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Using hostname instead of IP in bb-hosts
by yoogie＠schurkennetz.de 28 Nov '05

28 Nov '05

Hi, I'm new to the list and also new to hobbit. I'm using the release candidate 4.12p1 on debian linux and several others. My problem is, that I have to monitor computers which are connected to the internet by a dialup dsl connection. Those are getting a new ip-address from the isp every 24 hours and ddclient is updating it to dynamic dns. I need to monitor the machines because they provide the internet for our conference rooms and are not connected to our internal network. I added the following line to bb-hosts: <dyndns-hostname> DSL1 # BBDISPLAY BBPAGER BBNET conn but hobbit ignores this line and doesn't throw an error. Is there a way to use hostnames instead of the ip-address? apart from this, I started with an entry like this: 10.0.0.101 host1 ... and realized, that I misspelled the ip-address. So I changed it to 10.0.0.103 but hobbit keeps pinging the old ip address. Can I tell hobbit to update the ip-address manually? Thanks in advance. Kind regards, Manuel

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[hobbit] Hobbit client for Windows
by v.everett＠afgonline.com.au 28 Nov '05

28 Nov '05

Hi Henrik Not sure how I forgot this one, but sc will tell you all about services. Cheers V ----- No trees were killed in the creation of this message. However, many electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -----Original Message----- From: Vernon Everett [mailto:v.everett at afgonline.com.au] Sent: Monday, 28 November 2005 4:14 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] Hobbit client for Windows Hi Henrik Adding the -W to the ps command includes Windoze as well as Cygwin processes. I should have used that in my script. Also, we can monitor swap with the free command. I should have put that in too. Monitoring services from command line is possible, but only with the resource kit. There is a command called sclist which does it. As for the client modules - Hmmmm, that's C code. I will leave it to those that know better. :-) The sum total of my C knowledge doesn't extend very far beyond "Hello world". Cheers Vernon ----- No trees were killed in the creation of this message. However, many electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Monday, 28 November 2005 3:21 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit client for Windows (Note: I changed the subject) Hi Vernon, On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 03:01:41PM +0800, Vernon Everett wrote: > Hobbit client runs on Windoze. (Disclaimer applies - see below) > :-) > > After a little bit of playing around, I managed to compile the client > in Windows, and it works. [snip story of porting the client to Windows with Cygwin] > It's far from perfect but I think it's a good starting point, and > there will hopefully be no need for multiple code versions for > different platforms. It's a neat hack, and it does give you the basic functionality. But: There are some severe limitations to this approach. Cygwin's "ps" output for instance only includes the processes that have been started from a Cygwin prompt - not the system processes you'd probably want to check. And monitoring Windows services is not possible, I believe. > Right now it's doing its thing, and sending data back to the server (I > think) but the server is not displaying any results other than conn. > How can I check what's being received by the server, and what's being > done with it? It probably isn't doing anything with the data. The client data is handled by the hobbitd_client module, which needs to learn how to interpret data from this unknown OS called "windows". If you look at the hobbitd/client/ directory in the Hobbit sources, you'll see there are a bunch of files - one per OS - with code to handle the particular report sent by each OS. Something must be added to deal with the report from your Windows client. Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 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. To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 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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[hobbit] Hobbit client for Windows
by v.everett＠afgonline.com.au 28 Nov '05

28 Nov '05

Hi Henrik Adding the -W to the ps command includes Windoze as well as Cygwin processes. I should have used that in my script. Also, we can monitor swap with the free command. I should have put that in too. Monitoring services from command line is possible, but only with the resource kit. There is a command called sclist which does it. As for the client modules - Hmmmm, that's C code. I will leave it to those that know better. :-) The sum total of my C knowledge doesn't extend very far beyond "Hello world". Cheers Vernon ----- No trees were killed in the creation of this message. However, many electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Monday, 28 November 2005 3:21 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit client for Windows (Note: I changed the subject) Hi Vernon, On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 03:01:41PM +0800, Vernon Everett wrote: > Hobbit client runs on Windoze. (Disclaimer applies - see below) > :-) > > After a little bit of playing around, I managed to compile the client > in Windows, and it works. [snip story of porting the client to Windows with Cygwin] > It's far from perfect but I think it's a good starting point, and > there will hopefully be no need for multiple code versions for > different platforms. It's a neat hack, and it does give you the basic functionality. But: There are some severe limitations to this approach. Cygwin's "ps" output for instance only includes the processes that have been started from a Cygwin prompt - not the system processes you'd probably want to check. And monitoring Windows services is not possible, I believe. > Right now it's doing its thing, and sending data back to the server (I > think) but the server is not displaying any results other than conn. > How can I check what's being received by the server, and what's being > done with it? It probably isn't doing anything with the data. The client data is handled by the hobbitd_client module, which needs to learn how to interpret data from this unknown OS called "windows". If you look at the hobbitd/client/ directory in the Hobbit sources, you'll see there are a bunch of files - one per OS - with code to handle the particular report sent by each OS. Something must be added to deal with the report from your Windows client. Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 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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[hobbit] Windows logs.
by v.everett＠afgonline.com.au 28 Nov '05

28 Nov '05

I just had a look at this mail, and the scripts came out looking very ugly. Here they are again in text format. --- hobbitclient-cygwin.sh --- #!/bin/sh #----------------------------------------------------------------------- -----# # Cygwin client for Hobbit # # # # Copyright (C) 2005 Henrik Storner <henrik at hswn.dk> # # # # This program is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL), # # version 2. See the file "COPYING" for details. # # # #----------------------------------------------------------------------- -----# # # $Id: hobbitclient-sunos.sh,v 1.5 2005/08/01 05:58:29 henrik Exp $ echo "[date]" date echo "[uname]" uname -a echo "[uptime]" uptime echo "[who]" w echo "[df]" df -k echo "[prtconf]" echo "[memory]" vmstat 1 2 | tail -1 echo "[swap]" echo "[netstat]" netstat -s echo "[ps]" ps -ef echo "[top]" top -b -n1 # vmstat nohup $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/bin/getvmstat.sh & sleep 5 if test -f $BBTMP/hobbit_vmstat; then echo "[vmstat]"; cat $BBTMP/hobbit_vmstat; rm -f $BBTMP/hobbit_vmstat; fi exit --- end --- --- getvmstat.sh --- # vmstat 300 2 1>$BBTMP/hobbit_vmstat.$$ 2>&1 mv $BBTMP/hobbit_vmstat.$$ $BBTMP/hobbit_vmstat </dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1 --- end --- Regards Vernon ----- No trees were killed in the creation of this message. However, many electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -----Original Message----- From: Vernon Everett [mailto:v.everett at afgonline.com.au] Sent: Monday, 28 November 2005 3:02 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] Windows logs. Hi Henrik Hobbit client runs on Windoze. (Disclaimer applies - see below) :-) After a little bit of playing around, I managed to compile the client in Windows, and it works. I did cheat a little. Sort of. I had Cygwin installed. For those not familiar with Cygwin, it brings the joys of Unix to Windows, including shell scripts, cron, sed, awk, ls, vi and all those other commands we know and love so much. It's published under GNU GPL. :-) You can download or install it from here. http://www.cygwin.com/ To quote their FAQ ---snip--- What is it? The Cygwin tools are ports of the popular GNU development tools for Microsoft Windows. They run thanks to the Cygwin library which provides the UNIX system calls and environment these programs expect. With these tools installed, it is possible to write Win32 console or GUI applications that make use of the standard Microsoft Win32 API and/or the Cygwin API. As a result, it is possible to easily port many significant Unix programs without the need for extensive changes to the source code. This includes configuring and building most of the available GNU software (including the packages included with the Cygwin development tools themselves). Even if the development tools are of little to no use to you, you may have interest in the many standard Unix utilities provided with the package. They can be used both from the bash shell (provided) or from the standard Windows command shell. ---snip--- To install Hobbit client, I simply extracted the .tar, ran configure.client, make, make install. There are a few caveats. 1. It needs a valid user. (Once Cygwin's installed check /etc/passwd for a list) 2. It doesn't like spaces in the install path folder names 3. Most of the development components of Cygwin need to be installed first. (These are not installed by default) It's far from perfect but I think it's a good starting point, and there will hopefully be no need for multiple code versions for different platforms. I hit a few problems. First, it doesn't know what OS it's running. I hacked the runclient.sh and set os to sunos to try and bring some sanity to the world, but it still had no clue. After looking at how runclient works, I realised I could rewrite hobbitclient-sunos.sh for Cygwin. I had to add a line to runclient.sh, just after the BBOSTYPE= I added echo $BBOSTYPE | grep cygwin && BBOSTYPE=cygwin This cuts all the other garbage from the uname -s output which might be different, depending on what version of Windoze you use. I then created a hobbitclient-cygwin.sh with a few commands changed to provide output as close to that provided by the equivalent sunos commands. (attached) Also, because of limitations in the Cygwin shell, I also had to abstract the vmstat test to an external script, which I put in $BBCLIENTHOME/bin/ for convenience. (Also attached) Right now it's doing its thing, and sending data back to the server (I think) but the server is not displaying any results other than conn. How can I check what's being received by the server, and what's being done with it? Regards Vernon ----- No trees were killed in the creation of this message. However, many electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Thursday, 24 November 2005 2:40 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Windows logs. On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 02:19:04PM -0800, Charles Jones -X (charljon - Cisco Learning Institute at Cisco) wrote: > Sounds like we need someone who is good at VC++ to create a nice > hobbit windows client. I would volunteer but I am lacking the > knowledge, I have a volunteer who is looking at doing a Hobbit client for Windows. Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 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. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 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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NCV RRD weirdness
by jeff＠myinternetservices.com 27 Nov '05

27 Nov '05

OK, so I've finally delved into the murky waters (ok so I had to make that sound scary and all fearsome and what not LOL) of writing my own Hobbit server extension script. And as part of the script, it collects data. I want to graph that data on hobbit. So I set up the NCV stuff... problem is that it doesn't create the RRD file correctly. Here's the relevant entries from hobbitserver.cfg: TEST2RRD="cpu=la,disk,inode,qtree,memory,$PINGCOLUMN=tcp,http=tcp,dns=tcp,dig=tcp,time=ntpstat,vmstat,iostat,netstat,temperat ure,apache,bind,sendmail,mailq,nmailq=mailq,socks,bea,iishealth,citrix,bbgen,bbtest,bbproxy,hobbitd,qstat=ncv" # This defines which RRD files to include on the "trends" column webpage, # and the order in which they appear. GRAPHS="la,disk,inode,qtree,memory,users,vmstat,iostat,tcp.http,tcp,netstat,mrtg::1,temperature,ntpstat,apache,bind,sendmail, mailq,socks,bea,iishealth,citrix,bbgen,bbtest,bbproxy,hobbitd,qstat" # # Ok these columns are from qstat and are used to graph (I HOPE!) the columns via rrd. # NCV_qstat="avgping:GAUGE,curplayers:GAUGE" And that status message that gets sent is this: qstat status for host 123.123.123.123 curplayers : 0 avgping : 0 IE my ext script does this: $BB $BBDISP "status $MACHINE.$COLUMN $COLOR `date` ${MSG} curplayers : $cur_players avgping : $avg_ping" Where $MSG can be changed depending on circumstances. However, when I dump the RRD file, I get this info:  <rrd> <version> 0001 </version> <step> 300 </step>  <lastupdate> 1133107889 </lastupdate>  <ds> <name> qstatstatusforhost6 </name> <type> DERIVE </type> <minimal_heartbeat> 600 </minimal_heartbeat> <min> 0.0000000000e+00 </min> <max> NaN </max>  <last_ds> 0 </last_ds> <value> 0.0000000000e+00 </value> <unknown_sec> 0 </unknown_sec> </ds> Any thoughts as to what I'm doing wrong? This is on hobbit 4.1.2p1. (1038:38)$ rpm -q -a | grep hobbit hobbit-client-4.1.2p1-1.fc3.re hobbit-4.1.2p1-1.fc3.re -- Jeff Stuart Network Admin MyInternetServices.com 1-800-300-HOST -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.5/178 - Release Date: 11/22/2005

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NCV Monitor shows no graph
by AlonO＠BEZEQINT.CO.IL 27 Nov '05

27 Nov '05

Hi all, I have configured my NCV graph (Netapp packets/second) and for some reason I don't see the graph. I do see the RRD file been created but no graph is seen. I have no idea why, but the new graphs are RRD V3 while all other monitors are V1. If I look into the RRD file I see real data is gathering (using SNMP) from the filer. I have other NCV monitors that have RRD files but with no graphs (like Mysql). Here is hobbitserver.cfg file: # status view of a test should include a graph. NCV_mysql="Queriespersecondavg:GAUGE" TEST2RRD="cpu=la,disk,inode,qtree,memory,$PINGCOLUMN=tcp,http=tcp,dns=tc p,dig=tcp,time=ntpstat,vmstat,iostat,netstat,temperature,apache,bind,sen dmail,mailq,nmailq=mailq,socks,bea,iishealth,citrix,bbgen,bbtest,bbproxy ,hobbitd,mysl=ncv,inpks=ncv" # This defines which RRD files to include on the "trends" column webpage, Any ideas? Alon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The information contained in this message is proprietary of Bezeq International, protected from disclosure, and may be privileged. The information is intended to be conveyed only to the designated recipient(s) of the message. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, use, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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[hobbit] Command-line scheduled disable
by AlonO＠BEZEQINT.CO.IL 26 Nov '05

26 Nov '05

I wondered if there is a way to schedule, for example, that a monitor will go disable last Sunday in every month. My DB that is going down for cold backup and sometimes I forget to schedule the monitor disable so I have the support waking me up in the middle of the night :=) Thanks, Alon -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Friday, November 25, 2005 12:34 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Command-line scheduled disable On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 02:48:44PM +0100, Frédéric Mangeant wrote: > > would it possible to schedule a disable using the command-line ? > > Something like > > $BB $BBDISP "disable $MACHINE.$TEST $DURATION $START_OF_DISABLE" There's a generic "schedule" command in the Hobbit protocol to do that. You can put a "schedule TIMESTAMP" in front of any command and Hobbit will execute that command at the requested time. TIMESTAMP is a Unix epoch time (seconds since Jan 1 1970). So your command would be: STARTTIME=`date +%s --date="$START_OF_DISABLE"` $BB $BBDISP "schedule $STARTTIME disable $MACHINE.$TEST $DURATION" That is in fact how the scheduled enable/disable works when you use it via the Web GUI. Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The information contained in this message is proprietary of Bezeq International, protected from disclosure, and may be privileged. The information is intended to be conveyed only to the designated recipient(s) of the message. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, use, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Depends problem
by rsmrcina＠wi.rr.com 25 Nov '05

25 Nov '05

Consider the following host definitions: 172.17.131.1 SC_Router # testip depends=(conn:GO_Router/conn) 172.17.131.200 scsql # testip depends=(conn:SC_Router/conn) My impression of how the tag works is that the conn test for this host depends upon the conn test for SC_Router. If the SC_Router conn test is red, then the conn test for scsql should be clear. Currently SC_Router is down (red), but the conn test for scsql is also coming up red (and pages are going out). -- 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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Command-line scheduled disable
by frederic.mangeant＠steria.com 24 Nov '05

24 Nov '05

Hi Henrik would it possible to schedule a disable using the command-line ? Something like $BB $BBDISP "disable $MACHINE.$TEST $DURATION $START_OF_DISABLE" Thanks in advance. Regards, -- Frédéric Mangeant Steria EDC Sophia-Antipolis

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[hobbit] hobbbitd_client 4.1.2p1 crashes + strange df output
by peter.welter＠gmail.com 24 Nov '05

24 Nov '05

Mail failed; retrying... 2005/11/24, Peter Welter <peter.welter at gmail.com>: > Hello Henrik, > > 2005/11/24, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk>: > > Could you mail me a copy of the ~hobbit/client/tmp/msg.txt file > > from the host called "linux" on your network ? I'd like to see > > if the df output is any different. > > The output is attached. > > regards, > Peter

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