[hobbit] printer monitoring v. static bb-hosts

[Rich Smrcina]

If you're sending a status message to the Hobbit server, it might look 
something like this:

status cupshost1.cups yellow date time CUPS queues not OK<cr>
Queues on cupshost1<cr>
queue   run   acc   njob<cr>
------------------------<cr>
laser1  &green &green &green
laser2 ...

This status will then appear on cupshost1 as a yellow cups icon.  The 
information on the first line after the time appears in larger bolder 
type on the cups page.  The data after the first <cr> appears 
underneath, centered, in smaller type.  You may have to play with the 
formatting, but that's how I send the data to Hobbit from the clients 
that I've written.

Obviously, design it how you like, but this format is pretty typical of 
clients and contributed tests.  I like to try to design my test results 
to appeal to the larger audience, but still be functional for me.

Chapman Flack wrote:
> Rich Smrcina wrote:
>> Since CUPS (as a print server) would run on one or multiple hosts, why 
>> not just one column, CUPS?  Then when the icon is clicked, the various 
>> queue statuses for that host listed on the page.
> 
> So if I understand what you're suggesting, it's something like:
> 
>      CUPS hosts:
>   host      conn     cups
> -------------------------
> cupshost1    grn      yel
>                        `-clik!-.
>                      -> Queues on cupshost1
>                     queue     run    acc   njob
>                     ---------------------------
>                     laser1    grn    grn   grn
>                     laser2    grn    grn   grn
>                     laser3    grn    grn   yel
>                     laser4    grn    grn   grn
> 
> I guess my question is more about how to produce the 'queues on
> cupshost1' page. A quick'n'dirty way would be to just have the
> icon on the 'cups hosts' page link directly to the CUPS server's
> own printers/ url. That would basically work and provide the
> information, but not in a condensed Hobbit-like form. Another way
> would be to create the page tag and group tag in bb-hosts in the
> usual way and redundantly declare all the queue names in it, which
> is what I was looking for a way to avoid. I suppose another way
> would be for the ext script to generate the corresponding html
> itself as the message it sends with bb for cupshost1 ... but even
> if that can work it sounds like a brittle approach with a lot of
> duplicated effort.
> 
> Or did you have another approach in mind that I've overlooked?
> 
> Thanks,
> -Chap
> 
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