Hobbit 4.0.2 was uploaded to hobbitmon.sourceforge.net a few minutes ago and should be available by the time you read this.
This is primarily a bug-fix update of the 4.0 release, with fixes for the bugs that have been reported after the initial release. Thanks to all who have contributed fixes, bug-reports and enhancement suggestions.
One change done in 4.0.2 may require that you change your configuration. The "--alertcolors", "--okcolors" and "--repeat" options for hobbitd and hobbitd_alert have been removed, and replaced with three settings in the hobbitserver.cfg file: ALERTCOLORS, OKCOLORS and ALERTREPEAT respectively. You should remove these options from the hobbitlaunch.cfg file, and setup the hobbitserver.cfg equivalents instead. Note that these options are not used in the default hobbitlaunch.cfg, so unless you added them yourself then you don't need to worry about it.
A new feature introduced in 4.0.2 is the possibility of defining default tags in the bb-hosts file. If you define a host named ".default." in the bb-hosts file, then the configuration tags you apply to this host will be used as defaults for the hosts that follow it. E.g. the following configuration
0.0.0.0 .default. # DOWNTIME=*:0200:0600 10.0.0.1 www.foo.com # http://www.foo.com/ 10.0.0.2 db.foo.com # oratns
will cause the "www.foo.com" and "db.foo.com" to have a DOWNTIME setting of "*:0200:0600". The ".default." host is used only for this type of configuration tags, it does not appear on the generated webpages and no network testing is done on it. You can have multiple ".default." definitions in the bb-hosts file; for any host, the .default. immediately above is the active one.
Also new in 4.0.2 is the "hobbitreports.sh" script, which shows how you can pre-build daily/weekly/monthly availability reports. An accompanying new CGI - bb-datepage.cgi - lets you select these pre-built reports from a simple date-selection form.
And finally, the data generated for the "info" and "trends" columns is now fully dynamic, meaning that it is always up-to-date. The bb-infocolumn and bb-larrdcolumn tasks can be removed from hobbitlaunch.cfg.
Regards, Henrik