Question

Hi Gurus,

I use Twiki for managing our team knowledgebase. We are basically a set of Unix administrators. As a part of vlue added service to our internal users we would like our Twiki(internal) site to publish our server config details.

Meaning, we have about 80 odd servers were a custom script runs collecting the data and outputs it as html file. These files are collected from all server and saved under a Twiki subdirectory in the twiki server. Now the issue is, How do I get these pages displayed directly on Twiki site whithout adding more configs to twiki html config itself. What we felt was if Twiki had a "filesytem/directory" browsing facility then we could reach our html files in twiki subdirectory by browsing through the dir structure.

Awaiting your expert solutions/opinions,

Thanks in Advance, Senthil

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-- SenthilAnantha - 06 Feb 2008

Answer

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Hi Senthil,

I do not see the real problem: TWiki can display HTML files directly. Just name them .txt and store them in the appropriate directory (i.e if your web name is a_web place it in .../data/a_web).

It would be good, if the file names have correct wiki names (i.e. the begin with a capital letter and have another capital letter somewhere in the word). This will make it easy to link to these files.

If the structure in the files is quite homogenious, it should be possible to do some fancy requalar expression searches to get an overview on servers on overload etc.

-- MarkusHesse - 16 Feb 2008

Some additonal points:

• Use a dedicated web and lock the web for edit so that users are not tempted to edit content that gets overwritten
• If you generate HTML follow the guidelines described in TextFormattingRules.
• Consider generating TML, such as TWiki tables.

-- PeterThoeny - 03 Apr 2008