[SOLVED] do plugins have to match cacti version?

[saya]

Hello guys, I just want to ask that do plugins have to match cacti version?
My cacti version is 0.8.6i and I installed the matched plugin architecture and then downloaded the plugin monitor-0.8.2.tar.gz. I extracted it to the cacti/plugins/ path and added the line "$plugins[]=''monitor"; After this, when I run cacti again in the browser, everything has gone! only the "console" and "graphs" icons left...

any idea??
Thanks!!

saya

[streaker69]

Hello guys, I just want to ask that do plugins have to match cacti version?
My cacti version is 0.8.6i and I installed the matched plugin architecture and then downloaded the plugin monitor-0.8.2.tar.gz. I extracted it to the cacti/plugins/ path and added the line "$plugins[]=''monitor"; After this, when I run cacti again in the browser, everything has gone! only the "console" and "graphs" icons left...

any idea??
Thanks!!

saya

Did you mean to use double quotes(") there, is that actually what's in your global.php file?

It should be:

$plugins[] = 'monitor';[/b]

[saya]

Oh sorry, it's a typing mistake. The one in my /include/config.php is correct
$plugins[] = 'monitor';

I checked the update date for monitor is 12/23/07.. Is it because my cacti version too old? ;-$

Thanks!

[mcutting]

Some of the newer plugins (for example THOLD 0.3.9 and MONITOR 0.8.2) only work with Cacti 0.8.7x, as they require new hooks introduced in PIA 1.4 - as a result of this, they are not backwards compatible.

An upgrade to the latest version of Cacti would cure this, although you should carefully plan this, as a lot has changed in the core code in 0.8.7x

[fmangeant]

Hi

mcutting is right. One of my Cacti servers is still running 0.8.6i, so I have to use the monitor plugin 0.7...

[saya]

Thanx mcutting and fmangeant...
I really think it's the worst case...
I installed cacti using rpmforge, and in that repo cacti 0.8.6i is the latest...have to reinstall everything from the very beginning..

btw mcutting, is the software listed in ur signature all the lastest for cacti? can they be installed on a centOS4 linux?

Cacti Version - 0.8.7a
Plugin Architecture - 1.4
Poller Type - CMD.php
Server Info - Linux 2.6.9-67.0.1.EL.plus.c4
Web Server - Apache/2.0.59 (CentOS)
PHP - 5.1.6
MySQL - 5.0.54
RRDTool - 1.2.23
SNMP - 5.1.2

[fmangeant]

Thanx mcutting and fmangeant...
I really think it's the worst case...
I installed cacti using rpmforge, and in that repo cacti 0.8.6i is the latest...have to reinstall everything from the very beginning..

You can find 0.8.7a RPMS here : http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/cacti/

[saya]

You can find 0.8.7a RPMS here : http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/cacti/

Is it okey if only update cacti to new version and left other software like php and mysql as they were?

Thanks

saya

[fmangeant]

I'm using CentOS 4 and 5, and the only third party software I install is Cacti and RRDtool.

[saya]

I don't think the problem I met yestoday was caused by cacti version...My friend also run 0.8.6, but can add the plugins which I failed to install..
However, I updated my cacti to 0.8.7a today..everything goes on well until I installed the architecture...the patch I use is cacti-plugin-0.8.7a-PA-v1.4.diff...but once
Shell#patch -p1 -N < cacti-plugin-0.8.7a-PA-v1.4.diff
nothing works any more...no graph..cannot access links..

do anyone know why this happened??

Thanks

Saya

[saya]

just now I read that architecture should be installed before cacti configuration..so I reinstalled again..but still the same problem >_<|||

[fmangeant]

Which plugin architecture do you use ?

[saya]

Oh it's working now ^_^
The version I installed before was cacti noarch 0.8.7-1.el4.rf...I think this is why I met so many problems...after I changed it to cacti0.8.7a, everything looks nice =)

Thank you very much!!