XMLPort 0.3.5 - Bulk Template Importer/Exporter/Archiver

streaker69 · Post by **streaker69** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 2:22 pm

Took most of the day, but I succeeded in writing a Bulk Exporter for all the different templates. It's based on the Template_Export.php file that comes with cacti with a bunch of modifications.

I'm not a php programmer, so I pretty much fumbled my way through this, it works fine on my machine, hopefully it will work on everyone else's as well.

Basically it gives you the choice of the four types of XML files you can export, displays the list of them and then you hit the Create button and it exports them to directories inside the plugin directory.

Maybe sometime in the future I can write a scheduler for it, but for now it works, just install it like any other plugin.

Please post here if you have questions or issues, I'll do what I can to resolve them.

streaker69 · Post by **streaker69** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 6:49 pm

New version, now with Tint Control!!

Just kidding, I've added a couple of new features. I removed the Top tab bar navigation, I didn't think that was needed. I've moved it to the Import/Export area of the console.

I've also added Importing from the local storage area. So you can do a mass export, and then selectively import the files back in.

This PHP stuff isn't too hard now that I'm not doing all my editing in Nano, someone turned me onto jEdit today, so it's been a little easier learning this.

streaker69 · Post by **streaker69** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 8:50 pm

Another new version.

I added the feature that you can now create a Zip or Tar.Gz file of your Templates and then download them in bulk.

streaker69 · Post by **streaker69** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 10:51 am

Hopefully I'm not driving you guys nuts with updating this after you've downloaded it. I'm teaching myself PHP and as I learn more, I've been trying to add features I had been thinking of from the start.

Today's change is a minor one. I neglected to mention previously that you'd need Archive_tar and Archive_zip installed in Pear to use the Archive function. Hopefully you guys that downloaded it figured it out and installed it.

I've made a change to the Setup.php file to give file boxes to where your Tar.php and Zip.php files are located. It checks for those files before you attempt to archive anything, if they're not there, it will prompt you to update the settings page.

I'm looking for feedback, whether good or bad, so if you have ideas on improvements or issues, please post here.

thank you.

streaker69 · Post by **streaker69** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 8:42 am

Uploaded a new version. I found a bug in one file where I hardcoded a path. Fixed that bug. The only file you need to replace in your plugin is xmlimport.php.

X-dark · Post by **X-dark** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 8:35 am

I'm testing your plugin but I don't see how to use it. The only thing I've found is how to set the path to the Tar.php and Zip.php file

streaker69 · Post by **streaker69** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 8:36 am

X-dark wrote:I'm testing your plugin but I don't see how to use it. The only thing I've found is how to set the path to the Tar.php and Zip.php file

Under the Import/Export section of the Console, you should see XMLPort

X-dark · Post by **X-dark** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 8:59 am

no I don't see anything there

streaker69 · Post by **streaker69** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 9:00 am

X-dark wrote:no I don't see anything there

Did you enable it under the users configuration?

X-dark · Post by **X-dark** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 9:03 am

No

Now it's ok. Thanks

X-dark · Post by **X-dark** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 9:06 am

There is a bug when the user has no right in the xmlport folder :

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XML Parsing Error: junk after document element
Location: http://192.168.1.250/graphs/plugins/xmlport/xmlsave.php
Line Number 2, Column 1:<b>Warning</b>:  fopen(./plugins/xmlport/graph_template/cacti_graph_template_asterisk_-_active_calls.xml) [<a href='function.fopen'>function.fopen</a>]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in <b>/var/www/graphs/plugins/xmlport/xmlsave.php</b> on line <b>22</b><br />
^

streaker69 · Post by **streaker69** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 9:27 am

X-dark wrote:There is a bug when the user has no right in the xmlport folder :

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XML Parsing Error: junk after document element
Location: http://192.168.1.250/graphs/plugins/xmlport/xmlsave.php
Line Number 2, Column 1:<b>Warning</b>:  fopen(./plugins/xmlport/graph_template/cacti_graph_template_asterisk_-_active_calls.xml) [<a href='function.fopen'>function.fopen</a>]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in <b>/var/www/graphs/plugins/xmlport/xmlsave.php</b> on line <b>22</b><br />
^

hmm, yeah.. I guess that's why the general rule of Cacti has always been that plugin directory should be Chown'ed to the user that's running Cacti.

I'll try to fix the plugin that it checks to see if the folder is writable in the future, right now I got a few other fish to fry.

bodo.bach · Post by **bodo.bach** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 7:51 am

Nice addon to Cacti.....

cigamit · Post by **cigamit** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 2:35 pm

Nice plugin, does it have the ability to import via the command line?

streaker69 · Post by **streaker69** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 3:50 pm

cigamit wrote:Nice plugin, does it have the ability to import via the command line?

Nope.

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XMLPort 0.3.5 - Bulk Template Importer/Exporter/Archiver

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