Cactiusers.org

I've been playing with Cacti for about a year and just stumbled onto this site. I like the direction its taking and would love to participate (I hate re-inventing the wheel and from the looks of things there is quite a lot of duplication of effort) I am trying to replace Nagios with somethig easier to maintain and the path being taken here could eventually accomplish that.

I see that there are plans to put mail support into a separate plugin. Might I suggest that other methods of contact be taken into account? i.e. TAP paging, SMS, IM, etc. Also maybe implement some message filters i.e. time of day, dependancy models, escalation.
I really hate Nagios its a nightmare to maintain.
Since v9 is nearing I will start playing with that codebase and I look forward to the finalizing of the plugin arch for 9 and hopefully some docs :)

In the history of opensource I dont think I've seen a project as well supported or maintained as cacti (except maybe linux as a whole) I'm hoping that cacti will not suffer the same fate though (too may developers going in too many directions) That being said if you could give me a roadmap and an idea how these plugins have been received by the cacti developers I think I may be willing to invest some time into this as a plugin developer.

~p

I thought it a better idea to fire off an email to you with the grand plan, but needless to say, the developer support for the plugin architecture and the new features that are being added to Cacti via plugin has been great. At this point everything plugin-wise is just getting off the ground but once I actually put out more documentation on how to make your own plugins, everything should pick up with other plugin developers starting their own.

The architecture will eventually be integrated into Cacti, but it may not be true to its present form (there is always a better way of doing things).

@jimmy: Please give us some hints how to create own plugins.

for example (looking at the monitor plugin)
Whats the difference between monitur.php and setup.php.

The monitor.php has a lot of helpfull comments. Bute there are no comments in the setup.php. Can you please add some comment lines? ;-)

joed

I too would love to help out more. I've been using cacti for a year now and just finished setting up thold, reports and monitoring with the new plugin architecture.

I've got some ideas of plugins, but mainly would be willing to help out in what ever way possible. Jimmy have you thought about posting your roadmap? I think that might help with people asking of the same.

Good luck, and let me know if I can be of any assistance.

I have actually now been officially added as a Cacti Developer, and will be working on the new Plugin Architecture with Tony. He has some excellent ideas on where he would like this to go, not only functionality wise, but security and safety wise. The Roadmap is still being tossed about and worked on, but there is one. I really am hesitant about releasing any info, as it will all probably change, and the current plugins will have to be heavily changed / modified to work with it.

There are still lots of things to complete before we even begin on the new architecture, but its in the works.