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[hobbit] documentation links
by ReifJefferyM＠JohnDeere.com 30 Nov '05

30 Nov '05

Thanks. I don't know why I didn't see that the first time around. ________________________________ From: Allan.Marillier at dana.com [mailto:Allan.Marillier at dana.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 11:16 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] documentation links I got mine working exactly the same as BB with no special configs - just create files /var/lib/hobbit/www/notes/server.domain.html "Reif Jeffery M" <ReifJefferyM at JohnDeere.com> 11/30/2005 11:50 AM Please respond to hobbit at hswn.dk To hobbit at hswn.dk cc Subject [hobbit] documentation links Is there a way to link the monitored server name to external documentation, like BB did with the "notes" directory? Thank you. To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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hobbitd_client purple?
by jeffnewman75＠gmail.com 30 Nov '05

30 Nov '05

All, I started up the hobbit client on my hobbit server, and for a while (i.e. days at least) all seemed fine. Now the hobbitd_client is purple! I've restarted the hobbit client and that doesn't fix it. When I click on it, it says: -Program Crashed fatal signal caught and yet if I do a ps: # ps -ef | grep hobbitd_client hobbit 24258 24250 0 14:00 ? 00:00:00 hobbitd_channel --channel=client --log=/var/log/hobbit/clientdata.log hobbitd_client hobbit 24259 24258 0 14:00 ? 00:00:00 hobbitd_client it's running. I would attach output from log files if I knew which ones anyone wanted to see, so just let me know. Thanks! Jeff

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documentation links
by ReifJefferyM＠JohnDeere.com 30 Nov '05

30 Nov '05

Is there a way to link the monitored server name to external documentation, like BB did with the "notes" directory? Thank you.

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[hobbit] Disk monitoring and alerts
by Craig_Whilding＠mentor.com 30 Nov '05

30 Nov '05

On a similar note to this, I've just been looking at monitoring certain processes or services which will need a different alert to others on the same box. I don't want to have to write separate scripts to monitor each service as the clients already check the status of each, I was just wondering if it was possible server side to split the alerting of each proc/service or allow the check to be redirected to another page. An example of what I mean is that we check the virus scanner is running on all systems but don't care about this as much as if our clearcase server processes stopped working. Thanks, Craig Whilding ________________________________ From: Allan.Marillier at dana.com [mailto:Allan.Marillier at dana.com] Sent: 30 November 2005 16:41 To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Disk monitoring and alerts We are undergoing some restructuring among support teams, and are separating and defining some responsibilities a little better. System admins will be called on system specific problems, while DBAs and apps support people will be called on others. One of my frequent complaints in the past has been getting calls on filled file systems containing Oracle trace files, dumps, logs, temporary files etc. that I don't feel I should be making decisions to remove, gzip etc. That is changing - DBAs will be called on those file systems in other environments where we're using HP's ITO (aka Vantage Point / OpenView, call it what you will). I want to try to do the same on the servers I am monitoring with hobbit. Is there any way, or a possibility of a feature request that would allow me to specify alerts to me for all filesystems, other than a few specific ones? E.g. using a modified version of the hobbit-alerts page example: HOST=www.foo.com MAIL dba at foo.com SERVICE=disk.ora-db,disk.ora-idx,disk.ora-log REPEAT=1h MAIL unixsupport at foo.com SERVICE=cpu,disk,memory

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custom client script and disable
by Steve.DiSorbo＠yale.edu 30 Nov '05

30 Nov '05

I didn't get any answers on this so I am posting it again. Hobbit Monitor 4.1.2 I wrote a client script to monitor an application, added to the clientlaunch.cfg file restarted hobbit, the monitor works well Because the application I am monitoring is faulty I added to the client script a section of code to start up the application should it fail. I shut down the application and Hobbit starts it up ... Cool. To avoid having the application start up during the backup or maintenance window I disable the client script. I ran a test backup to be sure it worked, but it appears that Hobbit executes the client script even when the test is disabled, and the application goes from blue to red to green. So now the 64K question ... what can I change so the test does not run when disabled or ... where did I error? Thanks.

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[hobbit] Hobbit client for Windows
by v.everett＠afgonline.com.au 30 Nov '05

30 Nov '05

Hi all As I understand it, (and somebody please correct me where I go wrong) to get a Hobbit client for working for Wondoze will require 3 components. 1. We need a Windoze client to collect the standard data 2. We need a server module to be able to interpret the data 3. We need a method of extending the client with script or external applications. Cygwin can only take us part the way there. It will allow us to compile the current client, but can't collect all the data. It will allow us to extend the functionality, but we are still limited to command line. Once we get 1 and 3 above working, item 2 should be pretty simple to do. We need a few Windoze programming boffins on this one. Does anybody on this list know of or work with any? Regards Vernon ----- No trees were killed in the creation of this message. However, many electrons were terribly inconvenienced. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ NOTICE: This message and any attachments are confidential and may contain copyright material of Australian Finance Group Limited or a third party. It is intended solely for the purpose of the addressee and any other named recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, distribution, disclosure or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. The confidentiality attached to this message is not waived or lost by reason of the mistaken transmission or delivery to any unintended party. If you have received this message in error, please notify the author immediately or contact Australian Finance Group on +61 8 9420 7888.

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hobbitclient + msgs test sugesstion
by peter.welter＠gmail.com 30 Nov '05

30 Nov '05

Hello Henrik + fellow hobbiters, Since the msgs-check is not available yet in the Hobbit display, I want to make a suggestion to have it enabled relatively easy. I think of two methods: -1- A client must have read access to the file, lets say /var/adm/messages, but that has a major drawback: you can only monitor one [predefined] file. Anyway, you can pass on the major BB functionality. But any other logfiles, as (is/was) possible with bb-msgtab is discarded. -2- Your Hobbit server must _also_ be a central loghost. In this way, all configuration remains on the Hobbit server (a GREAT welcome Hobbit-feature). You, Henrik, can even define the format that you want the central loghost being set up. Fi. seperate .info, .debug -> green, .kern -> yellow, etc. Each host can use up a history of one week message-files and serious trouble can be set up/defined within, let's say, /etc/hobbit-client-messages.cfg. Now it is even possible to have this setup work for another logfile, let's say, /var/log/mail? Perhaps (I am googling rigth now) this is useful: http://freshmeat.net/projects/syslog-ng/ but I guess this paints the picture. Well, that's just my 2 cents. Regards, Peter

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Change of column name
by frederic.mangeant＠steria.com 30 Nov '05

30 Nov '05

Hi all since upgrading from bbgen to Hobbit (4.1.2p1), some of my tests's case has changed : for example, my column "Oracle" is now called "oracle". The BB client is still sending the good case : /home/bbuser/bin/bb 10.50.80.44 status HQSTERIAOAINT.Oracle green Wed Nov 30 10:49:19 NFT 2005 Oracle test on "INTE FSTE RUTI ADMV AR04": OK Running hobbitd with "--dbghost=HQSTERIAOAINT" shows the good case too : ---- status message from 10.1.5.13 ---- status HQSTERIAOAINT.Oracle green Wed Nov 30 10:57:08 NFT 2005 Oracle test on "INTE FSTE RUTI ADMV AR04": OK On the Hobbit server, results are stored in ~data/histlogs/HQSTERIAOAINT/oracle, and the Hobbit map shows a column "oracle". When upgrading from bbgen to Hobbit, I move the content of bbvar/hist and bbvar/histlogs to ~data/hist and ~data/histlogs. What could be wrong ? Thanks for your help. -- Frédéric Mangeant Steria EDC Sophia-Antipolis

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poll period
by billieperez＠gmail.com 30 Nov '05

30 Nov '05

Hi, I upgraded to Hobbit a few months ago and really happy with it. I have a question regarding the polling interval and why it always says 0 seconds when unreachable for 1 poll period. I have increased my fping to -r6 and thought the poll period be higher. Is there a change that has to be made in hobbitlaunch.cfg to increase the poll period? Thanks in advance, Bill

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Question on Alert Notifications
by billieperez＠gmail.com 30 Nov '05

30 Nov '05

Hi, I was wondering if there was a way to modify the 'hobbit' name of the alert notifications and also if there was a way to modify the subject of the alerts in the email notifications. Thanks, Billie

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