How to change the background of graph?

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Tomek
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How to change the background of graph?

Post by Tomek »

Hello.
Like in topic. How to change the background of graph, because I don't want to have the white one. I found
http://forums.cacti.net/about2930.html
but it isn't working, php have problems.
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trik
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Post by trik »

Hello,

You can't change the background of a graph with cacti.
Cacti use an image file generated by RRDtool.
The only thing that you can change, is the label at the bottom on the graph.
But, this use an RRD function to add a single text.

I think the only way to do this is to include an custom image merge function with GD in cacti php file. Warning, cacti performance decrease on consultation if you do that...

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Post by miaubl »

trik wrote:I think the only way to do this is to include an custom image merge function with GD in cacti php file.
Yep, image merge in PHP is costly. Maybe, it's easy to change code in RRDTool ? - it's GNU also.. Or, just get use to current background color (much easier :) )
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Post by jgilmour »

Worked for me with NxTrek's suggestion
"-c CANVAS#000000 -c FONT#FFFFFF -c BACK#000000 --title=\"" . $graph["title_cache"] . "\"" . RRD_NL .
in rrdtool.php
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Post by clevorguy »

This worked for me.

8.7e
rrd.php file under lib.
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Post by gandalf »

COLORTAG will be fully supported with 088
- on a system global setting
- user specific setting
- graph template setting
Override rules can be set system-wide
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sync32
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Re: How to change the background of graph?

Post by sync32 »

Did this feature make the cut for 0.8.8b?
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Re: How to change the background of graph?

Post by ohhteriiii »

Image merge in PHP is costly. Maybe, it's easy to change code in RRDTool ? - it's GNU also.. Or, just get use to current background color (much easier :) )???
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