Hi all, after some testing with the php scripts for notes I finally decided to write a perl program to show host notes and edit them trying to get all the things I really need on it an trying to make this a "page" that could be really useful to someone looking at it.
First of all there will be some field dedicated to describe what the host is and do like: Aliases : if the alias is known with other names Purpose : what this host do, what service it run Services: list of services checked by bb with links Service Level Hours: hour at which the server have to be up and running (I've to see if this will be get automatically or if I'll leave the field manually editable)
Then there will be a section dedicated to people to contact Contact Emails : emails of supporting peoples (as links to send email) Contact Phone: phone number of people (and with hours at which you can call them) Those field will also have a description so that you can have different support email for different problems (hardware/software/etc)
Another section will show support information for the server so you can define phone or email address to call for support for hardware/software problems Serial Number: serial number or information for support call Support Email: email to get support Support Phone: phone number to get support
A section will have procedures and notes: special procedures: Here you can describe what to do if something goes wrong with the server notes: Anything else
A section will have information like related server or grouping of this server with other servers so that you can simply walk from one node of a cluster to the others or from the web servers to the application server or db server for a specific application.
A section will include links you can need when checking this host or that will show more documentation on those.
At the end of the page (probably) I'll also put link to HOSTNAME.html or HOSTNAME file available in the notes directory so that for example you can collect cfg2html files there and show them from this information page.
I also want to define some "group" of definition that you can simply attach in the editor to host so that for example you can define the URL to ciscoworks globally and then attach this link to all your routers and they'll all show the ciscoworks link in the notes pages and you can get there from here.
In the editing there will also be the possibility to define some links that will show in the notes pages like a link to hobbitperl-graph.pl or to info column of the host.
Another idea I had was to make some field visible only to authenticated users so that you can put here information you want only your administrator to see and not all users.
A first version will probably be available during the next week if I've some time to work on it. If you've more idea or something that I've missed and can be useful let me know and I'll check if it can be implemented.
Francesco