[Xymon] Multiple bb-hosts on one server?

[Janford Hof]

Hi, new to the community-have posted my question on the portal this morning.  But thought I'd see if anyone is able to run more than one bb-hosts file on a Linux server (so that there would be 3 Hobbits for one IP, somehow-I don't see how it could be done, though).  We can't go VM as our bandwidth woulnd't handle it.  Not sure if management wants separate instances (prod, OR, stage) showing on the Main Page, so I'm researching bb-alias, etc, but I don't understand exactly if it can be done or not.  I would supppose that the /etc file would also have to somehow aliased?

Any help or a definitive answer, like yes, it can be done or no, it is impractical, would be appreciated.

Thanks... 

-----Original Message-----
From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Henrik Størner
Sent: Monday, November 07, 2011 11:51 AM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] minor bug report

On 07-11-2011 17:06, Brand, Thomas R. wrote:
> It would be nice to be able to fix it in one location; however, the 
> script that generates the data [hobbitclient-linux.sh] runs on the 
> client so it has to be fixed there.
[...]
> NB: I had to make this change on 7300 clients . . . )

You should have asked here first - I hope you had some way of doing it automatically.

Yes, the data is generated by the client script. But that doesn't mean the Xymon server cannot be changed to parse the client-side output correctly. So it is indeed possible to fix it on the Xymon server - it already accomodates the amazingly varied forms of reporting "uptime" 
that various Unix'es use.


Regards,
Henrik
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