Sometimes you may want to have a directly clickable link from some internal web page, into a specific SysOrb status page. You cannot just copy the content of the address bar, while viewing the SysOrb status page, because the url contains a session identifier, which probably will no longer be valid, when following the link later.
Instead your should paste the url from the address bar into your favorite text editor, and cut out the session_id parameter.
Example 10-1. Link to a status page
http://albatross/sysorb/index.cgi?path=1.1.1&node=1.2260370556 &server=albatross:2222&session_id=224366472 becomes http://albatross/sysorb/index.cgi?path=1.1.1&node=1.2260370556 &server=albatross:2222
Following the above link will show the usual SysOrb login screen, but once the user logs in, he will be taken to the status page from the original url.
The login process can be automated further. In order for SysOrb to verify a user login, it needs a username, a password, and the domain in which to look up the username. Any or all of these three parameters can be passed through the link url. If all three a given, SysOrb will not show the login page, but jump directly to the status page. If one or more are not given, SysOrb will show a partially filled in login form.
The url parameters in which you specify the login information is
called username, passwd and tld.
Example 10-2. Link to a status page with automatic login
If you have a user john with password doe in the root domain. The followin url will log in as john, and show the same status page from the example above: http://albatross/sysorb/index.cgi?path=1.1.1&node=1.2260370556 &server=albatross:2222&username=john&passwd=doe&tld=.
When creating links like this, be sure that the user has only viewing capabilities, or anyone looking at the browser history, or at the html source will be able to log in and reconfigure your SysOrb system.