Matt, I think that is a configuration option. One of the Hobbit improvements was moving the history stuff into memory and out of flat files. But I think I remember an option that would make Hobbit write out the history logs like BB did.

GLH

-----Original Message----- From: Epp, Matthew Contractor PEO EIS AKO [mailto:matthew.epp at us.army.mil] Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 12:17 PM To: 'hobbit at hswn.dk' Subject: RE: [hobbit] Remedy Ticketing

I'm slightly confused about what you did. The *current* status page (which is where you have a "History" button) doesn't have a "timebuf" value, because it's just the current status - and it might not be logged in the historical logs directory.

In the old Big Brother system, $BBVAR/logs contained a file for every current status page. So, in the dohostsvc.c I did:

logtime = (char *) getenv("LOGTIME");

Then the cgi script checked to see if it was a current page or a historical one: ($TIMEBUF is the value of logtime passed to the cgi script)

if [ "$TIMEBUF" != "LOGTIME_not_set" ]; then

  HOSTLOG=`echo $HOST | $SED 's/,/_/g'`

  # get the color of the status from the status file
  set `$CAT "$BBHISTLOGS/$HOSTLOG/$SERVICE/$TIMEBUF" | $HEAD -1`

/dev/null 2>&1 BKG="$1" # Grab the status page from histlogs ALERTDATA=$CAT $BBHISTLOGS/$HOSTLOG/$SERVICE/$TIMEBUF else # Grab the current status page set $CAT "$BBLOGS/$HOSTSVC" | $HEAD -1 >/dev/null 2>&1 BKG="$1"

  ALERTDATA=`$CAT $BBLOGS/$HOSTSVC`
fi

On the other hand, a *historical* status log page doesn't have a "History" button because ... well, you're already looking at history.

If you can work it out yourself, then you probably need the "logtime" parameter for the generate_html_log() routine. This has the Unix timestamp of the log entry. If you need to convert the timestamp into the filename format used by the historical logs, "histlogtime(timestamp);" will return a string with the correct formatting of the timestamp.

Does a current status page get saved anywhere to a file in Hobbit like Big Brother did? I need some way to pass the data to the cgi script for parsing.

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