Re: [Nagios-devel] [Fwd: Patch to display parent hosts in
Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 9:27 am
On 13 May 2009, at 11:05, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> Ton Voon wrote:
>> On 13 May 2009, at 10:28, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
>>
>>> matthias eble wrote:
>>>> Hi Andreas, hi Ton,
>>>>
>>>> so I'll try the proof of concept and re-submit this patch as I
>>>> think
>>>> this is quite neat (it still applies to latest version).
>>>>
>>> Neat patch. Thanks
>>
>> Andreas, does this mean you are going to commit this? If so, I'll
>> back
>> off.
>>
>
> Go ahead if you're on it. My git-import is still running, so I won't
> touch it until 3PM at the earliest.
I don't plan on touching this today - just wanted to make sure we
weren't clashing. Do you use IRC? Maybe #nagios-devel on
irc.freenode.net would be better to coordinate?
>>>> This would make it easily possible to display hosts' children in
>>>> the
>>>> cgis which is a good thing also IMO.
>>> I'm not so sure about that. Many of our customers have huge switches
>>> with up to a hundred child-host connected to them.
>>
>> I think you could add a table at the bottom of the extinfo.cgi page
>> to
>> list all the children. It's out of the way, but accessible if
>> required.
>>
>
> True that, but obtaining the information right now makes it
> prohibitively
> expensive to do so for large installations. It would mean having to
> walk
> through all the hosts and see which ones have the current host
> listed as
> its parent.
True. So if use_large_installations_tweaks is set, don't display,
otherwise do?
When the children links are added to the object structure, then we
just need to remove this if statement.
Ton
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