Xymon Notes Editor

A web-based editor for modifying your server notes files in Xymon. Xymon's built-in notes viewer will pick up any changes you make.

Maintainer	Galen Johnson
Compatibility	Xymon 4.2, Xymon 4.3
Requirements	Perl, HTML::FromText, perl-CGI
Download	None
Last Update	2012-01-03

Installation

• Install the prerequisite perl modules
• Create the notesdata directory ($XYMONSERVER/etc/notesdata) with ownerships and permissions for your webserver to write to it.

mkdir -m 775 /usr/local/xymon/server/etc/notesdata
chgrp apache /usr/local/xymon/server/etc/notesdata

• Update the code for your paths
• Put the header and footer file under $XYMONSERVER/web
• Put the xymnote_editor.cgi script under the $XYMON/cgi-secure
• Update your Administration links in $XYMONSERVER/www/menu/menu_items.js with

['Edit Notes', '/xymon-seccgi/xymnote_editor.cgi'],

• UPDATE: Ubuntu or Debian users should modify this file instead /etc/hobbit/web/menu.cfg
• Insert the following line in Administration section

 <a class=\"inner\" href=\"$BBSERVERSECURECGIURL/xymnote_editor.cgi\">Edit Notes</a><span class=\"invis\"> | </span> \

• For xymon 4.3.5 insert following line in $XYMONSERVER/etc/xymonmenu.cfg

<a class="inner" href="$XYMONSERVERSECURECGIURL/xymnote_editor.cgi">Edit Notes</a><span class="invis"> | </span>

Known Bugs and Issues

To Do

• Drop BB support
• Include an html editor like TinyMCE
• Use xymon notes folder instead of symlink

Credits

• Chris Naude who wrote the original BB script

Changelog

• 2012/01/03

  • Adjustments made to make it work and display properly in xymon 4.3.x. My thanks goes to KVDO
  • for helping me out with the javascript code and everybody that worked on this add-on.
  • Note: Working but code not perfect.

• 2010-11-03

  • Removed the local statement on line 224 in the cgi script as it gave errors when compiling.
  • Changed <my local ($oldbar) = $|;> into <my ($oldbar) = $|;>

• 2010-08-14

  • Minor modification to explicitly set the package for local variables (ie, add "my")

• 2009-11-26

  • Updated the installation section. Ubuntu/Debian uses menu.cfg instead

• 2007-07-02

  • Added code to force Perl to flush its buffers after each output statement. This will, hopefully, address any 'premature end of script headers' errors.

• 2007-05-05

  • Updated to use strict
  • Config variables are added to environment
  • Capture hosts in include files

• 2007-05-01

  • Initial release