The current hostgroup structure is very useful for the template based
configuration. The proposal to allow users to select/define their own
groups may be much more feasible as a purely display/formatting mechanism
in the 2.0 release when the front-end is detached from the monitoring
core.
-sg
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Dougal Scott wrote:
>
> One feature of BMC Patrol that I thought was nice was allowing each
> user to group the monitored objects how they wanted them, so a DBA
> could have a different view to a sysadmin and a network engineer. Each
> selecting the things that they were interested in.
>
> So instead of making the hostgroup of a host hardcoded in the config,
> make it selectable per user. This does mean that you will need to store
> each users hostgroup selection somewhere and have a method for editing
> the selection.
>
> A simpler mechanism, although not as good but far easier to do, would
> be to have a static view based on the contactgroup, requiring an edit
> to a config file to change the view.
>
> Also allowing multiple levels would be another nice feature. So, for
> example, you could set up a group for database boxes, within which you
> have a group for oracle boxes and another for mysql boxes, and within
> each of those groups a group for each of the hosts and then for each
> host a group for database related checks and another group for system
> checks, and so on.
>
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> Dougal Scott Connect Internet Solutions
> [email protected] 9/114 Albert Rd
> Senior Systems Administrator South Melbourne, Australia, 3205
>
>
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