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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Hello,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">I’ve got it managed to create a workaround for our company. This contains some steps:</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D"><span style="">1)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">i decided to add specific tags to the hosts.cfg file (i.e. “PT” for telnet, “PS” for ssh, “PR” for rdp, “HT” for http, “HS” for https – just my idea to identify
“my” options….)</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D"><span style="">2)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">i created a script which walks through the hosts.cfg, looks for those option tags and creates “per-host-specific” html files, which are placed in the server/www/notes/
directory - these files contain the protocol specific connect URL as shown in the screenshots:</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:72.0pt; text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D"><span style="">a.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">for PuTTY<br>
<img width="695" height="189" id="Bild_x0020_6" src="cid:image002.png@01CD05C1.69825AB0"></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:72.0pt; text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D"><span style="">b.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">for RDP / RDP console:<br>
<img width="725" height="239" id="Bild_x0020_5" src="cid:image003.png@01CD05C1.69825AB0"></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:72.0pt; text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D"><span style="">c.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">for https:<br>
<img width="655" height="196" id="Bild_x0020_4" src="cid:image004.png@01CD05C1.69825AB0"></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D"><span style="">3)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">i did that for any of “my” protocol tags; depending on “my” tags, the script creates more than one protocol entry</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D"><span style="">4)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">i added the specific protocol handler to the registry and I’m using a special compiled putty version to accept a “%1” parameter in the command line</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D"><span style="">5)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Disadvantage: you cannot use another “notes” page any longer</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">The above sounds very confusing, but for our company it’s working.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">I had no success creating an additional column per host to include an optional connect url.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Regards</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Christian</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="DE" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Von:</span></b><span lang="DE" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Gé Janssen [mailto:ge.janssen@gmail.com]
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<b>Gesendet:</b> Montag, 19. März 2012 09:36<br>
<b>An:</b> Becker Christian<br>
<b>Betreff:</b> [Spam:] Re: [Xymon] Antw.: Antw.: Extra column containing an access protocol (putty, telnet, mstsc)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Im Rahmen der Firmenrichtlinie wurde die Nachricht als Spam identifiziert</p>
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Hello Christian,<br>
<br>
Seen your message on the xymon mailing list.<br>
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Did you had any success? I tried it, but didn't succeed:<br>
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<a href="https://home.gejanssen.com/xymon/Linux/Linux.html">https://home.gejanssen.com/xymon/Linux/Linux.html</a><br>
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The mercure server has the putty remark, but no success.<br>
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Regards<br>
<br>
Gé Janssen</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Becker Christian <<a href="mailto:christian.becker@rhein-zeitung.net">christian.becker@rhein-zeitung.net</a>> wrote:</span></p>
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Jon,<br>
<br>
your idea sounds very good! I'll give this a try on Monday. Think that's what I want<br>
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Thank you,<br>
Regards<br>
Christian<br>
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Sent using HTC Desire</span></p>
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Von: "Jon Dustin" <<a href="mailto:jdustin@usm.maine.edu" target="_blank">jdustin@usm.maine.edu</a>><br>
Datum: Fr., Mär. 9, 2012 23:19<br>
Betreff: [Xymon] Antw.: Extra column containing an access protocol (putty, telnet, mstsc)<br>
An: "<a href="mailto:xymon@xymon.com" target="_blank">xymon@xymon.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:xymon@xymon.com" target="_blank">xymon@xymon.com</a>></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">>>> On 3/9/2012 at 3:44 PM, in message<br>
<<a href="mailto:0020F6A9-8970-412C-8584-952204D4506F@rhein-zeitung.net" target="_blank">0020F6A9-8970-412C-8584-952204D4506F@rhein-zeitung.net</a>>, Becker Christian<br>
<<a href="mailto:christian.becker@rhein-zeitung.net" target="_blank">christian.becker@rhein-zeitung.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> Don,<br>
> using a normal Windows machine I want to view the xymon monitoring pages. If <br>
> a page contains for example Linux servers, I want to have a PuTTY column. <br>
> Clicking on that should open PuTTY on my local Windows pc and connect to the <br>
> selected Linux server on the xymon page. The same with telnet for Cisco <br>
> devices and mstsc for Windows machines. That enables me to connect to nearly <br>
> all monitored machines from one point just by clicking webpages.<br>
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How about if you use the built-in "info" button in Xymon? Look at the HOSTS.CFG manpages, specifically:<br>
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DESCR:Hosttype:Description<br>
Define some informational text about the host. The "Hosttype" is a text describing the type of this device - "router", "switch", "hub", "server" etc. The "Description" is an informational text that will be shown on the "Info" column page; this can e.g. be used
to store information about the physical location of the device, contact persons etc. If the text contain whitespace, you must enclose it in double-quotes, e.g. DESCR:"switch:4th floor Marketing switch"<br>
<br>
You may add html code to the DESCR field, and your browser will make it "clickable".
<br>
<br>
I think you're wanting something like the following:<br>
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(hosts.cfg)<br>
192.168.1.24 <a href="http://servername.co.com" target="_blank">servername.co.com</a> # DESCR:"Web Server:description <a href=ssh:192.168.1.24>ssh</a>"<br>
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The above entry inside hosts.cfg would add a link of ssh:192.168.1.24 to the "info" button associated with that host in Xymon.<br>
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I hope this is clear; good luck!<br>
<br>
-- <br>
<br>
Jon Dustin - Network Specialist<br>
University of Southern Maine<br>
Portland, ME 207-780-4152</span></p>
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