Allow the Cacti administrator to subscribe to feeds/templates

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
20/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
php
Domain
backend, databases

Research direction

The issue does not name files, tests, or entry points. First inspect how FlowView ingests v9 and IPFIX flows and handles templates, then gather examples of templates from devices as the issue requests. Done means the compatible flow types and subscription behavior are defined, including where subscribed template data is stored; the issue notes that this decision depends on seeing templates first.

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Description

enhancement

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Currently, Cacti attempts to insert all v9 and IPFIX flows into the flow tables. This could lead to some interesting results associated with flow types that simply make no sense to ingest. So, make the system smart enough to auto-detect compatible flow types, and leave the rest to be subscribed to separately.

Consider possibly adding these various templates to other table types to reduce the confusion associated with queries.

Describe the solution you'd like

Create a table that tracks the detected templates coming from devices. Allow users to pick the templates to subscribe to, once a template is subscribed to, start storing data, either to the current table, or a separate table.

Additional context

We need to see some templates coming from various devices before we pull the trigger on this feature.

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