If we're throwing out feature requests...

My users would love to see something that can be descibed as a "service group" of statuses...

Basically, we have several groups of web servers on the page that the apache admins look at, in group-only blocks (they don't care about system messages, only their HTTP, CONT, and TRENDS). In order for them to see everything, they have to scroll around because there are a bunch of 3-column, N-row groups. But the same data could be condensed into a single screen of a bunch of N-column, 3-row groups.

So what I'd like to propose is a "servicegroup"# tag in bb-hosts, that renders its content as rows of tests, and columns of hosts (as opposed to the normal rows of hosts, columns of tests)

Syntax: servicegroup SERVICE1|SERVICE2|SERVICE3 [group-title] Defines a group of host-service pairs that appear on the web page. Hosts in the servicegroup are listed as a single header-line with rows for each SERVICE listed.

(Optional: allow "servicegroup * group-title" to show rows for all services on any of the hosts)

Another benefit for this just came to mind: 'servicegroup TRENDS "System performance trends"'... Have a page or block at the bottom of your servers-page with easy access to all of the graphs for all those systems.

--Joe

I'm not tied to this name... group-service might be more syntactically

consistent with the rest of the bb-hosts entries.