On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 10:28 -0400, user-ce96540ed38f@xymon.invalid wrote:
On Wednesday 25 July 2007 10:09, Moore, Joe wrote:
If we're throwing out feature requests...
My users would love to see something that can be descibed as a "service
group" of statuses...
Basically, we have several groups of web servers on the page that the
apache admins look at, in group-only blocks (they don't care about
system messages, only their HTTP, CONT, and TRENDS). In order for them
to see everything, they have to scroll around because there are a bunch
of 3-column, N-row groups. But the same data could be condensed into a
single screen of a bunch of N-column, 3-row groups.
So what I'd like to propose is a "servicegroup"# tag in bb-hosts, that
renders its content as rows of tests, and columns of hosts (as opposed
to the normal rows of hosts, columns of tests)
Syntax:
servicegroup SERVICE1|SERVICE2|SERVICE3 [group-title]
Defines a group of host-service pairs that appear on the web
page. Hosts in the servicegroup are listed as a single header-line with
rows for each SERVICE listed.
(Optional: allow "servicegroup * group-title" to show rows for all
services on any of the hosts)
Another benefit for this just came to mind: 'servicegroup TRENDS "System
performance trends"'... Have a page or block at the bottom of your
servers-page with easy access to all of the graphs for all those
systems.
Don't the group-only and group-exceot bb-host parameters already cover this ?
I am assuming you are leaving the devices on their primary page, but want a
seperate page for apache admins. on their page you would just use an bb-host
alias: 0.0.0.0 devicename # noconn. Where the bb-host entry on the primary
page would have the correct IP and all BBTAGS + the prefer BBTAG.
He is already using the group-only parameter, what he want to do is
flip-flop the hosts and services, He wants rows of services and columns
of hosts.
Trent
<snippet from man bb-hosts>
group-only COLUMN1|COLUMN2|COLUMN3 [group-title]
Same as the "group" and "group-compress" lines, but includes only the
columns explicitly listed in the group. Any columns not listed will be
ignored for these hosts.
group-except COLUMN1|COLUMN2|COLUMN3 [group-title]
Same as the "group-only" lines, but includes all columns EXCEPT those
explicitly listed in the group. Any columns listed will be ignored for these
hosts - all other columns are shown.
</snippet>
~Steve