Questions about Nagios Looking Glass

[Andy Shellam]

Hi Matt,

Sounds like quite a task you've gotten there!  Can I take it that fun is 
with a capital F? ;-)

The template engine isn't really an engine at all, but simply a mixture 
of placeholders and a bunch of str_replace()'s!  It is hideous I know, 
but v2 will have it's own templating engine (currently being developed 
and refined in other projects.)

I can tell you now that version 2 *may* make this sort of job easier, as 
it will have a pluggable architecture that splits out the application 
into separate logical "layers" - in similar fashion to n-tier 
applications - e.g. NLG will take care of grabbing the data and 
authentication etc, while allowing other users and developers to tack a 
"view" on top of this layer.  In this sense you should theoretically be 
able to do virtually anything with the data - from creating a whole new 
template to showing the last-known status as an RSS feed (something 
which will be part of the standard distribution.)

If you want to contact me privately (remove the -lists from this e-mail 
address) and let me know what you're trying to do with v1 now and I'll 
certainly try to help, as v2 is still a good way off yet.  Unfortunately 
I have no experience of Joomla.  I'd need to know more about how it 
authenticates (e.g. using standard HTTP authentication or whatever) and 
if there is a public variable available in PHP that gives the Joomla 
username (in similar fashion to $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'] etc.)

Regards,

Andy

Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:39:36 +0100
> Andy Shellam <andy.shellam-lists at mailnetwork.co.uk> wrote:
>
>   
>> There is no current way to exclude hosts that are in scheduled
>> downtime or have been acknowledged; this is on the cards for version
>> 2.
>>     
>
> Sorry to hijack the thread, but can I put in a feature request for
> version 2? :o)
>
> I'm not sure if this can be done or not at the moment, however I am
> trying to integrate NLG into Joomla (it's fun, really, it is...) and
> one of the things I want to be able to do is authenticate against
> Nagios using the Joomla Usernames so that the currently logged on user
> only sees their own servers.
>
> If it can be done, can you tell me how?  If it can't, please can it be
> added as a feature request?
>
> Secondly, which templating engine are you using? I've tried to rewrite
> the templates so it does only shows the server names on the first page
> but still allows the user to drill down through the services on that
> host but I'm not having much luck - if you can help me in any way, that
> would be great!
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Matt
>   

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