Hi All,

Sorry, please discard my previous post.

I found the solution in the bb-hosts-man.page. Re-reading showed me that below the include-tag it says:

dispinclude filename Acts like the "include" tag, but only on the BBDISPLAY server. Can be used e.g. to put a group of hosts on multiple subpages, without having to repeat the host definitions.

It works *great*! Thanks again Henrik for this brilliant piece of software!

Peter

2005/6/6, Peter Welter <peter.welter at gmail.com>:

Hi all,

As I understand, the page and subpage options help you to organize your bunch of hosts. I have split them up in SLA's so I can alert on each SLA we have. This is a very nice feature.

Now I thought it would be nice to have another view on my bunch of hosts from a system perspective. So I have set up my bb-hosts file as follows and get the :

page SLA SLA subpage Application1 Application1 include bb-hosts-solaris-application1.txt include bb-hosts-linux-application1.txt

subpage Application2 Application2 include bb-hosts-solaris-application2.txt include bb-hosts-linux-application2.txt

page System System subpage Solaris Solaris include bb-hosts-solaris-application1.txt include bb-hosts-solaris-application2.txt

subpage Linux Linux include bb-hosts-linux-application1.txt include bb-hosts-linux-application2.txt

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In the top-display I see: SLA and System and I can walk through either branch to see my hosts, but in the bbnet column it says (in yellow):

Host XXXX appears twice in bb-hosts! This may cause strange results Host YYYY appears twice in bb-hosts! This may cause strange results

So I guess the bbnet process double pings the associated hosts, so it generates a double load. That's unwanted, but I like the approach very much (an application/SLA-view and a system manager's-view).

Is there another (better & cleaner) way of setting this up?

Peter