[hobbit] how/where to set/check thresholds for custom test

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 04:40:27PM -0400, Jerry Yu wrote:
> I am successful following the 'slab' example to get it show up in RRD
> graph as well as reported under 'slab' column. However, I am albeit at
> loss on how to set up thresholds just like those in the built-in
> tests. I used to write BB extension scripts, which calculate status
> based on hard-coded thresholds set locally on the client and report
> status to BBSERVER accordingly using $BB "status" command.
> 
> In an ideal world, I'd, of course prefer, the extension script working
> the same way as the built-in tests, in that a custom data section came
> in from client, while the server sets the threshold centrally to
> trigger alerts (plus plot them into a RRD graph). Is this possible
> with Hobbit?

Alas, no. You are welcome to grab a custom configuration file from
the Hobbit server with the bb "config" command, or by picking lines out
of the client-local.cfg file (which ends up in the clients'
~hobbit/client/tmp/logfetch.HOSTNAME.cfg file). But the
hobbit-clients.cfg file on the server doesnt support add-on clients
having their private threshold data stored there.

> Short of which, is there a better Hobbit approach other
> than the BB extension approach I described above?

No.


Regards,
Henrik