Plugins Patchs : Architecture / Monitor and Thold

[jrsparkjr]

hi all,

All these plugins are really interesting. But I haven't find how to install these on windows.

Can you help me?


thanks

[cigamit]

hi all,

All these plugins are really interesting. But I haven't find how to install these on windows.

Can you help me?


thanks

First of all, head over the actual thread for these patches and plugins, and download the latest versions (as of last night).

The first thing you will need is to install the Plugin Architecture. The compressed archive contains both a patch, and the already patched files for Cacti v0.8.6f. I would recommend just using the patched files. Just override your current cacti files with them (remember to backup your config.php first!). And then modify the new include/config.php to point to your database again. Now the plugin architecture is installed. You should be able to login to cacti again without any noticable difference.

Next extract the monitor and thold plugins to a temporary directory. You should now have a directory called "monitor" and "thold" with multiple files and possibly directories in them. Move these directories to the "plugins" directory that was created inside your cacti installation directory by the plugin architecture. Next, goto your include/config.php again and find the part that looks like

//$plugins[] = 'thold';

You will want to change that to look like this.

$plugins[] = 'thold';
$plugins[] = 'monitor';

Notice that these are the directory names of the plugins you are installing.

Both of these plugins will initially set themselves up (auto-creating tables, no crons required for either) but for added reliablity in checking, I would search the plugin architecture thread for the fast_poller that is provided as it will improve the monitor plugin greatly.