Easy User Defined Status Map updates

[Cooper, Mark]

Hmmm, documentation ;p

You are quite right, you need to create the cheops map file first before
running cheops. Though I had explain that in the readme. Oh well, it was
only a very quick and dirty hack to fill a requirement I had ;) I can
clean the scripts up and write a better readme if it's going to be used
by a few people. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cook, Garry [mailto:GWCOOK at mactec.com] 
> Sent: 04 January 2005 19:27
> To: Cooper, Mark; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Easy User Defined Status Map updates
> 
> nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net wrote:
> > Dunno if anyone will find this useful, but I was having 
> problems with 
> > a largish network not being displayed particularly well in 
> the status 
> > map and needed a way to easily create the user defined status map 
> > coords. So ...
> > 
> > Two very simple scripts to convert the config's back and 
> forth between 
> > nagios and cheops-ng for the purpose of getting the nagios 
> status map 
> > looking pretty :)
> > 
> > nag2che.awk - ( cat hostextinfo.cfg | ./nag2che.awk )
> > 
> > Reads the Nagios config file and creates a cheops-ng config 
> file. You 
> > can then fire up cheops-ng and drag and drop the nodes the the 
> > location you want them.
> > 
> > che2nag.awk - ( cat hostextinfo.cfg | ./che2nag.awk )
> > 
> > Pulls out the x,y coords from the cheops-nf config file and updates 
> > the nagios config file with the new node positions
> 
> I would find this very useful, if I could make it work. Not 
> having used cheops-ng before, I had to do a fair amount of 
> research to get that going. For a new user, it seems as 
> though cheops-ng will crash if there is no 
> '$HOME/.gnome/cheops-ng.map' file when you attempt to open 
> the file created by nag2che.awk.
> 
> Also, nag2che.awk didn't appear to create a file, at least 
> not one that I could locate. I created this file with the 
> following command:
>     cat hostextinfo.cfg | ./nag2che.awk > 
> ~/.gnome/cheops-ng.map This would also take care of the 
> cheops crashing issue mentioned above.
> 
> So, I made it to the point where I can see my statusmap in 
> cheops-ng, move icons around, delete old ones, etc. After 
> this I save the file and go back to the command line to run 
> your next script, right? Perhaps you could elaborate on this 
> step a bit, as I can't seem to figure it out.
> I'm reading into the script now, so maybe I'll get to it 
> before you read this. However, I do think that your docs 
> could use a little more information in them.
> 
> Garry W. Cook, CCNA
> Network Infrastructure Manager
> MACTEC, Inc. - http://www.mactec.com/
> 303.273.5050 (Office) - 720.220.1862 (Mobile)
> 
> 


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