[hobbit] Is there a way to clone host definitions in bb-hosts?

[Josh Luthman]

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On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 7:29 PM, John Burk <john.d.burk at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm using hobbit for monitoring a compute cluster of nearly 1000
> identical hosts.  I'm using includes in my bb-hosts to keep the file
> length down, but my included files are comprised of hundreds of hosts
> all identical except for the ipaddresses and hostnames.
>
> Surely there must be a way to template this, I just can't find it in
> the bb-hosts manpage...
>
> << bb-hosts >>
> ==============================
> 172.16.133.45   spork      # bbd http://spork/
>
> group Qube Supervisor
> 172.16.136.68   greenjeans      # conn mysql RAID
> NOCOLUMNS:files,ports
> TRENDS:*,vmstat:vmstat|vmstat5,mysql:mysql|mysqlthreadsconnected|mysqlthreadrunqueue|mysqlopenfiles|mysqlopentables|mysqlopenedtables|mysqlrestrictiontablerowcount
>
> page farm Farm Hosts
>
> include clients.d/opteron
> include clients.d/rfl
> include clients.d/hp_blade
> ==============================
>
>
>
> Right now I'm doing this:
> << clients.d/hpblade >>
> ==============================
> subpage chassis01 bladeChassis 01
> 172.16.131.20   rn0101          # NOPROPRED:+cpu NOPROPYELLOW:+memory
> NOCOLUMNS:files,ports
> 172.16.131.21   rn0102          # NOPROPRED:+cpu NOPROPYELLOW:+memory
> NOCOLUMNS:files,ports
> 172.16.131.22   rn0103          # NOPROPRED:+cpu NOPROPYELLOW:+memory
> NOCOLUMNS:files,ports
> 172.16.131.23   rn0104          # NOPROPRED:+cpu NOPROPYELLOW:+memory
> NOCOLUMNS:files,ports
> 172.16.131.24   rn0105          # NOPROPRED:+cpu NOPROPYELLOW:+memory
> NOCOLUMNS:files,ports
> 172.16.131.25   rn0106          # NOPROPRED:+cpu NOPROPYELLOW:+memory
> NOCOLUMNS:files,ports
> 172.16.131.26   rn0107          # NOPROPRED:+cpu NOPROPYELLOW:+memory
> NOCOLUMNS:files,ports
> 172.16.131.27   rn0108          # NOPROPRED:+cpu NOPROPYELLOW:+memory
> NOCOLUMNS:files,ports
> 172.16.131.28   rn0109          # NOPROPRED:+cpu NOPROPYELLOW:+memory
> NOCOLUMNS:files,ports
> 172.16.131.29   rn0110          # NOPROPRED:+cpu NOPROPYELLOW:+memory
> NOCOLUMNS:files,ports
> 172.16.131.30   rn0111          # NOPROPRED:+cpu NOPROPYELLOW:+memory
> NOCOLUMNS:files,ports
> 172.16.131.31   rn0112          # NOPROPRED:+cpu NOPROPYELLOW:+memory
> NOCOLUMNS:files,ports
> 172.16.131.32   rn0113          # NOPROPRED:+cpu NOPROPYELLOW:+memory
> NOCOLUMNS:files,ports
> 172.16.131.33   rn0114          # NOPROPRED:+cpu NOPROPYELLOW:+memory
> NOCOLUMNS:files,ports
> 172.16.131.34   rn0115          # NOPROPRED:+cpu NOPROPYELLOW:+memory
> NOCOLUMNS:files,ports
> 172.16.131.35   rn0116          # NOPROPRED:+cpu NOPROPYELLOW:+memory
> NOCOLUMNS:files,ports
>
> subpage chassis02 bladeChassis 02
> 172.16.131.60   rn0201          # NOPROPRED:+cpu NOPROPYELLOW:+memory
> NOCOLUMNS:files,ports
> 172.16.131.61   rn0202          # NOPROPRED:+cpu NOPROPYELLOW:+memory
> NOCOLUMNS:files,ports
> 172.16.131.62   rn0203          # NOPROPRED:+cpu NOPROPYELLOW:+memory
> NOCOLUMNS:files,ports
> 172.16.131.63   rn0204          # NOPROPRED:+cpu NOPROPYELLOW:+memory
> NOCOLUMNS:files,ports
>
> and so on in mind-numbing repetition...
> ==============================
>
> I'd like to be able to define the tags in a template, and simply use
> that template.  Does this mechanism exist in bb-host?  That way
> if/when I need to change the tags for all my hosts, I only need to do
> it in one place, and not on every line in 3 different files.
>
>
> John Burk
>
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