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A few questions before moving from bbgen to Hobbit

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list Frédéric Mangeant · Tue, 09 Aug 2005 11:59:46 +0200 ·
Hi Henrik

first of all let me thank you for continiously improving Hobbit :-)

I'm preparing the "big move" from bbgen to Hobbit on a large production setup, and I have a few questions :

- as I'm running Cacti to graph my servers, is there a way to remove the "trends" colum for all hosts ?
I've disabled the rrdstatus and rrddata tasks, added TEST2RRD="" and GRAPHS="" but the "trends" column still show up, empty

- in the Administration -> Enable/disable page, is there a way not to show the reason of the disabled tests ?
With a few hundred disabled tests, the page gets difficult to read

- in the "info" page of each host, would it be possible to show tests with no alert rules ?
With bbgen they were displayed as "Ex.Services"

- do you plan to add file inclusions to hobbit-alerts.cfg, like with bb-hosts ?
We're several people managing the BB/Hobbit server, and this would be very useful.

Many thanks in advance.

Regards,

-- 

Frédéric Mangeant

Steria EDC Sophia-Antipolis
list Henrik Størner · Tue, 9 Aug 2005 12:56:14 +0200 ·
Hi Frederic,

On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 11:59:46AM +0200, Frédéric Mangeant wrote:
first of all let me thank you for continiously improving Hobbit :-)
My pleasure.
quoted from Frédéric Mangeant
I'm preparing the "big move" from bbgen to Hobbit on a large production 
setup, and I have a few questions :

- as I'm running Cacti to graph my servers, is there a way to remove the 
"trends" colum for all hosts ?
I've disabled the rrdstatus and rrddata tasks, added TEST2RRD="" and 
GRAPHS="" but the "trends" column still show up, empty
You can do it on a per-host basis with the "notrends" setting in
bb-hosts, and this can be set as a default using the ".default."
host entry in bb-hosts.

You cannot do it globally, except by tweaking the code in hobbitd.c
that adds this pseudo status.
quoted from Frédéric Mangeant
- in the Administration -> Enable/disable page, is there a way not to 
show the reason of the disabled tests ?
With a few hundred disabled tests, the page gets difficult to read
No, not without a code change.

Note that the enable/disable page also works on subpages, and in that
case it only shows those hosts that appear on the subpage. It might
still be many, but perhaps it helps.
quoted from Frédéric Mangeant
- in the "info" page of each host, would it be possible to show tests 
with no alert rules ?
With bbgen they were displayed as "Ex.Services"
It would be fairly easy to add a line at the bottom saying "No alerts
defined for: disk, msgs, conn" ... is that what you're after ?
quoted from Frédéric Mangeant
- do you plan to add file inclusions to hobbit-alerts.cfg, like with 
bb-hosts ?
We're several people managing the BB/Hobbit server, and this would be 
very useful.
It's on my list of pending cleanups. It needs a bit of work because
there's some logic currently that avoids re-loading the configuration
unless it's changed - and that currently works by looking at the time-
stamp of the file. This obviously has to change, and I haven't yet
decided what the best solution is.


Regards,
Henrik
list Frédéric Mangeant · Tue, 09 Aug 2005 14:58:46 +0200 ·
quoted from Henrik Størner
I'm preparing the "big move" from bbgen to Hobbit on a large production setup, and I have a few questions :

- as I'm running Cacti to graph my servers, is there a way to remove the "trends" colum for all hosts ?
I've disabled the rrdstatus and rrddata tasks, added TEST2RRD="" and GRAPHS="" but the "trends" column still show up, empty
   
You can do it on a per-host basis with the "notrends" setting in
bb-hosts, and this can be set as a default using the ".default."
host entry in bb-hosts.

You cannot do it globally, except by tweaking the code in hobbitd.c
that adds this pseudo status.
 
Thanks, I've added a .default. host with "notrends badconn:..." and the trends column disapeared.
quoted from Henrik Størner

- in the Administration -> Enable/disable page, is there a way not to show the reason of the disabled tests ?
With a few hundred disabled tests, the page gets difficult to read
   
No, not without a code change.

Note that the enable/disable page also works on subpages, and in that
case it only shows those hosts that appear on the subpage. It might
still be many, but perhaps it helps.
 
I didn't notice that, it's fine.
quoted from Henrik Størner
- in the "info" page of each host, would it be possible to show tests with no alert rules ?
With bbgen they were displayed as "Ex.Services"
   
It would be fairly easy to add a line at the bottom saying "No alerts
defined for: disk, msgs, conn" ... is that what you're after ?
 
Exactly, just to be sure that I don't miss alert rules if  EXSERVICE  is used.
quoted from Henrik Størner

- do you plan to add file inclusions to hobbit-alerts.cfg, like with bb-hosts ?
We're several people managing the BB/Hobbit server, and this would be very useful.
   
It's on my list of pending cleanups. It needs a bit of work because
there's some logic currently that avoids re-loading the configuration
unless it's changed - and that currently works by looking at the time-
stamp of the file. This obviously has to change, and I haven't yet
decided what the best solution is.
 
Great.

-- 

Frédéric Mangeant

Steria EDC Sophia-Antipolis