Hobbit 4.0.4 released

Version 4.0.4 is now available on SourceForge: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=128058&release_id=330...

This fixes the bugs reported since Hobbit 4.0.3 was released.

The only new stuff in this release is a new "beastat" utility to collect performance statistics from an BEA Weblogic server via SNMP. This replaces the old "bea-snmpstats" script, and should work for sites with a large number of BEA instances per server. This is still somewhat experimental, but I am interested to hear reports of it working or not. (It's been tested with Weblogic ver. 8).

The Changelog is appended.

Regards, Henrik

Changes from 4.0.3 -> 4.0.4

Bugfixes:

• "nodisp" tag re-implemented for hosts that should not appear on the Hobbit webpages.
• Enabling the "apache" data collection could crash bbtest-net if the /server-status page returned was larger than 32 KB.
• The "bbcmd" tool would not pass a --debug option to the command it was running.
• Nested macros in hobbit-alerts.cfg were not working.
• Using TAB's in hobbit-alerts.cfg could confuse the alert module.
• hobbitd_alert's --test option now determines the page-name for a host automatically. It will also now accept a time-parameter to simulate how alerts are processed at specific time-of-day.
• Status messages from "dialup" hosts should not go purple.
• The "mailq" RRD handler would pick up the first number from the "requests" line, which might not be the right number.
• Scheduling a "disable" did not work.
• The startup-script was modified to correctly handle stale PID files left over from an unclean shutdown of Hobbit. These are now removed, and startup will proceed normally.

Improvements:

• CGI tools now log error-output to dedicated logs in /var/log/hobbit/
• The "bea-snmpstats.sh" script has been removed, and replaced with an enhanced tool "beastat". This collects statistics via SNMP from BEA Weblogic servers, and reports these via "data" messages to Hobbit. The data collected are run-time data for the JRockIT JVM and thread/memory utilization data from each Weblogic server instance.
• The "ntpstat" RRD handler now accepts the raw output from "ntpq -c rv"
• The heartbeat-timeout for hobbitd has been increased to 60 seconds.