[hobbit] "Feature Request - Automatically enable a disabled test -> bug?

[Trent Melcher]

On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 14:10 +0200, Dennis Ortsen wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I've noticed something unexpected on my hobbit installation.
> 
> When I disable a lot of hosts (a bunch of access points for example) to
> perform some maintenance jobs on them, after a short while, hobbit seems to
> have "forgotten" I disabled the hosts until I click on OK. When I start with
> the first few AP's, the other ones that are to be dealt with later have
> changed their status from blue to green again...
> 
> Is this a bug or do I misinterpret the "until OK" checkbox in the
> enable/disable section on the hobbit server?
> 
> To clarify my question, here's what I do:
> 
> On the hobbit server, I go to the menu "Administration -> Enable/disable". I
> log in and on that page I select a bunch of AP's (by matching a pagename
> pattern as a filter). I then select almost all the AP's on the Hosts list
> (upright of the browser) and I select the "conn" test to disable. Then I
> enter some text in the "Cause:" textbox. Then I'm starting to doubt about
> the "Duration:". Until now, I believed you could either set a few hours or
> days as duration, or until I enabled the tests again (the "until OK:
> checkbox). But I'm starting to think that that checkbox is not a way of
> disabling a test on a host forever... Am I right?
> 
> Does this checkbox mean that hobbit will continue to run the disabled tests
> and when they succeed, hobbit will automatically enable the tests again
> (change status from blue to green)?
> 
> If the above is true, what do I need to do when I want to disable a few
> tests (not all) on a host for an unknown period of time (in other words:
> forever, until I explicitly enable)?

Maybe this could be a feature added to the next version of hobbit?  Have
the ability to disable a test "Forever" maybe another checkbox like the
"Until Ok" and probably just use a very large value which technically
wouldnt be forever but a very long time (years).


Trent
> 
> Or have I hit a bug?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dennis
> 
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