[hobbit] Features request.

Henrik Storner henrik at hswn.dk
Wed Sep 28 14:12:45 CEST 2005


In <432AAC9D.1070008 at lmco.com> Michael Nemeth <michael.nemeth at lmco.com> writes:

>I complete lost my hobbit server for a day.   Is  there any  work done  
>on setting  up  fail over  servers?
>I got my server back and backed up all my custom and config files so I 
>can now reproduce my setup.
>But a true fail over server is needed.

The simplest solution: Setup a server identical to your Hobbit server,
and rsync the server/etc/ and data/{hist,rrd,tmp} periodically from
your main server. If the main server dies, start Hobbit on the spare
box.

>Next I just added 87 clients as a test.  I may want to remove them.  Yes 
>I CAN write a script to do the drop and
>Im not worried about editing the bb-host file,  but maybe the the 
>enable/disable gui could be extended to include
>a drop feature or a separate GUI?  Im not one for GUIs but others will  
>be admining this too.

It's a "nice to have" thing. Not difficult, just need a day or two to
implement it.

>Disk test be nice  all  three number could be put in a graph:
>$ /usr/bin/df -Pk
>Filesystem          1024-blocks  Used  Available Capacity Mounted on
>/dev/vg00/lvol4       19532     5183    14349    27%   /home00

The "used" and "Capacity" columns are currently tracked. Do you want to
track the "Available" count also ? It *can* be done by a bit of math
in the graph definition.


>Some one ask about  having required fs ,  what the status on this.

It's in 4.1.2.


>There is  an old unix program out there called Watcher.  One nice 
>feature was it alerted you to large changes.
>Like a  FS grew or decreased by 5% or 1G .  (Or decreased by 100% ;rm 
>-rf *!!

Could be useful, but I'll leave that for later.


>How about move or duplicating the tip:
> What do the little red/yellow/green icons mean ?
>on the web page in the head or footer ?

>Took me a while to find it.  These are a BIG selling point for hobbit; 
>visual impaired and color blind  people are
>provided for!  Big issue for large corps!

I prefer to keep the pages as clean as possible, but feel free to 
customize the templates any way you like :-)


Regards,
Henrik




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