PA 2.1 1st steps

[divagater]

I am trying to wrap my head around the flow/usage for the features in 2.1. Right off the bat I am stuck on api_plugin_install(). The 'Plugin Management' link calls plugins.php in the root of cacti/.

plugins.php 1st calls retrieve_plugin_list() which calls the following sql:

SELECT directory FROM plugin_config ORDER BY name

I only see one place where entries are added to the plugin_config table and that is in api_plugin_install(). api_plugin_install() is only called from cacti/plugins.php and is initiated from a web request which should include mode and id. id being the name of the plugin and mode being install, uninstall, enable, etc.

cacti/plugins.php includes some links for installing, uninstalling etc. however those links are in a foreach($plugins) loop and the list of plugins is built from plugin_config which is built from api_plugin_install... so I appear to be stuck in an evil loop.

Additionally, the existance of plugin_<plugin_name>_install() in setup.php will cause the plugin to not be available at all as is the case with aggregate, do to what looks like this line in the api_plugin_hook_function method:

[TheWitness]

Billy,

Have you looked at Manage's organization of Setup.php yet? Also, ping Jimmy, he wrote it and has some unpublished plugins that use it.

Larry

[divagater]

Thanks for the tip, I will check out manage. I wanted to save hitting up Jimmy as a last resort hoping some one had found the solution.

Cheers,
Billy

[divagater]