Displaying Cacti graphs outside of cacti

clarkie · Post by **clarkie** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 9:18 am

Hi,

I've recently taken over responsibilities for the support and maintenance of a bunch of apps and we've just been given a snazzy plasma screen for displaying the status of these apps. What i'm trying to do is build a webpage with a load of information including some cacti graphs.

I know I can get to the graphs direcly by calling the following url:

http://[cactiServerName]/graph_image.php?local_graph_id=3556&rra_id=0&view_type=tree&graph_start=1214316960&graph_end=1214403360

What i'd like to do is to programatically display these in a c#.net page but i have an issue with the login screen.

My question: is there a way to do a http POST to the login screen with the correct credentials programatically?

Examples in c# would be preferable but any other language would do.

Thanks in advance,

Clarkie

noeladams · Post by **noeladams** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 2:16 pm

i have a simlar setup but once the user logs into cacti they can click on the tab at the top to get to my traffic page.

I like your idea as people would not need to login to cacti...

bbrotherz · Post by **bbrotherz** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 11:05 am

Hi there,

I would like to accomplish the same.

I have a website where i want to show some stats of the server wich is monitored thru cacti. When I past the link as discribed above it shows nothing because of the admin login ofcourse.

Is there a way to show the stats on a website?

apperrault · Post by **apperrault** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 12:22 pm

Guys,
if anonymous access is enabled for your graph views, then you will not have a problem. this is how we do it. If one of my users just goes to http://cacti.corp.company.com it will default to the /graph_view.php page which has my trees and graphs. I i then put a link to one of these graphs on another page of ours, we don't get prompted for a logon.

maybe i am missing something.

app

bbrotherz · Post by **bbrotherz** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 1:30 pm

Very well, works fine now.
Thanks

clarkie · Post by **clarkie** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 7:16 am

Thanks for all the responses but unfortunately I'm not responsible for the cacti server and so we can't turn on anonymous access. So my problem is still the same. I'll just have to keep trying.

Cheers, Clarkie

clarkie · Post by **clarkie** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 10:13 am

I think I've worked out the issue!

Cacti uses cookies to persist session information. This means that the cookie needs to be set on the client side and is then read every time the cacti url is used.

Is it possible to pass cookies through from one site to another?

I'm pretty sure this isn't possible for security reasons but if someone does know one way or the other to put me out of my misery.

Thanks

Post by **TheWitness** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 9:22 pm

Check the latest global.php for a new session hook in SVN 0.8.7. It's an IE thingy security hack. Are you using IE?

TheWitness

noeladams · Post by **noeladams** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 8:28 am

here goes what I found on cactiusers.org

http://cactiusers.org/forums/topic1525.html

<?php
$_REQUEST["action"]="login";
$_POST["login_username"]='username';
$_POST["login_password"]='password';
$_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"] = '/plugins/monitor/monitor.php';

include "index.php";

?>

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