Cacti CLI ?

bligneri · Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 1

Hello,

We are working for a customer that would like to create a Command Line Interface (CLI) that can be used to fill the CACTI configuration database instead of using the web Interface.

The main reason is that we have to deal with large Cacti deployement and we would like to automate the management of CACTI Devices as much as possible (I.e. :data is coming from an inventory database and contain all the releventant information so why using the Web Interface to create the devices ?. Ultimately ; we would like to automatically sync CACTI with the inventory database).

We would like to know if the CACTI community & developers would be interested by such a project.

At first, we would like to do a simple prototype that can :
- add a device
- position a device in the tree
- create tree node
- delete tree node
- delete a device
- move a device inside the tree

What would be the best langage to do it ?
[[ PHP would allow us to easily use existing CACTI code and would be my first choice }}

Flame / Comments / ideas / suggestion welcome.

TheWitness · Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 10:57 pm Post subject:

There is one already. It's not officially supported by the developers. Search the addon's or use google.

TheWitness

bard tablett · Joined: 12 Jun 2007 Posts: 2

I have a very similar need for a CLI for Cacti. I have googled this and looked around the forums and most of what I see are old posts, broken links, and disjointed threads. Could someone point me to a good resource?

gandalf · Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 3:46 pm Post subject:

http://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?t=7683
Reinhard

rony · Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 3:48 pm Post subject:

bard tablett · Joined: 12 Jun 2007 Posts: 2

Do you have a link to SVN branch_0_8_6? Also, the data we are graphing is all derived from Perl scripts. No SNMP. Will this CLI work with non-SNMP data?

Also, early July or late July?

TIA

rony · Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 4:20 pm Post subject:

July....

I will not set a date.

I don't know if it supports that, but my gut tells me yes, based off of templates.

apperrault · Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 5:22 pm Post subject:

Rony, so does this mean i should hold off on rebuilding my Cacti server until you guys release the newest version...

Just how stable is the SVN version?

Just wondering. Although, maybe I should rebuild it anyway on the current version and get cactid working properly...

Off to the server room.

app

mcutting · Cacti Pro User Joined: 16 Oct 2006 Posts: 989

App - I take it that the CACTID I sent you did not work ?

rcaston · Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 2:54 pm Post subject:

rcaston · Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:27 am Post subject:

Where are the current CLI scripts in the SVN Dev/Unstable Trunk tree? I'd like to experiment with them.

TheWitness · Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 1:54 pm Post subject:

They are in BRANCH_0_8_6. There are 5 files of interest. They are:

add_device.php
add_graphs.php
add_perms.php
add_tree.php
lib/api_automation_tools.php

The only files "done" if you will are the add_device.php and add_graphs.php. I have changed the syntax to allow you to be more flexible when adding devices and graphs.

The other two files, I have yet to examine in detail.

If you were a prior user of these scripts, please note the syntax has changed significantly.

Regards,

TheWitness

Add Device Syntax

rcaston · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 1:06 pm Post subject:

im trying to get the add_graphs script to work with the current stable release of cacti; but i think the api_automation_tools.php needs to be added into the stable build as well, but upon doing that I run into other errors.

So... whens the ETA on the next release of cacti >

TheWitness · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 1:16 pm Post subject:

Next month. You can add the api function without issue.

Larry

Taiphun · Joined: 08 Jan 2007 Posts: 21

Cool. I am eagerly looking forward to this.

Thanks to all the developers for all the hard work!