I decided for the MozEX solution. It worked fine.
thnx for the tip.
On Thu, 20 May 2004, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> Leonardo Henrique Machado wrote:
> > I wish I could click on the Client image so that automaticaly opens a=
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> > xterm window running ssh toward that client. That is possible with=20
> > WhatsUp. Not using xterm.
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> This is equally possible from anything displaying a webpage, but it will=
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> require that you configure your browser properly for it, or write some=20
> rather extensive Java-applet for it and rewrite apache to act as a=20
> connection tunnel (which is a really bad idea for a wide variety of=20
> reasons, in case you were wondering).
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> > I am trying to add a URL note to the client using hostextinfo. This url=
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> > would launch my xterm+ssh session. Up to now I had no success.
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> Either you haven't read the documentation for it (it's at www.nagios.org=
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> - click on 'Documentation'), or you haven't configured your browser=20
> properly. Try it with Mozilla Firefox, and install the MozEX extension.=
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> Then you can point the 'Universal Protocol Handler' to the attached=20
> script (assuming you're running Linux as your desktop OS, ofcourse).
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> > Now I will try to alter the nagios source code to fullfill the lack of=
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> > this feature. I hope to see it on the next version of nagios.
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> That would truly be a futile attempt, and considering you didn't know=20
> that, I suggest you don't even try.
> Nagios is just a process which sits and gathers information. The CGI=20
> programs (which happen to accompany the nagios daemon) feed that=20
> information through a pipe to a web-server, which in turn feeds it to=20
> the client (the webbrowser). The webbrowser is responsible for making=20
> things happen when you click links and so on. If you're going to modify=
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> some code, you should modify that of your webbrowser.
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> > Leonardo Henrique Machado
> > =DAltimo Per=EDodo em Ci=EAncia da Computacao
> > Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
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Leonardo Henrique Machado
=DAltimo Per=EDodo em Ci=EAncia da Computacao
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
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