[HOWTO] get versions for all needed programs (PHP, MySQL...)

[gandalf]

Sometimes you need to know what software versions you currently are running. Here's a tiny shell script that even works for me. Any enhancement is welcome:

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mysql cacti --user cactiuser --password=cactiuser-password < sql|tail -1 > ver
/var/www/html/cacti/cactid --version | head -1 >> ver
php --version >> ver
rrdtool |head -1 >> ver
mysql --version >> ver
gcc --version |head -1 >> ver
snmpd --version | head -2 >> ver

The first line delivers the version from the mysql database where sql is a litte sql:

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select * from version;

All version codes are put into the file ver.
The output may look like

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0.8.6g
CACTID 0.8.6f-rc12  Copyright 2002-2005 by The Cacti Group
PHP 4.3.9 (cgi) (built: Aug 17 2005 10:22:19)
Copyright (c) 1997-2004 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v1.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2004 Zend Technologies
RRDtool 1.2.11  Copyright 1997-2005 by Tobias Oetiker <tobi@oetiker.ch> (patched for rrdtool resize)
mysql  Ver 14.7 Distrib 4.1.10a, for redhat-linux-gnu (i386)
gcc (GCC) 3.4.3 20050227 (Red Hat 3.4.3-22.1)
NET-SNMP version:  5.1.2

Reinhard

[Linegod]

Attached is a screenshot of 'info.php' which should be included as soon as a Windows version is made. It is meant to be referenced when submitting a bug report. Console version will follow after that.

[gandalf]

Well, this is by far the better solution. Are there special permissions needed to run this php script? How did you embed this into cacti?
Reinhard

[Linegod]

No special permissions.

Just used the normal process for adding a page to Cacti. It should be included in an upcoming release, so you can check it out then...

[Voiper99]

I know this thread is quite old, but I was just wondering if there is anything similar for the Linux version of Cacti?

[Linegod]

Console => System Utilities => Technical Support

[Voiper99]

I have seen that page a million times but for some reason did not think to scroll down Thanks for the reply.