I am in the process of writing an hb server side add-on script (learn from
rootlogin.pl) to do OS counting.
Ie, adapting "rootlogin" perl script do some OS counting from incoming bb
messages stream.
hoping to get a page that can list out OS versions and subtotals of
different OS that hobbit server currently monitored. There is no ETA for
oscount.pl, it could be faster if my management push for it ;)
ps: I think ntop has some OS icons for hb community to reuse, if we really
want to implement OS icons, I might need OS icons for my oscount.pl project
T.J. Yang
From: "Haertig, David F (Dave)" <user-68874b735d77@xymon.invalid>
Reply-To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
To: <user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>
Subject: RE: [hobbit] addon: os and critical icon
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 18:15:17 -0600
It's not an icon, but the "info" screen tells you the OS. I assume this
is just the version of the client that was compiled and installed. You
can also use the DESCR directive in the bb-hosts file to add a
description to the info screen. You could also use the NAME directive
to add an OS indication to the display line.
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From: user-7796849e4635@xymon.invalid [mailto:user-7796849e4635@xymon.invalid] On Behalf
Of Scott Walters
Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2007 5:52 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Fwd: [hobbit] addon: os and critical icon
On 8/9/07, Flyzone Micky <user-4df7b21ff8e1@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Hi, i have made some edit on the hobbit-sources.
When working in a enterprise, i found useful to see also two icons
next the hostname: os and critical.
Os could be windows,linux,aix,etc....
I can vouch for the usefulness of an OS icon in the display.
1) For many sites, there are Windows and Unix admins. This helps them
know immediately to "call for help" or to try and login themselves.
2) Saw an issue that only affected RedHat Linux servers, but I did not
realize for a couple of weeks. Once the OS icon feature went in, the
scope of the issue to RedHat was obvious.
I am thinking the OS might be known from the client, rather than having
to define it on the server. But a manual configuration would be nice,
for devices that might be monitored, but without clients.
Scott Walters
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