{bb} Feature Request: breakup of bb-hosts

[Joe Moore <Joe.Moore@sdrc.com>]

I've been working with my bb-hosts file an awful lot recently, and I
think I've noticed a shortcoming in the design/implementation of the bb
configuration structure.  Specifically, everything is in bb-hosts.

So, here's my suggestion:
Use bb-hosts only to specify bb-network.sh related items.  

Get the bbdisplay logic out of it, so no page, group, group-compress,
etc.  Put this functionality in a separate, bb-display configuration
file.

Create a bb-servers file, which has the BBDISPLAY, BBNET, BBPAGER
information.

Perhaps as an interim step, the bb-display.sh could fall back to
bb-hosts if bb-display doesn't exist. (and the others too)

The advantages:
Only the BBNET server(s) would need an up to date bb-hosts file (and
only this would be restarted if the bb-hosts file is changed).  

Only the BBDISPLAYs would need bb-display, and if you use multiple
BBDISPLAYs, each could present a different "view" of the systems. 
Currently, this can only be done by having multiple instances of BB.

Clients would only have to be updated with new host information if the
bb-servers file changed, which should be fairly rare.

Comments/Suggestions/AOLs?

--Joe

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