[Xymon] bbnote_editor

[Steve Holmes]

Yes! That works perfectly.
Thanks!
Steve

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Roland Soderstrom <
Rolands at logicaltech.com.au> wrote:

>  I discovered that last week, it worked somehow but was dependent on old
> notes.html already created. New ones didn’t work.****
>
> As I’m not a good perl programmer I hacked a bit more and this one seems
> to work better, surely more bugs to show up!****
>
> ( I just sort of just steal code and modify, no clue on how it really
> works…)****
>
> ** **
>
> I didn’t realize that the cgi actually built the edit notes pages on the
> fly so I changed the menu sub to edit it.****
>
> You have to edit the notes editor page with the menu as well as the
> notes.html page it creates.****
>
> The new sub does this for me at least, please try and report if it works.*
> ***
>
> ** **
>
> **-          **Roland****
>
> ** **
>
> *From:* sholmes42 at gmail.com [mailto:sholmes42 at gmail.com] *On Behalf Of *Steve
> Holmes
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 12 September 2012 7:02 AM
> *To:* Roland Soderstrom
> *Cc:* xymon at xymon.com
> *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] bbnote_editor****
>
> ** **
>
> Ok, I still have trouble with the menus when using this script, but first
> a few corrections:
>
> I had to remove the string "file:" from the line defining XYMONBODYHEADER
> and then remove an extra comma in two lines referencing MENUITEMS.
>
> ***************
> *** 52,63 ****
>   }
>
>   sub print_menuitems {
> !
> $ENV{'XYMONBODYHEADER'}='file:/usr/local/xymon/server/etc/xymonmenu.cfg';
> !     open (MENUITEMS, "<$ENV{'XYMONBODYHEADER'}") or &print_error("I
> can't read from XYMONBODYHEADER");
> !     while (<MENUITEMS,>) {
>           print;
>       }
> !     close MENUITEMS,;
>   }
>
>   sub print_notesdata {
> --- 52,63 ----
>   }
>
>   sub print_menuitems {
> !     $ENV{'XYMONBODYHEADER'}='/usr/local/xymon/server/etc/xymonmenu.cfg';
> !     open (MENUITEMS, "<$ENV{'XYMONBODYHEADER'}") or &print_error("I
> can't read from $ENV{'XYMONBODYHEADER'}");
> !     while (<MENUITEMS>) {
>           print;
>       }
> !     close MENUITEMS;
>   }
>
>   sub print_notesdata {
>
>
> But still, the Views menu doesn't work (none of the other menus are right
> either). It looks good, but when you select either Main View or All
> Non-green View the URL that is built is wrong. E.g.:
>
> https://xymonservername/xymon-seccgi/$XYMONSERVERWWWURL/xymon.html
>
> The "xymon-seccgi" shouldn't be there and the $XYMONSERVERWWWURL should be
> replaced with the actual path component from the variable by the same name.
>
> I.e. for my server it should be:
>
> https://xymonservername/xymon/xymon.html
>
> I've verified that the environment hash is built ok, but have not figured
> out what I need to do to get the value into the URL for the menu to use.
>
> Has anyone else worked on this?
>
> Thanks,
> Steve****
>
> On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Roland Soderstrom <
> Rolands at logicaltech.com.au> wrote:****
>
> I solved a problem with the excellent bbnote_edit by Galen Johnson****
>
>  ****
>
> In 4.3.5 it works fine.****
>
> In 4.3.10 the menus doesn’t work, I’m guessing it is because the menu
> javascripts are gone.****
>
>  ****
>
> A simple change in the bbnote_editor.cgi solved the issue.****
>
> I’m not a good perl programmer so I consider this more of a hack…****
>
>  ****
>
> Included my notes_header for 4.3  (a few typos)****
>
> and bbnote_editor.cgi for 4.3****
>
>  ****
>
> -          Roland****
>
>
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> ** **
>



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