[hobbit] Critical system editor "forgets" some, but not all, settings

[Haertig, David F (Dave)]

Oh.  I think I figured it out.  There's a line in the Hobbit
documentation on cloning that says:

"NOTE: Cloning happens at the host level, so even though we did the
cloning from a cpu test definition, it will also affect all the other
definitions we have for the Standard Unix host"

I was trying to clone the SAME host, but for a different test.  So every
time I would clone a host+test then that would wipe out any previously
cloned host+othertest that I had already done.

I get it.  Too bad we can't clone on a host+test level, but I can live
with that.  For my particular situation this pretty much wipes out
cloning as an option.  I will manually edit the nkview file and do my
own copy/paste/edit as an (alternate to cloning) using vi ... even
though the manpage says you shouldn't edit this file manually, I don't
see why not if you do so with due diligence.

Thanks

-----Original Message-----
From: Haertig, David F (Dave) [mailto:haertig at avaya.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 8:09 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: [hobbit] Critical system editor "forgets" some, but not all,
settings

I have added some critical systems. Initially it appeared to work.  But
the more I added, sometimes earlier settings would "drop off".  They
just disappear.  So far I've only noted this with templates, that that's
not say it doesn't happen elwhere - I just haven't noted that yet.  The
template stays, but the assigned clones just mysteriously disappear.  I
can see this by manually editing the hobbit-nkview.cfg file.  One moemtn
the clone lines are there, the next they are not.

I even tried adding things into that nkview file manually (using the vi
editor).  It's easy enough to figure out the syntax.  Many of the clone
lines that are in the nkview file are NOT displayed on the web editing
interface.  So it's like two problems - (1) sometimes the clone lines
disappear mysteriously, and (2) sometimes they're there (when added
manually), but ignored.

My nkview file issmall, only containing 39 lines currently, so I doubt
I'm past some kind of internal limit on the number of entries (I hope
not!)

Any ideas?

p.s. - nobody else is modifying this stuff bur me, so it's not a rogue
user running interference.  I am the only person with access to this
server.

Thanks!

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