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[hobbit] Novell monitoring
by rgordonjr＠gmail.com 17 Nov '05

17 Nov '05

On 11/16/05, DANIEL MAGNUSZEWSKI <dmagnuszewski at mandtbank.com> wrote: > > If you have SNMP running on these devices, then I can recommend a Big > Brother external script that I wrote to monitor my Novell servers. > Unfortunately it's not a client, but uses information from Cacti > (http://www.cacti.net) and sends it to Big Brother. > Hopefully this will help. > Thank you - Not sure is snmp is on the system or not (someone else is the admin for it) but this gets me headed in the right direction.. I'm much better in perl than C so if I need to make mods, etc it shouldn't be that hard. Thanks again! -- --==[ Bob Gordon ]==--

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[hobbit] Novell monitoring
by dmagnuszewski＠mandtbank.com 16 Nov '05

16 Nov '05

Bob, I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for, but... If you have SNMP running on these devices, then I can recommend a Big Brother external script that I wrote to monitor my Novell servers. Unfortunately it's not a client, but uses information from Cacti (http://www.cacti.net) and sends it to Big Brother. Unless I'm missing something, this should work fine for Novell 6.5 servers. http://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?p=24613#24613 http://www.deadcat.net/viewfile.php?fileid=890 Hopefully this will help. Daniel Magnuszewski CCNA M & T Bank dmagnuszewski { at } mandtbank.com >>> rgordonjr at gmail.com 11/16/05 3:43 PM >>> Hello all - Any one know the best way to monitor not only system performance but user performance on a Novell 6.5 system using Hobbit? On the BB4 site I see a client that works with Novell 4x & 5x and on deadcat I see two older scripts as well (but both will require a rewrite to get working on 6.5 - based on what I saw) Thanks! -- --==[ Bob Gordon ]==--

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Novell monitoring
by rgordonjr＠gmail.com 16 Nov '05

16 Nov '05

Hello all - Any one know the best way to monitor not only system performance but user performance on a Novell 6.5 system using Hobbit? On the BB4 site I see a client that works with Novell 4x & 5x and on deadcat I see two older scripts as well (but both will require a rewrite to get working on 6.5 - based on what I saw) Thanks! -- --==[ Bob Gordon ]==--

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cpu problems after upgrade
by adam.scheblein＠marquette.edu 16 Nov '05

16 Nov '05

Greetings, I upgraded hobbit to 4.1.2p1, and all of the sudden hobbitd_client is now using on average 70% of my cpu. Is there any way to debug this?? Thanks, Adam

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BB Map Plugin
by PNIXON＠ci.somerville.ma.us 16 Nov '05

16 Nov '05

Hey there, I was wondering if anyone was running the bbmap plugin on their installation of Hobbit? If so, did you have any installation issues? Thanks, Pat

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problems after upgrade
by longina＠imada.sdu.dk 16 Nov '05

16 Nov '05

hi, I upgraded hobbit to 4.1.2p1 version, and all my graphs dissapeared - In rrd-status.log there are a lot of following messages: --- 2005-11-16 14:14:29 RRD error updating /opt/hobbit/data/rrd/euridike.imada.sdu.dk/tcp.conn.rrd from 130.225.128.14: illegal attempt to update using time 1132146869 when last update time is 1 132146869 (minimum one second step) --- I didn't change configuration, and I saw those messages in the previous version with graphs however...;) Is it nntp problem in my network, or what? Any suggestions? regards, Longina -- Longina Przybyszewska, system programmer Dept. of Math. & Comp. Sci. - IMADA University of Southern Denmark, Odense Campusvej 55,DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark tel: +45 6550 2359 - http://www.imada.sdu.dk email: longina at imada.sdu.dk --

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R: [hobbit] bbdisplay problem
by damiano.vozza＠apss.tn.it 16 Nov '05

16 Nov '05

It works! Thanks Damiano Vozza Azienda Provinciale per i Servizi Sanitari Servizio Sistemi Informativi Ospedale S. Chiara Via Crosina Sartori 6 Trento - Italy tel. (+39) 0461364856 fax. (+39) 0461903593 e-mail damiano.vozza at apss.tn.it web site www.apss.tn.it -----Messaggio originale----- Da: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Inviato: martedì 15 novembre 2005 13.14 A: hobbit at hswn.dk Oggetto: Re: [hobbit] bbdisplay problem On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 11:39:41AM +0100, Vozza Damiano wrote: > But with 4.1.2 and 4.1.2 p1 bbdisplay halts and hobbitlaunch.log > reports: > > "Task bbdisplay terminated by signal 6" > > #5 0x0000000000404586 in init_group (title=0x53a746 "Hobbit", > onlycols=0x0, exceptcols=0x5 <Address 0x5 out of bounds>) at loadbbhosts.c:161 Thanks, that is a silly bug on my part. The attached patch should fix it. Save the attached file to /tmp/hobbit.patch, then cd hobbit-4.1.2p1 patch -p0 < /tmp/hobbit.patch Run "make" and "make install". Regards, Henrik

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[hobbit] hobbit + bb-xsnmp.pl
by rdeal＠tigr.ORG 15 Nov '05

15 Nov '05

I don't like the idea of performing ping tests from the script so it just checks the status of the conn test, if it is red it scripts that host for the xsnmp round. It might be better to send a clear message. Hobbit will recheck the conn test if it is red anyway. My main problem was that we check 55 difference devices with bb-xsnmp and many of them for different tests like cpu, memory, temperature, uptime, fans, power, disk, bgp, etc. If an access point goes down, it is relatively minor for us but bb-xsnmp would hang causing about 300 purple alerts for good hosts. With this small modification only the one access point tests would go purple and everything else would be ok. I am more of a C coder myself so I am sure someone else could improve on what I uploaded (that is mostly why I uploaded it ;) Butch > -----Original Message----- > From: PNIXON at ci.somerville.ma.us [mailto:PNIXON at ci.somerville.ma.us] > Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 2:47 PM > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: RE: [hobbit] hobbit + bb-xsnmp.pl > > Wouldn't it be better to query hobbit and check the status of the > connection > than run the ping test again? (Not that I could currently code this, but > I've seen reference to this method before) > > --Pat > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dan Vande More [mailto:bigdan at gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 11:43 AM > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: Re: [hobbit] hobbit + bb-xsnmp.pl > > > The script was empty:) > Thanks for the info though, I really like the idea of it pinging > before checking. Also, I got hobbit to graph temperature by hacking it > to spit out the format that hobbit likes. Note hobbit expects the > third column to be degrees F, where as I just print the threshold. > Since the thresholds aren't really acurate (Some say 750C, some say > 65535C, etc), and hobbit doesn't use the F column, I just put it there > for good measure. > > Since a diff wouldn't do you any good either, here are the lines I've > changed: > > > (line 2981, inside sub temperature_message) # compose message > $message = "status $commahost.$test $worstcolor > ".scalar(localtime)."\n\n"; > my @indices = sort { $a <=> $b } keys(%statedb); > foreach my $index (@indices) { > my $description=$descrdb{$index}; > $description=~s/ |:|-|$|$|\\|\//_/g; > $description=~s/__/_/g; > $description=lc($description); > $message .= '&'.$colordb{$index}." > $description\t".$valuedb{$index}."\t".$threshdb{$index}."\n"; > } # foreach my $index (@indices) > > The only thing I have to work on now is splitting the graphs. My > 7609's have 47 temperature sensors apiece:) > > Thanks again for the help. > > Dan > > On 11/15/05, Deal, Richard <rdeal at tigr.org> wrote: > > I have a version of bb-xsnmp.pl running directly under hobbit. Most of > > the graphs already work with the hobbit server. > > I ripped out all the bb-combo.sh stuff as hobbit doesn't have combo.sh > > but that is just to get it to run under the hobbit server. > > I also added support for querying the hobbit server to see if a conn > > test is red to prevent hangs. This was a bigger deal as I would find > > that bb-xsnmp.pl would hang if a small non-important device failed such > > as a wireless access point and all the other devices would go purple > > instantly. > > I could give the patches but my version of bb-xsnmp.pl is based on a > > beta version I received from someone else that fixed other issues, so I > > will include the whole thing. > > > > I put this in hobbitlaunch.cfg: > > [xsnmp] > > ENVFILE /local/HOBBIT/hobbit/client/etc/hobbitclient.cfg > > NEEDS hobbitd > > CMD /local/HOBBIT/hobbit/server/ext/bb-xsnmp.pl > > LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/bb-xsnmp.log > > INTERVAL 5m > > I have it testing several APC UPS units with environment monitors > > (temperature graph doesn't work but monitoring does) > > > > 5 netapp servers for : cpu disk fans power temperature uptime > > Cpu, disk, and inode graphs work > > > > 65xx IOS routers/switches for : cpu uptime memory power fans temperature > > bgp > > Cpu graph works but temperature is totally unusable > > > > 65xx CatOS switches for : uptime memory power fans temperature > > > > Cisco 12xx wireless access points for: cpu memory > > Cpu graph works. > > > > I hope this helps > > BTW, I also run these from the Hobbit server: > > aironet.pl > > bb-ospf.pl > > bb-xsnmp.pl > > bb-brocade.pl > > bb-liebert.pl > > > > And these on various clients: > > bb-cpu2.sh > > bb-prtdiag.sh > > emc-clarrion.sh > > ntpstat.sh > > bb-msgs.sh > > bb-raid.sh > > sge.sh > > bb-ntp.sh > > bb-vxcheck.sh > > meta > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Dan Vande More [mailto:bigdan at gmail.com] > > > Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 5:36 PM > > > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > > > Subject: [hobbit] hobbit + bb-xsnmp.pl > > > > > > Hey has anyone got the configs to get bb-xsnmp.pl to work with hobbit > > > rrd and graphing? > > > Henrik I saw you offered to do it here: > > > > > > http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2005/04/msg00080.html > > > > > > But I can't find much else regarding it. > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > Dan > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > 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 >

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[hobbit] hobbit + bb-xsnmp.pl
by PNIXON＠ci.somerville.ma.us 15 Nov '05

15 Nov '05

Wouldn't it be better to query hobbit and check the status of the connection than run the ping test again? (Not that I could currently code this, but I've seen reference to this method before) --Pat -----Original Message----- From: Dan Vande More [mailto:bigdan at gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 11:43 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] hobbit + bb-xsnmp.pl The script was empty:) Thanks for the info though, I really like the idea of it pinging before checking. Also, I got hobbit to graph temperature by hacking it to spit out the format that hobbit likes. Note hobbit expects the third column to be degrees F, where as I just print the threshold. Since the thresholds aren't really acurate (Some say 750C, some say 65535C, etc), and hobbit doesn't use the F column, I just put it there for good measure. Since a diff wouldn't do you any good either, here are the lines I've changed: (line 2981, inside sub temperature_message) # compose message $message = "status $commahost.$test $worstcolor ".scalar(localtime)."\n\n"; my @indices = sort { $a <=> $b } keys(%statedb); foreach my $index (@indices) { my $description=$descrdb{$index}; $description=~s/ |:|-|$|$|\\|\//_/g; $description=~s/__/_/g; $description=lc($description); $message .= '&'.$colordb{$index}." $description\t".$valuedb{$index}."\t".$threshdb{$index}."\n"; } # foreach my $index (@indices) The only thing I have to work on now is splitting the graphs. My 7609's have 47 temperature sensors apiece:) Thanks again for the help. Dan On 11/15/05, Deal, Richard <rdeal at tigr.org> wrote: > I have a version of bb-xsnmp.pl running directly under hobbit. Most of > the graphs already work with the hobbit server. > I ripped out all the bb-combo.sh stuff as hobbit doesn't have combo.sh > but that is just to get it to run under the hobbit server. > I also added support for querying the hobbit server to see if a conn > test is red to prevent hangs. This was a bigger deal as I would find > that bb-xsnmp.pl would hang if a small non-important device failed such > as a wireless access point and all the other devices would go purple > instantly. > I could give the patches but my version of bb-xsnmp.pl is based on a > beta version I received from someone else that fixed other issues, so I > will include the whole thing. > > I put this in hobbitlaunch.cfg: > [xsnmp] > ENVFILE /local/HOBBIT/hobbit/client/etc/hobbitclient.cfg > NEEDS hobbitd > CMD /local/HOBBIT/hobbit/server/ext/bb-xsnmp.pl > LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/bb-xsnmp.log > INTERVAL 5m > I have it testing several APC UPS units with environment monitors > (temperature graph doesn't work but monitoring does) > > 5 netapp servers for : cpu disk fans power temperature uptime > Cpu, disk, and inode graphs work > > 65xx IOS routers/switches for : cpu uptime memory power fans temperature > bgp > Cpu graph works but temperature is totally unusable > > 65xx CatOS switches for : uptime memory power fans temperature > > Cisco 12xx wireless access points for: cpu memory > Cpu graph works. > > I hope this helps > BTW, I also run these from the Hobbit server: > aironet.pl > bb-ospf.pl > bb-xsnmp.pl > bb-brocade.pl > bb-liebert.pl > > And these on various clients: > bb-cpu2.sh > bb-prtdiag.sh > emc-clarrion.sh > ntpstat.sh > bb-msgs.sh > bb-raid.sh > sge.sh > bb-ntp.sh > bb-vxcheck.sh > meta > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Dan Vande More [mailto:bigdan at gmail.com] > > Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 5:36 PM > > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > > Subject: [hobbit] hobbit + bb-xsnmp.pl > > > > Hey has anyone got the configs to get bb-xsnmp.pl to work with hobbit > > rrd and graphing? > > Henrik I saw you offered to do it here: > > > > http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2005/04/msg00080.html > > > > But I can't find much else regarding it. > > > > Thanks > > > > Dan > > > > 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 > > > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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[hobbit] Script Delay
by Al.Jeffcoat＠orhs.org 15 Nov '05

15 Nov '05

Thanks very much for the reply (and Andy and Henrik also)... However, the default time is in minutes, not seconds. I was trying to figure out why status+87600 wasn't turning purple after 24.5 hours :) >From the man page (thanks again Andy). "The LIFETIME is in minutes, unless you add an "h" (hours), "d" (days) or "w" (weeks) immediately after the number, e.g. "status+5h" for a status that is valid for 5 hours." Thanks, Al -----Original Message----- From: Charles Jones [mailto:jonescr at cisco.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 9:08 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Script Delay Jeffcoat, Al wrote: >All, > >Is there a way to write a script in such a way that it only reports in >once a day (I know how to do this part), and then tell hobbit not to >turn that test purple for 24 hours after it receives that last status? > > Al, Sure, just append the number of seconds to your status message (in the format of "+seconds" see example below). Hobbit will then not turn purple unless that time expires and no further status messages have been received. $BB $BBDISP "status+86400 $MACHINE.$COLUMN $COLOR `date` &green This is a green message that won't expire for 24 hours." -Charles To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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