On Thursday 23 July 2009 21:33:17 Harold J. Ballinger wrote:
It looks like the NAME and COMMENT tags only apply for the host entry that is preferred with the "prefer" tag. This means that it will change the name for both pages and that I can't have the host display a friendly name on one page but an actual hostname on the other.
The only way that I could find to make this work was to use "include" instead of "dispinclude", then create a second "fake host" entry with a different hostname and duplicate all of the tests using the "testip" tag, then use the NAME tag on this second "fake host". This means that all tests are duplicated and that the tests reported on this page are against the IP (and would not reflect host resolution issues.)
I know that there are a lot of you out there that are smarter than me and that know Xymon inside and out. Am I trying to get Xymon to do something that it just isn't capable of performing? I hate to have to build and manage a separate Xymon server that is just for the management view and reporting so that I can have this "Friendly View" type of report, but would that be my best option at this point?
Would it not make more sense to use the bbcombotest instead for this ?
BTW, while the weathermap script I mainly developed for use with devmon (some examples here: http://staff.telkomsa.net/~bgmilne/weathermap/) it could quite easily be modified to display a graphical representation of business services (if hobbit status information is available for the test specified, the background of the text will display the test color), possibly with dependencies.
Regards, Buchan