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Henrik Storner wrote:
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<pre wrap="">1. Is there any way to define the amount of space put between displayed
groups? When I use several group-compress sections in bb-hosts, hobbit
renders the page with a rather large amount (seems like 6+ lines) of
blank space between them. I have lots of hosts and want to get as many
of them on the page as I can.
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Each group goes into a HTML "table", and there is currently two
"<br>" tags between each table. This is not configurable, the layout
of the page is deeply embedded in the bbdisplay/pagegen.c code.
(Which is annoying, because it ought to be easy to modify the layout
of the webpages. But that's another story).
Two "<br>" tags might be a bit much. I've dropped one of them in the
next version, let me know if you think that's better.
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<font color="#333399">Great, I look forward to trying it out....any
rough ETA on the next version?</font><br>
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<pre wrap="">2. It would be nice to be able to use regular expressions in the
"expect" option of bb-services. For instance I want to check the status
of several IRC servers, and they all have different output in response
to telnetting to them, but they all have the word "NOTICE", I would like
to be able to do something like: expect ".*NOTICE.*", so that I could
use one check for multiple servers.
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OK, not terribly difficult to do, and it would make sense to use
regex'es throughout (you can do it with the http content checks).
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<font color="#333399">That would be great, and I agree it would make
sense to use regex's everywhere possible.</font><br>
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<pre wrap="">3. Whenever I use the "apache" keyword in bb-hosts, it crashes hobbit,
and subsequently everything turns purple. I made sure the host I had
specified had the server-status option configured and enabled. I would
happily provide dumps and do any troubleshooting you need, as I would
really like to have the apache performance graphs.
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I'd like to know exactly which program is crashing. I suppose it's the
bbtest-net tool which is the one that performs the "apache" test - if
it crashes, then all of your network tests should go purple. Does it
work any better if instead of the "apache" keyword you define an http
content check like this:
1.2.3.4 <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.foo.com">www.foo.com</a> # cont=apache;<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://1.2.3.4/server-status?auto">http://1.2.3.4/server-status?auto</a>;.
This should give the same result.
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<font color="#333399">Yes it was bbtest-net that was crashing. I tried
your method above and it seems to be working, perhaps I was specifying
wrong options before when I used the apache directive, I simply added
"apache" keyword, was I supposed to give the full URL as well like
above? From the man page it seemed like all you needed was "apache". I
can use your workaround for now. Can you tell me how to enable the
other apache graphs (apache1, apache2, apache3) to show on that page as
well?</font><br>
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<pre wrap="">4. Is there any way to put a header OVER a displayed group-compress? Any
text you specify next to group-compress gets put in the column over the
hostnames, Is it possible to have an option to have that text go
centered over the entire group (over the column headers)?
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Yes, like this:
title All of my Web servers
group-compress Extranet servers
...
group-compress Intranet servers
...
See the description of the "title" tag in the bb-hosts(5) manpage.
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<font color="#333399">That worked...thanks :-)</font><br>
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<pre wrap="">5. What rules does hobbit follow for looking up hostnames?
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1) If there's a "testip" tag on the host entry in bb-hosts, it uses
the IP-address from the bb-hosts file.
2) Hostname lookup (either /etc/hosts or DNS)
3) If lookup fails, use IP-address from bb-hosts
See the description of the bbtest-net "--dns" option. This is slightly
different from Big Brother, which uses the bb-hosts IP for ping-tests,
but hostnames for TCP tests.
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<font color="#333399">I added the "testip" tag and that did the
trick...thanks!</font><br>
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<pre wrap="">6. bb-services has an option to give a service multiple names. It would
be nice to be able to define multiple ports as well, or even better by
specifying them in bb-hosts.
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You can. If you want to check ssh on port 8022, put "ssh:8022" in the
bb-hosts file. bb-services just defines the default port.
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<font color="#333399">Ah cool...I thought you could only do that with
/etc/services services, I didnt know you could override the port of a
bb-services service. Nice :-)</font><br>
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<pre wrap="">For example if I want to check an IRC server, it is easy to create an
irc service in bb-services, but if I want to check multiple ports of
the same service on the same hosts, I would have to make multiple
service definitions. How about being able to define a service, and
have some keyword for port that indicates the port(s) are passed from
bb-hosts, and then in bb-hosts you would specify the port,
ie. "1.2.3.4 irc.bar.com # conn <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="irc:6667">irc:6667</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="irc:6668">irc:6668</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="irc:6669">irc:6669</a>"
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OK, this is a bit more complicated because it would require bbtest-net
to merge the results of those three tests into one status-message.
That is not being done for simple TCP tests, only for http tests
currently. Right now, You'll have to set these up as individual
columns.
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<font color="#333399">What will happen if I do <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="irc:6667">irc:6667</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="irc:6668">irc:6668</a>? I
assume it will only display the output of the last one, but will it
still check them all? As long as it checks them all and sends alerts I
could deal with it not displaying the banner output of every port.</font><br>
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<pre wrap="">7. Do you accept donations via PayPal? I would like to send you a
donation for all your hard work. :-)
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No, but I do have a wishlist at amazon.co.uk - just search for my
name "Henrik Stoerner" on their wishlist page.
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<font color="#333399">Cool...I will hook you up! Thanks for answering
my questions so quickly.<br>
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-Charles</font><br>
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