cacti 0.8 Status

[Farmer]

I try cacti 0.8, and it look excellent!!!
I have found practically all necessary that was not in the previous version.
Whether there is at you a necessity for bugreports???

[jhay]

How smooth will the upgrade to 0.8 be? I have a lot of graphs right now and I dont want to redo them all but there are alot of features in 0.8 it seems that would save me time.

[raX]

[raX]

[drgroove]

Ian;

You are a gem amongst us. We've been using Cacti (and loving it) for about a year now. I'm hoping that the latest version update (with the c-based poller app) will help to make the application more scalable than it currently is in it's unadulterated form. We have a very large network (6000+ nodes) that needs a lot of monitoring, care, and feeding. Cacti makes it easy to get graphs of things that we need in order to plan upgrades and isolate problems.

The new screenshots look awesome, and I'm really happy to hear that there is an easy upgrade path. More folks should say it; keep up the good work. It's mighty appreciated by the folks out here in the trenches without the mad programming skills and time to do it in or the budget to buy a overly-priced commercial product that takes 10 times longer and a legion of dedicated network engineers to configure. Along with RRDTool and Nagios, your app rates top amongst my most coveted tools for getting my job done. If you're ever in Grand Rapids, Michigan, look me up and I'll buy you a beer (or three).

Brad Watson
SIEMENS Dematic
bradley.watson_somewhere.at_siemens.com

[drub]

I am trying to test cacti-0.8 but after I create the database and import the sql file from dev/sql/complete_db-ian.sql
I can get the cacti login page but when I put anything in the username/password fields I get a 404 error because somehow the URL that gets returned is a PHP error message.

"http://mymachine.com/cacti-0.8/\<br\>\<b\>Warning\</b\>:%20%20Undefined%20variable:%20%20_SERVER%20in%20\<b\>/var/www/html/cacti-0.8/auth_login.php\</b\>%20on%20line%20\<b\>166\</b\>\<br\>"

[raX]

Try doing a 'cvs update', I believe I fixed the problem.

Let me know.

-Ian

[m]

rax-

did the cvs update. still getting the undefined variable error upon doing the install.

thanks.

[m]

okay, thats figured out. i get stuck at the install step one screen. when i click next it just brings up the same page.

thanks again.

[raX]

[m]

rax-

maybe its something to do with the db. when using cacti-0.8 as a fresh install should i use the cacti.sql or the complete_db-ian.sql?

when using the complete_db-ian.sql i do not get the setup screen... it just goes straight to the login screen and no passwords work.

when using the cacti.sql i get the $_SERVER error. after fixing that i get the step1 page but thats it. when hitting next it just comes back to step1.

im sure that there is some simple thing that i am missing... im sure that you are quite busy and i thank you in advance for any help. by the way, there really isnt a way for you to get onto the machine...

matt
eres@divinia.com

[raX]

I am sure that cacti.sql will definitely not work since it is leftover from 0.6.8. On the other hand, complete_db-ian.sql should work. Did you try logging in with admin/admin? That is the default password for that database.

-Ian

[m]

i have tried the admin/admin combo. when i hit login it just reloads the page and clears the user/pass fields.

matt

[raX]

Assuming something is not wrong with my code, it almost sounds like your PHP sessions are not working correctly. Can you double check your php.ini file and make sure that it has a writable place to keep its sessions?

If that does not help, I'd really like to get this issue hashed out before I attempt any kind of release. Shoot me an e-mail at iberry@raxnet.net, so we can debug further.

-Ian

[m]

will do. im sure its something on my end and not with your code.

matt