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Features request.

list Winn Beutler
Wed, 28 Sep 2005 09:33:43 -0600
Message-Id: <user-581550307779@xymon.invalid>

I have used 'rdist' for many years to synchronize system.  It is simple to use and comes already available on many systems.
Winn

-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Storner [mailto:user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 8:16 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Features request.


In <user-935929efdec5@xymon.invalid> Michael Nemeth <user-609d3fab5b2d@xymon.invalid> writes:
Henrik Storner wrote:
In <user-aad3c3f9111b@xymon.invalid> Michael Nemeth <user-609d3fab5b2d@xymon.invalid> writes:

I complete lost my hobbit server for a day.   Is  there any  work done 
on setting  up  fail over  servers?
The simplest solution: Setup a server identical to your Hobbit server,
and rsync the server/etc/ and data/{hist,rrd,tmp} periodically from
your main server. If the main server dies, start Hobbit on the spare
box.
Well no rsync  for hp-ux 11.  I might be able to rcp/scp . I don't have
another HP  set up as a server identical to my Hobbit server.
rsync is reasonably portable. If you could compile Hobbit on HP-UX,
I'd think you could also compile rsync.
Ive a sun but I don't think the rrds  would work . Anyone know  if this
is so?
Probably not, you would have to do a dump/import of each RRD file. Anyway,
the reason I suggested that you should copy over the RRD files was just to
keep your historical trends data. If you can live without that - and just
need to get monitoring up and running ASAP - then ignore the RRD files.

Next I just added 87 clients as a test.  I may want to remove them.  Yes
I CAN write a script to do the drop and
Im not worried about editing the bb-host file,  but maybe the the
enable/disable gui could be extended to include
a drop feature or a separate GUI?  Im not one for GUIs but others will 
be admining this too.
It's a "nice to have" thing. Not difficult, just need a day or two to
implement it.
Great!  in 4.1.2 ?
Nope. 4.1.2 is in "feature-freeze".
There is  an old unix program out there called Watcher.  One nice
feature was it alerted you to large changes.
Like a  FS grew or decreased by 5% or 1G .  (Or decreased by 100% ;rm
-rf *!!
Could be useful, but I'll leave that for later.
OK . It IS useful .  Here is the link to watcher : 
http://www.i-pi.com/watcher.html
Thanks, I tried google'ing it but couldn't find it.
How about move or duplicating the tip:
What do the little red/yellow/green icons mean ?
on the web page in the head or footer ?
I prefer to keep the pages as clean as possible, but feel free to
customize the templates any way you like :-)
Fair enough.  But how as a separate  help item ;  legend .  I would
prefer if to be in there header, click on it and it display the page. 
IM ALWAYS ask   what they  are. 
Add an entry to your ~hobbit/server/www/menu/menu_items.js file, like

	['Hobbit Icons', '/hobbit/help/hobbit-tips.html#icons'],


Henrik


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