I decided to try something else. I decided to create a display group for each type of server, and then specify host checks specific to that group. For example...from analysis.cfg:

PAGE=DELTS2/LINUX PROC cron 1 -1 red PROC ntpd 1 -1 yellow

DISPLAYGROUP="Linux External Production Servers - Virtual" PROC vmware-guestd 1 -1 yellow PROC /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsmc 1 -1 red PROC /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsmcad 1 -1 red

DISPLAYGROUP="Linux Internal Production Servers - Virtual" PROC vmware-guestd 1 -1 yellow PROC /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsmc 1 -1 red PROC /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsmcad 1 -1 red

DISPLAYGROUP="Linux Internal Production Servers - Physical" PROC /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsmc 1 -1 red PROC /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsmcad 1 -1 red

DISPLAYGROUP="Linux External Production Servers - Physical" PROC /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsmc 1 -1 red PROC /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsmcad 1 -1 red

PAGE=DELTS2/WIN SVC MpsSvc status=started startup=automatic

DISPLAYGROUP="Windows External Production Servers - Virtual" SVC VMTools status=started startup=automatic

DISPLAYGROUP="Windows Internal Production Servers - Virtual" SVC VMTools status=started startup=automatic

And from hosts.cfg: page DELTS2 DELTS Servers - By Type subpage LINUX Linux Servers group Linux External Production Servers - Physical

group Linux External Production Servers - Virtual

group Linux Internal Production Servers - Physical

.... and so on ...

I confirmed that each server only belongs to one group, and that the group name is unique across xymon.

For tee, I'm now getting: cron (found 1, req. 1 or more) vmware-guestd (found 1, req. 1 or more) /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsmc (found 1, req. 1 or more) /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsmcad (found 1, req. 1 or more) vmware-guestd (found 1, req. 1 or more) /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsmc (found 1, req. 1 or more) /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsmcad (found 1, req. 1 or more) /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsmc (found 1, req. 1 or more) /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsmcad (found 1, req. 1 or more) /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsmc (found 1, req. 1 or more) /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsmcad (found 1, req. 1 or more) mysqld (found 2, req. 2 or more)

So for the page declaration, I'm still only getting the first proc definition (ntpd is missing) and then I'm getting VMWare twice, and our backup client 4 times, even though it should only match once. Then I'm getting the mysqld test, which is specified in a HOST=tee entry.

I've also noticed that these linux tests are now being applied against all linux and windows hosts in Xymon. So I'm clearly abusing or misunderstanding the DISPLAYGROUP functionality.

Any advice?

On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 9:47 PM, Thomas Hawkins <cornmaster at gmail.com>wrote:

Thanks for the suggestion. It didn't seem to work at all though.

I think I have messed with the file so much now I can't remember what sort of worked and what didn't work at all.

I think I'm still stuck with the problem where only custom page declaration gets picked up, and only one of the directives in the group, plus anything in the specific host group.

So for this: PAGE=DELTS2/LINUX PROC cron 1 -1 red "TEXT=crond : Task Scheduler" PROC ntpd 1 -1 yellow "TEXT=ntpd : Network Time Client"

PAGE=DELTS2/L-VM PROC vmware-guestd 1 -1 yellow "TEXT=VMWare Tools"

HOST=tee PROC mysqld 2 -1 red

tee reports only for cron and mysql. If I comment out cron, then I get ntpd and mysql. If I move the vmware rule to the top of the list, I get vmware and mysql proc checks. So it seems that only one test for a page specification gets reported on, and only the first one at the top of the page.

At this point I should probably point out that I have 4.3.10 server, but for the most part 4.2.3 (I think) clients on linux, and bbwin .12 or .13 on windows. However I don't think that will matter much.

Thomas

On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Andrey Chervonets < a.chervonets at cominder.eu> wrote:

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Try to assign hosts to variables like:

$GROUP_PROD=host1,host2, host5 $GROUP_TEST=host3,host6....

$GROUP_ALL=$GROUP_PROD,$GROUP_**TEST etc.

and then define rules using such variables instead of real hostnames or reg.expressions

This is working for alerts, may be it is working for analysis as well. Not checked yet.

Best regards,

Andrey Chervonets

CoMinder Ltd. http://www.cominder.eu/

On 22.12.2012 13:00, xymon-request at xymon.com wrote:

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Re: Custom Server Rules for analysis.cfg

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