On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 11:41:46AM -0500, Kevin Hanrahan wrote:
OK, but I thought I saw a reference in a past mail to something called
pagesets. Is this something that I can use to build different views...say,
for instance, an executive view to show critical apps that would take
systems previously defined under other system-subsets and combine them for
an overall application view? Is there info in the man pages?
Yes, the idea with pagesets is that you can group your hosts any way
you like - so that the view people have of the hosts is customized to
the way they work, instead of having a single view of all
hosts. E.g. where I work there is one view where we group servers by
customer - this is used by the people responsible for the customer
contact - and another view where the servers are grouped by OS - this
is used by our second-line support group.
Pagesets have existed for a long time, and are handled entirely by the
bbgen tool. There's a description of this in the bbgen man-page (look
for the "Building alternate pagesets" section.
Regards,
Henrik
KEvin
-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid] Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 11:22 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Log sizes
Importance: Low
On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 11:14:28AM -0500, Kevin Hanrahan wrote:
I can probably say it is no bug. I do have a few hosts listed twice. > I was trying to build different views for different departments. I now > think this is the wrong approach and I am supposed to use pagesets??...is
that correct?
It's allright to have hosts listed twice, as long as only one host has the
network definitions set.
I don't know how well tools like "bb-fetch" handles hosts that are defined
twice; perhaps they will pull the status twice and send both reports off to
Hobbit, which would also trigger this message.
Henrik
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Henrik Storner