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Random purple bbd monitor
by blysik＠shutterfly.com 26 Jan '05

26 Jan '05

Hi, So I've got one purple monitor, the 'bbd' monitor for the hobbit server itself. Clicking shows: Service bbd on room101 is OK (up) Any tips on fixing this? -- Bruce Z. Lysik <blysik at shutterfly.com> Operations Engineer

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https monitoring
by jonbjorn＠hi.is 26 Jan '05

26 Jan '05

Hi Is it possible to let hobbit log on to a https protected webpage, that is POSTing username and password to a form on the webpage and let hobbit monitor server respond ? if so, how is it done ? Jon Bjorn jonbjorn at hi.is

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[hobbit] vmstat graphing with CPU io wait
by CHRIS.MORRIS＠RWEnpower.com 26 Jan '05

26 Jan '05

Henrik, Re vmstat1 on AIX - that works a treat - finally a complete graph : ) Thanks Chris **************************************************************************** The information contained in this email is intended only for the use of the intended recipient at the email address to which it has been addressed. If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this document in error and that any review, dissemination or copying of the message or associated attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please contact the sender by return email or call 01793 877777 and ask for the sender and then delete it immediately from your system.Please note that neither RWE npower nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any). *****************************************************************************

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purple ping monitor
by blysik＠shutterfly.com 25 Jan '05

25 Jan '05

Hi, I have one random purple ping check for a machine. Ping works fine to it, and I can't figure out why it's marked purple. How can I troubleshoot this? Thanks. -- Bruce Z. Lysik <blysik at shutterfly.com> Operations Engineer

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[hobbit] Error in bb-network.log
by wdehouwer＠be.tiscali.com 24 Jan '05

24 Jan '05

Maybe a stupid question ... I added the --trace option to the bbtest-net and it uses standard traceroute. When I try to stop hobbit that traceroute (to a host that's down for the moment) keeps living. I remember some post where someone mentioned that it's more interesting to use mtr instead of the standard traceroute for obvious performance reasons. Could this be the cause of my problem as well ? How would i make hobbit use mtr instead of traceroute ? Wim -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: maandag 24 januari 2005 8:40 To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Error in bb-network.log On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 08:25:32AM +0100, Wim De Houwer wrote: > > Hello Henrik, > > I see alot of following errors in my bb-network.log: > > 2005-01-24 08:19:44 WARNING: Runtime 477 longer than time limit (300) > 2005-01-24 08:20:14 dns_queue_run deadlock - loops=834 There is some sort of problem with your DNS lookups, causing them to timeout. Check if your /etc/resolv.conf points at the correct DNS servers and that they actually do respond to lookups - e.g. pick some of the hostnames from your bb-hosts file and try to run a "nslookup HOST" on them. I have one report that the ARES library used by bbtest-net does not work properly with some DNS servers. So you could try adding the "--no-ares" option to the bbtest-net command in hobbitlaunch.cfg. If that makes the problem go away, I'd like to know a bit more about your DNS server setup - like what kind of DNS servers are you querying? Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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[hobbit] Hobbit 4.0 beta-6 available
by blysik＠shutterfly.com 24 Jan '05

24 Jan '05

Why use 'make setup'? The make file basically suggests 'make install' for existing installations: Build complete. To setup a new Hobbit server from scratch, now run 'make setup' as root To upgrade an existing Hobbit/BB server, now run 'make install' as root What's the difference? I used 'make install' and added HEARTBEAT. -- Bruce Z. Lysik <blysik at shutterfly.com> Operations Engineer > -----Original Message----- > From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] > Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 10:30 AM > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit 4.0 beta-6 available > > > On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 01:23:31PM -0500, Tom Georgoulias wrote: > > Kimberly McKinnis wrote: > > > > >What's the easiest way to upgrade to this and preserve > current settings? > > >Just make as usual? > > > > I did it this morning with ./configure, make, make setup, then I > > manually added the HEARTBEAT env to hobbitlaunch.cfg and > restarted hobbit. > > > > Seemed to work OK. > > That's what I was going to suggest, so ... > > There is an issue with AIX still, but I think I have it under control > now. Right now, it looks like a release around Feb 1st. > > > Henrik > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > >

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[hobbit] Error in bb-network.log
by wdehouwer＠be.tiscali.com 24 Jan '05

24 Jan '05

Henrik, After a short test, the problem remains, but what i do see is that when i put the --no-ares option,the following row in bbtest goes up ... DNS lookups completed 1106554182.581252 30.254821 Cheers, Wim -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: maandag 24 januari 2005 8:40 To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Error in bb-network.log On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 08:25:32AM +0100, Wim De Houwer wrote: > > Hello Henrik, > > I see alot of following errors in my bb-network.log: > > 2005-01-24 08:19:44 WARNING: Runtime 477 longer than time limit (300) > 2005-01-24 08:20:14 dns_queue_run deadlock - loops=834 There is some sort of problem with your DNS lookups, causing them to timeout. Check if your /etc/resolv.conf points at the correct DNS servers and that they actually do respond to lookups - e.g. pick some of the hostnames from your bb-hosts file and try to run a "nslookup HOST" on them. I have one report that the ARES library used by bbtest-net does not work properly with some DNS servers. So you could try adding the "--no-ares" option to the bbtest-net command in hobbitlaunch.cfg. If that makes the problem go away, I'd like to know a bit more about your DNS server setup - like what kind of DNS servers are you querying? Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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[hobbit] Hobbit 4.0 beta-6 available
by blysik＠shutterfly.com 24 Jan '05

24 Jan '05

> Most importantly, I hope that the lockup-problem that caused hosts to > disappear until hobbit was restarted is solved. I'm not 100% sure, but > I hope that bug has been squashed now. If you see messages like > "BOARDBUSY locked" in the hobbitd log-file, I would like to know! Looks good! hobbit has been running for about 3 hours now without the hosts disappearing. Excellent. -- Bruce Z. Lysik <blysik at shutterfly.com> Operations Engineer

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[hobbit] Hobbit 4.0 beta-6 available
by kmckinnis＠macrovision.com 24 Jan '05

24 Jan '05

Thanks :) -----Original Message----- From: Tom Georgoulias [mailto:tgeorgoulias at nandomedia.com] Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 10:47 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit 4.0 beta-6 available Kimberly McKinnis wrote: > So when I untar it to a new folder (/usr/local/hobbit-4.0-beta5), I > have to copy over all my configs to the new folder > (/usr/local/hobbit-4.0-beta6)? Like bb-hosts, etc? Maybe I need > caffeine, because I am clearly missing something. I untarred it in /tmp/hobbit-4.0-beta6 and built it from there, using the user ID I wanted to run it under, without copying over any of my config files from the working server. When I ran the ./configure, it prompted me for all the usual stuff (like fping, install location, user id, etc.) and I entered the same settings that I used for beta5. After that "make", then "make setup" as root. I figured that Henrik's comment in his beta5 email about the old config files (i.e. bb-hosts) not being written over was still in effect, so I went for it and it didn't erase any of them. After the setup was done, I added the HEARTBEAT variable and restarted. To answer Bruce's question, I used make setup instead of make install because that was the command Henrik said to use in his beta5 upgrade instructions. Since beta6 didn't mention any particular method, I figured it was a safe bet since I haven't done a whole lot to hobbit that I couldn't redo in a matter of minutes. Here's the excerpt from his message: === Upgrading from beta-4 -> beta-5: Unpack beta-5, run "configure", "make" and "make setup". It will *not* overwrite your configuration files (despite the warning). I recommend that you copy the new hobbitserver.cfg and hobbitgraph.cfg files to your ~hobbit/server/etc directory, since some settings were added. === To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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[hobbit] Hobbit 4.0 beta-6 available
by kmckinnis＠macrovision.com 24 Jan '05

24 Jan '05

So when I untar it to a new folder (/usr/local/hobbit-4.0-beta5), I have to copy over all my configs to the new folder (/usr/local/hobbit-4.0-beta6)? Like bb-hosts, etc? Maybe I need caffeine, because I am clearly missing something. -----Original Message----- From: Tom Georgoulias [mailto:tgeorgoulias at nandomedia.com] Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 10:24 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit 4.0 beta-6 available Kimberly McKinnis wrote: > What's the easiest way to upgrade to this and preserve current settings? > Just make as usual? I did it this morning with ./configure, make, make setup, then I manually added the HEARTBEAT env to hobbitlaunch.cfg and restarted hobbit. Seemed to work OK. Tom To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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