Nectar 0.21 Released - Major Enhancement

[TheWitness]

All,

The Cacti Group is pleased to announce the second release of Nectar 0.21. This release is a major improvement from the first Nectar release, the true descendant of Reports.

It includes all of the features below.

fix: Graphs were not being generated correctly in reports
fix: Resolve issues time in the past warnings during save
feature: Create two access levels: Admin and User
feature: Allow users to create and manage their own reports
feature: Allow more granular report item drilldown
feature: Re-introduce graph previews when adding graphs
feature: Break the Report edit screen into a tabbed view
feature: Remember the last host template and host when adding graphs
feature: Support the Tree object in the report
feature: Support title font size
feature: Support graph size, type and number of columns
feature: Support custom css and html wrappers for the reports
feature: Allow the report name and email subject line to be different
feature: Add Horizontal Rule element
feature: Support filter tree and host graphs by regular expression

There are two files that need to be patched to use this Plugin correctly. Please look over the patch to the Settings plugin and the modification to the file lib/html_utility.php in the 0.8.7e folder.

We hope you enjoy this plugin.

TheWitness

[Linegod]

Updated and uploaded to http://docs.cacti.net/plugin:nectar

[mcutting]

Great plugin! However, it only seems to show the graphs embedded in the email if I use my MSExchange server to send the email. As I don't want to reply on M$ products to send email for me (particularly if the Exchange server goes down), I use POSTFIX.

Nectar just seems to show the CSS in the message body when using POSTFIX. THOLD seems to show the HTML fine though.

Any thoughts ?

Thanks

[TheWitness]

Great plugin! However, it only seems to show the graphs embedded in the email if I use my MSExchange server to send the email. As I don't want to reply on M$ products to send email for me (particularly if the Exchange server goes down), I use POSTFIX.

Nectar just seems to show the CSS in the message body when using POSTFIX. THOLD seems to show the HTML fine though.

Any thoughts ?

Thanks

Let me send to my Thunderbird and see what the reports look like there.

[TheWitness]

edit nectar_functions.php, and goto line 248 and change image/png to image/jpg. That's one error that I see. Keep me posted.

TheWitness

[TheWitness]

Also, in lines 871 and 873 do the following. The image tags are ended as such " />". Change to ">".

Let me know which changes fixes things.

TheWitness

[TheWitness]

The last difference is the following. At line 890, add the following:

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$v = nectar_version();
$Mailer->header_set('X-Mailer', 'Cacti-Nectar-v' . $v['version']);
$Mailer->header_set('User-Agent', 'Cacti-Nectar-v' . $v['version']);

TheWitness

[mcutting]

edit nectar_functions.php, and goto line 248 and change image/png to image/jpg. That's one error that I see. Keep me posted.

TheWitness

Changed this - still the same though (noticed that this has also been rectified in SVN).

[mcutting]

Also, in lines 871 and 873 do the following. The image tags are ended as such " />". Change to ">".

Let me know which changes fixes things.

TheWitness

No change - modified lines 871 and 873 from "/>" to ">"

[mcutting]

The last difference is the following. At line 890, add the following:

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$v = nectar_version();
$Mailer->header_set('X-Mailer', 'Cacti-Nectar-v' . $v['version']);
$Mailer->header_set('User-Agent', 'Cacti-Nectar-v' . $v['version']);

TheWitness

Placed this at line 890 - no change.

[TheWitness]

Tony's helping out. He's pretty familiar with the headers and has pointed out a few things already. However, it's Superbowl Sunday here. So, I'm off to that right now. Keep your eyes on SVN.

TheWitness

[mcutting]

Tony's helping out. He's pretty familiar with the headers and has pointed out a few things already. However, it's Superbowl Sunday here. So, I'm off to that right now. Keep your eyes on SVN.

TheWitness

Will do - thanks.

Enjoy the game

[TheWitness]

Back from shopping. Can you send the email you received from postfix as an attachment to rony at disorder dot com and thewitness at cacti do net?

TheWitness

[mcutting]

Back from shopping. Can you send the email you received from postfix as an attachment to rony at disorder dot com and thewitness at cacti do net?

TheWitness

Done !

[Howie]

I get this with my qmail server too, reading on Thunderbird 2.

Just from looking at the (e-mail message) source in Thunderbird, the mail isn't valid HTML: there's no <html> tags, and there's a <br> after the </body>, neither of which should happen. There's also no <head> around the <style>.

The HTML document in the mail has a MIME type of text/plain, too.

It's been a while since I really looked at a MIME document, but it looks like it specifies one separator in the headers, then uses a different one in practice, too (adds _HTML on the end)...