Hobbit 4.0 RC6 is now available on http://sourceforge.net/projects/hobbitmon/
This includes pre-built Debian packages for Debian/Sarge (i386 and SPARC platforms), as well as an RPM-package (built on Mandrake, but it will probably work on most recent RPM-based systems). These should be considered "experimental", although I am currently running the Debian packages on a full pre-production system at work, and the RPM package at home. Please let me know if you have any problems with these.
As I mentioned in my 4.0 release status mail, this release-candidate is the final wrap-up before the official release. It includes a small number of important bugfixes, and a large number of portability and packaging improvements. Full changelog below.
Yell if I broke something :-)
Regards, Henrik
Changes from RC-5
Bugfixes:
Recovery messages were sent to all recipients, regardless of any color-restrictions on the alerts they received. Changed this so that recipients only get recovery messages for the alerts they received.
The "NOALERT" option was not applied when multiple recipients were listed in one rule.
bbtest-net now performs a syntax check on all URL's before adding them to the test queue. This should stop it from crashing in case you happen to enter a syntactically invalid URL in your bb-hosts file.
The acknowledgment log on the BB2 page could mix up data from different entries in the log.
The default mail-utility used to send out e-mail alerts is now defined per OS. Solaris and HP-UX use "mailx", others use "mail".
Client tests no longer go purple when a host has been disabled.
bb-larrdcolumn no longer dumps core if there are no RRD files.
With the right input, bb-larrdcolumn could use massive amounts of memory and eventually terminate with an out-of-memory error.
A memory leak in hobbitd_larrd handling of "disk" reports was fixed.
bb-infocolumn now accepts a "--repeat=N" setting to inform it of the default alert-repeat interval. If you use --repeat with hobbitd_alert, you should copy that option to bb-infocolumn to make it generate correct info-column pages.
If bbgen cannot create output files or directories, the underlying error is now reported in the error message.
The "merge-lines" and "merge-sects" tools used during installation could crash due to a missing initialization of a pointer.
Improvements:
It is now possible to make Hobbit re-open all logfiles, e.g. after a log rotate. Use "server/hobbit.sh rotate".
The hobbit-mailack tool now recognizes the BB format of alert message responses, i.e. putting "delay" and "msg" in the subject line will work.
bbcmd defaults to running /bin/sh if no command is given
hobbitd_larrd now logs the sender IP of a message that results in an error.
A network test definition for SpamAssassin's spamd daemon was added.
The default web/*header files now refer to a HOBBITLOGO setting for the HTML used in the upper-left corner of all pages. The default is just the text "Hobbit", but you can easily replace this with e.g. a company logo by changing this setting in hobbitserver.cfg.
The Hobbit daemon's "hobbitdboard", "hobbitdxboard" and "hobbitdlist" commands now support a set of primitive filtering techniques to limit the number of hosts returned.
maint.pl uses the new Hobbit daemon filtering and a cookie defined by the header in webpages to show only the hosts found on the page where it was called from, or just a single host.
Hobbit should now compile on Mac OS X (Darwin).
The info- and graph-column names are now defined globally as environment variables "INFOCOLUMN" and "LARRDCOLUMN", respectively. This eliminates the need to have them listed as options for multiple commands. Consequently, the --larrd and --info options have been dropped.
Systems with the necessary libraries (RRDtool, PCRE, OpenSSL etc) in unusual locations can now specify the location of these as parameters to the configure script, overriding the auto-detect routine. See "./configure --help" for details.
A definition for the "disk1" graph in LARRD was added, this shows the actual use of filesystems instead of the normal percentage.