Need advice about server-side actions
Lukas Krejci
lkrejci at redhat.com
Thu Jun 23 09:03:13 UTC 2011
On Wednesday, June 22, 2011 22:39:46 Steven North wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am investigating how I might accomplish the following scenario using RHQ:
>
> - define an alert on, say, a JBoss metric;
> - when that alert is triggered perform an operation on another resource
> to get a log file
> through the SupportFacet; and
> - make the URL of that log file available in the RHQ UI as a link (so it
> can be clicked
> by the user to download the file and start the proper program to view
> it).
>
> It seems like the log file can be acquired using a CLI script
> notification sender. Presumably the script can obtain the id of the
> resource that originates the alert. Deriving the id of the resource to
> be the target of the "get log file" operation will be harder because the
> alert can't provide it.
>
> How about making the URL of log file available in the RHQ UI? I suppose
> the URL could be e-mailed, but is there a way to get the URL displayed
> on the RHQ UI with the alert? Can the URl be in the Alert Notifications
> Message field? Would that show up as an active link in the browser?
> (Guess I can try to get it there and see.)
>
In my blog post about the CLI Script alert sender I actually showcase that the
script's output is being captured and shown in the RHQ UI:
http://metlos.wordpress.com/2011/03/08/scripted-alert-notifications-in-rhq/
That said the place this gets shown is not very prominent, as you already
found out and as others already said, the link most probably wouldn't be
clickable.
> Thoughts? Pointers to examples of these activities?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Steve
>
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