Feature request: Blackberry accesible views

Question

I'd love to be able to have Orion detect that my browser is a "BlackBerry8300/4.2.2 Profile/MDP-2.0", etc., and allow me to define custom summary/node details views based on browser type.  I do considerable work from my Blackberry and having device-specific views, or the ability to make Orion more usable in a mobile device, would be excellent.

chris.schear · Answer

danrog brings up a great point.  In addition to Blackberry/Mobile device accessible views, Orion could benefit from having a set of built-in RSS feeds that could be referenced in readers of choice.  I'll put my hat into the ring to request RSS as a feature request.

danrog · Answer

A while back someone posted an ASP script that generated an RSS view of all the active alerts. In theory you could write your own query and display what ever you wanted to. I took the same script and modified it to work with NetIQ. We can browse both active alerts in Orion and NetIQ events from Windows Mobile (can't comment on Blackberry) or any desktop based RSS viewer (works nicely with Vista's RSS sidebar viewer). This is NOT my code so I cannot take credit for this (I don't remember who originally created it). <%response.Charset="iso-8859-1"%> <%Response.contentType = "application/rss+xml"%> Alerts in NPM http://orion Lists alerts from NPM / Orion copyright> <% dim conn dim DSNtemp dim rs dim sqlstmt dim cust Function ConvertCodes(str) Dim i, letter, temp For i = 1 to Len(str) letter = Mid(str,i,1) If Asc(letter) > 122 Then temp = temp & "#" & Asc(letter) & ";" Else temp = temp & letter End If Next ConvertCodes = temp End Function set conn = server.createobject("adodb.connection") DSNtemp = "DSN=rssfeeds;UID=;PWD=;" conn.Open DSNtemp sqlstmt = "select nodename, alerttime, eventmessage from activealerts where propertyid <> '11' order by alerttime desc" Set rs = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset") rs.Open sqlstmt, DSNtemp x = 0 For x = 1 to 50 If rs.eof then Exit For Else title= Replace(rs("nodename"),"&","&") title = ConvertCodes(title) description = Replace(rs("eventmessage"),"&","&") description = ConvertCodes(description) Response.Write "" Response.Write "" & title & "" Response.Write " ">www.solarwinds.net " Response.Write "" & description & "" Response.Write "" & rs("alerttime") & "" Response.Write "" rs.MoveNext End If Next %>

floyd.may · Answer

Definitely a worthwhile feature.  I'm hoping we can address mobile device accessibility after we finish addressing some other issues with the Orion Website.