[Xymon] Layout

[J.C. Cleaver]

On Tue, December 8, 2015 8:01 am, David Welker wrote:
> JC,
>
> Naturally, CSS-controlled would be the best solution, but your proposed
> "hack" would work on older versions of Xymon (I'm still on v4.3.21)?  I'm
> thinking if there was just a way to ignore html tags when determining the
> hostname from hosts.cfg, this hack of yours could work!


Well, there's probably a fair amount of stuff out there that reads the
hosts.cfg file in expecting `grep ^[0-9] | awk '{print $2}'` (or something
similar) to represent spaceless hostnames only.

However, I think a separate config tag (pre-only? separate pre/post? use
format or '&H' string to wrap what xymongen already displays?) should be
fairly do-able. And yep, it could be done in the 4.3 branch as a patch.

I'll see if this is something I can get a working version of for inclusion.


Regards,
-jc


> On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 10:19 AM, J.C. Cleaver <cleaver at terabithia.org>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, December 7, 2015 9:13 am, David Welker wrote:
>> > I'm already familiar with "group"-ing things in almost every way
>> possible
>> > (sorted, compressed, etc.), but was wondering if there is a way to
>> indent
>> > or put different icons in the front of entries in the same group?
>> >
>> > For example:
>> >
>> >                     col1 col2 col3 col4 col5 col6
>> >                     ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------
>> > host 1              3     3     3
>> >   switch 1                              1     1     1
>> >   switch 2                              2     2     2
>> > host 2              4     4     4
>> >   switch 1                              1     1     1
>> >   switch 2                              2     2     2
>> >
>> > I was hoping changing fonts would work, but adding different header
>> types,
>> > for example, simply made Xymon see that as part of the hostname for
>> each
>> > entry, even when adding non-breaking spaces in front of an entry in
>> > hosts.cfg,
>>
>>
>> David,
>>
>> At the moment, there's no easy way to do this. There might be a short
>> term
>> solution in the form of an arbitrary HTML prepend that could be
>> configured
>> in hosts.cfg (DISPLAYPREFIX:"html here" ?) but it'd be something of a
>> hack. Do you think that would work for you?
>>
>> Longer term, the goal would be to make things like this CSS-controlled,
>> and either reflective of a list relationship between "host 1" and
>> "switch
>> 1/2" in your example, or making all switches a 'type' that can then be
>> CSS
>> controlled. The stripping out of display HTML is on the radar for 4.4,
>> but
>> there's still additional work needing to be done.
>>
>> Regards,
>> -jc
>>
>>
>>
>>
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