[hobbit] Providing a description of listed systems?

Thu Jul 23 04:21:28 CEST 2009

Thanks for the sharing. I will document your effort of using wiki page as database backend for bb-host in my person notes on this subject. See R2.

I once try to integrate xymon with trac. See R1.

Did you integrate Trac's ticket system with Xymon Server ?

T.J. Yang

R1: http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/XymonPlugin

R2: http://xymon.dlinkddns.com/books/catalyst-extjs.pdf

Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:30:49 -0400
From: jbl at jbldata.com
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Providing a description of listed systems?

No problem, I will post it shortly.  It's very small (one or two lines).  I just have some IT hurdles to jump.

Essentially here's how it works:

Lets say you set your --docurl to something like this:

--docurl=http://mysite.com/xymon-cgi/docurl.cgi?%s

Now, all 'docurl.cgi' will need to contain in order to do a proper redirection is the following:

----
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

print "Location: http://someothersite.com/page.html#". $ARGV[0] . "\n\n";
exit;
----

And thats it.  $ARGV[0] is really just an array element (@ARGV being the array) which automatically includes any arguments passed to the script.  In our case, the argument is "%s" from --docurl, which 'docurl.cgi' receives as "hostname.domain.com".

The 'print' statement just prints an HTTP header which forces the browser to re-direct to a new location, specifically, the URL "http://someothersite.com/page.html#hostname.domain.com".  You just have to make sure that your 'page.html' contains an HTML anchor ("<a name...") such as this:

....
<a name="hostname.domain.com">
This is the start of the 'hostname.domain.com' section.
....

It's pretty straight forward, and you don't really even need to use perl CGI modules or anything because the script is so small and only serves one purpose.

Try it out, and let me know if it works for you.   I'll post the actual script here shortly, but if I typed out the above correctly, then it would contain exactly the same thing that my script contains.

Enjoy!

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Harold J. Ballinger <hballinger at heritage-healthcare.com> wrote:

Yes, if you could share this perl script, I am thinking about following in your footsteps.

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From: T.J. Yang [mailto:tj_yang at hotmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 7:03 PM
To: hobbit system monitoring
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Providing a description of listed systems?

>I wrote a very small perl script and popped it into my cgi-bin directory.  The script simply takes the %s argument which can >be passed via --docurl, and redirects to the correct site using HTML anchors '#'.  
Would you mind sharing this small perl script with me ?

T.J. Yang

Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:23:05 -0400
From: jbl at jbldata.com
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Providing a description of listed systems?

Thanks for the help!

I ended up using BBGEN's --docurl option, it seems cleaner, and it's built-in.

--docurl only accepts URLs which are static HTML, or CGI scripts.  It does not, for example, accept a link which includes a hash '#' character.  I even tried to escape it with a backslash, but it didn't work.  So I had to get creative.

I wrote a very small perl script and popped it into my cgi-bin directory.  The script simply takes the %s argument which can be passed via --docurl, and redirects to the correct site using HTML anchors '#'.

E.g.:
--docurl=xymon-cgi/docurl.cgi?%s

%s would be something like "host.domain.com'"

docurl.cgi redirects to:
http://somesite.domain.com/pages/page.html#host.domain.com

Which jumps to the correct section in the document with the host details.

Thanks again again all!
Bobby

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Harold J. Ballinger <hballinger at heritage-healthcare.com> wrote:

There is a notes directory. You can either create a file within the notes directory with the same name as the host or you can create a folder and place an index.html file, etc. If the file or directory exists, the hostname will be hyperlinked to these files.

-

Harold Ballinger
IT Coordinator
Heritage Healthcare, Inc. 
 (888) 335-2620  | helpdesk
 (864) 224-3626  | office
 (864) 224-3093  | fax

Visit our website: www.heritage-healthcare.com 

From: bobby.lopez at gmail.com [mailto:bobby.lopez at gmail.com] On Behalf Of J. Bobby Lopez
Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 1:24 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Providing a description of listed systems?

Hi Rich,

Is this the one you're talking about?
http://xymonton.trantor.org/doku.php/addons:hobbitnotes

It looks like it is an addon to edit existing notes files from a web interface.  But I didn't know Xymon had existing notes files.. I would be just as happy to edit them on the command line.  Am I understanding this correctly?

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Rich Smrcina <rsmrcina at wi.rr.com> wrote:

J. Bobby Lopez wrote:

I noticed that when I mouse over the names of the systems listed in Xymon, a nice little pop-up shows the IP address of the system.

This info is great and saves me a lot of time.  However, I would like to somehow add a more detailed description of the system, and have it appear in Xymon, either by mouse-over like with the IP address, or by clicking on the name of the system (a link).

Is there any way to do this, or is there any other mechanism for providing a more detailed description of any given system within the monitored list?

Thanks,
Bobby

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