October 2005 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

blue status reporting cause
by cits.bogajewski＠daimlerchrysler.com 06 Oct '05

06 Oct '05

Hi, if i create an availability report for timeslots with planned outages so i get something like this: Thu Oct 06 16:00:41 2005 - Thu Oct 06 16:01:02 2005 - blue - 0:00:21 - 21 - 2005 the last column, cause, is always "2005". Don't know exactly, but should be probably the reason i provide and not the year, or? Best wishes, Anatoli Bogajewski

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[hobbit] RE : [hobbit] Hobbit 4.1.2 Release Candidate now available.
by Al.Jeffcoat＠orhs.org 06 Oct '05

06 Oct '05

export CC=gcc will also set it. Al -----Original Message----- From: FIGARO Nicolas [mailto:nfigaro at effigie.fr] Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 8:48 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] RE : [hobbit] Hobbit 4.1.2 Release Candidate now available. I still have this message when I try to configure hobbit on my AIX server : Checking for RRDtool ... make: cc: Command not found make: *** [test-compile] Error 127 Not RRDtool 1.0.x, checking for 1.2.x make: cc: Command not found make: *** [test-compile] Error 127 ERROR: RRDtool include files found in /usr/local/include, but compile fails. Is there a way I can set the cc binary like the GMAKE ? (ie CC=/my/path/to/gcc ./configure --server) Nicolas Figaro > -----Message d'origine----- > De : Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] > Envoyé : lundi 3 octobre 2005 16:15 > À : hobbit at hswn.dk > Objet : [hobbit] Hobbit 4.1.2 Release Candidate now available. > > > The first release candidate for Hobbit 4.1.2 is now available > at http://www.hswn.dk/beta/ > It will also be uploaded to hobbitmon.sourceforge.net shortly. > > Loads of bugfixes and minor improvements, especially in the > new Hobbit client code. See the attached Changes logfile. > > Please test this if you can, and report any bugs to > hobbit at hswn.dk. If no major disasters show up, I expect to > release the final 4.1.2 early next week. > > > Regards, > Henrik > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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[hobbit] VAX Client
by Mark.Deiss＠acs-inc.com 06 Oct '05

06 Oct '05

There are around three(?) VMS BB clients on deadcat of various vintages - don't know if they are built for Alphas and/or VAXs - or the version of VMS. You "may" get lucky and one of them "may" support VAX architecture. If you find a usable VAX BB client, then that should take care of the transport mechanism out of the VAX client; you will still need to hack on the VAX tests to get the messages into a format that hobbit accepts (or hack on the hobbit server side to handle the VAX messaging). Assuming that there is no VAX C license/compiler - may need to drill into HP support concerning a GNU C port for VAX. There were (still past tense?) issues trying to compile GNU products using the VAX C libraries. If none of the above are practical, maybe you can get a fairly recent version of perl ~5.003+ onto the VAX. For this, you may be able to use the Big Sister perl-based client to handle transport out of the VAX. Mr. Aeby's BS code can get pretty wild - you may have to resort to grabbing an older BS release if there is too much strain using the current BS offerings with possibly dated perl release on your VAX. -----Original Message----- From: henrik at hswn.dk [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 7:11 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] VAX Client On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 02:09:38PM +0530, arun.nale at tcs.com wrote: > > Can we monitor applications running on VAX using Hobbit or BB. There are two ways of monitoring: Either by looking at your server across the network (e.g. requesting a webpage, trying to connect to a mail server etc); or by running some script locally on your VAX that performs some local checks - e.g. if a certain process or job is running. Network based monitoring is built into Hobbit, so if you setup a Hobbit server, it will be able to monitor all of the common TCP/IP based services. And even some of the not-so-common ones :-) Running a script locally means that you must 1) create such a script; and 2) you need a tool to feed the result of your script into Hobbit. This combination is what we call a Hobbit "client", and Hobbit includes client packages for most of the common Unix- like operating systems. Would it be possible to create a client package for a VAX ? Sure, but I'd need some help from you. You know how to monitor a VAX (it's been 15 years since I last touched one of those), so you could probably come up with a script that checks what the load and disk utilisation is on the box; and what processes and tasks are active. Second, we need a C compiler for the VAX. Is GNU C (gcc) available? With a C compiler, you can try to build the Hobbit client programs. It might require some tweaking to get the Makefile right for the client, but once that is done you'll have the program needed to send your status from the VAX over to Hobbit. Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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[hobbit] Hobbit 4.1.2 Release Candidate now available.
by nfigaro＠effigie.fr 06 Oct '05

06 Oct '05

I still have this message when I try to configure hobbit on my AIX server : Checking for RRDtool ... make: cc: Command not found make: *** [test-compile] Error 127 Not RRDtool 1.0.x, checking for 1.2.x make: cc: Command not found make: *** [test-compile] Error 127 ERROR: RRDtool include files found in /usr/local/include, but compile fails. Is there a way I can set the cc binary like the GMAKE ? (ie CC=/my/path/to/gcc ./configure --server) Nicolas Figaro > -----Message d'origine----- > De : Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] > Envoyé : lundi 3 octobre 2005 16:15 > À : hobbit at hswn.dk > Objet : [hobbit] Hobbit 4.1.2 Release Candidate now available. > > > The first release candidate for Hobbit 4.1.2 is now available > at http://www.hswn.dk/beta/ > It will also be uploaded to hobbitmon.sourceforge.net shortly. > > Loads of bugfixes and minor improvements, especially in the > new Hobbit client code. See the attached Changes logfile. > > Please test this if you can, and report any bugs to > hobbit at hswn.dk. If no major disasters show up, I expect to > release the final 4.1.2 early next week. > > > Regards, > Henrik > >

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Getting doubled alerts
by sbrehm＠titan.com 06 Oct '05

06 Oct '05

Is it normal to get two alert messages if an event matches two rules? Is there a keyword to suppress multiple alert emails from the same event? I've been running 4.0 for a while, but just getting in to configuring alerts. My hobbit-alerts.cfg includes the following: HOST=* SERVICE=conn MAIL sbrehm at titan.com COLOR=red HOST=%atscm MAIL sbrehm at titan.com COLOR=red MAIL person2 at titan.com COLOR=red HOST=%atscs MAIL sbrehm at titan.com COLOR=red MAIL person3 at titan.com COLOR=red I want alerts for any connection problems, but only want alerts for other hosts if they come from two specific sets of hosts. Unfortunately I'm getting a match for both the first rule and the second or third rule when there is conn alert for one of the two. I'm now using EXSERVICE=conn for myself on rules two and three, but still curious. Scott Brehm IT Manager L3 Communications - Titan (ATS/ATAG) 3394 Carmel Mountain Rd, San Diego CA, 92121 858-720-4035

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[hobbit] Looking for bb-hostedit script...
by sbrehm＠titan.com 06 Oct '05

06 Oct '05

Search on deadcat turns up empty, but it sounds interesting. Here's the v1.1 release message with a link to the tar file. I'm going to try it. http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2005/05/msg00185.html Scott Brehm IT Manager L3 Communications - Titan (ATS/ATAG) 3394 Carmel Mountain Rd, San Diego CA, 92121 858-720-4035 -----Original Message----- From: Larry.Barber at usda.gov [mailto:Larry.Barber at usda.gov] Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 11:23 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Looking for bb-hostedit script... I think I saw it on deadcat: http://deadcat.net. Thanks, Larry Barber On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 13:08 -0500, rgordonjr at gmail.com wrote: > Several months ago I remember seeing a thread for the bb-hostedit > script. Anyone know what happened to it and if it is available for > download anywhere? To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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Couple questions on hobbit functionality
by toaster＠imber.com 05 Oct '05

05 Oct '05

I have a few questions on the how much I can tweak the configs. For example: [bbretest] ENVFILE /usr/home/lee/Hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg NEEDS hobbitd CMD $BBHOME/ext/bbretest-net.sh LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/bb-retest.log INTERVAL 1m Can I make the Interval <1m like 10seconds 10s? Also, I want to test services through a ssh tunnel. Can I have bb-hosts file to test ssh on localhost port 2222? 127.0.0.1 foo.bar.com # BBDISPLAY 127.0.0.1 remote.machine.com # ssh:2222 Something like that? Thanks, Lee

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[hobbit] purple hobbitd_client
by Al.Jeffcoat＠orhs.org 05 Oct '05

05 Oct '05

Bah... I can't believe I typed column instead of client... Worked like a champ to remove the column and the purple :) Thanks, Al -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 11:51 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] purple hobbitd_client On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 11:47:38AM -0400, Jeffcoat, Al wrote: > > I was using the snapshot from 09/26 with no problems. Early this > morning sometime, hobbitd_client went purple. I had this problem > before, and updating to a snapshot had fixed it. So I updated to RC1 > this morning, dropped the column ($HOBBIT/server/bin/bb 127.0.0.1 "drop > hobbit hobbitd_column". The purple is still continuing. That should be "drop hobbit hobbitd_client" ... assuming your Hobbit server has the hostname "hobbit". > I looked for a > core file in the tmp directory, nothing there. I couldn't find anything > further to try in the list history. Any ideas? My server is Fedora > Core 4, running 4.1.2RC1. Is hobbitd_client running ? Probably is. Anything in /var/log/hobbit/clientdata.log ? Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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[hobbit] Looking for bb-hostedit script...
by Larry.Barber＠usda.gov 05 Oct '05

05 Oct '05

I think I saw it on deadcat: http://deadcat.net. Thanks, Larry Barber On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 13:08 -0500, rgordonjr at gmail.com wrote: > Several months ago I remember seeing a thread for the bb-hostedit > script. Anyone know what happened to it and if it is available for > download anywhere?

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Looking for bb-hostedit script...
by rgordonjr＠gmail.com 05 Oct '05

05 Oct '05

Hello All - Several months ago I remember seeing a thread for the bb-hostedit script. Anyone know what happened to it and if it is available for download anywhere? Thanks! -- --==[ Bob Gordon ]==--

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