RE: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released

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

Give me a few... I'm on-call this week, so I wont have quite the
response time that I did last week ;)

-Eric   

> -----Original Message-----
> From: brent.mccrackin (at) bell.ca [mailto:brent.mccrackin (at) bell.ca] 
> Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 3:59 PM
> To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
> Subject: RE: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released
> 
> An update to this... I can see in the code that it should 
> support group-only, but it doesn't appear to work very well.  
> I haven't been able to find any changes yet that will make it 
> work, though - but my regex isn't as sharp as most people's 
> seem to be :-)
> 
> Everything else appears to work well with BB1.9c/BBgen 3.5, though!
> 
> ---
> Brent B McCrackin
> UNIX Systems Specialist - Bell Sympatico
> Brent.McCrackin (at) Bell.ca   PH: 416-353-0692
> "Serenity through viciousness."
>  
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: McCrackin, Brent (6002384)
> Sent: May 2, 2005 12:38 PM
> To: 'hobbit (at) hswn.dk'
> Subject: RE: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released
> 
> 
> Here's another one... 
> 
> You do not appear to have any support for the "group-only" directive.
> 
> This works like group-compress, but you list exactly which services to
> display for the hosts included in the group.
> 
> EG:
> 
> group-only test1|test2|test3|test4|test5 Servers Group
> 
> 
> This facilitates having hosts with more tests than 
> comfortably fit on a
> single line in the display to be split among multiple lines, or which
> have services that only apply to a specific page grouping.
> 
> An example I have is a database server with a dozen different 
> databases
> each monitored by bb-moracle, but producing their own dot.  I 
> split the
> server to have an 'OS-Tests' line and a 'Database-Tests' line in the
> display.  This is performed with group-only.
> 
> ---
> Brent B McCrackin
> UNIX Systems Specialist - Bell Sympatico
> Brent.McCrackin (at) Bell.ca   PH: 416-353-0692
> "Serenity through viciousness."
>  
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Schwimmer, Eric E *HS [mailto:EES2Y (at) hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu] 
> Sent: April 29, 2005 11:45 AM
> To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
> Subject: RE: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released
> 
> 
> Okay, here's the patch:
> 
> http://www.nerdvana.org/eric/files/bb-hostedit-hostdupe-patch
>  
> The tarball has been updated; new users don't need to download this
> patch.
> 
> -Eric
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Schwimmer, Eric E *HS [mailto:EES2Y (at) hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu] 
> Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 9:31 AM
> To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
> Subject: RE: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released
> 
> 
> Hi Thomas, thanks for helping test out the script :)
> 
> >1. If the a line starts with #, it is a comment. The script 
> reports me 
> >a syntax-error I added the following lines:
> >---snip---
> >      # Exclude Comments
> >       elsif($item =~ /^#/) {
> >         next;
> >       }
> >---snap---
> >
> 
> Ahh, I was handling comments incorrectly (if they had 
> whitespace before
> them on a line they were being parsed, instead of ignored).  
> Now fixed.
> 
> >2. I included one host on more than one page, so the script 
> reports me 
> >about already definded host.
> >To get a step forward, I comment out the part in the sctipt.
> >
> >Now I see the subpages, but no hosts. I can add hosts to the subpage.
> >I already tried to make a script, that builds the bb-hosts from a 
> >MySQL-Database. I got it never finished, because of all the possible 
> >combinations :(
> 
> If you comment out the line that reads in hosts, its to be 
> expected that
> you wont see any on the pages/subpages :)  I assumed (yet another
> possibly incorrect assumption on my part) that you couldn't have the
> same hostname defined in two places in your bigbrother/hobbit 
> hierarchy;
> I'll have to play around with this some to see how bigbrother behaves.
> Hopefully, I'll have a patch out in an hour or so.
> 
> Regards,
> -Eric
> 
> 
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