Re: [hobbit] Providing a description of listed systems?

["J. Bobby Lopez" <jbl (at) jbldata.com>]

I'm using Trac [http://trac.edgewall.org/] as my main wiki/ticketing system,
so I just place all of the host information into one page.  Trac
automatically creates HTML anchors (#) for each section (e.g., each host) as
long as you format it correctly with wiki syntax.

I just name each section the same name that I have the hosts identified with
in Xymon, and it works pretty smoothly.  I even keep the hosts described in
the wiki arranged in the same order that I have them in Xymon, so it's easy
to compare the hosts in Xymon and Trac, to make sure they're in sync.

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Harold J. Ballinger <
hballinger (at) heritage-healthcare.com> wrote:

>  I like that. I had been looking for a good way to save my notes fields to
> a database and have the pages “constructed” instead of having static files
> for each host. The –docurl option looks like it will get me there. Now I
> just have to build it. J
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> *From:* bobby.lopez (at) gmail.com [mailto:bobby.lopez (at) gmail.com] *On Behalf Of
> *J. Bobby Lopez
> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 21, 2009 5:23 PM
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> *To:* hobbit (at) hswn.dk
> *Subject:* Re: [hobbit] Providing a description of listed systems?
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>
> Thanks for the help!
>
> I ended up using BBGEN's --docurl option, it seems cleaner, and it's
> built-in.
>
> --docurl only accepts URLs which are static HTML, or CGI scripts.  It does
> not, for example, accept a link which includes a hash '#' character.  I even
> tried to escape it with a backslash, but it didn't work.  So I had to get
> creative.
>
> I wrote a very small perl script and popped it into my cgi-bin directory.
> The script simply takes the %s argument which can be passed via --docurl,
> and redirects to the correct site using HTML anchors '#'.
>
> E.g.:
> --docurl=xymon-cgi/docurl.cgi?%s
>
> %s would be something like "host.domain.com'"
>
> docurl.cgi redirects to:
> http://somesite.domain.com/pages/page.html#host.domain.com
>
> Which jumps to the correct section in the document with the host details.
>
>
> Thanks again again all!
> Bobby
>
>  On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Harold J. Ballinger <
> hballinger (at) heritage-healthcare.com> wrote:
>
> There is a notes directory. You can either create a file within the notes
> directory with the same name as the host or you can create a folder and
> place an index.html file, etc. If the file or directory exists, the hostname
> will be hyperlinked to these files.
>
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> -
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>
>
> *Harold Ballinger*
>
> *IT Coordinator*
>
> Heritage Healthcare, Inc.
>
>  (888) 335-2620  | helpdesk
>
>  (864) 224-3626  | office
>
>  (864) 224-3093  | fax
>
> [image: cid:image003.jpg@01CA0167.D630C4A0]
>
> Visit our website: www.heritage-healthcare.com
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> *From:* bobby.lopez (at) gmail.com [mailto:bobby.lopez (at) gmail.com] *On Behalf Of
> *J. Bobby Lopez
> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 21, 2009 1:24 PM
> *To:* hobbit (at) hswn.dk
> *Subject:* Re: [hobbit] Providing a description of listed systems?
>
>
>
> Hi Rich,
>
> Is this the one you're talking about?
> http://xymonton.trantor.org/doku.php/addons:hobbitnotes
>
> It looks like it is an addon to edit existing notes files from a web
> interface.  But I didn't know Xymon had existing notes files.. I would be
> just as happy to edit them on the command line.  Am I understanding this
> correctly?
>
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Rich Smrcina <rsmrcina (at) wi.rr.com> wrote:
>
> J. Bobby Lopez wrote:
>
> I noticed that when I mouse over the names of the systems listed in Xymon,
> a nice little pop-up shows the IP address of the system.
>
> This info is great and saves me a lot of time.  However, I would like to
> somehow add a more detailed description of the system, and have it appear in
> Xymon, either by mouse-over like with the IP address, or by clicking on the
> name of the system (a link).
>
> Is there any way to do this, or is there any other mechanism for providing
> a more detailed description of any given system within the monitored list?
>
> Thanks,
> Bobby
>
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> Take a look at the notes add-on.
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