Sugestions to make Nagios better

[Leonardo Henrique Machado]

I decided for the MozEX solution. It worked fine.

thnx for the tip.


On Thu, 20 May 2004, Andreas Ericsson wrote:

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


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