[hobbit] reporting

[Larry Barber]

Thanks, that sounds workable.

Larry

On Nov 7, 2007 4:38 PM, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 02:19:08PM -0600, Larry Barber wrote:
> > What would it take to get the availability and snapshot reports to
> behave
> > the same way the event log, configuration and  metrics report do when
> > invoked from other than the top page? That is, when invoked from a given
> > page only the servers listed on that page, or below, would be included
> in
> > the report. I work in a data center that has several different customers
> who
> > would like to use these reports, but we cannot let them since they would
> be
> > able to view data for other peoples machines.
>
> It would take some major reworking of the report generator, which is the
> same program that generates the regular Hobbit overall status webpages.
> This is the absolutely oldest part of Hobbit (it dates back to version
> 1.0 of Hobbit's predecessor, bbgen) - 5 years old on Nov 22nd.
>
> In my "master plan" I would like to rip out these static webpages, and
> have everything generated dynamically, which would make this a very
> simple thing to do.
>
> Meanwhile, what I've done at work - we have the exact same issue as You
> do - is to pre-generate reports with daily, weekly and monthly
> availability figures. Thanks to some Apache group-access controls I can
> then restrict peoples access to only those pages that they are allowed
> to see - it goes like this:
>
> <DirectoryMatch
> /var/lib/hobbit/www/periodic/(daily|weekly|monthly)/.*/Customer1>
>   Require group admins customer1
> </DirectoryMatch>
>
> "admins" is ourselves, we can access everything. "customer1" is an
> Apache group, which then holds the web logins that the customer uses.
>
> Combined with putting these menu items in the "menu_items.js" file
>
>  ['Daily Availability', '
> http://hobbit.foo.com/hobbit-cgi/bb-datepage.sh?type=day'<http://hobbit.foo.com/hobbit-cgi/bb-datepage.sh?type=day%27>
> ],
>  ['Weekly Availability', '
> http://hobbit.foo.com/hobbit-cgi/bb-datepage.sh?type=week'<http://hobbit.foo.com/hobbit-cgi/bb-datepage.sh?type=week%27>
> ],
>  ['Monthly Availability', '
> http://hobbit.foo.com/hobbit-cgi/bb-datepage.sh?type=month'<http://hobbit.foo.com/hobbit-cgi/bb-datepage.sh?type=month%27>
> ],
>
> you get the result than when you pick one of these pre-built availability
> reports from a web page, you're automatically directed to the same
> customer page.
>
>
> Henrik
>
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