Enable/Disable propogation 🔗 link

How does Hobbit handle the disabling of tests in a multi-DISPLAY server
environment? Typically in the legacy Big Brother environment, I had to
either disable test on each display server, or just tell people to ignore
alerts on the satellite DISPLAYs and only pay attention to the main server
where I would actually "blue" things out. Ultimately I would like to have an
accurate view on each DISPLAY, but this would involve somehow propogating a
disable command down the line.

So I guess the real question is, if I disable alerts on Satellite DISPLAY A
(running Hobbit right now), will that alert then start showing up as purple
on Main DISPLAY (running Big Brother), unless I disable it there as well?

I plan to eventually migrate all of the displays to Hobbit, but that won't
happen all at once.

On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 02:12:17PM -0400, Epp, Matthew Contractor PEO EIS AKO wrote:

The Hobbit enable/disable tool sends the enable/disable commands to all
of the servers listed in the BBDISPLAYS setting in hobbitserver.cfg. So
if you have that setup in your config, it will automatically propagate
to all of the servers.

Note that when using multiple servers, it is recommended that you have
the local server FIRST in the list of servers in BBDISPLAYS.


Regards,
Henrik

Enable/Disable looks to propagate ok, but I've just tried to ack an
alert on my primary hobbit server -- and the ack did not propagate to
the secondary server. This is 4.2.0 with all the (as of yesterday :-)
patches, running with '--no-pin'.

Question on BBDISPLAYS -- is this list supposed to be space delimited,
comma-delimited, or does it not matter? Mine is space-delimited.

Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc

-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 3:41 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Enable/Disable propogation

On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 02:12:17PM -0400, Epp, Matthew Contractor PEO
EIS AKO wrote:

The Hobbit enable/disable tool sends the enable/disable commands to all
of the servers listed in the BBDISPLAYS setting in hobbitserver.cfg. So
if you have that setup in your config, it will automatically propagate
to all of the servers.

Note that when using multiple servers, it is recommended that you have
the local server FIRST in the list of servers in BBDISPLAYS.


Regards,
Henrik

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