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This is a todo list of everything that needs to be done for the different plugins. Post any other ideas here and I will add them to the list. Underlined items are the highest priority.

Thold

Better fix for Thresholds showing 0
CDEFs for Thresholds
(Completed) - Command Line Checking - Ability to check status via command line
(Completed) - Ability to select multiple thresholds for deletion
(Completed) - Auto-Remove thresholds when datasource for host is removed
(Completed) - Guest Account Access

Reports

Robust Scheduler
Add in HTML formatting and extra Text
PDF Reports

Monitor

Ability to easily change sounds
Command Line Checking - Ability to check status via command line
Changeable Icons / Themes?

Discover (Network Host Auto-Discovery)

Actually release it for beta testing
Have it check for the perl module NMap::Scanner in the interface (to tell you to install it)
Auto-detect full perl path

BackUp (Simple Automated Cacti Backup Tool)

Initial framework
Remote FTP Support
Variable Retention
Complete customization on whether to backup SQL, Cacti Files, Logs, or RRDs

Log Rotater

Initial Framework
Variable Retention
Transfer to SQL Support

Network Tools

Initial Framework
Add different Tools (ping, nslokup, snmp checker, http/ftp/pop3/smtp checker)

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Cactiusers.org Site

(Completed) - Plugin Architecture Documentation
Documentation for each of the different Plugins

jimmy

Some times it could be nice to see if either the Thold or Monitor can send smtp mail. Could it be easy to implement a test button?

\xphu

Yes, and I do plan to add this in very soon.

There was an event addons showing snmp traps...
is it still exists ?

Pipol

Yes, but I have changed how it works. Instead of SNMP Traps, I have decided to switch to Syslog. SNMPTT which I was using did not scale very well at all. There is also all sorts of issues with Microsoft's sending of traps, like traps being sent multiple times days after they actually happen (we get this alot). Traps re-sent after rebooting, ect...

Using NTSysLog on windows, now everything is reported accurately, I am just rewriting my entire interface to all all sorts of nice features.

I completely forgot about it when making the list, but I will add it now.

Hi,

i am also very interested in the "trap-plugin". We have to monitor a special unixhost with an application that can sends traps but writes nothing in the syslog.

Is it possible to get the old version from you????

Currently thold is alarming me in case the last RRDtool value is "nan", if I have set a low threshold. In most situations (for me) this causes false alarms, since "nan" means often that there is no measurement taken. It's not a failure then.

Please implement either
- an option per threshold to disable "nan alarms"
or
- a global option to disable "nan alarms" for all thresholds

Option 2 would be fine for me first.
(A hint how I could disable it in the current code would also be very helpful).

Thanks in advance.
Ralf

Hello!
I'd appreaciate very much if you can make Threshold plugin sends SMS under win32. Maybe through gnokii? I've already achieved to get gnokii sending sms from a text file but I don't know how to make PHP run gnokii command line and use recipient no. instead of email address and text mssg instead email subject.

Any ideas to apply now? Or perhaps a new feature for thold...

Many thanks in advance!!!

PS: Let me know whether you need any support and/or testing

hi jimmy,

thx for your unremitting efforts, and i hope if you can add the sound alarm function to the new version of the thold plugin, it will be very useful to my boring work, thank u

Hi folks,

Those who want to send SNMP trap to syslog they can use snmptt. It is excellent tool. I have been using this tool and snmptt dumps everything in syslog-ng and u can see everything under syslog plugin. If you need any further help please let me know.

Thanks,

Farhan

hi,

with the reports plugin, could you add the ability to report only text value, and no graph wich it!

thanks,

When posting to a Cacti board we always include:

My System:
Rh Linux v.SPAM
PHP ver. xx
Apache v. SPAM
Mysql v. xxxx
Plugin v. SPAM

..etc.

Wouldn't be nice to have a feature that could collect this info i a standard -ish way and easy to cut'n paste?

-Dritz

I will see about putting together a type "Bug Report" plugin, which when ran will give you all the information you requested in an easy to post fashion. If you wouldn't mind posting a "Feature Request" in the tracker, I would appreciate it.

Thanks!

Dear Jimmy,
I think I have done as requested.

Thanks for your valuable work.

- Dritz

Jimmy (et all),
Before I found this site, I incorporated my own device-discovery system into cacti. I'm an admin for a WISP, and needed to automate the process of finding new radios and adding them to the graphing system. Since we have a variety of radio types from different manufactures, I had to find a way to determine what kind of device has been found to use the correct host template. To do this, I related a host template id to the value of a "sysObjectId" query (allowing for regex matches).

The php script scans specified network ranges (currently it only allows user to specify a full Class C) and queries each IP for a response to sysObjectId (the list of community strings to test with is also user-specified), skipping any hosts already in the cacti database. Discovered hosts are entered into a holding table, which is then processed to add the devices to cacti and create the appropriate graphs (per the host template).

All of this rambling is to offer any of my scripts if you are interested in incorporating any of those features into your discovery plugin.

-=Rafael=-