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Web based Network tools request

Here's the thing. The server based tools on my Solarwinds box are great, but they are only accessable from that server. I've got about 10 administrators, and another 10 helpdesk persons that I don't always want logged into my server. Some of the tools would be great to have as part of the web site. For instance, a traceroute tool, a ping tool, a DNS lookup tool and maybe a mib browser.

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mjhamilton

that'll be the Solarwinds Engineers Edition toolset you want then??

solarwinds.net/.../index.htm

Martin J. Hamilton... lost in a sea of snmp...

iunderwo

The engineer's toolset isn't exactly web-enabled, though.

// Ian Underwood - Service Management
// Level 3 Communications

kempj18

I have the engineer's addition. If they want to keep those tools separate, then how about a web plug-in to my current website?

I'm not asking for rocket science here...

Network_Guru

It's a great idea, but I think the idea is to sell more software licenses?
Otherwise a comany of 10,000 could buy just one EE and let all the other departments use it for free with the web plugin.....

-=Cheers=-
NG

kempj18

That is true, but they already follow the paradigm with Orion. Most of these things are on the public net for free. I was just hoping for something that could be intigrated into our current internal monitoring/management system. I mean the Banner does say Network Management Tools.

If they want to sell more licenses for something like that, then I can talk to our customer about upgrading our current contract. Not a big deal.

iunderwo

One other thing to consider is that the tools are largely interactive, and that doesn't really fit well on the web, without some kind of funky java front/back end.

FWIW, Orion isn't really that interactive. It just does a mighty fine job of displaying information.

// Ian Underwood - Service Management
// Level 3 Communications

kempj18

Not really. Just a basic cgi script, or a vb script will do the trick. I'd like for it to run on the server, not the client.

josh kemp
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dsullinger

kempj18 - What about using an external UNIX box to call ping? I've setup a unix script that I call from a web page and users receive ping replies on their browser page. I'm thinking I could modify the HTML in the 01-AdvancedNodeDetails.Resource file to make the call to the ping script.

Here's the script I've placed in the /cgi-bin directory called ping.sh on the UNIX server running Apache.

#!/bin/ksh

# Version 1.00
# Last Revised: 8-06-03
# Dean Sullinger @ Arizona Dept of Trans
# -- Script begins here --

echo "HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Content-type: text/html
Server: $SERVER_SOFTWARE
"

# Get data
IP1=`echo $QUERY_STRING | cut -f2 -d'=' | cut -f1 -d'&'`
ACTION1=`echo $QUERY_STRING | cut -f2 -d'&' | cut -f2 -d'='`

echo "<HTML>\n<HEAD>\n\n<TITLE>"
if [ $ACTION1 == "Ping" ]; then
echo "Ping: $IP1"
fi

echo "</TITLE>\n"
echo "</HEAD>\n"

echo "<BODY BGCOLOR="black" TEXT="White" LINK="#00A0FF" vlink="#00FF96" alink="#00FF96">\n"

echo "<TT><PRE>\n"
if [ $ACTION1 == "Ping" ]; then
ping -sn $IP1
fi
echo "</TT></PRE>\n"

echo "</BODY>\n</HTML>"

dsullinger

I just tried this and it worked fine.

1. I renamed the "01-AdvancedNodeDetails.Resource" to "01-AdvancedNodeDetails_ADOT.Resource"
2. I added the following:

<tr>
<td class="Property" width="10"> </td>
<td class="PropertyHeader">Ping</td>
<td class="Property"> </td>
<td class="Property"><a href="")%>&Dropdown1=Ping&Button1=Submit">Ping">UNIX-server-name/.../ping.sh <%=Node.GetProperty("IP_Address")%></a> </td>
</tr>

3. Now the ping command is added on the Advanced Node page, our Support Desk people can simply click on the link and see the ping results in their browser.