[Xymon] DISPLAYGROUP in analysis.cfg

[John Thurston]

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Can anyone say they have seen similar behavior with DISPLAYGROUP in 
analysis.cfg?

Can anyone say their analysis.cfg works fine with DISPLAYGROUP?

Without DISPLAYGROUP, I'm finding it pretty hard to make my analysis.cfg 
file manageable.

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John Thurston    907-465-8591
John.Thurston at alaska.gov
Department of Administration
State of Alaska

On 10/17/2019 6:58 AM, John Thurston wrote:
> And with more testing, DISPLAYGROUP doesn't seem to work at all.
> 
> Group names containing spaces, so enclosed in double-quotes, are shown 
> in the --dump with the leading quote and not the trailing quote.
> 
> Group names with only one word appear in the --dump correctly, but are 
> not matched when performing a --test.
> 
> The behavior is the same when I use a regex in place of the quoted group 
> name containing spaces.
> 
> The only way I can make my analysis.cfg file work is by creating wicked 
> regex definitions of the type HOST
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
>     Do things because you should, not just because you can.
> 
> John Thurston    907-465-8591
> John.Thurston at alaska.gov
> Department of Administration
> State of Alaska
> 
> On 10/16/2019 10:51 AM, John Thurston wrote:
>>
>> I'm seeing very odd behavior with my analysis.cfg*. My xymon server is 
>> running 4.3.28 on Solaris 10.
>>
>> What I'm seeing is that trying to define a rule with DISPLAYGROUP (or 
>> EXDISPLAYGROUP) does not behave as expected from the man-page.
>>
>> If I have the following in my analysis.cfg:
>>
>>> disk /charlie 23 33 DISPLAYGROUP=Charlie
>>>
>>> DISPLAYGROUP=Delta
>>>         disk  /delta 24 34
>>>
>>> PAGE=Foo
>>>         disk /foo 10 20
>>
>>
>> I get the following from     xymond_client --dump-config
>>
>>> DISK /charlie 23% 33% 0 -1 red DISPLAYGROUP=Charlie (line: 373)
>>> DISK /delta 24% 34% 0 -1 red (line: 376)
>>> DISK /foo 10% 20% 0 -1 red PAGE=Foo (line: 379)
>>> UP 3600 -1 (line: 385)
>>> LOAD 20.00 60.00 (line: 386)
>>> DISK * 90% 95% 0 -1 red (line: 387)
>>> INODE * 70% 90% 0 -1 red (line: 388)
>>> MEMREAL 100 101 (line: 389)
>>> MEMSWAP 50 80 (line: 390)
>>> MEMACT 90 97 (line: 391)
>>
>>
>> Demonstrating that DISPLAYGROUP works when appended to a setting, but 
>> does _not_ work when preceding a line with a setting.  The DISK 
>> setting is accepted, but becomes a global value rather than applying 
>> to a subset of the hosts. Yet the PAGE rule does work.
>>
>> I have run through many scenarios, and see that the following DO work 
>> as rules preceding a setting:
>>    HOST
>>    EXHOST
>>    PAGE
>>    EXPAGE
>>    CLASS
>>    EXCLASS
>>    TEXT
>>    TIME
>>    EXTIME
>> and that the following DO NOT work
>>    DISPLAYGROUP
>>    EXDISPLAYGROUP
>>
>>
>> I also see that order matters. If I move the PAGE=Foo up in the file:
>>> PAGE=Foo
>>>         disk /foo 10 20
>>>
>>> disk /charlie 23 33 DISPLAYGROUP=Charlie
>>>
>>> DISPLAYGROUP=Delta
>>>         disk  /delta 24 34
>>
>> then the resulting --dump-config reveals some strange parsing:
>>
>>> DISK /foo 10% 20% 0 -1 red PAGE=Foo (line: 374)
>>> DISK /charlie 23% 33% 0 -1 red DISPLAYGROUP=Charlie PAGE=Foo (line: 376)
>>> DISK /delta 24% 34% 0 -1 red (line: 379)
>>> UP 3600 -1 (line: 386)
>>> LOAD 20.00 60.00 (line: 387)
>>> DISK * 90% 95% 0 -1 red (line: 388)
>>> INODE * 70% 90% 0 -1 red (line: 389)
>>> MEMREAL 100 101 (line: 390)
>>> MEMSWAP 50 80 (line: 391)
>>> MEMACT 90 97 (line: 392)
>>
>>
>> Can anyone help me figure out what's going on?
>> Do I have my analysis.cfg syntax all wrong?
>> Or is there a defect in the parsing?
>>
>>
>>
>> * It's worth noting that I don't do much with that file. The majority 
>> of our clients are old Big Brother clients, so I seldom delve into 
>> this file.
>>