[hobbit] Hobbit 4.0.3rc2 available
Tom Georgoulias
tgeorgoulias at mcclatchy.com
Mon May 9 16:37:16 CEST 2005
Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> There's a new release-candidate available at http://www.hswn.dk/beta/
Yay, glad to get my hands on this one. ;)
> * Using the "apache" test on a host with no HTTP tests now
> works, and does not result in a bogus http column.
I can confirm that this works now. Thanks.
> * A new reporting option lets you save the availability data
> in a comma-separated file, for import to spreadsheets.
Is this cgi-bi/bb-csvinfo.sh? I have to manually edit the menu to add
it, huh?
> * Updates of RRD files now use the RRDtool "template" facility
> to map data-values to the correct RRD datasets. This should
> solve the problem with migrating of vmstat data from several
> systems, including AIX.
If I understand this correctly, this could help me get rid of 2 local
patches that I maintain to keep RRD data consistent between my
inconsistent legacy systems. Is its use transparent or something I can
tap into? Right now I have to force some column re-ordering in a couple
of the hobbitd/larrd/do_xxx routines to make things work, and editing
the source files has been the easiest & most consistent way to do it.
> * A couple of log files have moved to /var/log/hobbit: The
> nkstatus.log file (from the "server/" directory); and the
> acklog and notifications.log files (from the data/acks
> directory).
FYI to users going from older hobbit, you may want to copy over the
contents of these files into these new locations, otherwise you could
lose a lot of "history" in these areas (not to mention any current acks
that are in effect when you apply the RC2 upgrade).
Tom
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