Re: {bb} Comments For Tests

["PAUL WILLIAMSON" <pwilliamson@mandtbank.com>]

>>> chris.ivey@verizon.com 2/15/2005 10:12:18 AM >>>
>All,
>        First, I would like to say thanks to everyone 
>for their amazing help.  Thanks to you, I have 
>been able to resolve all Big Brother issues, as well 
>as gotten ideas for new tests and such.  So now, 
>I have a question about overall functionality....

Good to hear.  Now the REAL Fun starts!

>Does anyone know if there is a way to add 
>comments to a test, or to disable the color 
>change for a specified window?  Here is my 
>situation - I have written scripts to monitor 4 of 
>our applications (HP Openview, and Micromuse 
>Netcool/Webtop/ISM).  These applications go 
>down every night on a schedule for 
>maintenance/backups/etc.  More than once, 
>since I installed and configured the application, 
>we have been paged in the middle of the night when 
>the application showed down on BB, but when the 
>maintenance window was active.  It would be nice 
>to be able to add comments to the output of the 
>test... either in this scenario (without hardcoding 
>the comments into the script itself), or in a situation 
>where there is a warning or panic that we can not 
>fix until we get assistance from the vendor.  Anyone 
>know if this is possible as BB is today, or would this 
>fall under the realm of a functionality update?

The best solution is to use a cron job to execute 
a disable/enable as appropriate.  

If you have custom columns, just create an 
html page in the $BBHOME/www/help with that 
column name and the column name will then point 
over to the file.  


>Speaking of updates, I keep seeing posts that the 
>free version of the software has not been updated 
>in quite some time... any word on when we might 
>expect an update and what kind of stuff we may see?

I suspect we'll never see another significant update 
for BB - sadly.  Use Hobbitmon if there is functionality 
you are looking for not in the stock BTF BB.
Or check deadcat.  I just put mkbbpl and fping.pl 
on my 1.9c system and they work great.

We run Netcool here too.  It would be interesting 
to see what you've developed for Netcool.

Paul

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