How to list a host multiple times in bb-hosts properly 🔗 link

Ok, next question. 

I have a machine that I wish to appear on multiple pages.  So I list it
more than once in bb-hosts.

First time, I list it this way:

group-only bbd|bbgen|bbtest|hobbitd|rsync       Hobbit Monitoring Server
123.123.123.123    123.123.123.123 # BBPAGER BBNET BBDISPLAY bbd noconn 
rsync

Then I list it this way:

page game-servers Main Game Server Boxes.
group-except bbd|bbgen|bbtest|hobbitd|rsync
123.123.123.123    123.123.123.123 # ftp !telnet !smtp ssh  ntp  prefer
badconn:1:2:4

(Note: this is just the first server of many that I will need to do that
to.)

Yet, hobbit gives me a yellow box for the bbtest column and displays
this message:

Error output:
Host 123.123.123.123 appears twice in bb-hosts! This may cause strange
results

So how do I go about properly listing a server multiple times?

-- 
Jeff Stuart
Network Admin
MyInternetServices
1-800-300-HOST
X-XXX-XXX-XXXX


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On 10/19/05, Jeff Stuart <user-2aec98d44f5e@xymon.invalid> wrote:

123.123.123.123 <http://123.123.123.123>; 123.123.123.123<http://123.123.123.123># BBPAGER BBNET BBDISPLAY bbd noconn

123.123.123.123 <http://123.123.123.123>; 123.123.123.123<http://123.123.123.123># ftp !telnet !smtp ssh ntp prefer
badconn:1:2:4

Error output:
Host 123.123.123.123 <http://123.123.123.123>; appears twice in bb-hosts!
This may cause strange
results

On the 4.1.2 (snapshot just before release canidate) setup I have here,
several of my systems are on multiple pages. The only difference that I can
see between the config lines shown above and the configs that I am running,
is that the "prefer" keyword is before any other tests..

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--==[ Bob Gordon ]==--

On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 04:27:23PM -0400, Jeff Stuart wrote:

The rule is: Put all of your tags on one of these definitions, and ONLY
a "noconn" on the others.

So using your example:

group-only bbd|bbgen|bbtest|hobbitd|rsync       Hobbit Monitoring Server
123.123.123.123    123.123.123.123 # noconn 

page game-servers Main Game Server Boxes.
group-except bbd|bbgen|bbtest|hobbitd|rsync
123.123.123.123    123.123.123.123 # ftp !telnet !smtp ssh  ntp  prefer badconn:1:2:4 bbd rsync


There's no link between the "group-only" or "group-except" definitions,
and where you have the network tests defined, so even though it might
seem a bit odd with "group-except bbd|rsync" and then those two tests
listed on the first host-entry, it will work the way you want it to.
Because the tool the runs the network tests ignores all of the page,
subpage, group* definitions; and the tool that builds the webpages
ignores how all of the network tests were defined (it just looks at
what status columns are available).


Henrik

Bob Gordon wrote:

Tried that.  Still get the error.

-- 
Jeff Stuart
Network Admin MyInternetServices
1-800-300-HOST
X-XXX-XXX-XXXX


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Henrik Stoerner wrote:

Ahh THANK you Henrik... That worked!  YAAH I'm all green again LOL

-- 
Jeff Stuart
Network Admin
MyInternetServices
1-800-300-HOST
X-XXX-XXX-XXXX


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