On 10/19/05, Jeff Stuart <jeff at myismail.com> wrote:

I have a machine that I wish to appear on multiple pages. So I list it more than once in bb-hosts.

First time, I list it this way:

group-only bbd|bbgen|bbtest|hobbitd|rsync Hobbit Monitoring Server 123.123.123.123 <http://123.123.123.123> 123.123.123.123<http://123.123.123.123># BBPAGER BBNET BBDISPLAY bbd noconn rsync

Then I list it this way:

page game-servers Main Game Server Boxes. group-except bbd|bbgen|bbtest|hobbitd|rsync 123.123.123.123 <http://123.123.123.123> 123.123.123.123<http://123.123.123.123># ftp !telnet !smtp ssh ntp prefer badconn:1:2:4

Error output: Host 123.123.123.123 <http://123.123.123.123> appears twice in bb-hosts! This may cause strange results

On the 4.1.2 (snapshot just before release canidate) setup I have here, several of my systems are on multiple pages. The only difference that I can see between the config lines shown above and the configs that I am running, is that the "prefer" keyword is before any other tests..

-- --==[ Bob Gordon ]==--

On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 04:27:23PM -0400, Jeff Stuart wrote:

I have a machine that I wish to appear on multiple pages. So I list it more than once in bb-hosts.

First time, I list it this way:

group-only bbd|bbgen|bbtest|hobbitd|rsync Hobbit Monitoring Server 123.123.123.123 123.123.123.123 # BBPAGER BBNET BBDISPLAY bbd noconn rsync

Then I list it this way:

page game-servers Main Game Server Boxes. group-except bbd|bbgen|bbtest|hobbitd|rsync 123.123.123.123 123.123.123.123 # ftp !telnet !smtp ssh ntp prefer badconn:1:2:4

The rule is: Put all of your tags on one of these definitions, and ONLY a "noconn" on the others.

So using your example:

group-only bbd|bbgen|bbtest|hobbitd|rsync Hobbit Monitoring Server 123.123.123.123 123.123.123.123 # noconn

page game-servers Main Game Server Boxes. group-except bbd|bbgen|bbtest|hobbitd|rsync 123.123.123.123 123.123.123.123 # ftp !telnet !smtp ssh ntp prefer badconn:1:2:4 bbd rsync

There's no link between the "group-only" or "group-except" definitions, and where you have the network tests defined, so even though it might seem a bit odd with "group-except bbd|rsync" and then those two tests listed on the first host-entry, it will work the way you want it to. Because the tool the runs the network tests ignores all of the page, subpage, group* definitions; and the tool that builds the webpages ignores how all of the network tests were defined (it just looks at what status columns are available).

Henrik