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Question about CLASS= & classname

list Henrik Størner
Fri, 11 Aug 2006 15:25:36 +0200
Message-Id: <user-dc3b83982829@xymon.invalid>

Hi Steve,

On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 09:52:12AM -0400, Aiello, Steve (GE, Corporate, consultant) wrote:
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 ?
It's the value of $BBOSTYPE which gets setup by the Hobbit client
environment. It's basically defined at compile-time. There's a list of
the OS names near the beginning of the lib/misc.c file in the Hobbit 
source; I should probably document that somewhere.
Can regular expresion be used, CLASS=%Linux.* ?
Yes.
Can a host be defined to more than one class, i.e.
   1.2.3.4   serverName   # ssh CLASS:Linux CLASS:webServer
No.
If a host can have more than one class definition, what happens when you
get CLASS configuration parameter collision ?
That's why one host cannot belong to more than one class.


Regards,
Henrik