[Xymon] Host Name Links

[Roland Soderstrom]

And what do this as-built info say?
It sounds like a very good idea, but I think there is a lot of different ideas on the content of the as-built info.
Is this as-built, a client generated “info” test, as apposed to server generated “info”? (which is VERY basic)

We use the notes page to tell operators what to do on certain alarms.
RED on disk is severity 1 call
Yellow is just a severity 2 call.
Something else is next business day etc etc.


-      Roland

From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Vernon Everett
Sent: Friday, 12 December 2014 7:07 PM
To: Xymon mailinglist
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Host Name Links

Hi all

Taking this idea to the next step, is it worth thinking about adding this as a feature to future versions of Xymon.
Have a host-tag in asbuilt:m:1
Update the as-built monthly on the 1st.
Or asbuilt:w:6 to update weekly on a Sunday.

As part of the client scripts, we can have another script that generates a basic as-built docco and sends it to the server to update  /usr/lib/xymon/server/www/notes/node1.html
The script could be pretty simple to cobble together, and I am sure there will be heaps of contributions from the community out there for almost every supported version.

Thoughts?

On 12 December 2014 at 16:04, Vernon Everett <everett.vernon at gmail.com<mailto:everett.vernon at gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi Martyn (and the others that replied)

This is exactly what I was looking for.
This /usr/lib/xymon/server/www/notes/node1.html trick is what I wanted.
I have a script that runs on each Solaris node just after the monthly explorer, and it creates an HTML based as-built document.
The as-built isn't perfect, but it's good enough to satisfy management.
And they are pretty impressed with the host-name link on Xymon taking them to an auto-updated as-built.
Changes to the system are automajically reflected in the as-built on the 1st of every month.

Regards
Vernon



On 11 December 2014 at 16:01, Martin Flemming <martin.flemming at desy.de<mailto:martin.flemming at desy.de>> wrote:
On Thu, 11 Dec 2014, Vernon Everett wrote:
Hi all

Some time back, there was a feature, hwereby the host name could become a link, perhaps to an as-built, or a CMDB entry for the host. I used it once before at another customer.
I can't recall how to do this, and I can't seem to find the notes on how.
Can anybody refresh my memory?

Regards
Vernon


Hi !

You need only create an html-file with the node-name

e.g.

/usr/lib/xymon/server/www/notes/node1.html

cheers,
        martin
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