Date/Time "hack" not working in 0.8 (of end May)

jvanhambelgium · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 33 Location: Antwerpen (Belgium)

Hi,

I've tried to implement the workaround to display the current Date/Time on a graph as describe in another forum some time ago ;
Tried it on 0.6.8a and it works just fine.

Tried it on 0.8 on FreeBSD ;

- Create Data Input method
- Created DataSource using the above method
- Edited some graph and added an entry/item of type COMMENT where I place <date> on the "Text Format" line.

Respons ;

Notice: Undefined Variable : text_format_lenght in /www/htdocs/cactiptod/include/rrd_functions.php on line 541

Any clues ?? The output of my "date" command is Date + Time ... perhaps malformatted or to long ??

Thanks & regards,

raX · Posted: Wed May 28, 2003 2:25 pm Post subject:

I just added this capability to 0.8, so that it is no longer a hack. To add the date/time of the last update, simply add a COMMENT graph item type that reads:

jian · Joined: 30 Sep 2002 Posts: 3 Location: Singapore

I've tried adding a COMMENT with text format "Last updated: <date_time>" into the Graph Template of Interface - Traffic (bits/sec). However, no COMMENT item appear on the graph.

Please help to explain the process in more detail. Thanks.

raX · Posted: Fri May 30, 2003 2:22 am Post subject:

The text you would have to put on the graph is:

"Last updated: |date_time|"

-Ian

acrophile · Joined: 11 Sep 2003 Posts: 14 Location: Idaho

Does this work with cactid? My date_time's are stuck at the last time cmd.php ran...

raX · Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2003 5:02 pm Post subject:

No, this does not work with cactid. It should however, so I added it to my TODO.

-Ian

Guest · Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2003 4:57 am Post subject:

Ian,

This works pretty good but I have a small problem. I get extra \ from somewhere.

Last Updated On:\ Mon Sep 11\:45\:03 CEST 2003

My Text Format reads:

Last Updated On: |date_time|

Would you happen to know the deal with those extra \s?

Thanks,
- Gaurav

raX · Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2003 5:10 pm Post subject:

kwabbernoot

Hi,

I am using the cactid C poller to retrieve my stats. While browsing this forum I also found that the cactid poller does not update the date value in the 'settings' table.

I created a workaround to solve the update of the date value.
I stripped the cmd.php into the following

raX · Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2003 3:49 pm Post subject:

If you use cactid under version 0.8.4, it should update the |date_time| variable just fine.

-Ian

kwabbernoot · Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2003 3:53 am Post subject: Cool

When I upgrade to Cacti 0.8.4 I will not have to restrip the cmd.php

Nice work Rax,