OK, I think I see what you are after but there is a caveat. If you have a file APP1.cfg that has some servers and IP addresses specified in it and you include that more than once then you are effectively going to get two entries with the same hostname and IP address, which Xymon won't like. You can include a server more than once in the hosts.cfg files by specifying it once with its real IP address and then multiple times thereafter with an IP address of 0.0.0.0 - How you get around this is up to you, you could have two APP1.cfg files, one with the IPs and the other with 0-based IPs. You can include the second file multiple times and Xymon will be happy.

To answer your question about having Unix and Windows servers, I would recommend having multiple include files, one for each O/S, like this:

page AllServers Server Lists by Hostname

group-sorted UNIX_Systems include APP1_unix.cfg include APP2_unix.cfg

group-sorted WINDOWS_Systems include APP1_windows.cfg include APP2_windows.cfg

page Applications

group-sorted APP1 include APP1_unix_0.cfg include APP1_windows_0.cfg

group-sorted APP2 include APP2_unix_0.cfg include APP2_windows_0.cfg

In this manner you would have the servers all listed by O/S in the AllServers page, sorted by O/S, and in the Applications page they would be listed by application type. This assumes that the include files ending in "_0.cfg" are the same as the other include files but with the IP addresses zeroed out.

Any instructions you specify in the hosts.cfg file you can also specify in the include files, so if you always divided your servers into O/S groups then you could include the "group-sorted" lines in the include files themselves.

Does this help you any?

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From: Don Kuhlman [mailto:Don.Kuhlman at schawk.com] Sent: 22 March 2012 16:56 To: Ward, Martin Subject: Re: [Xymon] Separating Windows and Unix hosts and dropping bbd column from web page

Hi Martin. Yes - you have it exactly! Thanks for the reply. Here is some more detail to further discuss...

I have the hosts.cfg file with the Server list by hostname page. In this page I may have one or two hard coded servers that don't fit a particular group so they are actually typed right in that section.

Then I have my groups of applications - say APP1, APP2 Each group could have PROD or DEV servers and in each of these groups they could have Unix or Windows or even MAC systems. I would like to just use an include APP1.cfg file on the "server list by hostname" page so I don't have to re-type or duplicate any hosts anywhere, and it also allows easier host management by having them in only one .cfg file. My confusion is that if in the APP1.cfg file I have Unix and Windows hosts, I don't know how to use that include file on the server list by hostname page and then have the Unix and Windows hosts from the include file separate out.

For example, if I have a windows host named winserver1 and it's in the APP1.cfg file, when I include that APP1.cfg file in the hosts.cfg file page for servers by hostname, the winserver1 shows up in the Unix list (Or wherever I place the include APP1.cfg statement).

Does that make sense or is it even more muddy now ? ;)

Thanks again!

Don K

From: "Ward, Martin" <Martin.Ward at colt.net<mailto:Martin.Ward at colt.net>> Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:30:49 +0000 To: Don Kuhlman <don.kuhlman at schawk.com<mailto:don.kuhlman at schawk.com>> Subject: RE: [Xymon] Separating Windows and Unix hosts and dropping bbd column from web page

Hi Don,

I have not seen ".default." used more than once as you have done it so have no idea if that will work, however I use include files a lot so may be able to help you otherwise.

As far as I can tell from your description you have a single page on which you want servers displayed in two separate groups, UNIX_Systems and WINDOWS_Systems. Looking at your config file I would hazard a guess that your page looks like (x x x x x are meant to be the green/yellow/red/purple icons):

Server lists by hostname

UNIX_Systems server1.domain.com x x x x x server2.domain.com x x x x x server3.domain.com x x x x x

app1a.domain.com x x x x x app1b.domain.com x x x x x app1c.domain.com x x x x x app2a.domain.com x x x x x app2b.domain.com x x x x x app2c.domain.com x x x x x

server3.domain.com x x x x x XYMON_Server x x x x x

WINDOWS_Systems

SERVER4-Domain-DC x x x x x SERVER5 x x x x x XYZCHIMEDAGT02 x x x x x Server6 x x x x x WinXP x x x x x

Note that the columns listed for UNIX_Systems and WINDOWS_Systems will differ depending on the tests that each server does.

Is this what you want as it looks like your config should give you what you need.

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From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com<mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com> [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Don Kuhlman Sent: 19 March 2012 17:10 To: xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> Subject: [Xymon] Separating Windows and Unix hosts and dropping bbd column from web page

Hi folks. I thought I was getting the hang of this but I seem to be missing something.

I set up the hosts.cfg to use include files (see the snip below) to allow us to keep things more readable and managable. I am trying to figure out the best way to put the Windows systems and Unix systems in their own list on the "AllServers" page but still use the include files. Is there a tag or directive I can use on the #CLIENT line to have xymon take a Windows or Unix host and put in it the right group?

Also, I'm having a problem getting one of the hosts to get rid of the purple status on bbd. I used the ./bb 127.0.0.1 "server2 drop bbd" command. I went into the hosts.cfg file for that server2 and tried !bbd, nobbd, NOBBD, but it still won't go away.

Any pointers would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Don K

0.0.0.0 .default.

TITLE Server Lists byhostnames

page AllServers Server Lists by Hostname

group-sorted UNIX_Systems

10.1.nn.101 server1.domain.com # CLIENT:server1 10.1.nn.77 server2.domain.com # CLIENT:Server2 10.1.nn.81 server3.domain.com #http://server3.domain.com

These are the APP1 servers

include /home/xymon/server/etc/hostsapp1prod.cfg include /home/xymon/server/etc/hostsapp1dev.cfg

These are the App2 servers

include /home/xymon/server/etc/hostsapp2prod.cfg include /home/xymon/server/etc/hostsapp2test.cfg

10.1.nn.27 server3.domain.com #CLIENT:server3 http://server3.domain.com 10.1.nn.29 XYMON_Server #CLIENT:xyzxymon.domain.com http://xyzxymon.domain.com/xymon

group-sorted WINDOWS_Systems 0.0.0.0 .default. # NOCOLUMNS:bbd

10.1.nn.11 SERVER4-Domain-DC #CLIENT:SERVER4 10.1.nn.67 SERVER5 #CLIENT:SERVER501 ftp ssh 10.1.nn.192 XYZCHIMEDAGT02 10.1.nn.10 Server6 #CLIENT:server6 10.1.70.100 WinXP #CLIENT:domain-27429192 dialup

Syntax for creating pages under subpages

subparent parentpage newpage [Page-title]

page Applications Applications

subpage app1 APP1 subparent app1 app12x APP1 2.x subparent app12x app12xprod APP1 2.x Prod subparent app12x app12xdev APP1 2.x Dev

etc...

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