[Xymon] findhost.sh with a different cfg env

[Jeremy Laidman]

Mario

I'm not sure. Can you show your wrapper script?

How are you having findhost use your abridged hosts.cfg file?

Cheers
Jeremy


On Fri, 24 May 2024, 01:16 Mario, <rower.master at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Jeremy,
>
> Thanks for your response.
> Yes, this works partially now.
> I can call the findhostnwgroup.sh however the issue is that the search
> result is showing all found occurences from the entire
> monitoring/"official" hosts.cfg file and not only from the specific
> hostsnwgroup.cfg file.
> Even if I force findhost.sh with --env="" option still shows all from my
> system and it seems to don´t load the different env configuration.
> Do you have an idea on how to get the findhost.sh load the different env
> options?
>
>
> Thanks & regards,
> Mario
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, May 19, 2024 at 9:01 PM Jeremy Laidman <jeremy at laidman.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Mario
>>
>> I imagine that you can still do the same thing. The only difference is
>> that findhost.sh is now a binary rather than a script, and instead of it
>> calling findhost.cgi, it implements the findhost.cgi functionality itself.
>>
>> So, in the same way that findhost.sh was a wrapper around findhost.cgi,
>> you can write findhost-nwgroupview.sh as a wrapper around the new
>> findhost.sh. Simply adjust your script to call findhost.sh instead of
>> findhost.cgi. Although findhost.sh is in the cgi-bin directory now, so
>> something like:
>>
>>  exec /home/xymon/server/cgi-bin/findhost.sh $CGI_FINDHOST_OPTS
>>
>> Cheers
>> Jeremy
>>
>> On Sat, 18 May 2024 at 01:05, Mario <rower.master at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> In old xymon/hobbit 4.3.0 version I used to generate different views
>>> using bbcmd and modifieds hobbitserver.cfg and bb-hosts files.
>>> Also for these different views I was able to create independent
>>> findhosts and enable/disable views for these specific env and bb-hosts
>>> files.
>>>
>>> For example:
>>> $cat bb-findhost-nwgroupview.sh
>>> #!/bin/sh
>>> # This is the Hobbit CGI script interface to bb-findhost.CGI
>>> . /home/xymon/server/etc/hobbitcginwgroupview.cfg
>>>  exec /home/xymon/server/bin/bb-findhost.cgi $CGI_FINDHOST_OPTS
>>>
>>>
>>> How can we do this kind of modified findhost cgi calls on Xymon version
>>> 4.3.30? How can I use and call findhost.sh to use a modified/renamed
>>> cgioptions.cgi ?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Mario
>>>
>>>
>>>
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