Plugins are a convenient way to group together related lua scripts.
Their primary use case is to group user scripts and their alert/status
definition.
The builtin ntopng user scripts and definitions are now
packed into plugins directories. In future, we will support loading of
user created plugins.
Plugins are loaded at startup into some runtime directories and then
used. Other changes provided by this commit include:
- Add sample flow logger plugin
- Initial support for system user scripts
- Rename edge to threshold
- Migrate system probes to user scripts/plugins
- Migrate scripts to more explicit alerts_api.checkThresholdAlert api
NOTE: database schema changed. Existing alerts will be lost.
- Unified engaged and closed tables
- Simplified hosts engaged alert counters handling: periodically set by lua
- Removed alert engine and replaced with alert periodicity
- Now engage is implicitly derived from the alert end timestamp and periodicity
- New alerts_api.lua to easily emit alerts
- Removed past alerts counter aggregation by hash
- Alert notifications for non-flow alerts are now removed from C and triggered by lua
