Werk #10836: HW/SW Inventory views: Declared inventory views can be joined

HW/SW inventory views can be declared with "declare_invtable_view" in local/share/check_mk/web/plugins/views/MY_FILE_NAME.py. After this declaration a new view with sorters and filters is available.

Example:

declare_invtable_view(
    "invinterface",
    ".networking.interfaces:",
    _("Network interface"),
    _("Network interfaces"),
)

generates the view "Search Network interfaces" in the views sidebar below "Inventory".

Some of these tables may have common columns like "ID" but have different data sources. A new function is introduced in order to join some table-based views:

declare_joined_inventory_table_view(
    tablename = "invMYMULTITABLE",
    title_singular = _("TITLE SINGULAR"),
    title_plural = _("TITLE PLURAL"),
    tables = [
        "invTABLE1",
        "invTABLE2",
        ...
    ],
    match_by = [
        "KEY1",
        "KEY2",
        ...
    ],
)

In order to join some table-based views you have to

• extend the display hints for each table path and
• declare own views for each table

Display hints:

inventory_displayhints.update({
    ".PATH.TO.TABLE1:": {
        "title": _("TITLE TABLE1"),
        "keyorder": [
            "id",
            "value_1_1",
            "value_1_2",
            ...
        ],
        "view": "invTABLE1_of_host",
    },
    ".PATH.TO.TABLE1:*.id": {"title": _("ID")},
    ".PATH.TO.TABLE1:*.value_1_1": {"title": _("Value 1 1")},
    ".PATH.TO.TABLE1:*.value_1_2": {"title": _("Value 1 2")},
    ...

    ".PATH.TO.TABLE2:": {
        "title": _("TITLE TABLE2"),
        "keyorder": [
            "id",
            "value_2_1",
            "value_2_2",
            ...
        ],
        "view": "invTABLE2_of_host",
    },
    ".PATH.TO.TABLE2:*.id": {"title": _("ID")},
    ".PATH.TO.TABLE2:*.value_2_1": {"title": _("Value 2 1")},
    ".PATH.TO.TABLE2:*.value_2_2": {"title": _("Value 2 2")},
    ...
})

Declarations:

declare_invtable_view(
    "invTABLE1",
    ".PATH.TO.TABLE1:"
    _("TITLE TABLE1 SINGULAR"),
    _("TITLE TABLE1 PLURAL"),
)

declare_invtable_view(
    "invTABLE2",
    ".PATH.TO.TABLE2:"
    _("TITLE TABLE2 SINGULAR"),
    _("TITLE TABLE2 PLURAL"),
)

declare_joined_inventory_table_view(
    tablename = "invMULTITABLE",
    title_singular = _("TITLE MULTITABLE SINGULAR"),
    title_plural = _("TITLE MULTITABLE PLURAL"),
    tables = [
        "invTABLE1",
        "invTABLE2",
        ...
    ],
    match_by = [
        "id",
        ...
    ],
)

The keys in "match_by" must be part of each table. Otherwise Checkmk does not known which rows belong together. Now all stated tables are merged into one and all columns of both are visible in the new view.

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