[hobbit] Feature requests

[Richard Leyton]

I'm normally somebody who resists joining a queue... But I've a
feature request that might be worth opening up to the list for
comment.

wrt. the log file monitoring, it's working out great for one of my
clients, but the only thing missing is really the possibility of
pushing some log file messages into a different service name - right
now all alerts are bundled into 'msgs', that way we could separate out
application log checks from system log checks, from apache error_logs,
and so on.

My thought re. syntax would be to add a 'SERVICE=someapp' parameter to
hobbit-clients.cfg, so that the log file regexp checks go into service
'someapp' rather than the default 'msgs' where defined, as I *think*
the check against pattern matches in log messages is done server side?

LOG /var/opt/someapp/blah.log %FAIL* COLOR=red SERVICE=someapp

As ever, muchos gratis to Henrik for being patient with us all
throwing our feature requests at you in one big go :-)

r.

On 25/07/07, Moore, Joe <jmoore at ugs.com> wrote:
> If we're throwing out feature requests...
>
> My users would love to see something that can be descibed as a "service
> group" of statuses...
>
> Basically, we have several groups of web servers on the page that the
> apache admins look at, in group-only blocks (they don't care about
> system messages, only their HTTP, CONT, and TRENDS).  In order for them
> to see everything, they have to scroll around because there are a bunch
> of 3-column, N-row groups.  But the same data could be condensed into a
> single screen of a bunch of N-column, 3-row groups.
>
> So what I'd like to propose is a "servicegroup"# tag in bb-hosts, that
> renders its content as rows of tests, and columns of hosts (as opposed
> to the normal rows of hosts, columns of tests)
>
> Syntax:
> servicegroup SERVICE1|SERVICE2|SERVICE3 [group-title]
>         Defines a group of host-service pairs that appear on the web
> page.  Hosts in the servicegroup are listed as a single header-line with
> rows for each SERVICE listed.
>
> (Optional: allow "servicegroup * group-title" to show rows for all
> services on any of the hosts)
>
> Another benefit for this just came to mind: 'servicegroup TRENDS "System
> performance trends"'... Have a page or block at the bottom of your
> servers-page with easy access to all of the graphs for all those
> systems.
>
> --Joe
>
> # I'm not tied to this name... group-service might be more syntactically
> consistent with the rest of the bb-hosts entries.
>
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Richard Leyton
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