New Data Input Type - Read File/URL

[Brian Blood]

The attached svn diff file contains patches I made to my Cacti 0.8.7g install that add a new Data Input Type: Read File.

The actual code calls the PHP function file_get_contents() which can read a local file or any other URL such as a HTTP or HTTPS request.

Now you can create periodic processes on your remote systems that output standard Cacti name:value pair based data values into a simple text file and then make it web accessible. Using this Data Input Type you can now grab that data in one simple HTTP read. Or of course you could make a request to a PHP or any other dynamic language script which does some calculations and returns back the results directly.

This type of data input is very flexible and can solve a lot of problems where SNMP can't be used.

The code takes the first and only Input field defined for the Data Input Method as the path/URL to read.

[rony]

This will not work if you are using the Spine data collector for Cacti.