[hobbit] Problem with CLIENT option in bb-hosts

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 11:52:05AM -0700, Charles Jones wrote:
> I have a hobbit setup where I have in my bb-hosts:
> 
> 1.2.3.4 virtual.mydomain.com   # CLIENT:realhostname.mydomain.com
> ...
> 1.2.3.5 realhostname.mydomain.com # conn ssh disk cpu

You cannot do that.

Hobbit's designed to put host status data on a single host entry, not
multiple ones. The CLIENT tag is used only if the hostname used by the
client isn't in the bb-hosts file (e.g. you have "foo.bar.com" in 
bb-hosts, but the client reports as "foo" without the domain).

Personally, I'd also hate getting 10 disk alerts because of one box
running out of space. So client data are reported for the physical
box, and virtual hosts only report the services they provide (typically,
some sort of network service).


Regards,
Henrik