Special bb-hosts file just for reporting
list Harold J. Ballinger
Is there any way that I can have a special customized bb-hosts file that I use just for generating an availability report? For example, I want to have a bb-hosts file that has friendly COMMENT tags, etc and that is grouped the way that our service catalog is grouped. This way I can generate an availability report that makes sense when demonstrating to the executive team. However, I want the layout of my normal monitoring system to be layed out logically in the way that makes sense to our IT team. Is there any way to run a command that will generate an availability report using a different bb-hosts file? Thanks! • Harold Ballinger IT Manager Heritage Healthcare, Inc. (XXX) XXX-XXXX | helpdesk (XXX) XXX-XXXX | office (XXX) XXX-XXXX | fax [cid:image001.jpg at 01CA5193.7895DC50] Visit our website: www.heritage-healthcare.com<http://www.heritage-healthcare.com/>;
list Henrik Størner
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In <833FE11B4A07FD4789F720B6F915124F07F5E92742 at HHCGVL-COMM01> "Harold J. Ballinger" <user-fc4f93976dc8@xymon.invalid> writes:
Is there any way to run a command that will generate an availability report= using a different bb-hosts file?
Just set the BBHOSTS environment variable to point at your special bb-hosts file before running the "bbgen" command that generates the report. Regards, Henrik
list Harold J. Ballinger
That sure beats cloning the entire monitoring server, renaming the bb-hosts and running the report offline on the clone :) Thanks sooooo much! I will try it out this weekend.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Størner [mailto:user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 4:27 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Special bb-hosts file just for reporting
In <833FE11B4A07FD4789F720B6F915124F07F5E92742 at HHCGVL-COMM01> "Harold J. Ballinger" <user-fc4f93976dc8@xymon.invalid> writes:
Is there any way to run a command that will generate an availability report= using a different bb-hosts file?
Just set the BBHOSTS environment variable to point at your special bb-hosts file before running the "bbgen" command that generates the report. Regards, Henrik
list Harold J. Ballinger
Wait.... will this cause some of my monitors that aren't a part of the special bb-hosts file to go purple while the BBHOSTS variable is set to the alternate file? I wanted to avoid any impact on the monitoring system's tests, etc.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Størner [mailto:user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 4:27 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Special bb-hosts file just for reporting
In <833FE11B4A07FD4789F720B6F915124F07F5E92742 at HHCGVL-COMM01> "Harold J. Ballinger" <user-fc4f93976dc8@xymon.invalid> writes:
Is there any way to run a command that will generate an availability report= using a different bb-hosts file?
Just set the BBHOSTS environment variable to point at your special bb-hosts file before running the "bbgen" command that generates the report. Regards, Henrik
list Henrik Størner
In <833FE11B4A07FD4789F720B6F915124F07F5E929E4 at HHCGVL-COMM01> "Harold J. Ballinger" <user-fc4f93976dc8@xymon.invalid> writes:
Wait.... will this cause some of my monitors that aren't a part of the spec= ial bb-hosts file to go purple while the BBHOSTS variable is set to the alt= ernate file? I wanted to avoid any impact on the monitoring system's tests,= etc.
No, the BBHOSTS variable is only set for the task that generates the report. Leave all of your normal configuration files untouched; but create the new report-layout-bb-hosts file "bb-hosts.report". Then run the report from a script like this: #!/bin/sh BBHOSTS=/home/xymon/server/etc/bb-hosts.report export BBHOSTS bbgen <<the options you you normally use to build the report>> Regards, Henrik