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From: Aiello, Steve (GE, Corporate, consultant) Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 9:52 AM
To: 'user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid'
Subject: Question about CLASS= & classname
Per the hobbit-clients.cfg documentation I read the following:
CLASS=classname Rule match by the client class-name. You specify
the class-name for a host when starting the client through the
"--class=NAME" option to the runclient.sh script. If no class is
specified, the host by default goes into a class named by the
operating system.
My questions:
The default classname setting of the operating system, which value is it ? When I look at the client data of a host I see the following:
[uname]
Linux serverName 2.6.16-gentoo-r7 i686
[osversion]
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14
Is the default value of classname set to [uname] or [osversion]. Also is it the full name ? If so do I define my CLASS="Linux serverName 2.6.16-gentoo-r7 i686" ? Can regular expresion be used, CLASS=%Linux.* ?
Can a host be defined to more than one class, i.e.
1.2.3.4 serverName # ssh CLASS:Linux CLASS:webServer
If a host can have more than one class definition, what happens when you get CLASS configuration parameter collision ?
Also, it may bee helpful to have the Info report show which class the device falls under.
Thank you,
Steve