Hi JC,
At work I maintain a Xymon install with around 3000 hosts and 90000 checks. We have a lot of custom checks, some of which I want to share in the community in the future including a quite comprehensive Python client library.
One of the things we have is a set of automated checks that check the smart status of every drive we have. (Some hosts have 120 drives.) It generates a number of checks per host like ?smart-sda?, ?smart-sdb? and also a combo test called ?smarts?. I have a patch that I always apply to the Xymon source that allows me to use a regexp in the ?group-except? directive in hosts.cfg, so I can hide ?%smart-.*|othertest?, rather than having to specify ?smart-sda|smart-sdb|othertest? and any other drive that may appear.
I think this patch may be useful for more people than just me, so can we please include this?
Kind regards
Mark
PS: I am also happy to help with testing of new releases and features at home or at work on a larger data set.