On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 07:16:12PM -0400, Asif Iqbal wrote:
- Display column only when it is red (http://www.*hobbit*mon.com/*hobbit*on/2006/08/msg00920.html)
I'll leave that for later. There will probably be an entire new version with just display things.
- SNMP trap by default
- SNMP probe option builtin
Too much for now. I need to dig into the Net-SNMP library API to do that.
- Process specific alert (http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2005/11/msg00159.html)
Already in 4.2.0 via the GROUP definition in hobbit-clients.cfg and the corresponding rule in hobbit-alerts.cfg
- Comment TAG for DOWNTIME (http://www.hobbitmon.com/hobbiton/2007/04/msg00141.html)
Has been implemented for 4.3.0
- Add functionalities in `delay' (http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2005/06/msg00272.html)
Haven't looked at that.
- CPU/Memory Usage per process (http://osdir.com/ml/monitoring.hobbit/2007-01/msg00429.html)
Probably impossible. Most "ps" implementations can report the current amount of cpu/memory a process uses, but that's a snapshot (ever noticed how "top" always has itself in the top list of cpu-using processes?). What's interesting is not how much cpu/memory a process uses exactly when the Hobbit client runs the "ps" command, but how much it has used on average since the last client run - similar to what "vmstat" reports for the system as a whole. I don't know of any way to get this data.
Another problem with this is identifying what a process is. A long-running daemon often forks child-processes that are short-lived; should we add their cpu-utilisation to that of the long-running process? If yes, then we have to monitor all processes that are started (so running once every N seconds is not sufficient); if no, then you won't spot the cpu hog because it was spawned as a child process.
- Text based alert for `msgs'. Currently it shows as html in my email (http://osdir.com/ml/monitoring.hobbit/2007-01/msg00203.html)
Easily done with an alert script.
Regards, Henrik