On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 13:16 -0500, Kauffman, Tom wrote:
I have yet to see ANY of the vendor-provided tools that work with a
lightweight client for viewing the current status. Hobbit lets me check
things with any browser, on any OS
I've even written an app to display the red alerts on my Cisco IP phone!
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Cisco::IPPhone;
my $mytext = new Cisco::IPPhone;
my @redboard = `bb localhost "hobbitdboard color=RED
fields=hostname,testname"`;
my $niceline;
foreach my $red (@redboard) {
$niceline .= join(",",split(/\|/,$red))."\n";
};
$mytext->Text( { Title => "Red Alerts", Prompt => "Red Items in Hobbit",
Text => $niceline});
$mytext->AddSoftKeyItem( { Name => "Update", URL => "SoftKey:Update",
Position => "1" });
$mytext->AddSoftKeyItem( { Name => "Exit", URL => "SoftKey:Exit",
Position => "2" });
print $mytext->Content;
I could, if I were willing to do a little bit of work, get it to
acknowledge the alerts with the touch-screen... Let's see CA do that!
CA is the only "official" monitoring solution here too, but nobody has
got it working. In the mean-time I have real-time displays of my hobbit
system (and my hobbit-based bbmap) at the NOC.
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Daniel J McDonald, CCIE # 2495, CISSP # 78281, CNX
Austin Energy
http://www.austinenergy.com