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[hobbit] External scripts not working the same?
by Jason.Chambers＠geosoft.com 25 Oct '05

25 Oct '05

Most scripts I've seen on deadcat.net will parse for the test you called for then run it. Thankfully hobbit comes with a nifty little util that will return hosts/ips that have that test name for you. All you have to do then is have a script run through a loop with that list and test them all. I can't remember what that util is called, but I read it in the manuals somewhere. Jason Chambers IT Helpdesk Support Geosoft Inc. 85 Richmond St. West - 8th Floor Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5H 2C9 Tel: 416-369-0111 x344 Fax: 416-369-9599 www.geosoft.com -----Original Message----- From: Stewart_Larsen at doh.state.fl.us [mailto:Stewart_Larsen at doh.state.fl.us] Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 1:03 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] External scripts not working the same? It is not doing that right now. I could easily rewrite it to do so, but that is not the ideal solution. Basically, you pass it an IP address, it performs the tests and calls bb to send the status to the server. Stewart -----Original Message----- From: Jason Chambers [mailto:Jason.Chambers at geosoft.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 12:57 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] External scripts not working the same? Correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't your script be parsing the bb-hosts file for the router_test tag? If that's the case, then it should run fine. Unless you are statically defining your tests. Jason Chambers IT Helpdesk Support Geosoft Inc. 85 Richmond St. West - 8th Floor Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5H 2C9 Tel: 416-369-0111 x344 Fax: 416-369-9599 www.geosoft.com -----Original Message----- From: Stewart_Larsen at doh.state.fl.us [mailto:Stewart_Larsen at doh.state.fl.us] Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 12:51 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] External scripts not working the same? Greetings, We are looking at migrating from BB to Hobbit. One major stumbling block right now is that we have over 400 devices on the network right now that we monitor via SNMP. Firewalls, Routers, proxies, etc. Our basic script in BB was under the ext folder on the server and was run every 5 minutes when bbtest-net ran. An instance of this script was called for each device we needed checked. It pulled the IP address of the device from the environment variables and called the bb executable with it's result when the test was completed. This doesn't seem to be possible in hobbit. Every reference I've seen in the archives has told people to use hobbitlaunch. Unless I'm misunderstanding things (which is possible...), I can tell hobbitlaunch to fire off my external script every 5 minutes, but the script will only run that one time, meaning I'd have to modify my script to run a loop through all of the devices that I want the test run for. This is not really the way we want to go, because then it ignores the hosts that are planned down for maintenance and such. What I'd like to do is add a service tag in the bbhost file called router_test. Then, when the network tests are run, hobbit should be smart enough to know that there is an external script defined in hobbitlaunch.cfg that matches that tag and run it for that machine. Is this possible? Little help for a newbie to Hobbit? Stewart To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk -- BEGIN-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS ------------------------------------------------------ Teach CanIt if this mail (ID 49400092) is spam: Spam: https://dohsmsi01.doh.state.fl.us/canit/b.php?c=s&i=49400092&m=62354c87c f96 Not spam: https://dohsmsi01.doh.state.fl.us/canit/b.php?c=n&i=49400092&m=62354c87c f96 Forget vote: https://dohsmsi01.doh.state.fl.us/canit/b.php?c=f&i=49400092&m=62354c87c f96 ------------------------------------------------------ END-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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NK Page
by hobbitsam＠gmail.com 25 Oct '05

25 Oct '05

Hi, how can I add events (like bb2 page) to NK page ? Thanks. Antonio Marques

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[hobbit] External scripts not working the same?
by Stewart_Larsen＠doh.state.fl.us 25 Oct '05

25 Oct '05

It is not doing that right now. I could easily rewrite it to do so, but that is not the ideal solution. Basically, you pass it an IP address, it performs the tests and calls bb to send the status to the server. Stewart -----Original Message----- From: Jason Chambers [mailto:Jason.Chambers at geosoft.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 12:57 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] External scripts not working the same? Correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't your script be parsing the bb-hosts file for the router_test tag? If that's the case, then it should run fine. Unless you are statically defining your tests. Jason Chambers IT Helpdesk Support Geosoft Inc. 85 Richmond St. West - 8th Floor Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5H 2C9 Tel: 416-369-0111 x344 Fax: 416-369-9599 www.geosoft.com -----Original Message----- From: Stewart_Larsen at doh.state.fl.us [mailto:Stewart_Larsen at doh.state.fl.us] Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 12:51 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] External scripts not working the same? Greetings, We are looking at migrating from BB to Hobbit. One major stumbling block right now is that we have over 400 devices on the network right now that we monitor via SNMP. Firewalls, Routers, proxies, etc. Our basic script in BB was under the ext folder on the server and was run every 5 minutes when bbtest-net ran. An instance of this script was called for each device we needed checked. It pulled the IP address of the device from the environment variables and called the bb executable with it's result when the test was completed. This doesn't seem to be possible in hobbit. Every reference I've seen in the archives has told people to use hobbitlaunch. Unless I'm misunderstanding things (which is possible...), I can tell hobbitlaunch to fire off my external script every 5 minutes, but the script will only run that one time, meaning I'd have to modify my script to run a loop through all of the devices that I want the test run for. This is not really the way we want to go, because then it ignores the hosts that are planned down for maintenance and such. What I'd like to do is add a service tag in the bbhost file called router_test. Then, when the network tests are run, hobbit should be smart enough to know that there is an external script defined in hobbitlaunch.cfg that matches that tag and run it for that machine. Is this possible? Little help for a newbie to Hobbit? Stewart To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk -- BEGIN-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS ------------------------------------------------------ Teach CanIt if this mail (ID 49400092) is spam: Spam: https://dohsmsi01.doh.state.fl.us/canit/b.php?c=s&i=49400092&m=62354c87c f96 Not spam: https://dohsmsi01.doh.state.fl.us/canit/b.php?c=n&i=49400092&m=62354c87c f96 Forget vote: https://dohsmsi01.doh.state.fl.us/canit/b.php?c=f&i=49400092&m=62354c87c f96 ------------------------------------------------------ END-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS

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[hobbit] External scripts not working the same?
by rdeal＠tigr.ORG 25 Oct '05

25 Oct '05

Are you using the snmp script from deadcat or maybe the bb-xsnmp.pl script? In any case hobbitlaunch runs things generally every 5 minutes. Here are some examples that I have added to the hobbitlaunch.cfg on the server: [aironet] ENVFILE /local/packages/IT/HOBBIT/hobbit/client/etc/hobbitclient.cfg NEEDS hobbitd CMD /local/packages/IT/HOBBIT/hobbit/server/ext/aironet.pl LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/aironet.log INTERVAL 5m [snmp] ENVFILE /local/packages/IT/HOBBIT/hobbit/client/etc/hobbitclient.cfg NEEDS hobbitd CMD /local/packages/IT/HOBBIT/hobbit/server/ext/snmp LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/snmp.log INTERVAL 5m This has the server run these two scripts (snmp and aironet.pl) every 5 minutes (from the INTERVAL line), and sets the environment from the hobbitclient.cfg file. -----Original Message----- From: Stewart_Larsen at doh.state.fl.us [mailto:Stewart_Larsen at doh.state.fl.us] Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 12:51 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] External scripts not working the same? Greetings, We are looking at migrating from BB to Hobbit. One major stumbling block right now is that we have over 400 devices on the network right now that we monitor via SNMP. Firewalls, Routers, proxies, etc. Our basic script in BB was under the ext folder on the server and was run every 5 minutes when bbtest-net ran. An instance of this script was called for each device we needed checked. It pulled the IP address of the device from the environment variables and called the bb executable with it's result when the test was completed. This doesn't seem to be possible in hobbit. Every reference I've seen in the archives has told people to use hobbitlaunch. Unless I'm misunderstanding things (which is possible...), I can tell hobbitlaunch to fire off my external script every 5 minutes, but the script will only run that one time, meaning I'd have to modify my script to run a loop through all of the devices that I want the test run for. This is not really the way we want to go, because then it ignores the hosts that are planned down for maintenance and such. What I'd like to do is add a service tag in the bbhost file called router_test. Then, when the network tests are run, hobbit should be smart enough to know that there is an external script defined in hobbitlaunch.cfg that matches that tag and run it for that machine. Is this possible? Little help for a newbie to Hobbit? Stewart To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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[hobbit] External scripts not working the same?
by Jason.Chambers＠geosoft.com 25 Oct '05

25 Oct '05

Correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't your script be parsing the bb-hosts file for the router_test tag? If that's the case, then it should run fine. Unless you are statically defining your tests. Jason Chambers IT Helpdesk Support Geosoft Inc. 85 Richmond St. West - 8th Floor Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5H 2C9 Tel: 416-369-0111 x344 Fax: 416-369-9599 www.geosoft.com -----Original Message----- From: Stewart_Larsen at doh.state.fl.us [mailto:Stewart_Larsen at doh.state.fl.us] Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 12:51 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] External scripts not working the same? Greetings, We are looking at migrating from BB to Hobbit. One major stumbling block right now is that we have over 400 devices on the network right now that we monitor via SNMP. Firewalls, Routers, proxies, etc. Our basic script in BB was under the ext folder on the server and was run every 5 minutes when bbtest-net ran. An instance of this script was called for each device we needed checked. It pulled the IP address of the device from the environment variables and called the bb executable with it's result when the test was completed. This doesn't seem to be possible in hobbit. Every reference I've seen in the archives has told people to use hobbitlaunch. Unless I'm misunderstanding things (which is possible...), I can tell hobbitlaunch to fire off my external script every 5 minutes, but the script will only run that one time, meaning I'd have to modify my script to run a loop through all of the devices that I want the test run for. This is not really the way we want to go, because then it ignores the hosts that are planned down for maintenance and such. What I'd like to do is add a service tag in the bbhost file called router_test. Then, when the network tests are run, hobbit should be smart enough to know that there is an external script defined in hobbitlaunch.cfg that matches that tag and run it for that machine. Is this possible? Little help for a newbie to Hobbit? Stewart To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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oct 25 snapshot fails to compile on hpux 11 gcc 2.9-hppa000310
by michael.nemeth＠lmco.com 25 Oct '05

25 Oct '05

Looks like the new disk stuff! hobbitd_client.c 755 too few args to func 'get_disk_thesholds' -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ | _p_ Mike Nemeth | ___| |_____ email(w) michael.nemeth at lmco.com Work: 856 359-1425 |><___________) | Home Page:http://www.geocities.com/mjnemeth/ | Work Page:http://faraday.motown.lmco.com:3000/~nemethm/ | Work Page:http://ortsweb/~mnemeth/ |++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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[hobbit] Hobbit client data parsing
by Larry.Barber＠usda.gov 25 Oct '05

25 Oct '05

I've noticed this happening a few times to my setup as well. It happens when the [df] section in the clientdata is empty. Thanks, Larry Barber On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 16:31 -0500, arnoud at koekiemonster.com wrote: > I have just made a script which makes a copy of the clientdata file > when > an alert is seen. Now I just have to wait and see... > > #!/bin/sh > # > CP="/bin/cp" > BBHOME="/usr/local/hobbit" > DATE=`/bin/date "+%Y%M%d.%H%M%S"` > $CP $BBHOME/client/tmp/msg.txt $BBHOME/client/logs/clientdata.$DATE > > and added in hobbit-alerts.cfg: > HOST=www.foobar.com > SCRIPT /usr/local/hobbit/server/bin/copy_clientdata.sh > > Grt, > Arnoud > > > lars ebeling wrote: > > > > > > > > >> On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 10:52:29AM +0200, Arnoud Post wrote: > >> > >>> I use Hobbit client and server, but the data was not parsed > >>> propperly. This > >>> happend 2 times now. > >>> > >>> The disk check gives this error: > >>> - Filesystems NOT ok > >>> red Expected string (Capacity and Mounted) not found in df > output > >>> header > >>> > > This happens me at least once a day at the hobbitserver. I have > > written abou this Aug 16. I think there are timing problems when > the > > client-script is running. This is what I got. > > > > > > Tue Aug 16 13:56:37 METDST 2005 - Filesystems NOT ok > > Expected string (Capacity and Mounted) not found in df output > header > > > > System: leopg9 Tue Aug 16 13:56:37 2005 > > > > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > > >

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AW: [hobbit] increasing no. of hobbitd zombie's
by Heinecke＠hansenet.com 25 Oct '05

25 Oct '05

Hi Henrik, here is the "ps -lw -u hobbit": IVRP01:/opt/monitoring/hobbit/server/etc# ps -lw -u hobbit F S UID PID PPID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN TTY TIME CMD 1 S 1014 28281 1 0 60 0 - 380 nanosl ? 00:00:00 hobbitlaunch 0 S 1014 28282 28281 0 69 0 - 856 select ? 00:00:00 hobbitd 0 S 1014 28283 28281 0 69 0 - 384 select ? 00:00:00 bbproxy 0 S 1014 28288 28281 0 69 0 - 508 semtim ? 00:00:00 hobbitd_channel 0 S 1014 28289 28288 0 69 0 - 521 select ? 00:00:00 hobbitd_history 1 Z 1014 30216 28282 0 69 0 - 0 exit ? 00:00:00 hobbitd <defunct> 0 S 1014 30243 1 0 77 0 - 578 wait4 ? 00:00:00 sh 0 S 1014 30246 30243 0 76 0 - 392 nanosl ? 00:00:00 vmstat OK Henrik, now i have no hobbitd running and everything looks fine. Great! I will also check out your patch in the next time. :-)) Thanks! Michael -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Gesendet: Dienstag, 25. Oktober 2005 12:51 An: hobbit at hswn.dk Betreff: Re: [hobbit] increasing no. of hobbitd zombie's On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 11:57:57AM +0200, Heinecke at hansenet.com wrote: > Hi, > > every "checkpoint-interval" i get a new hobbitd zombie process. > > #> ps auxwww > ----snip --- > hobbit 25559 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 11:06 0:00 [hobbitd] <defunct> > hobbit 25917 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 11:16 0:00 [hobbitd] <defunct> > hobbit 26283 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 11:26 0:00 [hobbitd] <defunct> > hobbit 26648 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 11:36 0:00 [hobbitd] <defunct> You're right that it is related to the checkpoint'ing - hobbitd forks a child process to save the checkpoint file. What I don't understand is why it isn't cleaned up afterwards. Could you do a "ps -lw -u hobbit" ? I'm curious to see what the PPID is for these zombies. > This happens on Debian LINUX 3.1 'Sarge'. Analog config on different Solaris 8 SPARC Boxes => no problem. > > On the Debian box, i have DISABLED bbdisplay in hobbitlaunch.cfg, because this box should only act as a kind of LAN probe (only bb-net and forwarding of LAN client stati to a central bbdisplay) In that case you don't need hobbitd running at all. Hmm - perhaps this happens because there are no messages sent to this hobbitd instance. I think that's the cause - looking over the code it seems that if no messages arrive, the code to clean up the child processes is never reached. The attached patch should fix it, although it is of course a non-issue if you stop hobbitd on this box. Regards, Henrik

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increasing no. of hobbitd zombie's
by Heinecke＠hansenet.com 25 Oct '05

25 Oct '05

Hi, every "checkpoint-interval" i get a new hobbitd zombie process. #> ps auxwww ----snip --- hobbit 25559 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 11:06 0:00 [hobbitd] <defunct> hobbit 25917 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 11:16 0:00 [hobbitd] <defunct> hobbit 26283 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 11:26 0:00 [hobbitd] <defunct> hobbit 26648 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 11:36 0:00 [hobbitd] <defunct> ----snip --- hobbitlaunch.cfg: [hobbitd] section: CMD hobbitd --debug --pidfile=$BBSERVERLOGS/hobbitd.pid --restart=$BBTMP/hobbitd.chk --checkpoint-file=$BBTMP/hobbitd.chk --checkpoint-interval=600 --log=$BBSERVERLOGS/hobbitd.log --admin-senders=127.0.0.1,$BBSERVERIP ... the last zombie appears at 11:36 ..., this is the hobbitd.log (debug mode) - look's good, i think ;-) ... 2005-10-25 11:36:11 Sending heartbeat to pid 25202 2005-10-25 11:36:17 Sending heartbeat to pid 25202 2005-10-25 11:36:17 -> check_purple_status 2005-10-25 11:36:17 <- check_purple_status 2005-10-25 11:36:17 -> generate_stats 2005-10-25 11:36:17 <- generate_stats 2005-10-25 11:36:17 -> get_hts 2005-10-25 11:36:17 <- get_hts 2005-10-25 11:36:17 ->handle_status 2005-10-25 11:36:17 posting to status channel 2005-10-25 11:36:17 -> posttochannel 2005-10-25 11:36:17 Dropping message - no readers 2005-10-25 11:36:17 <-handle_status 2005-10-25 11:36:23 Sending heartbeat to pid 25202 2005-10-25 11:36:25 -> save_checkpoint 2005-10-25 11:36:25 <- save_checkpoint 2005-10-25 11:36:29 Sending heartbeat to pid 25202 2005-10-25 11:36:35 Sending heartbeat to pid 25202 ... This happens on Debian LINUX 3.1 'Sarge'. Analog config on different Solaris 8 SPARC Boxes => no problem. On the Debian box, i have DISABLED bbdisplay in hobbitlaunch.cfg, because this box should only act as a kind of LAN probe (only bb-net and forwarding of LAN client stati to a central bbdisplay) No big issue (my next step: increase the checkpoint interval ;-) - but maybe someone else may run into trouble. :-) Michael --------------- Michael Heinecke CAX / UNIX&VoD HanseNet Telekommunikation GmbH Überseering 33 a, 22297 Hamburg Telefon: +49 (0)40 23726-2768 Telefax: +49 (0)40 23726-3485 <http://www.alice-dsl.de/> http://www.alice-dsl.de, <http://www.hansenet.de/> http://www.hansenet.de

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AW: [hobbit] increasing no. of hobbitd zombie's
by Heinecke＠hansenet.com 25 Oct '05

25 Oct '05

Hi Arnoud, ahhh... OK. Then, i guess, it's not exclusively forced by my local setup. BTW, setting '--checkpoint-interval' up to 3600 sec's alters the behavior to the expected 'one zombie per hour'. hobbit at hswn.dk : FYI ... :-) Thanks, Michael -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Arnoud Post [mailto:arnoud at koekiemonster.com] Gesendet: Dienstag, 25. Oktober 2005 12:13 An: Heinecke, Michael HTK Betreff: Re: [hobbit] increasing no. of hobbitd zombie's Same here on a default install on FreeBSD 5.3. Best Regards, Arnoud Post Quoting Heinecke at hansenet.com: > Hi, > > every "checkpoint-interval" i get a new hobbitd zombie process. > > #> ps auxwww > ----snip --- > hobbit 25559 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 11:06 0:00 > [hobbitd] <defunct> > hobbit 25917 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 11:16 0:00 > [hobbitd] <defunct> > hobbit 26283 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 11:26 0:00 > [hobbitd] <defunct> > hobbit 26648 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 11:36 0:00 > [hobbitd] <defunct> > ----snip --- > > hobbitlaunch.cfg: [hobbitd] section: > > CMD hobbitd --debug --pidfile=$BBSERVERLOGS/hobbitd.pid > --restart=$BBTMP/hobbitd.chk --checkpoint-file=$BBTMP/hobbitd.chk > --checkpoint-interval=600 --log=$BBSERVERLOGS/hobbitd.log > --admin-senders=127.0.0.1,$BBSERVERIP > > ... the last zombie appears at 11:36 ..., this is the hobbitd.log > (debug mode) - look's good, i think ;-) > > ... > 2005-10-25 11:36:11 Sending heartbeat to pid 25202 > 2005-10-25 11:36:17 Sending heartbeat to pid 25202 > 2005-10-25 11:36:17 -> check_purple_status > 2005-10-25 11:36:17 <- check_purple_status > 2005-10-25 11:36:17 -> generate_stats > 2005-10-25 11:36:17 <- generate_stats > 2005-10-25 11:36:17 -> get_hts > 2005-10-25 11:36:17 <- get_hts > 2005-10-25 11:36:17 ->handle_status > 2005-10-25 11:36:17 posting to status channel > 2005-10-25 11:36:17 -> posttochannel > 2005-10-25 11:36:17 Dropping message - no readers > 2005-10-25 11:36:17 <-handle_status > 2005-10-25 11:36:23 Sending heartbeat to pid 25202 > 2005-10-25 11:36:25 -> save_checkpoint > 2005-10-25 11:36:25 <- save_checkpoint > 2005-10-25 11:36:29 Sending heartbeat to pid 25202 > 2005-10-25 11:36:35 Sending heartbeat to pid 25202 > ... > > This happens on Debian LINUX 3.1 'Sarge'. Analog config on different > Solaris 8 SPARC Boxes => no problem. > > On the Debian box, i have DISABLED bbdisplay in hobbitlaunch.cfg, > because this box should only act as a kind of LAN probe (only bb-net > and forwarding of LAN client stati to a central bbdisplay) > No big issue (my next step: increase the checkpoint interval ;-) - > but maybe someone else may run into trouble. > > :-) Michael > > --------------- > Michael Heinecke > CAX / UNIX&VoD > > HanseNet Telekommunikation GmbH > Überseering 33 a, 22297 Hamburg > Telefon: +49 (0)40 23726-2768 > Telefax: +49 (0)40 23726-3485 > > <http://www.alice-dsl.de/> http://www.alice-dsl.de, > <http://www.hansenet.de/> http://www.hansenet.de > > >

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