cgi bb-hostedit script released 🔗 link

-----Original Message-----
From: Schwimmer, Eric E *HS [mailto:user-1e1008b069d5@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 12:47 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released


Howdy all,

I finally got my mrtg graphing problems fixed (I ended up just using
mrtg to poll ifc traffic data, and tweaked hobbit-larrd a bit to work
with my snmp data collector that collects cpu & error info).

Anyways, now that that is done, I had a some time to spend working on a
gui hosts editor for hobbit/bigbrother (although the bigbrother support
has not been tested, as I dont really have a bigbrother system to test
it on any more).

This script should handle just about every option that the bb-hosts file
supports, including nested file includes (include, dispinclude, etc),
titles, groups, etc etc.  Its still in a nascent phase at the moment, so
I would strongly suggest backing up your host files somewhere safe
before playing around with it (although the script also supports file
archival, as well).

You can download the script at:
http://www.nerdvana.org/eric/files/bb-hostedit-1.0.tar.gz

Please let me know what you think,

Regards,
-Eric Schwimmer
HSCS Network Engineer
University of Virginia

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Dunne [mailto:user-cb942661a22f@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 1:20 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released

Greetings,

I installed your script per directions indicated in install file and I
am receiving an error. The error is "syntax error: group compress". Any
suggestions?


Thanks in advance.

Mike


Michael Dunne
Systems Support Specialist
AccuWeather, Inc. 
XXX-XXX-XXXX Ext. XXXX

-Eric 

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Dunne [mailto:user-cb942661a22f@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 1:20 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released

Greetings,

I installed your script per directions indicated in install file and I
am receiving an error. The error is "syntax error: group compress". Any
suggestions?


Thanks in advance.

Mike


Michael Dunne
Systems Support Specialist
AccuWeather, Inc. 
XXX-XXX-XXXX Ext. XXXX

wrote:

Hrm, the manpage for bb-hosts on the hobbit site says the the syntax
should be "group-compress".

I've never used either one;  do you have an entry called 'group
compress' that functions as you'd expect
it to?

Subject:	Re: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released
On 4/28/05 1:28 PM, "Schwimmer, Eric E *HS" <user-1e1008b069d5@xymon.invalid>
wrote:

Hrm, the manpage for bb-hosts on the hobbit site says the the syntax
should be "group-compress".

Apologies, the error includes the "-" between group and compress.
 

I've never used either one;  do you have an entry called 'group
compress' that functions as you'd expect
it to?

An example from my host file is:

group-compress <h3>Non-Production Servers </h3>

Regards,
-Eric 

Michael Dunne
Systems Support Specialist
AccuWeather, Inc. 
XXX-XXX-XXXX Ext. XXXX

-Eric 

-----Original Message-----
From: Schwimmer, Eric E *HS [mailto:user-1e1008b069d5@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 1:52 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released


Yep, it was a regexp problem.  I had tested with single-word group
names, but anything with a whitespace in it would fail the regexp check.


Try the attached patch:
copy the patch to your hobbit/server/bin dir, then chdir there:
patch -p0 < bb-hostedit-groupname-patch

I've already updated the distro, so anybody that downloads it in the
future doesnt need to apply this patch (although I didnt update the
version number, naughty naughty).

-Eric

-----Original Message-----
From:	Michael Dunne [mailto:user-cb942661a22f@xymon.invalid]
Sent:	Thu 4/28/2005 1:34 PM
To:	user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Cc:	
Subject:	Re: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released
On 4/28/05 1:28 PM, "Schwimmer, Eric E *HS"
<user-1e1008b069d5@xymon.invalid>
wrote:

Hrm, the manpage for bb-hosts on the hobbit site says the the syntax 
should be "group-compress".

Apologies, the error includes the "-" between group and compress.
 

I've never used either one;  do you have an entry called 'group 
compress' that functions as you'd expect it to?

An example from my host file is:

group-compress <h3>Non-Production Servers </h3>

Regards,
-Eric

Michael Dunne
Systems Support Specialist
AccuWeather, Inc. 
XXX-XXX-XXXX Ext. XXXX

-Eric

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Dunne [mailto:user-cb942661a22f@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 2:30 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released

Thanks for the quick patch. I've applied it and now I have the following
error:

Syntax error: apache=http://sysmonx.accuweather.com/server-status?auto

 
Michael Dunne
Systems Support Specialist
AccuWeather, Inc. 
XXX-XXX-XXXX Ext. XXXX

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel J McDonald [mailto:user-290ce4e24e19@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 3:09 PM
To: Hobbit List
Subject: RE: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released

On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 14:00 -0400, Schwimmer, Eric E *HS wrote:

Outlook and I are not friends.  Here's the patch.

How about:

Undefined subroutine &main::g_edit called at
/usr/lib/hobbit/server/bin/bb-hostedit.pl line 279.

For help, please send mail to the webmaster (root at localhost), giving
this error message and the time and date of the error.

Regards,
-Eric

-----Original Message-----
From:	Schwimmer, Eric E *HS
Sent:	Thu 4/28/2005 3:54 PM
To:	user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Cc:	
Subject:	RE: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released

Dang.  Looks like a forgot a subroutine. :)  We don't use groups at all,
so
that isnt something I've tested.  Give me a few minutes.

e 

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel J McDonald [mailto:user-290ce4e24e19@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 3:09 PM
To: Hobbit List
Subject: RE: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released

On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 14:00 -0400, Schwimmer, Eric E *HS wrote:

Outlook and I are not friends.  Here's the patch.

How about:

Undefined subroutine &main::g_edit called at
/usr/lib/hobbit/server/bin/bb-hostedit.pl line 279.

For help, please send mail to the webmaster (root at localhost), giving
this error message and the time and date of the error.

1. If the a line starts with #, it is a comment. The script reports me a syntax-error
I added the following lines:
---snip---
     # Exclude Comments
      elsif($item =~ /^#/) {
        next;
      }
---snap---

2. I included one host on more than one page, so the script reports me about already definded host.
To get a step forward, I comment out the part in the sctipt.

Now I see the subpages, but no hosts. I can add hosts to the subpage.
I already tried to make a script, that builds the bb-hosts from a MySQL-Database. I got it never finished, because of all the possible combinations :(

patch.

-Eric
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Schwimmer, Eric E *HS [mailto:user-1e1008b069d5@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 9:31 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released


Hi Thomas, thanks for helping test out the script :)

1. If the a line starts with #, it is a comment. The script reports me 
a syntax-error I added the following lines:
---snip---
     # Exclude Comments
      elsif($item =~ /^#/) {
        next;
      }
---snap---

Ahh, I was handling comments incorrectly (if they had whitespace before
them on a line they were being parsed, instead of ignored).  Now fixed.

2. I included one host on more than one page, so the script reports me 
about already definded host.
To get a step forward, I comment out the part in the sctipt.

Now I see the subpages, but no hosts. I can add hosts to the subpage.
I already tried to make a script, that builds the bb-hosts from a 
MySQL-Database. I got it never finished, because of all the possible 
combinations :(

If you comment out the line that reads in hosts, its to be expected that
you wont see any on the pages/subpages :)  I assumed (yet another
possibly incorrect assumption on my part) that you couldn't have the
same hostname defined in two places in your bigbrother/hobbit hierarchy;
I'll have to play around with this some to see how bigbrother behaves.
Hopefully, I'll have a patch out in an hour or so.

Regards,
-Eric

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Schwimmer, Eric E *HS [mailto:user-1e1008b069d5@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: April 29, 2005 11:45 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released


Okay, here's the patch:

http://www.nerdvana.org/eric/files/bb-hostedit-hostdupe-patch
 
The tarball has been updated; new users don't need to download this
patch.

-Eric
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Schwimmer, Eric E *HS [mailto:user-1e1008b069d5@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 9:31 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released


Hi Thomas, thanks for helping test out the script :)

1. If the a line starts with #, it is a comment. The script reports me 
a syntax-error I added the following lines:
---snip---
     # Exclude Comments
      elsif($item =~ /^#/) {
        next;
      }
---snap---

Ahh, I was handling comments incorrectly (if they had whitespace before
them on a line they were being parsed, instead of ignored).  Now fixed.

2. I included one host on more than one page, so the script reports me 
about already definded host.
To get a step forward, I comment out the part in the sctipt.

Now I see the subpages, but no hosts. I can add hosts to the subpage.
I already tried to make a script, that builds the bb-hosts from a 
MySQL-Database. I got it never finished, because of all the possible 
combinations :(

If you comment out the line that reads in hosts, its to be expected that
you wont see any on the pages/subpages :)  I assumed (yet another
possibly incorrect assumption on my part) that you couldn't have the
same hostname defined in two places in your bigbrother/hobbit hierarchy;
I'll have to play around with this some to see how bigbrother behaves.
Hopefully, I'll have a patch out in an hour or so.

Regards,
-Eric

From: Schwimmer, Eric E *HS [mailto:user-1e1008b069d5@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: April 29, 2005 11:45 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released


Okay, here's the patch:

http://www.nerdvana.org/eric/files/bb-hostedit-hostdupe-patch
 
The tarball has been updated; new users don't need to download this
patch.

-Eric
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Schwimmer, Eric E *HS [mailto:user-1e1008b069d5@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 9:31 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released


Hi Thomas, thanks for helping test out the script :)

1. If the a line starts with #, it is a comment. The script reports me 
a syntax-error I added the following lines:
---snip---
     # Exclude Comments
      elsif($item =~ /^#/) {
        next;
      }
---snap---

Ahh, I was handling comments incorrectly (if they had whitespace before
them on a line they were being parsed, instead of ignored).  Now fixed.

2. I included one host on more than one page, so the script reports me 
about already definded host.
To get a step forward, I comment out the part in the sctipt.

Now I see the subpages, but no hosts. I can add hosts to the subpage.
I already tried to make a script, that builds the bb-hosts from a 
MySQL-Database. I got it never finished, because of all the possible 
combinations :(

If you comment out the line that reads in hosts, its to be expected that
you wont see any on the pages/subpages :)  I assumed (yet another
possibly incorrect assumption on my part) that you couldn't have the
same hostname defined in two places in your bigbrother/hobbit hierarchy;
I'll have to play around with this some to see how bigbrother behaves.
Hopefully, I'll have a patch out in an hour or so.

Regards,
-Eric

From: Schwimmer, Eric E *HS [mailto:user-1e1008b069d5@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: April 29, 2005 11:45 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released


Okay, here's the patch:

http://www.nerdvana.org/eric/files/bb-hostedit-hostdupe-patch
 
The tarball has been updated; new users don't need to download this
patch.

-Eric
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Schwimmer, Eric E *HS [mailto:user-1e1008b069d5@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 9:31 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released


Hi Thomas, thanks for helping test out the script :)

1. If the a line starts with #, it is a comment. The script reports me 
a syntax-error I added the following lines:
---snip---
     # Exclude Comments
      elsif($item =~ /^#/) {
        next;
      }
---snap---

Ahh, I was handling comments incorrectly (if they had whitespace before
them on a line they were being parsed, instead of ignored).  Now fixed.

2. I included one host on more than one page, so the script reports me 
about already definded host.
To get a step forward, I comment out the part in the sctipt.

Now I see the subpages, but no hosts. I can add hosts to the subpage.
I already tried to make a script, that builds the bb-hosts from a 
MySQL-Database. I got it never finished, because of all the possible 
combinations :(

If you comment out the line that reads in hosts, its to be expected that
you wont see any on the pages/subpages :)  I assumed (yet another
possibly incorrect assumption on my part) that you couldn't have the
same hostname defined in two places in your bigbrother/hobbit hierarchy;
I'll have to play around with this some to see how bigbrother behaves.
Hopefully, I'll have a patch out in an hour or so.

Regards,
-Eric

On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 12:06:55PM -0400, user-04bba0146b8b@xymon.invalid wrote:

Subpages should be able to have the same names if they exist under
different pages, and should also be able to have the same names as pages
regardless of where they are.

From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: May 2, 2005 12:42 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released


On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 12:06:55PM -0400, user-04bba0146b8b@xymon.invalid wrote:

Subpages should be able to have the same names if they exist under
different pages, and should also be able to have the same names as
pages
regardless of where they are.

Using the same subpage name is not recommended. I wouldn't be surprised
if something broke because of that - there's an implicit assumption in
Hobbit that pagenames are unique.


Henrik

From: McCrackin, Brent (6002384) 
Sent: May 2, 2005 12:38 PM
To: 'user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid'
Subject: RE: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released


Here's another one... 

You do not appear to have any support for the "group-only" directive.

This works like group-compress, but you list exactly which services to
display for the hosts included in the group.

EG:

group-only test1|test2|test3|test4|test5 Servers Group


This facilitates having hosts with more tests than comfortably fit on a
single line in the display to be split among multiple lines, or which
have services that only apply to a specific page grouping.

An example I have is a database server with a dozen different databases
each monitored by bb-moracle, but producing their own dot.  I split the
server to have an 'OS-Tests' line and a 'Database-Tests' line in the
display.  This is performed with group-only.

---
Brent B McCrackin
UNIX Systems Specialist - Bell Sympatico
user-04bba0146b8b@xymon.invalid   PH: XXX-XXX-XXXX
"Serenity through viciousness."
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Schwimmer, Eric E *HS [mailto:user-1e1008b069d5@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: April 29, 2005 11:45 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released


Okay, here's the patch:

http://www.nerdvana.org/eric/files/bb-hostedit-hostdupe-patch
 
The tarball has been updated; new users don't need to download this
patch.

-Eric
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Schwimmer, Eric E *HS [mailto:user-1e1008b069d5@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 9:31 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released


Hi Thomas, thanks for helping test out the script :)

1. If the a line starts with #, it is a comment. The script reports me 
a syntax-error I added the following lines:
---snip---
     # Exclude Comments
      elsif($item =~ /^#/) {
        next;
      }
---snap---

Ahh, I was handling comments incorrectly (if they had whitespace before
them on a line they were being parsed, instead of ignored).  Now fixed.

2. I included one host on more than one page, so the script reports me 
about already definded host.
To get a step forward, I comment out the part in the sctipt.

Now I see the subpages, but no hosts. I can add hosts to the subpage.
I already tried to make a script, that builds the bb-hosts from a 
MySQL-Database. I got it never finished, because of all the possible 
combinations :(

If you comment out the line that reads in hosts, its to be expected that
you wont see any on the pages/subpages :)  I assumed (yet another
possibly incorrect assumption on my part) that you couldn't have the
same hostname defined in two places in your bigbrother/hobbit hierarchy;
I'll have to play around with this some to see how bigbrother behaves.
Hopefully, I'll have a patch out in an hour or so.

Regards,
-Eric

-----Original Message-----
From: user-04bba0146b8b@xymon.invalid [mailto:user-04bba0146b8b@xymon.invalid] Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 3:59 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released

An update to this... I can see in the code that it should support group-only, but it doesn't appear to work very well.  I haven't been able to find any changes yet that will make it work, though - but my regex isn't as sharp as most people's seem to be :-)

Everything else appears to work well with BB1.9c/BBgen 3.5, though!

---
Brent B McCrackin
UNIX Systems Specialist - Bell Sympatico
user-04bba0146b8b@xymon.invalid   PH: XXX-XXX-XXXX
"Serenity through viciousness."
 

-----Original Message-----
From: McCrackin, Brent (6002384)
Sent: May 2, 2005 12:38 PM
To: 'user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid'
Subject: RE: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released


Here's another one... 
You do not appear to have any support for the "group-only" directive.

This works like group-compress, but you list exactly which services to
display for the hosts included in the group.

EG:

group-only test1|test2|test3|test4|test5 Servers Group


This facilitates having hosts with more tests than comfortably fit on a
single line in the display to be split among multiple lines, or which
have services that only apply to a specific page grouping.

An example I have is a database server with a dozen different databases
each monitored by bb-moracle, but producing their own dot.  I split the
server to have an 'OS-Tests' line and a 'Database-Tests' line in the
display.  This is performed with group-only.

---
Brent B McCrackin
UNIX Systems Specialist - Bell Sympatico
user-04bba0146b8b@xymon.invalid   PH: XXX-XXX-XXXX
"Serenity through viciousness."
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Schwimmer, Eric E *HS [mailto:user-1e1008b069d5@xymon.invalid] Sent: April 29, 2005 11:45 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released


Okay, here's the patch:

http://www.nerdvana.org/eric/files/bb-hostedit-hostdupe-patch
 The tarball has been updated; new users don't need to download this
patch.

-Eric
 -----Original Message-----
From: Schwimmer, Eric E *HS [mailto:user-1e1008b069d5@xymon.invalid] Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 9:31 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released


Hi Thomas, thanks for helping test out the script :)

1. If the a line starts with #, it is a comment. The script reports me >a syntax-error I added the following lines:
---snip---
     # Exclude Comments
      elsif($item =~ /^#/) {
        next;
      }
---snap---

Ahh, I was handling comments incorrectly (if they had whitespace before
them on a line they were being parsed, instead of ignored).  Now fixed.

2. I included one host on more than one page, so the script reports me >about already definded host.
To get a step forward, I comment out the part in the sctipt.

Now I see the subpages, but no hosts. I can add hosts to the subpage.
I already tried to make a script, that builds the bb-hosts from a >MySQL-Database. I got it never finished, because of all the possible >combinations :(

If you comment out the line that reads in hosts, its to be expected that
you wont see any on the pages/subpages :)  I assumed (yet another
possibly incorrect assumption on my part) that you couldn't have the
same hostname defined in two places in your bigbrother/hobbit hierarchy;
I'll have to play around with this some to see how bigbrother behaves.
Hopefully, I'll have a patch out in an hour or so.

Regards,
-Eric

From: Schwimmer, Eric E *HS [mailto:user-1e1008b069d5@xymon.invalid] Sent: May 2, 2005 4:11 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released


Give me a few... I'm on-call this week, so I wont have quite the
response time that I did last week ;)

-Eric   

-----Original Message-----
From: user-04bba0146b8b@xymon.invalid [mailto:user-04bba0146b8b@xymon.invalid] Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 3:59 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released

An update to this... I can see in the code that it should support group-only, but it doesn't appear to work very well.  I haven't been able to find any changes yet that will make it work, though - but my regex isn't as sharp as most people's seem to be :-)

Everything else appears to work well with BB1.9c/BBgen 3.5, though!

---
Brent B McCrackin
UNIX Systems Specialist - Bell Sympatico
user-04bba0146b8b@xymon.invalid   PH: XXX-XXX-XXXX
"Serenity through viciousness."
 

-----Original Message-----
From: McCrackin, Brent (6002384)
Sent: May 2, 2005 12:38 PM
To: 'user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid'
Subject: RE: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released


Here's another one... 
You do not appear to have any support for the "group-only" directive.

This works like group-compress, but you list exactly which services to
display for the hosts included in the group.

EG:

group-only test1|test2|test3|test4|test5 Servers Group


This facilitates having hosts with more tests than comfortably fit on a
single line in the display to be split among multiple lines, or which
have services that only apply to a specific page grouping.

An example I have is a database server with a dozen different databases
each monitored by bb-moracle, but producing their own dot.  I split the
server to have an 'OS-Tests' line and a 'Database-Tests' line in the
display.  This is performed with group-only.

---
Brent B McCrackin
UNIX Systems Specialist - Bell Sympatico
user-04bba0146b8b@xymon.invalid   PH: XXX-XXX-XXXX
"Serenity through viciousness."
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Schwimmer, Eric E *HS [mailto:user-1e1008b069d5@xymon.invalid] Sent: April 29, 2005 11:45 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released


Okay, here's the patch:

http://www.nerdvana.org/eric/files/bb-hostedit-hostdupe-patch
 The tarball has been updated; new users don't need to download this
patch.

-Eric
 -----Original Message-----
From: Schwimmer, Eric E *HS [mailto:user-1e1008b069d5@xymon.invalid] Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 9:31 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released


Hi Thomas, thanks for helping test out the script :)

1. If the a line starts with #, it is a comment. The script reports me >a syntax-error I added the following lines:
---snip---
     # Exclude Comments
      elsif($item =~ /^#/) {
        next;
      }
---snap---

Ahh, I was handling comments incorrectly (if they had whitespace before
them on a line they were being parsed, instead of ignored).  Now fixed.

2. I included one host on more than one page, so the script reports me >about already definded host.
To get a step forward, I comment out the part in the sctipt.

Now I see the subpages, but no hosts. I can add hosts to the subpage.
I already tried to make a script, that builds the bb-hosts from a >MySQL-Database. I got it never finished, because of all the possible >combinations :(

If you comment out the line that reads in hosts, its to be expected that
you wont see any on the pages/subpages :)  I assumed (yet another
possibly incorrect assumption on my part) that you couldn't have the
same hostname defined in two places in your bigbrother/hobbit hierarchy;
I'll have to play around with this some to see how bigbrother behaves.
Hopefully, I'll have a patch out in an hour or so.

Regards,
-Eric

Okay, here's the patch:

http://www.nerdvana.org/eric/files/bb-hostedit-hostdupe-patch
 
The tarball has been updated; new users don't need to download this patch.

-Eric
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Schwimmer, Eric E *HS [mailto:user-1e1008b069d5@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 9:31 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released


Hi Thomas, thanks for helping test out the script :)

1. If the a line starts with #, it is a comment. The script reports me 
a syntax-error I added the following lines:
---snip---
     # Exclude Comments
      elsif($item =~ /^#/) {
        next;
      }
---snap---

Ahh, I was handling comments incorrectly (if they had whitespace before
them on a line they were being parsed, instead of ignored).  Now fixed.

2. I included one host on more than one page, so the script reports me 
about already definded host.
To get a step forward, I comment out the part in the sctipt.

Now I see the subpages, but no hosts. I can add hosts to the subpage.
I already tried to make a script, that builds the bb-hosts from a 
MySQL-Database. I got it never finished, because of all the possible 
combinations :(

If you comment out the line that reads in hosts, its to be expected that
you wont see any on the pages/subpages :)  I assumed (yet another
possibly incorrect assumption on my part) that you couldn't have the
same hostname defined in two places in your bigbrother/hobbit hierarchy;
I'll have to play around with this some to see how bigbrother behaves.
Hopefully, I'll have a patch out in an hour or so.

Regards,
-Eric

Hi all. I had some mail problems during the last days so i think I missed the original post with the link to the tarball of the bb-hostedit

Can someone post it?

Thanks

Francesco Duranti
 

-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: Schwimmer, Eric E *HS [mailto:user-1e1008b069d5@xymon.invalid] 
Inviato: venerdì 29 aprile 2005 17.45
A: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Oggetto: RE: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released

Okay, here's the patch:

http://www.nerdvana.org/eric/files/bb-hostedit-hostdupe-patch
 
The tarball has been updated; new users don't need to download this patch.

-Eric
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Schwimmer, Eric E *HS [mailto:user-1e1008b069d5@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 9:31 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released


Hi Thomas, thanks for helping test out the script :)

1. If the a line starts with #, it is a comment. The script reports me 
a syntax-error I added the following lines:
---snip---
     # Exclude Comments
      elsif($item =~ /^#/) {
        next;
      }
---snap---

Ahh, I was handling comments incorrectly (if they had whitespace before
them on a line they were being parsed, instead of ignored).  Now fixed.

2. I included one host on more than one page, so the script reports me 
about already definded host.
To get a step forward, I comment out the part in the sctipt.

Now I see the subpages, but no hosts. I can add hosts to the subpage.
I already tried to make a script, that builds the bb-hosts from a 
MySQL-Database. I got it never finished, because of all the possible 
combinations :(

If you comment out the line that reads in hosts, its to be expected that
you wont see any on the pages/subpages :)  I assumed (yet another
possibly incorrect assumption on my part) that you couldn't have the
same hostname defined in two places in your bigbrother/hobbit hierarchy;
I'll have to play around with this some to see how bigbrother behaves.
Hopefully, I'll have a patch out in an hour or so.

Regards,
-Eric

On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 11:09 -0400, Schwimmer, Eric E *HS wrote:

The current version is at:
http://www.nerdvana.org/eric/files/bb-hostedit-1.0.tar.gz

although v1.1 should be coming out shortly (depending on how much time I can spend on it :)

On 5/3/05, Schwimmer, Eric E *HS <user-1e1008b069d5@xymon.invalid> wrote:

The current version is at:
http://www.nerdvana.org/eric/files/bb-hostedit-1.0.tar.gz

although v1.1 should be coming out shortly (depending on how much time I can spend on it :)

-Eric

-----Original Message-----
From: Francesco Duranti [mailto:user-7104dcecbfef@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Tue 5/3/2005 8:55 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Cc:
Subject: [hobbit] R: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released
Hi all. I had some mail problems during the last days so i think I missed the original post with the link to the tarball of the bb-hostedit

Can someone post it?

Thanks

Francesco Duranti

-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: Schwimmer, Eric E *HS [mailto:user-1e1008b069d5@xymon.invalid]
Inviato: venerdì 29 aprile 2005 17.45
A: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Oggetto: RE: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released

Okay, here's the patch:

http://www.nerdvana.org/eric/files/bb-hostedit-hostdupe-patch

The tarball has been updated; new users don't need to download this patch.

-Eric

-----Original Message-----
From: Schwimmer, Eric E *HS [mailto:user-1e1008b069d5@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 9:31 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released

Hi Thomas, thanks for helping test out the script :)

1. If the a line starts with #, it is a comment. The script reports me
a syntax-error I added the following lines:
---snip---
# Exclude Comments
elsif($item =~ /^#/) {
next;
}
---snap---

Ahh, I was handling comments incorrectly (if they had whitespace before
them on a line they were being parsed, instead of ignored). Now fixed.

2. I included one host on more than one page, so the script reports me
about already definded host.
To get a step forward, I comment out the part in the sctipt.

Now I see the subpages, but no hosts. I can add hosts to the subpage.
I already tried to make a script, that builds the bb-hosts from a
MySQL-Database. I got it never finished, because of all the possible
combinations :(

If you comment out the line that reads in hosts, its to be expected that
you wont see any on the pages/subpages :) I assumed (yet another
possibly incorrect assumption on my part) that you couldn't have the
same hostname defined in two places in your bigbrother/hobbit hierarchy;
I'll have to play around with this some to see how bigbrother behaves.
Hopefully, I'll have a patch out in an hour or so.

Regards,
-Eric