tooltips, current snapshot 15-Jan-08

Still hoping this could be fixed soon?  Having to scroll the bb2 page for
hosts with long descriptions like contact and vendor info is a pain.  I
still do not really understand why this is only a problem on the bb2 page.
 

~David


From: Gore, David W (David) [mailto:user-3e5761c68b56@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 14:20
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] tooltips


In regards to the hobbit snapshot:
 
They say a picture is worth a thousand words.  If the list server allows it,
I have attached an image of my bb2.html page.  bb2 is our primary view and,
as you can see from the image, tooltips pushes all the hobbit columns out of
the view to the right.  
 
Tooltips are the text you see when you hover over items like the smiley's in
hobbit?  I suppose it has always worked well for the little smiley gif
icons, just not so well for the bb2 host links where it seems to add the
tooltip to the hostname rather than create floating text.

~David 

 
From: Johann Eggers [mailto:user-769b09132207@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 13:11
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] tooltips


Re: the tooltips issue:

 
Isn't it useful to make this an option whether they should be displayed on
the bb2 page or not?

 
I really like the tooltips but I agree with David that they will clutter
your bb2 page so that this page is not longer usable.

 
Johann

 
From: Gore, David W (David) [mailto:user-3e5761c68b56@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Donnerstag, 15. November 2007 13:47
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] stale alerts

 
I am running 4.2.0 with the allinone patch.  I do have a suspicion that
external server side scripts could contribute to the stale alerts.  In my
case, specifically a script that ssh's to a remote host and executes a shell
script on the remote host.  It may also happen in conjunction with these
errors in the logs, which someone else recently reported:

 
page.log.1:2007-11-05 16:20:53 hobbitd_alert: Got message 14425, expected
14424

As soon as the issue with tooltips is resolved, I will be moving our primary
hobbit to the snapshot release.

 
The snapshot, seems much
better, but with tooltips and host descriptions pushing our display to
the far right of the screen we cannot use it right now.

~David