[hobbit] Providing a description of listed systems?

[J. Bobby Lopez]

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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> *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?
>
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>
> 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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