Re: {bb} BB questions

["PAUL WILLIAMSON" <pwilliamson@mandtbank.com>]

Answers inline...

>>>> Esquivelv@uhd.edu 06/02/04 17:12 PM >>>
>Hello fellow Brothers,
> 
> I have a couple of questions that I am needing help 
> with.  I hope that no one stones me for asking 
> them, but I have gotten some requests from my
> management that is requiring me to ask them.

We won't stone you.  Just make fund of you...j/k.
 
>1.  Can I disable the ability to click on any of the 
> status icons that are displayed on the main page, 
> that displays as few vital servers, of  Big
> Brother?  We are using the main page as a show 
> piece to the rest of our university, so that any 
> faculty and staff member can go our Big Brother
> display and view the status of our vital servers.  
> We are using password protected sub pages for our 
> IT staff to access only.

Not that I know of.  Maybe have a "fake" html page 
that displays all the information?
 
> 2.  Is there a way to right justify all of the 
> server names on the Main Page of Big Brother?

Again, not that I know of, but you can left-justify 
by enabling FQDN or center it by turning it off.
 
Maybe Henrik's bb-gen add-on could do this or it 
could be a request for the next version?

> 3.  Can we monitor and alert on some systems 
> without displaying them on our Big Brother web page?

Sort of.  You could just not put them in the bb-hosts 
file, but they will show up in the bb2.html.
If you have a separate BBNET server, you could even 
get the network tests.  If you only want the client 
status, you don't need an entry in bb-hosts.
 
>Thanks everyone for all of your help, again I 
>apologize if some of these
>questions sound out of the ordinary.
 
>Vince

 
Of course, you could completely get around the whole 
issue by creating a totally separate site that only 
displays statuses, but pulls them from the real 
bb site.  We have a situation where we scrape the 
bb2.html page and put that information into a hourly 
status of general network/client activity.

Good luck,

Paul


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