help !!! newbie tying to use weathermap(no idea about php)

[abuamir]

Hi Everyone,

I have recently install the weathermap plug-in to my cacti application.
I am really not familiar with php and have tried to make the following things work in without any success..

if you would please help me acheive the following:

1)is there any way to get the graph latency / loss information into the links. i.e change the values and colours?

2)failing the above, is there any way to display a graphs without ‘hovering’ over the node?

Any help with this is much appreciated.

thanks
Mohamed

[Howie]

1)is there any way to get the graph latency / loss information into the links. i.e change the values and colours?

Yes - as long as you have that information in an rrd file or some other format that Weathermap can read. Just use that as the TARGET. You will have to do this 'by hand' - the editor only works well with bandwidth, when it comes to picking targets. Look in the Management...Data Sources section of Cacti, to find the appropriate rrd filename.

2)failing the above, is there any way to display a graphs without ‘hovering’ over the node?

You can use anything as an ICON for a NODE. The NODE doesn't have to be part of a link. You can use this to place any image in your maps. However, you can't use a URL for an ICON, so you need some way to get your graph out of Cacti and saved to disk. You could just use wget to grab individual images, or Cacti's built-in Graph Export function, but that requires you to set up a Graph Tree to select which graphs to export - I don't see how you choose *which* tree to export, either...