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authorPetter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>2011-12-17 14:47:55 +0000
committerPetter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>2011-12-17 14:47:55 +0000
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Add support for hostmap.d/ and comments.
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@@ -77,10 +77,16 @@ To handle hosts with hostnames missing in DNS or IP adresses not
available directly from the Nagios and Munin server, a mechanism to
map entries to new hostnames is provided.
-To enable it, create a file /etc/sitesummary/hostmap with content like this
+To enable it, create a file /etc/sitesummary/hostmap or a file in
+/etc/sitesummary/hostmap.d/ with content like this
ether-AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF new-name
+Empty lines are ignored. The # character indicate the start of a
+comment. Entries in /etc/sitesummary/hostmap.d/ override entries in
+/etc/sitesummary/hostmap, and the entries in hostmap.d/ are read in
+alphabetic order, where the last entry take effect.
+
The ether-* name is the host entry name from
/var/lib/sitesummary/entries/, and the new-name entry is the hostname
to use instead of the value in system/hostname.