Feature request : Go back link... Or history links... and hobbitgraph list of available graphs...

[Francesco Duranti]

Hi Henrik... Just some feature I would like to see in a future (not so
distant :P) version of hobbit....

1)The first one was about navigation in hobbit Page/subpages/tests... At
least at my site we have a good amount of page with subpages and moving
with the "back" or returning to the first page is not always a really
nice things because you've to navigate another time to the page when you
was. It could be nice to have a series of link at the top header showing
the entire path to the page with link to move directly to that page For
example if I'm in the page Unix, subpage Database, subpage Oracle,
subpage Production, into the info column of host called prod1 it could
be nice if hobbit can display something like this at the top (or bottom)
of the page:

Main > Unix > Database > Oracle > Production > prod1:info 

With Main (the hobbit main page), Unix, Database, Oracle, Production as
link to the respective pages and prod1:info just showing as text to see
on what page the user is. It will simplify the navigation a lot.


2)Another nice thing to have in my opinion is a "dynamic" bb2 page that
called from the menu (like the bb2.html) will generate a status report
of all the yellow/red/purple status for all host in that page and all of
the subpages under it.

3) Something about hobbit-hostgraphs and graph-multi definition... It
could be nice to have something like the general enable/disable page
where it's possible to choose hosts and graphs from a list generated
automatically instead of having the graphs hardcoded into the template.
It could show all column that also have a definition in the
hobbitgraph.cfg file with some standard. For example selecting hosts
that have a column called jvm and that have definition called jvm1-multi
jvm2-multi jvmN-multi, it could show those "n" column to select from.
It could simplify the write of graphs definition so that it's possible
to create one graphN-multi definition for each value in a rrd to have
them compared by hosts into the graphs...

4) Finally something about the linecount for multigraph in the column
view... currently one of the problem with graphs that have a big number
of value to be reported (for example some of the bea graphs regarding
jms and jdbc connections) is that those graphs are unreadable if
displayed will all the value in a single graph and will display a not so
good page if defined as multigraph because the linecount will go to a
really high number (more then 10 times the number of graphs to be
displayed) and that will leave a many wrong links on the page. 
It could be good if developer of custom check could send a "<!--
linecount=" value themself in the page and hobbit could get it directly
from the test without counting the lines (if it's already defined). With
this it will be possible to create the right number of graphs on the
page. 
Better than this is to have hobbit get 2 separate count a <!--
linecount=xx --> to know about how many rrdfile are there to be graphed
and a <!-- rrdfileforgraph=yy --> value to tell him how many of those
rrd file have to be graphed in the same graph. This will also remove the
need to have to define the column as multigraph. It could also be nice
if it will be possible to set linecount=0 to view all the data in a
single graphs (if someone want to do it). This will let rrd file with
many dataset inside to display a single host per graphs and dataset with
just one or 2 dataset to display one graph each 4-5 rrd file.

Francesco