[Xymon] Custom Server Rules for analysis.cfg

[cleaver at terabithia.org]

I generate my hosts.cfg in separate include files. One set includes the
canonical list of all tests for each host, but uses netinclude so it's not
displayed. The other set is just lots of different page-subparent
configurations for different groups (by DC, by customer, by responsible
party, etc..)

-jc


> 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.
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>
>
> 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.
>
> --
>
> 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
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>
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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
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>
>
> 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
>
> ________________________________
>
> 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
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>
>
> 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.
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>
>
> --
>
> 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"
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>
>
> To go across all of our servers on our subpages to apply these two proc
> checks.
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>
>
> 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
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>
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> Linux:
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> PROC - ntp, cron
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> Production:
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> PROC - backup client
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>
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> VM:
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> PROC - vmwaretools
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> Physical:
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> nothing additional.
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> Dev:
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> nothing additional
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> So for Host1 it will do the following PROC tests:
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> ntp, cron, backup client, vmwaretools
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>
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> 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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