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Have an edit screen to add/change/delete emails or graphs to an existing report

You can already do that... To add emails, just click the edit icon next to the report name. To add more graphs, just click on the report name, and then add whatever you want.

sorry - it was a long day when I asked that...

My Bad

No problem, I have plenty of those long days here myself.

I was up until 2am last night creating a CentOS 4.1 CD that would auto-install Cacti via kickstart.

All you do is put the CD in, and it will wipe the partitions, install CentOS, http, mysql, php, net-snmp, rrdtool, ect... and then install Cacti, the Plugin Architecture, Monitor, Thresholds, Cactid, and sets up the cron jobs. It then just ejects the CD and reboots. From there you have a fully functional Cacti server without having to be prompted for a single (I already configured Cacti to point to all the write places, so you don't even have to do that).

jimmy,

Are you planning to release it as a downloadable ISO?

regards,

...\xphu

Most definitely, just as soon as I upgrade my hosting to include a tad bit more bandwidth. I have it trimmed down fairly well so far running only 7-8 services, with a total CD size is around 340M (which I hope to trim down just a little more). The firewall blocks all but SSH, and HTTP by default, and I will add the Syslog port when I finish the Event Monitoring plugin.

There are several other important things that I hope to also add, like Automated Backups (send nightly via ftp or email, or when you "ask" it via the web page) and an Easy way to Restore from a backup. This way, if you are noticing problems, you can just click a few links in Cacti to download a backup. Pop in the CD to re-image the machine. Log back in to Cacti and "upload" the backup. It will completely restore the database and rrds, and you will be right back where you left off (minus 20 minutes of downtime). I may also include a way to "start from scratch" that will reinstall Cacti to the defaults, incase you are just playing around and screw something up. This ofcourse would only be accessible by SSH on the server (with multiple warning prompts!)

Once I am done with it, it will also include Event Monitoring, Host Discovery, Log / RRD Clean up (from within Cacti) and even possibly an integrated NTop (as much as possible, basically just NTop running in an iframe in Cacti, which is what we do at work). I should probably throw Webmin or something on it to make it easy to configure sendmail, ect... to everyone's liking.

I am thinking of giving it a codename like "Cacti Made Easy" or CactiEZ or some variation (I am open to ideas).

jimmy,

What a great plan!

It is just what I believe most of us are dreaming to implement Cacti plus even more those plugins you are providing or planning to code.

I definitely switch over to Linux world hearing such a great plans?

My best regards,

...\xphu