[Xymon] Android 2.2 App

[Darrik Mazey]

On 11/02/2011 05:32 PM, Henrik Størner wrote:
> I cannot get the swipe to work on my Sony-Ericsson Xperia Mini, though.
> It just doesn't do anything.

That is unfortunate.  I will maybe enable a long-press option on items
as well.

> One thing I'd really like to see was if it could use the "critical
> systems" instead of the "all non-green" page for data.

Critical systems is already planned.  Started with non-green simply
because I don't monitor enough systems to use the critical systems page.

 I understand that
> parsing data off the webpage is problematic, and I am sure we can find
> better ways of feeding this data to an application. And perhaps that
> would be the easiest way to make your app work with different datasets -
> agreeing on a standard (probably XML) way of exporting the data, and
> then having the Xymon server generate this with the data that would
> either go on the non-green page, or the critical systems page, or
> perhaps just data on any given page in the web UI (I have some folks who
> would love to check just their little corner of Xymon via a Smartphone
> app).

An API of some sort would be great.  Even just alternates for each page
like nongreen.json and nongreen.xml.

> Of course, being able to acknowledge an alert and/or disable it directly
> from my smartphone would also be fabulous ...

I was saving swipe left for that feature (which arguably won't help you,
if swiping isn't working).  Another long-press option, with configurable
default ack times and messages, or a prompt each time.

> (wow, it feels nice to be the one asking for features - I am usually on
> the receiving end of feature-requests :-))

I appreciate the feedback.  If you have any more suggestions (or if
anyone does), I'd love to hear them.  Feel free to email me off-list
with criticism, feedback, suggestions, dinner recipes, feature requests,
etc.

Cheers,
Darrik

> 
> On 02-11-2011 06:11, Darrik Mazey wrote:
>>
>> Hello, all.
>>
>> I wrote an android app to quickly assess status and issues.  It
>> basically parses the non-green view and generates a scrollable report.
>> You can swipe each non-green test to open the service page for that test
>> in a browser.
>>
>> This software is beta, but I'm reasonably certain it parses the
>> non-green view for 4.2.3, 4.3.0, and 4.3.4 properly.
>>
>> Anyway, hope it's useful to someone.
>>
>> Source code is here:
>> http://github.com/darrikmazey/XymonQV
>>
>> App is here:
>> http://market.android.com/details?id=com.darmasoft.xymon
>>
>> Feedback is always welcome, as are feature requests, bug reports, and
>> such.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Darrik
>>
> 
> 


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