November 2005 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Windows logs.
by tlp-hobbit＠holme-pedersen.dk 22 Nov '05

22 Nov '05

Hi ! Any of you had to monitor logs on a windows box where the file is located in a directory with spaces in ? bb-msgs.pl version 1.1 breaks if I try. /Thomas

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Script to convert alert setup from BB
by Stewart_Larsen＠doh.state.fl.us 22 Nov '05

22 Nov '05

Is there a tool out there that will convert my bbwarn* to hobbit-alerts.cfg? I have a system with over 3000 machines in monitoring and I don't relish the idea of converting that by hand... -- Stewart Larsen If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology. -- Bruce Schneier Please note: Florida has a very broad public records law. Most written communications to or from state officials regarding state business are public records available to the public and media upon request. Your e-mail communications may therefore be subject to public disclosure.

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bandwidth usage in bytes on Linux
by jesper.johnson＠welho.com 22 Nov '05

22 Nov '05

Hi I'm looking for a way to create graphs for hobbit on Linux to monitor network bandwidth usage, separately on each interface (eth0,eth1). The provided netstat rrd Network I/O graph measures packets/second but I want bytes/second, which netstat0 (as defined in hobbitgraph.cfg) is supposed to graph but it doesn't since the netstat -s command on my server (RHEL4) doesn't return any byte statistics (only packets). I suppose I could build something like this (monitoring the /proc/net/dev file) myself if I looked into setting up a custom rrd and so forth, but I'm hoping to save some trouble by asking if someone here has already done this :-D Help, anyone?

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encryption available for agent-server communication?
by mshi＠ebay.com 22 Nov '05

22 Nov '05

Greetings! On 1984 port, is the communication between agent and server encrypted? Thanks! Min

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bb through SOAP or CGI?
by iqbala-hobbit＠qwestip.net 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

Hi All I am trying to delay multiple services real fast. Ack through email or Web for 30 or so services is very time consuming. I tried to play like this bb https://hobbit.mask.this.net/hobbit-seccgi/bb-ack.sh?ACTION=Ack&DELAY=120&M… But that seem to not working. Anyone know of a quick trick? Thanks -- Asif Iqbal PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu "..there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit...try to be in the first group;...less competition there." - Indira Gandhi

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Multiple timezone display
by rgordonjr＠gmail.com 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

Hello - The systems that we monitor are across multiple time zones. The local admins however are insisting that the pages be displayed in a timezone local to them instead of the GMT zone that the monitoring system is using. Is there a way to add a second timezone to the display or change the timezone that the graphs are displayed in (without changing the TZ of the maonitoring station)? As a correlary to this, is there anyway to have the grapsh displayed in multiple time zones? Thanks - -- --==[ Bob Gordon ]==--

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[hobbit] Alert Setup Question
by PNIXON＠ci.somerville.ma.us 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

I knew someone would get it eventually! I'll see if I can use it as is for now and get back to you if it becomes a big inconvience or issue. It's just kind of counter-productive to be working on something and getting 10 pages in a row. I suppose I can also build out the DEPENDS stuff to limit the backscatter from a downed item. Thanks for the response Henrik. --Pat -----Original Message----- From: henrik at hswn.dk [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 6:00 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Alert Setup Question On Fri, Nov 18, 2005, PNIXON at ci.somerville.ma.us wrote: > 7:00 HostA generates an alert which gets sent to pageme at here.com > 7:05 HostB generates an alert which does not get sent to pageme at here.com > because they got paged in the 15 minutes > 7:18 HostA is fixed now, but HostB is still broken and generating an > alert, which gets sent to pageme at here.com > 7:22 HostC breaks now, no Alert to pageme at here.com > 7:33 HostB is still Broken, sends an alert to pageme at here.com Not possible. The Hobbit alert module doesn't really have the concept of "page groups"; if you want to compare with BB, it behaves like the BB pager with "pagetype" set to "EVENT". Each recipient configured to receive an alert for a specific HOST.TEST combination gets all alerts; there is no way of configuring Hobbit to send max. N alerts to a given recipient in a 15-minute period. I'm not saying that is the optimum solution for everyone, and it might be changed if you can convince me there is enough people who need it - but so far, you're the first one to ask for such a feature. Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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Small patch for alerts displayed in "info" column
by frederic.mangeant＠steria.com 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

Hi Henrik here's a small patch which displays in the "info" column the services which don't have a recipient. It displays something like this : http://img360.imageshack.us/img360/2596/infoalerts7pn.png Hope you'll find it useful... Regards, -- Frédéric Mangeant Steria EDC Sophia-Antipolis

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[hobbit] memory larrd problems
by Dirk.Kastens＠uni-osnabrueck.de 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

Hi Stew, Stew Lambert schrieb: > I have had this problem in the past. Make sure the time for both servers > are in sync. Usually this occurs when the hobbit server shows a time that > is behind the reporting client. No. The message occurs for *ALL* of my clients for all memory.*.rrd files every 5 minutes. So this can't be a matter of the system time. BTW, all of our servers are synchronized using NTP. Dirk

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memory larrd problems
by Dirk.Kastens＠uni-osnabrueck.de 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

Hi, the problem with the RRD updating error, that I and several other people are having, doesn't seem to be resolved. My larrd-data.log is filling up with the following messages: 2005-11-21 11:59:54 RRD error updating /data1/hobbit/data/rrd/<hobbit.client.ip>/memory.swap.rrd from 123.45.67.89: illegal attempt to update using time 1132570794 when last update time is 1132570794 (minimum one second step) Now I waded through the hobbit source code and found out that both the do_la.c and the do_memory.c call the function do_memory_rrd_update. So if the first update occurs, everything is fine, but when the second update occurs, the rrd must complain about the same update time. Is this causing the error? Regards, Dirk

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