[hobbit] How to list a host multiple times in bb-hosts properly

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 04:27:23PM -0400, Jeff Stuart wrote:
> 
> I have a machine that I wish to appear on multiple pages.  So I list it
> more than once in bb-hosts.
> 
> First time, I list it this way:
> 
> group-only bbd|bbgen|bbtest|hobbitd|rsync       Hobbit Monitoring Server
> 123.123.123.123    123.123.123.123 # BBPAGER BBNET BBDISPLAY bbd noconn 
> rsync
> 
> Then I list it this way:
> 
> page game-servers Main Game Server Boxes.
> group-except bbd|bbgen|bbtest|hobbitd|rsync
> 123.123.123.123    123.123.123.123 # ftp !telnet !smtp ssh  ntp  prefer
> badconn:1:2:4

The rule is: Put all of your tags on one of these definitions, and ONLY
a "noconn" on the others.

So using your example:

group-only bbd|bbgen|bbtest|hobbitd|rsync       Hobbit Monitoring Server
123.123.123.123    123.123.123.123 # noconn 

page game-servers Main Game Server Boxes.
group-except bbd|bbgen|bbtest|hobbitd|rsync
123.123.123.123    123.123.123.123 # ftp !telnet !smtp ssh  ntp  prefer badconn:1:2:4 bbd rsync


There's no link between the "group-only" or "group-except" definitions,
and where you have the network tests defined, so even though it might
seem a bit odd with "group-except bbd|rsync" and then those two tests
listed on the first host-entry, it will work the way you want it to.
Because the tool the runs the network tests ignores all of the page,
subpage, group* definitions; and the tool that builds the webpages
ignores how all of the network tests were defined (it just looks at
what status columns are available).


Henrik