Updated Development Road Map - Plugin Architecture Updates

[rony]

I'm happy to announce that we have updated the development road map. We have gotten ambitious and will be doing a lot over the next few months, including the long over due inclusion of the Plugin Architecture into the Cacti base code.

For those of you that are willing to help, please don't hesitate to contact me or any of the other developers. If you would like simply to test Cacti 0.8.8 as we progress in it's development, don't hesitate to download it and give it a whirl. If you encounter issues please post bug reports and/or patches following the guidelines at
http://www.cacti.net/bugs.php.

We are currently in the process of enabling nightly builds of the main svn branch. If you are interested in testing before nightly builds are enabled, please visit http://www.cacti.net/svn.php for instructions on checking out Cacti.

Happy Graphing!!!

Tony Roman
Cacti Developer

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Cacti 0.8.8
Release end of 3rd Quarter 2008

Major Features

     * Full support for multiple polling intervals
           o Structured host directories
           o RRA templates/grouping (still designing)
           o Remove step and heartbeat from data template/sources
     * Template packages
           o Reduce efforts needed to import templates with scripts
           o Support author information and version checking
           o More data query XML resources into the database
           o Online Repository/Warehouse released at the same time
     * Revamp of Cacti logging
           o Extensive support for syslog
           o Auto log pruning
           o Logging to database
     * Inclusion of Plugin Architecture
     * Update to Repository/Warehouse for Plugins
     * Event management sub system
     * New user and group permissions system
     * Move interface to CSS and HTML clean up



Cacti 0.8.9
Release 2nd Quarter 2009

Major Features

     * Integration of Boost into base code
     * Internationalization support

[gthe]

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Cacti 0.8.8
Release end of 3rd Quarter 2008
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     * Event management sub system

Snmp traps ?

[rony]

Not directly, but the system should allow for it..

[rony]

No clue, Jimmy and I are still working on integration.

[gpeterson1852]

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Cacti 0.8.8
Release end of 3rd Quarter 2008
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     * New user and group permissions system

As far as this quote goes, where can I get more information on the specifics of the changes you're making? We are currently using a custom script to create and modify cacti users based on group membership in various AD groups from several different domains (it runs on a cron job and updates users periodically). I recently took additional interest in our implementation of cacti and see that I can enable LDAP authentication, but from only one provider which still limits me too much to switch from the custom script.

I've started investigating the potential of expanding the plugin architecture to accomodate adding multiple custom authentication/authorization providers since I also have an application for cacti that would involve authenticating users from another custom auth system. I think that if the functions defined in lib/auth.php were able to be overridden by ones defined in a plugin that would go a ways towards solving my problem. It might turn out that the easiest solution might be for me to just rewrite lib/auth.php and auth_login.php to meet my needs.

Any information you have on the upcoming changes would be appreciated.

[Howie]

BUMP! Just to note that the roadmap has changed, and now all the new features will be here by Christmas 2008!!

Nah, not really, but the roadmap has changed post-LinuxWorld. (shame to see Boost integration pushed back)