bb-hosts-file page and subpage question

[Peter Welter]

Hi All,

Sorry, please discard my previous post.

I found the solution in the bb-hosts-man.page. Re-reading showed me
that below the include-tag it says:

dispinclude filename
    Acts like the "include" tag, but only on the BBDISPLAY server. Can
be used e.g. to put a group of hosts on multiple subpages, without
having to repeat the host definitions.

It works *great*! Thanks again Henrik for this brilliant piece of software!

Peter

2005/6/6, Peter Welter <peter.welter at gmail.com>:
> Hi all,
> 
> As I understand, the page and subpage options help you to organize
> your bunch of hosts. I have split them up in SLA's so I can alert on
> each SLA we have. This is a very nice feature.
> 
> Now I thought it would be nice to have another view on my bunch of
> hosts from a system perspective. So I have set up my bb-hosts file as
> follows and get the :
> ----------
> 
> page SLA SLA
> subpage Application1 Application1
> include bb-hosts-solaris-application1.txt
> include bb-hosts-linux-application1.txt
> 
> subpage Application2 Application2
> include bb-hosts-solaris-application2.txt
> include bb-hosts-linux-application2.txt
> 
> page System System
> subpage Solaris        Solaris
> include bb-hosts-solaris-application1.txt
> include bb-hosts-solaris-application2.txt
> 
> subpage Linux Linux
> include bb-hosts-linux-application1.txt
> include bb-hosts-linux-application2.txt
> 
> -----------
> 
> In the top-display I see: SLA and System and I can walk through either
> branch to see my hosts, but in the bbnet column it says (in yellow):
> 
> Host XXXX appears twice in bb-hosts! This may cause strange results
> Host YYYY appears twice in bb-hosts! This may cause strange results
> 
> So I guess the bbnet process double pings the associated hosts, so it
> generates a double load. That's unwanted, but I like the approach very
> much (an application/SLA-view and a system manager's-view).
> 
> Is there another (better & cleaner) way of setting this up?
> 
> Peter
>