So, I work for a NOC in a small ISP. We're planning on getting a large wall mounted monitor and I'd like to make a dashboard in Node.JS - I've never used node before so it should be interesting.
I'm aiming for something like this as a vague example: https://gds.blog.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/60/2012/02/developmentprocess.png
The data we will pull will be from Nagios + Icinga boxes (we have many). Currently I have a script that fetches all the problems from our Nagios + Icinga boxes and dumps them in to a MySQL table. It's then possible to have a PHP dashboard that just displays data from those tables, and an auto-refresh plugin for the browser.
What I want to do is use a node.js front end so refreshing isn't required. From tutorials, it seems you need to send events to node to make it work properly. What I want to do is the MySQL method as we can then use it for reports etc.
Imagine in that image, the right contains a list of all problems, and the numbers are counts of all problems. How do I get node to realise there's new data, compare what clients are already displaying and display changes?
- Constantly pull data from the database, compare to an array of currently displayed data, send any changes to the client
- Somehow construct a query to find only new data (based on current time maybe?) push that (need to find out what has cleared though and is no longer in database)
- Something else altogether
I'm a pretty skilled PHP developer, but live updating with something like node is alien to me. I'm following the infrastructure used by Manuel Kiessling in nodebeginner.org (index > server > router > request handler for each page - there'll be different pages for different info i.e. nagios/icinga, BGP peers etc).
Any help appreciated, if I can't think of a solid way to do it I'll end up going back to PHP which is a shame as node really interests me.
