Hello all,
I have been tasked with working a client app for users. Currently it is basically a yahoo widget that feeds off the bbgen nstab page. We monitor alot of sevices, and from that we have configured a good number of Alternate PageSets. basically providing a focused Hobbit/BBGen display for each group.
Now those groups can run a yahoo widget that parses the nstab.html for all Critical alerts. And that seems to be working rather well. But this got me to thinking. There is alot more data contained in the hobbitdxboard output, that is much easier to use. Plus by using the hobbitdxboard, users/groups can customize their query much more.
So basic questions I have:
is there a way to get to the hobbitdxboard data, other than using the bb command ? Would be great if there was a web cgi for this. If there isn't I am sure I can whip up something using perl.
The question of load, should it be a concern ? I know all of the hobbit data is stored in memory, so I didn't think this would be a problem. Also I was thinking, that if I write a perl cgi, I could cache the output of the query for 1 minute or so. Since normal client update period is 5 minutes... caching the hobbitdxboard output for a minute could save on any load.
Thoughts ? ~ Steve