CereusReporting - PDF Reports - 3.01 for Cacti 1.x out!

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phalek · #1 Post by **phalek** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 4:37 am

Presentation:

https://www.urban-software.com/products ... downloads/

nmidCreatePDF has been renamed to CereusReporting

This plugin enables users to create PDF Reports from a tree/leaf. Attached is an example report showing the 2x2 page design.

Documentation:
The Installation and Configuration can be downloaded from the Product Download Page

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Time limited Corporate Edition is available now !
https://www.urban-software.com/products ... trial-key/

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Features:

All Versions:
Support for Portrait, Landscape, A3,A4,A5,Legal,Letter
Support for 2 columnar display of PDF graphs
Ability to select graphs to be included into the PDF Report
PDF Files now contain bookmarks to each graph ( mPDF Report Engine only ) (new!)
Differen Report Engines selectable (new!)
Unicode ( UTF-8 ) support (mPDF Report Engine only) (new!)
Special Graph Reports (new!)
Option to have graph images link back to cacti
Option to display hostname as report title when only a host is selected
User selectable report format panel
OS Independant. IonCube loader required.
Report backup/Restore functionality
Additional Features for the Corporate Edition:
Optional custom cover page per tree
Logo can be defined per tree
No Footer Message
Archiving functionality (new!)
Different support options selectable (new!)
Multi Report type with Chapers, Titles, Text, DSSTats, Smokeping and Graph Support (new!)
Send PDF/HTML report via email
Schedule PDF/HTML report generation
Cron/At or Poller based scheduling
Graph generation can be multi-threaded
Logo defined per Report ( since 0.5c )
CoverPage defined per Report ( since 0.5c )
Re-ordering of graphs on the Graph-Report ( since 0.5c )
DSStats Report generation support
Update ability ( since 0.5c )
SLA/Availability Reporting ( per device / group of devices )
Weathermap Support
SQL Reports (local database server only ftm)
Report on failed polls
Allow Users to view created/archived reports only

Screenshots: Report Samples

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mcutting · #2 Post by **mcutting** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 5:39 am

Phalek,

This looks great - a couple of questions

1. Where do we download it from
2. Will this have the ability to schedule and email reports (like the old and somewhat defunct report plugin (from Cigamit) used to be able to do) ?

Thanks

phalek · #3 Post by **phalek** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 6:08 am

I'll need to clean it up and add some configuration stuff to the cacti settings screen first.

I'll then package it and will upload here and/ore include it with nmidPlugins.

Update: For Scheduling and Emailing. This will not yet be implemented in the nmidCreatePDF plugin. I joined up with the reportit team to include the PDF creation as well as email support there.

phalek · #4 Post by **phalek** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 3:51 am

I just included support for nmidSmokeping and nmidNagiosPNP.
Updated this has been removed in the march2009 version and will be added later. nmidSmokeping support has been included since 0.2
Still need a way to speed up things a bit, as image generation takes some time with the above plugins ( between 5 and 15 seconds ) ...

valleed · #5 Post by **valleed** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 9:45 pm

I can't wait to install this plugin!

Thanks in advance for your work.

phalek · #6 Post by **phalek** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 2:35 am

Update: removed as it is not relevant for the new release

zorrosam · #7 Post by **zorrosam** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 9:02 am

phalek wrote:Just to make sure I'm not creating something unwanted ...

What are the requirements for such a plugin ?

Scheduling

Email Reporting
what else ? Is it enough to create reports based on the "tree-leafs" ?
any other requirements for this ?

I uploaded a new screenshot of a complete PDF Report in the first post

Please PM me if you want to test this release. Please note: You'll need to change some lines in the html_tree.php file, as cacti itself doesn't support "Page buttons"

i'm very interested about that.

can i test it?

pis possible having it on my email?

i have nagiosPnp on my server yet ....

thanks

phalek · #8 Post by **phalek** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 5:05 pm

I've created a flash video, showing the installation and configuration process. It also shows the process of creating a PDF Report.

Just as a remark, my cacti installation isn't producing any graphs so there's an error image. THis doesn't affect the PDF creation though

http://docu.nmid-plugins.de/HowTo_Insta ... tePDF.html

frdrk · #9 Post by **frdrk** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 1:59 am

This looks sweet

. Any ETA?

phalek · #10 Post by **phalek** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 2:30 am

Please have a look here:
http://redmine.nmid-plugins.de/projects ... dcreatepdf

L0gRuS · #11 Post by **L0gRuS** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 3:46 am

phalek wrote:Please have a look here:
http://redmine.nmid-plugins.de/projects ... create-pdf

where i download this plugin?
in nmid package i can't search it.

phalek · #12 Post by **phalek** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 4:29 am

It's still an alpha release with very limited features. You'll need to register on that page in roder to see the Files section where you can download this plugin.

Please make sure to read the Documentation.

And make sure you understand what you're doing.

L0gRuS · #13 Post by **L0gRuS** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 5:52 am

phalek wrote:It's still an alpha release with very limited features. You'll need to register on that page in roder to see the Files section where you can download this plugin.

Please make sure to read the Documentation.

And make sure you understand what you're doing.

thank for link.
1q:

Get both tgz files from the file section.

Replace the cacti lib/html_tree.php file with the file from html_tree.php.tgz

folder not included html_tree.php. where it ?
added file from html_tree.php.tgz

2q: unpack, add file, install and active plugin

NMID CreatePDF Plugin
Directory: nmidCreatePDF
Version: 0.3.9a
Author: Thomas Urban
Home Page: http://www.urban-software.de
Status: Active
Install | Uninstall | Enable | Disable | Check

but i can't found icon pdf (i see http://docu.nmid-plugins.de/HowTo_Insta ... tePDF.html ) i check rights:

NMID - Create PDF Reports

check permission for folder and file.
but icon pdf not have on my graph..
PA 2.1

phalek · #14 Post by **phalek** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 6:02 am

you need to replace the original cacti html_tree.php file with the one from the tgz.

If you installed cacti in /var/www/html/cacti

then the html_tree.php file is in the directory /var/www/html/cacti/lib

L0gRuS · #15 Post by **L0gRuS** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 6:10 am

phalek wrote:you need to replace the original cacti html_tree.php file with the one from the tgz.

If you installed cacti in /var/www/html/cacti

then the html_tree.php file is in the directory /var/www/html/cacti/lib

change file and the icon has appeared.
but my cacti installed on windows and i have problem 500.
http://cacti/cacti/plugins/nmidCreatePD ... leaf_id=33 on any graph
but it my error. thanks