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slight clarification on my earlier message: the HTML versions of man pages
haven't been updated since the 4.2.0 release, but the actual man pages
have. I did end up doing a source diff of some man pages against
4.2.0 to see what had changed and how to use some of the new features...
So the situation is better than I feared.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>I'm not sure whether you saw my previous message,
Henrik?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>Sebastian</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Sebastian [mailto:spa@syntec.co.uk]
<BR><B>Sent:</B> 30 November 2007 17:04<BR><B>To:</B>
hobbit@hswn.dk<BR><B>Subject:</B> [hobbit] RE: Highlights of the 4.3.0
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<P><FONT face=Arial>Henrik,</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face=Arial>The new features sound good! But are they now
documented? I checked the snapshot and none of man pages or the Changes
page seem to have been updated since the 4.2.0 release. It makes it
quite difficult to test and use the new features (which presumably is a
requirement before releasing the new version)! ;-)</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial>Or am I missing something less obvious than using the
source (TM)?</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face=Arial>I think it would be useful if the Changes page (</FONT><A
href="http://www.hswn.dk/beta/snapshot/Changes"><U><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff>http://www.hswn.dk/beta/snapshot/Changes</FONT></U></A><FONT
face=Arial>) was kept more or less up-to-date for the snapshot releases.
Knowing what has changed in hobbit-server betas seems pretty difficult without
downloading frequent snapshots and doing diffs. Is there any chance of
the source being put into a public subversion / CVS repository or
something? I see there is already a public CVS repository for hobbit on
SourceForge, but it only includes the hobbit-client code… A public
repository may encourage more contributed patches.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial>I also see that last year you mentioned that you are
"</FONT><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>using RCS which is a predecessor to
CVS</FONT><FONT face=Arial>". I don't know if this is still the case,
but if so, it appears pretty simple to migrate to CVS using</FONT> <FONT
face="Courier New" size=2>rcs2cvs</FONT> <FONT face=Arial>as documented
here:</FONT></P>
<P><A href="http://www.linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/CVS-RCS-HOWTO-3.html"><U><FONT
face=Arial
color=#0000ff>http://www.linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/CVS-RCS-HOWTO-3.html</FONT></U></A>
<BR><FONT face=Arial>Or as the OP did in </FONT><A
href="http://www.nabble.com/RCS-to-svn-t792119.html"><U><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff>http://www.nabble.com/RCS-to-svn-t792119.html</FONT></U></A><FONT
face=Arial> - he migrated RCS to SVN via CVS.</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face=Arial>Many thanks,</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face=Arial>Sebastian </FONT> </P><BR>
<P><FONT face=Arial>henrik (at) hswn.dk (Henrik Stoerner)</FONT> <FONT
face=Arial>wrote on</FONT> <FONT face=Arial>Sun, 22 Jul 2007 00:08:12
+0200</FONT><FONT face=Arial>:</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>>In
another thread, someone asked about what new features are planned for</FONT>
<BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>>version 4.3.0. I've summarized them below;
they have all been</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>>implemented by now.
Some of them have been contributed by others over</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial
size=2>>the past year - I'm pleased to have finally gotten their patches
merged.</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>></FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial
size=2>>There are some open bug-reports, and the plan now is to try and
get</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>>those fixed. Once that is done I'll
ask you all to start testing the</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial
size=2>>beta-versions, and then a new release is hopefully available
soon.</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>></FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial
size=2>>This doesn't mean that I won't consider adding new stuff before
the</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>>4.3.0 release, but right now the
plan is to get 4.3.0 shipped with</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>>the
current set of features. But if I've missed someone's favourite</FONT>
<BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>>patch or feature request, do let me
know.</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>></FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial
size=2>></FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>>Major new features</FONT>
<BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>>------------------</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial
size=2>>* PAGE setting for alert- and client-configuration handles hosts
on</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>> multiple pages, so any
pagename can be used.</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>>* Flap detection
of statuses that change color rapidly. The status</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial
size=2>> is kept at the most critical level until it stops
flapping.</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>>* Holiday support for alerts,
including variable holidays (Easter etc)</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial
size=2>>* Split NCV support - graph data from NCV can be split into
multiple</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>> RRD databases allowing
for varying number of datasets.</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>>* RRD
database parameters are now configurable (i.e. number of </FONT><BR><FONT
face=Arial size=2>> datapoints stored, whether to store min/max
values etc). Note that</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>> this only
applies to newly created RRD files, not existing ones.</FONT> <BR><FONT
face=Arial size=2>>* Distributed worker modules allow sharing the load
across multiple</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>> Hobbit
servers</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>>* RRD updates are now cached
for up to 30 minutes before being written</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial
size=2>> to disk. This makes the I/O load on large installations much
lighter.</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>>* Detection of statuses that
are reported by multiple hosts</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>>* Client
backend-support for the z/OS and z/VSE clients by Rich Smirna</FONT> <BR><FONT
face=Arial size=2>></FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>>Display
things</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>>--------------</FONT> <BR><FONT
face=Arial size=2>>* Graph zooming now limits the lower/upper bounds of a
graph (requires</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>> rrdtool
1.2.x)</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>>* The trends page default
data-period can be configured to something</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial
size=2>> other than the default 48-hour view, and the user can select
a</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>> different period
on-the-fly.</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>>* Hosts can be sorted
automatically on the overview webpage with a</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial
size=2>> "group-sorted" group definition.</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial
size=2>>* NOCOLUMNS setting in bb-hosts let you suppress certain columns
on</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>> a per-host basis</FONT>
<BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>>* Host-comments are displayed as tool-tips, to
save screen space.</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>></FONT> <BR><FONT
face=Arial size=2>>Checks and graphs</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial
size=2>>-----------------</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>>* Network
tests can use a specific source IP instead of the default</FONT> <BR><FONT
face=Arial size=2>>* The validity-period of network tests is configurable,
instead of</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>> being fixed at the
default 30-minute setting</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>>* Client file
checks can check for a symlink</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>>*
"trends" report for RRD handling allows generating custom-made</FONT>
<BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>> RRD files</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial
size=2>>* Hobbit host- and status-counts are tracked in an RRD file</FONT>
<BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>></FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial
size=2>>Miscellaneous</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial
size=2>>-------------</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>>* NCV reports
can handle color-icons before the name:value data</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial
size=2>>* hobbitlaunch tasks can be configured to run on certain hosts
only</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>>* Time-warp detection and
warning</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>>* Local unix-socket interface
to Hobbit daemon</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>>* hobbitd_capture can
collect several statuses and hand off such a</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial
size=2>> batch to an external command</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial
size=2>>* Support for SHA-224/256/384/512 digests</FONT> <BR><FONT
face=Arial size=2>></FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>></FONT>
<BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>>Regards,</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial
size=2>>Henrik</FONT> </P></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>