[Xymon] Layout

David Welker dewelker at gmail.com
Tue Dec 8 17:01:45 CET 2015


JC,

Naturally, CSS-controlled would be the best solution, but your proposed
"hack" would work on older versions of Xymon (I'm still on v4.3.21)?  I'm
thinking if there was just a way to ignore html tags when determining the
hostname from hosts.cfg, this hack of yours could work!

Thanks,
David


On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 10:19 AM, J.C. Cleaver <cleaver at terabithia.org>
wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, December 7, 2015 9:13 am, David Welker wrote:
> > I'm already familiar with "group"-ing things in almost every way possible
> > (sorted, compressed, etc.), but was wondering if there is a way to indent
> > or put different icons in the front of entries in the same group?
> >
> > For example:
> >
> >                     col1 col2 col3 col4 col5 col6
> >                     ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------
> > host 1              3     3     3
> >   switch 1                              1     1     1
> >   switch 2                              2     2     2
> > host 2              4     4     4
> >   switch 1                              1     1     1
> >   switch 2                              2     2     2
> >
> > I was hoping changing fonts would work, but adding different header
> types,
> > for example, simply made Xymon see that as part of the hostname for each
> > entry, even when adding non-breaking spaces in front of an entry in
> > hosts.cfg,
>
>
> David,
>
> At the moment, there's no easy way to do this. There might be a short term
> solution in the form of an arbitrary HTML prepend that could be configured
> in hosts.cfg (DISPLAYPREFIX:"html here" ?) but it'd be something of a
> hack. Do you think that would work for you?
>
> Longer term, the goal would be to make things like this CSS-controlled,
> and either reflective of a list relationship between "host 1" and "switch
> 1/2" in your example, or making all switches a 'type' that can then be CSS
> controlled. The stripping out of display HTML is on the radar for 4.4, but
> there's still additional work needing to be done.
>
> Regards,
> -jc
>
>
>
>
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