[hobbit] Re: Please Help

[Galen Johnson]

Just to follow up a bit on this as well, when I had originally set up a similar site using the BBGEN extension to big brother, I created a templates folder (just as Tom is asking) and it built the pages from this area.  Did this change with Hobbit?  I can see several cases where this functionality could be useful...especially for an ISP that wants to allow branded monitoring sites or even customized sites for inclusion in other internal groups pages to give a consistent look and feel for what is already there.

=G=

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Moore [mailto:Tom.Moore at sas.com] 
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 5:39 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Re: Please Help

Thanks Henrik, I will definitely give that a try.

As just a followup for curiousity, how would I get this new /cust site to recognize customized templates?  I.e. I'm using the --template=cust option in bbgen, but that seems to only trigger the reading of the cust_header and cust_footer files.  When you click on a monitor such as "CPU", the "bb-hostsvc.sh" seems to autogenerate a new page, but ignores the cust_header/cust_footer files and rather uses the hostsvc_header/hostsvc_footer files.  I could modify those files specifically but I don't want to affect the main site itself.  

Is there some environment variable I'm missing maybe that would tell bbgen to look for all its template files in say /server/www/cust/templates or something of that ilk?

TIA,
Tom






-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] 
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 5:09 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Re: Please Help

On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 04:48:59PM -0400, Tom Moore wrote:
> I guess my big question is where does a script such as hobbit-hostgraphs.sh 
> grab its list of servers to show in the choice pane?  

It grabs it from the Hobbit server, using the "hobbitdboard" command.
Done in the lib/headfoot.c "fetch_board()" code, which is eventually
used to build the "&HOSTLIST" output that is included into the
hostgraphs_form output.

I hadn't thought about the need to filter the hobbitdboard output
to include only the hosts included in a stripped-down version of the
bb-hosts file, but it's very easy to do that.

You need to make a small code-change. In the lib/headfoot.c file
there's a "fetch_board()" routine. Line 327 of that file (in the
4.2.0 version) looks like this:
    if (hname && wanted_host(hname)) {
Change that to
     if (hname && wanted_host(hname) && hostinfo(hname)) {
This will check that the hostname exists in the bb-hosts file, 
and skip data from un-defined hosts.


Regards,
Henrik


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