Device Comments

[ccogdill]

I would like to see a comments section added to the host.php page. I believe this would be useful to track things like IP address changes, troubleshooting, reasons why that host may be disabled, etc....

[rony]

I like this idea, I will talk to the developers about implementing this in the base installation of Cacti.

[gandalf]

I was thinking about a tracking feature some time ago. My personal opinion is, that it would be more flexible only to store a link to some documentation with cacti. This way, it's only click away. You will be able to use a wiki, some CMS of your liking or whatever you're thinking about.

I'd like to introduce some cacti-variables that will allow for a flrxible setup of URLs that refer to whatever you like, e.g.
|url_basic| Holds the host and optional a fixed URL part common to all links
|url_host| Holds the host_name or host_description to refer to a host related doc

Example:
|url_basic| = http://mydocs.company.com/ (stored at global cacti level)
|url_host| = myhost (stored at device level)
This will be combined to http://mydocs.company.com/myhost. This URL show refer to a documentation, e.g. a Log for that very host. This URL should show up when editing this host, and perhaps at more places referring to that host.

This concept may be extended to documentation for Templates:
|url_host_template| = myhosttemplate
This will be combined to http://mydocs.company.com/myhosttemplate. This URL show refer to the documentation explaining the use of that very Host Template.
Surely, this will apply to all Templates.

It may even extend to documentation of a single Data Source and/or Graph. But I fear, this will exceed the typing capability of nearly any systems programmer

Reinhard

[streaker69]

I would like this feature so that it could be used as a GPrint on some graphs.

[TheWitness]

It has almost nothing to do with this topic, but |host_description| and |query_*| replacement in comments and CDEF's is introduced in 0.8.7

TheWitness