[hobbit] Custom web pages based on user?

Ricardo Stella stella at rider.edu
Wed Jul 9 16:14:57 CEST 2008


Just tried a few things after re-reading the man pages.  Duplicating the 
entries and grouping them to only include what I want seemed to do the 
trick.

Only concern I would have is would hobbit (specially bbnet) duplicate 
the tests ?  We just moved from bigbrother...

Josh Luthman wrote:
> >However I'm still not clear on the hobbit end of things.  I mean, I 
> need to figure out how to generate the pages themselves in the sub 
> directories (or is it based on 'page' in bb-hosts)?
> It is
>
> >Also, would this mean that for every user I would have multiple 
> entries for the same host in bb-hosts with only the necessary checks 
> to do? Would hobbit attempt to do these checks twice though?
> I would assume you put the host on there twice, that's all I could 
> tell you.
>
> I was just pointing you in a direction which you could look.  I have 
> no experience to tell you any more information, sorry =(
>
> Josh Luthman
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> On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Ricardo Stella <stella at rider.edu 
> <mailto:stella at rider.edu>> wrote:
>
>     Thanks Josh for your suggestions...
>
>     However I'm still not clear on the hobbit end of things.  I mean,
>     I need to figure out how to generate the pages themselves in the
>     sub directories (or is it based on 'page' in bb-hosts)?
>
>     Also, would this mean that for every user I would have multiple
>     entries for the same host in bb-hosts with only the necessary
>     checks to do? Would hobbit attempt to do these checks twice though?
>
>     And finally, how about for tests that are generated from the hosts
>     themselves (ie disk, cpu, etc)? How can these be adjusted to
>     display on some pages and not others? I guess 'group-only
>     COLUMN1|COLUMN2...' would help me establish only the ones I want,
>     right?
>
>     Any examples out there? TIA...
>
>     Josh Luthman wrote:
>
>         http://myhost.com/hobbit/radios58/radios58.html
>         http://myhost.com/hobbit/radios24/radios24.html
>
>         When you use page in bb-host you get this.  I would look to
>         making pages for each section of hosts you want for each group
>         and then user names for each directory (in the example it's
>         radios58 and radios24).
>
>         Josh Luthman
>         Office: 937-552-2340
>         Direct: 937-552-2343
>         1100 Wayne St
>         Suite 1337
>         Troy, OH 45373
>
>         Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it,
>         poorly.
>         --- Henry Spencer
>
>         On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Ricardo Stella
>         <stella at rider.edu <mailto:stella at rider.edu>
>         <mailto:stella at rider.edu <mailto:stella at rider.edu>>> wrote:
>
>
>            Hello list,
>
>            We have a need to have certain services and hosts monitored
>         by our
>            help desk, however still have some additional services
>         monitored
>            and available by other staff members.  For example, for userA
>            would have a display page with all services (with or without
>            grouping), however userB would have certain services.
>          Something like:
>
>            userA:
>            hostA - conn cpu disk hardware http imap mailq memory msgs
>         procs
>            raid smtp ssh
>            hostB - conn cpu disk hardware http memory msgs procs raid ssh
>            hostC - conn cpu disk hardware http memory msgs procs raid ssh
>
>            userB:
>            hostA - conn http imap smtp
>            hostB - conn http
>
>            User's would authenticate so the web server would restrict
>         access
>            to those pages.
>
>            Thanks in advance...
>
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