Oh. I think I figured it out. There's a line in the Hobbit documentation on cloning that says:
"NOTE: Cloning happens at the host level, so even though we did the cloning from a cpu test definition, it will also affect all the other definitions we have for the Standard Unix host"
I was trying to clone the SAME host, but for a different test. So every time I would clone a host+test then that would wipe out any previously cloned host+othertest that I had already done.
I get it. Too bad we can't clone on a host+test level, but I can live with that. For my particular situation this pretty much wipes out cloning as an option. I will manually edit the nkview file and do my own copy/paste/edit as an (alternate to cloning) using vi ... even though the manpage says you shouldn't edit this file manually, I don't see why not if you do so with due diligence.
Thanks
-----Original Message----- From: Haertig, David F (Dave) [mailto:haertig at avaya.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 8:09 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Critical system editor "forgets" some, but not all, settings
I have added some critical systems. Initially it appeared to work. But the more I added, sometimes earlier settings would "drop off". They just disappear. So far I've only noted this with templates, that that's not say it doesn't happen elwhere - I just haven't noted that yet. The template stays, but the assigned clones just mysteriously disappear. I can see this by manually editing the hobbit-nkview.cfg file. One moemtn the clone lines are there, the next they are not.
I even tried adding things into that nkview file manually (using the vi editor). It's easy enough to figure out the syntax. Many of the clone lines that are in the nkview file are NOT displayed on the web editing interface. So it's like two problems - (1) sometimes the clone lines disappear mysteriously, and (2) sometimes they're there (when added manually), but ignored.
My nkview file issmall, only containing 39 lines currently, so I doubt I'm past some kind of internal limit on the number of entries (I hope not!)
Any ideas?
p.s. - nobody else is modifying this stuff bur me, so it's not a rogue user running interference. I am the only person with access to this server.
Thanks!
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