this is why a graphical interface with collaspseable menus will be
really useful. If you are trying to keep track of events like this, it
presents a problem for others unless we do something client-specific
On
Mon,
18 Oct 1999, Rick Beebe wrote:
> Good point, but it depends on how you use it. We, the network operations
> staff, hide devices so that our help desk doesn't see them. Usually it's
> because we've verified that the device is still alive even though it's not
> answering pings, or it's something that's temporarily down. Obviously we
> can't go around and put cookies on everyone's machines.
>
> If you want to see all the devices, just look at the 'error' view instead of
> the 'critical' view.
>
> "Jonathan A. Zdziarski" wrote:
> >
> > the problem with a 'hidden' field in the database is that it's not the
> > place for it...if one person wants to hide a view and another doesn't,
> > it automatically makes the field obsolite. i think the 'hidden'
> > information should be kept in either a cookie, /tmp file, or whatever
> > type of file a view process initializes to store its variables.
> >
> > On Mon, 18
> > Oct 1999, Rick Beebe wrote:
> >
> > > "Jonathan A. Zdziarski" wrote:
> > > >
> > > > All involved, please let me know what you think of this below. I believe
> > > > it will be the optimal level of multiple dependency logic for our
> > > > application allowing you to form complex AND and OR routines, rather than
> > > > just OR routines.
> > >
> > > One of the things I added to the web interface, that doesn't exist in
> > > netconsole, was a status field and a 'hidden' field. I had to use the
> > > somewhat kludgy etc/updates file to do that. Since we're talking about a
> > > redesign, how about adding those to the database to make it easy to add that
> > > functionality to any of the interfaces.
>
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> Rick Beebe (203) 785-4566
> Network Engineering Manager FAX: (203) 737-4037
> ITS-Med Technology Operations Richard.Beebe@yale.edu
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> _____________________________________________________________________
>
Thank you,
Jonathan A. Zdziarski
Sr. Systems Administrator
Netrail, inc.
888.NET.RAIL x240
http://www.netrail.net
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