[hobbit] BBWin 0.5 available

Aiello, Steve (GE, Corporate, consultant) steve.aiello at ge.com
Tue Apr 4 14:33:32 CEST 2006


Yup this is for backwards compatability for BigBrother, which I am
forced to use :(

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] 
> Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 7:20 AM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] BBWin 0.5 available
> 
> 
> On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 04:42:35PM -0400, Aiello, Steve (GE, 
> Corporate, consultant) wrote:
> > On the *NIX servers you had the 'pagelevels' setting in the 
> > bb/etc/bbwarnsetup.cfg file. I believe this setting configures the 
> > client to send status reports as 'page' instead of 'status' 
> when the 
> > color matches... Thus if I want the client to page on yellow I just 
> > set to  'pagelevels: red yellow'.
> 
> You misunderstand how paging works in Hobbit.
> 
> The BBWin client should never care about paging. All of the 
> paging is configured on the Hobbit server, in the 
> hobbit-alerts.cfg file. The BBWin client just sends a status 
> message to the Hobbit server; the Hobbit server then decides 
> if an alert should be sent, based on the color of the status, 
> the configuration in the hobbit-alerts.cfg file, the time of day ... 
> 
> So, there is no reason to implement this unless you want to 
> be compatible with an original Big Brother server.
> 
> 
> Henrik
> 
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