Hide Maps in Cacti Tab?

[Tybio]

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]

[Tybio]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

[feds]

Has the unix style permissions been added to the current version? Just wondering cause it's exactly what I'm looking for. I'm going to have around 90 maps that won't be accessed by their thumbnails, just by a main map.

Thanks

[Howie]

No, there has been exactly one request for it so far. Two, now then.

Generally speaking, it goes (things I want) > (things lots of people ask for) > (things one person asks for)... There's also the rare (things people pay for), but that's only happened once directly, and once indirectly.

I working on finishing 0.96. After that, it's time to work out what goes in 0.97 - there will likely be some reworking of permissions in Cacti then, because I want to add a 'Edit Maps' permission too.

[feds]

What about tab views, being able to put different maps on different tabs with people having different permissions to the tabs/maps.

Any chance that could get put into the newest version?

Cheers

Cory

[Howie]

[feds]

Thanks Howie, that will be perfect. Any time-line for version 0.97? Now I'm excited, is it going to be out this year or in the first quarter of the new year?

Thanks

[Howie]