[Xymon] Android 2.2 App

[Ralph Mitchell]

I was just thinking that xymondboard might be a good starting point for an
API.  I just put a very simple CGI script on my server:

     #!/bin/bash
     echo "Content-Type: text/plain"
     echo ""
     /home/xymon/server/bin/xymon localhost "xymondboard $QUERY_STRING"

then called it using curl:

     curl -s -S -L "http://server.domain.com/xymon-cgi/xap.sh?color=red"
     curl -s -S -L "http://server.domain.com/xymon-cgi/xap.sh?color=yellow"
     curl -s -S -L "http://server.domain.com/xymon-cgi/xap.sh?color=purple"

Piping those through "wc" I get a total of 3305 bytes for all three.
 Fetching the non-green page:

     curl -s -S -L "http://server.domain.com/xymon/nongreen.html"

gives me 30070 bytes.  Obviously that's going to depend on reporting
activity - I currently only have 14 lines in the "events received in the
past 240 minutes" block.

Ralph Mitchell


On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 7:55 AM, <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Nov 2011 07:01:32 -0400, Ralph Mitchell
> <ralphmitchell at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Henrik, has the format of hobbitdboard / xymondboard changed much
> between
> > versions??  It would be fairly easy to make that available via a cgi
> script
> > and it would be easier to parse than html.
>
> No, this format is fairly static - and you can make it entirely "fixed" by
> adding a "fields" option to select the data-items you are interested in.
>
> But to pick only the hosts that appear on a specific page must be done on
> the Xymon server - you don't want to download a lot of info to the
> smartphone, just to throw it away later (unless you have a flat-rate data
> plan for your smartphone, and I don't).
>
> And when we have to code the filtering, we may just as well add the code
> to provide the data in a standardized format. Something similar to the
> xymondxboard output, probably.
>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
>
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