Documentation Requests

[psyber]

Please post any documentation requests to this thread. Our documentation area will be available soon. I am still in the process of documenting all the new plugins and architecture.

This is the current list of docs I have completed or begun:

CactiEZ Documentation

Introduction
Installation
Login Info
Tips and Hints

Plugin Documentation

Architecture Install
Plugins Install
Plugin Realms
Plugin Hooks
Plugin Structure

Plugins
BackUp
Discover
Haloe
MacTrack
Monitor
NTop
RRDClean
Reports
Thold
Tools

SNMP Documentation
Installing

On Windows
On Linux
On Solaris

Configuring

On Windows
On Linux
On Solaris
On Cisco Devices

Cacti Documentation

Cacti Library Functions

[sugunakar]

dear sir,

I would like to request for documents on how to use ntop in cacti.
I just installed the ntop plugin in my cacti installation but when i go to the discover tab, it just throws an error saying: Unknown column 'hash' in 'order clause'

I am unable to find any clue ?

Please help me

thanks in advance

Regards
sugun

[psyber]

Our documentation, once released, will include documentation on both the ntop plugin and the discovery plugin. The problem your describing sounds more like an issue with the discovery plugin.

The ntop plugin is just an extra tab that displays the ntop page. It could just as easily be webmin or cactiusers.org in the pane. Aside from not having ntop installed there's pretty much nothing that can go wrong with that one.

It sounds to me like the db for the discovery plugin is not installed or possibly mangled or an older version. Have a look at the table plugin_discover_hosts and see if the structure matches the discover.sql
file in the plugin/discovery/ directory.

[flavour]

Is the Wiki supposed to incorporate general information on Cacti, or just the Plugins?

I would like to start porting across some of the great documentation in the Forums, which is currently harder to plough through.
(Will always give credit back by pointing to the source threads)

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[psyber]

Pretty much just the plugins, though I have to admit there is some info on cacti's lib functions. On the Cacti stuff I lean more towards the developer side of things rather than the user side.

I'm kind of split on this one, on one hand I see the need for better organized documentation of cacti, on the other I don't want to start fragmenting sources for reliable or authoratative information.

I think I'm going to defer this to Jimmy and the folks at cacti.net for a definitive answer. I'm not opposed to the idea, I think its something that should be explored more.

[ejames]

HostInfo - Just installed and I like it a lot. One issue I had was the SNMP Version output was incorrect. The issue is the version command is a bit different in Windows for net-snmp.
Found the answer @ http://forums.cacti.net/post-74637.html

Would like to request a quick README or section in Documents for HostInfo plugin for Windows users.

Solution was to modifying hostinfo.php,

$output = shell_exec ("$path_snmpwalk --version 2>&1");

To this,

$output = shell_exec ("$path_snmpwalk -V 2>&1");

Took me a bit of searching to find this, and if it was a quick readme, I think it would help others.

Thanks for everything.