[hobbit] idea of feature for route_ tag

[Geoff Hallford]

I completely agree. This would be very useful for me as well, where I have
10+ items (some transparent) between my Hobbit server and the final host.

Just bascially allow us to create the same macros that we can in the
hobbit-alerts.cfg.


On 2/8/07, Marganne, Etienne <emarganne at be.tiauto.com> wrote:
>
>  Hello again,
>
>
>
> This time I come with a proposal of feature that could help many of us who
> handles a huge network. Here is the story:
>
>
>
> Since it is a huge job to copy paste very long lists of hosts that could
> be in the network path between the final Hobbit client and the Hobbit
> server, it could be nice to have some possibility to define some kind of
> template.
>
> Let's say you have different sites around the globe and there are fixed
> paths to get there. You sure do not want to copy paste as I said the list of
> hosts present on those paths. So if we could define a few "default route" to
> get to a site we would save time of configuration and the readability of the
> bb-hosts file.
>
>
>
> i.e.:
>
> Hobbit server ------ router1------ router2 ------ router3 ------ host1
>
>      |                                              |
> ------------------------- host2
>
>      | ------ router4 ------ router5 ------ host3
>
>
>
> default-route1: router1, router2, router3
>
> default-route2: router4, router5
>
>
>
> 0.0.0.0  host1   # conn route_HServer: default-route1
>
> 0.0.0.0  host2   # conn route_HServer: default-route2, router3
>
> 0.0.0.0  host3   # conn route_HServer: default-route3
>
>
>
> There it is. Makes life easier for lazy (or with a huge work load J) kind
> of people.
>
>
>
> Etienne Marganne
>
> TI Automotive
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