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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,

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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