Re: [Devmon] Initial weather map implementation

[Buchan M. <bg...@st...>]

On Thursday 09 October 2008 22:05:10 Engineering wrote:
> I got it to load and it seems to function pretty good.  I noticed that the
> node seems to link back to the trends column and when you are doing
> mouseovers it is an issue.

How so? On mouse over it should show the CPU graph. On clicking it takes you 
to the trends page.

> Because there are so many graphs on the page it
> is unable to bring up a mouseover image.

I only get one graph on mouse over (as I had intended).

I'll try and get either decent screenshots, or a demo up somewhere ...

> I do however like how easy it was
> to get the node and links done with overlibs.  Normally it takes about
> 15-20 lines and this time it only took about 3-4.  I didn't have to go
> hunting for the links for the overlib and the links for when you click on
> the overlib. So far I think it a good step in the right direction.

The next step is to make it easier to generate parts of the config (or, an 
editor), possibly using some CDP data (I have a cdp test which I am working 
on).

> I
> noticed the code you used was from http://netmon.grnet.gr/weathermap/

That's the code I started with on Wednesday morning. Yesterday morning I 
merged in some of the changes Howie made (available here: 
http://wotsit.thingy.com/haj/cacti-weathermap.html).

> which
> hasn't been updated since February 20th, 2006.  Didn't know if you were
> aware of one that is currently being kept up-to-date at
> http://www.network-weathermap.com/.  I know that the first one is perl and
> the second one is done in php but the php version seems to have more
> options.

I will look at adding some of the options, but it won't be possible to have 
100% compatibility (in the config). It may actually be possible to add 
features not available in the cacti plugin.

The features I still need are:
1)Better arrow placement (VIA keyword in the network-weathermap.com one)
2)Icon support

> Don't know if they would make it harder to port or not.

I suspect support for the VIA keyword is about 10 minutes of work, and Icon 
support about 20 minutes ... let's see. Support for some of the DEFAULT 
settings might take bit longer.

Regards,
Buchan