Host

Overview

This page provides, on the left, an action Menu, used to :

• Add a new Host
• For changes automaticaly detected
  
  • Show Hosts detected 
  • Accept differencies on selected elements

On the top of the table, A tool bar let Administrators the ability to :

• Enable, Disable, Delete or Duplicate selected Hosts
• Filter List by Name
• Filter List by Template applied on Hosts

Create a new Host

Modify a host

To modify properties of a host:

• first go on the Hosts page, from the Main menu,
• and then click on the host name you want to modify.

The form displayed is the same as the form used to create a new Host.
All fields are filled with Host properties.

• Once changes have been made, configuration of the Host must be saved
  by clicking the Validate button available on the left menu.
• Cancel button revert all changes to precedent configuration.

Delete a host

To delete a host, you can use the form of the host, or delete it directly from the list page.

From the Form page

First go to the Hosts page, from the Main menu,then click on the host name you want to delete.

Once in the page displaying the form, click on the Delete button available on the left menu.

A confirmation popup will be displayed.

From the main page

First go to the Hosts page, from the Main menu,

then click on the check box placed on the first column of the table.

Use the Action menu on the top to select Delete, and click to the Launch Button.

A confirmation popup will be displayed.

Duplicate a host

Duplication operation is very useful when similar Hosts must be added.

To duplicate a host, first go on the Main page listing all hosts,

then select a host by clicking on the check box placed on the first column.

Once selected, the host can be duplicated by selecting Duplicate in the select Action
of the tool bar.

Duplication is executed by clicking the Launch button.

The name of host duplicated is suffixed by "(copy)".

Using the Main page gives Administrators ability to Dublicate many Hosts at once.

Note: Duplicated Hosts are totaly detached and independant of the cloned Host.

No relation is made in the configuration.

Enable / Disable a Host

Disable operations help Administrators to temporarly exclude an element from the monitoring. It can be very helpfull to prepare a future configuration.

Enabling or Disabling Host can be made from the Host Configuration, or from the Main Hosts page.

 From the Host configuration

• First go to the Hosts page, from the Main menu,
• then click on the host name you want to enable/disable
  
  

Once in the page displaying the form, modify the Enabled property

• Enable by clicking on the true button.
• Disable by clicking on the false button
• But you can also Inherit from template .

From the Main page

First go to the Hosts page, from the Main

menu, then click on the check box placed on the first column of the table.

Use the Action menu on the top to select Disable, and click to the Launch Button.

In both cases, the result will be displayed in the table listing all Hosts.

To Enable one or more Hosts, use the same procedure, by Choosing Enable.

Using the Main page gives Administrators ability to Disable or Enable many Hosts at once.

See and apply differences proposed by the Automatic detection modules

Differences are generated from the configuration daemon when an host is already validate in the configuration and

that the Automatic configuration modules (Sources and Taggers) did detect new properties (like custom data or new templates)

When an host have such a differences, a green square will be shown

on the "Differences" collumn.

Moving your mouse over the square lets you see all proposed differences.

Here the VMWare discovery module did find the JIRA host in the 172.18.206.51 ESX server,

and it proposes to add the vmware-vm template to this host.

And click on the button "Accept selected differences [ 1 ]".

The value in brackets depends on number of selected hosts containing differences.

By clicking on the button, you will accept the differences for all the selected hosts.