Plugin Architecture v1.4 for Cacti v0.8.7a

[cigamit]

I have now released the latest PA that is compatible with Cacti v0.8.7a

Notable in this release is a fix to allow the poller_top and poller_bottom hooks to work if your cron interval is different than your poller interval.

http://cactiusers.org/downloads/cacti-p ... rch.tar.gz


As always, please read the documentation on installing the PA and install plugins.
http://cactiusers.org/wiki/PluginArchitectureInstall
http://cactiusers.org/wiki/PluginsInstall
http://cactiusers.org/wiki/PluginTips

[gvibe06]

Will this version work in 0.86j or only 0.87a?

Where is the archive of older releases, in case the answer to the above question is NO?

Thanks!

[fmangeant]

Hi

latest PIA release for Cacti 0.8.6j is 1.1

[pconrad]

I installed cacti from cacti-0.8.7a.tar.gz, and all was well. I installed the plugin architecture for this release and followed all the instructions. The database info is correct, and I have made the change to the global.php as instructed.

Now when I try to log into cacti, I get the following message:

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /cacti/ on this server.

The apache log shows
(13)Permission denied: access to /cacti/index.php denied

What could the problem be?

[fmangeant]

Hi

can you check the files permissions (they need to be readable by your webserver user) ?

Using the path may have reset them...

[pconrad]

I've set the permissions on the rra/ and log/ to the cacti user.

What other permissions should be set?

[fmangeant]

Check the permissions of all .php files modified par the patch.

[pconrad]

I've verified the permissions from the backup, and they are correct.
I've created a test html file in /var/www/html/cacti and it works, so I know I can see the directory.

[pconrad]

I copied the patched files over individually, and made the path change in global config. All seems to be working correctly.

[DLNoah]

As a note for anyone else who may run into this:

I'm running cacti 0.8.7a on CentOS 5, which includes SE Linux. After using the .diff file to patch my cacti distro, I was receiving an apache permission error (403). Looking at the Apache log file, I saw that Apache was being denied to index.php.

Temporarily disabling SELinux allowed me to access cacti again, so I looked into permission issues.

I tried chmod 755 for all files in the cacti directory, which reapplied the 755 permissions but did not resolve the problem.

As I could still reach files within the root of my html directory, I then ran the following command:
chcon --reference=/var/html/www /var/html/www/cacti -R

That command then allowed my cacti to begin working normally again. So the patched files apparently have a security context that does not match Apache's context, which was causing SELinux to deny access to them. Restoring the proper context will fix this problem.

[KyRoo]

has anyone still have PIA 1.4 for me please?

[fmangeant]

Hi

here it is.

[KyRoo]

Hi

here it is.

Thx

[jmb]

It's taken me a while to find the 1.4 version for 0.8.7a in that attachment - having a link to cacti-plugin-arch.tar.gz on a thread announcing 1.4 but which always points to the latest version is confusing.

Would it be possible to keep a repository of previous versions somewhere more visible? (yes, I know upgrading to .7b would be better, but we can't at present)

cheers,
-jmb