On Wednesday 11 June 2008 01:29:21 John Burk wrote:
I'm using hobbit for monitoring a compute cluster of nearly 1000
identical hosts. I'm using includes in my bb-hosts to keep the file
length down, but my included files are comprised of hundreds of hosts
all identical except for the ipaddresses and hostnames.
Surely there must be a way to template this, I just can't find it in
the bb-hosts manpage...
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I'd like to be able to define the tags in a template, and simply use
that template. Does this mechanism exist in bb-host?
No. This is the biggest weakness in Hobbit, but it is also one of the
BigBrother-compatibility features.
That way
if/when I need to change the tags for all my hosts, I only need to do
it in one place, and not on every line in 3 different files.
But, do you want it only for bb-hosts (IOW, which tests to run and which tests
to not propagate), or also for thresholds, log/file/dir checks, alerts etc?
Henrik has mentioned that the configuration issues need to be looked at, but
it's a tradeoff between simplicity+repetitive, and excessively complex.
Regards,
Buchan