Re: [hobbit] Editing thresholds from a web page.

[Steve Holmes <sholmes42 (at) gmail.com>]

Yep, that got it.Thanks,
Steve.

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 7:50 PM, <david.peters (at) dpi.nsw.gov.au> wrote:

>
> Steve can you please check the permissions on
> ~hobbit/server/etc/hobbit-clients.cfg?
>
> I suspect that is the cause of you being unable to save the modificattions.
>
>
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>
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>  From: Steve Holmes <sholmes42 (at) gmail.com>
> To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk Date: 10/07/2009 02:46 AM
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] Editing thresholds from a web page.
> ------------------------------
>
>
>
> Nope. Sorry. I got 0.2 and here are the changes I made to
> selection_page.pl. The additions of the two 'next' statements are just
> speedups (I think :-), but the critical change is the way you are testing to
> see if a line is a real host line or not. All of my hosts have an IP of
> 0.0.0.0, and it looks like you are wanting the second character of the line
> to be a digit, but since the second character of my line is a dot ('.') it
> never matches. This works for me wrt getting the hosts loaded, but it still
> doesn't change the config file.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
>
> --- selection_page.pl   Thu Jul  9 12:28:53 2009
> ***************
> *** 44,49 ****
> --- 44,50 ----
>         while( <BBHOST> ) {
>
>                 chomp;
> +         next if (/^\s*\#/ );
>
>                 ($leading, $data) = split( ' ' , $_ );
>
> ***************
> *** 59,68 ****
>         foreach( @files ) {
>                 open(FILE, $_);
>                 while( <FILE> ) {
>                         ($leading, $data) = split( ' ' , $_ );
>
>
> !                       if( substr( $leading, 1,1 ) ge 0 && substr(
> $leading, 1, 1 ) le 9 ) {
>                                 $hosts{$data}{hostname} = $data;
>                         }
>                 }
> --- 60,72 ----
>         foreach( @files ) {
>                 open(FILE, $_);
>                 while( <FILE> ) {
> +                 next if ( /^\s*\#/ );
>                         ($leading, $data) = split( ' ' , $_ );
>
>
> ! #                     if( substr( $leading, 1,1 ) ge 0 && substr(
> $leading, 1, 1 ) le 9 ) {
> !                       ($byte1,$byte2,$byte3,$byte4) =
> split('\.',$leading);
> !                       if ($byte1 ge 0 && $byte1 le 255) {
>                                 $hosts{$data}{hostname} = $data;
>                         }
>                 }
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 3:43 AM, David Peters <*davidp (at) electronf.com*<davidp (at) electronf.com>>
> wrote:
> Version 0.2 is now available for download. It fixes an issue relating to
> hosts not loading. Hopefully that was the one you saw Steve.
>
>
>
> It also fixes a couple of other minor things including removing a hardcoded
> directory in one of the html header files.
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> *From:* Steve Holmes [mailto:*sholmes42 (at) gmail.com* <sholmes42 (at) gmail.com>]
> *Sent:* Thursday, 9 July 2009 6:13 AM
>
> *To:* *hobbit (at) hswn.dk* <hobbit (at) hswn.dk>*
> Subject:* Re: [hobbit] Editing thresholds from a web page.
>
>
>
> Hi David,
>
>
>
> Ok, so I downloaded the scripts from sourceforge. I couldn't find them on
> xymonton. What I have might not be your latest. So, the fixes I had to make
> might be unneeded on a later version, but:
>
>
>
> The first thing was that the first edit-thresholds page had no hosts
> loaded. I fixed that. The next problem is that it isn't actually making the
> changes I've entered. An error from the web server (which might not have
> anything to do with this behavior) is:
>
>
>
> File does not exist: /opt/www2/htdocs/menu, referer: *
> https://my-server/hobbit-seccgi/edit-thresholds/trunk/edit-threshold.pl*<https://my-server/hobbit-seccgi/edit-thresholds/trunk/edit-threshold.pl>
>
>
>
> It's true that my apache home
> dir is /opt/www2 and the htdocs dir is htdocs, but where is it getting the path to menu there, which doesn't exist. I've searched through everything I can think of. I've obviously overlooked something.
>
>
>
> If I fix this error and it still doesn't make the changes I'll look
> further.
>
>
>
> Any ideas? I'm excited to get this working. It should save me a significant
> amount of time if my co-admins could make these changes without asking me to
> edit the files!
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 4:54 AM, David Peters <*davidp (at) electronf.com*<davidp (at) electronf.com>>
> wrote:
>
> Yes I think that might be a good idea. Just beware of the two bugs that
> currently exist.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Flemming [mailto:*martin.flemming (at) desy.de*<martin.flemming (at) desy.de>
> ]
> Sent: Wednesday, 8 July 2009 4:05 PM
> To: *hobbit (at) hswn.dk* <hobbit (at) hswn.dk>
>
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] Editing thresholds from a web page.
>
>
> Hi, David !
>
> thanks, for the scripts !
>
> I recognize, that the scripts didn't make a backup of hobbit-clients.cfg
> ...
>
> Maybe, we could added a backupfunction with timestamp  ?
>
> thanks & cheeers
>
>        martin
>
> On Tue, 7 Jul 2009, Steve Holmes wrote:
>
> > The link seems to work now. From the OP:
> >
> >> Anyway, I have put it up on sourceforge: *http://xymon-addons.svn*<http://xymon-addons.svn/>
> .
> >> *sourceforge.net/viewvc/xymon-addons/edit-thresholds/*<http://sourceforge.net/viewvc/xymon-addons/edit-thresholds/>
> >
> > Download the tarball from the bottom of the page.
> >
> >
> > Steve.
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 6:28 AM, Shaun Phillips <
> > *tainted.soul69 (at) googlemail.com* <tainted.soul69 (at) googlemail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >> Where can I get  edit-thresholds.tar ?
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Cayo de Moraes
> <*camorae (at) googlemail.com* <camorae (at) googlemail.com>>wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi David,
> >>>
> >>> infortunately i couldnt download it...
> >>> The "edit-thresholds.tar" file could not be found. Please select
> another
> >>> file
>
>
>
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