Cacti 0.8.6k Beta 1 Available for Testing

[rony]

apperrault,

What typically works well for me is the following:

0) If you are using the PIA, install those files into your installation directory.
1) In your install directory, modify the config.php file per your site specifications
2) Add plugins etc to the installation directories plugin directory as required.
3) Backup your production environment with the exception of the RRA folder
4) Copy all "Non-Standard" scripts from <production_path>/cacti/scripts to <install_path>/cacti/scripts. Do not overwrite any "standard" scripts.
5) Alter all PHP scripts and change "include("../include/config.php')" to "include('../include/global.php')".
6) Change ownership on the installation directory to what your web server requires
7) Then, finally "cp -rp <installation_path>/cacti <production_path>/cacti"

Step 7 should be to move the current production to another directory, then mv the new cacti to the originals production name, then move the contents of the rra folder from the previous production to the new production.

[rcaston]

You are right, it does work for all other graph types, including one of my own custom data queries..

However, for some reason "SNMP - Interface Statistics" is not working right.

"SNMP - Interface Statistics" seems to work fine on my install for me.

I'm not sure what I was doing wrong before; but sometime after having lunch this issue went away. Perhaps I was using the wrong data-type in the drop down.

It does work now. Perhaps my issue was hunger related .. heh

In other news; this beta release has resolved some of site hanging issues I was having in the past. Also, did the font get larger for the graph titles?

[cigamit]

Also, did the font get larger for the graph titles?

Yes, seems the default got changed. You can change them back by clicking on the Settings tab while viewing the graphs. 9 for title and 8 for everything else was what they used to be.

[bdbrumm]

12-10-8-8 (title/legend/axis/unit) was the font setting in prior versions.

It would appear that the thumbnail and normal graph titles used to be bolded.
It almost seems like that the font for title/legend is scaled up by about 2 in the new version for the normal graphs.
The thumbnails look like they did previously, minus the bolding for the titles. Minor issue.

[TheWitness]

Relative to font's for this release. In the past you had to specify both a file and a font size for the settings to take place. Now you only have to specify the size.

The precedence remains the same:

User
System
Defaults

TheWitness

[BIGHard]

the host_templates.php has an error - when editing a host template it links to

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host_templates.php?template_edit=(...) 

instead of

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host_templates.php?edit=(...)

patch attached

[TheWitness]

Fix applied to SVN. Thanks!!

TheWitness

[TheWitness]

Rodnie,

The issue with your Create Graph page has been fixed in SVN. There were a few other minor issues corrected as well. They will be produced in the next beta if that is to occur. All depends...

Larry

[TheWitness]

apperrault,

What typically works well for me is the following:

0) If you are using the PIA, install those files into your installation directory.
1) In your install directory, modify the config.php file per your site specifications
2) Add plugins etc to the installation directories plugin directory as required.
3) Backup your production environment with the exception of the RRA folder
4) Copy all "Non-Standard" scripts from <production_path>/cacti/scripts to <install_path>/cacti/scripts. Do not overwrite any "standard" scripts.
5) Alter all PHP scripts and change "include("../include/config.php')" to "include('../include/global.php')".
6) Change ownership on the installation directory to what your web server requires
7) Then, finally "cp -rp <installation_path>/cacti <production_path>/cacti"

Step 7 should be to move the current production to another directory, then mv the new cacti to the originals production name, then move the contents of the rra folder from the previous production to the new production.

Ah yes, (I'm still kind of Windowsie) the good old move command. Should work like a charm.

Larry

[pbulteel]

Are there any changes to the database schema that would affect the 0.8.6i database? Are they backwards compatible?

In the upgrade instructions I don't see a backup database step. ;)

Just being cautious!

I noticed one of the features is a rra_path variable. Does this mean we can now place our rras somewhere outside the cacti directory? This would be great as upgrading would be simplified.

Great work guys! As always.

-P

[fmangeant]

Using the latest SVN snapshot, adding 2 hosts (one 'up' and one 'down') results in the second host being 'unknown', even after several poller cycles.

I'm using the default 5 minute interval, and cmd.php as a poller.

Here are the polling stats :

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07/27/2007 09:30:02 AM - SYSTEM STATS: Time:1.1476 Method:cmd.php Processes:1 Threads:N/A Hosts:3 HostsPerProcess:3 DataSources:15 RRDsProcessed:12

Don't know why Cacti sees 3 devices...

[TheWitness]

My bad, but been that way for a while. The third device is for non-host based polling/data sources. I should have called it something else, but what the heck.

Larry

[TheWitness]

Also note, with cmd.php, a device will remain unknown until it has graphs.

Larry

[gilles]

is this normal when i add a tree item ?

before it was "daily (5min)"

[fmangeant]

Also note, with cmd.php, a device will remain unknown until it has graphs.

Sorry about that, I haven't used cmd.php for decades