[hobbit] Historical trends?

[Dominique Frise]

Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 04:11:22PM +0100, Kolbjørn Barmen wrote:
>> On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, lars ebeling wrote:
>>
>>> If you mean the graphical trends, you get previous periods by clicking
>>> on the graph.
>> Almost - when you do that you dont get trends, you get previous periods
>> for that test. I'm looking for a way to watch get a trends view with all
>> the tests from the trends page, but from a different period.
> 
> I started doing this yesterday, thinking it would be a simple task ...
> well, it was a bit more complicated than I thought. But I think it's
> working now - unfortunately, it is also mixed in with some of the other 
> changes that have happened since 4.2.0.
> 
> So I won't make a patch against 4.2.0, but if you really want it then
> you can grab the current snapshot and build it, then copy the 
> web/hobbitsvc.cgi to ~hobbit/server/bin/ and
> hobbitd/webfiles/trends_form to the ~hobbit/server/web/ directory.
> 
> This has a small form at the top of the "trends" page where you can pick
> how much time the graphs should cover. The default is 48 hours (as
> before), but you can change that by setting TRENDSECONDS in
> hobbitserver.cfg - as the name implies, it is in seconds.
> 
> The form layout on the trends page will probably change a bit, perhaps
> to some drop-down boxes.
>

Useful feature indeed!

We tried it under Hobbit 4.2.0 with allinonepatch and Solaris 9.
The "Trends period" box is there but when we press "update" we get an internal 
server error:

Premature end of script headers: bb-hostsvc.sh, referer: 
https://wwwexp.unil.ch/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?HOST=zeb2&SERVICE=trends

Any idea?


Dominique
UNIL - University of Lausanne