In <user-9661f7a8c1ee@xymon.invalid> Ryan Novosielski <user-ae4522577e16@xymon.invalid> writes:
* Is there a simple way to still have "unregistered" hosts show up in
the "bb2" page? *
These show up in the 'Ghosts' report. As an admin it's a good idea
to have a look at that tab once in a while. Sometimes hostnames
don't match up exactly, and sometimes folks do as you describe and
install / start the client software without informing the admin.
Just happened to notice: additionally, there is a way to show the ghost
client report in a text form
(xymon-cgi/hobbit-ghosts.sh?SORT=name&MAXAGE=300&TEXT) -- this could
almost certainly be used for alerts if someone had the interest. I don't
have any ghost clients now so I can't see how it would look, but I bet
its formatting is possible to use for a script.
The text-format ghostlist happens to be formatted just like a
bb-hosts file ... it wasn't entirely accidental, I can assure you.
Regards,
Henrik