On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 10:42:45AM -0000, Sigurður Bjarnason wrote:

If anybody here did ever use the butter grapher with bigbrother in the past, the same might remember the neat thing of being able to compare for example cpu graphs for, all hosts in its group or all hosts monitored. I include example.. is nobody understands what in the heck I am talking about :-)

I never used Butter myself. Did this build a single image with multiple graphs, or one html page with several (individual, one per host) graphs in it ?

A recent addition in Hobbit is that you can generate e.g. a "cpu load" graphs for multiple hosts. There's no tool to generate the magic URL yet, but if you pull e.g. the cpu load graph - the page where you have the 4 graphs - then you can add more hosts to the "host=..." part of the URL. Just list the hosts you want to see, separated by commas. E.g.

http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit-cgi/hobbitgraph.sh?host=voodoo.hswn.dk,fenris.hswn...

Would it be useful if you could put a "page=<regex>" and/or "host=<regex>" into the URL, and then Hobbit would build the list of hostnames automatically ?

(Silly question, I know someone will say "yes!")

It won't do it at the group-level; Hobbit has a problem with that because groups dont have names, so they are difficult to identify.

Regards, Henrik