RE: [hobbit] Hobbit 4.0 RC3

[Frédéric Mangeant <frederic.mangeant (at) steria.com>]

Hi all

I'm still having some issues with Hobbit 4.0 RC3 (installed from scratch, on
a Gentoo Linux x86 up to date).
The main problem is that I can't disable a host using maint.pl: it just does
nothing, and I get this in my Apache error_log :

maint.pl: Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at
/BB/hobbit/cgi-secure/maint.pl line 550., referer:
http://xx.xx.xx.xx/hobbit/

FYI, Perl was upgraded from perl-5.8.5-r4 to perl-5.8.5-r2, regarding 2
security alerts (CAN-2005-015{5,6}). I'll try to downgrade.

> Changes from RC-2 -> RC-3
> -------------------------

[...]

> Improvements:
> * The info-pages now list the Hobbit alert configuration.

With this paging rule :

HOST=foo SERVICE=* REPEAT=24h TIME=W:0900:1800 DURATION>5m SCRIPT
/tmp/alert.sh FORMAT=TEXT

I get this in the "Recipient" case : "FORMAT=TEXT"

Shouldn't it be the script name ?

Another small problem : I'm running bbgen with the option "
--infoupdate=300", and get this warning under the "bbgen" column :

Error output:
Unknown option : --infoupdate=300

There seems to be missing someting in the sources :

$ find /tmp/hobbit-4.0-RC3 | xargs grep infoupdate
./docs/manpages/man1/bbgen.1.html:<DT>--infoupdate=N<DD>
./bbdisplay/bbgen.1:.IP "--infoupdate=N"
./bbdisplay/bbgen.c:                    printf("    --infoupdate=N
: time between updates of INFO column pages in seconds\n");

> * New FORMAT=PLAIN setting for alert recipients. This is the
>   same as FORMAT=TEXT, except that the URL link to the status-
>   page is left out of the message.

I'm still having a warning if "FORMAT=TEXT" is not specified in
hobbit-alerts.cfg :

Ignoring SCRIPT with no recipient at line 1

> * The "--recentgifs" option to bbgen now has a parameter,
>   so you can specify what the threshold is for a status to have
>   changed "recently". The default is 24 hours.

Thanks for a lot for this one :-)

Regards,

-- 

Frédéric Mangeant