[hobbit] printer monitoring v. static bb-hosts

[Rich Smrcina]

Oops... there should be a <cr> at the end of each detail line...

Rich Smrcina wrote:
> 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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> 

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