[hobbit] Hobbit 4.2 alfa release available - SLA Report features

[Marco Avvisano]

Hi Enrik,

what you think about the possibility to generate a sla report in text format 
for specific column/services?
It will be great to have specific reports for specific groups of 
servers/services.

thanks for your great work


M.


> Henrik Stoerner wrote:
>> It's been close to 6 months since I last released a version of Hobbit
>> with new features and improvements, so I am making an alfa version
>> available for more widespread testing.
>>
>> It's been uploaded to Sourceforge now, and will be available shortly at
>> https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=128058&package_id=140220&release_id=407174
>>
>> The main features of this release are:
>> * Client logfile monitoring has been implemented (at last!)
>
> When will this feature be ready to use?
>
>> * A completely new "Critical Systems" view with a separate
>>   configuration file and web-based GUI for editing it.
>> * All configuration files now support the "include" directive.
>>   In addition, you can include entire directories with a
>>   single "directory" statement in the config file.
>> * Acknowledgments now stay around for a while after the status
>>   goes OK, so if a service crashes after a few minutes, the
>>   acknowledgment is automatically revived.
>> * DOWNTIME can be applied to individual statuses.
>> * Performance improvements throughout all of the Hobbit core tools.
>>
>> There has been a lot of internal code improvements, and it is almost
>> guaranteed that I have broken something along the way. So the primary
>> purpose of this alfa release is to sniff out those regressions and
>> make sure that they get fixed before the final release.
>>
>> Documentation on the new features is still being worked on, but there
>> are some preliminary docs included that should get you started. Use
>> the mailing lists if you need help.
>>
>> And last, but certainly not least, I am thrilled to see that some of
>> you have taken up the challenge of improving Hobbit by providing
>> add-on modules:
>> * Devmon (SNMP testing): http://devmon.sf.net
>> * BBWin, an Open-Source Windows client: 
>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/bbwin
>>
>> So lots of things for you to test.
>>