[Xymon] Reference tag in hosts.cfg

[John Thurston]

On 1/10/2014 8:24 AM, T.J. Yang wrote:
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> I am in similar situation with Andy.  but I am looking a quick way to link
> to other asset systems that doesn't use "asset name" but "asset id" for
> searching.
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> I am hoping the asset URL link can be in "info" column as  a clickable
> tag/link.

The unique hostname isn't directly accessible for links on the 'info' 
page, but it can be had in a round-about way. I embed HTML in the DESCR 
field to provide this external linkage on the 'info' page of Xymon. Like 
this:

> DESCR:"Router:<a href=/xymon/extnotes/legacynotes.php target=_blank >Legacy Notes</a>"

My legacynotes.php looks in $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] to find the 
parameter 'HOST=foo.bar.com' which it then uses to craft an appropriate 
302 message sending the customer to an external application. If the 
external ID for your application were in the hosts.cfg in an arbitrary 
(ignored) tag, the php could pull it out and use it to craft an 
appropriate 302.

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John Thurston    907-465-8591
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Enterprise Technology Services
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