How to enable the Plugin Architecture

[y2k100]

Hi everyone:

I use the Cacti V0.8.7i , how to install the plugin architecture(cacti-0.8.7i-PIA-3.1.tar.gz) ? I can not find the *.diff and *.sql files to install the plugin architecture , is this version different from the before ?

What different between the cacti-0.8.7i-PIA-3.1.tar.gz and cacti-plugin-0.8.7h-PA-v3.0.tar.gz ?

what different between the PIA and the PA package ?

Thanks !

[TheWitness]

Just overlay the files over the existing install and import the sql file below into mysql. After doing so, goto User Management and verify that you have access to the 'Plugin Management' Realm.

[y2k100]

Thanks ! I will try it.

Just overlay the files over the existing install and import the sql file below into mysql. After doing so, goto User Management and verify that you have access to the 'Plugin Management' Realm.

[shikima]

I try to do this but I get this error

root@SERVERNOC:/usr/share/cacti# mysql -uroot -p cacti < pa.sql
Enter password:
ERROR 1050 (42S01) at line 5: Table 'plugin_config' already exists

Any Ideas?

[gandalf]

You may have already "some" PIA tables available. When browsing that pa.sql file, you will see the tables that shall be installed. You may verify, using pgpMyAdmin or mysql native cli, which of them already are available.
R.

[gandalf]

Or use the attached. It uses "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS" in favor of a simple "CREATE TABLE"
R.

[shikima]

I already check it and yes, there is the table, so I made rollback and start over again, and now I didn't insert te pa.sql and everything work perfect!!!, just the changes of RRA folder and poller.php need the permissions for www-data:www:data.

[Rno]

Just overlay the files over the existing install and import the sql file below into mysql. After doing so, goto User Management and verify that you have access to the 'Plugin Management' Realm.

And if I did all this work, and still don't get access to the plugin management what can I do ?

[shikima]

can you post your config.php???

[cigamit]

Run this SQL query.

SELECT * FROM `plugin_hooks`;

Without any plugins installed, there should only be 2 entries.

[Rno]

Hello
So here is the request for the SQL command:
mysql> SELECT * FROM `plugin_hooks`;
+----+----------+----------------------+------+------------------------------+--------+
| id | name | hook | file | function | status |
+----+----------+----------------------+------+------------------------------+--------+
| 1 | internal | config_arrays | | plugin_c
onfig_arrays | 1 |
| 2 | internal | draw_navigation_text | | p
lugin_draw_navigation_text | 1 |
+----+----------+----------------------+------+------------------------------+--------+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)


and the config.php (without password)
/* make sure these values refect your actual database/host/user/password */
$database_type = "mysql";
$database_default = "cacti";
$database_hostname = "localhost";
$database_username = "cactiuser";
$database_password = somepassword;
$database_port = "3306";
$database_ssl = false;

/* Default session name - Session name must contain alpha characters */
#$cacti_session_name = "Cacti";

Nothing about plugin, since after 8.0.7g it's not necessary anymore !! (that's what I found on the forum)

[cigamit]

Can you check and see if the file <pathtocacti/plugins.php exists?

[Rno]

yes it does;:
root@tango:/usr/share/cacti# ls -l plugins.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27284 Dec 12 03:09 plugins.php

I just try to change the owner of the file to www-data, no change !!

[shikima]

I needed add this line in config.php

$url_path = "/cacti/";

by the way, do you already have all your plugins in cacti/plugins/ ???

[Rno]

Ok I added this entry, and I have 2 plugin:
root@tango:/usr/share/cacti/plugins# ls -l
total 12
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data root 44 Dec 12 03:09 index.php
drwxr-xr-x 5 www-data root 4096 Aug 18 2010 mactrack
drwxr-xr-x 9 www-data root 4096 Jan 3 17:29 weathermap

AD I even do a restart of mysql and apache2

No more luck