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class=915465512-22052008>Hi Everyone, I'm relatively new to Hobbit. I like
it a lot, but I do have a few random questions. I've been reading the
documentation a lot and haven't found the answers, so I hope the
answers don't turn out to be "see the man page".
:)</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Typewriter" size=2><SPAN class=915465512-22052008>I
have to say I really like the documentation to Hobbit. At first glance it
seems a bit short, but on reading it I find that it manages to be packed with
information which is written in a nice concise, efficient, jargon-free, and
human-readable way. The comments in the config files are also excellent,
although sometimes the information in there is slightly different
from what's in the documentation page for that file - sometimes there's
info in one place that isn't in the other. I wish more documentation in
the IT field were written like this. My only suggestion is that it
would be helpful for us new folks to have some kind of general overview that
describes (or better yet, shows in a flowchart) how data flows between client,
server, the various tests, the web server, how the various config files fit in,
and so on. The information is currently in there but it takes a good bit
of reading and experimenting before you really start to "get
it".</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Typewriter" size=2><SPAN
class=915465512-22052008>Questions:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Typewriter" size=2><SPAN
class=915465512-22052008>1) In the hobbit-clients.cfg file, I this is
in the comments:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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size=2>#
Defaults: MEMPHYS warnlevel=100 paniclevel=101 (i.e. it will never go
red)<BR>#
MEMSWAP warnlevel=50
paniclevel=80<BR>#
MEMACT warnlevel=90 paniclevel=97</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT><FONT face="Lucida Sans Typewriter"><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=915465512-22052008># </SPAN>Note: The words "PHYS", "ACT" and "SWAP"
are also recognized.<BR></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT><FONT><FONT face="Lucida Sans Typewriter" size=2><SPAN
class=915465512-22052008>And then later on, there is this
bit:</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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size=2> </DIV></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT face="Lucida Sans Typewriter"
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Typewriter" size=2># These are the built-in
defaults.<BR># SWAP 20 40<BR># MEMSWAP 50 80</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Typewriter" size=2><SPAN
class=915465512-22052008>Is there a difference between MEMSWAP and
SWAP? If not, why is it listed twice in the defaults? If so, what is
the difference?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Typewriter" size=2><SPAN
class=915465512-22052008>2) In the documentation page for hobbit-clients.cfg,
there is this statement:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=915465512-22052008></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Typewriter" size=2><SPAN
class=915465512-22052008>"CLASS=classname - Rule match by the client
class-name. You specify the class-name for a host when starting the client
through the "--class=NAME" option to the runclient.sh script. If no class is
specified, the host by default goes into a class named by the operating
system."</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Typewriter" size=2><SPAN
class=915465512-22052008>Unfortunately I can't find any details about what the
default names of the "classes named by the operating system" are, so I don't
know which strings to put after "CLASS=" in my hobbit-clients.cfg file. Is
there a list somewhere?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=915465512-22052008><FONT face="Lucida Sans Typewriter"
size=2>3) There are a couple columns in the default configuration that I don't
want, like "files". On the page in question, the status icon for every
system is "clear" (white). I want to use the "drop" option to the bb
command to do this. I issued this command for every host on the page in
question:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=915465512-22052008><FONT face="Lucida Sans Typewriter"
size=2>bb localhost "drop <hostname> files"</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Typewriter" size=2><SPAN
class=915465512-22052008>That works for a minute or two. On the next page
refresh, almost all of the hosts have the column empty (just a dash), but a few
of them are back to "clear" already. After one or two refreshes, all the
systems are back at clear status. How can I get hobbit to drop the column
forever, permanently, completely, without leaving old history files around
and stuff?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=915465512-22052008>Thanks for any tips!</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>---</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Doug Linder</FONT></DIV>
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