DESCR values from bb-hosts showing up in non-green view in snapshot
Went live an hour ago with a hobbit 4.3 snapshot on my prod network. Wish me luck! ;) For reference I'm using the snapshot I downloaded on 1/23/08 and is listed as version 4.3.0-0.20080103.
I did see one issue that I didn't catch in testing: systems listed the non-green view which have a DESCR tag in their bb-hosts entry are displayed using both the hostname and DESCR
For example, a server that used to look like this:
host1.example.com
now shows up like this:
host1.example.com (Dell server)
Obviously this is a cosmetic thing and not a big priority, but I wanted to report it nonetheless.
I'm still poking around to see what else needs attention and will share any other findings.
Tom
Good luck and may the force be with you =)
I appreciate you announcing this - definitely worth knowing!
Josh
On 1/24/08, Tom Georgoulias <tomg at mcclatchyinteractive.com> wrote:
Went live an hour ago with a hobbit 4.3 snapshot on my prod network. Wish me luck! ;) For reference I'm using the snapshot I downloaded on 1/23/08 and is listed as version 4.3.0-0.20080103.
I did see one issue that I didn't catch in testing: systems listed the non-green view which have a DESCR tag in their bb-hosts entry are displayed using both the hostname and DESCR
For example, a server that used to look like this:
host1.example.com
now shows up like this:
host1.example.com (Dell server)
Obviously this is a cosmetic thing and not a big priority, but I wanted to report it nonetheless.
I'm still poking around to see what else needs attention and will share any other findings.
Tom
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-----Original Message----- From: Tom Georgoulias [mailto:tomg at mcclatchyinteractive.com]
Went live an hour ago with a hobbit 4.3 snapshot on my prod network. Wish me luck! ;) For reference I'm using the snapshot I downloaded on 1/23/08 and is listed as version 4.3.0-0.20080103.
I did see one issue that I didn't catch in testing: systems listed the non-green view which have a DESCR tag in their bb-hosts entry are displayed using both the hostname and DESCR
For example, a server that used to look like this:
host1.example.com
now shows up like this:
host1.example.com (Dell server)
Obviously this is a cosmetic thing and not a big priority, but I wanted to report it nonetheless.
I'm still poking around to see what else needs attention and will share any other findings.
Tom
Tom,
You could try this setting:
hobbitserver.cfg:BBGENOPTS="--recentgifs --tooltips=never --subpagecolumns=2" # Standard options for bbgen.
man bbgen
I cannot rid myself of the descriptions fron the non-green view unless I hack the code, not what I want to do. It is cosmetic, but it also makes it unusable for us, since the non-green view is our primary monitoring page. Having to continually scroll the screen for long descriptions is a big annoyance.
We run Red Hat Enterprise 4 x386. Tom, if you manage to rid yourself of the descriptions on the non-green view through some combination of configuration changes please let me know?
~David
Gore, David W (David) wrote:
I cannot rid myself of the descriptions fron the non-green view unless I hack the code, not what I want to do. It is cosmetic, but it also makes it unusable for us, since the non-green view is our primary monitoring page. Having to continually scroll the screen for long descriptions is a big annoyance.
Interesting, I never had this happen on any 4.2 release and figured it was a parsing issue. Are you running a 4.3 snapshot or a 4.2 release?
Tom
-----Original Message----- From: Tom Georgoulias [mailto:tomg at mcclatchyinteractive.com] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 17:08 To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] DESCR values from bb-hosts showing up in non-green view in snapshot
Gore, David W (David) wrote:
I cannot rid myself of the descriptions fron the non-green view unless I hack the code, not what I want to do. It is cosmetic, but it also makes it unusable for us, since the non-green view is our primary monitoring page. Having to continually scroll the screen for long descriptions is a big annoyance.
Interesting, I never had this happen on any 4.2 release and figured it was a parsing issue. Are you running a 4.3 snapshot or a 4.2 release?
Tom
I run dual hobbit servers 4.2 is the primary with alerting, 4.3 as the secondary without alerting. The version I am referring to is 4.3. The problem does NOT exist in 4.2.
Some time ago (see my previous postings on the issue), I had tried a new snapshot on a new OS install with only one host, and the problem still existed. This was to make sure I had original install configs without any complexity.
You helped me to some degree by just letting me know it isn't fixed in the latest snapshot, so no need to recheck by installing my nth version of the snapshot just to see if it is.
~David
Gore, David W (David) wrote:
I cannot rid myself of the descriptions fron the non-green view unless I hack the code, not what I want to do. It is cosmetic, but it also makes it unusable for us, since the non-green view is our primary monitoring page. Having to continually scroll the screen for long descriptions is a big annoyance.
I run dual hobbit servers 4.2 is the primary with alerting, 4.3 as the secondary without alerting. The version I am referring to is 4.3. The problem does NOT exist in 4.2.
You helped me to some degree by just letting me know it isn't fixed in the latest snapshot, so no need to recheck by installing my nth version of the snapshot just to see if it is.
Just FYI, adding "--tooltips=never" to BBGENOPTS doesn't correct the issue either. I think that a code change would be necessary to have that option affect the DESCR tags in the same way that it is supposed to work on COMMENT tags.
When running bbgen without any --tooltip option at all, tooltips are showing the contents of the DESCR tag when I mouse over a hostname with a DESCR tag on any page. Not all of my hosts have DESCR tags or COMMENT tags, but in the cases where both are present, the contents of the COMMENT tag are what is displayed.
Tom
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