This is coming from your hosts.cfg.
If 1 host has a tag on it, that tag will by default display for all other hosts. The solution is to use the GROUP-ONLY or GROUP-EXCEPT tags in your hosts.cfg. This tells Xymon to display (or exclude) the specified tags until it comes to another "GROUP" tag.
Ultimately, you will likely need to create multiple pages and subpages to display data in a well organized fashion. Putting groups of like hosts on different pages. Note, that if a host is listed more than once in the host file, xymon can get confused as to which to use, so you should specify with a 'prefer' tag For example, your hosts.cfg may end up looking like:
page system SYSTEM group-only conn|cpu|memory|info 1.2.3.4.host1 # conn my_test1 my_test2 my_test3 prefer 1.2.3.5 host2 # conn my_test1 my_test2 my_test3 prefer
page other OTHER group-only my_test1|my_test2|my_test3 0.0.0.0 host1 # 0.0.0.0 host2 #
On your main page you will have two icons. One named SYSTEM, the other named OTHER. If you click on the System icon, the page will display you two hosts, only showing conn, cpu, memory, and info. If you click on the Other icon, it will display your hosts only showing my_test1, my_test2, and my_test3. You'll notice that sine the hosts are listed twice, there is a prefer tag in the first group, with all of the tags added to that host. The second occurrence of the hosts doesn't need any defining data since Xymon already knows about it from the first occurrence.
Michael Beatty
On 01/09/2013 06:10 PM, Mills, David (IS) wrote:
All -- Besides adding specific tags for services / tests in hosts.cfg, what determines which service columns appear on web page for a particular client? I.e. I have some clients in my environment which do not have any tags in hosts.cfg, but display several "tests". I see part of the puzzle: the client runs (in my case): ~/xymon/client_sunos-5.10/bin/xymonclient-sunos.sh, which generates the following columns of data date uname uptime who df mount prtconf memory swap swaplist ifconfig route netstat ports ifstat ps top I also see there's a file called ~/xymon/client/etc/clientlaunch.cfg, which is like the server-side "tasks.cfg" in concept / syntax. However, what determines which of these stanzas applies for which-host? Thanks! david
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