Re: [hobbit] Same host 2x in bb-hosts file: 1 for "servers" 1 for services.. How?

[Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell (at) gmail.com>]

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 2:23 PM, William Ottley <wottley (at) cmicanada.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> One last question here...
> I'm trying to structure my page, so that I have 3 areas to test for:
> Servers, services & routers/switches/firewall
> I'd like to have all the servers listed under the page "servers", with all
> the basic xymon client tests.
>
> I'd like to have all the services under another page "services", with
> apache, ftp, mysql, etc.
>
> What I came to realize, is that I get an error, because there are 2 host
> entries in the bb-hosts file. On top of that, I'd only like to show just
> that test for that server, such as "apache", without showing all the other
> standard client tests such as "cpu, disk, files"
>
> I looked at the demo site, and I have a bb-hosts file for:
> "172.16.10.2     www.hswn.dk"
> And setup a client like that, but it comes up with all the standard client
> tests.
>
> Can someone point me to documentation that shows how to set up the tests
> this way? examples?


Take a look at the bb-hosts man page - the thing you want is probably
"group-only", as in:

   group-only conn|cpu|disk|files
   a.b.c.d server.domain.com

   group-only apache
   0.0.0.0 server.domain.com # noconn

Group names are optional.  If given, they show at the top of the hostname
column.

Ralph Mitchell