I think it all depends on what your requirements are..
What I would like to know, is how people maintain their config files, with multiple groups editing them... I'm currently writting a web-based frontend with php & postgresql, but would like to know if people have something out there already.
Quinton
On Friday 16 June 2006 09:56, Jeff Newman wrote:
All,
First off, I don't exactly know where Im going with this message, Im just hoping a bunch of people out there go "Ya, I know exactly what you mean!" haha.
Ok, so there are tons of different ways people out there layout their hobbit "presentation" to themselves, clients, etc... Just from reading the mailing list for the past 6 months, I've seen so many different ways:
- Normal hobbit
- No prop pred stuff
- Alternate pagesets
- Multiple bbdisplays
- Multiple instances
- Password protected stuff
- Different ways of labeling thing via NET etc...
I often wonder "Am I doing this right? Is there a better way to present all this stuff? I don't even use NKview (or critical view in the new version) Should I be" Most importantly "When I convert all of operations to hobbit, I will have a hobbit server in NY, and one where I am, and im sure they will want different views/pages etc... and I will want to look at their stuff, but not get paged on it etc. etc. etc., what am I going to do then?"
Right now, Im saving all the hobbit mails that deal specifically with page layout in the hopes that in the future, I will be able to look at them all and try and extract from all the emails the different ways of doing things.
The man pages are very good, if you know what your looking for. There are things you can do though that are more what you want, you just don't see them because your not looking for them.
To that end, (and Im not sure exactly how this could be accomplished) Im wondering if there is some way to show everyone the different options. Almost like a web page that has something like:
Scenerio #1: You are the admin, and want to see every host on one page, and you have users that need to only see the first 10 hosts, and users that need to see the second 10 hosts, and users that need to see the first 20. Here are the different ways this could be setup. Link 1 to a view of the page with the various config options you would need Link 2 to a view of the page done differently with the various config options etc...
Scenerio #2 <next scenerio> etc...
Thats just one idea. I just think there are so many ways of doing things with this, and I may not even know of one, but when I saw it I would say "YA! Thats exactly what I want mine to look like" and I could make it happen.
Maybe I'm the only one that feels this way though :-D
Anyway, just thought I would throw this out to the list and see what people thought. Sometimes you just need to push a ball down a hill to get it rolling :-)
Thanks, jeff
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