[hobbit] Features request.

[Michael Nemeth]

Henrik Storner wrote:

>In <432AAC9D.1070008 at lmco.com> Michael Nemeth <michael.nemeth at lmco.com> writes:
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>>I complete lost my hobbit server for a day.   Is  there any  work done  
>>on setting  up  fail over  servers?
>>I got my server back and backed up all my custom and config files so I 
>>can now reproduce my setup.
>>But a true fail over server is needed.
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>The simplest solution: Setup a server identical to your Hobbit server,
>and rsync the server/etc/ and data/{hist,rrd,tmp} periodically from
>your main server. If the main server dies, start Hobbit on the spare
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Well no rsync  for hp-ux 11.  I might be able to rcp/scp . I don't have 
another HP  set up as a server identical to my Hobbit server.
Ive a sun but I don't think the rrds  would work . Anyone know  if this 
is so?

>>Next I just added 87 clients as a test.  I may want to remove them.  Yes 
>>I CAN write a script to do the drop and
>>Im not worried about editing the bb-host file,  but maybe the the 
>>enable/disable gui could be extended to include
>>a drop feature or a separate GUI?  Im not one for GUIs but others will  
>>be admining this too.
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>It's a "nice to have" thing. Not difficult, just need a day or two to
>implement it.
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Great!  in 4.1.2 ?

>>Disk test be nice  all  three number could be put in a graph:
>>$ /usr/bin/df -Pk
>>Filesystem          1024-blocks  Used  Available Capacity Mounted on
>>/dev/vg00/lvol4       19532     5183    14349    27%   /home00
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>The "used" and "Capacity" columns are currently tracked. Do you want to
>track the "Available" count also ? It *can* be done by a bit of math
>in the graph definition.
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Yes,  for disk1 type  graphs ,  actually maybe a "new" disk2 type that 
would graphs all three per FS .
Its a management pleaser  thing.

>>Some one ask about  having required fs ,  what the status on this.
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>It's in 4.1.2.
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>>There is  an old unix program out there called Watcher.  One nice 
>>feature was it alerted you to large changes.
>>Like a  FS grew or decreased by 5% or 1G .  (Or decreased by 100% ;rm 
>>-rf *!!
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>Could be useful, but I'll leave that for later.
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OK . It IS useful .  Here is the link to watcher :  
http://www.i-pi.com/watcher.html

>>How about move or duplicating the tip:
>>What do the little red/yellow/green icons mean ?
>>on the web page in the head or footer ?
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>>Took me a while to find it.  These are a BIG selling point for hobbit; 
>>visual impaired and color blind  people are
>>provided for!  Big issue for large corps!
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>I prefer to keep the pages as clean as possible, but feel free to 
>customize the templates any way you like :-)
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Fair enough.  But how as a separate  help item ;  legend .  I would 
prefer if to be in there header, click on it and it display the page.  
IM ALWAYS ask   what they  are.  

>Regards,
>Henrik
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