Hobbit 4.0.2 released

[Henrik Stoerner]

Hobbit 4.0.2 was uploaded to hobbitmon.sourceforge.net a few minutes
ago and should be available by the time you read this.

This is primarily a bug-fix update of the 4.0 release, with fixes for 
the bugs that have been reported after the initial release. Thanks to
all who have contributed fixes, bug-reports and enhancement
suggestions.


One change done in 4.0.2 may require that you change your
configuration. The "--alertcolors", "--okcolors" and "--repeat"
options for hobbitd and hobbitd_alert have been removed, and replaced
with three settings in the hobbitserver.cfg file: ALERTCOLORS,
OKCOLORS and ALERTREPEAT respectively. You should remove these options
from the hobbitlaunch.cfg file, and setup the hobbitserver.cfg
equivalents instead. Note that these options are not used in the
default hobbitlaunch.cfg, so unless you added them yourself then you
don't need to worry about it.


A new feature introduced in 4.0.2 is the possibility of defining
default tags in the bb-hosts file. If you define a host named
".default." in the bb-hosts file, then the configuration tags you
apply to this host will be used as defaults for the hosts that follow
it. E.g. the following configuration

   0.0.0.0   .default.   # DOWNTIME=*:0200:0600
   10.0.0.1  www.foo.com # http://www.foo.com/
   10.0.0.2  db.foo.com  # oratns

will cause the "www.foo.com" and "db.foo.com" to have a DOWNTIME
setting of "*:0200:0600". The ".default." host is used only for this
type of configuration tags, it does not appear on the generated
webpages and no network testing is done on it. You can have multiple
".default." definitions in the bb-hosts file; for any host, the
.default. immediately above is the active one.


Also new in 4.0.2 is the "hobbitreports.sh" script, which shows how
you can pre-build daily/weekly/monthly availability reports. An
accompanying new CGI - bb-datepage.cgi - lets you select these
pre-built reports from a simple date-selection form.


And finally, the data generated for the "info" and "trends" columns is
now fully dynamic, meaning that it is always up-to-date. The
bb-infocolumn and bb-larrdcolumn tasks can be removed from
hobbitlaunch.cfg.


Regards,
Henrik