John P. Rouillard wrote:
In Nagios 2.0 you also have an action_url as well as notes_url. I link
to a twiki page for the URL and uses passed in parameters
(http://host/twiki/bin/view/ServicePing?host=...) to customize the
offered links.

I use a generic template to define all the links:

  # generic serviceextinfo entry template
  define serviceextinfo {
        register        0
        name            generic-service
        notes_url       
https://host.com/twiki/bin/view/Systems/NagSvc$SERVICEDESC$
        action_url      
https://host.com/twiki/bin/view/Systems/NagSvc$SERVICEDESC$?host=$HOSTNAME$&service=$SERVICEDESC$&state=$SERVICESTATE$&output=$SERVICEOUTPUT$
        }

and the wiki page provides links to cactii graphs, create a trouble
tickets etc. Note SERVICEDESC and SERVICESTATE don't actually expand
sadly.  Works well and allows other searches/actions to be only 2
clicks away.

IMO the current mechanism doesn't scale well. Too much screen space is
needed to provide a link to all the possible things you may want to
link to. Would be nicer to have the ability to bind a menu (e.g.
dropdown/select box) of items/links into the service information page.

However using a wiki as an index of links is nice in that it can link
to system information and tickets associated with the hosts and
services. We will be including troubleshooting info in the wiki as
well to make it easier to respond to problems.

Ok, thanks for the input. I'm running Nagios 1.2, I guess I should have mentioned that before. For a few of the things I would like to do, that would work because I only have two different URL's I would to be able to get to. For some of my things however, that will not work because I'm linking to three, four, five or more. My one host I'm linking to almost 40 URL's. It's a switch which is graphing for each individual port that I want to view.

Basically, I just created a generic html page, added all my different URL's that I need to be able to get to, and then just linked that to the one specific notes_url. My fellow IT members can then browse to that page, have a list of all the specific graphs they would like to see, and simply click on whatever they want to be displayed. This will work great for me because it's not something that is going to get a ton of looks.

I like the sounds of a drop down box though, that would be great to have, but for now what I just did works just as great for myself. Thanks.

Max


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