[hobbit] Xymon hosts database.

[Ward, Martin]

Interest: I am certainly interested in this, especially with the asset
management additions that TJ mentioned.

Aid: I would push for PHP rather than perl although I can code in both
and am willing to help.

Nitty-gritty: However you write the code to generate the bb-hosts file
you will need to include a comments field that allows users to add extra
options to the comments field in the bb-hosts file. This is so that when
Xymon is upgraded and Henrik adds more options in that would be added to
the comments field, users can add those new options without having to
wait until you rewrite the front-end.


|\/|artin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: T.J. Yang [mailto:tj_yang at hotmail.com]
> Sent: 01 July 2009 06:01
> To: hobbit system monitoring
> Subject: RE: [hobbit] Xymon hosts database.
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> > To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> > From: david.peters at dpi.nsw.gov.au
> > Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 10:18:56 +1000
> > Subject: [hobbit] Xymon hosts database.
> >
> >
> >
> > I think I have posted this quite a while
> > ago but it is still on my mind.
> 
> Not only in my mind. I got to deliver it in next few months.
> 
> >We currently configure the hosts, pages
> > etc using a windows database and windows front end that I wrote
quite
> some
> > time ago. I keep getting the urge to convert it to a linux database
> and
> > a web frontend. However I would not do this if there is no interest
> in
> > using it.
> 
> My interest about Xymon and relational DB is mainly from asset
> inventory perspective.
> Xymon doing a decent jobs collecting system
> information(io/cpu/memory/disk). But what about a system's
> asset information ? where is rack position of this machine ? what is
> the serial number, owner, function ? and is it a owned orleased
> machnine ? Asset information like this are most likely kept in Excel
> files. Won't it be nature to tight these information together ? Xymon
> should be able to do both system and inventory monitoring.(ie, you got
> a red yellow alert if a machine's lease is expiring in 1 month).
> 
> 
> To achieve this goal, I plan to introduce a relational DB into my
Xymon
> server system.
> 
> Please see the details here,
>
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Developer_Gui
> de#Using_relational_DBs_with_Xymon_Server
> 
> 
> 
> >
> >
> > The point is that you never touch the
> > bb-hosts file and all configuration of hosts and layouts is done via
> a
> > user interface.
> 
> >
> >
> > Is there any interest in this?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > Is there anyone willing to help?
> 
> Count me in.
> I am decent at perl programming and currently learning
> php/extjs/qWikiOffice.
> 
> > If so I was going to convert to mysql
> > and either php or perl cgi. Any comments on this?
> 
> perl cgi script works but it is really not eye-catching.
> I like to stay with perl but php community is so strong.
> Catalyst is perl's MVC solution but it is weak on "View" part.
> As long as your requirement doesn't need EXTJS then Catalyst a very
> good solution.
> 
> 
> 
> >
> >
> > We have 400 odd hosts here and have
> > pages split by priority, service, location, and support group all on
> the
> > front page but all configured via the database.
> >
> >
> > Currently the bb-hosts is built via
> > a perl script that extracts the database and then generates a main
> bb-hosts
> > file plus include files for each sub-page.
> 
> Can you post your perl script here ? or on
>
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Developer_Gui
> de#bb-hosts_generation
> 
> 
> 
> Regards
> 
> 
> tj
> >
> >
> >
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