[Xymon] What determines displayed columns?

[Michael Beatty]

This is coming from your hosts.cfg.

If 1 host has a tag on it, that tag will by default display for all 
other hosts. The solution is to use the GROUP-ONLY or GROUP-EXCEPT tags 
in your hosts.cfg.  This tells Xymon to display (or exclude) the 
specified tags until it comes to another "GROUP" tag.

Ultimately, you will likely need to create multiple pages and subpages 
to display data in a well organized fashion.  Putting groups of like 
hosts on different pages.  Note, that if a host is listed more than once 
in the host file, xymon can get confused as to which to use, so you 
should specify with a 'prefer' tag For example, your hosts.cfg may end 
up looking like:

******************************
page system SYSTEM
group-only conn|cpu|memory|info
1.2.3.4.host1 # conn my_test1 my_test2 my_test3 prefer
1.2.3.5 host2 # conn my_test1 my_test2 my_test3 prefer

page other OTHER
group-only my_test1|my_test2|my_test3
0.0.0.0 host1 #
0.0.0.0 host2 #
******************************

On your main page you will have two icons.  One named SYSTEM, the other 
named OTHER.  If you click on the System icon, the page will display you 
two hosts, only showing conn, cpu, memory, and info.  If you click on 
the Other icon, it will display your hosts only showing my_test1, 
my_test2, and my_test3.  You'll notice that sine the hosts are listed 
twice, there is a prefer tag in the first group, with all of the tags 
added to that host.  The second occurrence of the hosts doesn't need any 
defining data since Xymon already knows about it from the first occurrence.



Michael Beatty

On 01/09/2013 06:10 PM, Mills, David (IS) wrote:
> All --
> Besides adding specific tags for services / tests in hosts.cfg, what 
> determines which service columns appear on web page for a particular 
> client? I.e. I have some clients in my environment which do not have 
> any tags in hosts.cfg, but display several "tests".
> I see part of the puzzle: the client runs (in my case): 
> ~/xymon/client_sunos-5.10/bin/xymonclient-sunos.sh, which generates 
> the following columns of data
>                 date
>                 uname
>                 uptime
>                 who
>                 df
>                 mount
>                 prtconf
>                 memory
>                 swap
>                 swaplist
>                 ifconfig
>                 route
>                 netstat
>                 ports
>                 ifstat
>                 ps
>                 top
> I also see there's a file called ~/xymon/client/etc/clientlaunch.cfg, 
> which is like the server-side "tasks.cfg" in concept / syntax.
> However, what determines which of these stanzas applies for which-host?
> Thanks!
> david
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