Re: [Nagios-devel] creating CGI scripts and interacting

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On Mar 31, 2010, at 1:19 PM, Mohammed Murphy wrote:

> Thanks for the hints Marc. Unfortunately I was not clear enough about =
my=20
> requirements before so I will expound a bit more.
>=20
> I only want to talk about the first issue of creating CGI scripts and=20=

> break it down into two parts. Firstly, I would like to create a web =
page=20
> that contains the look & feel and header & footer info of the existing=20=

> pages with my own customised web data in the middle. The important =
point=20
> is that I would like it to be automated, because (as I revealed in my=20=

> last email) this is for an installer-type application. So for =
instance,=20
> if a Nagios user updates their Nagios system to a newer version with a=20=

> slighly different look & feel, then the same installer-type =
application=20
> will still be able to generate the custom page appropriately. Is this=20=

> possible?

You could use the same CSS file as nagios, using what you feel are the =
appropriate classes and code your layout to be similar to Nagios but =
what you're wanting to do seems like magic to me. If the Look and Feel =
of Nagios changes between versions, you're going to have to update your =
code to match. I just don't see any way around it.

> nBoard, for instance, requires that a new html page simply be=20
> added to an 'extras' directory; so I wondered if the default Nagios =
web=20
> UI had a similar mechanism.

No, it does not.

--
Marc=





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