Plugin architecture and the hostinfo plugin

[pthaynes]

In the past I have been copying new plugins to subdirectories of the plugins directory and then installing and enabling them using the "Plugin management" web page. When doing that I have not been updating the global.php file. Is this the correct method? I am currently using plugin architecture version 2.2.

I haven't actually had any issues except I noticed that the host info plugin does not return details for any plugins that are not listed in the global.php file.

If I add in lines for each of the plugins does this break anything? Alternatively if I remove lines for plugins that support the new plugin architecture from the global.php file will that break anything?

I am thinking if I remove the excess items from the global.php file I could create a new equivalent hostinfo plugin which queries for new plugins via SQL and for old plugins via the array called $plugins.

Thanks for any responses.

[Dyr]

I wrote a little simple patch for hostinfo.php that fix it, see below. By the way, it stills needed in recognizing enabled/disabled plugins and duplicate plugins (i.e. registered in both PA and global.conf)...but I'm lazy.

That's it output at my server:

Cacti Version - 0.8.7d
Plugin Architecture - 2.4
Poller Type - Cactid v
Server Info - FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE
Web Server - lighttpd/1.4.22
PHP - 5.2.9
PHP Extensions - session, Reflection, date, libxml, cgi-fcgi, standard, sockets, pcre, snmp, xml, mysql, ctype, SimpleXML, SPL, filter, bz2, gd, mbstring, mysqli
MySQL - 5.0.81
RRDTool - 1.3.7
SNMP - 5.4.2.1
Plugins

• Plugins architecture plugins:
  Create Aggregate Graphs (aggregate - v0.71)
  Global Plugin Settings (settings - v0.6)
  Realtime Graph Viewer (realtime - v0.36)
  RRD File Cleaner (rrdclean - v0.38)
  Thresholds (thold - v0.4.1)
  Old architecture plugins:
  Syslog Monitoring (syslog - v0.5.3)
  Global Plugin Settings (settings - v0.6)
  Host Info (hostinfo - v0.2)
  Mobile Cacti (mobile - v0.1)

Code: Select all

--- hostinfo.php.orig	2007-10-25 08:43:50.000000000 +0400
+++ hostinfo.php	2009-06-05 15:21:12.000000000 +0400
@@ -121,8 +121,17 @@
 	form_alternate_row_color($colors["alternate"],$colors["light"], 0);
 	print "<td valign=top>Plugins</td><td>";
 	$bbcode .= "[b]Plugins[/b][list]";
+	$temp = db_fetch_assoc('SELECT * FROM plugin_config ORDER BY name');
+	print "<b><font color=blue>Plugins architecture plugins:</font></b><br>";
+	$bbcode .= "[b][color=blue]Plugins architecture plugins:[/color][/b]\n";
+	foreach ($temp as $t) {
+	    print (isset($t['name']) ? $t['name'] . ' (' : '') . $t['directory'] . ' - v' . $t['version'] . (isset($t['name']) ? ')' : '').'<br>';	     
+	    $bbcode .= (isset($t['name']) ? $t['name'] . ' (' : '') . $t['directory'] . ' - v' . $t['version'] . (isset($t['name']) ? ')' : '')."\n";	     
+	}
 	$c = count($plugins);
 	$x = 0;
+	print "<b><font color=blue>Old architecture plugins:</font></b><br>";
+	$bbcode .= "[b][color=blue]Old architecture plugins:[/color][/b]\n";
 	foreach ($plugins as $p) {
 		$f = "$p" . "_version";
 		$x++;
@@ -139,6 +148,8 @@
 			$bbcode .= "\n";
 		}
 	}
+	
+	
 
 	print "</td></tr>";