October 2005 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

clientlaunch.cfg vs. hobbittasks.cfg
by rmunsch＠solutionsforprogress.com 28 Oct '05

28 Oct '05

Hello! Old bb user, new to setting up a set of clients with a hobbit server in a new environment. There have been, of course, some oddities... The first line in clientlaunch.cfg cheerfully maintains: # The hobbittasks.cfg file is loaded by "hobbitlaunch". I gather this is a typo/leftover, and should now start "The clientlaunch.cfg..."? If not, I am powerfully confused XD Speaking of confused... i am using a Debian system and think this is a Debian/bash conspiracy on my end, but my hobbitclient.log shows nothing but scads of shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory when i attempt to start the client, and nothing else. The archives don't seem to yield a hit on this. Kernel is 2.6.11, smp (on the client in question. the server install and function appear fine). Thanks! -- Rob Munsch Systems Analyst, Solutions for Progress http://www.solutionsforprogress.com

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[hobbit] Hobbit sending HTML emails?
by adam.scheblein＠marquette.edu 28 Oct '05

28 Oct '05

There is a way to make your mail program send html e-mails, however, if you check your version to make sure it has the -a, then under the mail variable, set it to be (and it shouldn't matter if you use mail or mailx): mailx -a "Content-type: text/html;" Adam -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 2:53 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit sending HTML emails? On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 12:46:58PM -0700, Charles Jones (charljon) wrote: > > I've setup a Hobbit 4.1.2 instance and have been getting emails from it > that have HTML tags in them, but aren't recognized by either MS Outlook > or Mozilla Thunderbird as an HTML-email. So, either hobbit isn't > properly setting the header on the mails it sends, or something about > the alert output is causing the problem. Unless you changed something special in your setup, Hobbit handles all alerts as plain text, and just feeds them into your local "mail" utility. > The alert below is an example of how the emails I'm getting look, with > bare HTML tags in the message. I'm 99% sure this is an external add-on test that generates a status in HTML format. Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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Minor graphing quandry
by rsmrcina＠wi.rr.com 28 Oct '05

28 Oct '05

I have external tests running for two different operating systems. They are both reporting 'procs' back to Hobbit. One one system it is really the number of jobs running and on the other system it is the number of users (virtual machines) running. I purposely used procs since it has essentially the same meaning. For the status display that works out great. Now I want to graph the results. Ultimately I would like to have one graph text read 'Running jobs' and for the other 'Logged on machines'. I could certainly leave them both as procs and be done with it (and that works just fine), but the extra touch would be nice. In the extra script I am creating an rrd called procs.rrd for each host. I just can't seem to get the actual graph created using one graph definition. Is there an example of something like this currently available? Or does anyone have any insight as to how I might do this? Thanks. -- Rich Smrcina VM Assist, Inc. Main: (262)392-2026 Cell: (414)491-6001 Ans Service: (360)715-2467 rich.smrcina at vmassist.com Catch the WAVV! http://www.wavv.org WAVV 2006 - Chattanooga, TN - April 7-11, 2006

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Test a host at a different interval
by Jason.Chambers＠geosoft.com 28 Oct '05

28 Oct '05

Hey Guys, The manual suggests that I can run test on a different time interval than the rest, but I cannot seem to find what the tag is. IE. I want ping a few connections every 30 minutes instead of every 5. Help? Jason Chambers IT Helpdesk Support eosoft Inc. 85 Richmond St. West - 8th Floor Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5H 2C9 Tel: 416-369-0111 x344 Fax: 416-369-9599 www.geosoft.com

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badntp
by tlp-hobbit＠holme-pedersen.dk 28 Oct '05

28 Oct '05

Is this option still not recognised by hobbit ? /Thoams

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Client memory test problem
by rsmrcina＠wi.rr.com 28 Oct '05

28 Oct '05

I have a host where the SWAP test is coming up yellow at 21%. This host does have the following specified in hobbit-cleints.cfg: HOST=golxi01 MEMACT 95 98 If I comment out the MEMACT values, SWAP goes back to green. If I uncomment them, SWAP becomes yellow again. Quite strange... -- Rich Smrcina VM Assist, Inc. Main: (262)392-2026 Cell: (414)491-6001 Ans Service: (360)715-2467 rich.smrcina at vmassist.com Catch the WAVV! http://www.wavv.org WAVV 2006 - Chattanooga, TN - April 7-11, 2006

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EXHOST usage
by jonescr＠cisco.com 28 Oct '05

28 Oct '05

Perhaps it's because I'm working on this at 4am, but I'm having a problem with the EXHOST option, that according to hobbitd_alert --test isn't working, I also am not sure how to do a particular host/service exclusion. Heres basically what my below alert config is meant to accomplish. 1. For any alerts on any servers, send alerts to an alert email address. 2. For 2 particular web servers (web5.mydomain.com and web6.mydomain.com) send an alert to one person, but *not *the alert alias. 3. For a set of oracle servers, send an extra alert message to an alternate email address/cellphone. 4. After hours (from 5pm until 8am), only send alerts to an alternate email address (but still need the seperate alert for the web5 and web6 hosts described in #2). 5. After hours (from 5pm until 8am), send an alert to my cellphone for any hosts and services being red for more than 30 mins. 6. Do not alert for high load average on a particular server from 6-10am. My first problem is I am not sure how to implement #2 (exclude alerts for the msgs on web5 and web6 from being sent to the main alert email, and instead send them to the alternate address). I'm thinking one solution would be to define it as the very first rule and use the "STOP" option, like: HOST=$WEB_SERVERS SERVICE=msgs COLOR=red MAIL webdev at mydomain.com STOP Also, according to the tests I did with hobbit_alert --test, the last rule is not working...Is there a more logical way to simply specify that a single host/service combo be ignored during a certain timeframe? My hobbit-alerts.cfg is below, if you see anything wrong or have suggestions on a better way to accomplish my list above I would appreciate it. # hobbitd-alerts.cfg # oradb1-9.mydomain.com $ORACLE_SERVERS=%oradb(.).mydomain.com # web1-9.mydomain.com $WEB_SERVERS=%web(.).mydomain.com # All hosts $ALL_HOSTS=* # Send me an email alert if any service on any host goes red. # Note: This rule will probably be removed once the alert rules are deemed fully working. HOST=$ALL_HOSTS SERVICE=* COLOR=red MAIL alert at mydomain.com # Notify webdev about (only) web errors on web5 and web6 # FIXME: Need to make it so that alert at mydomain.com does NOT get these! HOST=$WEB_SERVERS SERVICE=msgs COLOR=red MAIL webdev at mydomain.com # Send an alert to dba phone on oracle-specific problems HOST=$ORACLE_SERVERS SERVICE=msgs,oradb,orasys COLOR=red FORMAT=sms MAIL dbacell at cellphone.com # Send me a page if any hosts go red for more than 30 minutes during offhours HOST=$ALL_HOSTS SERVICE=* COLOR=red DURATION>30 TIME=1700-0800 FORMAT=sms MAIL mycell at cellphone.com # Ignore high load average warnings for dataproc1 in the mornings EXHOST=dataproc1.mydomain.com SERVICE=cpu COLOR=red TIME=0600-1000 MAIL me at mydomain.com

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local TCP test
by saam＠tomikoni.de 28 Oct '05

28 Oct '05

Hi, I have written a netstat tcp test, which i find particularly useful. "netstat" tcp connections sent by the hobbit client will be scanned on the hobbit server for sourceport, targetport and connection state. This helps you verify that a process is listening on port 80, that at least 5 connections are established to your database server, that the telnet port is really closed or that there are no more than 100 connections in TIME_WAIT state. The handling/display is quite similar to the "PROC" option in hobbit-clients.cfg. If there is interest, I would like to contribute it, because i think that hobbit is a great tool (I'm currently migrating from bb). How is the procedure? Regards, Mirko

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Problem with NCV graphs
by gsteer＠firstwave.com.au 28 Oct '05

28 Oct '05

I'm having problems getting a NCV graph to work. The status script runs on the monitoring client without error and the status result appears on the Hobbit web page in the format expected. The rrd file gets created but the data doesn't get added consistently. The figures that do get graphed are large ones e.g a heartbeat value was 3 but a value of 32579345 gets put into the rrd Here's the script fragment that sends the status message. (I've tried replacing the = with a : but same results.) -- /usr/local/bb/bbc1.9e-btf/bin/bb 202.12.141.141 "status mailserver,domain,com.heartbeat $colour `date` HeartbeatTime=$elapsed " -- What I've added to hobbitserver.cfgr.cfg TEST2RRD="cpu=la,disk,inode,qtree,memory, $PINGCOLUMN=tcp,http=tcp,dns=tcp,dig=tcp,time=ntpstat,vmstat,vmstat5,iostat,netstat, temperature,apache,bind,sendmail,mailq,nmailq=mailq,socks,bea,iishealth,citrix,bbgen, bbtest,bbproxy,hobbitd,heartbeat,heartbeat=ncv" NCV_heartbeat="HeartbeatTime:COUNTER" The graph specification in hobbitgraph.cfg [heartbeat] FNPATTERN heartbeat.rrd TITLE Email Heartbeat YAXIS Transit Time DEF:HeartbeatTime at RRDIDX@=@RRDFN@:HeartbeatTime:AVERAGE LINE1:HeartbeatTime at RRDIDX@#@COLOR@:Heartbeat Period @RRDPARAM@ COMMENT:\n GPRINT:HeartbeatTime at RRDIDX@:LAST: \: %5.1lf (cur) GPRINT:HeartbeatTime at RRDIDX@:MAX: \: %5.1lf (max) GPRINT:HeartbeatTime at RRDIDX@:MIN: \: %5.1lf (min) GPRINT:HeartbeatTime at RRDIDX@:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf (avg)\n COMMENT:\n I did write a do_heartbeat.c routine for an older version of Hobbit but the NCV option seemed more attractive that editing any new versions of hobbit I install. -- Geoff Steer <gsteer at firstwave.com.au> -------------------------------Safe Stamp----------------------------------- The sender's Anti-virus Service scanned this email. It is safe from known viruses.

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Missed pages going from Yellow to Red
by hobbit＠pvaughan.us 27 Oct '05

27 Oct '05

This morning I had a filesystem start to fill up and go to a yellow state. Hobbit sent the Email as expected. But then the alarm went to a red state. Once it goes to a red state, I should get a page. At first I thought it might be something to do with the long REPEAT time on this rule, but it looks like there is only a problem when the state is yellow and then switches to red. Has anyone else noticed similar behavior?

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