Hi Stefan,

On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 04:17:45PM +0200, Henrik Stoerner wrote:

On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 01:43:22PM +0000, Stefan Loos wrote:

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with bb you could send some tags like &green &red to the bb-server and where replaced by the corresponding image source tag. with hobbit I only get the text "&green" instead of the green icon displayed. Is there a way to configure this with hobbit? most of our customized scripts uses this tags.....

Hobbit does convert any "&COLOR" into the corresponding icon when showing the detailed status log; this is done by the hobbitsvc.cgi too. At least - it does so for me, and I cannot see why that shouldn't be the case for all status logs.

Could you send me the output from

~hobbit/server/bin/bb 127.0.0.1 "hobbitdlog HOSTNAME.TEST"

for one of your host.test status logs that have this problem ?

The log you sent me - if I sent that in a status to Hobbit locally, I get the green/red/yellow/clear images displayed very nicely here.

So something else must be wrong. If you view the status in your browser,

1. what's the URL you request ?
2. if you do a "view source" on the web page, does it contain any "img src=..." tags ?

Regards, Henrik

On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 12:11:48PM +0200, Marco Avvisano wrote:

I would like to send status messages from a hobbit server to another. What is the best way to do this? It's correct to send the hobbitboard output to the other server?

Depends on what is is you want to achieve.

The "hobbitdboard" output is not really useful for anything but the "bbgen" program creating webpages. So if you're just setting up an extra server to act as the web front-end to Hobbit, you can use that - just disable hobbitd itself, and point it at the existing Hobbit server. It will then use "hobbitdboard" to fetch the status from a remote Hobbit server.

If you're looking at setting up a second fail-over server, the best solution is either to run the two servers in parallel, and have your clients report to both servers. If reconfiguring all clients is impractical, I'd suggest configuring your current hobbitd to listen only on IP 127.0.0.1 (the loopback interface), and using the "bbproxy" tool to handle incoming connections from other hosts - it can then forward them to both the real hobbitd server on 127.0.0.1, and a second hobbitd running on another server.

Regards, Henrik