[hobbit] dialup directive not implemented?

[Mike Serra]

Ah!  That clears everything up nicely.  Thanks for your help.
- ms

Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 10:57:41AM -0500, Mike Serra wrote:
>   
>> (heh) Sorry, I thought I had searched the archives thoroughly before
>> asking about this, but I somehow missed the earlier extensive
>> discussion.  My apologies.  At any rate it seems like it would be
>> useful; we're interested in it for our modem pool, and I've seen people
>> in mailing lists (for BB?) who found other uses, like monitoring which
>> desktop machines in the office are up, etc.  But making it into a normal
>> network test associated with a host has one confusing aspect -- why
>> should it be associated with a host?  
>>     
>
> "Host" is not the right word. The lines in the bb-hosts files really
> need not be real hosts, they are just a kind of container for the
> various tests we run. A label so you can recognize it on the webpage.
> E.g. you could have a line in the bb-hosts file with the "www.microsoft.com" 
> hostname - but in reality, this is a virtual thing because that website is 
> physically being handled by many hosts.
>
>
>   
>> In fact the old BB syntax called for a "hostname," but I can't think what 
>> it could want it for except as a label to put on the display webpage.  
>>     
>
> Exactly.
>
>   
>> But other than that confusion, the old syntax makes sense.
>>     
>
> Well, I don't agree :-) I think the old syntax is confusing - there's a
> "dialup" property that you can apply to individual hosts, and it is
> something *completely* different when you use the "dialup" modem-pool 
> identifier.
>
>
> For the upcoming 4.2 release, I've added this to the release notes:
>
>    Modem-bank testing ("dialup" host definition) does not work
>    ===========================================================
>    Previous versions of Hobbit supported the Big Brother "dialup"
>    host definition for pinging a range of IP-adresses, e.g. a
>    modem-bank or a pool of IP-adresses handed out by a DHCP server.
>    This feature is not supported in Hobbit 4.2, but may re-appear
>    in a different form in a later version.
>    (Note: This has nothing to do with the "dialup" directive
>    which can be applied to individual hosts, to make them go
>    clear when they are offline instead of red or purple).
>
> That at least makes it clear that it doesn't work. How it will be
> implemented later is then up for discussion.
>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
>
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