Cacti 1.2.22 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 v1.2.22
- security #4834: When creating new graphs, cross site injection is possible
- issue #4768: When creating user from template, multiple Domain FullName and Mail are not propagated
- issue #4791: Nectar Aggregate 95th emailed report broken
- issue #4796: Boost may not find archive tables correctly
- issue #4802: Users may be unable to change their password when forced during a login
- issue #4803: Net-SNMP Memory Graph Template has Wrong GPRINT
- issue #4806: Search in tree view unusable on larger installations
- issue #4808: Increased bulk insert size to avoid partial inserts and potential data loss.
- issue #4810: Call to undefined function boost_debug in Cacti log
- issue #4814: When no guest template is set, login cookies are not properly set
- issue #4817: Later RRDtool releases do not need to check last_update time
- issue #4818: Regex filters are not always long enough
- issue #4819: Domains based LDAP and AD Fullname and Email not auto-populated
- issue #4822: Cacti polling and boost report the wrong number of Data Sources when Devices are disabled
- issue #4823: When editing Graph Template Items there are cases where VDEF’s are hidden when they should be shown
- issue #4831: Database SSL setting lacks default value
- issue #4837: Update default path cacti under *BSD by xmacan
- issue #4840: Web Basic authentication not creating template user
- issue #4846: Unable to change the Heartbeat of a Data Source Profile
- issue #4849: Tree Search Does Not Properly Search All Trees
- issue #4850: When structured paths are setup, RRDfiles may not always be created when possible
- issue #4851: When parsing the logs, caching would help speed up processing
- issue #4853: Deprecation warnings when attempting real-time Graphs with PHP8.1
- issue #4860: Custom Timespan is lost when clicking other tree branches
- issue #4863: Non device based Data Sources not being polled
- issue #4865: When Resource XML file inproperly formatted, graph creation can fail with errors
- issue #4866: Update code style to support PHP 8 requirements
- issue #4867: In Graph Management, filtering for “Device: None” shows all graphs
- issue #4871: Realtime popup window experiences issues on some browsers
- issue #4873: Auth settings do not always properly reflect the options selected by ddb4github
- issue #4880: MySQL can cause cacti to become stalled due to locking issues
- issue #4882: Boost process can get hung under rare conditions until the poller times out
- issue #4884: Exporting graphs under PHP 8 can cause errors
- issue #4887: Host table has wrong default for disabled and deleted columns
- feature #4533: RRD storage paths do not scale properly
- feature #4820: When importing, make it possible to only import certain components
- feature #4825: Update change_device script to include new features by bmfmancini
- feature #4827: Make help pages use latest online version wherever possible
- feature #4832: Cacti should show PHP INI locations during install
- feature #4833: Detect PHP INI values that are different in the INI vs running config
- feature #4870: Added Gradient Color support for AREA charts by thurban
- feature #4872: Update CDEF functions for RRDtool
- feature #4881: When boost is running, it’s not clear which processes are running and how long they have to complete
