[hobbit] Features request.

[Winn Beutler]

I have used 'rdist' for many years to synchronize system.  It is simple to use and comes already available on many systems.
Winn

-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Storner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk]
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 8:16 AM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Features request.


In <433A97A3.5070309 at lmco.com> Michael Nemeth <michael.nemeth at lmco.com> writes:

>Henrik Storner wrote:

>>In <432AAC9D.1070008 at lmco.com> Michael Nemeth <michael.nemeth at lmco.com> writes:
>>
>> 
>>
>>>I complete lost my hobbit server for a day.   Is  there any  work done 
>>>on setting  up  fail over  servers?
>>
>>The simplest solution: Setup a server identical to your Hobbit server,
>>and rsync the server/etc/ and data/{hist,rrd,tmp} periodically from
>>your main server. If the main server dies, start Hobbit on the spare
>>box.
>>
>Well no rsync  for hp-ux 11.  I might be able to rcp/scp . I don't have
>another HP  set up as a server identical to my Hobbit server.

rsync is reasonably portable. If you could compile Hobbit on HP-UX,
I'd think you could also compile rsync.

>Ive a sun but I don't think the rrds  would work . Anyone know  if this
>is so?

Probably not, you would have to do a dump/import of each RRD file. Anyway,
the reason I suggested that you should copy over the RRD files was just to
keep your historical trends data. If you can live without that - and just
need to get monitoring up and running ASAP - then ignore the RRD files.


>>>Next I just added 87 clients as a test.  I may want to remove them.  Yes
>>>I CAN write a script to do the drop and
>>>Im not worried about editing the bb-host file,  but maybe the the
>>>enable/disable gui could be extended to include
>>>a drop feature or a separate GUI?  Im not one for GUIs but others will 
>>>be admining this too.
>>
>>It's a "nice to have" thing. Not difficult, just need a day or two to
>>implement it.
>
>Great!  in 4.1.2 ?

Nope. 4.1.2 is in "feature-freeze".

>>>There is  an old unix program out there called Watcher.  One nice
>>>feature was it alerted you to large changes.
>>>Like a  FS grew or decreased by 5% or 1G .  (Or decreased by 100% ;rm
>>>-rf *!!
>>
>>Could be useful, but I'll leave that for later.
>>
>OK . It IS useful .  Here is the link to watcher : 
>http://www.i-pi.com/watcher.html

Thanks, I tried google'ing it but couldn't find it.

>>>How about move or duplicating the tip:
>>>What do the little red/yellow/green icons mean ?
>>>on the web page in the head or footer ?
>>
>>I prefer to keep the pages as clean as possible, but feel free to
>>customize the templates any way you like :-)
>
>Fair enough.  But how as a separate  help item ;  legend .  I would
>prefer if to be in there header, click on it and it display the page. 
>IM ALWAYS ask   what they  are. 

Add an entry to your ~hobbit/server/www/menu/menu_items.js file, like

	['Hobbit Icons', '/hobbit/help/hobbit-tips.html#icons'],


Henrik


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