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Hi,

I'm running Hobbit snapshot as of 9/3. I got few questions.

1. In what situations, I need to restart something to make
   configuration works? It's not clear to me that whether to
   restart foo after modifying bar.cfg.

2. According to FAQ, it says after a network test is failed, 
   it will retry every 1 minute until 30 minutes later. 
   Does the failure means red? If so, how about yellow?

3. Is is possible to postpone some network tests after the
   target machine is up for 5 minutes or so? The reason is that
   some daemon does not start up (yet) when the machine can 
   response ping. I don't want to get false alert for this.

   A possible workaround is to use badXXX tag in bb-hosts. But
   I wonder if there is a better way?

4. Is it possible to generate PDF reports? I saw it on demo site
   but it seems malfunction.
   Maybe I think I can generate one from the spreadsheet :-)

Thanks,
Rong-En Fan

On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 01:33:25AM +0800, Rong-En Fan wrote:

You only need to restart Hobbit if you modify the hobbitserver.cfg 
file. All other configuration changes will be picked up automatically
without any restart.

"Failed" means anything that is not green: Red, yellow or
clear.

No.

Oops, didn't mean to leave that in there. It was a completely
separate tool - nothing to do with Hobbit - that I tried using.
http://www.rustyparts.com/pdf.php if you're interested.

Hobbit doesn't generate PDF reports, but you can generate HTML
reports and use some tool to convert them to PDF; or make your
own reports from the data you get from the CSV file.


Regards,
Henrik

Hi,

Thanks for you kindly reply :-) I got another questions,

1. I'm using badTEST in bb-hosts. My question is that does
   badfoo includes badfoos (e.g. badsmtp includes badsmtps?)

2. I'm using bbgen to build pre-generated reports. From manual
   of bbgen, there is an example about typical script to do this.
   My question is that when invoke bbgen does it read variables
   from hobbitservers? If not, how can I do that?

Thanks,
Rong-En Fan

In <user-655260d64b29@xymon.invalid> Rong-En Fan <user-360d76356b0a@xymon.invalid> writes:

No, you'll have to list each of them separately.

Run it via "bbcmd", i.e.

   bbcmd --env=/home/hobbit/servers/etc/hobbitserver.cfg \
   	bbgen --reportopts=... [all the other bbgen options]


Henrik