How do Cacti console menus really work?

[Howie]

I've just added a new feature to Weathermap that I'd like to show on it's own sub-page in the console menu, like RRAs or CDEFs are. I've looked in global_arrays.php and there's code like this:

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$menu = array(
	"Create" => array(
		"graphs_new.php" => "New Graphs"
		),
	"Management" => array(
		"graphs.php" => array(
			"graphs.php" => "Graph Management",
			"cdef.php" => "CDEFs",
			"color.php" => "Colors",
			"gprint_presets.php" => "GPRINT Presets"
			),

So I did the following in my config_arrays function:

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$wm_menu = array(
		'plugins/weathermap/weathermap-cacti-plugin-mgmt.php' => "Weathermaps",
		'plugins/weathermap/weathermap-cacti-plugin-mgmt-groups.php' => "Groups"
	);
	
	$menu["Management"]['plugins/weathermap/weathermap-cacti-plugin-mgmt.php'] = $wm_menu;

and nothing happens - I just get the Weathermaps entry.

So I looked into html.php to see how it's drawn, and it seems that I might need to have a second entry in $user_auth_realm_filenames[] so that the submenu is drawn. I've tried that, but it still doesn't work.

How do I get the submenu to show up? Ideally I don't really want a whole second page, but just actions within weathermap-cacti-plugin-mgmt.php, but having it work at all would also be nice.

I'd also like it so that the one user realm (manage weathermaps) allows access to both pages.

Any suggestions?

[Howie]

Has nobody else done this?

[gandalf]

To be honest, no.
And more: we will remove those sub-menues in 088.
But it "should" work nevertheless; but I honestly do not know how, at least not by heart
Reinhard

[cigamit]

No, the sub menus don't work for plugins, as the way Cacti handles it is very poorly done (at least for our uses). I haven't rewritten it yet, as we plan on getting rid of then eventually anyways.

[Howie]

Hmm. That sucks...

thanks for the definitive answer though - I'll find another way.