nagios to mrtg

John P. Rouillard rouilj at cs.umb.edu
Thu Oct 20 19:54:58 CEST 2005


In message <200510201106.28363.jun at lifecapturemedia.com>,
Jun Li writes:
>Now I am still thinking a better way to solving my problem. Adding 
>header/footer just generate a steadic page.

No it doesn't with the patch. The patch makes the header and footer
into CGI scripts and it can be as dynamic as you want.

>Do you have any way that allows
>me to modify the existed cgi, so that when I click my mrtg service status, it 
>will direct it to my mrtg/myhost.html. Because nagios is a open source
>program, i do believe it allows user to modify it's code.

Just write the header/footer scripts and use the nagios CGI variables
 passed in to determine what page to go to in MRTG.

 >On Wednesday 19 October 2005 06:16 pm, John P. Rouillard wrote:
 >> In message <200510191750.44182.jun at lifecapturemedia.com>,
 >>
 >> Jun Li writes:
 >> >Anyone can let me know how to put some link in the main frame not the sid
 >e
 >> >bar,for example in service detail main frame in my nagios web site to lin
 >k
 >> >to ../www/html/mrtg/myhost.html, so, for example, people can see the
 >> > charts as well as can check mrtg log.
 >>
 >> Look in the documentation for custom headers and footer. If my patch
 >> of a year ago has been applied, you will see something like:
 >>
 >>   It is important to note that, unless the custom header and footer
 >>   files are executable, they are not processed in any way before they
 >>   are displayed. The contents of the header and footer include files are
 >>   simply read and displayed in the CGI output. That means they can only
 >>   contain information a web browser can understand (HTML, JavaScript,
 >>   etc.).
 >>
 >> The above is from the nagios 2 documentation that includes the patch.
 >> If that isn't in the documentation you are using, you can try to find
 >> the patch and apply it.
 >>
 >> The executable header/footer is basically a CGI that can emit HTML and
 >> add whatever menu items you wish.

				-- rouilj
John Rouillard
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