Notices 0.1

brezel · Post by **brezel** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 9:47 am

Hello,

i tried to build a new plugin which shall add a small textarea for notices next to the graphs.

I haven' that much idea of PHP so i would be happy if someone would look over it and say whether it works as described. I tested it only on a Linux machine.

To get it working you have to enter the path to your cacti folder and reenter your database password in add_notice.php and load.php.

I would be happy about some help^^

Post by **browniebraun** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 11:47 am

Hello Brezel! (Are you from Munich?)

First off.. your plugin "works" under Windows too.
Even though there are several checks missing and a lot of notices will occur if the right permission id has not been set. And another issues if you zoom into a graph.
I like the base idea, but I advise to use Cacti's database functions instead of your own ones.
From my point of view it would also make sense to save the notices user-dependent in a separate table instead of creating some raw files.

If you need help or you've some more questions then send me a pm.

Best regards
-Andreas-

brezel · Post by **brezel** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 6:25 am

Hello.

I think the Plugin should work the right way now.

Please tell me if it doesn't.

egarnel · Post by **egarnel** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 9:52 am

I really like this plugin. It comes in handy for us with temporary port labeling.

I hope you don't mind, but I made some modifications to it

1) created N.JPG
2) repackaged tar with notices directory & Images subdirectory
3) changed "Notizen" to "Notices"

I am not much of a coder, as I have proven many times in this forum

but I am thinking about how to incorporate a mouse-over or use overlib to display previously written notes.

There is a lot of potential with this plugin that I can see:
History of notices, similar to the function in nagios
email notification from notices
html capability within the notes field
resize/properties mod of notices window.

Again, this is a great plugin! Thank you so much for creating it!

Bingobango · Post by **Bingobango** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 8:42 am

I noticed a bug in baum.php:

The path to add_notice.php is hardcoded 2 places to '/cacti/plugins/...'
Which means people who have moved the cacti install to a different directory are out of luck...

Change into this to fix it:

</td></tr><tr><td><form action="'.$config['url_path'].'plugins/notices/add_notice.php? .. etc.

And now I just have to beat my head against a wall, while trying to find out why it still won't work on my box....

brezel · Post by **brezel** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 12:46 pm

And now I just have to beat my head against a wall, while trying to find out why it still won't work on my box....

What does it say? If you use Opera, it has issues with the display attribute.

Bingobango · Post by **Bingobango** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 4:26 pm

brezel wrote:
And now I just have to beat my head against a wall, while trying to find out why it still won't work on my box....
What does it say? If you use Opera, it has issues with the display attribute.

No, just me looking in the wrong place and forgetting to activate the permission under users for the plugin...

Works alright now!

brezel · Post by **brezel** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 10:33 am

I removed some bugs in it.

Should work now better, please tell me any bugs.

r_chetanjain · Post by **r_chetanjain** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 4:16 am

Hi,

I am getting the below mentioned error in my httpd logs.... i have installed 0.2 with 8.7d with PA 2.4

[Wed Mar 18 04:16:51 2009] [error] [client 10.1.100.114] PHP Warning: mysql_fetch_object(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /var/www/html/cacti_new/plugins/notices/load.php on line 67, referer: http://netmgr.monitor.com:8080/cacti_new/settings.php
[Wed Mar 18 04:16:51 2009] [error] [client 10.1.100.114] PHP Warning: mysql_fetch_object(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /var/www/html/cacti_new/plugins/notices/load.php on line 67, referer: http://netmgr.monitor.com:8080/cacti_new/settings.php

Chetan

brezel · Post by **brezel** » Thu Mar 19, 2009 5:21 am

Does the error occur with per Host and per Graph settings?
Can you look up whether the notices table exists in the cacti database?

r_chetanjain · Post by **r_chetanjain** » Thu Mar 19, 2009 12:08 pm

No, i don't have the notices tables under the database... i just did a usual plugin setup

looks like the load.php is trying to access the database with root user and no password...

Chetan

brezel · Post by **brezel** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 6:44 am

I think it can't create the table where it stores the notices. Try to import this into the cacti db. (maybe you need to change the extension to .sql)

r_chetanjain · Post by **r_chetanjain** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 12:46 am

Its working now...

Request : Is it possible to make the notice available on the graph or as a description on the graph page so it will make more sense... As of now i think we need to click on notice and look at the comment...

chetan

brezel · Post by **brezel** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 4:11 am

How do you mean your request exactly? Shall the notice appear as a part of the graph or at another position or shall it just be opened without clicking on the button.

brezel · Post by **brezel** » Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:06 am

here's a new version:

1.) Possibility to use Ajax.
2.) Possibility to print the Notice as a Comment on the Graph (up to 100 Sings).
3.) Possibilty to open the table without clicking on the button.

Please tell me Any bugs

Cacti

Notices 0.1

Notices 0.1

mod to Notices

Bug in baum.php

error

worked

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