[hobbit] Host notes

[Charles Jones]

Sounds feature-packed :-)

I'd be happy with a simple text box that lets you enter text/HTML that 
gets saves as hostname.html in the notes directory, and that when 
viewing the notes they are properly Hobbit-ized with a Hobbit header and 
footer.

-Charles

Francesco Duranti wrote:
> Hi all, 
> after some testing with the php scripts for notes I finally decided to
> write a perl program to show host notes and edit them trying to get all
> the things I really need on it an trying to make this a "page" that
> could be really useful to someone looking at it.
>
> First of all there will be some field dedicated to describe what the
> host is and do like:
> Aliases : if the alias is known with other names
> Purpose : what this host do, what service it run 
> Services: list of services checked by bb with links
> Service Level Hours: hour at which the server have to be up and running
> (I've to see if this will be get automatically or if I'll leave the
> field manually editable)
>
> Then there will be a section dedicated to people to contact
> Contact Emails : emails of supporting peoples (as links to send email)
> Contact Phone: phone number of people (and with hours at which you can
> call them)
> Those field will also have a description so that you can have different
> support email for different problems (hardware/software/etc)
>
> Another section will show support information for the server so you can
> define phone or email address to call for support for hardware/software
> problems
> Serial Number: serial number or information for support call
> Support Email: email to get support
> Support Phone: phone number to get support
>
> A section will have procedures and notes:
> special procedures: Here you can describe what to do if something goes
> wrong with the server
> notes: Anything else
>
> A section will have information like related server or grouping of this
> server with other servers so that you can simply walk from one node of a
> cluster to the others or from the web servers to the application server
> or db server for a specific application.
>
> A section will include links you can need when checking this host or
> that will show more documentation on those. 
>
> At the end of the page (probably) I'll also put link to HOSTNAME.html or
> HOSTNAME file available in the notes directory so that for example you
> can collect cfg2html files there and show them from this information
> page.
>
> I also want to define some "group" of definition that you can simply
> attach in the editor to host so that for example you can define the URL
> to ciscoworks globally and then attach this link to all your routers and
> they'll all show the ciscoworks link in the notes pages and you can get
> there from here.
>
> In the editing there will also be the possibility to define some links
> that will show in the notes pages like a link to hobbitperl-graph.pl or
> to info column of the host.
>
> Another idea I had was to make some field visible only to authenticated
> users so that you can put here information you want only your
> administrator to see and not all users.
>
> A first version will probably be available during the next week if I've
> some time to work on it.
> If you've more idea or something that I've missed and can be useful let
> me know and I'll check if it can be implemented.
>
> Francesco
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