Hi all,
As I understand, the page and subpage options help you to organize your bunch of hosts. I have split them up in SLA's so I can alert on each SLA we have. This is a very nice feature.
Now I thought it would be nice to have another view on my bunch of hosts from a system perspective. So I have set up my bb-hosts file as follows and get the :
page SLA SLA subpage Application1 Application1 include bb-hosts-solaris-application1.txt include bb-hosts-linux-application1.txt
subpage Application2 Application2 include bb-hosts-solaris-application2.txt include bb-hosts-linux-application2.txt
page System System subpage Solaris Solaris include bb-hosts-solaris-application1.txt include bb-hosts-solaris-application2.txt
subpage Linux Linux include bb-hosts-linux-application1.txt include bb-hosts-linux-application2.txt
In the top-display I see: SLA and System and I can walk through either branch to see my hosts, but in the bbnet column it says (in yellow):
Host XXXX appears twice in bb-hosts! This may cause strange results Host YYYY appears twice in bb-hosts! This may cause strange results
So I guess the bbnet process double pings the associated hosts, so it generates a double load. That's unwanted, but I like the approach very much (an application/SLA-view and a system manager's-view).
Is there another (better & cleaner) way of setting this up?
Peter