RE: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released

["Schwimmer, Eric E *HS" <EES2Y (at) hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu>]

A few caveats that I should have included with the distro but forgot:

1. While it supports nested files, and will attempt to preserve their
structure as much as possible, I could only bundle so logic for
determining what file a new host/page/title should be added to.  So
while it should work, it might not Do What You Expect(tm).

2. The script is comment un-friendly.  Any comments & whitespace
formatting
is ignored when the script reads in data, and when it writes data back
out,
this commented data IS NOT INCLUDED.  So if you have some sort of whacky
comment structure in your files that you are intent on preserving, I'd 
advise you not to try this script :)

Regards,
-Eric

-----Original Message-----
From: Schwimmer, Eric E *HS [mailto:EES2Y (at) hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu] 
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 12:47 PM
To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
Subject: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released


Howdy all,

I finally got my mrtg graphing problems fixed (I ended up just using
mrtg to poll ifc traffic data, and tweaked hobbit-larrd a bit to work
with my snmp data collector that collects cpu & error info).

Anyways, now that that is done, I had a some time to spend working on a
gui hosts editor for hobbit/bigbrother (although the bigbrother support
has not been tested, as I dont really have a bigbrother system to test
it on any more).

This script should handle just about every option that the bb-hosts file
supports, including nested file includes (include, dispinclude, etc),
titles, groups, etc etc.  Its still in a nascent phase at the moment, so
I would strongly suggest backing up your host files somewhere safe
before playing around with it (although the script also supports file
archival, as well).

You can download the script at:
http://www.nerdvana.org/eric/files/bb-hostedit-1.0.tar.gz

Please let me know what you think,

Regards,
-Eric Schwimmer
HSCS Network Engineer
University of Virginia

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