[Xymon] Horizontal lines as separatorson the main view

[Henrik Størner]

On 20-04-2012 12:29, Becker Christian wrote:
> Hello out there,
>
> having implemented Xymon 4.3.7 and working with it, I’m wondering about
> a “cosmetic” thing.
>
> We have several Xymon environments for several customer datacenter’s.
> One environment has 40 pages on the main view, but they should be
> separated between PROD and TEST environments.
>
> At this time, they are separated by the name of the pages, for example
> “Application” and “Application-T” (for TEST), or “Database” and
> “Database-T” and so on.
>
> In the upper half of the main view, there are the PROD pages, and in the
> lower half of the main view, there are the TEST pages. The two halves
> are separated by “dummy” pages.
>
> For example:
>
> [Application]
>
> [-]
>
> [Application-T]
>
> The [-] is on of the dummy pages, the next dummy page is [--], then the
> next dummy page is [---] and so on.
>

> For me this is not really nice, I would rather like to have the ability
> to separate things using HTML-tags, for example <HR>, but I don’t know
> if this is possible on the main view? (for example by inserting a
> special tag or line into hosts.cfg??)

It is, by (ab)using the "title" tag in hosts.cfg. We use it for the same 
purpose that You want to, and have lines like this:

title <HR>

It works. Not especially pretty (from an application design 
perspective), but it gets the job done.


Regards,
Henrik