Per user preferences

[Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]]

This should probably be moved to nagios-devel, but what the heck.  ;)

If MySQL/Postgres becomes a prerequisite (and not an option), it could pave
the way for per-user preferences, changing config info on-the-fly, and who
knows what else, in addition to what's currently supported.  There could be
a nice web interface for populating config data, and the CGI would do a
variation of the current pre-flight check before committing the record(s) to
the database.  Nagios would check every N (1? 5?) minutes for new records,
and act accordingly.

For the "Real Men Don't Click" crowd, creating a SQL script for bulk
(config) data loads could be an option.  If Nagios doesn't like a record, it
would flag it as "unimplemented" and would show up in the GUI accordingly
(eg, greyed-out record in Host Detail, or would show up in an exception
report).

Hey, a guy can dream, can't he?  ;)

jc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Subhendu Ghosh [mailto:sghosh at sghosh.org]
> Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 2:42 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Per user preferences
> 
> 
> Currently there is no mechanism to set per-user preferences.
> 
> Feel like contributing to open-source :)
> 
> -sg
> 
> On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 listuser at neo.pittstate.edu wrote:
> 
> > Is there a way to specify different preferences on a user 
> by user basis?
> > While I don't mind audio alerts, I'm sure some of my 
> colleagues might not
> > find them so helpful. :)  To go along with this, I think some people
> > prefer the maps to default to a different view as well.  
> Perhaps this is
> > something that could be added to the user's contact definition?  
> > 
> > Along these same lines, would it be posible to use cookies 
> to control how
> > often a sound is played?  I generally keep my browser on 
> the tactical
> > overview and don't really want to know that the print 
> server in a far off
> > building is still down. :)  Perhaps a checkbox (to turn 
> audio alerts off 
> > for that session) and/or a drop down menu and submit button 
> to specify
> > audio alert intervals would help.  My PacketShaper's online 
> pages that
> > update at regular intervals let me specify the intervals just such a
> > setup.  I can tell it to update every 1, 5, 15, and 60 
> minutes.  120 and
> > 240 would be useful for audio alerts though I imagine.
> > 
> > To go along with the user-defined audio intervals, I think 
> many would find
> > it useful to control how often their pages reload.  A 
> similar deal could
> > be used for it as well.  The status.cgi could reference 
> that value (within
> > limits) for it's META refresh value.
> > 
> > Does anyone else think per-user settings would be useful?  
> I turned on
> > audio alerts today and the idea quickly popped into my head. ;-)
> > 
> > Justin
> > 
> 
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