Cacti 1.2.18 released: Network traffic graphics monitoring and analysis tools
Cacti is a complete network graphing solution designed to harness the power of RRDTool‘s data storage and graphing functionality. Cacti provide a fast poller, advanced graph templating, multiple data acquisition methods, and user management features out of the box. All of this is wrapped in an intuitive, easy to use interface that makes sense for LAN-sized installations up to complex networks with thousands of devices.
Cacti provides the following features:
- remote and local data collectors
- network discovery
- device management automation
- graph templating
- custom data acquisition methods
- user, group and domain management
- C3 level security settings for local accounts
- strong password hashing
- forced regular password changes, complexity, and history
- account lockout support
All of this is wrapped in an intuitive, easy to use interface that makes sense for both LAN-sized installations and complex networks with thousands of devices.
Developed in the early 2000s by Ian Berry as a high school project, it has been used by thousands of companies and enthusiasts to monitor and manage their Networks and Data Centers.
Changelog v1.2.18
-security#4261: Lack of escaping on template import can lead to XSS exposure under ‘midwinter’ theme (CVE-2020-14424) by ddb4github
-security#4276: Real time graphs can expose XSS issue by ddb4github
-security#4282: Session IDs are not always recreated when logging out under PHP 5 by ddb4github
-issue#4250: Unable to create graphs due to Data Source verification failure
-issue#4254: When poller first runs, time since last run produces an error
-issue#4259: Data Template caching does not update and causes errors
-issue#4263: Graphs with multiple data sources can no longer display percenticles
-issue#4266: Incomplete items from a previous polling session may be updated twice
-issue#4267: Unnecessary warnings appear when host name is not resolved
-issue#4269: Installation Wizard can become stuck when creating graphs for default device
-issue#4271: Continued timeout of registered processes
-issue#4272: Unexpected errors may appear when using hostnames without a DNS domain
-issue#4273: When adding a device from command line, testing of data sources can cause errors to be recorded
-issue#4274: When you start to zoom a graph, the auto graph refresh should be disabled
-issue#4279: Default Setting “Device Threads” will not be saved correctly
-issue#4284: Whilst upgrading, errors in upgrade scripts prevent properly execution
-issue#4294: Tables outside of pre-built list that need fixing, cause bad unknown column errors
-issue#4295: If a page contains multiple tables, a larger table can cause small ones to lose columns
-issue#4297: Unable to search using regular expressions when trying to filter graphs
-issue#4312: When using CMD.PHP as the poller, warnings can appear if you only use a subset of data input types
-issue#4314: When disabling the snmpagent, you can introduce significant delay to data collection
-issue#4315: Reduce repeatative warnings when resources are exhausted
-issue#4316: Remove Spikes CLI interface is unable to provide localized spike, gap fill or float operations
-issue#4321: Earlier versions of RRDTool do not correctly ignore previous updates
-issue#4324: Date/Time format of replacement field on graph cannot be changed
-issue#4325: When editing graph items, make identifying rows easier
-issue#4326: When using large lists, ensure selection is visible in dropdown menus
-issue#4330: Automation attempts to call undefined debug function
-feature#4258: Update phpseclib to 2.0.31 by DavidLiedke
-feature#4283: Content Security Policy may block Plugin functionality
-feature#4317: Allow the Cacti administrator to perform bulk gap filling and floating in parallel
-feature#4322: Update pace.js to version 1.2.4
