[hobbit] Differences with bb/bbgen

[Henrik Stoerner]

Hi Sven,

On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 05:44:33PM +0200, Sven De Vilder wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I recently migrated from bb with bbgen to Hobbit 4.02, but i found some 
> differences between bb/bbgen and Hobbit. I don't know if this is by 
> design or something has broken in the meantime.

Most likely I broke some things.


> - The nodisp tag doesn't seem to work anymore. I use this to show some 
> hosts on a differen pageset, but not on the main interface.

This has had a tumultuous migration from bbgen to Hobbit. At one point
it disappeared completely, and it seems I never got it correctly re-
implemented. Right now I cannot even remember why I took it out :-)

Fix at http://www.hswn.dk/hobbitsw/nodisp.patch


> - The dialup tag (as a tag behind an entry, not as a separate entry) 
> also doesn't work as i expected. With the bb/bbgen combination the cpu, 
> disk, svcs and msgs tests on hosts with the dialup tag didn't go purple 
> if fping was clear, but now it does. I worked around this with the 
> NOPROPPURPLE tag, but i would rather see them also become clear.

That's a bug. It would work if the ping-column had gone red, but it
doesn't do that for "dialup" hosts.

Fix at http://www.hswn.dk/hobbitsw/dialup-notpurple.patch


> I also found one small copy-paste error in the man-page of 
> hobbit-alerts.cfg (and also the web-version) :
> 
> EXSERVICE=targetstring Rule excluding an alert by matching the hostname.
> 
> hostname should ofcourse be service.

Fixed, thanks for noticing.


> I'm also missing a netstat entry for Darwin (for creating the graphs). 
> Perhaps this can be added too ? Ofcourse i can supply the output of this 
> test on Darwin.

"netstat -s" - and "vmstat 2 10" - sample outputs would be nice. I 
suspect they are a lot like the BSD outputs.


> Last but not least : Cudos to Henrik for creating such a wonderful 
> successor to BB.

Thanks :-)

Henrik