Hobbit 4.0.4 released

[Henrik Stoerner]

Version 4.0.4 is now available on SourceForge:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=128058&release_id=330776

This fixes the bugs reported since Hobbit 4.0.3 was released.

The only new stuff in this release is a new "beastat" utility to
collect performance statistics from an BEA Weblogic server via
SNMP. This replaces the old "bea-snmpstats" script, and should work
for sites with a large number of BEA instances per server. This is
still somewhat experimental, but I am interested to hear reports of
it working or not. (It's been tested with Weblogic ver. 8).

The Changelog is appended.


Regards,
Henrik


Changes from 4.0.3 -> 4.0.4
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Bugfixes:
* "nodisp" tag re-implemented for hosts that should not
  appear on the Hobbit webpages.
* Enabling the "apache" data collection could crash bbtest-net
  if the /server-status page returned was larger than 32 KB.
* The "bbcmd" tool would not pass a --debug option to the command
  it was running.
* Nested macros in hobbit-alerts.cfg were not working.
* Using TAB's in hobbit-alerts.cfg could confuse the alert module.
* hobbitd_alert's --test option now determines the page-name for
  a host automatically. It will also now accept a time-parameter
  to simulate how alerts are processed at specific time-of-day.
* Status messages from "dialup" hosts should not go purple.
* The "mailq" RRD handler would pick up the first number from 
  the "requests" line, which might not be the right number.
* Scheduling a "disable" did not work.
* The startup-script was modified to correctly handle stale PID
  files left over from an unclean shutdown of Hobbit. These are
  now removed, and startup will proceed normally.

Improvements:
* CGI tools now log error-output to dedicated logs in
  /var/log/hobbit/
* The "bea-snmpstats.sh" script has been removed, and replaced
  with an enhanced tool "beastat". This collects statistics via
  SNMP from BEA Weblogic servers, and reports these via "data"
  messages to Hobbit. The data collected are run-time data for
  the JRockIT JVM and thread/memory utilization data from each
  Weblogic server instance.
* The "ntpstat" RRD handler now accepts the raw output from
  "ntpq -c rv"
* The heartbeat-timeout for hobbitd has been increased to 60 
  seconds.