Release of Cacti 0.8.7g

“Changes to Cacti’s Core

“There are two changes in the Core of Cacti that will affect
some plugins. The first change is that we have provided RRDtool
segfault detection and correction in Cacti 0.8.7g. What this means
to plugins that leverage our rrdtool_function_* functions is that
for graphing and certain other functions, those plugins will
require a minor change. To date, the plugins that we know of, are
THold, Boost, and Realtime. We have not performed a comprehensive
audit off all plugins, if you experience problems you should seek
out your Plugins’ developers to determine the impact.

“The other core change in Cacti 0.8.7g, is Cacti’s ability to
detect SNMP time-outs in the core SNMP functions. So, if you are
using cmd.php or you are using things like MacTrack, that leverage
the SNMP API in Cacti, you will have much more capabilities to
detect problems in the behaviour of Cacti by simply going to the
Cacti log file.

“Functional Changes in the PIA

“When you go to the Plugin Management page, you will notice a
fairly significant change. In this release, we tuned up the Plugin
Management interface to make it a bit easier to understand how your
plugins are loaded and controlled. There is now the concept of a
System plugin and a General plugin. You can also define the load
order of your PIA 2.x plugins. This is important in that some
plugins require other plugins be loaded first in order to work
properly. We still do not have an API to control this. That will be
delivered in the next release of Cacti. However, for those of your
who have been locked down to having your plugins in PIA 1.x due to
the load ordering issue, that barrier will be removed in this
release.”

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