[Xymon] Another method to group and categorize hosts - "Building Alternate Pagesets"

[Ralph Mitchell]

I think that works fine for pages and sub-pages, but you still get all the
hosts in the non green page.

Ralph Mitchell
On Apr 5, 2012 3:07 PM, "Don Kuhlman" <Don.Kuhlman at schawk.com> wrote:

>  Hello again folks. Today must be my xymon question day.  I just posted a
> query about re-organizing our xymon structure via a lot of include files,
> by OS, App, etc.
> While researching this, I came across the bit below from the man pages in
> xymongen.  If I understand this correctly, isn't this another way or the
> best way to organize hosts in pages without duplicating a lot of host names
> in different cfg files or over dosing with "includes" ?
>
>  Maybe this is only for a specific type of requirement.  Would anyone
> care to comment further ?
>
>  Thanks
>
>  Don K
>
>  BUILDING ALTERNATE PAGESETS With version 1.4 of xymongen comes the
> possibility to generate multiple sets of pages from the same data.
> Suppose you have two groups of people looking at the Xymon webpages. Group
> A wants to have the hosts grouped by the client, they belong to. This is
> how you have Xymon set up - the default pageset. Now group B wants to have
> the hosts grouped by operating system - let us call it the "os" set. Then
> you would add the page layout to hosts.cfg like this:
>
> ospage win Microsoft Windows
> ossubpage win-nt4 MS Windows NT 4
> osgroup NT4 File servers
> osgroup NT4 Mail servers
> ossubpage win-xp MS Windows XP
> ospage unix Unix
> ossubpage unix-sun Solaris
> ossubpage unix-linux Linux
>
> This defines a set of pages with one top-level page (the xymon.html page),
> two pages linked from xymon.html (win.html and unix.html), and from e.g.
> the win.html page there are subpages win-nt4.html and win-xp.html
> The syntax is identical to the normal "page" and "subpage" directives in
> hosts.cfg, but the directive is prefixed with the pageset name. Dont put
> any hosts in-between the page and subpage directives - just add all the
> directives at the top of the hosts.cfg file.
> How do you add hosts to the pages, then ? Simple - just put a tag
> "OS:win-xp" on the host definition line. The "OS" must be the same as
> prefix used for the pageset names, but in uppercase. The "win-xp" must
> match one of the pages or subpages defined within this pageset. E.g.
>
> 207.46.249.190 www.microsoft.com # OS:win-xp http://www.microsoft.com/
> 64.124.140.181 www.sun.com # OS:unix-sun http://www.sun.com/
>
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