John,

On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 15:12 +0000, John Horne wrote:

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Hello,

Using Xymon 4.3.7 I want to add a '.default.' entry to my hosts.cfg file, but am unsure of its syntax. The man page for hosts.cfg says '...you can define a host name ".default." and put...'.

so does that mean:

.default. noclear or 127.0.0.1 .default. noclear

What do I enter as the IP address, or can it be anything or can it be left out completely?

The man page is not clear on this, so perhaps a full example would help?

It seems it does require an IP address (I'm using 0.0.0.0), and that it must be the first entry in the hosts.cfg file.

as you've worked out, you need an address of 0.0.0.0

You can have as many .default. lines as you wish - it simply changes the active defaults for subsequently listed hosts.

The following example will propagate status from the subpage to the next level for 'someprodhost' - the status of 'somedevhost' tests will be visible on the page, but will not propagate.

page dev Development 0.0.0.0 .default. # NOPROPRED:* NOPROPYELLOW:* 1.1.1.1 somedevhost # http://whatever ntp 0.0.0.0 .default. # 1.1.1.2 someprodhost # http://whatever ntp

From the man page:

DEFAULT HOST If you have certain tags that you want to apply to all hosts, you can define a host name ".default." and put the tags on that host. Note that per-host definitions will override the default ones.

NOTE: The ".default." host entry will only accept the following tags - others are silently ignored: NOCOLUMNS, COMMENT, DESCR, CLASS, dialup, testip, nobb2, nodisp, noinfo, notrends, TRENDS, NOPROPRED, NOPROPYELLOW, NOPROPPURPLE, NOPROPACK, REPORTTIME, WARNPCT, NET, noclear, nosslcert, ssldays, DOWNTIME, depends, noping, noconn, trace, notrace, HIDEHTTP, browser, pulldata. Specifically, note that network tests, "badTEST" settings, and alternate pageset relations cannot be listed on the ".default." host.

David.

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