Sending summary to a remote Hobbit server
I know I can send a summary from one Hobbit server to another using by putting something like:
summary Vegas.All 10.0.1.1 http://vegas.foo.com/hobbit/
in the sender's bb-hosts file, and it shows up on the Main View on the receiver. What I need, however, is a matching red/green dot in the "all non-green" view on the receiving Hobbit server.
Any clues, anyone?? Did I just miss something simple in the bb-hosts file, or is this another feature request for 4.3.0?? :)
Ralph Mitchell
You could add additional bb-host entries, and then put the receiver as an additional BBHOST
On 8/14/07, Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell at gmail.com> wrote:
I know I can send a summary from one Hobbit server to another using by putting something like:
summary Vegas.All 10.0.1.1 http://vegas.foo.com/hobbit/
in the sender's bb-hosts file, and it shows up on the Main View on the receiver. What I need, however, is a matching red/green dot in the "all non-green" view on the receiving Hobbit server.
Any clues, anyone?? Did I just miss something simple in the bb-hosts file, or is this another feature request for 4.3.0?? :)
Ralph Mitchell
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On 8/14/07, Charles Jones <charles.r.jones at gmail.com> wrote:
You could add additional bb-host entries, and then put the receiver as an additional BBHOST
Thanks, but that's not going to work.
The sender is getting the Enable/Disable state of about 1000 hosts spread over 30 BigIP load balancers. It adds up to about 3500 reports, of which maybe 90 are going to be red because the bozos that do the configuration lag behind reality. In addition, 3 or 4 hosts are listed in two BigIPs - enabled in one, disabled in the other - so they flip/flop between red and green about every few minutes.
The receiver is our principal Hobbit server, it has maybe 750 hosts, about 3000 reports, so this other stuff would more than double its load.
Personally I think it would be ridiculous to show an always-red-dot for the summary, and then have the monitoring folks click through it anyway, but that's what I'm being asked to provide. As the monitoring guys usually only have the "all non-green" view up, the summary needs to show up there to be useful.
Ralph Mitchell
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 05:20:15PM -0500, Ralph Mitchell wrote:
I know I can send a summary from one Hobbit server to another using by putting something like:
summary Vegas.All 10.0.1.1 http://vegas.foo.com/hobbit/
in the sender's bb-hosts file, and it shows up on the Main View on the receiver. What I need, however, is a matching red/green dot in the "all non-green" view on the receiving Hobbit server.
Apply this patch - should work fine on 4.2.0 - and change the BBMKBB2EXT setting in hobbitserver.cfg to
BBMKBB2EXT="summaries eventlog.sh acklog.sh"
Regards, Henrik
On 8/15/07, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 05:20:15PM -0500, Ralph Mitchell wrote:
I know I can send a summary from one Hobbit server to another using by putting something like:
summary Vegas.All 10.0.1.1 http://vegas.foo.com/hobbit/
in the sender's bb-hosts file, and it shows up on the Main View on the receiver. What I need, however, is a matching red/green dot in the "all non-green" view on the receiving Hobbit server.
Apply this patch - should work fine on 4.2.0 - and change the BBMKBB2EXT setting in hobbitserver.cfg to
BBMKBB2EXT="summaries eventlog.sh acklog.sh"
Works great!! Thanks for the swift response!!
Ralph Mitchell
On 8/15/07, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 05:20:15PM -0500, Ralph Mitchell wrote:
I know I can send a summary from one Hobbit server to another using by putting something like:
summary Vegas.All 10.0.1.1 http://vegas.foo.com/hobbit/
in the sender's bb-hosts file, and it shows up on the Main View on the receiver. What I need, however, is a matching red/green dot in the "all non-green" view on the receiving Hobbit server.
Apply this patch - should work fine on 4.2.0 - and change the BBMKBB2EXT setting in hobbitserver.cfg to
BBMKBB2EXT="summaries eventlog.sh acklog.sh"
Would it be possible/practical/desirable to have the Remote Summary report affect the background color of the main & non-green pages?? My remote summary is generally red, and occasionally the main server goes green, so I get a big green-bordered page with "All Monitored Systems OK" and a little red dot underneath it...
Thanks!
Ralph Mitchell
On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 10:58:22AM -0500, Ralph Mitchell wrote:
Would it be possible/practical/desirable to have the Remote Summary report affect the background color of the main & non-green pages??
In hobbitserver.cfg, change the following setting: SUMMARY_SET_BKG="FALSE" # Do summaries affect the background color of the BB webpage ?
Henrik
On 9/12/07, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 10:58:22AM -0500, Ralph Mitchell wrote:
Would it be possible/practical/desirable to have the Remote Summary report affect the background color of the main & non-green pages??
In hobbitserver.cfg, change the following setting: SUMMARY_SET_BKG="FALSE" # Do summaries affect the background color of the BB webpage ?
That's fine for the main page, but doesn't cause a color change on the all non-green page...
It's not a critical issue - I personally think it's a bit stupid to have a permanently red dot on the display anyway, but that's what management wanted for their BigIP monitor page...
Ralph Mitchell
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