[Xymon] Reference tag in hosts.cfg

[T.J. Yang]

Hi John

Thanks for the pointer.

On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 11:11 AM, John Thurston <john.thurston at alaska.gov>wrote:

> On 1/10/2014 5:15 AM, Andy Smith wrote:
>
>> Could I request that this trivial change be added at some stage please.
>>  It
>> introduces the ability to include a tag in hosts.cfg which has no purpose
>> other than provide an arbitary reference. eg
>>
>> configdbid=12345
>>
>
> I don't understand the request. Isn't this function already here? I do
> this now with tags I've introduced into the hosts.cfg files for outside
> reference or ext scripts.
>

I did a quick test on my xymon server, configdbid=12345 did show up under
"Other tags:".

Andy, is above result is what you need ?



Regards

tj

>
> If you append the following to the end of a host line:
>   configdbid:12345
> don't you get exactly the behavior you seek? (Provided configdbid is not
> defined in protocols.cfg)
>
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