On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 14:10 +0200, Dennis Ortsen wrote:

Hi everyone,

I've noticed something unexpected on my hobbit installation.

When I disable a lot of hosts (a bunch of access points for example) to perform some maintenance jobs on them, after a short while, hobbit seems to have "forgotten" I disabled the hosts until I click on OK. When I start with the first few AP's, the other ones that are to be dealt with later have changed their status from blue to green again...

Is this a bug or do I misinterpret the "until OK" checkbox in the enable/disable section on the hobbit server?

To clarify my question, here's what I do:

On the hobbit server, I go to the menu "Administration -> Enable/disable". I log in and on that page I select a bunch of AP's (by matching a pagename pattern as a filter). I then select almost all the AP's on the Hosts list (upright of the browser) and I select the "conn" test to disable. Then I enter some text in the "Cause:" textbox. Then I'm starting to doubt about the "Duration:". Until now, I believed you could either set a few hours or days as duration, or until I enabled the tests again (the "until OK: checkbox). But I'm starting to think that that checkbox is not a way of disabling a test on a host forever... Am I right?

Does this checkbox mean that hobbit will continue to run the disabled tests and when they succeed, hobbit will automatically enable the tests again (change status from blue to green)?

If the above is true, what do I need to do when I want to disable a few tests (not all) on a host for an unknown period of time (in other words: forever, until I explicitly enable)?

Maybe this could be a feature added to the next version of hobbit? Have the ability to disable a test "Forever" maybe another checkbox like the "Until Ok" and probably just use a very large value which technically wouldnt be forever but a very long time (years).

Trent

Or have I hit a bug?

Thanks,

Dennis

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