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

[Peter Welter]

Hi Henrik,

There does not seem to be very much users of dispinclude or netinclude!? I
do not see very much traffic/response to your question.

That brings me to the following:

Double including bb-hosts-sub-files on a different pagesets results in a
yellow bb-test-column:

"Host xx.xx.xx.xx appears twice in bb-hosts! This may cause strange results"

What would you suggest to do in this case?

If I have a good alternative, that gives me similar behaviour that would be
very much appreciated.

Regards, Peter


2011/9/12 Scot Kreienkamp <SKreien at la-z-boy.com>

>  I wasn't aware there was an option of dispinclude or what it was used
> for.  If I had I would be using it also.  ****
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> *From:* xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] *On
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> *Sent:* Monday, September 12, 2011 12:21 PM
> *To:* Henrik Størner
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> *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] Poll: How many are using the "dispinclude" and
> "netinclude" options in hosts.cfg / bb-hosts ?****
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> Well, we do. :-)
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> 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.
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> All bb-hosts-files are inluded or dispincluded and made up on separate
> pages.
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> regards
> --Peter****
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> 2011/9/9 Henrik Størner <henrik at hswn.dk>****
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> Hi,
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> I have a question for all of you.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Regards,
> Henrik
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