In <4D12643B.5080501 at umdnj.edu> Ryan Novosielski <novosirj at umdnj.edu> writes:
- Is there a simple way to still have "unregistered" hosts show up in the "bb2" page? *
These show up in the 'Ghosts' report. As an admin it's a good idea to have a look at that tab once in a while. Sometimes hostnames don't match up exactly, and sometimes folks do as you describe and install / start the client software without informing the admin.
Just happened to notice: additionally, there is a way to show the ghost client report in a text form (xymon-cgi/hobbit-ghosts.sh?SORT=name&MAXAGE=300&TEXT) -- this could almost certainly be used for alerts if someone had the interest. I don't have any ghost clients now so I can't see how it would look, but I bet its formatting is possible to use for a script.
The text-format ghostlist happens to be formatted just like a bb-hosts file ... it wasn't entirely accidental, I can assure you.
Regards, Henrik