How to split checks between pages?
Hello all,
We have a Hobbit(XyMon) 4.2.0 setup in our company, monitoring approxiametely 80 servers. This is all working out fine, but with the growing success of our monitoring come several challenges.
We are trying to split up the monitoring of several thing between the administration groups that are responsible for the specific parts being monitored. Splitting between UNIX servers, SAN enclosures and network components is pretty easy, so we have different pages for UNIX servers, SAN enclosures and network components.
But the challenge arises when we want our Database admins and our Application admins to have pages for their own checks. I want connection, SSH-daemon processes and system disks to be displayed and monitored by UNIX admins, oracle processes and oracle disks monitored by DBA, application processes and application disks by Application admins.
Preferably on different pages with different logins to access them.
So far all I've been able to do is setup copy pages with the 'dispinclude', but that does not quite do what I want. For example I setup 'NOPROPRED' in the UNIX versions of the hosts for the 'sap_r3' (an application) check, but that means it is also not propagated on the page for the SAP-admins. (eventhough I made different unix.hosts and sap.hosts files to be included (unix.hosts) and dispincluded (sap.hosts) in bb-hosts )
How do I split the different checks for one host (or cluster) between the different levels of administration, on separate pages?
//Danny.
PS on a different note: will all traces of BB and hobbit de removed in the configuration filenames in the future as well? It seems like it might be a bit confusing otherwise...
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 08:46:41AM +0100, Kip, D. - GDI/SNB wrote:
We are trying to split up the monitoring of several thing between the administration groups that are responsible for the specific parts being monitored. Splitting between UNIX servers, SAN enclosures and network components is pretty easy, so we have different pages for UNIX servers, SAN enclosures and network components.
But the challenge arises when we want our Database admins and our Application admins to have pages for their own checks. I want connection, SSH-daemon processes and system disks to be displayed and monitored by UNIX admins, oracle processes and oracle disks monitored by DBA, application processes and application disks by Application admins.
Preferably on different pages with different logins to access them.
The simplest way of doing that is to have the hosts listed on multiple pages in bb-hosts (yes, you can do that - just have all of the network tests defined on one of the host-entries, and leave the others as "0.0.0.0 HOSTNAME # noconn").
Then you can use the group-only or group-except definitions to filter out what columns appear for the host.
PS on a different note: will all traces of BB and hobbit de removed in the configuration filenames in the future as well? It seems like it might be a bit confusing otherwise...
It is. But it requires some effort to go through all of the references to the old names, as well as provide some sort of smooth transition to the new naming scheme. I'm a bit afraid to do that right now, because it will inevitably break something. So for the 4.x versions I'll stick with the current filenames, and then in 5.0 there will be the big rename-everything change.
Regards, Henrik
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