On Friday, 9 September 2011 09:50:48 Henrik Størner wrote:
Hi,
I have a question for all of you.
xymongen and xymonnet currently reads the hosts.cfg file from disk when
they generate the webpages or run the network tests. Ever since the
"bbgen toolkit" days, these programs have supported an additional type
of "include" statement in hosts.cfg / bb-hosts: "dispinclude" works like
"include", but is recognized only by xymongen, and "netinclude" does the
same for xymonnet.
I am considering removing these options, since that would make it very
simple to eliminate the need for xymongen and xymonnet to have access to
the hosts.cfg file - they can just fetch it from xymond, which both of
them need to talk to anyway.
I am not using these options, but in the very near future I probably need an
elegant way to present limited views to different users.
However, if xymond can expose sufficient information about page layouts (I
haven't investigated the "secret" fields sufficiently) then I should be able
to succeed without these features.
Regards,
Buchan