NTray: RFE

[Robert Wagner]

As I wrote back privately to Jonathan:

   That actually should be coming when Nagios can generate some XML output
for NTray to poll. It's been requested and Ethan thought it was a good
idea, but it hasn't happened yet.

   Right now, since NTray is just polling the 'Status Summary' (status.cgi)
page and parsing out that HTML, it doesn't know whether any outages/warning
are acknowleged, scheduled, or otherwise. When this XML output is
available, NTray will request that instead, which should give a list of all
hosts/services in a non-okay state, and any 'extended information' like
that the outage is scheduled/acknowleged.

   In the meantime, maybe I'll take a crack at parsing out TAC.CGI
instead.. it shows that status, but there is a lot of similar looking HTML
generated in there that I will have to sift through. (darn HTML tables
anyway)

                         Rob



                                                                                                        
                    Jonathan Rozes                                                                      
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Seconded. NTray is *very* useful when everything is up, but virtually
useless when there are acknowledged alerts that sit around for any length
of
time. Pink would seem to be the color of choice since that's what Nagios
uses in the Tactical Overview display.

Thanks,
jonathan

+++ Jonathan Rozes, Manager, Information Technology, Will Vinton Studios


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carroll, Jim P [Contractor] [mailto:jcarro10 at sprintspectrum.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 10:49 AM
> To: 'Robert Wagner'; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] NTray: RFE
>
>
> Robert, I was wondering if you're accepting Requests For
> Enhancements to
> NTray.
>
> Specifically, if there are no unacknowledged critical alerts,
> for the colour
> of the tray icon to be something other than red.  Like pink,
> maybe.  Or
> shaded red.  Or half red, half grey.  Just something which
> will let me and
> my fellow admins think, "Okay, there's still work to to be
> done, but we
> don't need to spring into action and see what Nagios is
> trying to bring to
> our attention."
>
> Otherwise, we have this red dot in our tray and the admins
> wondering what's
> wrong.  :P
>
> jc
>
>
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