Hide Maps in Cacti Tab?

Tybio · Cacti User Joined: 16 Feb 2006 Posts: 79

Howie,

I have about 80 maps being autogenerated by a script, they are linked from a main weathermap...is there some way to hide them from the Thumbnail Overview so people don't have to filter trough them to find the top level maps?

Howie · Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 2:30 pm Post subject: Re: Hide Maps in Cacti Tab?

Tybio · Cacti User Joined: 16 Feb 2006 Posts: 79

Hurm, I have about 15 maps used regularly by our Operations and Engineering groups. I can do the sort, I'm just worried about page load times.

Howie · Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 3:17 pm Post subject:

So do you have a feature request? How would like to solve this?

That's quite a few maps, so whatever it is will only be of use to relatively few users, I would have thought. Whatever the solution, it shouldn't get in the way of the smaller users.

Something as simple as visible/not? That would probably need to be per-user, otherwise maps disappear altogether.

Tybio · Cacti User Joined: 16 Feb 2006 Posts: 79

I would like them not to show up for any user. We use an external auth system, so I need to be able to set up the Guest user with the proper access.

What I would like to have happen is for the users to have "Permission" to view the graphs, but not see them in the default "Weathermap" tab. That way I can link them in from top-level maps...without cluttering up the tab and without spending forever loading all the thumbnails.

Is that something that's possible?

Oh, also...would it be possible to get directories under the config/ directory? I have a bunch of script generated maps, and I'd dearly love to sort them into different directories.

Howie · Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 8:11 pm Post subject:

I can see where you're coming from... the trouble starts where you have multiple customers with their own maps.

I have customer X, with a handful of maps. For my NOC, we don't need to see the thumbnails for all those maps in our view, but the customer does - that's all he knows about. That means it can't just be a global on/off thing.

Suppose there were some kind of filter, like Cacti does for graphs, and that you could set a default filter per-user? It'd mean having something useful in the map title to filter on... (or config filename I suppose).

The real answer is unix-style permissions with view/viewthumb (and maybe edit) as separate rights per-map, per-user. I guess it could be something you enable, and otherwise view==viewthumb. Then it's only painful for the folks that want it

The directories thing probably isn't too much of a problem.

Tybio · Cacti User Joined: 16 Feb 2006 Posts: 79

Hurm, I don't have that problem myself. All of the users are internal and get to view everything...so for me it's a clean interface thing more then a permissions thing.

I see what you mean however, that could get complicated for people who have a bunch of sub-sets of permissions. Not sure how to work that one out