running perl script from links plugin

[mpb]

hi

this sounds faq, but i didnt find any pointers, so if someone cares to comment....

im migrating to cacti - good job to all who code it, and in my older system ive got a bunch of perl scripts doing some monitoring and output-ing to a html to view by NOC staff.

how do i go about using the links plugin, so that the output of the links tab will be whats generated by the perl script - in fact the links tab will run the perl script, to avoid having to recode the stuff to php.

thanks

[gandalf]

I'm not sure, that you're on the right way. Please see the very first link of my signature as a start
Reinhard

[Howie]

hi

this sounds faq, but i didnt find any pointers, so if someone cares to comment....

im migrating to cacti - good job to all who code it, and in my older system ive got a bunch of perl scripts doing some monitoring and output-ing to a html to view by NOC staff.

how do i go about using the links plugin, so that the output of the links tab will be whats generated by the perl script - in fact the links tab will run the perl script, to avoid having to recode the stuff to php.

thanks

If the perl scripts just generate some HTML, then you should be able to use the PHP popen() function to capture the output of that script, and print it inside the PHP code...

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<?php
    $handle = popen('/path/to/your/script', 'r');
   while(!feof($handle))
   {
    $read = fread($handle, 2096);
    echo $read;
    }
    pclose($handle);
?>

inside the changeme page should do it, I think.

Obviously, you are skipping all the nice framework that Cacti provides by using your old script this way, but I guess there's a good reason