006 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.1.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2006 Zend Technologies

and it does not work.

[gandalf]

Back to table struggle. I just learned, that code in setup.php after

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if (($install == "full") || ($install == "upgrade-0.1") || ($install == "upgrade-0.2") || ($install == "upgrade-0.3") || ($install == "upgrade-0.4-2"))

was not executed. Table manage_sites was missing, so I ran the whole of it.
Reinhard

[mcutting]

Hi Reinhard. If you open the readme file that comes with MANAGE, you should find the link to the ports template.

I now recall the BCMath issue - I presume you have a *nix platform ?

[gandalf]

Wow, the table stuff seems to have fixed it (to a certain extend)!
I'm still struggeling with using the Device Manage Section, especially with assigning TCP Templates. Still, after assigning I don't see any list of ports.
Magically, the bcmod() stuff vanished. Don't ask me why. I clicked here and there, deleted some tables and recovered again.
Perhaps tomorrow, I will try a fresh install. Then I will first pay attention to table setup. I suppose, it is best to use the provided sql files instead of dynamically building up tables. The n I will check any code changes apart from table setup.
Now I' too tired to go on anymore
Reinhard

[gandalf]

Hi Reinhard. If you open the readme file that comes with MANAGE, you should find the link to the ports template.

Thanks, I've found it here. But I'm a bit astonished. Because this template is of no use for me. I only need the ports.inc file of it. IMHO, it would be a good iea to ship it with manage. And IMHO, it should reside under the manage plugin directory (even there is a duplicate for users that use the Template in question).

I now recall the BCMath issue - I presume you have a *nix platform ?

Yes.
Thank you for your attention
Reinhard

[gilles]

It searches for a file named ports.inc in the scripts directory. There's no such file within the distributed tarball of MANAGE. And I found no hint on how to define such a file. Nor do I know, whether this file is mandatory and what it servers for. Sure, it seems to define sth. for TCP Ports, but what exactly?

this plugin "unify" the output produced by 3 templates : Windows Services Template, windows Process Template and TCP port template
you must install these templates

it's in the readme file

PS : i would like to create a "linux process template" but i don't have the time, even if i have the oids

[gilles]

Then "Force ping ...", save, ok

well, bad choice ... ping is currently experimental
choose a snmp host

[gilles]

it would be a good iea to ship it with manage.

at the start, it was
separate it from the plugin give users with only cacti and without plugin architecture the ability to use it, i think it's good

[gandalf]

this plugin "unify" the output produced by 3 templates : Windows Services Template, windows Process Template and TCP port template
you must install these templates

Do I have to install the complete Template even if I only want to use manage on non-Windows boxes? Is the TCP port Template the only one needed for Linux? Do I need the whole Template? Must I apply the Template to some hosts to be able to use manage?
My current approach was to use MANAGE for downed host alerting only (sorry), as thold won't work when using cactid as a poller. So what I'm after is sth like a minimal configuration to get this up and running.

it's in the readme file

Yes, I've read it at the very beginning. To be honest, I did not understand why a plugin would require a Template. Now I downloaded the ports.inc file to the ./scripts directory. But I still do not understand for which feature this file is needed.

PS : i would like to create a "linux process template" but i don't have the time, even if i have the oids

I discussed this lately. IMHO, it should be an SNMP based Data Query. While I suppsoe I would be able to implement such a Data Query, I honestly do not know what your plugin requires as an interface.
Reinhard

[TheWitness]

Service checking IMHO should be more complex than syning a port. You should have a table called: "manage_services". This table would contain the following:

table manage_services
service_id
service_name
service_protocol (TCP/UDP)
service_port
connect_string
connect_response
test_string
test_response

The test string may require tags, as some services require a user/id password or some other device specific connection parameters in order to obtain a response.

Therefire, each devices services to be tested would be able to alter these settings:

table manage_device_service_tests
device_id
service_id
credentials
timeout
retries

Or something that resembles this.

TheWitness