[hobbit] Hobbit to IPPhone

[Michael A. Price]

That looks awesome, nice work...


On 3/11/08 9:54 PM, "Charles Jones" <jonescr at cisco.com> wrote:

> Just thought I would send another update and a preview. This has been really
> fun to work on. I think I am going to officially call it "Hobbit2IPPhone". I
> will probably create a sourceforge project and whatnot for it as well.
> 
> Here is some info on Hobbit2IPPhone:
> * Hobbit2IPPhone can be run without touching the Call Manger, or having admin
> access to the CM. All you need is your normal user login and pass to the CM
> (same one you use to set your speed dials, etc).
> * Hobbit2IPPhone requires a web server with CGI access (could easily use your
> Hobbit server).
> * The web server that the CGI is run on, needs bi-directional connectivity to
> your IPPhone. If you can telnet to port 80 of your phones IP address, you
> should be good to go. The phone also needs to be able to hit port 80 of your
> web server.
> * The CGI needs connectivity to your Hobbit server, as it uses $BB to query
> the hobbitdboard to get the host infos. If you are running the CGI on your
> Hobbit server, this is a non-issue as it will just talk to localhost just like
> any server-side Hobbit extension script.
> * Hobbit2IPPhone can be run as a sever-side Hobbit extension script, or out of
> a cron job on another server, provided there is connectivity from the CGI host
> to the IPPhone on port 80.
> 
> Here's how my phone looks when everything is OK:
> 
> * Currently it is optional to display this message if all is green. I figured
> some people may only want their screen to change if there is an alert.
> * Hitting "update" updates the display. There is also an automatic refresh
> timer.
> 
> 
> Heres the view when some alerts have triggered:
> 
> As you can see, you get a nice ordered list, with a summary of how many hosts
> are alerting.
> * You can select either via the up/down rocker on the phone and then hitting
> "Select"
> * You can also select by pressing the number that is next to the alert.
> * To make it look nicely formatted I coded it so that it automatically
> truncates the hostname so as not to line wrap.
> * Hobbit2IPPhone will override your phones idlescreen/screensaver, so any
> alerts will not be hidden :)
> * Due to a limitation in the IPPhone, a maximum of 99 alerts can be selected.
> I hope you never have this many!
> 
> 
> Here's what you get when you select a host, in this case, the first one:
> 
> Right now I have it showing the current status message for the alert, as well
> as the alert duration. This can easily be configured to display anything you
> can get from hobbitdboard.  I still have to reformat the text a bit so that it
> compacts better. * Text that doesn't fit on the screen is accessible by
> scrolling down.
> * When you hit "Exit" you are automatically brought back to the first menu (an
> updated version of it, not a stale copy)
> * I also have to truncate the hostname in the upper title "Status for ..."
> because the IPPhone is picky and if this is too long, it just bombs and won't
> accept the rest of the data at all!
> 
> 
> That's it for now...I'm going to continue hacking on this and try to make it
> as user-friendly as possible before I release it.
> 
> -----
> Possible future features:
> Hobbit2IPPhone 2.0:
> * Acknowledge/Enable/Disable alerts from the IPPhone, including text input of
> reason.
> * Viewing of some reports or log data, like notification log, alert history,
> etc.
> 
> Hobbit2IPPhone 3.0:
> * Full graphics implementation - It's possible to have a mini hobbit-like
> display and interface, and even view trends graphs
> -----
> 
> FAQ: 
> Q. What model IPPhones will this work on?
> A. I am currently developing using a 7960. I assume any 79xx will work.
> 
> Q. What about color?
> A. Send me a color IP Phone to dev with and I will see what I can do :P
> Q. Wha? You work for Cisco, don't you have color IPPhones and routers coming
> out of your ears?
> A. I actually work for a nonprofit section of Cisco. We don't have any spare
> equipment, and even with my "discount" I can't afford to buy an IPPhone just
> to play with, otherwise I would run a VOIP network at home :)
> 
> Q. Can you make the message light flash, or the phone chirp when there is an
> alert?
> A. So far, I don't think so. I have not found anything in the HTTP/XML
> protocol that gives me access to those functions. I'd like that feature as
> well, and I suspect it is possible, so I will keep looking for a way to do it.
> 
> Q. What software prerequisites are there?
> A. Any webserver that can run a Perl CGI script. For Apache, this means
> mod_perl, which shouldn't be a problem for most linux distros, Solaris folks
> may have to jump through some hoops. The script uses the following perl
> modules:
> CGI;
> LWP::UserAgent;
> URI;
> Time::localtime;
> It may also use Cisco::IPPhone, but thusfar I have written most of my own
> simple XML functions and may remove that dependancy. With the exception of
> Cisco::IPPhone, all of the modules are common ones that should be installable
> via your linux distros package manager. For Solaris folks and anyone else, you
> can install them via CPAN ie "perl -MCPAN -e 'install LWP::UserAgent'
> 
> 

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