Sugestions to make Nagios better

[Andreas Ericsson]

Leonardo Henrique Machado wrote:
> I wish I could click on the Client image so that automaticaly opens a 
> xterm window running ssh toward that client. That is possible with 
> WhatsUp. Not using xterm.
> 
This is equally possible from anything displaying a webpage, but it will 
require that you configure your browser properly for it, or write some 
rather extensive Java-applet for it and rewrite apache to act as a 
connection tunnel (which is a really bad idea for a wide variety of 
reasons, in case you were wondering).


> I am trying to add a URL note to the client using hostextinfo. This url 
> would launch my xterm+ssh session. Up to now I had no success.
> 
Either you haven't read the documentation for it (it's at www.nagios.org 
- click on 'Documentation'), or you haven't configured your browser 
properly. Try it with Mozilla Firefox, and install the MozEX extension. 
Then you can point the 'Universal Protocol Handler' to the attached 
script (assuming you're running Linux as your desktop OS, ofcourse).

> Now I will try to alter the nagios source code to fullfill the lack of 
> this feature. I hope to see it on the next version of nagios.
> 
That would truly be a futile attempt, and considering you didn't know 
that, I suggest you don't even try.
Nagios is just a process which sits and gathers information. The CGI 
programs (which happen to accompany the nagios daemon) feed that 
information through a pipe to a web-server, which in turn feeds it to 
the client (the webbrowser). The webbrowser is responsible for making 
things happen when you click links and so on. If you're going to modify 
some code, you should modify that of your webbrowser.


> 
> --
> Leonardo Henrique Machado
> Último Período em Ciência da Computacao
> Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
> 

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