[hobbit] NAME: options

Larry.Barber at usda.gov Larry.Barber at usda.gov
Mon May 2 17:40:28 CEST 2005


Maybe you could run two separate BB clients on the database machine? One
that would report the stuff that the SA's are interested in, the other
(reporting under the DB name) could do the database tests?

Thanks,
Larry Barber


On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 10:32 -0500, rdeal at tigr.org wrote:
> I thought about using views but wouldn't I come to the same
> difficulty 
> in trying to use a "NAME:" or "COMMENT:" on one view but not the main 
> view?
> 
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Larry.Barber at usda.gov [mailto:Larry.Barber at usda.gov]  
> Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 11:25 AM 
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk 
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] NAME: options
> 
> I did something similar using pagesets. I created a pageset that
> listed 
> servers by their primary function like this:
> 
> fnpage APPSERVER    Application Servers 
> fnpage MQS      MQ Series 
> fnpage ORACLE   Oracle 
> fnpage SQLSERVER SQL Server 
> fnpage WEBSERVER    Web Servers
> 
> Added "Functional view" to the views menu and was all set. This seems
> to 
> work pretty well, my DBA's like it.
> 
> Thanks, 
> Larry Barber
> 
> On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 10:14 -0500, rdeal at tigr.org wrote: 
> > We have several servers here of various type that are primarily DB 
> > servers.  MY DBA, asked if I could create a page for him with all
> the 
> > DB servers on it. 
> >  
> > Some of the machines are solaris and some are linux so they are 
> > primarily monitored by solaris and linux administrators and are on 
> > similar pages.   
> >  
> > So I created a page like this: 
> >  
> > page DB DB Servers 
> >  
> > group-compress <font size="+2">DB Servers</font> 
> >  
> > 0.0.0.0         lemond.tigr.org     # noconn NAME:SYBTIGR 
> >  
> > since the DBA refers to the systems by the database names on each I 
> > was attempting to use the "NAME:" argument to change the display 
> > name.   
> >  
> > It does not seem to work unless it is on the primary or preferred
> line 
> > in the bb-hosts file though.   
> >  
> > The "COMMENT:" option also does not seem to work in this
> circumstance. 
> >  
> >   
> >  
> > Butch Deal 
> >  
> > 
> 
> 
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