Multiple key in label vs host tag

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Hi,

I came to the situation that labels and hostags are two same things with different names. I use both of them, to mark and separate things.

I have 10 satellites in corresponding wato/folder. Each folder have label satellite:<city name>. Example:

satellite:kosice
satellite:budapest
satellite:denver
satellite:vegas
...

Now, I want to make whatever rule which will apply for two satellites only, i.e. budapest and denver.
I can’t do it with hosttags, because under conditions one hosttag can be used only once.
And I can’t do it with labels, becase there occurs message Only one value per KEY can be used at a time.satellite:xxx is already used so in this case labels and hosttags are usable only once.
Workaround is to make same rules in every needed wato folder. I thought this will be the perfect case for labels, but it isn’t. Or maybe I’m missing something obvious.

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If your hosts are already sorted in WATO folders based on the location, I would solve it like this:

  • In the WATO folders for budapest and denver, go to the the folder properties and set another label, e.g. budapest_or_denver:true
  • Use this as a label condition for your rule.

A more generalized approach would be to use the ruleset “Host labels”. Here you can set a label based on an host tag. Create two rules, both setting the label budapest_or_denver:true. The first one matches on the host tag “Satellite” = “Budapest”, the second one on “Satellite” = “Denver”.

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No that’s how it works I’m afraid. I was almost sure there where a feature request for this at https://features.checkmk.com but can’t find it.

We use labels in the same way, for example hardware model (Lets assume “HP” and “Dell” - Some times we might want to have a view of both HP and Dell servers, that can’t be done today unless we use pre-defined conditions.

Thats not entirely true, a label does not have to be predefined, it can be anything. Let’s say your add a new satellite and you add hosts to that location using automation, you can set your label on the host it selves and do not have to (pre)create it.

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I think you’re looking for the top voted request :slight_smile:

give it more votes :smiley: maybe we can still get it into the 2.1? :partying_face:

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I’m not as that feature request does not explicitly talk about that, and Tribe even confined that. We would most likely need another feature request.

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Hi Anders,
yup, noticed that as well and created the request for rules, I guess my comment in the “filters” feature request wasn’t approved yesterday when you checked :confused:
here’s the rule feature request

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