[hobbit] Features request.

[Michael Nemeth]

rsync requires python to build; also not on hp 11 ; python has a host of 
dependencies.

A dump/import of each RRD file?
Ill have to look at that;I may every thing to sun systems! 
Right now Ive done as you said, just coping the etc files; ready to fire
up if the main server goes.


Yes! the menu_items.js is perfect !

Henrik Storner wrote:

>In <433A97A3.5070309 at lmco.com> Michael Nemeth <michael.nemeth at lmco.com> writes:
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>>Henrik Storner wrote:
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>>>In <432AAC9D.1070008 at lmco.com> Michael Nemeth <michael.nemeth at lmco.com> writes:
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>>>>I complete lost my hobbit server for a day.   Is  there any  work done  
>>>>on setting  up  fail over  servers?
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>>>The simplest solution: Setup a server identical to your Hobbit server,
>>>and rsync the server/etc/ and data/{hist,rrd,tmp} periodically from
>>>your main server. If the main server dies, start Hobbit on the spare
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>>Well no rsync  for hp-ux 11.  I might be able to rcp/scp . I don't have 
>>another HP  set up as a server identical to my Hobbit server.
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>rsync is reasonably portable. If you could compile Hobbit on HP-UX, 
>I'd think you could also compile rsync.
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>>Ive a sun but I don't think the rrds  would work . Anyone know  if this 
>>is so?
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>Probably not, you would have to do a. A dump/import of each RRD filenyway,
>the reason I suggested that you should copy over the RRD files was just to
>keep your historical trends data. If you can live without that - and just
>need to get monitoring up and running ASAP - then ignore the RRD files.
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>>>>Next I just added 87 clients as a test.  I may want to remove them.  Yes 
>>>>I CAN write a script to do the drop and
>>>>Im not worried about editing the bb-host file,  but maybe the the 
>>>>enable/disable gui could be extended to include
>>>>a drop feature or a separate GUI?  Im not one for GUIs but others will  
>>>>be admining this too.
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>>>It's a "nice to have" thing. Not difficult, just need a day or two to
>>>implement it.
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>>Great!  in 4.1.2 ?
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>Nope. 4.1.2 is in "feature-freeze".
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>>>>There is  an old unix program out there called Watcher.  One nice 
>>>>feature was it alerted you to large changes.
>>>>Like a  FS grew or decreased by 5% or 1G .  (Or decreased by 100% ;rm 
>>>>-rf *!!
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>>>Could be useful, but I'll leave that for later.
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>>OK . It IS useful .  Here is the link to watcher :  
>>http://www.i-pi.com/watcher.html
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>Thanks, I tried google'ing it but couldn't find it.
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>>>>How about move or duplicating the tip:
>>>>What do the little red/yellow/green icons mean ?
>>>>on the web page in the head or footer ?
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>>>I prefer to keep the pages as clean as possible, but feel free to 
>>>customize the templates any way you like :-)
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>>Fair enough.  But how as a separate  help item ;  legend .  I would 
>>prefer if to be in there header, click on it and it display the page.  
>>IM ALWAYS ask   what they  are.  
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>Add an entry to your ~hobbit/server/www/menu/menu_items.js file, like
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>	['Hobbit Icons', '/hobbit/help/hobbit-tips.html#icons'],
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