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Features request.

list Michael Nemeth
Wed, 28 Sep 2005 10:37:52 -0400
Message-Id: <user-d63411949512@xymon.invalid>

rsync requires python to build; also not on hp 11 ; python has a host of dependencies.

A dump/import of each RRD file?
Ill have to look at that;I may every thing to sun systems! Right now Ive done as you said, just coping the etc files; ready to fire
up if the main server goes.


Yes! the menu_items.js is perfect !

Henrik Storner wrote:
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. A dump/import of each RRD filenyway,
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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