[hobbit] Case sensitivity in bb-hosts service name

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 01:51:06PM -0000, Burgess, Richard wrote:

> It seems the case sensitivity is not being carried through to service
> name parsing in the bb-hosts file.  Can someone advise if this is a bug
> or a known 'feature'?

Yes, that is a bit tricky. Internally, Hobbit ignores upper/lower case
on all kinds of names - whether names of hosts or columns. But it does
preserve the case when building the status view.

The way to do this is to shut down Hobbit, and then edit the
~hobbit/server/tmp/hobbitd.chk file replacing the string "|xyz|" with
"|XYZ|" throughout the file. When you restart Hobbit it will pickup
these tests as having the name "XYZ", so regardless of whether your
tests send in a status for "xyz" or "XYZ" they will show up with the
upper-case setting that Hobbit picked up from the checkpoint file.

Note that this also affects the files and directories where the history
for these events are stored. Unix filesystems are generally
case-sensitive, so to implement this renaming fully you may need to manually
rename some of the files in the ~hobbit/data/hist/ directory as well as
the "xyz" directory in ~hobbit/data/histlogs/HOSTNAME/ .


Regards,
Henrik