Creating and using keywords
A common issue in monitoring software is the grouping of information, and although Opsview already has good methods of grouping (host groups and service groups), it does present us with a limitation.
Let's consider a database server running multiple databases; one of them belongs to HRM and the other belongs to our financial system. Each database is used by special application servers (for example, one for HRM and one for Financial).
Since a host can only belong to one host group, we cannot place the database server in the HRM host group or the Financial host group without having the respective administrators for each group to have access to the whole host group.
Opsview solved this by introducing keywords. Keywords allow ...
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