What's new when upgradeing from old versions?
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Installation
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- you can remove some obsolete files:

	www/gifs
	www/template.proto
	bin/www.pl
	bin/cgi.pl

  they will not be removed automatically!

- when installing some new make variables are relevant:

    DEST		the directory where Big Sister is copied into
			(defaults to /usr/local/lib/bs)
    EXEC		the directory where the DEST directory will
			be found when Big Sister is running (defaults
			to: same as DEST)
    INCLUDE		the directory where the Big Sister perl modules
			will be found at runtime (defaults to EXEC/bin)
    CGIPATH		the url where your CGI binaries can be found
			(defaults to /cgi)
    USER		the Big Sister user (defaults to bs)
    WEBROOT		the http path your Big Sister's web pages will
			appear below (defaults to "/bs")

  e.g. install:

	make install DEST=/export/local-solaris/lib/bs EXEC=/usr/local/lib/bs CGI=/cgi-bin

- You will have to place a symbolic link to the new history cgi 
  bin/bshistory in your CGI directory. The same applies to bswebalarm.



Functions
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- The look of web pages is much more configurable now. The notion
  of 'skins' was introduced (see CONFIG). E.g. try this out: put
  into your bb-display.cfg before the first %Page statement:

	%skin white_bg frames
	%Logskin white_bg frames

  and at the bottom of the file:

	%Frameset index top Big-Sister

- The status texts are now written both in text (www/logs) and
  HTML (www/html) format. If 

	%itemref html

  is used in bb-display.cfg instead of

	%itemref logs

  Hyperlinks web pages will point to the HTML version rather than
  the text version.

- an interface for adding your own pager scripts has been added
  to bb_event_generator. Add a line:

	*.*	pager=notify

  to your bb_event_generator.cfg and customize adm/notify.cfg


- a means for treating alarms differently depending on the time
  of day and week day has been added to bb_event_generator. E.g.
  try this out (in bb_event_generator.cfg):

	*.*{daytime 20:00-07:00}	postpone_to=07:00

  or

	*.*{$mail eq "me" and weekday Sat,Sun}	postpone=180


- FQDN support more configurable (on a per-display-server basis)
  (see CONFIG: uxmon-net)


- added mechanism for running uxmon as root (touch adm/uxmon-asroot)
  for those who'd like to use ICMP pings

- the history page is now a CGI script - means there are filtering
  options now

- a (rudimentary) Web interface to the alarm (currently read only)
  has been implemented
