[hobbit] Suggestions for next hobbit release

[Watson, Robert]

Henrik,

Thanks for Hobbit!

Just tried to do a clean build of the latest snapshot and got this (I've just included the last part of the make output)

gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -DLINUX -I. -I/usr/local/src/hobbit/snapshot/include -I/usr/include -I/usr/include -I/usr/include -c -o do_rrd.o do_rrd.c
In file included from do_rrd.c:224:
rrd/do_vmstat.c: In function `do_vmstat_rrd':
rrd/do_vmstat.c:275: error: `vmstat_linux22_layout' undeclared (first use in this function)
rrd/do_vmstat.c:275: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
rrd/do_vmstat.c:275: error: for each function it appears in.)
rrd/do_vmstat.c:279: error: `vmstat_rhel3_layout' undeclared (first use in this function)
make[1]: *** [do_rrd.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/hobbit/snapshot/hobbitd'
make: *** [hobbitd-build] Error 2

Previous snapshots have been OK upto now. 

Just though I'd pass this on...

Cheers,

Rob
-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] 
Sent: 15 September 2005 14:38
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Suggestions for next hobbit release

Hi Christian,

On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 02:56:46PM +0200, Christian Schlüter wrote:
> Hello Henrik!
> 
> I have some suggestions for the next hobbit release:
> - reports from hosts which are not known by the server should appear 
> in the error report of the hobbitd. That would make it easier to find 
> misconfiguration especially with the hostname the client sends.

You can already do that - in your hobbitserver.cfg, change BBGHOSTS:

BBGHOSTS="1"     # How to handle status messages from unknown hosts.
                 # 0=accept message, 1=discard message,
		 # 2=discard message and log the event

Set it to "2", and the "hobbitd" column will list the hostnames and IP's of all hosts whose messages were discarded.


> - Succesfully sent messages should be logged to ensure that the client 
> works correctly. It would be enough to log the last sent message for 
> having a static small size of the logfile

Do you mean "logged on the client host", or "logged on the Hobbit
server" ? And the entire message, or just that it was sent ? 
Big difference ...

On clients, the latest message is in ~hobbit/client/tmp/msg.txt .
On the Hobbit server, I do not want to log incoming messages for
performance reasons.


> - Bugfix: The Linux client does not stop the vmstat-process by stopping 
> hobbitclient.

Right ... the vmstat is started as with "nohup" to let it run
independently of all the other client tasks (it's the only one that
takes a long time). So this is a bit harder to do than it seems - 
hobbitlaunch which is the only other job running doesn't know the
process-id of the vmstat process.


Henrik


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