Integration to WhatsUp Gold in iFrame?

Hi all together.

I am running WhatsUp Gold, but WuG's syslog and eventlog management is very weak.

And ipswitch has no good product for this with a webinterface.

As I only have to monitor approx. 20 servers, I don't want to buy a $$$$-solution. Kiwi syslog server would do it fine.

But for a quick overview on a device, I would like to integrate the informations from Kiwi syslog server into WuG.

WuG does allow; it's possible to insert iframes and insert custom html or a link.

(For further informations: look at www.plixer.com/.../scrutinizer-whatsupgold.php , there is also a pdf which explains this in detail.
It's for scrutinizer, but should work with every webpage).

I now would like to insert (in the device-report of WuG) a link to the webinterface of Kiwi.

To achieve a smooth operation, I will have to include some informations in the link.

I think this will be:

i) the login + password for the Kiwi Web Access

(Kiwi would be installed on the same machine or a machine in the same subnet; Wug and Kiwi won't be accessible from the web, only from the LAN).

ii) the IP or NetBiosName for the device of interest (on the reports-per-device, I only want to see the device-specific messages)

iii) if possible: Also some sort of filter string; for example to show only Messages from Service ABCD (running on the particular machine).

Question A)

Can I access a Kiwi Syslog Server - Webpage directly by a link including this informations?

If yes - how would such a link look like (I have found nothing on the web).

Are there any guides, how-to's, tips, experiences for this integration?

Question

Opening severals reports in WuG would fire several accesses to the Kiwi-Pages using the same login+password combo.

Does this cause any problems on Kiwi?

Kind regards to all,

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bshopp

Casa, this is currently not possible today with the web client, we have an enhancement request to add this into the system.

casa3

Hi bshopp - kind regards for your answer.

How far can I go (aside from integration in WuG)?

Let's make it simpler.
I simply want to add a bookmark in my browser, with a direct link to page in Kiwi.

Is the providing of any informations in a link completely impossible, or are there any elements [ i), ii) oder iii) ] I could provide with the link?
(for example that I only have to enter my login data each time, but then Kiwi shows me directly the desired page?)

Now - additional question, for the case that one can't provide any informations in a link.
If the Kiwi Server receives a new syslog message for a server - can there be setup a trigger to make Kiwi publish a html-report for this very server, maybe even filtered that only messages with a certain string fire this export? (Like this, I could have a set of approx. 20 html-pages I could include each on the respective page in WuG; knowing, that the referred html is allways up to date)

kind regards,

bshopp

You cannot currently pass username and password in the URL.

You can schedule a report to run or if you want something more on demand you can look to write a script action, see here for some examples