Minor patch for statuswml.cgi

[Ethan Galstad]

Excellent idea - I'll get this into CVS shortly...

Marcus Fleige wrote:
> Hi List, hi Ethan,
> 
> once again i have a small cosmetic change which fits perfectly to my 
> lazyness during on-call schedule times. ;-)
> 
> What does it do?
> 
> Actually, it sets default values for the acknowledgement dialogs.
> 
> 
> Ok. Why?
> 
> If you are notified by Short Message at night, it is obvious to have a 
> first look at the problem via the WAP interface. If you find the problem 
> unworthy being handled at night, you can directly acknowledge it and 
> have a closer look at it the next morning. At this point you realize 
> there is nothing more annoying than typing your Name and a comment into 
> a dialog with the help of your mobile phone's keys.
> 
> Normally, when you access the nagios frontend via wml (WAP), you ideally 
> authenticate against the webservers htaccess config before you view 
> unhandled problems etc. If you want to achknowledge a service or host 
> problem, you have to fill two fields of information: Author and comment.
> 
> The patch fills the 'com_author' value with the username you 
> authenticated as. Additionally, it defaults the comment field to 
> 'acknowledged by WAP'. So, all you have to do is press the OK-Button and 
> the problem is ack'ed. Optionally, you still can input a more meaningful 
> comment or another author name.
> 
> 
> I hope this is useful for someone. Feedback welcome! ;-)
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Marcus Fleige
> 


Ethan Galstad
Nagios Developer
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