[hobbit] RSS display disabled hosts

[Ricardo Stella]

Couple of things to note..  I am using pagesets and this setup is to be
able to extract via rss only certain tests per hosts.

As someone had posted a couple of years ago, I modified bbgen.c so that
if pagesets were enabled, it would still create rss.  This seems to work
good except that I also need to be able to display disabled status.

changed       if (pageset || embedded || snapshot) enable_wmlgen = 0;
to       if (pageset || embedded || snapshot) enable_wmlgen = wantrss = 0;

I made the above mentioned change and created a new bbgen binary and use
this to create the pages like this:

BBWEB="/hobbit/HelpDesk" $BBHOME/ext/hd_bbgen \
       --rss --rsslimit=blue --pageset=hd --template=hd\
       $BBHOME/www/HelpDesk/

Now for a sub group that has a disabled test, it shows green in it's
rss.  I have a network sub group in a 'net' directory, so the following
is created:

$BBHOME/www/HelpDesk/net/net.rss

Not a  programmer, but played a bit with the rssgen.c code and disabled
this:

// if (h->color < rsscolorlimit) return;

The disabled test was then displayed on the 'net.rss' file, however it
showed the actual result of the test, and not the blue (disabled)
status, ie, a red condition.

Hope someone understands this and is able to help.  I can clarify more
if needed...  TIA...


Bill Richardson wrote:
>  I was just trying to get useful data out of rss and it seems like this
> feature is only working on the bb2.rss and the last page in a tree. I
> don't know if --rsslimit=blue is supported?  See my emails below. I
> wonder if your rss setup works normally. IE if you look at your bb.rss
> and you have something red under a subpage will it propagate up to the
> bb.rss ? Mine always stays Green.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> --------
> From: Bill Richardson 
> Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 10:02 AM
> To: 'hobbit at hswn.dk'
> Subject: RE: [hobbit] RSS not working in Xymon 4.3.0-0.beta2
>
>
> I just tried this on a new test install of Xymon 4.3.0 beta2 and see the
> same thing. Bug?  
>
> Here is my BBGENOPTS in the hobbitconfig.sh
>
> BBGENOPTS="--recentgifs --pagetext-headings --rss --subpagecolumns=3" 
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> --------
> From: Bill Richardson [mailto:wrichardson at llbean.com] 
> Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 9:33 AM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: [hobbit] RSS not working in Xymon 4.3.0-0.beta2
>
>
> I upgraded to 4.3 beta2 a few months about and have turned on the --rss
> feed option. I see the bb and bb2.rss files are created as well as all
> subpage/subparent rss files. What I'm seeing is the bb.rss file and all
> subpages show "No Critical Alerts" even when I have RED alerts.
>
> The only rss files that are working are the bb2.rss and and
> supbage/subparent that is at the bottom of the page tree.
>
> Is anyone else having the same issue?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ricardo Stella [mailto:stella at rider.edu] 
> Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 12:49 PM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: [hobbit] RSS display disabled hosts
>
>
> Hello,
>
> Trying to create some rss pages that I wish to display offline status. 
> I added --rsslimit=blue however the status displayed on the rss file is
> the actual status of the test.
>
> For example if I have a test that would display red, but I disabled the
> host completely, the rss status shows the red condition.  Also, If the
> host is green, but I disabled the host, the rss status shows green (no
> critical alerts).
>
> Any ideas on how to go around this?  TIA.
>
>
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