[hobbit] Differences with bb/bbgen

[Sven De Vilder]

Hi Henrik,

Henrik Stoerner wrote:

>>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.
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> 
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>>- 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

I had some time to spend after the migration yes, but I expected some 
extra work...
The patch works like a charm.

I actually can't find any reference to this (and also the dialup tag) in 
the man-pages. Perhaps something to add ? I at least think they're 
useful additions.


>>- 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.
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> 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

This patch doesn't seem to work yet. I've tested it fully from green to 
puple.


>>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.

Glad to help.


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

netstat -s output is attached.
vmstat is not installed. I do however have vm_stat, but it looks 
entirely different, so it's probably not useful. It's attached anyway.


Thanks,

Sven
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