[xymon] Customisation and Migration from BB->Xymon

[Henrik Størner]

In <4D12643B.5080501 at umdnj.edu> Ryan Novosielski <novosirj at umdnj.edu> writes:

>> * Is there a simple way to still have "unregistered" hosts show up in
>> the "bb2" page? *
>> 
>> These show up in the 'Ghosts' report.  As an admin it's a good idea
>> to have a look at that tab once in a while.  Sometimes hostnames
>> don't match up exactly, and sometimes folks do as you describe and
>> install  / start the client software without informing the admin.

>Just happened to notice: additionally, there is a way to show the ghost
>client report in a text form
>(xymon-cgi/hobbit-ghosts.sh?SORT=name&MAXAGE=300&TEXT) -- this could
>almost certainly be used for alerts if someone had the interest. I don't
>have any ghost clients now so I can't see how it would look, but I bet
>its formatting is possible to use for a script.

The text-format ghostlist happens to be formatted just like a
bb-hosts file ... it wasn't entirely accidental, I can assure you.


Regards,
Henrik