On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 07:50 +0100, Henrik Stoerner wrote:
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 04:09:35PM -0700, Charles Jones wrote:
1. Getting Hobbit added to major linux distributions
Would be nice. This is one area of Hobbit work where everyone on this
list can make a contribution. Hobbit includes a "hobbit.spec" file for
building rpm packages, and the Debian folks already have .deb's, so
for most distro's it would be very little work to add Hobbit,
1)Ideally, the spec file should be in the top-level directory, so that
'rpm -ta hobbit-4.2.0.tar.gz' works.
2)IMHO, the current spec file sucks ...
3)Hobbit has been in Mandriva for a long time, and the SRPMs build and
run fine on all versions of RHEL I have tried them on (2.1AS, 3, 4, 5).
I cleaned the spec file up a lot for the Mandriva package (so there are
no conflicts between the client and server subpackage etc.):
http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/hobbit/current/SPECS/
2. Moving away from "legacy" filenames and variables.
The bb-hosts file is about the only one left. My intention has been to
keep that name until Hobbit moved away from the file format in bb-hosts;
something which I've been wanting to do for a while. The bb-hosts format
is getting rather overloaded, and I really don't like the way it mixes
the host configuration with the web page layout definitions. So this is
going to change sometime.
Please consider an extensible format, by which I mean, a means for
external checks (dbcheck, devmon, extension scripts) to retrieve their
configuration from a standard set of directives.
3. Encryption of Hobbit data transmissions. I get this seemingly every time
that I am explaining Hobbit..."is the data encrypted?" When I say no its
*gasp!* "But it is sending sensitive information, process lists, logfile
entries...over the network!".
And SNMPv2?
Yeah ... well, I should add some SSL support to the protocol.
A START_TLS command would be great ...
Regards,
Buchan