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list Kolbjørn Barmen · Fri, 24 Mar 2006 10:15:45 +0100 (CET) ·

Hello,

I just set up a Hobbit-server for testing, to see if we (hopefully) can
"upgrade" from our old bigbrother. One feature we have missed is to be
able to set up pages with non-critical/testing/private machines, that wont
affect the over-all status of the Hobbit main-page.

If one could set this as a page property flag or something
("ignore-in-parent"), that would be superb. 

Is this perhaps already possible?


Also (and please bear over with me on this one), are there any plans on
making bb-hosts more structured?  I find it difficult to place things
where I want them on pages, especially the main page.

If I have this in bb-hosts:

---- 8< ----
title <b>Blabla</b>
nnn.nn.nnn.nn   blabla.uninett.no   # bbd https://blabla.uninett.no/ ssh

##### SAMSIX2 machines: #####
page samsix2 SAMSIX machines
group-compress <b>SAMSIX2</b>
nnn.nn.nnn.nn   samsix2.nnnn.no      # !ftp ssh smtp dns

##### SAMSON3 machines: #####
page samsix3 SAMSON3-maskiner
group-compress <b>SAMSIX3</b>
nnn.nn.nnn.nn   samsix3.nnnn.no      # !ftp ssh smtp dns
---- >8 ----

I get a page that looks like this:


---- 8< ----

Pages Hosted Locally
--
SAMSIX2 machines  |  SAMSIX3 machines

Blabla
--
                     bbd bbgen bbtest conn cpu ....
blabla.uninett.no     o    o     o     o    o  ....

---- >8 ----

How do I get "Blabla" placed over the SAMSIXen, and how do I set a title
for the main page (that is, replace "Pages Hotes Locally")?

I hate to bring up XML, but in this case I'm very tempted :)

-- 
Kolbjørn Barmen
UNINETT Driftsenter

list Thomas Pedersen · Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:06:51 +0100 ·

Hi Kolbjørn,

All of this can be done with building alternate page sets. The second 
thing you ask can be configured also check the man page for bbgen and 
look for --pages-last

BR Thomas

▸ quoted from Kolbjørn Barmen


Kolbjørn Barmen wrote:

Hello,

I just set up a Hobbit-server for testing, to see if we (hopefully) can
"upgrade" from our old bigbrother. One feature we have missed is to be
able to set up pages with non-critical/testing/private machines, that wont
affect the over-all status of the Hobbit main-page.

If one could set this as a page property flag or something
("ignore-in-parent"), that would be superb. 

Is this perhaps already possible?


Also (and please bear over with me on this one), are there any plans on
making bb-hosts more structured?  I find it difficult to place things
where I want them on pages, especially the main page.

If I have this in bb-hosts:

---- 8< ----
title <b>Blabla</b>
nnn.nn.nnn.nn   blabla.uninett.no   # bbd https://blabla.uninett.no/ ssh

##### SAMSIX2 machines: #####
page samsix2 SAMSIX machines
group-compress <b>SAMSIX2</b>
nnn.nn.nnn.nn   samsix2.nnnn.no      # !ftp ssh smtp dns

##### SAMSON3 machines: #####
page samsix3 SAMSON3-maskiner
group-compress <b>SAMSIX3</b>
nnn.nn.nnn.nn   samsix3.nnnn.no      # !ftp ssh smtp dns
---- >8 ----

I get a page that looks like this:


---- 8< ----

Pages Hosted Locally
--
SAMSIX2 machines  |  SAMSIX3 machines

Blabla
--
                    bbd bbgen bbtest conn cpu ....
blabla.uninett.no     o    o     o     o    o  ....

---- >8 ----

How do I get "Blabla" placed over the SAMSIXen, and how do I set a title
for the main page (that is, replace "Pages Hotes Locally")?

I hate to bring up XML, but in this case I'm very tempted :)

list Kolbjørn Barmen · Fri, 24 Mar 2006 12:02:10 +0100 (CET) ·

▸ quoted from Thomas Pedersen

On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Thomas wrote:

Hi Kolbjørn,

All of this can be done with building alternate page sets. The second thing
you ask can be configured also check the man page for bbgen and look for
--pages-last

Thanks for sending me in the right direction, I see now lots of new
possibilites :)

-- 
Kolbjørn Barmen
UNINETT Driftsenter

list Kolbjørn Barmen · Sun, 2 Apr 2006 21:43:50 +0200 (CEST) ·

▸ quoted from Thomas Pedersen

On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Thomas wrote:

Kolbjørn Barmen wrote:

Hello,

I just set up a Hobbit-server for testing, to see if we (hopefully) can
"upgrade" from our old bigbrother. One feature we have missed is to be
able to set up pages with non-critical/testing/private machines, that wont
affect the over-all status of the Hobbit main-page.

If one could set this as a page property flag or something
("ignore-in-parent"), that would be superb. 
Is this perhaps already possible?

All of this can be done with building alternate page sets.

OK, I finally got around to try it out.

I put this into my bb-hosts:

##### PRIVATE maskiner #####
privatpage kolla Kolla sine maskiner
privatgroup-compress
privatpage einar Einar sine maskiner
privatgroup-compress
privatpage oep &Oslash;yvind sine maskiner
privatgroup-compress <b>Here goes...</b>

and put in PRIVAT:kolla, PRIVAT:einar and PRIVAT:oep on the respective's machines.

Then I made a $BBHOME/ext/privat.sh looking like this:

#!/bin/sh
BBWEB="/private-maskiner" $BBHOME/bin/bbgen --pageset=privat $BBHOME/www/private-maskiner/

and lastly, made an entry in $BBHOME/etc/hobbitlaunch.cfg:

[bbprivat]
        ENVFILE /home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
        NEEDS hobbitd
        CMD $BBHOME/ext/privat.sh
        LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/privat.log
        INTERVAL 1m

And it works nicely - for /private-maskiner - however, they machines are still
showing up on the default pages, and alarms are not limited to show up inside
/private-maskiner.

Am I missing something, or is it not possible to configure it so that certain
machines are only viewable/"alarmable" from within a certain alternate page?

-- 
Kolbjørn Barmen
UNINETT Driftsenter

list Thomas Pedersen · Mon, 03 Apr 2006 09:26:15 +0200 ·

Hi Kolbjørn,

Alarms are configured on a globla basis. What you are missing is to change the BBLOCATION tag for all the other hosts in your bb-hosts file to something different and then configure your global display test to look only at them, this is done in hobbitserver.cfg

▸ quoted from Kolbjørn Barmen

Kolbjørn Barmen wrote:

On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Thomas wrote:

Kolbjørn Barmen wrote:

Hello,



I just set up a Hobbit-server for testing, to see if we (hopefully) can

"upgrade" from our old bigbrother. One feature we have missed is to be

able to set up pages with non-critical/testing/private machines, that wont

affect the over-all status of the Hobbit main-page.



If one could set this as a page property flag or something

("ignore-in-parent"), that would be superb. 

Is this perhaps already possible?

All of this can be done with building alternate page sets.


OK, I finally got around to try it out.



I put this into my bb-hosts:



##### PRIVATE maskiner #####

privatpage kolla Kolla sine maskiner

privatgroup-compress

privatpage einar Einar sine maskiner

privatgroup-compress


privatpage oep Øyvind sine maskiner

privatgroup-compress Here goes...

▸ quoted from Kolbjørn Barmen




and put in PRIVAT:kolla, PRIVAT:einar and PRIVAT:oep on the respective's machines.



Then I made a $BBHOME/ext/privat.sh looking like this:



#!/bin/sh

BBWEB="/private-maskiner" $BBHOME/bin/bbgen --pageset=privat $BBHOME/www/private-maskiner/



and lastly, made an entry in $BBHOME/etc/hobbitlaunch.cfg:



[bbprivat]

        ENVFILE /home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg

        NEEDS hobbitd

        CMD $BBHOME/ext/privat.sh

        LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/privat.log

        INTERVAL 1m



And it works nicely - for /private-maskiner - however, they machines are still

showing up on the default pages, and alarms are not limited to show up inside

/private-maskiner.



Am I missing something, or is it not possible to configure it so that certain

machines are only viewable/"alarmable" from within a certain alternate page?

list Larry Barber · Mon, 3 Apr 2006 09:04:53 -0500 ·

Try adding the "nodisp" tag to the host's descriptions in bb-hosts. This
will prevent them from showing up on the main pages, they will only appear
on the alternate pagesets you specify. Alerts will not be propagated upward
to the main page.

Thanks,
Larry Barber

▸ quoted from Thomas Pedersen


On 4/3/06, Thomas <user-97316fb2dd2a@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Hi Kolbjørn,

Alarms are configured on a globla basis. What you are missing is to change
the BBLOCATION tag for all the other hosts in your bb-hosts file to
something different and then configure your global display test to look only
at them, this is done in hobbitserver.cfg

Kolbjørn Barmen wrote:

On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Thomas wrote:

   Kolbjørn Barmen wrote:

     Hello,

I just set up a Hobbit-server for testing, to see if we (hopefully) can
"upgrade" from our old bigbrother. One feature we have missed is to be
able to set up pages with non-critical/testing/private machines, that wont
affect the over-all status of the Hobbit main-page.

If one could set this as a page property flag or something
("ignore-in-parent"), that would be superb.
Is this perhaps already possible?

 All of this can be done with building alternate page sets.

 OK, I finally got around to try it out.

I put this into my bb-hosts:

##### PRIVATE maskiner #####
privatpage kolla Kolla sine maskiner
privatgroup-compress
privatpage einar Einar sine maskiner
privatgroup-compress
privatpage oep &Oslash;yvind sine maskiner
privatgroup-compress <b>Here goes...</b>

and put in PRIVAT:kolla, PRIVAT:einar and PRIVAT:oep on the respective's machines.

Then I made a $BBHOME/ext/privat.sh looking like this:

#!/bin/sh
BBWEB="/private-maskiner" $BBHOME/bin/bbgen --pageset=privat $BBHOME/www/private-maskiner/

and lastly, made an entry in $BBHOME/etc/hobbitlaunch.cfg:

[bbprivat]
        ENVFILE /home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
        NEEDS hobbitd
        CMD $BBHOME/ext/privat.sh
        LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/privat.log
        INTERVAL 1m

And it works nicely - for /private-maskiner - however, they machines are still
showing up on the default pages, and alarms are not limited to show up inside
/private-maskiner.

Am I missing something, or is it not possible to configure it so that certain
machines are only viewable/"alarmable" from within a certain alternate page?

list Kolbjørn Barmen · Fri, 7 Apr 2006 10:36:33 +0200 (CEST) ·

▸ quoted from Larry Barber

On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, Larry Barber wrote:

Try adding the "nodisp" tag to the host's descriptions in bb-hosts. This
will prevent them from showing up on the main pages, they will only appear
on the alternate pagesets you specify. Alerts will not be propagated upward
to the main page.

This didnt seem to work for me, but I did as Thomas suggested and that
works OK. (A minor annoyance though is that I still see my PRIVATE:
machines in the "All non-green view", I think I saw some option I can set
to avoid this too... maybe that is "nodisp", hm.)

However - and I reckon this is a bug in my running version of Hobbit
(4.2pre downloaded a few weeks ago) that might be fixed in the current
alpha release: If I go to "Administration / Find host", no matter what
machine I type it always says that the location is "Top page".

▸ quoted from Larry Barber

Thanks,
Larry Barber

On 4/3/06, Thomas <user-97316fb2dd2a@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Hi Kolbjørn,

Alarms are configured on a globla basis. What you are missing is to change
the BBLOCATION tag for all the other hosts in your bb-hosts file to
something different and then configure your global display test to look only
at them, this is done in hobbitserver.cfg

Kolbjørn Barmen wrote:

On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Thomas wrote:

   Kolbjørn Barmen wrote:

     Hello,

I just set up a Hobbit-server for testing, to see if we (hopefully) can
"upgrade" from our old bigbrother. One feature we have missed is to be
able to set up pages with non-critical/testing/private machines, that wont
affect the over-all status of the Hobbit main-page.

If one could set this as a page property flag or something
("ignore-in-parent"), that would be superb.
Is this perhaps already possible?

 All of this can be done with building alternate page sets.

 OK, I finally got around to try it out.

I put this into my bb-hosts:

##### PRIVATE maskiner #####
privatpage kolla Kolla sine maskiner
privatgroup-compress
privatpage einar Einar sine maskiner
privatgroup-compress
privatpage oep &Oslash;yvind sine maskiner
privatgroup-compress <b>Here goes...</b>

and put in PRIVAT:kolla, PRIVAT:einar and PRIVAT:oep on the respective's machines.

Then I made a $BBHOME/ext/privat.sh looking like this:

#!/bin/sh
BBWEB="/private-maskiner" $BBHOME/bin/bbgen --pageset=privat $BBHOME/www/private-maskiner/

and lastly, made an entry in $BBHOME/etc/hobbitlaunch.cfg:

[bbprivat]
        ENVFILE /home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
        NEEDS hobbitd
        CMD $BBHOME/ext/privat.sh
        LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/privat.log
        INTERVAL 1m

And it works nicely - for /private-maskiner - however, they machines are still
showing up on the default pages, and alarms are not limited to show up inside
/private-maskiner.

Am I missing something, or is it not possible to configure it so that certain
machines are only viewable/"alarmable" from within a certain alternate page?

-- 
Kolbjørn Barmen
UNINETT Driftsenter

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