Cacti wont install the aggregate plugin

[st0kes]

Please could someone tell me where I am going wrong with this.

I downloaded aggregate 0.74 from here: http://docs.cacti.net/plugin:aggregate#aggregate

Extracted it and copied it to /var/www/html/cacti/plugins/aggregate on my Cacti server.

The README for this plugin explains:

----[ Prerequisites

Before you install Aggregate, you need to have met the following pre-requisites:

...
3) Cacti 0.8.7x requires Plugin Architecture V2.x.

I am using Cacti 0.8.7e and PIA 2.6.

Apparently I don't need to edit my includes/global.php to enable this to work. It doesn't matter whether I do it or not, the plugin never appears in "Plugin Management".

The files are chowned to root:root like the other plugins.

Since the plugin isn't installed here, it isn't available to add in the realm permissions (just pre-emting some of the possible responses)

Any ideas from anyone?

[Howie]

Did you import the pa.sql file into MySQL when you installed the plugin architecture?

[gandalf]

and please post to the existing thread for aggregate. You should e.g. find the current beta for it which will be published soon as a new official version (along with the docs I'm still working on)
R.

[st0kes]

I didn't find an appropriate thread for my problem, which is why I started a new one. Please could you show me the link to it?

[gandalf]

I'm loosing track ...
here's the current code; docs are OLD!
Current docs attached, but not yet finished
R.

[jwhitaker]

I have the same issue - Cacti 0.8.7g, PIA 2.8, aggregate plugin won't show up under Plugin Management. Tried this 0.75 beta, fairly certain I have followed the PIA instructions (pa.sql, copy plugin dir, etc)...

[st0kes]

I've upgraded to PIA2.9-beta and and am trying aggregate-v0.75beta.

Good news is that after the PIA upgrade everything that was previously working, still is working.

Bad news is I still don't have an option to install the aggregate plugin from 'plugin management' though. It still doesn't appear in the list.

Is there anything else I can try?

[st0kes]

Yuck .. ok ... PIA 2.9 has broken the syslog plugin, that is a dealbreaker for me ... I will have to roll back.

[TheWitness]

Which Syslog version?

[gandalf]

Just release aggregate v0.75. Please consider using that version
R.

[jwhitaker]

Got the new 0.75, still can't get it to show up under Plugin Management. I have other plugins working OK (weathermap and superlinks).

[jwhitaker]

OK, finally got aggregate to show up. My $plugins = array(), etc was in config.php, not global.php. I moved the list to global.php at the very bottom above the last line that sets the version of Cacti and then aggregate showed up.

My guess is that this change is required for plugins using the newer PIA architecture, as my other plugins show as "Old PIA" in the Plugin Management console and do not have the "install" and "activate" links the way aggregate does.

[jwhitaker]

LOL well my *old* plugins stopped showing up when removed from config.php. So now I have them all back in config.php and all are still working including aggregate. *shrug*

[st0kes]

I've also gone back and retraced my steps and have this working. Not sure what went wrong first time round, but here's what I did this time

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tar fvzx pia2.9-beta1.tgz
cd pia2.9-beta
chmod 644 *.php -R
chown root.root . -R
cp -r * /var/www/html/cacti/
cd /var/www/html/cacti/images

I didn't make any changes to global.php. But I added the following to config.php

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$plugins = array();
$plugins[] = 'syslog';
$plugins[] = 'settings';

/*
   Edit this to point to the default URL of your Cacti install
   ex: if your cacti install as at http://serverip/cacti/ this
   would be set to /cacti/
*/
$url_path = "/cacti/";

Only thing not working is the syslog plugin (0.5.2), but from rolling back to my vm snapshot on Friday I discovered it was already broken before I tried to install PIA 2.9. I'll have a look in the forums for anyone else with my syslog issue rather than continue here.

Thanks to all for help and suggestions.