I'm normally somebody who resists joining a queue... But I've a feature request that might be worth opening up to the list for comment.
wrt. the log file monitoring, it's working out great for one of my clients, but the only thing missing is really the possibility of pushing some log file messages into a different service name - right now all alerts are bundled into 'msgs', that way we could separate out application log checks from system log checks, from apache error_logs, and so on.
My thought re. syntax would be to add a 'SERVICE=someapp' parameter to hobbit-clients.cfg, so that the log file regexp checks go into service 'someapp' rather than the default 'msgs' where defined, as I *think* the check against pattern matches in log messages is done server side?
LOG /var/opt/someapp/blah.log %FAIL* COLOR=red SERVICE=someapp
As ever, muchos gratis to Henrik for being patient with us all throwing our feature requests at you in one big go :-)
r.
On 25/07/07, Moore, Joe <jmoore at ugs.com> wrote:
If we're throwing out feature requests...
My users would love to see something that can be descibed as a "service group" of statuses...
Basically, we have several groups of web servers on the page that the apache admins look at, in group-only blocks (they don't care about system messages, only their HTTP, CONT, and TRENDS). In order for them to see everything, they have to scroll around because there are a bunch of 3-column, N-row groups. But the same data could be condensed into a single screen of a bunch of N-column, 3-row groups.
So what I'd like to propose is a "servicegroup"# tag in bb-hosts, that renders its content as rows of tests, and columns of hosts (as opposed to the normal rows of hosts, columns of tests)
Syntax: servicegroup SERVICE1|SERVICE2|SERVICE3 [group-title] Defines a group of host-service pairs that appear on the web page. Hosts in the servicegroup are listed as a single header-line with rows for each SERVICE listed.
(Optional: allow "servicegroup * group-title" to show rows for all services on any of the hosts)
Another benefit for this just came to mind: 'servicegroup TRENDS "System performance trends"'... Have a page or block at the bottom of your servers-page with easy access to all of the graphs for all those systems.
--Joe
I'm not tied to this name... group-service might be more syntactically
consistent with the rest of the bb-hosts entries.
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