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The options section
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### The options section

In the options section you specify various not necessarily display related parameters. Statements belonging to the options section include

`option`: specify (boolean) options

`autoconn`: switch on the autoconn feature for specific hosts

`pager`: set the pager program used by Big Brother agents

A valid options section might look like

    # The port bbd will listen to
    %Port 1984

    # Options ...
    %Option -ImmediateHTML +KeepGroups +StartOK -DNS

    # this is only used by BB clients
    %Pager /usr/local/lib/bb/bin/bb-page.sh

    # put newly appearing hosts into group NEW
    %Autojoin new NEW

    # ... and every host into ALL
    %Autojoin all_hosts ALL

    # ... and everything into UNIVERSE
    %Autojoin all UNIVERSE

| Note
The `%Autoconn` statement indicates to `bbd` (not`bsmon`!) for which hosts it should enable the autoconn feature. Whenever an agent connects to bbd for transmission of status information bbd looks up the system hosting the agent in the list of autoconn hosts. If it is listed there `bbd` automatically generates a `green` status message for this hosts conn (connection) status. When the agent does not connect to the server for more than 15 minutes the status is automatically changed to `red`.

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