[hobbit] Alternate view for Management

[Richard Finegold]

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 13:33, Harold J.
Ballinger<hballinger at heritage-healthcare.com> wrote:
> I know that there are a lot of you out there that are smarter than me and
> that know Xymon inside and out. Am I trying to get Xymon to do something
> that it just isn’t capable of performing? I hate to have to build and manage
> a separate Xymon server that is just for the management view and reporting
> so that I can have this “Friendly View” type of report, but would that be my
> best option at this point?

Barring further advice, instead of building a separate server...

You could create a script that runs sed or perl or whatever to make
the "Friendly view" page. I do something like this (call bash/sed a
few times, admittedly only via bb-display.sh on BB for now) for some
supplemental reports (e.g. company-wide sortable list of backup
status/size). There are at least three options for deploying such a
script:
  A) Change [bbdisplay] in hobbitlaunch.cfg to run a script that calls
bbgen (as usual) then runs this script. Best if needed often and must
be synchronized with other pages.
  B) Add section in hobbitlaunch.cfg for it. Best if needed often but
no need for synchronization. My xymon site has two bbgen launches:
once for grouping by type, a second time for grouping by location
(bbgen --pageset).
  C) Add as a CGI (on-demand, like the rrdtool graphs, etc.) rather
than a static page. Best if rarely needed.

If it's only a few rows then hardcoded values will suffice. It could
become scalable and maintainable if the script uses values from
bbhostgrep or something similar.