[hobbit] hobbit monitoring

Stef Coene stef.coene at docum.org
Wed Jan 17 15:40:41 CET 2007


On Wednesday 17 January 2007 13:54, Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 01:02:21PM +0100, Stef Coene wrote:
> > The second problem is the fact that I want to distribute the same client
> > and scripts to all my servers.  So the clienlaunch config file needs a
> > parameter where I can specify on which server I want to run the tests (in
> > the old BigBrother days, there was a config file for this).
> > I don't think this is hard to do, but my C knowledge is really that bad
> > that I don't even try to do this :(
>
> Try this modification for hobbitlaunch; it adds an "ONHOST" setting to
> hobbitlaunch.cfg, so a task will be disabled unless the local hostname
> matches this expression. E.g. if you have a task that should only run on
> hosts whose hostname begins with "web", then
>
>    [webchecks]
>         ENVFILE /usr/lib/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
> 	CMD $BBHOME/ext/webchecks.sh
> 	INTERVAL 5m
> 	ONHOST ^web
Pff.  Help.  It's not working.  But that's not why I'm saying help.  I'm 
saying help because I know that all the changes I need are easy to implement, 
but my C knowledge is 0, nada, zero :((
(implementing this in perl will take me 2 minutes)


Stef



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