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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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External scripts - template or how-to ?
by torben.aagaard＠gmail.com 25 Oct '05

25 Oct '05

It's me again :) Just installed my first hobbit server - and now I can't wait to stuff more and more tests into the box. Hobbit does come with a lot of predefined tests, but I've come to the point where I'd like to create my own external test. Is there a skeleton or template for ext scripts somewhere ? Or perhaps a nice HOW-TO ? Poking around on the web gives me some ideas ( how to launch, use bbhostgrep, ect. ) - but I'm sure some of you guys have allready done this. For instance, how do you determine if tests should be done on the ip-addresse or the host name ? Thanks for your time ... /Torben

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ldap test without binary output
by torben.aagaard＠gmail.com 25 Oct '05

25 Oct '05

Hi List Is it possible to do a ldap test and NOT display the (binary) output from the ldap query ? I'm monitoring a Certificate Revokation List, which is in binary format. Hobbit displays the output on the web page, and it sure is ugly :) Thanks /Torben

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Hobbit client data parsing
by arnoud＠koekiemonster.com 25 Oct '05

25 Oct '05

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 And after that the disk graphs are split up because there are 2 extra diskslices added: "/status" "//dev/ad0s1b" According to the graph the counters for these slices are "nan" instead of 0.0 or any other number. Does anybody have familiar problems? Henrik, is there a smart way to make a copy of the clientdata file if there are any alerts (red or yellow)?

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[hobbit] External Paging
by Jason.Chambers＠geosoft.com 24 Oct '05

24 Oct '05

I've actually downloaded a program called SMSSend which does web based SMS messages to any provider/number you can download off the website. Then I created a small shell script that will execute off the SCRIPT command in the hobbit-alerts.cfg file, formatting the output in anyway I need. 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: Pat Vaughan [mailto:hobbit at pvaughan.us] Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 2:34 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] External Paging We have a dedicated server that has a serial link directly to our paging provider that we were using. Instead of buying the companies paging client/server software we wrote our own. I'm currently waiting for an enhancement to it so I can send longer pages. Currently, I'm using Email paging, which our pager provider allows. Either way, I parse the output of the entire status page with some really simple shell scripts to deliver more descriptive pages. I end up with a generic page that just says "servername.net cpu problem. ACK Code: xxxx" for tests where a generic page is appropriate. For other tests (disk for instance) I usually just look for the lines that start with "&red" and scrape the text out of it. In some of our home written tests, I've started adding lines like <hobbitpage This is the text to send >. That way the browsers won't display it, but it's easy to scrape the text out with a simple script. It would be nice if there were some kind of convention for that. I've started doing the same things for graphing <hobbitgraph 10 20 30>. It makes the external scripts to populate the rrd files dirt simple. Of course, that's no help at all for paging via modem :) I had setup hylafax ( http://www.hylafax.org/ ) in the past. And it works, but was a pain to get to work with my provider at the time. I had to get through to the right technical resource at the paging company. I've found that no matter how you end up delivering the pages, the scripts are mostly the same, it's just a matter of shelling out to execute whichever program you need to (mailx or sendpage or whatever). > Hello, > I am currently running Hobbit 4.2.1 on Fedora Core 4\Compaq DL380. > Everything is working great with Hobbit and I'm onto the next step of > setting up paging using a modem to dial out to our blackberries\cell > phones. > I would greatly appreciate any suggestions on how I can get this started > or > on how anyone has their paging environment setup. > Thanks much, > bill > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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External Paging
by billieperez＠gmail.com 24 Oct '05

24 Oct '05

Hello, I am currently running Hobbit 4.2.1 on Fedora Core 4\Compaq DL380. Everything is working great with Hobbit and I'm onto the next step of setting up paging using a modem to dial out to our blackberries\cell phones. I would greatly appreciate any suggestions on how I can get this started or on how anyone has their paging environment setup. Thanks much, bill

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