statusmap.cgi Question - How to make it Pretty

[Potter, G M (Greg)]

Could you write a perl script that would read in a list
of hosts and write the configuration file with a 
reasonable spacing of hosts.  It would be relatively 
straight forward if you wanted just a rectangular arrangement
of hosts on the page.

Greg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ackim Chisha [mailto:ackim at coppernet.zm]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 10:05 AM
> To: Chris Stankaitis
> Cc: 'nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net'
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] statusmap.cgi Question - How to make it
> Pretty
> 
> 
> Hi Cris,
> 
> I have a similar problem like yours. I have about 150 hosts 
> to monitor, 
> and all the layout methods available are a total mess.
> Earlier I asked the same question I had no response so I have 
> taken it 
> may be you only have to do it the manual way by specifying the 
> coordinates but can you imagine doing that for more that 150 hosts!!
> 
> I now regret why I moved from Netsaint to nagios. Yes netsaint had 
> something called saintmap that you could use to draw your host layout 
> and then it would set the coordinates for you.
> 
> Any way I guess am not helping much but just trying to shed 
> more light. 
>  I think we need to write one.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ackim
> 
> Chris Stankaitis wrote:
> 
> >
> > I personally don't care too much for the Status Map, it's 
> nice to look 
> > at but ultimately there are much more important screens in Nagios.. 
> > However the Non-Techie Management types love the little 
> pictures and 
> > network layout graph and such... so it has become my problem :)
> >
> > Problem is with 70+ hosts even after defining and seting up parents 
> > the thng is still a MAJOR mess... it seems the only solution is to 
> > define manual XYZ coordinates, which seems like a VERY LONG job.
> >
> > Does anyone have any advice out there on how I can do this in the 
> > easiest most painless way possible??  I heard rumors that 
> in the day 
> > of Netsaint there was a GUI which would read in the config let you 
> > drag n' drop things to where you want them, then would 
> write out the 
> > configs with the proper XYZ coordinates.
> >
> > Does this still exist and does it work with the new 
> template configs?? 
> > if not is there a comparable method out there to acomplish this
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 
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