A few questions before moving from bbgen to Hobbit
Hi Henrik
first of all let me thank you for continiously improving Hobbit :-)
I'm preparing the "big move" from bbgen to Hobbit on a large production setup, and I have a few questions :
as I'm running Cacti to graph my servers, is there a way to remove the "trends" colum for all hosts ? I've disabled the rrdstatus and rrddata tasks, added TEST2RRD="" and GRAPHS="" but the "trends" column still show up, empty
in the Administration -> Enable/disable page, is there a way not to show the reason of the disabled tests ? With a few hundred disabled tests, the page gets difficult to read
in the "info" page of each host, would it be possible to show tests with no alert rules ? With bbgen they were displayed as "Ex.Services"
do you plan to add file inclusions to hobbit-alerts.cfg, like with bb-hosts ? We're several people managing the BB/Hobbit server, and this would be very useful.
Many thanks in advance.
Regards,
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Frédéric Mangeant
Steria EDC Sophia-Antipolis
Hi Frederic,
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 11:59:46AM +0200, Frédéric Mangeant wrote:
first of all let me thank you for continiously improving Hobbit :-)
My pleasure.
I'm preparing the "big move" from bbgen to Hobbit on a large production setup, and I have a few questions :
- as I'm running Cacti to graph my servers, is there a way to remove the "trends" colum for all hosts ? I've disabled the rrdstatus and rrddata tasks, added TEST2RRD="" and GRAPHS="" but the "trends" column still show up, empty
You can do it on a per-host basis with the "notrends" setting in bb-hosts, and this can be set as a default using the ".default." host entry in bb-hosts.
You cannot do it globally, except by tweaking the code in hobbitd.c that adds this pseudo status.
- in the Administration -> Enable/disable page, is there a way not to show the reason of the disabled tests ? With a few hundred disabled tests, the page gets difficult to read
No, not without a code change.
Note that the enable/disable page also works on subpages, and in that case it only shows those hosts that appear on the subpage. It might still be many, but perhaps it helps.
- in the "info" page of each host, would it be possible to show tests with no alert rules ? With bbgen they were displayed as "Ex.Services"
It would be fairly easy to add a line at the bottom saying "No alerts defined for: disk, msgs, conn" ... is that what you're after ?
- do you plan to add file inclusions to hobbit-alerts.cfg, like with bb-hosts ? We're several people managing the BB/Hobbit server, and this would be very useful.
It's on my list of pending cleanups. It needs a bit of work because there's some logic currently that avoids re-loading the configuration unless it's changed - and that currently works by looking at the time- stamp of the file. This obviously has to change, and I haven't yet decided what the best solution is.
Regards, Henrik
I'm preparing the "big move" from bbgen to Hobbit on a large production setup, and I have a few questions :
- as I'm running Cacti to graph my servers, is there a way to remove the "trends" colum for all hosts ? I've disabled the rrdstatus and rrddata tasks, added TEST2RRD="" and GRAPHS="" but the "trends" column still show up, empty
You can do it on a per-host basis with the "notrends" setting in bb-hosts, and this can be set as a default using the ".default." host entry in bb-hosts.
You cannot do it globally, except by tweaking the code in hobbitd.c that adds this pseudo status.
Thanks, I've added a .default. host with "notrends badconn:..." and the trends column disapeared.
- in the Administration -> Enable/disable page, is there a way not to show the reason of the disabled tests ? With a few hundred disabled tests, the page gets difficult to read
No, not without a code change.
Note that the enable/disable page also works on subpages, and in that case it only shows those hosts that appear on the subpage. It might still be many, but perhaps it helps.
I didn't notice that, it's fine.
- in the "info" page of each host, would it be possible to show tests with no alert rules ? With bbgen they were displayed as "Ex.Services"
It would be fairly easy to add a line at the bottom saying "No alerts defined for: disk, msgs, conn" ... is that what you're after ?
Exactly, just to be sure that I don't miss alert rules if EXSERVICE is used.
- do you plan to add file inclusions to hobbit-alerts.cfg, like with bb-hosts ? We're several people managing the BB/Hobbit server, and this would be very useful.
It's on my list of pending cleanups. It needs a bit of work because there's some logic currently that avoids re-loading the configuration unless it's changed - and that currently works by looking at the time- stamp of the file. This obviously has to change, and I haven't yet decided what the best solution is.
Great.
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Frédéric Mangeant
Steria EDC Sophia-Antipolis
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