[hobbit] Random hobbit newbie questions

[Benjamin P. August]

3) Try a "group-except files <group-name>" in your bb-hosts file.  
That's what I did for my files test anyway.


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--Ben
Benjamin P. August
System Administrator - VPUE
Stanford University


Quoting "Linder, Doug (SABIC Innovative Plastics, consultant)"  
<Doug.Linder at sabic-ip.com>:

> Hi Everyone, I'm relatively new to Hobbit.  I like it a lot, but I do
> have a few random questions.  I've been reading the documentation a lot
> and haven't found the answers, so I hope the answers don't turn out to
> be "see the man page". :)
>
> I have to say I really like the documentation to Hobbit.  At first
> glance it seems a bit short, but on reading it I find that it manages to
> be packed with information which is written in a nice concise,
> efficient, jargon-free, and human-readable way.  The comments in the
> config files are also excellent, although sometimes the information in
> there is slightly different from what's in the documentation page for
> that file - sometimes there's info in one place that isn't in the other.
> I wish more documentation in the IT field were written like this.  My
> only suggestion is that it would be helpful for us new folks to have
> some kind of general overview that describes (or better yet, shows in a
> flowchart) how data flows between client, server, the various tests, the
> web server, how the various config files fit in, and so on.  The
> information is currently in there but it takes a good bit of reading and
> experimenting before you really start to "get it".
>
> Questions:
>
> 1) In the hobbit-clients.cfg file, I this is in the comments:
>
>
> #             Defaults: MEMPHYS warnlevel=100 paniclevel=101 (i.e. it
> will never go red)
> #                       MEMSWAP warnlevel=50 paniclevel=80
> #                       MEMACT  warnlevel=90 paniclevel=97
> #  Note: The words "PHYS", "ACT" and "SWAP" are also recognized.
>
> And then later on, there is this bit:
>
> # These are the built-in defaults.
> # SWAP    20 40
> # MEMSWAP 50 80
>
> Is there a difference between MEMSWAP and SWAP?  If not, why is it
> listed twice in the defaults?  If so, what is the difference?
>
>
> 2) In the documentation page for hobbit-clients.cfg, there is this
> statement:
>
> "CLASS=classname  - Rule match by the client class-name. You specify the
> class-name for a host when starting the client through the
> "--class=NAME" option to the runclient.sh script. If no class is
> specified, the host by default goes into a class named by the operating
> system."
>
> Unfortunately I can't find any details about what the default names of
> the "classes named by the operating system" are, so I don't know which
> strings to put after "CLASS=" in my hobbit-clients.cfg file.  Is there a
> list somewhere?
>
>
> 3) There are a couple columns in the default configuration that I don't
> want, like "files".  On the page in question, the status icon for every
> system is "clear" (white).  I want to use the "drop" option to the bb
> command to do this.  I issued this command for every host on the page in
> question:
>
> bb localhost "drop <hostname> files"
>
> That works for a minute or two.  On the next page refresh, almost all of
> the hosts have the column empty (just a dash), but a few of them are
> back to "clear" already.  After one or two refreshes, all the systems
> are back at clear status.  How can I get hobbit to drop the column
> forever, permanently, completely, without leaving old history files
> around and stuff?
>
> Thanks for any tips!
>
>
> ---
> Doug Linder
> UNIX Systems Administrator
> CompuCom Systems, Inc.
>
> SABIC Innovative Plastics
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