Advanced export options

branix · Joined: 14 Mar 2004 Posts: 39

I have modified the original cacti 0.8.5, to add more fuctionality to the exporting process. The patched files are atached to this post.

After replacing the files in your 0.8.5 install path, you get the following changes in the web interface: Cacti Settings has now a new tab (called "Export") where you can choose when to export the graphs. Options are:

a) Disable - there will be no graph export
b) Classic - export every x times - the default in cacti 0.8.5
c) Hourly at specified minutes - every hour at xx minutes past the hour (eg: 35)
d) Daily at specified time - every day at time (eg: 23:55)

branix · Joined: 14 Mar 2004 Posts: 39

And a screen-shot of the new tab architecture.

branix · Joined: 14 Mar 2004 Posts: 39

There are a few fixes to be done. Attached file is v0.2.
Added an extra script (trimmed-down cmd.php) that does only graph export.

Bruno Prigent · Cacti User Joined: 22 Apr 2003 Posts: 67

Could you had a features that allow to export to a FTP server with those parameters ?
FTP Host (ftp.test.com)
FTP Port (21)
FTP Path (/the/path/to/the/directory)
FTP Username (ftpuser)
FTP Password (ftppassword)

So administrators can provide a static web access to users http://web.test.com/the/path/to/the/directory)

Since the use of FTP need a special compilation of PHP for linux (with the option --enable-ftp), it will be usefull to use ncftpput. In windows the php support for ftp is enabled by default.

Pumpi · Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 3:02 am Post subject:

Good Addon

Thanks !

branix · Joined: 14 Mar 2004 Posts: 39

Started working on ftp export. Hopefully I'll release a version this weekend.

raX · Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 3:53 pm Post subject:

Since a) this is a cool addon and b) branix is nice enough to code this, I will include this in version 0.8.6. Let me know when the code is in a state that would be good for inclusion. I will at least wait for you to work on the FTP support mentioned above. If you could provide the patch/changes against 0.8.5a, that would be great. If not, it is not a huge deal since there weren't that many changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.5a.

-Ian

branix · Joined: 14 Mar 2004 Posts: 39

I'm up with a new release of my advanced export patch, this time with ftp support.

There are 2 ftp export methods:
- using the PHP built-in ftp functions;
- using ncftpput (as suggested in a previus post).

There is an option to delete all files in the remote directory (Sanitize remote directory), that are only in use when using the 1st ftp method.

All changed files are derived from cacti 0.8.5a, so when installing my patch use it against cacti 0.8.5a.

I have attached the changed files, the patch against cacti 0.8.5a and three screenshots.

Ftp upload was tested with Serv-U ftp server (running on Windows), but it should work fine with any other servers as well.

There is an extra option, in the Cacti settings -> General, to do logging of ftp uploads.

Currently I'm having a little trouble with blocky thumbnails, but I don't think this is due to my patching against cacti, as I didn't modify the raw export method.

Vlad

branix · Joined: 14 Mar 2004 Posts: 39

... and the screenshots.

My appologies for the width of the images (and thus for the page display).

branix · Joined: 14 Mar 2004 Posts: 39

As I wanted to make some order among my projects I have built a website with info about my patch against cacti 0.8.5a.

You can find all the info in the above posts at the following location:
http://www.osmcluj.ro/~branix/cactiAE/

Feature requests and contact form are also provided.

paddy · Joined: 15 Jul 2004 Posts: 13 Location: Stockholm, Sweden

This looks like a great addon. Another functionallity that would be great, altho I know alot of ppl will yell and scream at me for this, is email.. yes I know.. dont email files.. but it would be great.. and if in turn it was possible to mail specific grapths or parts of the graph tree to specified email adresses.. now that'd be neat

Guess that wont happen.. but it would be neat

branix · Joined: 14 Mar 2004 Posts: 39

Actually I have implemented such a system (graphs by email) for my network - they are very usefull when in a remote location.

I'll definitely implement that in my next release.

paddy · Joined: 15 Jul 2004 Posts: 13 Location: Stockholm, Sweden

Sounds great!

Cant wait

raX · Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2004 11:21 pm Post subject:

This patch has been incorporated into the CVS tree and will be included in the 0.8.6 release of Cacti.

-Ian

helzerr · Joined: 01 Feb 2004 Posts: 40 Location: Orlando, FL

Enhanced graph export script breakes due to no TMP enviroment variable set on Gentoo linux (maybe others too?). cacti/lib/Graph_Export.php lines 76 and 85:

$stExportDir = $_ENV["TMP"].'/cacti-ftp-temp';

I had to change to:

$stExportDir = '/tmp/cacti-ftp-temp';

Alternatively, it may have been possible to add TMP=/tmp to /etc/crontab.