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I have been using cacti for almost a year now for my personal projects and recently the company I work for was looking into network monitoring solutions which as most of you may know can cost a fortune!
I started playing around with cacti more than I had before and noticed one thing lacking... the ability to cycle automatically through the graphs.
This plugin adds this functionality to Cacti!
We use it for displaying all our graphs on a wall mounted lcd panel for easy viewing of whats going on.
It uses the plugin architechure which made this a breeze to code (thanks cigamit!)
----[ Purpose
This plugin allows you to automatically view the Cacti graphs one by one
after a specified time delay.
----[ Features
You can set cycle time delay.
Can set permissions on who can view.
Graph height and width can be specified.
Graphs are not displayed if the user does not have access to them.
Title of graph is displayed, font face, size and color can be changed.
You can use the Prev/Next buttons to change graph.
You can stop the rotation with the Stop button.
The time until the next graph change is displayed under the title.
It can use a custom graph list and only cycle through those.
----[ Installation
To install put the cycle directory and all files into the plugins directory.
Edit your includes/config.php and add cycle to your $plugins list.
You can find the plugin settings under the Misc tab.
----[ Possible Bugs?
The custom graph rotation is very simple and does not check for permissions.
I am waiting for cigamit to add support for adding items to the edit graph pages so I can get it working fully.
----[ Future Changes
Improve the way custom graphs are setup
Cycle through Weathermaps (I need to look into how Weathermap works)
Got any ideas then please let me know.
----[ Changelog
--- 0.3 ---
Converted the rotation code to use AJAX so the page does not fully refresh every time.
Added custom graph rotation
--- 0.2 ---
Added Previous/Next/Stop Buttons
--- 0.1 ---
Initial release
----[ Future Changes
Add an option to each graph to allow it to be included on the cycle.
Add previous and next buttons to skip between graphs.
Add a stop button to make the page not refresh.
Got any ideas then please e-mail me.
I think I can use this in our data center and just create a user ID that has access to those graphs I want to cycle through - which gets me past that issue.
One idea is for the graph page to display the name of the device in a large title format, or, even better, allow one - when adding a graph to the cycle - to add their own title along with the device name.
The graph selecting should be in a version I will have finished tonight, at the same time it would easy to add a cuctom title for the graph cycle and have that displayed above the graph.
emericklaw wrote:The graph selecting should be in a version I will have finished tonight, at the same time it would easy to add a cuctom title for the graph cycle and have that displayed above the graph.
Not the selecting of graphs because I have to wait until cigamit puts a hook for saving a graph into the plugin architechture. I have done the graph titles which I will try to release within the next few hours.
The new hooks are in the works, should have about 8 more by Thrusday or Friday night and a new release should go out at that time. Got lots of things to do at the moment.
Main extra hold up is that I am adding an internal "Plugin Architecture" version, so that plugins can test against it to ensure that the proper hooks are in place, and so an update plugin can be created to let you know when new plugins versions or architecture versions are released.
knobdy wrote:Man you guys are doing awesome - I can't believe how much this product has grown just since I've been using it!
Cigamit, I sent you an e-mail but never heard back... did you get it and not know what to say or should I resend?
What was the subject and the date? I've already answered about 35 today, and almost as many posts, so I go through a lot of email. My spam filter is also kinda strict with the huge amount I've been receiving lately.
I have to wait until cigamit puts a hook for saving a graph into the plugin architechture. I have done the graph titles which I will try to release within the next few hours.
The new hooks are in the works, should have about 8 more by Thursday or Friday night and a new release should go out at that time.
Any update on either of these or the rest of the ToDo list?
- this is nice functionality :)
Gr8 Plugin......I have some problem i think in installing this plugin.... I can't see any option in the user administration for view cycle graphs... admin user is able to get the cycle tab..but other users can't...can somebody help me on this
