When you are talking of monitoring, you often end with many tools, like Nagios, Cacti or others. But none of them are interconnected.

There was a solution to add external pages inside Cacti, bythe aim of the Links plugin.

While migrating to Cacti 0.8.7a, I checked back the validity of this plugin with the new version. I ended with the new version : SuperLinks

This version adds many new things, like many tabs, authorization management and such.
As for now, the only problem I got is an error with the generation of the tab icon. I emailed the author about that.

On the same website, you will find the Weathermap plugins, which I still have to test with Cacti 0.8.7a.

[EDIT]

I got an answer from the author, and the bug is a known bug. It seems to be dependent of your config. You only have to add one line to the code. In the meantime, I also found a limitation in the URL size you can add, which wad 60. I set it to 512.

Here is the diff of the file :

diff -bur superlinks-old/superlinks-mgmt.php superlinks/superlinks-mgmt.php

--- superlinks-old/superlinks-mgmt.php  Fri Nov  9 16:52:19 2007

+++ superlinks/superlinks-mgmt.php      Wed Nov 21 16:25:01 2007

@@ -561,6 +561,7 @@

 {

         $orig_cwd = getcwd();

         chdir(dirname(__FILE__));

+       putenv('GDFONTPATH=' . realpath('.'));                $possibles = array(

                        array("DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf",10,false),

@@ -646,7 +647,7 @@

                "style" => array("friendly_name" => "Style", "method" => "drop_array", "array" => array( "TAB" => "Top Tab", "CONSOLE"=>"Console Menu", "FRONT" => "Front Cacti Page"), "description" => "Where should this page appear?", "value"=>$data[0]['style'] ) ,

"title" => array("friendly_name" => "Tab/Menu Name", "method" => "textbox", "max_length"=>20, "description"=>"The text that will appear in the tab or menu. This should be all lower-case for tabs, to match Cacti tabs", "value"=>$data[0]['title']) ,

-               "filename" => array("friendly_name" => "Content File/URL", "method" => "textbox", "max_length"=>60,"description"=>"The file that contains the content for this page. This can be a file in the content/ directory or a valid URL.", "value"=>$data[0]['contentfile'])

+               "filename" => array("friendly_name" => "Content File/URL", "method" => "textbox", "max_length"=>512,"description"=>"The file that contains the content for this page. This can be a file in the content/ directory or a valid URL.", "value"=>$data[0]['contentfile'])

                );

html_start_box("Edit SuperLinks Page $id: ".$data[0]['title']."", "98%", $colors["header"], "3", "center", "");