On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 10:32:25 -0800, Brian Majeska <brian at majeska.com> wrote:

I'd like to use the CLASS and NOPROP tags in the .default. hosts entry, it doesn't seem to be working for me. Can anyone confirm if they have this working for them? or if I've made an obvious mistake?

0.0.0.0 .default. # CLASS:group1 NOPROPRED=disk 1.2.3.4 server1.example.com #

It's actually slightly embarassing to me, because this exhibits how in-consequential I've been with regards to use 'colon' and 'equals' in those tags.

The man-page has it right, your "NOPROPRED" should be "NOPROPRED:disk". "CLASS:group1" should be ok.

You can test it with a small utility that is built when you run "make" to build Xymon. It doesn't get installed, so you'll have to run it from the source directory. Try this:

henrik at osiris:~/xymon/4.3.0$ /usr/lib/xymon/server/bin/xymoncmd
./lib/loadhosts /etc/xymon/hosts.cfg localhost Entry for host localhost bbd http://localhost/ Pick item:XMH_CLASS XMH_CLASS value is: 'group1' Pick item:XMH_NOPROPRED XMH_NOPROPRED value is: 'disk' Pick item:

This is with this hosts.cfg file:

0.0.0.0 .default. # NOPROPRED:disk CLASS:group1 127.0.0.1 localhost # bbd http://localhost/ 0.0.0.0 .default. # 172.16.10.193 henrikXP # CLIENT:HENRIK-63768AFC

The "henrikXP" host (outside the .default. section) gives:

Entry for host henrikXP CLIENT:HENRIK-63768AFC Pick item:XMH_CLASS XMH_CLASS not found Pick item:XMH_NOPROPRED XMH_NOPROPRED not found

Regards, Henrik