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rony
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 Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 7:40 pm Post subject: Cacti 0.8.7 and Spine 0.8.7 Released!!! |
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The Cacti Group is proud to announce the release Cacti 0.8.7. This new version takes a significant leap forward by addressing several outstanding community issues as well as some very exciting new features. It is a significant step in the evolution of this product. We hope you all enjoy it as much as we have enjoyed creating it.
It has been over three years since the release of Cacti 0.8.6. In those three years, The Cacti Group has evolved. From it's early beginnings as a high school project created by Ian Berry, it has now become a staple for IT personnel in all corners of the globe. There are now six core members of The Cacti Group, developers of over 30 very exciting Cacti Plugins and too many Host and Graph Templates to count.
Cacti now monitors just about anything from household routers and home computer motherboards to the largest internet routers. It is used by IT personnel in just about all IT disciplines, from the smallest hobbyist, to some of the worlds largest corporations. We have nearly 14,000 registered users and receive over 60k unique visitors to our web site every month.
The new release of Cacti will include something for everyone. We have been steadily improving Cacti through patches since the release of Cacti 0.8.6. However, we had held off on some very important features as a part of a major release to Cacti. But, due to issues, we don't really want to talk about (all the developers have day jobs too), we have chosen a different approach.
After our meeting at Linux World in early August of this year, we decided to take the incremental approach for releases to taking Cacti to the next level. This release will be the first step a providing many outstanding user features. Read below for more.
As this project grows, we will also need your help at making it better. We welcome those of you who would like to contribute to our success. So, if you are interested in helping, we seek your input and technical skill. And of course, we welcome your feedback, an hope you enjoy the ride.
Visit http://www.cacti.net to download Cacti and Spine.
Regards,
The Cacti Group
Ian Berry, Larry Adams, Tony Roman,
J.P. Pasnak, Jimmy Conner, Reinhard Scheck
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The following features included in 0.8.7:
UI Improvements on Administration Console
* Add drop down actions to various Console Items
o Data Queries
o Data Input Methods
o User Administration
* Add filtering and pagination to various Console Items
o Data Queries
o Data Input Methods
o Host Templates
o User Administration
* More Features
o Paginate the Graph Creation Page
o Add item select highlighting to main pages
o Add Graph and Data Source counts to Device page
o Keep filters aligned with main page content on window resize
o Allow VRULE's in Cacti to specify an absolute timestamp
in addition to [+/-]HH:MM
o Timeshifter added to base code
This feature is present for all Graph Tabs. It allows to
shift the graphs backwards and forwards in time. This way,
a comparison between graphs e.g. of previous week and
current week is possible. Some additional time presents are
available as "This Week", "This Month", "Shift" and more.
Presets may be defined on a per user base.
o favicon.ico support for the URL and bookmark icon
o Select All for list view
o Slope Mode is now selectable, with rrdtool 1.2.x, per graph.
o Added Log file viewer filtering including regular expression
matches
o Technical Support Utility page to assist with common issues.
Improvements on User Administration
* Add extended LDAP authentication support
o DN Search with modifiable search filter.
o Anonymous or Specific User login for searching
o LDAP version 2 and 3 support
o LDAP SSL support (PHP Dependant)
* Added Web Basic authentication
* Added Authentication Realm to modifiable user parameters
* Added Enable/Disable user
* Updates to User Administration functions for easier use,
copy and batch copy of users
Polling
* Add multiple polling intervals
* The poller is now capable of polling at intervals less
than 1 minute using either a 1 minute or 5 minute cron
interval.
* The poller now detects and reports on poller performance issues
* Add 1 minute RRA and graph templates
* Add Poller Interval to Data Sources page
Command Line Interface
* Moved command line scripts to cli sub directory
* Command line interface scripts to add devices, graphs, tree's
and permissions. The command line interface scripts are as
follows:
o add_device.php - Add devices
o add_graphs.php - Add graphs
o add_perms.php - Add permissions to a user
o add_tree.php - Add graphs to a tree
o copy_cacti_user.php - Copies users
o poller_output_empty.php - Process orphaned items in the
poller_output table
o poller_reindex_hosts.php - Cause data query reindex on hosts
o rebuild_poller_cache.php - Rebuilds the poller cache
Changes to File Layout/Locations
* Major changes to the configuration structure have been made to
simplify upgrades and packaging of Cacti. The include/config.php
file now only contains the database configuration for Cacti. All
other code that was in the include/config.php has been moved to
include/global.php. All include/config_*.php have been renamed to
include/global_*.php.
Note: Script server scripts will need to be modifed to include
include/global.php instead of include/config.php.
Performance
* Reduce ADODB memory consumption during polling
* Reduce the total number of SQL queries called
Miscellaneous
* Allow CSV Export from Graph page
* Add rra_path as a global.php config variable
* Allow query_ and host_ substitution in COMMENT and CDEF's.
* Support for host_* variables in the legend |
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nahun
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| Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 12:32 am Post subject: |
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| Thank you so much! |
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ruben
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| Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 2:38 am Post subject: Woohoo!! |
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Good job on the final release!
I'm having some troubles setting up data sources with a 1 minute polling interval, though. I've looked around for docs describing the appropriate steps to accomplish this, but all I found were mostly hacks for older releases. Am I overlooking an obvious documentation reference or is the interface to do so so obvious that I'm not seeing that either? |
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TheWitness
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| Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 5:23 am Post subject: |
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All. Please, acalades or complaints only. Place your support requests in the under the appropriate section of the forums.
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TooBusy
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| Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 5:26 am Post subject: Spine Windows Binary |
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| Do we know when the Spine binary for Windows will be available for download? |
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rony
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| Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 3:45 pm Post subject: |
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As soon as Larry, Ian and myself talk about it's release....
Sorry for the delay. |
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TheWitness
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| Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 4:12 pm Post subject: |
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In the mean time, you can find a binary in one of the posts from the last two days.
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TooBusy
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| Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 4:19 pm Post subject: |
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No problem or rush. I am just trying to figure out when I need to set some time aside for my upgrade.
Thanks for all the hard work! |
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rony
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streaker69
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| Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 10:30 pm Post subject: |
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I just got done upgrading my CactiEZ installation that had been previously upgraded to .86i to .87 and the upgrade went off pretty much without a hitch. I installed all the most recent plugins and all work except for Howie's .5 version of Superlinks. But I don't have a need for that at the moment anyway.
Good work guys! |
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egarnel
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| Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 8:44 am Post subject: |
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What if any gotchas or deviations from the normal upgrade instructions did you have?
Thanks,
Eric |
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streaker69
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| Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 10:06 am Post subject: |
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| egarnel wrote: | What if any gotchas or deviations from the normal upgrade instructions did you have?
Thanks,
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Well, since I'm using the original CactiEZ layout of Cacti, the default installation is located in /var/www/html
So, to do this upgrade I did the following.
I backed up my html directory to html_old using the mv command.
I copied the extracted .87 files to /var/www/html and changed ownership on them to apache as that's how they were before.
Then I copied all my scripts back in, make sure that old ones didn't overwrite new ones.
I copied my plugins directory over, and then wen't D'OH as I realized that the Plugin Architecture wasn't included in the package.
I installed the plugin architecture and then I could get my Plugins to work.
I installed each plugin 1 by 1 and tested them before I moved onto the next one. All plugins I got from CactiUsers.org, I did not use any from the SVN.
I had 1 minor issue with the Weatherbug plugin, but I think that was just with my original implementation of it, not related to the upgrade.
I did notice that for some reason the new version created datasources for all my device interfaces but did not create the graphs. I deleted all those orphaned datasources and everything appears to be ok.
Overall time spent, about 2 hours, while sitting at home, VPN'ed over a wireless connection while watching TV. So I'd say it went pretty well. |
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TheWitness
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| Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 6:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | I did notice that for some reason the new version created datasources for all my device interfaces but did not create the graphs. I deleted all those orphaned datasources and everything appears to be ok. |
What do you mean by this.
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streaker69
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| Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 6:53 pm Post subject: |
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| TheWitness wrote: | | Quote: | | I did notice that for some reason the new version created datasources for all my device interfaces but did not create the graphs. I deleted all those orphaned datasources and everything appears to be ok. |
What do you mean by this.
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I don't use the Bits/Sec graph, but always use the Bytes/Sec with Totals graphs for everything. But all my interfaces had a Bits/Sec graph created, but there was no corresponding datasource.
After I initially found it, I went through and deleted them, and for some reason, they appeared again. I deleted them again today, so hopefully they don't get recreated again. |
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TheWitness
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| Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 7:41 pm Post subject: |
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What is recreating them? Wierd.
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