[Xymon] Multiple NET: tags?

[Japheth Cleaver]

On 3/20/2017 7:15 PM, Jeremy Laidman wrote:
> Does anyone know if it's valid to use multiple NET: tags for a host, 
> or will it break stuff? I don't actually use NET: tags for its real 
> purpose (for xymonnet to match with $XYMONNETWORK) and instead I have 
> some server-side scripts that are only meant for hosts on some 
> networks. If I wanted to define a host so that it is included in 
> multiple server-side script processing, can I do something like this:
>
> 10.1.1.1 host1.example.com <http://host1.example.com> # NET:net1 NET:net2
>
> Eventually, someone might want to use NET: tags as intended, and I 
> don't want to make that not work, or behave unexpectedly.
>

Unfortunately, only a single NET property is available for a given host. 
In 4.4 and Terabithia multiple NET's can be assigned to a given *poller* 
(or thing using xymongrep) to filter the hosts by, but each host 
inherently only has a single stored field for this.

Depending on your needs, and if someone is planning on using NETs in the 
future there, you might be able to combine things textually 
(NET:net1.net2). A better option for custom scripting could just be to 
add new arbitrary tags into the hosts.cfg lines and filter using 
xymongrep (locally) or xymon localhost "hostinfo XMH_RAW=<string>"

There really isn't a great arbitrary array-of-values field within the 
host record for things like this, other than the config as a whole.


HTH,
-jc
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