[hobbit] Host notes

[Ralph Mitchell]

On 10/18/06, Charles Jones <jonescr at cisco.com> wrote:
> 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.

I've got a whole *bunch* of web page checkout scripts that are not
really documented very well.  I'm toying with the idea of putting a
link at the bottom of each report that points to a Wiki page.  That
gives editing access to certain people, along with edit history and
the ability to fall back to a previous version.  So, I can write notes
on how the script operates and the monitoring guys can write their own
notes on how to fix stuff that breaks.  The MediaWiki software handles
all the non-trivial details of how to save the information and keep
track of revisions.

I *think* everyone wins.  Of course, I won't know for sure until I get
a prize for saving everyone's a$$ when a multi-million-dollar
application goes belly up... :)

What might be nice would be for the hostname in any display page to
link to the Wiki entry.  As I remember it, in Big Brother you just had
to drop a [hostname].html page into the notes directory and it would
be linked off the display page.  I suppose I'd like it if I could
specify a wiki url in the config file and have the hostname tacked on
and linked from the main page.  Maybe I'll poke around in the source
and see how hard that would be... :)

Ralph Mitchell