Hi,
I started writing a server extension for CUPS monitoring (not just testing that the CUPS /server/ is there, but really monitoring the queue states). The script can easily learn all of the existing queues and their states from the CUPS server, and report status with $BB for each queue using the queue name as hostname and a few different columns (running, accepting, jobcount).
So, it feels kind of redundant to have to go and add all of the queue names to bb-hosts (or have them all treated as ghosts with no way to specify what page they appear on).
How difficult would it be to support a kind of place-holder entry in bb-hosts, maybe as simple as a group-only tag with a title and no explicit hosts beneath it:
group-only running|accepting|jobcount Printers
and then some modified form of the 'status' command in bb:
$BB $BBDISP "gstatus Printers laser1.running green $(date)"
I bet such a capability would be useful for monitoring a lot of things besides printers.
Does it seem feasible?
Chapman Flack