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cleaner hobbit-confreport.sh output
by smith.js.8＠pg.com 23 Nov '05

23 Nov '05

Henrik, I was looking at the configuration report, thinking that the output of the process listing could be much cleaner. Being a shell guy and not a C guy, here's a modified command line that will clean up the process output. Of course, an even better solution would be to enclose the process listing in <pre>...</pre> tags in the output from the hobbit-confreport.cgi program. But, this works. exec /home/hobbit/server/bin/hobbit-confreport.cgi $CGI_HOBBITCONFREPORT_OPTS \ | /bin/sed 's#$>procs<.*=top>$$.*$$<br>$$#\1^M<hobbit>\2</hobbit>^M\3# ; s#\\\\#~~#g ; s#\\n#<br>#g ; s#~~#\\\\#g' \ | /usr/bin/tr "^M" "\n" \ | /bin/sed 's#hobbit>#pre>#g' --Scott

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no dpkg in... errors in hobbitclient logs
by smith.js.8＠pg.com 23 Nov '05

23 Nov '05

Henrik, In the default configuration for linux, using the latest 21-Nov-2005 snapshot, the /var/log/hobbit/hobbitclient.log file fills up with this message: hobbitclient.log:which: no dpkg in (/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/home/hobbit/server/bin) This can be eliminated by editing the hobbit/client/bin/hobbitclient-linux.sh script and changing these two lines: RPM=`which rpm` DPKG=`which dpkg` to this: RPM=`which rpm 2>/dev/null` DPKG=`which dpkg 2>/dev/null` Not a big thing, but I consider the messages pointless since the code deals with success/failure appropriately. The same or similar approach should work in the other client scripts as well. --Scott

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GRAPHs mysql status
by tom＠dmw.fr 23 Nov '05

23 Nov '05

Hi, ** I have two questions : 1. We have a server which is running two apache daemon on the same host. How can I have apache graphs for each. At the moment I graph only one of them. 2. I don't know what I've done wrong for the config of bbmysqlstatus ! I currently receiving the infos from bb-mysqlstat.sh to hobbit-server I have a growing RRD file in my $hobbit/rrd/host.domain.tld/ But I only have a link in the mysql or trends column. I'm using Hobbit-server 4.1.2p1 (deb pkg) and I have restarted it a lot of time ;) In the mysql column I have a link call "hobbit graph ncv:mysql" and in trends "hobbit graph mysql". But no beautiful graphs :( ** Some infos about my config: Receiving that in the mysql column : ----------------------------------- Wed Nov 23 16:01:39 CET 2005 - Mysql OK Uptime: 621607 Threads: 1 Questions: 111386 Slow queries: 0 Opens: 513 Flush tables: 1 Open tables: 64 Queries per second avg: 0.179 In bb-hosts ----------- w.x.y.z host.domain.tld # ssh ftp smtp TRENDS:*,mysql:mysqlslow,mysqlthread In hobbitserver.cfg: ------------------- NCV_mysql="Uptime:NONE,Queriespersecondavg:GAUGE" TEST2RRD="cpu=la,disk,inode,qtree,memory,$PINGCOLUMN=tcp,http=tcp,dns=tcp,dig=tcp,time=ntpstat,vmstat,iostat,netstat,temperature,apache,bind,sendmail,mailq,nmailq=mailq,socks,bea,iishealth,citrix,bbgen,bbtest,bbproxy,hobbitd,mysql=ncv" GRAPHS="ncv,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,mysql" In hobbitgraph.cfg ------------------ The two original graph def. from hobbit 4.1.2p1 [mysqlslow] DEF:slow=mysql.rrd:Slowqueries:AVERAGE ... [mysqlthread] DEF:threads=mysql.rrd:Threads:AVERAGE TITLE MySQL Active Threads ... rrdtool dump |grep name ----------------------- <name> Threads </name> <name> Questions </name> <name> Slowqueries </name> <name> Opens </name> <name> Flushtables </name> <name> Opentables </name> PS: very strange why I haven't the average query/s nor uptime ?? Hope someone can help me or just tell me how I can debug the thing. Thx Tom

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traceroute
by peterjakobs＠myrealbox.com 23 Nov '05

23 Nov '05

Hi, I see in the man pages that it is possible to do a traceroute if the conn test fails. Is it also possible to always do a traceroute? And maybe even get yellow if it exeeds a certain number of hops? Peter Jakobs

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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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