[hobbit] History File Management

[David B. Ritch]

Not precisely - it's only on my hobbit server.  It appears to collect
historical data.  It looks like BB messages - I suspect that it keeps
the messages whenever a system state is changed.  That's great - up to a
point.  I can click on "history", and then see exactly what caused a
state change.  However, my systems have been in development, and have
had frequent state changes, so the history has grown quickly.  I'm
concerned that even when the system settles down, these files will grow
over time, and need to be managed.

And no - I don't have individual clients with associated files growing
to GBs.  I have over a hundred clients on each of a couple of servers. 
On one of the servers, I have history files growing to 10s of megabytes
per client - which adds up to gigabytes.

Unfortunately, I don't have access to those systems from here, so I
can't post data.

Thanks,

dbr

Rich Smrcina wrote:
> Let me get this right, you're saying that on some (most, all) of your
> Hobbit client machines some log file(s) is/are growing to multiple GB
> in size?  Which file(s) and can you post a few lines of the data?
>
> David B. Ritch wrote:
>> I recently installed hobbit to monitor nodes in a cluster.  It's a very
>> good product - thanks to all who have worked on it!
>>
>> I noticed after a while, that the hobbit home directory was growing in
>> an apparently boundless fashion.  On further investigation, I discovered
>> that on one server, my history files had grown to several gigabytes.
>> After a while, this growth becomes unsustainable.
>>
>> Am I doing something wrong?  How do others manage the growth of hobbit
>> history and log files?
>> I'm not referring to those in /var/log/hobbit - that's easy to handle
>> with logrotate.  I'm concerned about the directories associated with
>> each client under the server data directory.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> David
>>
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