I'm using Trac [http://trac.edgewall.org/] as my main wiki/ticketing system, so I just place all of the host information into one page. Trac automatically creates HTML anchors (#) for each section (e.g., each host) as long as you format it correctly with wiki syntax.
I just name each section the same name that I have the hosts identified with in Xymon, and it works pretty smoothly. I even keep the hosts described in the wiki arranged in the same order that I have them in Xymon, so it's easy to compare the hosts in Xymon and Trac, to make sure they're in sync.
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Harold J. Ballinger < hballinger at heritage-healthcare.com> wrote:
I like that. I had been looking for a good way to save my notes fields to a database and have the pages “constructed” instead of having static files for each host. The –docurl option looks like it will get me there. Now I just have to build it. J
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*From:* bobby.lopez at gmail.com [mailto:bobby.lopez at gmail.com] *On Behalf Of *J. Bobby Lopez *Sent:* Tuesday, July 21, 2009 5:23 PM
*To:* hobbit at hswn.dk *Subject:* Re: [hobbit] Providing a description of listed systems?
Thanks for the help!
I ended up using BBGEN's --docurl option, it seems cleaner, and it's built-in.
--docurl only accepts URLs which are static HTML, or CGI scripts. It does not, for example, accept a link which includes a hash '#' character. I even tried to escape it with a backslash, but it didn't work. So I had to get creative.
I wrote a very small perl script and popped it into my cgi-bin directory. The script simply takes the %s argument which can be passed via --docurl, and redirects to the correct site using HTML anchors '#'.
E.g.: --docurl=xymon-cgi/docurl.cgi?%s
%s would be something like "host.domain.com'"
docurl.cgi redirects to: http://somesite.domain.com/pages/page.html#host.domain.com
Which jumps to the correct section in the document with the host details.
Thanks again again all! Bobby
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Harold J. Ballinger < hballinger at heritage-healthcare.com> wrote:
There is a notes directory. You can either create a file within the notes directory with the same name as the host or you can create a folder and place an index.html file, etc. If the file or directory exists, the hostname will be hyperlinked to these files.
*Harold Ballinger*
*IT Coordinator*
Heritage Healthcare, Inc.
(888) 335-2620 | helpdesk
(864) 224-3626 | office
(864) 224-3093 | fax
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Visit our website: www.heritage-healthcare.com
*From:* bobby.lopez at gmail.com [mailto:bobby.lopez at gmail.com] *On Behalf Of *J. Bobby Lopez *Sent:* Tuesday, July 21, 2009 1:24 PM *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk *Subject:* Re: [hobbit] Providing a description of listed systems?
Hi Rich,
Is this the one you're talking about? http://xymonton.trantor.org/doku.php/addons:hobbitnotes
It looks like it is an addon to edit existing notes files from a web interface. But I didn't know Xymon had existing notes files.. I would be just as happy to edit them on the command line. Am I understanding this correctly?
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Rich Smrcina <rsmrcina at wi.rr.com> wrote:
J. Bobby Lopez wrote:
I noticed that when I mouse over the names of the systems listed in Xymon, a nice little pop-up shows the IP address of the system.
This info is great and saves me a lot of time. However, I would like to somehow add a more detailed description of the system, and have it appear in Xymon, either by mouse-over like with the IP address, or by clicking on the name of the system (a link).
Is there any way to do this, or is there any other mechanism for providing a more detailed description of any given system within the monitored list?
Thanks, Bobby
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