Re: {bb} BB questions

[Jeff Stoner <leapfrog@freeshell.org>]

On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Esquivel, Vicente wrote:

> management that is requiring me to ask them.

You listen to management?  ;-)

> 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.

As suggested earlier, it will probably be easier to set up a separate 
BBDISPLAY and hack the code (mkbb.sh and mkbb2.sh) to remove the linking 
to actual status logs.

> 2.  Is there a way to right justify all of the server names on the Main Page
> of Big Brother?

This would be a good case for CSS.

Feature request! Feature request!

Add class attributes to many of the elements so that styles can be applied 
to them.

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

Yes. Set up the clients and testing but don't add them to the bb-hosts 
file on your BBDISPLAY. They will still show up on the bb2.html page but 
they won't be accessible from any other page.

You can also use a combination of page and group-only tags in the bb-hosts 
file on BBDISPLAY.

It's your choice. "Choose wisely, for as the true Grail will bring 
everlasting life, a false Grail will take it from you."

> Thanks everyone for all of your help, again I apologize if some of these
> questions sound out of the ordinary.

Nothing out of the ordinary here.

--Jeff
Lost: My sanity. If found, bury it.

"Anyone want a Cicada?"
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