Change to cacti code, to make finding graphs easier

tfigel · Joined: 01 May 2006 Posts: 9

Hi-
I made a mod to cacti, which both myself and two other groups of system administrators have found useful

It allows in the WEB browser to search on your interface names. If you have stacked cisco switches with 100's of ports, finding yours by doing a text search is much quicker.

I just updated cacti, and needed to go find my Mod's again.
Is there a way I can get this added to the cacti code base?

it is small change in lib/html.php---> here is the DIFF
# diff html.php html.php.original
108,109d107
< <?php /*Terry*/ print $graph["title_cache"];print "<br>";print $graph["local_graph_id"];?>
<
155,156d152
< <?php /*Terry*/ print $graph["title_cache"];print "<br>";print $graph["local_graph_id"];?>
<

BSOD2600 · Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 7:39 pm Post subject:

bugs and feature request: http://www.cacti.net/bugs.php

rony · Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 10:04 pm Post subject:

What is the purpose?

tfigel · Joined: 01 May 2006 Posts: 9

It prints (In text) the information in the title of the graph.
If you have switches with 100's of ports, you can use your browser to quickly find the host you want.

We give a description of each port on each of our switches, giving the hostname-roomnumber-wallport

From within firefox, if you hit control-f, you can then search on those.

It is a feature that is useful for people who use Cacti for Large environments, and who have descriptions on their switch ports (we use Cisco and HP)

Since the graphs are images, their titles are not searchable.

Look at the attached screen shot image

rony · Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 1:31 pm Post subject:

Um... I see why, but why not use the filter at the top?

tfigel · Joined: 01 May 2006 Posts: 9

Because you want to see the other ports on the switch at the same time.

find server "A", then scan the switch and see if server "B" is where the traffic is going.....
only to spot a lot of the same Shaped traffic going to server "C"

I think it is useful on large switches of over 48 ports, and where you name your interfaces.

-Terry

shd · Joined: 09 Apr 2007 Posts: 3

i think it's better this way:

patch included.

and ability to search specific graph on page with ctrl-F is indeed very useful.
i've suggested this feature two years ago, but it's still not included.

so i patch it with every update.

gandalf · Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 5:01 pm Post subject:

I like this second approach.
Reinhard

TheWitness · Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 9:24 am Post subject:

I agree. The second patch is more appropriate as the section to the right of the graph is reserved for action-icons.

TheWitness

TheWitness · Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 9:29 am Post subject:

You know, I did not see any bug relative to this in the bug database two years back

TheWitness