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rem
Joined: 26 Mar 2002
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Location: Denmark
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 Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2003 4:46 am Post subject: Automatic naming in cacti 0.8 |
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I have been testing cacti 0.8 for a few days, and most of the new features are brilliant!
However, it would be nice to be able to reference hostname/description/user_defined_host_field when making templates.
That way yo wouldnt have to provide individual info for
- Graph Titles
- Data Source Name
when creating a new polling host based on templates.
They could be referenced like <hostname>, <description> <user_defined_field> same way as <path_rra> is used.
Also the automagic naming of the rrd files should have an option to include the hostname getting a format like <path_rra>/<user_defined_host_field >/<hostname>_<datasource>
Regards
Rene Moeller |
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ericr
Joined: 15 May 2002
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| Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2003 7:55 pm Post subject: Re: Automatic naming in cacti 0.8 |
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| rem wrote: | | I have been testing cacti 0.8 for a few days, and most of the new features are brilliant! |
No doubt. Excellent work so far.
| rem wrote: | However, it would be nice to be able to reference hostname/description/user_defined_host_field when making templates.
That way yo wouldnt have to provide individual info for
- Graph Titles
- Data Source Name
when creating a new polling host based on templates.
They could be referenced like <hostname>, <description> <user_defined_field> same way as <path_rra> is used.
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I agree. This would also make it easier to script the addition of new hosts to Cacti.
| rem wrote: | Also the automagic naming of the rrd files should have an option to include the hostname getting a format like <path_rra>/<user_defined_host_field >/<hostname>_<datasource>
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Again, I agree. I plan on using Nagios to do threshold checking on the RRD files, and a consistant naming convention which includes the hostname would be extremely helpful.
Also, I noticed that 0.8 allows you to create the data source & graphs for a polling host twice, appending an incremented sequence number to the end of each RRD file name, so that they never get overwritten. If a standardized naming convention were used, it could check to see if the file already existed, instead of letting you create it over and over again.
Just my $.02. |
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raX
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Joined: 13 Oct 2001
Posts: 2235
Location: Carlisle, PA
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| Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2003 12:27 am Post subject: |
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About the naming, this feature sort of already existed when creating graphs through the 'Polling Hosts' screen. However I have made it better when working on cacti today. So far, the following subsitutions can made in graph and data source names:
|host_description|
|host_hostname|
|host_management_ip|
|host_snmp_community|
|host_snmp_version|
|host_snmp_username|
|host_snmp_password|
I realize that my delimeter characters are inconsistant now... I will probably fix this in a day or two. Also it would be easy for me to add additional subsitutions at this point, so feel free to make suggestions.
I *do* plan on adding some kind of checking for already created graphs. Under 'Polling Hosts', I envision cacti 'graying out' the rows that already have graphs or something to that effect.
-Ian |
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ericr
Joined: 15 May 2002
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2003 4:47 pm Post subject: |
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| raX wrote: |
I *do* plan on adding some kind of checking for already created graphs. Under 'Polling Hosts', I envision cacti 'graying out' the rows that already have graphs or something to that effect.
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That sounds pretty good. . But instead of 'graying out' rows with existing graphs, what do you think about making them links, thus providing a convenient way to modify the graph parameters without having to go through "Graph Management"? |
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raX
Lead Developer
Joined: 13 Oct 2001
Posts: 2235
Location: Carlisle, PA
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2003 5:21 pm Post subject: |
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| ericr wrote: | | raX wrote: |
I *do* plan on adding some kind of checking for already created graphs. Under 'Polling Hosts', I envision cacti 'graying out' the rows that already have graphs or something to that effect.
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That sounds pretty good. . But instead of 'graying out' rows with existing graphs, what do you think about making them links, thus providing a convenient way to modify the graph parameters without having to go through "Graph Management"? |
Graying them out was the first thing that came to my mind. But yes, providing links to change stuff would be much better 
-Ian |
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