Need for #$plugins = array(); with PIA compatible plug-ins??

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Hello,

New to cacti. I'm running 0.8.7g on an ubuntu 11.04 server. I installed the plugin architecture and want to use the threshold plug-in. I downloaded and extracted the plugin to /var/www/cacti/plugins and it is there (shows as enable) in plugin management, but I dont have the "thold" tab ???

Do I need to add something like this to my config.php file?

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/* load up old style plugins here */
#$plugins = array();
#$plugins[] = 'settings';
#$plugins[] = 'syslog';
#$plugins[] = 'thold';
#$plugins[] = 'flowview';

That is what I see in the /var/www/cacti/include/config.php file of the cacti box we are migrating off of which has a thold tab for the threshold plugin.

Thanks for any help on this...

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I'm pretty sure the answer to my question is: no based on what I just noticed on the web-site [see attached]

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Knowing that I don't have to edit the config.php file doesn't change the fact that I am not seeing the plugins. Is there any kind of debugging or checks I can make to ensure I have followed the plugin install directions correctly.

Which reminds me. In the plugin install directions, I'm having a problem understanding this:
"You will need to upload/copy the complete “monitor” folder into this “plugins” folder on your web server."
What is the monitor folder?

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Ok, finally got syslog plugin to show up...since thold wasn't working I moved on to syslog. After installing syslog, I chmoded everything to 777, chowned everything to cactiuser:cactiuser and rebooted. Syslog showed up.

Now I see that the "settings" plugin is a dependency for syslog...so I'm going to install that next...Rock On!