Once upon a time, (meaning I don't know where the code is - senility) we had a cgi script that would tie in a icon/button to the host ID in the Big Brother display. (i.e <comments icon-button> Hostname <row of status icon-buttons>) A free form editor would pop up that would allow appending date-stamped comments. The button color would change from clear to blue if there were any comments on a host. The cgi would allow removal of comments by their IDs etc. Idea was a comment could be placed regarding any ongoing issue or as a FYI; we had to report status every 30 minutes to upper management on a sev 1 incident so this was a way to handle that and coordinate with other staff members. This allowed web-based entry (password protected) so staff did not have to log into the BB server to update a flat file (i.e. like using the notes capability tied to the hostname).

Just got to be a pain in the neck re-integrating the modifications as we flipped between versions and going from Big Brother to Big Sister back to Big Brother to Xymon.

-----Original Message----- From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of cleaver at terabithia.org Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2013 12:53 PM To: Sergey Cc: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] comments for a tests (possible a feature request)

Hello.

Can I add comments about incidents per host/test ?

-- Regards, Sergey

It's an interesting idea. While a non-green status is in effect, you can achieve something like it with an ACKnowledgement message, but there's no real provision for commentary on specific events beyond that.

One could cobble together a uniq-ID event without an alert cookie from hostsvc-timestamp most likely, but svcstatus would still need to know about it for the comments to be displayed.

Regards,

-jc

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