OK - the default host setting will work nicely. Thank you!

Terry Barnes Siemens Com @ HFHS 248-853-4968 (Office) 586-405-8382 (Cellular) 248-844-3030 (Fax) 5864058382 at messaging.nextel.com (Text Pager) tbarnes1 at hfhs.org

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henrik at hswn.dk 5/6/05 2:23:13 AM >>> On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 11:15:19PM -0400, Terry Barnes wrote:

It seems I can alter the propagation status either globally or for a single test at a time, but there are hundreds of tests being done on the non-production systems and disabling all of them individually would really clutter up the bb-hosts file. Mosts of the tests are being done with bb client and are not even listed in Hobbit's bb-hosts file.

The simplest way of disabling red AND yellow statuses from going upwards is to put a "NOPROPRED:*" on the pertinent host entries. bbgen assumes that if you don't care to see a red status, you probably dont want the yellow one either. And the "*" is special, matching all tests.

So that makes things a bit simpler.

On top of that, you can try using the ".default." host - this is something that was added in 4.0.2 to make it easier to apply one or more tags on lots of hosts. This is like a normal host entry in the bb-hosts file, but it just sets up a set of tags that are automatically added for all hosts that appear after the ".default." entry. So in your case it would be used like this:

page prod1 Production servers 1 0.0.0.0 .default. # 10.0.0.1 prod1.foo.com #
10.0.0.1 prod2.foo.com #

subpage nonprod1 Non-production servers 1 0.0.0.0 .default. # NOPROPRED:* 10.1.0.1 test1.foo.com # 10.1.0.2 test2.foo.com # 10.1.0.3 test2.foo.com #

page prod2 Production servers 2 0.0.0.0 .default. # 10.2.0.1 prodA.foo.com #

See ? When you start on a set of production servers, you put in an empty ".default." definition to clear the default set of tags, and when you start on a non-production set of servers, you put in a ".default." host with the "NOPROPRED:*" tag.

The ".default." host must be called exactly that - with the two dots. It will not show up on the generated web pages, and you can only use it to define these Hobbit-internal tags - not network tests.

Regards, Henrik

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