[Xymon] Poll: How many are using the "dispinclude" and "netinclude" options in hosts.cfg / bb-hosts ?

Peter Welter peter.welter at gmail.com
Mon Sep 12 18:20:52 CEST 2011


Well, we do. :-)

I use this to make different kind of views: SLA-view, Solaris-view,
Windows-view, etc, and still keeping the configuration a one place to stop
and modify.

All bb-hosts-files are inluded or dispincluded and made up on separate
pages.

regards
--Peter

2011/9/9 Henrik Størner <henrik at hswn.dk>

> Hi,
>
> I have a question for all of you.
>
> xymongen and xymonnet currently reads the hosts.cfg file from disk when
> they generate the webpages or run the network tests. Ever since the "bbgen
> toolkit" days, these programs have supported an additional type of "include"
> statement in hosts.cfg / bb-hosts: "dispinclude" works like "include", but
> is recognized only by xymongen, and "netinclude" does the same for xymonnet.
>
> I am considering removing these options, since that would make it very
> simple to eliminate the need for xymongen and xymonnet to have access to the
> hosts.cfg file - they can just fetch it from xymond, which both of them need
> to talk to anyway.
>
> But before I rip out this code, I would like to know how many are actually
> using it. So if you do use either of these commands in your hosts.cfg file,
> please speak up.
>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
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