[hobbit] Suggestions for next hobbit release

[Henrik Stoerner]

Hi Christian,

On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 02:56:46PM +0200, Christian Schlüter wrote:
> Hello Henrik!
> 
> I have some suggestions for the next hobbit release:
> - reports from hosts which are not known by the server should appear in 
> the error report of the hobbitd. That would make it easier to find 
> misconfiguration especially with the hostname the client sends.

You can already do that - in your hobbitserver.cfg, change BBGHOSTS:

BBGHOSTS="1"     # How to handle status messages from unknown hosts.
                 # 0=accept message, 1=discard message,
		 # 2=discard message and log the event

Set it to "2", and the "hobbitd" column will list the hostnames and 
IP's of all hosts whose messages were discarded.


> - Succesfully sent messages should be logged to ensure that the client 
> works correctly. It would be enough to log the last sent message for 
> having a static small size of the logfile

Do you mean "logged on the client host", or "logged on the Hobbit
server" ? And the entire message, or just that it was sent ? 
Big difference ...

On clients, the latest message is in ~hobbit/client/tmp/msg.txt .
On the Hobbit server, I do not want to log incoming messages for
performance reasons.


> - Bugfix: The Linux client does not stop the vmstat-process by stopping 
> hobbitclient.

Right ... the vmstat is started as with "nohup" to let it run
independently of all the other client tasks (it's the only one that
takes a long time). So this is a bit harder to do than it seems - 
hobbitlaunch which is the only other job running doesn't know the
process-id of the vmstat process.


Henrik