[cacti-user] Cacti 0.8.6k Beta 2 Release for Testing

[Tony R. <ro...@di...>]

Available now, Cacti 0.8.6k Beta 2 for TESTING!

Do not use this in your production environment!

Download at: http://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?t=22622


Highlighted changes:

    * 1 Minute Polling interval support
    * Web Basic Authentication
    * Updates to interface for a consistence presentation


Change log:

0.8.6k
-bug#0000480: error when making a change to graphs displayed per page
-bug#0000833: favicon.ico support
-bug#0000850: Select All for list view
-bug#0000873: Poller hangs in certain situations
-bug#0000876: Ability to search for host with a not UP status
-bug#0000898: Selecting a CUSTOM timespan and then CLEARing yields "LAST
HALF HOUR" preset
-bug#0000899: Settings checks paths for existance
-bug#0000902: cmd.php doesn't work with PHP 4.4.1 under windows
-bug#0000903: snmpgetnext function does not exist in PHP less than 5.0
-bug#0000904: Data Source creation fails without php-snmp
-bug#0000906: Every tenth host does not show on tree during console edit
-bug#0000907: Sorting of data sources when interface numbers are used
without leading zeros are incorrectly sorted
-bug#0000908: Graphs created by SNMP data queries are losing their
specific names if the template is modified
-bug#0000910: Cacti complains when trying to set the data source
"maximum value" to any number with a decimal point
-bug#0000912: Nth Percentile thumbnail graphs fail with RRDtool 1.2.15,
1.2.18
-bug#0000913: Allow direct linking to specific graph pages
-bug#0000919: Problem with ping_tcp function in 8.6j and possible fix.
-bug#0000920: Improved handling of rrdtool --font parameter
-bug#0000921: Improvement to ping.pl script
-bug#0000925: Support for host_* variables in the legend
-bug#0000927: Classic export does not recognize thumbnail columns properly
-bug#0000931: New rrdtool fails on empty comment
-bug#0000934: Column 'status_last_error' in table 'host' too short.
-bug#0000937: System output in hosts.php poor for Alcatel
-bug#0000946: Timetick of zero returns down for device
-bug#0000953: SNMP Passphrase displayed in cleartext
-bug#0000955: Fixed possible denial of service attack by modifying graph
image url
-bug#0000956: Patch for tree management
-bug#0000957: Script server output's beginning/trailing data during
"Include" causing a synchronization issue
-bug#0000958: Slope Mode is now selectable
-bug#0000959: Alarming added when poller output table is not empty
-bug#0000963: TCP/UDP capitalization
-bug#0000965: When setting filters under utilities, pressing enter takes
you back to the main page
-bug#0000966: Log file viewing utility has no ability to filter
-bug#0000969: In some versions of PHP, the graph tree will not view properly
-bug#0000970: Incorrect debug messages in lib/ping.php for failed UDP ping
-bug#0000982: Remove invalid references to the "output_string" column in
the "data_input" table
-bug#0000983: Bad SQL: snmp_query_graph_rrd.snmp_query_graph_id=
-bug#0000984: Poller does not correctly flush poller_output table after
a memory error
-bug: ss_sql.php causes the script server to crash
-bug: Timeshifter added to base code.
-bug: Allow query_ and host_ substitution in COMMENT and CDEF's.
-bug: Command line interface scripts to add devices, graphs, tree's and
permissions.
-bug: Correct index error when creating graphs when you have no hosts on
your system.
-bug: More recent versions of net-snmp broke SNMP walk functions.
-bug: Adjust for problematic responses from some SNMP agents (IBM AIX).
-bug: Improve logging in cmd.php and poller.php when parameters are not
specified correctly.
-bug: Reduce the total number of SQL queries called
-bug: Replace inefficient strip function in process_poller_output
-bug: Some php_snmp implementations return strings as "Hex-STRING:". In
these cases properly resolve the string
-bug: Correctly assign right and left click actions for Opera
-feature: Paginate the Graph Creation Page
-feature: Add rra_path as a global.php config variable
-feature: Add drop down actions to data queries
-feature: Add drop down actions to data input methods
-feature: Add filtering and pagination to data queries
-feature: Add filtering and pagination to data input methods
-feature: Add filtering and pagination to host templates
-feature: Add filtering and pagination to user administration
-feature: Add Web Basic authentication
-feature: Add authentication realm to modifiable user parameters
-feature: Add multiple polling intervals
-feature: Moved command line scripts to cli sub directory
-feature: include/config.php now only includes database configuration
-feature: include/config_* have been renamed to include/global_*. Note:
Script servers need to be updated.
-feature: Allow VRULE's in Cacti to specify an absolute timestamp in
addition to [+/-]HH:MM
-feature: Add 1 minute RRA and graph templates
-feature: Add item select highlighting to main pages
-feature: Let poller.php be more intelligent about poller intervals less
than 60 seconds
-feature: Add consistency to Filters by adding nowrap to td items
-feature: Add Graph and Data Source counts to Device page
-feature: Add Poller Interval to Data Sources page
-feature: Keep filters aligned with main page content on window resize
-compat: Add additional checking due to php-snmp changes in Windows


Tony Roman
Cacti Developer