[hobbit] Antwort: RE: [hobbit] Howto delete abandoned datafiles

[Hubbard, Greg L]

It seems to me that the cleanest way is to figure out how to make your
inventory system "know" when it is losing something.  I agree that it is
easier to write a system that has no memory of what it did in prior
runs.
 
If your inventory system can be queried, or if you have an intermediate
file that can be searched, you might be able to run a "notification"
script from the alert system that would fire on "purple" alarms.  What
the script could do is take the host name in the alarm and look for it
in your inventory or other file -- if found, quit.  If not found, then
the "drop host" command.  This is a kludge, and might cause other
issues, but it is one way to keep your display cleaned up.
 
Others may have much better ideas!
 
GLH


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	From: thorsten.erdmann at daimler.com
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	Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 9:50 AM
	To: hobbit at hswn.dk
	Subject: [hobbit] Antwort: RE: [hobbit] Howto delete abandoned
datafiles
	
	

	No. I export the data from our inventory and simply regenerate
the bbhosts files. So old hosts simply are missing in the new bbhosts
files. So I don't know which hosts were deleted. Therefore I would need
to store the old export file and compare it to the new one to find the
differences and use the "drop host" command. I find that very
complicated. 
	
	Such a cleanup utility would also be helpful if one edits the
bbhosts by hand and forgets to drop a host he has deleted.
	
	I just started to write a shellscript which scans the rrd
directory and tries to find the host in the bbhost files. But is
complicated to follow all the includes. I thought bbhostgrep is the
answer but it only can find a test, not a host.
	
	Any ideas
	Thorsten
	
	
	
	
	
greg.hubbard at eds.com 

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	Are you using the "drop host" function in the "bb" command?
	
	
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	From: thorsten.erdmann at daimler.com
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	Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 8:54 AM
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	Subject: [hobbit] Howto delete abandoned datafiles
	
	
	Hi
	
	I have written a script which generates several hobbit bbhosts
include files automaticly from our inventory system. Now I have a
problem when a host has been deinstalled.
	I delete the entry from the hobbit config but the old datafiles
(rrd and so on) keep there forever.
	
	Is there a tool to scan the complete hobbit bbhost hierarchy and
delete all data which are not longer needed?
	
	Thank you
	
	Thorsten Erdmann
	
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