Hi !

Is it right, that the Class-names function only works for log-file-monitoring and nothing else ?

http://www.xymon.com/hobbit/help/manpages/man5/bb-hosts.5.html

CLASS:Classname Force the host to belong to a specific class. Class-names are used when configuring log-file monitoring (they can be used as references in client-local.cfg(5) and hobbit-clients.cfg(5) to group logfile checks). Normally, class-names are controlled on the client by starting the Xymon client with the "--class=Classname" option. If you specify it in the bb-hosts file on the Xymon server, it overrides any classname that the client reports.

And if that's true, is it possible to tag machines with something similiar in the bb-hosts, for classification in special groups to monitor ?

e.g. tags for hardware-type, farm-node, working-server ....

I've got a lot of farm-nodes and Workgroupserver, but each group ( linux and solaris, also OS indepented ) have to monitor different .. and a lot of machines are placed in various page and subpages ....

.. i don't want to write each page/subpage in hobbit-clients.cfg/ client-local.cfg/hobbit-alert.cfg, that is much work and would be confusing some times ..

thanks & cheers

martin