[Xymon] Custom Server Rules for analysis.cfg

Fri Dec 21 16:17:13 CET 2012

Yup...I define the hosts in different subpage groupings.

My home page lists strictly pages, each page lists the subpages, and the
subpages list the hosts contained within.

This would likely also allow me to have different (sub)pages list the
same hosts, but with different columns displayed. I haven't tried
monkeying around with that level of configuration, though.

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Mike Burger

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From: Thomas Hawkins [mailto:cornmaster at gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 9:55 AM
To: Michael Burger; xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Custom Server Rules for analysis.cfg

Hummm, that is interesting. You define the host multiple times in
hosts.cfg? Is that a supported setup?

How does your main homepage look?

We have three sub pages, and one sub-sub page. I assume under this
setup, you would need more subpages splintering off the main home page
for this to work. Although it would be nice at a glance to see all of
the server grouped by my various 'tags' as well as function.

Thomas

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From: "Michael Burger" <Mike.Burger at FreedomMortgage.com> 

Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 09:38:19 -0500

To: Thomas Hawkins<cornmaster at gmail.com>; <xymon at xymon.com>

Subject: RE: [Xymon] Custom Server Rules for analysis.cfg

FWIW, I have a number of cases where I have hosts on multiple
(sub)pages. I don't use them for the analysis.cfg as much as for the
alerts.cfg, but in this way, I can have a page for team x's servers,
team y's servers, prod, non-prod, or all server.

--

Mike Burger

AIX Administrator

 <http://freedomhome.fhmc.local/intranet/main.jsp> 

Phone (317) 537-3680, Fax (317) 537-4680, Cell (317) 797-2040 

E-mail:  Mike.Burger at FreedomMortgage.com
<mailto:Anthony.House at freedommortgage.com> 

"Once word leaks out that a pirate's gone soft, people begin to disobey
you and then it's nothing but work, work, work, all the time."
--Westley/The Dread Pirate Roberts

From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf
Of Thomas Hawkins
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 8:22 AM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: [Xymon] Custom Server Rules for analysis.cfg

We have 50 or 60 servers configured across a number of pages in our
xymon instance.  Instead of having 60 host=hostname entries with generic
entries across all of the servers, I want to set up some
groups/tags/etc... that can be applied to a host.

So, I figured out I could do:

PAGE=DELTS/*/*

        #Defaults for all DELTS Servers

        PROC crond 1 -1 red "TEXT=crond : Task Scheduler"

        PROC ntpd 1 -1 yellow "TEXT=ntpd : Network Time Client"

To go across all of our servers on our subpages to apply these two proc
checks.

What I would like to do is get a bit more specific.  We have a mix of
physical machines, virtual machines, and linux machines, windows
machines, and production machines and development machines.

I'd like to be able to tag hosts somehow so I can do something like
this:

Host 1 = Linux, Production, VM

Host 2 = Linux, Physical, Dev

Linux:

PROC - ntp, cron

Production:

PROC - backup client

VM:

PROC - vmwaretools

Physical:

nothing additional.

Dev:

nothing additional

So for Host1 it will do the following PROC tests:

ntp, cron, backup client, vmwaretools

Whereas Host2 will only do:

ntp, cron

I understand that if I had hosts configured into like groups, or
subpages then I could target the whole works that way, but I currently
have my hosts configured in a way that this is not practical.
Essentially I have all hosts divided into 3 major groups, and then a
number of subgroups, and then the hosts are listed here based on
application cluster or function.  Basing it on groups or pages would
also require me to create a bunch of additional rules to account for
each of the situations above, whereas something like a tag that a host
could have multiple of would simplify things.

Can anyone provide any insight as to how I can achieve these goals?

Thanks,

Thomas

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