On Thursday 23 July 2009 21:33:17 Harold J. Ballinger wrote:
It looks like the NAME and COMMENT tags only apply for the host entry that
is preferred with the "prefer" tag. This means that it will change the name
for both pages and that I can't have the host display a friendly name on
one page but an actual hostname on the other.
The only way that I could find to make this work was to use "include"
instead of "dispinclude", then create a second "fake host" entry with a
different hostname and duplicate all of the tests using the "testip" tag,
then use the NAME tag on this second "fake host". This means that all tests
are duplicated and that the tests reported on this page are against the IP
(and would not reflect host resolution issues.)
I know that there are a lot of you out there that are smarter than me and
that know Xymon inside and out. Am I trying to get Xymon to do something
that it just isn't capable of performing? I hate to have to build and
manage a separate Xymon server that is just for the management view and
reporting so that I can have this "Friendly View" type of report, but would
that be my best option at this point?
Would it not make more sense to use the bbcombotest instead for this ?
BTW, while the weathermap script I mainly developed for use with devmon (some
examples here: http://staff.telkomsa.net/~bgmilne/weathermap/) it could quite
easily be modified to display a graphical representation of business services
(if hobbit status information is available for the test specified, the
background of the text will display the test color), possibly with
dependencies.
Regards,
Buchan