[hobbit] Hobbit Release candidate 2 available

[David Gore]

Henrik,

Here is what I get using RC2 (does not run)?

hobbitlaunch.log: 2005-02-13 18:47:40 Task bbretest started with PID 5037
ld.so.1: /export/home/hobbit/server/bin/hobbitlaunch: fatal: relocation 
error: R_SPARC_JMP_SLOT: unidentifiable procedure reference: link-map 
0xff3b0054, offset 0x0, called from 0x12228

uname -a
SunOS hobbit 5.9 Generic sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-4


David Gore

Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> Release candidate 2 of Hobbit is now available on 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/hobbitmon/
> 
> This fixes a series of bugs, most notably some bugs in the alert
> module, the "iishealth" RRD handler, and a crash of the bbtest-net
> tool when two or more hosts had the "apache" test enabled.
> 
> An RRD handler for the "temperature" reports was added to
> hobbitd_larrd, and a plug-in mechanism was added so you can fairly
> easily add graphs for custom data you may be using.
> 
> The hobbitgraph CGI tool has been enhanced with a "zoom" function
> taken from the "Cacti" project (which is also GPL). This will be
> enhanced further after version 4.0 is released; the current version
> only supports zooming in on a period of time.
> 
> And the generated HTML was cleaned up, so hopefully everything is now
> HTML 4.0 compliant.
> 
> Full changelog below.
> 
> 
> Please beat on this - I hope this will be the last release candidate,
> so the next announcement is for the full 4.0 release.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Henrik
> 
> 
> 
> Changes from RC-1 -> RC-2
> -------------------------
> 
> Bugfixes:
> * The alert module now gets color changes that move a status from
>   critical (alert) state into a not-yet-recovered state. So if you 
>   only want pages on red, you should no longer see pages when it
>   goes from red to yellow.
> 
> * Alert rules with a color specification followed by some other
>   criteria would ignore the color spec.
> 
> * Alerts would only get repeated when a new message arrived, not
>   necessarily with the interval set by the REPEAT configuration.
> 
> * The alert configuration file was reloaded every time. It should
>   now only reload when it has been changed. This caused a noticable
>   change in hobbitd_alert's CPU usage.
> 
> * A MAIL recipient can now have multiple recipients.
> 
> * The "iishealth" RRD handler was broken.
> 
> * DHCP hosts (those that have an IP of 0.0.0.0) are allowed to report
>   their status from any IP.
> 
> * The bb-eventlog CGI was cleaned up (now it actually works!) and
>   a proper submission form and menu item were added.
> 
> * bbtest-net would crash when multiple "apache" tests were defined.
> 
> * The bb-ack.sh CGI - when located in the secure CGI area - was posting
>   to bb-ack.sh in the unsecure CGI directory. Changed so it always posts
>   to the same location it was originally called from.
> 
> 
> Improvements:
> * Lots of small tweaks to the HTML templates and some code, to ensure
>   that all HTML generated is HTML 4.0 compliant. Thanks to Firefox
>   and the HTML Validator plugin!
> 
> * hobbitgraph.cgi enhanced with a "zoom-in" function taken from the
>   Cacti project. This allows zooming in on a period of time. Zoom
>   on both axis (time and value) will be implemented in the next version
>   of Hobbit, since it requires a modification to the RRDtool library;
>   this is too large a change to add currently.
> 
> * A handler for the "temperature" reports was added to hobbitd_larrd.
> 
> * An external handler mechanism was implemented for hobbitd_larrd, so 
>   users can add their own graphs without having to do C coding.
> 
> * The "bbcmd" utility now loads the standard hobbitserver.cfg environment
>   if no "--env" setting is used on the command line.
> 
> * The default for the "find host" form was changed to do a case-insensitive
>   match (since hostnames do not normally care about upper- or lower-case).
> 
> 
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