Release candidate 2 of Hobbit is now available on http://sourceforge.net/projects/hobbitmon/
This fixes a series of bugs, most notably some bugs in the alert module, the "iishealth" RRD handler, and a crash of the bbtest-net tool when two or more hosts had the "apache" test enabled.
An RRD handler for the "temperature" reports was added to hobbitd_larrd, and a plug-in mechanism was added so you can fairly easily add graphs for custom data you may be using.
The hobbitgraph CGI tool has been enhanced with a "zoom" function taken from the "Cacti" project (which is also GPL). This will be enhanced further after version 4.0 is released; the current version only supports zooming in on a period of time.
And the generated HTML was cleaned up, so hopefully everything is now HTML 4.0 compliant.
Full changelog below.
Please beat on this - I hope this will be the last release candidate, so the next announcement is for the full 4.0 release.
Regards, Henrik
Changes from RC-1 -> RC-2
Bugfixes:
The alert module now gets color changes that move a status from critical (alert) state into a not-yet-recovered state. So if you only want pages on red, you should no longer see pages when it goes from red to yellow.
Alert rules with a color specification followed by some other criteria would ignore the color spec.
Alerts would only get repeated when a new message arrived, not necessarily with the interval set by the REPEAT configuration.
The alert configuration file was reloaded every time. It should now only reload when it has been changed. This caused a noticable change in hobbitd_alert's CPU usage.
A MAIL recipient can now have multiple recipients.
The "iishealth" RRD handler was broken.
DHCP hosts (those that have an IP of 0.0.0.0) are allowed to report their status from any IP.
The bb-eventlog CGI was cleaned up (now it actually works!) and a proper submission form and menu item were added.
bbtest-net would crash when multiple "apache" tests were defined.
The bb-ack.sh CGI - when located in the secure CGI area - was posting to bb-ack.sh in the unsecure CGI directory. Changed so it always posts to the same location it was originally called from.
Improvements:
Lots of small tweaks to the HTML templates and some code, to ensure that all HTML generated is HTML 4.0 compliant. Thanks to Firefox and the HTML Validator plugin!
hobbitgraph.cgi enhanced with a "zoom-in" function taken from the Cacti project. This allows zooming in on a period of time. Zoom on both axis (time and value) will be implemented in the next version of Hobbit, since it requires a modification to the RRDtool library; this is too large a change to add currently.
A handler for the "temperature" reports was added to hobbitd_larrd.
An external handler mechanism was implemented for hobbitd_larrd, so users can add their own graphs without having to do C coding.
The "bbcmd" utility now loads the standard hobbitserver.cfg environment if no "--env" setting is used on the command line.
The default for the "find host" form was changed to do a case-insensitive match (since hostnames do not normally care about upper- or lower-case).