Skinning BB

 
The Summary Screen is great for me but not quite what the helpdesk is
looking for. I have modified the original shell script that Henrick sent me.


I have included the hacked file and Erik Bosrup's overLIB javascript.It
provides a small list of the error states a host has ie,

Host error error1 error2

Quick visual assessment of when errors happened with popups that display the
graph for that error (if there is one) using overlib_mini.js.

To try it out copy ng.sh into your hobbit-cgi/ directory ... modify ng.sh to
suit your environment BBSERVERROOT="/home/hobbit"
HOBBITHTTP="http://something.blah/hobbit";
HOBBITCGI="http://something.blah/hobbit-cgi"; 

And put overlib_mini.js into the /hobbit/ dir of your webserver 

The popups seem to work in recent versions of IE and Firefox. 

It's not quite perfect but perhaps it conveys my idea more successfully.

Regards,

Alun 

-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Tuesday, 16 May 2006 10:32 
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Skinning BB

On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 07:43:39AM +0200, Henrik Stoerner wrote:

On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 01:58:15PM +1200, Alun Watson wrote:

Our helpdesk uses the All Non-green web page a lot and are only 
interested in the errors and have problems when they have to scroll 
up and down the page to figure out which column is which.

OK, I understand now. But perhaps it is simpler to "play" with the 
layout via a simple shell-script (not that I recommend doing shell 
scripts for performance critical stuff - far from) to get the 
design/layout right it is a useful prototype.

Thinking about this a bit more, it occurred to me that the current
"hobbit-statusreport" CGI could easily be tweaked to support this.
If you grab the latest snapshot, build it and copy the
web/hobbit-statusreport.cgi file to your ~hobbit/server/bin/ directory.
Then create this wrapper in your Hobbit cgi-bin directory:

#!/bin/sh

. /usr/lib/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitcgi.cfg
exec /usr/lib/hobbit/server/bin/hobbit-statusreport.cgi \
          --filter="color=red,yellow" --all \
	  --heading="All non-green systems" \
	  --show-column \
	  --show-summary \
	  --link


Running this CGI script will produce a text-only report of the current
non-green statuses. The "--show-summary" option causes the report to have
just a stripped-down summary of the current status, if you want the full
status text just remove that option.


Regards,
Henrik