[hobbit] Remove purple without dropping host

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 08:36:13AM +0200, Rolf Schrittenlocher wrote:
> 
> our servers are reporting to hobbit using virtual hostnames. For some 
> reasons not all names report all the time. So once a host is not sending 
> information, hobbit turns this test or host to "purple". Up to now I 
> always dropped the host/test then, but so all historical information 
> gets lost. Normal disable is no option as we nether know how long a 
> hostname want be used (it may be a long time). Is there a way of 
> turnijng of purple/disabling a host permanently without loosing its data?

You can do it globally by running Hobbit with the "--no-purple" option.

On a per-host basis, the "dialup" directive will do this - but it has
the side-effect of disabling alerts for network tests.


Henrik