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Nectar Plugin

Post by mcutting »

Looks like I may be the first to officially try this :)

Found it in the new plugins section, and thought I'd give it a whirl. I think I have found a bug.....:(

I use Exchange and Outlook, and the inline images don't get displayed. All I get is a text attachment of the HTML, and other stuff that can't be displayed. However, images sent by THOLD seem to work fine.

Also, the older "REPORTS" plugin seems to have no issues with the inline images. Any thoughts ??

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Please post settings of the reports (e.g. PNG or JPEG, timespan etc.)
Is the mail broken even if SEND NOW is used?
What does the preview look like?
The plugin is very chatty currently. So you may find log entries tagged "NECTAR" that will help debugging.
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gandalf wrote:Please post settings of the reports (e.g. PNG or JPEG, timespan etc.)
Is the mail broken even if SEND NOW is used?
What does the preview look like?
The plugin is very chatty currently. So you may find log entries tagged "NECTAR" that will help debugging.
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Email is broken no matter if the poller_bottom hook sends it, or if I choose "SEND NOW" - see enclosed
Preview looks fine - see enclosed
Settings of REPORTS also enclosed
Email appears to have an attachment - was this tested on Lotus Notes ?
Attachments
ATT2031317.txt
(36.74 KiB) Downloaded 261 times
Report Selection.JPG
Report Selection.JPG (127.39 KiB) Viewed 9361 times
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mcutting wrote:Email is broken no matter if the poller_bottom hook sends it, or if I choose "SEND NOW" - see enclosed
Preview looks fine - see enclosed
Settings of REPORTS also enclosed
Email appears to have an attachment - was this tested on Lotus Notes ?
Please verify using a _working_ email program :x
In fact, we are facing the same issues with Notes in my company. Did it work with notes before, using REPORTS?
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Post by mcutting »

We don't use Notes..

Can confirm that NECTAR doesn't work with Exchange, but the older REPORTS plugin does.
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Post by lcano »

Not sure if this can give you more information.

I am also checking the pluging, and I am able to send reports via email. I receive the report perfectly with Exchange protocol and Outlook mail program.

The only thing is that images are attached in the email, not inline the mail. Having a look to the source code of the email received, I can see this:

Code: Select all

<h3><center>Test REPORT Nectar 1</center></h3><ul><br>
Is this the correct behaviour? I mean, images are sent only as attached files or they should also be inline the mail?

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lcano wrote:Is this the correct behaviour? I mean, images are sent only as attached files or they should also be inline the mail?
No, except on a BlackBerry.

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can not download this plugin

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TheWitness wrote:
lcano wrote:Is this the correct behaviour? I mean, images are sent only as attached files or they should also be inline the mail?
No, except on a BlackBerry.

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Can someone check why this link stuck?

http://docs.cacti.net/_media/plugin:nec ... ache=cache
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Linked fine for me. tgz file with all the trimmings.
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Strange

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TheWitness wrote:Linked fine for me. tgz file with all the trimmings.
I can only get 25K data, here are details


[root@domU-12-31-39-07-8E-02 plugins]# wget http://docs.cacti.net/_media/plugin:nec ... 3Anectar&c ache=cache
[1] 24665
[root@domU-12-31-39-07-8E-02 plugins]# --2009-12-23 16:15:21-- http://docs.cacti.net/_media/plugin:nectar-v0.11.tgz? id=plugin%3Anectar
Resolving docs.cacti.net... 209.124.60.170
Connecting to docs.cacti.net|209.124.60.170|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 25570 (25K) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `plugin:nectar-v0.11.tgz?id=plugin:nectar'

100%[===========================================================================>] 25,570 --.-K/s in 0.05s

2009-12-23 16:15:22 (470 KB/s) - `plugin:nectar-v0.11.tgz?id=plugin:nectar' saved [25570/25570]


[1]+ Done wget http://docs.cacti.net/_media/plugin:nec ... n%3Anectar
[root@domU-12-31-39-07-8E-02 plugins]#
[root@domU-12-31-39-07-8E-02 plugins]#
[root@domU-12-31-39-07-8E-02 plugins]# ls -l
total 600
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44 Dec 3 17:58 index.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 94 Dec 3 18:10 index.php.rej
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25570 Dec 21 09:55 plugin:nectar-v0.11.tgz?id=plugin:nectar
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 May 3 2009 reportit
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 528636 May 3 2009 reportit_0.7.1.tar.gz
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 22 18:06 reportlog
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Dec 22 12:54 reports
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 3 19:48 settings
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16823 Nov 13 15:01 settings-0.5.tar.gz
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Dec 3 19:03 thold
[root@domU-12-31-39-07-8E-02 plugins]#
[root@domU-12-31-39-07-8E-02 plugins]#
[root@domU-12-31-39-07-8E-02 plugins]#
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Post by mcutting »

Pllugin seems to work with Exchange and Outlook, but images are sent as attachments, and not inline. Am using Postfix on my Cacti box, which doesn't seem to work too well at all
I get the same results I posted earlier :(
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Does this plugin works with SMTP?

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I wonder if this plugin can only use PHP Mailer to send email? I tried to run SMTP and no luck.
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Tried already - didn't seem to work for me
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I will audit, but right now I have lot's of other priorities.
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Post by mcutting »

Ok. I can confirm that this plugin does "work" when using MSExchange. However, as a previous poster commented, the images are sent as attachments, and not inline.

Plugin doesn't seem to work too well at all using POSTFIX, which is what I use on my *nix based CACTI host.
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