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Asif Iqbal vadud3 at gmail.com
Wed Dec 13 00:54:18 CET 2006


On 12/12/06, Bhupendra Patel <mukhi65 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have requested for unsubscribe my email list, but i
> am still getting lost email about hobbit. please take
> me off the list.

Your email is not relevant to the original subject. I just changed it.
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>
> Thanks.
>
> --- Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 11:27:08PM +0100, Stef Coene
> > wrote:
> > > On Thursday 07 December 2006 23:01, Trent Melcher
> > wrote:
> > > > Has anyone thought about or implemented a
> > configuration database backend
> > > > for hobbit, primarily a database replacement for
> > the hobbit-clients.cfg
> > > > and hobbit-alerts.cfg to start....these are a
> > couple that I would like
> > > > to buils a webfront to and be able to give
> > limited access to users so
> > > > they could modify thresholds and alerting
> > capabilities when needed.
> > > >
> > > > I did this about 4 years back for Big Brother
> > using Informix,  I was
> > > > able to setup thresholds and a replacement for
> > the bb-host file inside a
> > > > couple tables in a database.  However back then
> > Big Brother was mostly
> > > > shell scripts and flat files for all its
> > configuration.  So adding hooks
> > > > into it for talking to a databse was easy.  With
> > hobbit its all compiled
> > > > code and Im not sure where to start, plus I
> > don't have access to an
> > > > Informix database or the API's for it anymore so
> > Im looking at mysql and
> > > > its api's for writing code in C.
> > >
> > > We are thinking about using mysql for storing
> > trends and status messages.
> > >
> >
> > Be careful with the status messages, at least if you
> > want to store the
> > current status in a DB. Historical status messages -
> > those that are
> > currently stored in the histlogs/ directory - are
> > OK, but for the
> > current status log I think that the overhead
> > associated with updating
> > each status log in a DB every 5 minutes will be very
> > high. And the
> > number of times you'll actually be retrieving these
> > data will probably
> > be very small.
> >
> > Copying the historical statuslogs (or the current
> > ones) is very easy to
> > do with an extra Hobbit worker module hanging off
> > the "status" or
> > "stachg" channels. You do not need to make any
> > modifications to Hobbit
> > itself - you basically run "hobbitd_channel
> > --channel=stachg MYDBPROGRAM"
> > and your program is fed all of the status messages
> > on it's STDIN.
> >
> >
> > As for the trends data, I believe there are some
> > patches to the rrdtool
> > library that will let you store the RRD files in a
> > DB. Check the rrd-users
> > mailing list.
> >
> >
> > My personal favourite for a DB backend would be
> > SQLite, since this
> > eliminates all requirements for an external DB
> > ressource. You don't
> > want your monitoring to stop working when the DB
> > becomes inaccessible.
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Henrik
> >
> >
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> >
> >
> >
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