creating CGI scripts and interacting with existing ones.

[Malte Geierhos]

Hello Mohammed,

at first - sry for writing offlist ;) ...
regarding the cgi / css things - did you know about thruk.org ?
Its a catalyst  written new gui for Nagios / Icinga/ Shinken which uses
the Livestatus Plugin from Mr. Kettner for providing Realtime Access
to Nagios
Core data ( So besides beeing themeable its also a lot faster )

kind regards,
Malte


Am 31.03.10 20:19, schrieb Mohammed Murphy:
> Thanks for the hints Marc. Unfortunately I was not clear enough about my
> requirements before so I will expound a bit more.
>
> I only want to talk about the first issue of creating CGI scripts and
> break it down into two parts. Firstly, I would like to create a web page
> that contains the look & feel and header & footer info of the existing
> pages with my own customised web data in the middle. The important point
> is that I would like it to be automated, because (as I revealed in my
> last email) this is for an installer-type application. So for instance,
> if a Nagios user updates their Nagios system to a newer version with a
> slighly different look & feel, then the same installer-type application
> will still be able to generate the custom page appropriately. Is this
> possible?
>
> Secondly, is the issue of linking to my custom pages from exisitng
> pages. The fact that I want it to be automated means that I require a
> way of informing Nagios that a new custom page exists so Nagios will
> provide a way for the Nagios user to access it via a link on an existing
> page. I thought about parsing and then modifying side.html, but that is
> only reliable if that is guaranteed to remain the same in all versions
> of Nagios. nBoard, for instance, requires that a new html page simply be
> added to an 'extras' directory; so I wondered if the default Nagios web
> UI had a similar mechanism.
>
> Thanks for your time Marc. I hope I clarified my requirements a bit more.
>
> Marc Powell wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Mohammed Murphy
>> <mohammed.murphy at tandberg.com <mailto:mohammed.murphy at tandberg.com>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hey there,
>>
>>     I would like to able to write and run my own CGI scripts on the Nagios
>>     server that would be run by Nagios and have its output displayed
>>     as part
>>     of the Nagios web interface just like the existing CGIs.
>>
>>
>> Easy enough. Create it, put it in sbin and link to it from
>> share/side.html or wherever you want to.
>> 
>>
>>     In addition, I would like to able to interact with the
>>     pre-installed CGIs, for
>>     instance, by writing a plugin that creates a data file that is then
>>     used, by say, the histogram.cgi script. Is this possible?
>>
>>
>> Sure. Anything is possible; the only question is if you are capable.
>> To do the above, you'd just need to edit histogram.c, add your
>> specific code and recompile.
>> 
>>
>>     and if not, what other options are there for producing
>>     product-specific diagrams (on
>>     existing pages) using Nagios infrastructure?
>>
>>
>> It depends on what your requirements are. Custom links on
>> share/side.html or using host/service extended info pages (notes_url)
>> would be simple and might work for you, for example.
>>
>> --
>> Marc
>> formerly marc /at/ ena.com <http://ena.com>
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