[hobbit] Feature requests

[Moore, Joe]

If we're throwing out feature requests...

My users would love to see something that can be descibed as a "service
group" of statuses...

Basically, we have several groups of web servers on the page that the
apache admins look at, in group-only blocks (they don't care about
system messages, only their HTTP, CONT, and TRENDS).  In order for them
to see everything, they have to scroll around because there are a bunch
of 3-column, N-row groups.  But the same data could be condensed into a
single screen of a bunch of N-column, 3-row groups.

So what I'd like to propose is a "servicegroup"# tag in bb-hosts, that
renders its content as rows of tests, and columns of hosts (as opposed
to the normal rows of hosts, columns of tests)

Syntax: 
servicegroup SERVICE1|SERVICE2|SERVICE3 [group-title]
	Defines a group of host-service pairs that appear on the web
page.  Hosts in the servicegroup are listed as a single header-line with
rows for each SERVICE listed.

(Optional: allow "servicegroup * group-title" to show rows for all
services on any of the hosts)

Another benefit for this just came to mind: 'servicegroup TRENDS "System
performance trends"'... Have a page or block at the bottom of your
servers-page with easy access to all of the graphs for all those
systems.

--Joe

# I'm not tied to this name... group-service might be more syntactically
consistent with the rest of the bb-hosts entries.