[hobbit] Any interest in some patches / additional code.

[Magnus Carlebjörk]

Hi,

I would definitely be interested in these patches. I guess some of them are 
candidates for incorporation in the main distribution and others as add-ons at 
The Shire?

Perhaps you could post a link to the patchset / files for others to test?

Regards,
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Magnus Carlebjork
Stockholm, Sweden
+46 76 116 9008


On Thu, 29 May 2008 david.peters at dpi.nsw.gov.au wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have made some interesting (to me anyway) changes to the hobbit code at
> the site I am currently contracting to. They had no monitoring system at
> all when I started working here so installing and integrating hobbit has
> been an interesting exercise.
>
> These are after applying the allinone patch:
>
> 1. email acknowledgement details to the user that acknowledges an alert
> (allows you to the forward to heldesk or other).
>
> 2. a working but not thoroughly tested change that propogates the ticks
> from acknowledgements upwards so that you see ticks at the top level if
> everything below has been acknowledged.
>
> 3. an additional column on the hobbit screen that lists an icon next to
> the server name that is a link to rdp://servername or ssh://servername so
> that you can click next to the server name and fire up a terminal session
> directly to that server.
>
> 4. a php and perl script that creates an excel file returned to the user
> through the web browser outlining outages etc for a given period
>
> 5. a module for monitoring the status of EMC/Legato Networker Backup
> systems (including mulitple Backup servers with many clients).
>
> 6. a small javascript web page that displays two frames in your browser,
> the top one shows a summary of alerts by color and the bottom frame swaps
> between the front hobbit screen and the non green view on a 10 second
> cycle.
>
> 7. Additionally, I found it hard to keep the config file up to date with a
> large number of IT staff making changes to servers and adding new servers
> constantly. In order to make this easier, I created a database and an
> application in front of this to handle adds and changes in a way that
> allows for verification and approval of server data. This data is then
> pulled automatically via a perl script that is run periodically to update
> the entire hobbit bb-hosts configuration. This includes the ability to
> auto generate pages by system owner, by location, by priority. There is
> also the capability to determine additional pages that a server should
> appear on such as by Service.
>
> The database contains details such as Contract No, install date model
> number, owner, support group etc which are displayed in a table on the
> info page of hobbit so that anyone can bring up a server and find details
> on it directly from within hobbit.
>
> Unfortunately, I was forced to write the application in MS Access with an
> Access Front End and a seperate Access Database. I would have preferred
> MySQL and PHP, but they are paying the bills so they get to determine the
> method.
>
> I would like to gauge interest in these changes/additions and see if
> anyone is interested in helping me get the code above into the main
> stream. In addition I would like to write a PHP / MySql version of the DB
> but would need some help given my time and financial constraints.
>
> My current employer is happy for all this code to be released back into
> Open Source or GPL.
>
>
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