[Xymon] good or bad html "tags" not showing in web page "msgs" report

[Ralph Mitchell]

What if the standard entry was extended:

    log:/var/log/messages:10240
    log:/var/log/file-with-html:10240:html

That would allow any log file to be designated for url-encoding before
being uploaded to Xymon, without breaking existing configurations.

Or did I miss the point of the original question?

Ralph Mitchell



On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 10:10 PM, J.C. Cleaver <cleaver at terabithia.org>
wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, March 13, 2015 4:11 pm, Shawn Heisey wrote:
> > I have a log entry that looks like this:
> >
> > [2015-03-02 13:32:43.011110] E
> > [dht-linkfile.c:213:dht_linkfile_setattr_cbk] 0-mdfs-dht: setattr of
> > uid/gid on /newscom/mdfs/ZUMA/zumaamericaseight/docs/364/090
> > :<gfid:00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000> failed (Invalid argument)
> >
> >
> > This is in the gluster NFS log.  I wanted to stop getting alarms on this
> > log entry, so I looked at what I get when I click on the red icon under
> > "msgs" in my browser ... only that shows up like this (not exactly the
> > same log entry, but the format is the same):
> >
> > .2015-03-13 22:48:18.447034] E
> > [dht-linkfile.c:213:dht_linkfile_setattr_cbk] 0-mdfs-dht: setattr of
> > uid/gid on /newscom/mdfs/IS/isphotos/docs/056/515 : failed (Invalid
> > argument)
> >
> > The problem is that the browser interpreted the part starting with
> > "<gfid:" and ending with ">" as an HTML tag, so it didn't display it.  I
> > did not realize this was happening, so I built an "ignore" line for
> > client-local.cfg that did not include that part, and I was really
> > scratching my head as to why my ignore did not work.
> >
> > Would it be possible to automatically convert characters in log entries
> > that are special to HTML into their HTML equivalents for display in a
> > browser?  In this case, < would become < ... > would be %gt; ... and
> > so on.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Shawn
>
>
> Shawn,
>
> It would require a code change, however this would be possible.
> Unfortunately, it would also prevent people from adding their own useable
> HTML links into the content (which is either a feature or a bug, I
> suppose)
>
> That may specifically be a useful tradeoff in the case of log files,
> however.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> -jc
>
>
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