I completely agree. This would be very useful for me as well, where I have 10+ items (some transparent) between my Hobbit server and the final host.
Just bascially allow us to create the same macros that we can in the hobbit-alerts.cfg.
On 2/8/07, Marganne, Etienne <emarganne at be.tiauto.com> wrote:
Hello again,
This time I come with a proposal of feature that could help many of us who handles a huge network. Here is the story:
Since it is a huge job to copy paste very long lists of hosts that could be in the network path between the final Hobbit client and the Hobbit server, it could be nice to have some possibility to define some kind of template.
Let's say you have different sites around the globe and there are fixed paths to get there. You sure do not want to copy paste as I said the list of hosts present on those paths. So if we could define a few "default route" to get to a site we would save time of configuration and the readability of the bb-hosts file.
i.e.:
Hobbit server ------ router1------ router2 ------ router3 ------ host1
| |------------------------- host2
| ------ router4 ------ router5 ------ host3default-route1: router1, router2, router3
default-route2: router4, router5
0.0.0.0 host1 # conn route_HServer: default-route1
0.0.0.0 host2 # conn route_HServer: default-route2, router3
0.0.0.0 host3 # conn route_HServer: default-route3
There it is. Makes life easier for lazy (or with a huge work load J) kind of people.
Etienne Marganne
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