I'm already familiar with "group"-ing things in almost every way possible (sorted, compressed, etc.), but was wondering if there is a way to indent or put different icons in the front of entries in the same group?
For example:
col1 col2 col3 col4 col5 col6
------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------host 1 3 3 3 switch 1 1 1 1 switch 2 2 2 2 host 2 4 4 4 switch 1 1 1 1 switch 2 2 2 2
I was hoping changing fonts would work, but adding different header types, for example, simply made Xymon see that as part of the hostname for each entry, even when adding non-breaking spaces in front of an entry in hosts.cfg,
Thanks, David
On Mon, December 7, 2015 9:13 am, David Welker wrote:
I'm already familiar with "group"-ing things in almost every way possible (sorted, compressed, etc.), but was wondering if there is a way to indent or put different icons in the front of entries in the same group?
For example:
col1 col2 col3 col4 col5 col6 ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------host 1 3 3 3 switch 1 1 1 1 switch 2 2 2 2 host 2 4 4 4 switch 1 1 1 1 switch 2 2 2 2
I was hoping changing fonts would work, but adding different header types, for example, simply made Xymon see that as part of the hostname for each entry, even when adding non-breaking spaces in front of an entry in hosts.cfg,
David,
At the moment, there's no easy way to do this. There might be a short term solution in the form of an arbitrary HTML prepend that could be configured in hosts.cfg (DISPLAYPREFIX:"html here" ?) but it'd be something of a hack. Do you think that would work for you?
Longer term, the goal would be to make things like this CSS-controlled, and either reflective of a list relationship between "host 1" and "switch 1/2" in your example, or making all switches a 'type' that can then be CSS controlled. The stripping out of display HTML is on the radar for 4.4, but there's still additional work needing to be done.
Regards, -jc
JC,
Naturally, CSS-controlled would be the best solution, but your proposed "hack" would work on older versions of Xymon (I'm still on v4.3.21)? I'm thinking if there was just a way to ignore html tags when determining the hostname from hosts.cfg, this hack of yours could work!
Thanks, David
On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 10:19 AM, J.C. Cleaver <cleaver at terabithia.org> wrote:
On Mon, December 7, 2015 9:13 am, David Welker wrote:
I'm already familiar with "group"-ing things in almost every way possible (sorted, compressed, etc.), but was wondering if there is a way to indent or put different icons in the front of entries in the same group?
For example:
col1 col2 col3 col4 col5 col6 ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------host 1 3 3 3 switch 1 1 1 1 switch 2 2 2 2 host 2 4 4 4 switch 1 1 1 1 switch 2 2 2 2
I was hoping changing fonts would work, but adding different header types, for example, simply made Xymon see that as part of the hostname for each entry, even when adding non-breaking spaces in front of an entry in hosts.cfg,
David,
At the moment, there's no easy way to do this. There might be a short term solution in the form of an arbitrary HTML prepend that could be configured in hosts.cfg (DISPLAYPREFIX:"html here" ?) but it'd be something of a hack. Do you think that would work for you?
Longer term, the goal would be to make things like this CSS-controlled, and either reflective of a list relationship between "host 1" and "switch 1/2" in your example, or making all switches a 'type' that can then be CSS controlled. The stripping out of display HTML is on the radar for 4.4, but there's still additional work needing to be done.
Regards, -jc
On Tue, December 8, 2015 8:01 am, David Welker wrote:
JC,
Naturally, CSS-controlled would be the best solution, but your proposed "hack" would work on older versions of Xymon (I'm still on v4.3.21)? I'm thinking if there was just a way to ignore html tags when determining the hostname from hosts.cfg, this hack of yours could work!
Well, there's probably a fair amount of stuff out there that reads the
hosts.cfg file in expecting grep ^[0-9] | awk '{print $2}' (or something
similar) to represent spaceless hostnames only.
However, I think a separate config tag (pre-only? separate pre/post? use format or '&H' string to wrap what xymongen already displays?) should be fairly do-able. And yep, it could be done in the 4.3 branch as a patch.
I'll see if this is something I can get a working version of for inclusion.
Regards, -jc
On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 10:19 AM, J.C. Cleaver <cleaver at terabithia.org> wrote:
On Mon, December 7, 2015 9:13 am, David Welker wrote:
I'm already familiar with "group"-ing things in almost every way possible (sorted, compressed, etc.), but was wondering if there is a way to indent or put different icons in the front of entries in the same group?
For example:
col1 col2 col3 col4 col5 col6 ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------host 1 3 3 3 switch 1 1 1 1 switch 2 2 2 2 host 2 4 4 4 switch 1 1 1 1 switch 2 2 2 2
I was hoping changing fonts would work, but adding different header types, for example, simply made Xymon see that as part of the hostname for each entry, even when adding non-breaking spaces in front of an entry in hosts.cfg,
David,
At the moment, there's no easy way to do this. There might be a short term solution in the form of an arbitrary HTML prepend that could be configured in hosts.cfg (DISPLAYPREFIX:"html here" ?) but it'd be something of a hack. Do you think that would work for you?
Longer term, the goal would be to make things like this CSS-controlled, and either reflective of a list relationship between "host 1" and "switch 1/2" in your example, or making all switches a 'type' that can then be CSS controlled. The stripping out of display HTML is on the radar for 4.4, but there's still additional work needing to be done.
Regards, -jc
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