Nectar: parse error/undefined variable

[GlueGuy]

Installed nectar 0.35a on a cacti 0.8.8a cacti system. When I attempt to add my first nectar report I get the following at the top of the screen:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /var/www/html/lib/functions.php(317) : eval()'d code on line 1
Notice: Undefined variable: message in /var/www/html/lib/functions.php on line 323

I didn't see any patches for 0.8.8a, so I must have missed something?

[gandalf]

I just tried to reproduce, but all is fine.
There's no need to patch anything for nectar 0.35a and Cacti 088a.
Please watch both cacti.log and httpd's error log and try to reproduce the issue
R.

[GlueGuy]

I think the setup script did not work properly. I find these errors in the httpd log:

CMDPHP: Poller[0] ERROR: SQL Save Command Failed for Table 'plugin_nectar'. Error was 'Unknown column 'graph_linked' in 'field list''

I checked the cacti DB, and found two nectar tables (plugin_nectar & plugin_nectar_items ). Checking the status on these tables gets this

mysql> check table plugin_nectar_items;
+---------------------------+-------+----------+-------------------------------------------------+
| Table | Op | Msg_type | Msg_text |
+---------------------------+-------+----------+-------------------------------------------------+
| cacti.plugin_nectar_items | check | Error | Table 'cacti.plugin_nectar_items' doesn't exist |
| cacti.plugin_nectar_items | check | status | Operation failed |
+---------------------------+-------+----------+-------------------------------------------------+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> check table plugin_nectar;
+---------------------+-------+----------+----------+
| Table | Op | Msg_type | Msg_text |
+---------------------+-------+----------+----------+
| cacti.plugin_nectar | check | status | OK |
+---------------------+-------+----------+----------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

Shouldn't I be able to disable/uninstall/re-install/re-enable it to get the tables created?

[GlueGuy]

I think what happened is that I had had an ancient version of nectar installed, that (perhaps) had different table structure?

Anyway. I dropped the two tables, then did the disable/uninstall/install/enable routine.

I am now able to add the report. However, I am now getting a similar error when I try to add items to the report.

So I think the tables were not getting created properly. After checking different things, somehow the plugin_nectar_items started working (while I was trying to debug it). Not sure what that's all about....