integrate a wiki with nagios?

[Woodgate, Douglas]

I have not done this before, but also haven't really thought to do this
either. It sounds like an interesting idea though. I don't really
foresee anything that would make it not work as you expect other than
the tedious task of populating the data. But, once you have one host
done, you could probably use it as a template for the others. Another
thing that may make it more dynamic would be if you could embed the
$HOSTALIAS$ macro into the URL, then create a wiki page for each host
with that hosts Alias as its name, but I'm not sure if notes_url would
support that macro.

You should be able to attach any type of file to the wiki pages and also
setup links to other resources such as your ticket queue or even make a
support queue within the twiki site. It all depends on how fancy you
want it to be and how much time you want to spend on it...

Doug Woodgate
Technical Analyst, 
IT Technical Services Team
Brown Printing Company

-----Original Message-----
From: Furnish, Trever G [mailto:TGFurnish at herffjones.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 10:26 AM
To: Woodgate, Douglas; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] integrate a wiki with nagios?

Thanks very much for the response, Doug.  Looks pretty nice.

Have you tied nagios pages into this at all?  Do you see any problems
with the idea that might be showstoppers?

What I'm hoping to do is:

	- Every host I care about is in nagios -- I'd like to use the
notes_url page to maintain a permanent history about that host, making
that page the "jumping off point" for any other tools (like a per-host
ticket queue) as well.

	- Every service check needs some explanatory text with it --
what the check is for, common false-alarms, who to call at 3am to get
someone on-site, links to application diagrams, etc.

	- I'd like to be able to easily attach binary files to pages.

--
Trever



> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net 
> [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf 
> Of Woodgate, Douglas
> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 2:53 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] integrate a wiki with nagios?
> 
> I'm partial to TWiki < twiki.org >. It's quite geek and 
> average user friendly. They also have a debian based VM 
> appliance if you are into VMware. That way you can try it out 
> without the hassle of going through the install.
> 
> Doug Woodgate
> Technical Analyst,
> IT Technical Services Team
> Brown Printing Company
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net
> [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of
> Furnish, Trever G
> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 1:33 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] integrate a wiki with nagios?
> 
> Howdy, all,
> 
> This is slightly off-topic, but I'd like to integrate a wiki with the
> notes_url pages of Nagios.  The idea is to put a wiki up documenting
> each and every check and making it easier to update those pages.  Has
> anyone already integrated a wiki into Nagios in this manner?  
> I'd happy
> accept any pointers.
> 
> Unfortunately this will be my first foray into selecting and using a
> wiki.  I've looked into them in the past, but not for this use, and in
> the past I've just decided to avoid the headaches.  Trac doesn't seem
> bad, but its install process seems like a pain and likely to produce a
> fragile install (one that breaks frequently as other stuff is 
> updated).
> There's a seemingly endless stream of wiki software to choose from, so
> I'm really hoping someone on the list can provide the benefit of
> experience.
>  
> --
> Trever Furnish, tgfurnish at herffjones.com Herff Jones, Inc. Unix /
> Network Administrator
> Phone: 317.612.3519
> Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from Unix.
> 
> 
> PS: I searched my own archives of the lists and hit google as 
> well, but
> I haven't found previous discussions of this topic.  Sorry if I missed
> them -- if so, any pointers to prior discussions will be gratefully
> accepted. 
> 
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