[Nagios-users] Extended host information: linked to what?

[Geert V. <ge...@ke...>]

Hey all,

I was wondering what Nagios users use for the extra link to Extended
Host information.

Looking on the web for 'network inventory systems' I wasn't to
succesful. Thing is, this link is probably most useful when it show
information like 'What if service foo goes Critical'.

Faq-o-matic is something like that. I tried it out, but it lacks
ofcourse the question 'What is this host? How many cpu's it has? How
many Gig of Ram?'.. easy managment.

Ofcourse a static HTML is ok, plain text even. But it would be great to
have it manageble. The information contained here is pretty important.
And if it doesn't look nice, people will not fill in what to do when the
MySQL server has to many connections or one of the loadbalancers gets
out of control :)

There must be packages having this host/net managment/inventory stuff.

I wrote an XML thing having all stuff in it. Just because I don't want
to make a database, because the database can go down :p But this is a
quick hack, manageble in PHP.. and I was just planning to make an
interface with GTK.. but PHP will do for now ;)

For instance, it would be nice to attach a possible or the solution to a
critical problem for a certain service through this. Like this dream
option for hosts/services:

	what-todo-critical https://nagios.foobar.info/warning?$HOST$

and wget or include that url in the email sended to the people.

Just having ideas..

Regards,

Geert

-- 
Geert Vanderkelen
Kemuri.Org

http://kemuri.org