On 12/14/2014 8:17 PM, Ralph Mitchell wrote:
At a previous $EMPLOYER I pointed the HOSTDOCURL to a MediaWiki. SysAdmins and a select few others had write access so they could add notes, docs and links for the Ops to reference.
We source our "notes" in our organization's wiki, but I have a scheduled job which extracts the content to static HTML pages on the Xymon server. This gives me the, authentication, content-creation, versioning, and auditing tools of the wiki, without imposing a full-time external dependency on my monitoring application.
I use an HREF tag in the DESCR field to link to the "notes". I can use common "notes" pages for all the systems in a display-group by embedding the link in a .default. line of the hosts.cfg.
DESCR:"Production Servers for IRIS:<a href=/xymon/notes/IRIS-Prod target=Notes >Recovery Notes</a>"
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