[hobbit] Highlights of the 4.3.0 version

[Asif Iqbal]

On 7/21/07, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
>
> In another thread, someone asked about what new features are planned for
> version 4.3.0. I've summarized them below; they have all been
> implemented by now. Some of them have been contributed by others over
> the past year - I'm pleased to have finally gotten their patches merged.
>
> There are some open bug-reports, and the plan now is to try and get
> those fixed. Once that is done I'll ask you all to start testing the
> beta-versions, and then a new release is hopefully available soon.
>
> This doesn't mean that I won't consider adding new stuff before the
> 4.3.0 release, but right now the plan is to get 4.3.0 shipped with
> the current set of features. But if I've missed someone's favourite
> patch or feature request, do let me know.



Send a disable request thru email. Currently it only takes delay request



Major new features
> ------------------
> * PAGE setting for alert- and client-configuration handles hosts on
>   multiple pages, so any pagename can be used.
> * Flap detection of statuses that change color rapidly. The status
>   is kept at the most critical level until it stops flapping.
> * Holiday support for alerts, including variable holidays (Easter etc)
> * Split NCV support - graph data from NCV can be split into multiple
>   RRD databases allowing for varying number of datasets.
> * RRD database parameters are now configurable (i.e. number of
>   datapoints stored, whether to store min/max values etc). Note that
>   this only applies to newly created RRD files, not existing ones.
> * Distributed worker modules allow sharing the load across multiple
>   Hobbit servers
> * RRD updates are now cached for up to 30 minutes before being written
>   to disk. This makes the I/O load on large installations much lighter.
> * Detection of statuses that are reported by multiple hosts
> * Client backend-support for the z/OS and z/VSE clients by Rich Smirna
>
> Display things
> --------------
> * Graph zooming now limits the lower/upper bounds of a graph (requires
>   rrdtool 1.2.x)
> * The trends page default data-period can be configured to something
>   other than the default 48-hour view, and the user can select a
>   different period on-the-fly.
> * Hosts can be sorted automatically on the overview webpage with a
>   "group-sorted" group definition.
> * NOCOLUMNS setting in bb-hosts let you suppress certain columns on
>   a per-host basis
> * Host-comments are displayed as tool-tips, to save screen space.
>
> Checks and graphs
> -----------------
> * Network tests can use a specific source IP instead of the default
> * The validity-period of network tests is configurable, instead of
>   being fixed at the default 30-minute setting
> * Client file checks can check for a symlink
> * "trends" report for RRD handling allows generating custom-made
>   RRD files
> * Hobbit host- and status-counts are tracked in an RRD file
>
> Miscellaneous
> -------------
> * NCV reports can handle color-icons before the name:value data
> * hobbitlaunch tasks can be configured to run on certain hosts only
> * Time-warp detection and warning
> * Local unix-socket interface to Hobbit daemon
> * hobbitd_capture can collect several statuses and hand off such a
>   batch to an external command
> * Support for SHA-224/256/384/512 digests
>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
>
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