I have been asked to create some web pages that contains information about some of our compute servers. The information on these pages will be a short description of the hosts, with total memory, number cpu, yada yada yada in a format that non-computer people can peruse and understand.
I was thinking that a good place to keep this information would be in xymon info pages.
I was wondering if there is some .config file where I could enter the data that would do something like this? If not in the info pages some place else. I realize most of the data that I want to enter can be gleaned from other pages.
Has anyone done something like this and if so how did you go about it?
Thanks
Robert
Robert P. McGraw, Jr.
Manager, Computer System EMAIL: rmcgraw at purdue.edu
Purdue University ROOM: MATH-807
Department of Mathematics PHONE: (765) 494-6055
150 N. University Street
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2067
There is a comments section..somewhere. I haven't seen or used it since the BB days. In other words, eons ago.
On 3/26/10, McGraw, Robert P <rmcgraw at purdue.edu> wrote:
I have been asked to create some web pages that contains information about some of our compute servers. The information on these pages will be a short description of the hosts, with total memory, number cpu, yada yada yada in a format that non-computer people can peruse and understand.
I was thinking that a good place to keep this information would be in xymon info pages.
I was wondering if there is some .config file where I could enter the data that would do something like this? If not in the info pages some place else. I realize most of the data that I want to enter can be gleaned from other pages.
Has anyone done something like this and if so how did you go about it?
Thanks
Robert
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There's actually a notes add-on at Xymonton.
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-----Original Message----- From: Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com] Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 5:52 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Add more information
There is a comments section..somewhere. I haven't seen or used it since the BB days. In other words, eons ago.
On 3/26/10, McGraw, Robert P <rmcgraw at purdue.edu> wrote:
I have been asked to create some web pages that contains information about some of our compute servers. The information on these pages will be a short description of the hosts, with total memory, number cpu, yada yada yada in a format that non-computer people can peruse and understand.
I was thinking that a good place to keep this information would be in xymon info pages.
I was wondering if there is some .config file where I could enter the data that would do something like this? If not in the info pages some place else. I realize most of the data that I want to enter can be gleaned from other pages.
Has anyone done something like this and if so how did you go about it?
Thanks
Robert
Robert P. McGraw, Jr. Manager, Computer System EMAIL: rmcgraw at purdue.edu Purdue University ROOM: MATH-807 Department of Mathematics PHONE: (765) 494-6055 150 N. University Street West Lafayette, IN 47907-2067
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Actually, you can just add the host name (as entered in bb-hosts) to the notes subdir. I've started creating a PHP/MySQL app to keep some additional data under this dir to make it easier to manage.
eg.. /usr/local/tolkien/server/www/notes
These can be text/html whatever and will show up as a link by clicking on the hostname in bbdisplay will bring up whatever you put in the files.
Regards,
Tim
From: Galen Johnson [Galen.Johnson at sas.com] Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 2:57 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] Add more information
There's actually a notes add-on at Xymonton.
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-----Original Message----- From: Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com] Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 5:52 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Add more information
There is a comments section..somewhere. I haven't seen or used it since the BB days. In other words, eons ago.
On 3/26/10, McGraw, Robert P <rmcgraw at purdue.edu> wrote:
I have been asked to create some web pages that contains information about some of our compute servers. The information on these pages will be a short description of the hosts, with total memory, number cpu, yada yada yada in a format that non-computer people can peruse and understand.
I was thinking that a good place to keep this information would be in xymon info pages.
I was wondering if there is some .config file where I could enter the data that would do something like this? If not in the info pages some place else. I realize most of the data that I want to enter can be gleaned from other pages.
Has anyone done something like this and if so how did you go about it?
Thanks
Robert
Robert P. McGraw, Jr. Manager, Computer System EMAIL: rmcgraw at purdue.edu Purdue University ROOM: MATH-807 Department of Mathematics PHONE: (765) 494-6055 150 N. University Street West Lafayette, IN 47907-2067
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True that, cool beans.
The notes add on will allow admin of the notes through the web browser.
On 03/26/2010 05:04 PM, Tim McCloskey wrote:
Actually, you can just add the host name (as entered in bb-hosts) to the notes subdir. I've started creating a PHP/MySQL app to keep some additional data under this dir to make it easier to manage.
eg.. /usr/local/tolkien/server/www/notes
These can be text/html whatever and will show up as a link by clicking on the hostname in bbdisplay will bring up whatever you put in the files.
Regards,
Tim
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Doh! Guess I should take a look at the add on now that I'm 80% done re-inventing the wheel :) Have not followed development of h0bbit...err xymon for a long time.
From: Rich Smrcina [rsmrcina at wi.rr.com]
The notes add on will allow admin of the notes through the web browser.
Or your could work with hobbitperl_notes
http://sourceforge.net/projects/hobbit-perl-cl/files/hobbit-perl-notes/v1.01...
cheers, martin
hobbitperl-notes is a complete notes editing and reporting system for hobbit server. It's fully customizable via web and you can create new fields and change data via a simple web interface. You can put links, email address and even phone number (if you have a voip software that will do the call via a web interface). Data can be assigned to 4 categories (Hardware/Software/Procedure/General) and you'll also have a link to the old documntation file if they're present in the notes directory (hostname.html and hostname file are recognized). Link can point to web pages (you can also put $HOSTNAME on a link to be substituted with the hostname you're currently viewing) or to unc windows path (put a \\servername\pathto\file.doc to open a word file located in the share \\servername\pathto). On the notes pages there will also be a clickable list of all services monitored for that host with the last time of state change.
You can create groups to assign them to more then one host without the need of rewrite basic information like software vendor and support link/email. You can also link server with other server so you can move between database server/application server/web server of a single application without the need to return to the hobbit pages. Last but not least you can also create csv report of a selected part (host and field you want to report) of the data collected to be elaborated by a spreadsheet to have a documentation of all your systems.
Editing notes will create file named hostname.cfg in the notes directory of your hobbit server.
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, Tim McCloskey wrote:
Doh! Guess I should take a look at the add on now that I'm 80% done re-inventing the wheel :) Have not followed development of h0bbit...err xymon for a long time.
From: Rich Smrcina [rsmrcina at wi.rr.com]
The notes add on will allow admin of the notes through the web browser.
I gave hobbitperl_notes a try on my 4.3 Xymon server today. It installed without any issues (once I gathered together the perl modules I needed).
It fires fine and writes no errors to the apache log file. However the left box - "Selected Hosts" - does not populate. Can anyone point me in the right direction to look for potential issues?
Hobbit Monitor 4.3.0-0.20090209 Solaris 10
Thank You
----- Original Message ----- From: Martin Flemming <martin.flemming at desy.de> To: hobbit at hswn.dk <hobbit at hswn.dk> Cc: Date: Friday, March 26 2010 19:06 Subject: RE: [hobbit] Add more information
Or your could work with hobbitperl_notes
http://sourceforge.net/projects/hobbit-perl-cl/files/hobbit-perl-notes/v1.01...
cheers, martin
hobbitperl-notes is a complete notes editing and reporting system for hobbit server. It's fully customizable via web and you can create new fields and change data via a simple web interface. You can put links, email address and even phone number (if you have a voip software that will do the call via a web interface). Data can be assigned to 4 categories (Hardware/Software/Procedure/General) and you'll also have a link to the old documntation file if they're present in the notes directory (hostname.html and hostname file are recognized). Link can point to web pages (you can also put $HOSTNAME on a link to be substituted with the hostname you're currently viewing) or to unc windows path (put a \\servername\pathto\file.doc to open a word file located in the share \\servername\pathto). On the notes pages there will also be a clickable list of all services monitored for that host with the last time of state change.
You can create groups to assign them to more then one host without the need of rewrite basic information like software vendor and support link/email. You can also link server with other server so you can move between database server/application server/web server of a single application without the need to return to the hobbit pages. Last but not least you can also create csv report of a selected part (host and field you want to report) of the data collected to be elaborated by a spreadsheet to have a documentation of all your systems.
Editing notes will create file named hostname.cfg in the notes directory of your hobbit server.
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, Tim McCloskey wrote:
Doh! Guess I should take a look at the add on now that I'm 80% done re-inventing the wheel :) Have not followed development of h0bbit...err xymon for a long time.
From: Rich Smrcina [rsmrcina at wi.rr.com]
The notes add on will allow admin of the notes through the web browser.
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Martin Flemming <martin.flemming at desy.de> schrieb am 27.03.2010 00:05:03:
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Or your could work with hobbitperl_notes
http://sourceforge.net/projects/hobbit-perl-cl/files/hobbit-perl- notes/v1.01/hobbitperl_notes-v1.01.tar.gz/download
I get an empty select box for the "Select hosts" field. My bb-display.log file in /var/log/xymon shows "unknown option : --docurl". Xymon version is 4.3.0-0.beta2.
Hermann-Josef Beckers
You could use the Notes function. It should be available on Xymonton.
On 03/26/2010 04:41 PM, McGraw, Robert P wrote:
I have been asked to create some web pages that contains information about some of our compute servers. The information on these pages will be a short description of the hosts, with total memory, number cpu, yada yada yada in a format that non-computer people can peruse and understand.
I was thinking that a good place to keep this information would be in xymon info pages.
I was wondering if there is some .config file where I could enter the data that would do something like this? If not in the info pages some place else. I realize most of the data that I want to enter can be gleaned from other pages.
Has anyone done something like this and if so how did you go about it?
Thanks
Robert
Robert P. McGraw, Jr. Manager, Computer System EMAIL: rmcgraw at purdue.edu Purdue University ROOM: MATH-807 Department of Mathematics PHONE: (765) 494-6055 150 N. University Street West Lafayette, IN 47907-2067
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Great minds and all that :-D...
-----Original Message----- From: Rich Smrcina [mailto:rsmrcina at wi.rr.com] Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 5:56 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Add more information
You could use the Notes function. It should be available on Xymonton.
On 03/26/2010 04:41 PM, McGraw, Robert P wrote:
I have been asked to create some web pages that contains information about some of our compute servers. The information on these pages will be a short description of the hosts, with total memory, number cpu, yada yada yada in a format that non-computer people can peruse and understand.
I was thinking that a good place to keep this information would be in xymon info pages.
I was wondering if there is some .config file where I could enter the data that would do something like this? If not in the info pages some place else. I realize most of the data that I want to enter can be gleaned from other pages.
Has anyone done something like this and if so how did you go about it?
Thanks
Robert
Robert P. McGraw, Jr. Manager, Computer System EMAIL: rmcgraw at purdue.edu Purdue University ROOM: MATH-807 Department of Mathematics PHONE: (765) 494-6055 150 N. University Street West Lafayette, IN 47907-2067
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Galen.Johnson＠sas.com
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hj.beckers＠kreis-steinfurt.de
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josh＠imaginenetworksllc.com
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rsmrcina＠wi.rr.com
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tm＠freedom.com