NAME: options
list Richard Deal
We have several servers here of various type that are primarily DB servers. MY DBA, asked if I could create a page for him with all the DB servers on it. Some of the machines are solaris and some are linux so they are primarily monitored by solaris and linux administrators and are on similar pages. So I created a page like this: page DB DB Servers group-compress <font size="+2">DB Servers</font> 0.0.0.0 lemond.tigr.org # noconn NAME:SYBTIGR since the DBA refers to the systems by the database names on each I was attempting to use the "NAME:" argument to change the display name. It does not seem to work unless it is on the primary or preferred line in the bb-hosts file though. The "COMMENT:" option also does not seem to work in this circumstance. Butch Deal
list Larry Barber
I did something similar using pagesets. I created a pageset that listed servers by their primary function like this: fnpage APPSERVER Application Servers fnpage MQS MQ Series fnpage ORACLE Oracle fnpage SQLSERVER SQL Server fnpage WEBSERVER Web Servers Added "Functional view" to the views menu and was all set. This seems to work pretty well, my DBA's like it. Thanks, Larry Barber
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On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 10:14 -0500, user-f6f804cb0a50@xymon.invalid wrote:We have several servers here of various type that are primarily DB servers. MY DBA, asked if I could create a page for him with all the DB servers on it. Some of the machines are solaris and some are linux so they are primarily monitored by solaris and linux administrators and are on similar pages. So I created a page like this: page DB DB Servers group-compress <font size="+2">DB Servers</font> 0.0.0.0 lemond.tigr.org # noconn NAME:SYBTIGR since the DBA refers to the systems by the database names on each I was attempting to use the "NAME:" argument to change the display name. It does not seem to work unless it is on the primary or preferred line in the bb-hosts file though. The "COMMENT:" option also does not seem to work in this circumstance. Butch Deal
list Richard Deal
I thought about using views but wouldn't I come to the same difficulty in trying to use a "NAME:" or "COMMENT:" on one view but not the main view?
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From: user-7a6c75d6cc10@xymon.invalid [mailto:user-7a6c75d6cc10@xymon.invalid] Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 11:25 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] NAME: options
I did something similar using pagesets. I created a pageset that listed
servers by their primary function like this:
fnpage APPSERVER Application Servers
fnpage MQS MQ Series
fnpage ORACLE Oracle
fnpage SQLSERVER SQL Server
fnpage WEBSERVER Web Servers
Added "Functional view" to the views menu and was all set. This seems to
work pretty well, my DBA's like it.
Thanks,
Larry Barber
On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 10:14 -0500, user-f6f804cb0a50@xymon.invalid wrote:We have several servers here of various type that are primarily DB servers. MY DBA, asked if I could create a page for him with all the DB servers on it. Some of the machines are solaris and some are linux so they are primarily monitored by solaris and linux administrators and are on similar pages. So I created a page like this: page DB DB Servers group-compress <font size="+2">DB Servers</font> 0.0.0.0 lemond.tigr.org # noconn NAME:SYBTIGR since the DBA refers to the systems by the database names on each I was attempting to use the "NAME:" argument to change the display name. It does not seem to work unless it is on the primary or preferred line in the bb-hosts file though. The "COMMENT:" option also does not seem to work in this circumstance. Butch Deal
list Larry Barber
Maybe you could run two separate BB clients on the database machine? One that would report the stuff that the SA's are interested in, the other (reporting under the DB name) could do the database tests?
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Thanks,
Larry Barber
On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 10:32 -0500, user-f6f804cb0a50@xymon.invalid wrote:I thought about using views but wouldn't I come to the same difficulty in trying to use a "NAME:" or "COMMENT:" on one view but not the main view? -----Original Message----- From: user-7a6c75d6cc10@xymon.invalid [mailto:user-7a6c75d6cc10@xymon.invalid] Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 11:25 AM To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid Subject: Re: [hobbit] NAME: options I did something similar using pagesets. I created a pageset that listed servers by their primary function like this: fnpage APPSERVER Application Servers fnpage MQS MQ Series fnpage ORACLE Oracle fnpage SQLSERVER SQL Server fnpage WEBSERVER Web Servers Added "Functional view" to the views menu and was all set. This seems to work pretty well, my DBA's like it. Thanks, Larry Barber On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 10:14 -0500, user-f6f804cb0a50@xymon.invalid wrote: > We have several servers here of various type that are primarily DB > servers. MY DBA, asked if I could create a page for him with all the > DB servers on it. > > Some of the machines are solaris and some are linux so they are > primarily monitored by solaris and linux administrators and are on > similar pages. > > So I created a page like this: > > page DB DB Servers > > group-compress <font size="+2">DB Servers</font> > > 0.0.0.0 lemond.tigr.org # noconn NAME:SYBTIGR > > since the DBA refers to the systems by the database names on each I > was attempting to use the "NAME:" argument to change the display > name. > > It does not seem to work unless it is on the primary or preferred line > in the bb-hosts file though. > > The "COMMENT:" option also does not seem to work in this circumstance. > > > > Butch Deal > >
list Henrik Størner
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On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 11:14:43AM -0400, Deal, Richard wrote:
page DB DB Servers group-compress <font size="+2">DB Servers</font> 0.0.0.0 lemond.tigr.org # noconn NAME:SYBTIGR since the DBA refers to the systems by the database names on each I was attempting to use the "NAME:" argument to change the display name. It does not seem to work unless it is on the primary or preferred line in the bb-hosts file though. The "COMMENT:" option also does not seem to work in this circumstance.
I'm afraid that is "by design", so it is not something that is easily
fixed. My best suggestion is to put a COMMENT:SYBTIGR on the primary
host entry for this host, and live with the fact that is shows up as
lemond.tigr.org (SYBTIGR)
Hobbit considers duplicate host entries in bb-hosts as mere
"placeholders", and ignores any tags placed on these. I do admit that in
cases such as the one you have it would be useful to have this
possibility, but it would take some work to implement.
Henrik