At 01:33 PM 1/30/2003, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
Agreed. (the first part, not the curmudgeon) But there's a difference between needed features and desired features. HTML formatted reports probably fall into the desired category.On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 at 2:16pm, Mitch Collinsworth wrote> On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > > > On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 at 12:47pm, Don Carlton wrote > > > > > Has anyone changed the mail report to produce html? > > > > Oh, the horror! ;) > > Agreed if sent by e-mail, but if it were instead dumped into a web-served > directory... Well, IMO it's still unnecessary. Webservers serve out plain text just fine. Sometimes I feel like such a curmudgeon.
That said, web-based Amanda reports could be useful for those who would rather check a central web site than read yet another piece of mail. My first order of business in the day is to open a central console that fires off to MRTG graphs, big brother reports, a call database, etc. Amanda could be another one of those.
But I'm not certain that this needs to be a part of Amanda either. Anyone could write up a quick perl script to take amreport -f and html-ize it. Stick that in your backup script and be done.
I keep thinking there must be an obvious way to integrate Amanda reports with Big Brother somehow... Have to think on this.
-- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
-- Darin Dugan, System Admin Iowa State University Extension www.extension.iastate.edu
