On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 09:56:04AM -0400, Sue Bauer-Lee wrote:
Seems like when I first started to use Hobbit (v4.0.1 maybe) all
acknowledged and disabled events were logged - somewhere. In v4.0.4, unless
I'm really missing something, only acknowledgements are logged to
/var/log/hobbit/acknowledge.log.... I don't see any log entries for disabled
hosts.
I dont think disable/enable events have ever been logged, except as part
of the status history along with all of the other red/yellow/green/blue
changes.
Where should one expect to see logged messages pertaining to disabled events?
We do require an audit trail for both acknowledged and disabled events.
The status history and the event log.
However, your question has made me think that a full audit-trail log of
events might be useful. Right now the changes that happen in Hobbit are
logged in a number of files, and some of it requires you to dig into
the historical logs to get the details (e.g. who disabled it and why).
On another note, how complicated would it be to include a customizable
"pick" list of "Cause" messages for use when diaabling or acknowledging hosts?
Not terribly difficult - these web forms are generated from template
files in ~hobbit/server/web/{acknowledge,maint}_form so if you just want
to replase the text-entry box with a dropdown-list, it's a simple matter
of changing the HTML. If you want to have the possibility of both using
a drop-down list AND a free-format text entry it will require a slight
change of the code to pick up the data from the right input field. It
could probably be done with a bit of Javascript, if you know how to.
Regards,
Henrik