manage

Older versions can be download here: http://gilles.boulon.free.fr/manage

Cacti dashboard for Network Services

This plugin allows you to automatically view your network by checking :

• TCP Ports
• Processes
• Services
• Up, down and reboot events
  • can be immediatly sent to you by email, “net send”, syslog/NT event viewer or SNMP trap
  • are logged and available in Event Reporting

• Monitor TCP ports, windows services and processes for multiple hosts
• Multiples views
• You can associate an image with your host
• Use his own groups or those from Tree
• You can display only hosts in error
• Use AJAX
• Use overlib to display graphs
• Blink hostnames when a threshold is breaked
• Use tresholds
• You can set cycle time delay between groups
• The time until the next graph change is displayed
• You can click objects to access Reporting
• Let you open remote shell for each TCP port
• Guest account can only view tab manage, not Reporting
• You can choose between the default Cacti output or force SNMP, WMI (Vbs or Perl)
• You can make themes for images
• Alerts by sound, mail, poput, syslog or SNMP trap
• Use the plugin Update for checking updates
• Daily report

This version is designed for cacti 0.8.7g

Plugin Architecture (PA) 2.8/2.9 (http://cactiusers.org)

You need appropriates templates

• Services template is necessary to monitor windows services
• http://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?t=11232&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight= (include in Cacti 0.8.7)
• TCP Port template http://forums.cacti.net/about16477.html
• process template is now included in cacti
• you need settings plugin to send emails (0.7)
• plugin Thold is optional

• sometimes, services template needs patch of mories - http://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?p=67694&sid=7cf0c483113ade565ccbdd42add64218#67694
• ALWAYS assign your host to a site and a group, even if you don't use “Site view”
• verify mysql is not in strict mode
• select “Ping and SNMP” for SNMP enabled host, “Ping” for a host which is reachable, “None” for others
• don't use same names in /include/manage_process.inc and /include/win_services.inc
• for direct linking to tab Manage, use this link http://your-server/cacti/plugins/manage/manage_direct.php
• to configure a device or modify templates, user must have “Update Data Sources” rights
• for receive messages, try LanTalk XP, better than windows
  

install like any other plugin

• put the manage directory and all files into the plugins directory
• login to cacti as an admin with full permissions
• install the plugin in cacti
• go to “Console → Plugin Management”
• then “Plugin Management”
• click “install” link
• click “enable” link
• use manage :
  • go to “Console → User Management”
  • then “Realm Permissions”
  • check “Use PHP Network Managing”
  • save
• you can find the plugin options in settings

• first, click the debug link to verify that all yours tables are OK
• if it's not OK, use the sql scripts provided

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