Thomas Vincent
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* docs: comprehensive audit, Spine poller overhaul, and technical refactor - Overhaul Spine documentation (Spine.md) with complete end-to-end guide: architecture, prerequisites for modern distros (EL8/9 CRB, Ubuntu 22/24, Debian 11/12, FreeBSD), SUID root permissions, secure spine.conf setup (0640), Web UI configuration (Paths, Poller type, Data Collectors tuning), MySQL max_connections sizing, and troubleshooting. - Fix broken links and anchors (Hardening, SNMP data queries, Hook API references). - Fix broken image reference in Sites.md (add-site.JPG -> add-site.png). - Fix syntax errors in documentation PHP code blocks, including invalid parenthesization, missing SQL execute quotes, and malformed comments in FAQ. - Fix DevOps installation commands: use config.php.dist, correct systemctl service names for MySQL/MariaDB/PHP-FPM, remove nonexistent php-json, add missing composer install, and correct Debian/Ubuntu systemd environment path. - Correct grammatical errors, repeated words, and typos across all markdown documents. - Remove obsolete unreferenced duplicate installation guides. Signed-off-by: Thomas Vincent <thomasvincent@gmail.com> * docs: correct reviewed examples and guidance Signed-off-by: Thomas Vincent <thomasvincent@gmail.com> * docs: correct guidance that disagrees with the Cacti source Verified each claim against include/global_arrays.php, lib/auth.php, lib/functions.php, host_templates.php and the Spine config parser. The notable ones: api_plugin_safe_exec() does not exist on either branch, Spine reads DB_Pass rather than DB_Password, and the CDEF special data source table was missing five entries and renamed four others. Signed-off-by: Thomas Vincent <thomasvincent@gmail.com> * docs: wrap Spine prose and fence the connection sizing formula The formula's bare asterisks rendered as emphasis, dropping the multiplication signs. Signed-off-by: Thomas Vincent <thomasvincent@gmail.com> * chore: refresh copyright year in scripts and issue templates Signed-off-by: Thomas Vincent <thomasvincent@gmail.com> --------- Signed-off-by: Thomas Vincent <thomasvincent@gmail.com>
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How To Determine a Cacti Template Version
Users are often bewildered when they are unable to import templates found on the forum and presented with the error, Error: XML: Hash version does not exist. Cacti prevents templates that have been exported on new versions back to older versions for compatibility. Quickly looking inside a XML template, it's not very clear how to determine what version it was created on. There IS a reason to the madness -- the hash!
Take the following example: <hash_04**0018**258d1c9487a6c58dd804f4a012007664>
The first 2 digits are the type of the template.
The next 4 digits are the Cacti version it was created on.
The next 32 digits are a random number.
List of Versions
"0.8.4" => "0000",
"0.8.5" => "0001",
"0.8.5a" => "0002",
"0.8.6" => "0003",
"0.8.6a" => "0004",
"0.8.6b" => "0005",
"0.8.6c" => "0006",
"0.8.6d" => "0007",
"0.8.6e" => "0008",
"0.8.6f" => "0009",
"0.8.6g" => "0010",
"0.8.6h" => "0011",
"0.8.6i" => "0012",
"0.8.6j" => "0013",
"0.8.7" => "0014",
"0.8.7a" => "0015",
"0.8.7b" => "0016",
"0.8.7c" => "0017",
"0.8.7d" => "0018",
"0.8.7e" => "0019",
"0.8.7f" => "0020",
"0.8.7g" => "0021",
"0.8.7h" => "0022",
"0.8.7i" => "0023",
"0.8.8" => "0024",
"0.8.8a" => "0024"
For the example above, this template was exported with Cacti 0.8.7d.
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