[hobbit] get hobbit to show status for same host but with different configuration

Henrik Størner henrik at hswn.dk
Mon Jan 12 13:59:06 CET 2009


In <1ebd03650901120405j3dc70937v7969cf353103cdcb at mail.gmail.com> "Mogens Busk" <mogens.busk at gmail.com> writes:

>I think that Xymon works this way:
>Xymon server receives client information from the xymon-client, stores this
>information and then generate the xymon webpage on request.
>When xymon server is asked for a specifik page for clienta+proc, the xymon
>server check what to do with the stored information against the
>server/etc/hobbit-client.cfg file and the generates the webpage.

Not correct. Xymon receives the client information from xymon-
client, sends this through the hobbitd_client module which reads
the configuration and generates the cpu-, disk-, procs- etc. status-
messages.

So once the client message has been processed, the status is fixed.
The fact that there's a CGI script which generates a webpage from
the status doesn't change that.

>basicly I want to make 1 page showing everything of interest for the
>sysadmins and another one only showing part of the clienta+proc specifik 
>for a given customer.

>I have Proc, Ports and Services for many customers on the same server and
>would to be able to tell which customer is affected when some monitor goes
>red.

Unfortunately that is not possible right now. It is an enhancement I 
would like to make that you could create multiple "procs" messages
with different groups of processes - that would solve your problem,
and would also allow us to focus alerts more directly to the application
team responsible for a specific application. Same method could be used
for e.g. "disk" status.


Regards,
Henrik




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