[hobbit] Differences with bb/bbgen

Renata Vidal rs.renatavidal at gmail.com
Mon May 23 19:18:51 CEST 2005


Hello,

Really, NODISP doesn't work. It just ignores lines with a # at the
beginning, but it is not monitored.

Renata Vidal

On 5/23/05, Sven De Vilder <s.devilder at umcutrecht.nl> 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. I've searched the
> archives, but i couldn't find anything in there.
> 
> The things i've found are all located in the bb-hosts files :
> 
> - 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.
> - 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Last but not least : Cudos to Henrik for creating such a wonderful
> successor to BB.
> 
> Greeting,
> 
> Sven De Vilder
> 
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