Installing cacti plugins

See the Plugin documentation for instructions on how to configure and use them. Updating a plugin not only keeps you up to date with the latest release of the code for that plugin. You must instead disable the plugin which will not drop the SQL tables and thus save your settings.

Click on the red dot beside the plugin to uninstall the plugin a dialouge box will appear now click uninstall. This will uninstall the plugin from cacti but will NOT remove the files from the server to do that you must manually remove the plugin until you remove the files the plugin will show to be avaliable to be installed. Before uninstalling Plugins , it would be wise to have a backup strategy in place in case you accidentally uninstall a Plugin and loose your data!

Some dependencies such as THOLD aka Thresholds rely on another plugin in this case thold reliese on the monitor plugin which is missing in this case you will see the below messege box in order to continue you must install the required plugin. What is Spine? PHP has a 'safety valve' built-in, to stop runaway scripts from killing your server, which defaults to 8MB in most versions this has changed in 5.

You may need to increase this to 32MB or even more if you have problems. In fact, the current Cacti manual suggests MB. These problems will typically show up as the poller process just dying with no warning or error message, as PHP kills the script.

The zip contains a folder called 'weathermap' already, so unzipping it in the plugins folder should do the job. You will need to change the permissions on the output directory, so that the Cacti poller process can write to it.

This is the same as you would have done for the rra directory while installing Cacti itself originally. If not, remove the line you just added and you should return to normal. Make a note of any error message and let me know! Assuming it all looks fine but not very different , you can start to enable Weathermap.

Log in as 'admin' or another user with User Management rights, go to the User Management section under Tools in the Cacti console, and then choose your own username from the list. Check the two new 'realms' boxes that should be there - View Weathermaps, and Manage Weathermaps - and then click Save. A 'Weathermap' tab should appear at the top of the page. That's it! The Weathermap plugin is installed. To go further, you need some weathermap configuration files to define your maps. You can do this in two ways - using the Web-based map editor, or by editing the text-based configuration files directly.

To learn more about actually using the Cacti plugin, see the Cacti Plugin page. Copy the editor-config. Make sure that your webserver can write to the configs directory. On Windows, the same applies - the user that runs the webserver runs as should have permissions to write new files, and change existing files in the configs folder. Since version 0. The reason is so that you can't have the editor enabled without knowing about it. The editor allows access to your config files without authentication it doesn't use Cacti's authentication , so you should consider using features in your webserver to limit who can access editor.