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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>It looks like the NAME and
COMMENT tags only apply for the host entry that is preferred with the “prefer”
tag. This means that it will change the name for both pages and that I can’t
have the host display a friendly name on one page but an actual hostname on the
other.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>The only way that I could find
to make this work was to use “include” instead of “dispinclude”,
then create a second “fake host” entry with a different hostname
and duplicate all of the tests using the “testip” tag, then use the
NAME tag on this second “fake host”. This means that all tests are
duplicated and that the tests reported on this page are against the IP (and
would not reflect host resolution issues.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I know that there are a lot of
you out there that are smarter than me and that know Xymon inside and out. Am I
trying to get Xymon to do something that it just isn’t capable of
performing? I hate to have to build and manage a separate Xymon server that is
just for the management view and reporting so that I can have this “Friendly
View” type of report, but would that be my best option at this point?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#215868'>Harold Ballinger</span></b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#215868'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#215868'>IT Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#215868'>Heritage Healthcare, Inc.</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#215868'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#215868'> (888) 335-2620 | helpdesk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#215868'> (864) 224-3626 | office<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Harold J. Ballinger
[mailto:hballinger@heritage-healthcare.com] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, July 23, 2009 2:57 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'hobbit@hswn.dk'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [hobbit] Alternate view for Management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Ok, I’ve made it halfway
to my goal and just need a little nudge.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I modified my bb-hosts to have
includes for each page of hosts:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>include bb-hosts-hosted<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>include bb-hosts-remote<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>include bb-hosts-connectivity<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>include bb-hosts-facilities<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>include bb-hosts-servers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>include bb-hosts-test<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>include bb-hosts-corporate<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I then also included:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>dispinclude bb-hosts-services<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>and I then created the
bb-hosts-services to look like:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>page services Business Services<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>group-compress Website<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>111.222.33.44 www.mydomain.com #
http://www.mydomain.com NAME:"Company Website" COMMENT:"Company
Website" DESCR:"webserver:Company Website"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>222.33.44.55 media.mydomain.com #
http://media.mydomain.com ftp NAME:"Company Media Files"
COMMENT:"Company Media Files" DESCR:"webserver:Company Media
Files"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>33.44.55.66
webstats.mydomain.com #
http://webstats.mydomain.com NAME:"Website Statistics"
COMMENT:"Website Statistics" DESCR:"webserver:Website
Statistics"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I was attempting to get the
“Business Services” page to have “friendly names” only
and not the actual hostnames. I am building this one page so that I can run an
Availability Report and print this single page for a 10,000 ft view of business
critical services. I would like for the headings and hostnames to be
“friendly names” instead of actual hostnames since the target
audience for this report will be non-technical. (The actual hostnames with all
appropriate tests are already defined in their appropriate pages and those
pages are the ones used by IT in their day-to-day jobs.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>It looks like the dispinclude
does what I expected and does not duplicate the tests for these hosts, but I
couldn’t find a way to make the hostnames “friendly”. The
NAME, COMMENT, and DESCR don’t seem to have any affect at all on this
output. The comment doesn’t even show up in parenthesis as it normally
would.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I seem to have hit a
roadblock… Any ideas?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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color:#215868'>Harold Ballinger</span></b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#215868'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#215868'>IT Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#215868'>Heritage Healthcare, Inc.</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#215868'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#215868'> (888) 335-2620 | helpdesk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#215868'> (864) 224-3626 | office<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:#215868'> (864) 224-3093 | fax</span><span
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Harold J. Ballinger
[mailto:hballinger@heritage-healthcare.com] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, July 14, 2009 12:17 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> hobbit@hswn.dk<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [hobbit] Alternate view for Management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Our support staff likes having our monitoring system setup
& organized by logical category/type. However, management is more
interested in a view that is organized by business impact.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>For example:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>IT Top Level View-<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> Hosted
Services
Corporate Connectivity<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> Corporate
Servers Corporate Desktops<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> Remote
Laptops Facility Connectivity<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> Facility
Desktops <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Management Top Level View-<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> Email (Subpage containing all dependent
hosts/services)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> HRMS (same as above)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> Sales CRM <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> i.e. a listing for each “service” provided
– possibly even maintained below subpages for each business unit<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Management wants availability and impact by the specific
service and business unit impacted (10,000 foot view showing all dependencies),
while IT is interested in the detail of the cogs/gears that make it all work.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Do I just create a second listing for all of the hosts on a
separate page structure? Would this generate twice as many network tests for
the hosts that are listed duplicate times?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Any suggestions?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Thanks!<o:p></o:p></p>
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