www-spong-ack(8)
NAME
www-spong-ack - WWW (CGI) based spong acknowledgment tool
SYNOPSIS
http://spong-server.my-inc.com/spong/www-spong-ack
DESCRIPTION
- Then a spong event occurs (or will occur), you can use this tool to
acknowledge that your know there is a problem. You can provide text
that will be seen by others looking at the event (via a spong display
program). You can specify a time limit that the problem will occur. If a problem has been acknowledged, you will no longer receive
notifications of the problem, and the spong display programs will show the of the service(s) as "blue". - Theory of Operation
- The www-spong-ack program is designed to interact with the www-spong Spong display program, but it the program can be used if it is invoked directly.
- When the program is initially invoked it will list all of the
acknowledgments at the top of the page in the "Current Acknowledgments" section. The host/service and the expiration date/time of the acks are displayed. A Delete link is provided for every ack. that will delete that particular ack. when selected. - Below in the "New Acknowledgment" section is a form form for creating a
new acknowledgment. The host name is selected from the drop-down box.
The service(s) to be acknowledged is entered in service field. The
duration of the event is entered in one of several formats into the
duration field. Your e-mail address should be entered into the e-mail
address field. It is only used to show who created the ack. And a
message about the acknowledgement can be entered. Once all of the
information is entered, press the 'Create' button to create the
acknowledgement.
CONFIGURATION
- Configuration Files
- spong-cleanup reads the standard spong.conf and spong.conf.<host> configuration files.
- Configuration Variables
- $SPONGSERVER
The host that at least the spong-server and spong-message programs are running on. Typically the spong-network program runs on that
host as well. - $SPONG_UPDATE_PORT
This variable defines the port that the spong-server update process listens on. If this variable is not defined on the $SPONGSERVER host, the spong-server update process will not be started. The
default value is 1998.
FILES
SPONGHOME/etc/spong.conf, SPONGHOME/etc/spong.conf.<host>
DEPENDENCIES
Perl v5.005_03 or greater is required.
A working web server that can run CGI programs.
BUGS
No know bugs.
SEE ALSO
spong-server, spong-ack, spong.conf, user-guide
AUTHOR
Stephen L Johnson <sjohnson@monsters.org>
HISTORY
- Based on code/ideas from Sean MacGuire (BB), and Helen Harrison (Pong).
Ed Hill original converted Big Brother (http://www.bb4.com) into Perl
which diverged from Big Brother to become Spong. Ed Hill continued
Spong development until version 2.1. Stephen L Johnson took over
development in October, 1999 with his changes which became Spong 2.5.