It'd be nice if these were available on Xymonton...
-----Original Message----- From: Martin Flemming [mailto:martin.flemming at desy.de] Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 12:44 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] Antwort: RE: [hobbit] Howto delete abandoned datafiles
Hi !
i use the very nice bbdataclean.pl script by Eric Schwimmer . :-)
.. it is a long time ago as he send a mail on this list .. where is he .. ? :-(
and the side was many month not availabe but now as i watch today again, it was online again !
http://nerdvana.org/eric/bbtools/
bbhostedit A CGI bb-hosts editor
bblogmon A log monitor and alarm generator
bbdataclean A tool to clean out old/invalid hosts from your hobbit data
bbmsg.pm A pure-Perl module used to send messages to a display server
hobbit icons A set of slightly less zany icons for the hobbit system
maybe some nice tools/addons for the shire ..
cheers, martin
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Hubbard, Greg L wrote:
It seems to me that the cleanest way is to figure out how to make your inventory system "know" when it is losing something. I agree that it is easier to write a system that has no memory of what it did in prior runs.
If your inventory system can be queried, or if you have an intermediate file that can be searched, you might be able to run a "notification" script from the alert system that would fire on "purple" alarms. What the script could do is take the host name in the alarm and look for it in your inventory or other file -- if found, quit. If not found, then the "drop host" command. This is a kludge, and might cause other issues, but it is one way to keep your display cleaned up.
Others may have much better ideas!
GLH
From: thorsten.erdmann at daimler.com [mailto:thorsten.erdmann at daimler.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 9:50 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Antwort: RE: [hobbit] Howto delete abandoned datafiles
No. I export the data from our inventory and simply regenerate the bbhosts files. So old hosts simply are missing in the new bbhosts files. So I don't know which hosts were deleted. Therefore I would need to store the old export file and compare it to the new one to find the differences and use the "drop host" command. I find that very complicated.
Such a cleanup utility would also be helpful if one edits the bbhosts by hand and forgets to drop a host he has deleted.
I just started to write a shellscript which scans the rrd directory and tries to find the host in the bbhost files. But is complicated to follow all the includes. I thought bbhostgrep is the answer but it only can find a test, not a host.
Any ideas Thorsten
greg.hubbard at eds.com
25.02.2009 16:01 Bitte antworten an hobbit at hswn.dk
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Are you using the "drop host" function in the "bb" command?
From: thorsten.erdmann at daimler.com [mailto:thorsten.erdmann at daimler.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 8:54 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Howto delete abandoned datafiles
Hi
I have written a script which generates several hobbit bbhosts include files automaticly from our inventory system. Now I have a problem when a host has been deinstalled. I delete the entry from the hobbit config but the old datafiles (rrd and so on) keep there forever.
Is there a tool to scan the complete hobbit bbhost hierarchy and delete all data which are not longer needed?
Thank you
Thorsten Erdmann
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