Re: [Nagios-users] Realtime 3d statusmap?

[Dan S. <str...@dc...>]

On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 12:01 +0100, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> Jason Martin wrote:
> > Has anyone seen any sort of project that could be used to
> > implement a realtime* 3d statusmap? I'm not expecting it to be
> > Nagios specific, but perhaps something that could be integrated.
> >=20
> > Thanks,
> > -Jason Martin
> >=20
> > * as realtime as Nagios performs its status checks, of course.
>=20
> This would be impossible without a proprietary client and server, since=20
> http is a stateless protocol and the server can't force the browser to=20
> reload when an event happens on the server side (it can set reload=20
> timers, but not force them prior to timer).

Actually, both cookies and ? URL's can be used to maintain state in run
of the mill http+html.  Your can encode your data in either, or just
encode a database key in either and have the server look things up in a
database under the key.

Also forcing frequent reloads works fine with your usual http+html,
though you could come up with a browser plugin that would be more
efficient.

If you restrict access, and refresh every 5 minutes or something, I
doubt you'd have a load problem.