Big Sister / Support Requests / #516 use %View inside bb-display.cfg file

Thomas Aeby - 2017-10-11

I am afraid that Frameset always makes use of the "global" skin so currently it is impossible to have multiple Framesets each with distinct skin. As a workaround you should be able to remove the two buttons in question globally.

In order to fix this, one would need to alter DisplayCFG::read_file() ("Frameset" section, store skin like it is done in the "Page" section) and Display::create_frameset().

Unless I am missing an important point, this should be a rather simple&straight forward modification. I'll give it a try probably this week-end if you do not dive into it.

At the time that piece of code had been written, nobody thought about having more than one frameset ...

Kind regards,
Tom

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Vladan Obradovic - 2017-10-12

Tom,
Thanks a lot for instruction you sent to me. :)
But I must to tell, that wasn't "simple&straight forward modification" for me. :(
It take me 2-3 hours to figure out what I need to change to make appropriate modification.

Followed your instructions I changed files DisplayCFG.pm and Display.pm to get what I wanted.

I added modified files as attachment, if somone wish to use %View statment inside bb-display.cfg file.
File SymLink.pm is used on Windows platform to replace function symlink() inside file Display.pm.
I tested SymLink.pm file on win7 and w2k16 Windows. It's can crate symbolic link for files and folders.

Now I realized that would be nice that each %View, ONLY show monitoring objects (computers, switches ... etc) from tables defined inside that paricular view.
I will try to make modification to realize this goal.

Best regards,
Vladan

Display.pm

DisplayCFG.pm

SymLink.pm

part of bb-display.cfg

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Thomas Aeby - 2017-10-12

Thanks a lot, great job!

Regarding the objects to be seen within a view: yes, sure, the point of a view is, that only the referenced objects are accessible within the view. Most probably I misunderstood your comment.

Of course, you have to avoid referencing objects that you do not want to be visible, such as the famous "ALL" group, for instance.

Best regards,
Tom

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Thomas Aeby - 2017-10-12

Ah, yes, had a look at your bb-display.cfg sample. Something like

%table ALL

within a view will display a table with all hosts, thus all hosts make part of this view. It's essential to only use groups containing no more than what you want to display in the respective view.

Best regards,
Tom

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Vladan Obradovic - 2017-10-13

Tom,
Thanks for your note

%table ALL
This was mistake :).
When I fixed it, selection for "Problem Hosts" looking fine inside each view.

I fixed bugs inside previously posted files.

If anyone wish to use this implementatio with different views, you can find all modified files inside mail atachment. To install files from attachment you need to copy these files over existing files inside BigSister installation folder. For skins you need to copy folders from c:\bigsis\www\skins to new one and rename folder to folder with *_view, then copy files from attachment to new created folder.
default -> default_view
frames -> frames_view
techie -> techie_view
Inside attachment you can find example of bb-display.cfg with configuration for different views.
Screenshots of those views you can see also can find inside atachment. :)

Tom, can you add files from attachment to next release of BigSister?
If you wish, I can send you all files from my BigSister installation folder (without log files) and you can decide if you wish to include modified files or modification made inside files in next release of BigSister?!
In the meantime I will make user manual how to install BigSister on windows platform (w1k16) and how configure IIS to display data collected by BigSister. You also can include this user manual to next release of BigSister.

to do list:
1.Show data by filter for History,Alarams and Admin links (buttons) for particular view (only show data for objects that bilong to view).
2.Make new plugin using WMI or powershell, for monitoring MS SQL Standalone / Cluster installation (Microsoft does not support SNMP protocol to monitor MS SQL) and another HW resources inside Windows operating system.
3.Test users authentication mentioned in the following mail
https://sourceforge.net/p/bigsister/mailman/message/25739092/
4.Add support to display history data stored inside MS SQL server (>> button) when using dbi:ADO:Provider to connect db
5.Add support to create reports from data stored inside MS SQL server (report_consolidate, report_day, report_read, report_sla) when using dbi:ADO:Provider to connect db
6.Make Visual Studio C# project to generate following configuration files from data entered inside GUI form: bb-display.cfg, uxmon-net, bb_event_generator.cfg, resources, permissions ...

Tom, can you point me to the right direction or maybe you have some instructions or advice for some numbers inside to do list (1. - 5.) ? :)

Best regards,
Vladan

Different views.7z

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Vladan Obradovic - 2017-10-16

I tested 4. from the upper list.
It's working by default when using MS SQL db with dbi:ADO:Provider, but with ugly message inside generated html file:
Win32::OLE(0.1712): GetOleObject() Not a Win32::OLE object at C:/Perl/lib/Win32/OLE/Lite.pm line 154 during global destruction.

I add new part of code to file bshistgraph.pl
if( Platforms::iswin32() ) {
use Win32::OLE();
}
END { $perfdb->close(); $perfinfodb->close(); $perfvardb->close(); $hostdb->close(); }
to suppress this message.

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