Adding a menu item to the web dashboard

Not for the faint hearted and not recommended if you don't know what you are doing...

With that said, I've added a couple of menu items to the myServer web dashboard. Now I've got a (hopefully) stable myServer installation running on a VM and monitoring of it from a checkmk server I don't want any false alarms about myServer going down when I'm just updating core software, drivers or templates. So I've cooked up a script that will start a checkmk scheduled downtime for the host. Then I created a myServer macro that runs the script using RunParseResults. Finally I've patched the overlay-header.html file in /home/allonis/applications/myServer/wwwroot/dashboard to add a menu command to run that macro. Now when I'm about to update myServer I just pick the 'Start Downtime' menu and it runs my script, and no false alarms.

Obviously you can generalise this to have menu items do whatever you want.

I'm assuming it will get overwritten each time I update to a new version of myServer so the patch will need reapplying each time.

Macro called 'downtimestart':
diff to apply to overlay-header.html:
--- overlay-header.html.old     2024-12-23 17:10:34.000000000 +0000
+++ overlay-header.html 2025-02-02 09:46:24.833320114 +0000
@@ -6,3 +6,3 @@
 <ui-dropdown id="172392d39e5101deb" width="260" height="56" left="688" top="6" borderradii="7 7 7 7" backgroundcolor="rgba(21,27,31,0.48)" borders="1px solid rgba(144,164,174,0.65)" label="Reporting" fontfamily="Roboto" fontsize="20" fontweight="300" fontcolor="rgba(255,255,255,1.00)" statics="[{`name`:`Device Inventory`,`value`:`loadscene|deviceinventory`},{`name`:`System Events`,`value`:`loadscene|events`},{`name`:`Insert Event Marker`,`value`:`InsertMarker`}]" servercmd="value" centered="1" showindicator="0"></ui-dropdown>
-<ui-dropdown id="172392d39e986440a" width="260" height="56" left="958" top="6" borderradii="7 7 7 7" backgroundcolor="rgba(21,27,31,0.48)" borders="1px solid rgba(144,164,174,0.65)" label="Utilities" fontfamily="Roboto" fontsize="20" fontweight="300" fontcolor="rgba(255,255,255,1.00)" statics="[{`name`:`Software Updates`,`value`:`Loadscene|softwareupdates`},{`name`:`Linux OS Updates *`,`value`:`Loadscene|osupdates`},{`name`:`Linux Terminal *`,`value`:`Loadscene|terminal`},{`name`:`________.oooOooo.________`,`value`:`_`},{`name`:`Restart myServer`,`value`:`Restart`},{`name`:`Stop myServer`,`value`:`Shutdown`},{`name`:`Power Off Host`,`value`:`PowerOff`},{`name`:`Reboot Host`,`value`:`Reboot`},{`name`:`*Allonis Hardware Only`,`value`:`_`}]" servercmd="value" centered="1" showindicator="0"></ui-dropdown>
+<ui-dropdown id="172392d39e986440a" width="260" height="56" left="958" top="6" borderradii="7 7 7 7" backgroundcolor="rgba(21,27,31,0.48)" borders="1px solid rgba(144,164,174,0.65)" label="Utilities" fontfamily="Roboto" fontsize="20" fontweight="300" fontcolor="rgba(255,255,255,1.00)" statics="[{`name`:`Start Downtime`,`value`:`downtimestart`},{`name`:`Software Updates`,`value`:`Loadscene|softwareupdates`},{`name`:`End Downtime`,`value`:`downtimeend`},{`name`:`Linux OS Updates *`,`value`:`Loadscene|osupdates`},{`name`:`Linux Terminal *`,`value`:`Loadscene|terminal`},{`name`:`________.oooOooo.________`,`value`:`_`},{`name`:`Restart myServer`,`value`:`Restart`},{`name`:`Stop myServer`,`value`:`Shutdown`},{`name`:`Power Off Host`,`value`:`PowerOff`},{`name`:`Reboot Host`,`value`:`Reboot`},{`name`:`*Allonis Hardware Only`,`value`:`_`}]" servercmd="value" centered="1" showindicator="0"></ui-dropdown>
 <ui-button id="172c433e947e278b" width="56" height="56" left="1226" top="6" borderradii="7 7 7 7" backgroundcolor="rgba(21,27,31,0.48)" borders="1px solid rgba(144,164,174,0.65)" outline="none" fontfamily="Roboto" fontsize="36" fontweight="400" fontcolor="rgba(255,255,255,1.00)" icon="fal.hat-wizard" clientcmd="Toggle|overlay-commands"></ui-button>

 

Actually there might be a feature request here - allow us to configure a certain number of user commands to go on the utilities menu. Each one calls a macro that does what you want.

Make a patch: Apply the patch (patch-dashboard-menu.sh): myServer macro to apply the patch: