Rich Smrcina wrote:
Since CUPS (as a print server) would run on one or multiple hosts, why not just one column, CUPS? Then when the icon is clicked, the various queue statuses for that host listed on the page.
So if I understand what you're suggesting, it's something like:
CUPS hosts:host conn cups
cupshost1 grn yel `-clik!-. -> Queues on cupshost1 queue run acc njob --------------------------- laser1 grn grn grn laser2 grn grn grn laser3 grn grn yel laser4 grn grn grn
I guess my question is more about how to produce the 'queues on cupshost1' page. A quick'n'dirty way would be to just have the icon on the 'cups hosts' page link directly to the CUPS server's own printers/ url. That would basically work and provide the information, but not in a condensed Hobbit-like form. Another way would be to create the page tag and group tag in bb-hosts in the usual way and redundantly declare all the queue names in it, which is what I was looking for a way to avoid. I suppose another way would be for the ext script to generate the corresponding html itself as the message it sends with bb for cupshost1 ... but even if that can work it sounds like a brittle approach with a lot of duplicated effort.
Or did you have another approach in mind that I've overlooked?
Thanks, -Chap