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Report in Excel format
by iqbala-hobbit＠qwestip.net 16 Mar '05

16 Mar '05

Hi Henrik Is it possible to add a feature to be able to create report in Excel format? My director was wondering if that is possible. Looking forward to migrate to hobbit when it releases. Thanks -- Asif Iqbal PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu "...it said: Install Windows XP or better...so I installed Solaris..."

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Alerts problems
by Kevin＠ewormhole.com 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

I am having a bit of trouble with the alerts. I have the following rule: HOST=% MAIL kevin at domain.com COLOR=red EXSERVICE=http RECOVERED My understanding is that this should work as follows: For ALL hosts: Mail kevin at domain.com if, the alert is RED only and if the service is other than http and mail when it recovers What actually happens is: I get ALL alerts, for ALL colors, and ALL services What did I do wrong? Please advise. Thank you Kevin

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alerts macro feature request
by blysik＠shutterfly.com 31 Jan '05

31 Jan '05

Hi, So I was defining an alert, when I tried to do this: HOST=$GROUP1,$GROUP2 EXHOSTS=$SUBGROUP1,$SUBGROUP2 I don't know how hard this would be to fit in, but it could be useful. -- Bruce Z. Lysik <blysik at shutterfly.com> Operations Engineer

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[hobbit] bbhostgrep Segmentation fault
by GThiesfeld＠webmd.net 31 Jan '05

31 Jan '05

I get a "Segmentation fault" error every time I try to run bbhostgrep. If I run it without any arguments, it gives me the usage message. Running it w/ --version gives me "bbhostgrep version 4.0-beta6". Any ideas?

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[hobbit] Valid alerts decleration?
by blysik＠shutterfly.com 31 Jan '05

31 Jan '05

> > A related question: if hobbit-alerts.cfg is modified, does hobbit > > automatically pick up the new version, or is a restart required? > > Restart's are evil - they disrupt things. Configuration changes will > be picked up automatically - at least when the next alert happens. > Excellent. Of course now I've found a problem... My test hobit-alerts.cfg: $HG-TEST=host01|host02 HOST=$HG-TEST SCRIPT /opt/bb/server/ext/email bruce_mail MAIL blysik at shutterfly.com And then I run the dump config: -bash-2.05b$ ./bin/bbcmd --env=etc/hobbitserver.cfg hobbitd_alert --dump-config HOST= SCRIPT /opt/bb/server/ext/email bruce_mail FORMAT=SCRIPT REPEAT=30 MAIL blysik at shutterfly.com REPEAT=30 Shouldn't there be some hosts showing up after HOST= ? -- Bruce Z. Lysik <blysik at shutterfly.com> Operations Engineer

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maint.pl
by rwaegner＠questia.com 31 Jan '05

31 Jan '05

Hi all, Since upgrading to beta6, the enable/disable script is posting a 500 error. Anyone else seen this? If so, what was the fix? Rick

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[hobbit] alerting macros
by blysik＠shutterfly.com 31 Jan '05

31 Jan '05

> >I'd like to be able to define a macro which replaces several > > recipient lines. So for example, if many host groups always have a > > set of four SCRIPT recipients, it would be nice to be able to just > > define $STANDARDSCRIPTS at the top, and use that macro later. > > Why not simply have one script that calls the other four ? Well, it's probably easier if I show you: # SCRIPT /opt/bb/server/ext/email onduty SERVICE=procs RECOVERED # SCRIPT /opt/bb/server/ext/email ops SERVICE=procs RECOVERED # SCRIPT /opt/bb/server/ext/email onduty SERVICE=http,ping DURATION>6 RECOVERED # SCRIPT /opt/bb/server/ext/email ops SERVICE=http,ping DURATION>6 RECOVERED # SCRIPT /opt/bb/server/ext/email ops EXSERVICE=procs,http,ping RECOVERED This set of recipient lines shows up often in my hobbit-alerts.cfg. I could trim it a bit if I modified the 'email' script to accept multiple addresses (5 lines to 3). A related question: If I don't define COLOR anywhere in the rule, it should by default alert on 'red', correct? -- Bruce Z. Lysik <blysik at shutterfly.com> Operations Engineer

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alerting macros
by blysik＠shutterfly.com 31 Jan '05

31 Jan '05

Hi, I'm not sure if this is possible, but may be a good feature to add: I'd like to be able to define a macro which replaces several recipient lines. So for example, if many host groups always have a set of four SCRIPT recipients, it would be nice to be able to just define $STANDARDSCRIPTS at the top, and use that macro later. It seems possible to define a macro for a single recipient line, but not multiple. -- Bruce Z. Lysik <blysik at shutterfly.com> Operations Engineer

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using bbgen
by dan.mcdonald＠austinenergy.com 31 Jan '05

31 Jan '05

I'm trying to port bbmap to hobbit - there have been a lot of hard-coded little things that needed cleaning, but I'm about 65% of the way there... The most recent is the ability to pop up a page created by bbgen. My script currently reads: #!/bin/sh # @version $Id: statusbbgen.sh,v 2.5 2003/12/12 22:39:05 fredo Exp $ # @copyright 2003 # call bbgen >= 2.5 to create bb4 web page when click on host/group TEMPBBHOST=$1 BBHOME=/var/hobbit/server/ export BBHOME #. ${BBHOME}/etc/bbdef.sh BBHOSTS=${TEMPBBHOST} export BBHOSTS BBSKIN="/hobbit/gifs" export BBSKIN TEMPLATE="bb" ${BBHOME}/bin/bbgen --hobbitd --template=${TEMPLATE} --embedded #2> /dev/null I get an error that it can't figure out the variable MACHINE, but there is no more bbdef file, so.... how do you set the environment in the new hobbit world? I don't know what --embedded was supposed to do either... -- Daniel J McDonald, CCIE # 2495, CNX Austin Energy dan.mcdonald at austinenergy.com

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bbtest-net crashing
by joe＠tmsusa.com 31 Jan '05

31 Jan '05

Hello Henrik, Have you had any luck tracking down the issue in the ares code that causes bbtest-net to crash? Shall I send more backtraces? Best Regards, Joe

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