[Xymon] Reference tag in hosts.cfg

Henrik Størner henrik at hswn.dk
Fri Jan 10 17:37:00 CET 2014


Den 10-01-2014 15:15, Andy Smith skrev:
> Hi,
>
> Could I request that this trivial change be added at some stage please.
> It introduces the ability to include a tag in hosts.cfg which has no
> purpose other than provide an arbitary reference. eg
>
> configdbid=12345
>
> In my case '12345' would be the ID of a record in an asset database and
> I can use this to construct a query that delivers useful support
> information.  It could also be used the other way round and provide a
> way to maintain hosts.cfg in a mysql db or some such.  Let me know what
> you think.

Hmm ... hostnames are supposed to be a unique id for the servers in 
hosts.cfg - why can't you use that?


Regards,
Henrik




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