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Availability Report calculation
by peter.welter＠gmail.com 19 Nov '05

19 Nov '05

Hi Henrik, I'm running on my test-server Hobbit 4.1.2p1. I've run the 3 cronjobs from the hobbitreports.sh-header (a great and very welcome feature!) and I'm studying the generated reports. I see a discrepancy between the man-page and the calculations. I have no REPORRTIME set. I would like to read your comment on my two observations. First: When I look at yesterday's generated availability report, it says everything is fine (the solid green boxes). But when I look at the history, I can see that soms services (msgs fi) had the status 'clear' the entire day(!), so it should be calculated to 'red' according to the man-page (see below). However, I _do_ prefer this behaviour, that clear is calculated as green, because this means that (1) the host was up, (2) the test has run and valid data was received. But than the man-pages should be adapted. Second: I also have some tests that had the status 'purple' the entire day(!) and that is treated as 'OK' too (the solid green boxes)!? This is correct according to the same man-page, but I would say that purple should not be calculated as solid green boxes. In my case NO test data was reported the entire day. I would suggest it should show on the availability report in red digits 0%. Kind regards and thanks again (and again and...) for making such a GREAT product! Peter From the man-page (.../bb-hosts.5.html#lbAK): [snip] * Only measurements done during the given time period is used for the calculation. * "blue" time reduces the length of the report interval, so if you are generating a report for a 10-hour period and there are 20 minutes of "blue" time, then the availability calculation will consider the reporting period to be 580 minutes (10 hours minus 20 minutes). This allows you to have scheduled downtime during the REPORTTIME interval without hurting your availability; this is (I believe) the whole idea of the downtime being "planned". * "red" and "clear" status counts as downtime; "yellow" and "green" count as uptime. "purple" time is ignored. The availability calculation correctly handles status changes that cross into/out of a REPORTTIME interval. If no REPORTTIME is given, the standard 24x7 calculation is used. [snip]

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Netstat column when using hobbit client
by allan＠zandahar.net 19 Nov '05

19 Nov '05

Ello all, Have finally started to look at replacing our bb clients with hobbit clients so I've had my first serious look at the client today. Very cool the little ammount of configuration that needs to be done on the client, like it alot. I've noticed by default it sends some netstat data but for some reason its not generating the icon in he netstat column on the hobbit server. I have already got some windows hosts running one of the combo memory/netstat scripts which is working fine and dandy. I've looked and it appears to be generating the actual graphs for netstat in the data/rrd/xyzhost directory. I can call the graph out manually using the hobbit-cgi/hobbitgraph.sh?host=xyzhost etc etc and that works fine. Also just noticed its generating vmstat graphs but they are not displaying either. Neother of them really concern me as we monitor host traffic via other methods and I'm not cool enough to worry about vmstat :p Havent edited out any bits to stop it graphing anything so should be all fine and dandy If anyone could give me a point in the right direction it would be greatly appreciated Cheers Allan

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R: [hobbit] bbhostgrep
by fduranti＠q8.it 18 Nov '05

18 Nov '05

My fault .. I had read the man page but not really well :P Thanks :D -----Messaggio originale----- Da: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Inviato: venerdì 18 novembre 2005 23.36 A: hobbit at hswn.dk Oggetto: Re: [hobbit] bbhostgrep On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 09:59:50PM +0100, Francesco Duranti wrote: > Hi all, I'm trying to implement some network tests on the server and i > want to do something like the "content" test using = and ; to pass > parameters. Example: > 0.0.0.0 host1 mytest=cpu:20:40;memory:30:50; > > But if i use bbhostgrep mytest it will report nothing... > It could be useful if it will report also test with parameters like > that bbhostgrep "mytest*" Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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[hobbit] Alert Setup Question
by PNIXON＠ci.somerville.ma.us 18 Nov '05

18 Nov '05

Thanks for the reply. If I understand DURATION ( DURATION<5m) correctly that says if HostA is down for more than five minutes alert, if not do nothing. I basically want to put a hold on the Alert for that rule for 15minutes after it's triggered. In BB they write an entry in /bbvar/notifications with the mail address with a timestamp of +15m. As long as that entry is in there, you won't get double paged. --Pat -----Original Message----- From: Jason Chambers [mailto:Jason.Chambers at geosoft.com] Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 1:22 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] Alert Setup Question I think you want the DURATION tag! http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/docs/manpages/man5/hobbit-alerts.cfg.5. html this site should help you. Jason Chambers IT Helpdesk Support Geosoft Inc. 85 Richmond St. West - 8th Floor Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5H 2C9 Tel: 416-369-0111 x344 Fax: 416-369-9599 www.geosoft.com -----Original Message----- From: PNIXON at ci.somerville.ma.us [mailto:PNIXON at ci.somerville.ma.us] Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 12:35 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] Alert Setup Question Now for the rest of my email.... Okay, I'm working on getting my alerts setup. My current hobbit-alert.cfg is: $IGNPAT=%(annex-nw|gozo|mis-server) EXHOST=$IGNPAT MAIL pnixon at ci.somerville.ma.us REPEAT=5m EXHOST=$IGNPAT,%sps* TIME=*:0800:1700 MAIL 6175559689 at myairmail.com REPEAT=15m FORMAT=SMS MAIL 6175559776 at myairmail.com REPEAT=15m FORMAT=SMS I need to have it email the pager group for the first alert in a 15minute window, and then for 15minute intervals. Suggestions? 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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bbhostgrep
by fduranti＠q8.it 18 Nov '05

18 Nov '05

Hi all, I'm trying to implement some network tests on the server and i want to do something like the "content" test using = and ; to pass parameters. Example: 0.0.0.0 host1 mytest=cpu:20:40;memory:30:50; But if i use bbhostgrep mytest it will report nothing... It could be useful if it will report also test with parameters like that Francesco

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[hobbit] Alert Setup Question
by Jason.Chambers＠geosoft.com 18 Nov '05

18 Nov '05

Wow, I don't deal with that kind of complexity. Maybe you can hack up some type of DEPENDS list? http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/docs/manpages/man5/bb-hosts.5.html Jason Chambers IT Helpdesk Support Geosoft Inc. 85 Richmond St. West - 8th Floor Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5H 2C9 Tel: 416-369-0111 x344 Fax: 416-369-9599 www.geosoft.com -----Original Message----- From: PNIXON at ci.somerville.ma.us [mailto:PNIXON at ci.somerville.ma.us] Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 2:47 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] Alert Setup Question Okay, let me run a scenario... 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 Duration is for how old the alert is Delay - I haven't seen any documentation on this. In BigBrother it's called pagedelay and was configured in bbwarnsetup.cfg, in my case, for 15 minutes. Does that help?

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Question
by jeffnewman75＠gmail.com 18 Nov '05

18 Nov '05

Hi, New to hobbit/bb and have a question. I have a bunch of AIX hosts, and for whatever dumb reason, AIX doesn't have a df switch to do local directories only. I looked into installing GNU df, but in the hobbit configuration files, the "DF" settings say that they don't do anything. I was able to find stuff on excluding directories from RRD, but nothing on excluding filesystems from even being monitored by hobbit. I even tried setting "/CDREL 101 102" in the client configuration file on the server, stopped/started server but still have a red alert on that filesystem. So my question is, how can I exclude a filesystem from being monitored in hobbit? NFS or not, is there a way to simply say "hobbit just totally forget you even know /foo exists period" :-) Thanks, Jeff

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[hobbit] Alert Setup Question
by PNIXON＠ci.somerville.ma.us 18 Nov '05

18 Nov '05

Okay, let me run a scenario... 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 Duration is for how old the alert is Delay - I haven't seen any documentation on this. In BigBrother it's called pagedelay and was configured in bbwarnsetup.cfg, in my case, for 15 minutes. Does that help? -----Original Message----- From: Jason Chambers [mailto:Jason.Chambers at geosoft.com] Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 2:05 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] Alert Setup Question I don't understand what you mean DURATION<5 means that it wont page you if the alert has gone longer that 5 minutes. DUATION>15 means that it wont page you for the alert until the alert has gone up for more than 15 minutes. There is DELAY which wont page you for certain intervals. But I don't understand what you want to do. Jason Chambers IT Helpdesk Support Geosoft Inc. 85 Richmond St. West - 8th Floor Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5H 2C9 Tel: 416-369-0111 x344 Fax: 416-369-9599 www.geosoft.com -----Original Message----- From: PNIXON at ci.somerville.ma.us [mailto:PNIXON at ci.somerville.ma.us] Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 1:35 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] Alert Setup Question Thanks for the reply. If I understand DURATION ( DURATION<5m) correctly that says if HostA is down for more than five minutes alert, if not do nothing. I basically want to put a hold on the Alert for that rule for 15minutes after it's triggered. In BB they write an entry in /bbvar/notifications with the mail address with a timestamp of +15m. As long as that entry is in there, you won't get double paged. --Pat -----Original Message----- From: Jason Chambers [mailto:Jason.Chambers at geosoft.com] Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 1:22 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] Alert Setup Question I think you want the DURATION tag! http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/docs/manpages/man5/hobbit-alerts.cfg.5. html this site should help you. Jason Chambers IT Helpdesk Support Geosoft Inc. 85 Richmond St. West - 8th Floor Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5H 2C9 Tel: 416-369-0111 x344 Fax: 416-369-9599 www.geosoft.com -----Original Message----- From: PNIXON at ci.somerville.ma.us [mailto:PNIXON at ci.somerville.ma.us] Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 12:35 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] Alert Setup Question Now for the rest of my email.... Okay, I'm working on getting my alerts setup. My current hobbit-alert.cfg is: $IGNPAT=%(annex-nw|gozo|mis-server) EXHOST=$IGNPAT MAIL pnixon at ci.somerville.ma.us REPEAT=5m EXHOST=$IGNPAT,%sps* TIME=*:0800:1700 MAIL 6175559689 at myairmail.com REPEAT=15m FORMAT=SMS MAIL 6175559776 at myairmail.com REPEAT=15m FORMAT=SMS I need to have it email the pager group for the first alert in a 15minute window, and then for 15minute intervals. Suggestions? 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] Alert Setup Question
by Jason.Chambers＠geosoft.com 18 Nov '05

18 Nov '05

I don't understand what you mean DURATION<5 means that it wont page you if the alert has gone longer that 5 minutes. DUATION>15 means that it wont page you for the alert until the alert has gone up for more than 15 minutes. There is DELAY which wont page you for certain intervals. But I don't understand what you want to do. Jason Chambers IT Helpdesk Support Geosoft Inc. 85 Richmond St. West - 8th Floor Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5H 2C9 Tel: 416-369-0111 x344 Fax: 416-369-9599 www.geosoft.com -----Original Message----- From: PNIXON at ci.somerville.ma.us [mailto:PNIXON at ci.somerville.ma.us] Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 1:35 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] Alert Setup Question Thanks for the reply. If I understand DURATION ( DURATION<5m) correctly that says if HostA is down for more than five minutes alert, if not do nothing. I basically want to put a hold on the Alert for that rule for 15minutes after it's triggered. In BB they write an entry in /bbvar/notifications with the mail address with a timestamp of +15m. As long as that entry is in there, you won't get double paged. --Pat -----Original Message----- From: Jason Chambers [mailto:Jason.Chambers at geosoft.com] Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 1:22 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] Alert Setup Question I think you want the DURATION tag! http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/docs/manpages/man5/hobbit-alerts.cfg.5. html this site should help you. Jason Chambers IT Helpdesk Support Geosoft Inc. 85 Richmond St. West - 8th Floor Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5H 2C9 Tel: 416-369-0111 x344 Fax: 416-369-9599 www.geosoft.com -----Original Message----- From: PNIXON at ci.somerville.ma.us [mailto:PNIXON at ci.somerville.ma.us] Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 12:35 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] Alert Setup Question Now for the rest of my email.... Okay, I'm working on getting my alerts setup. My current hobbit-alert.cfg is: $IGNPAT=%(annex-nw|gozo|mis-server) EXHOST=$IGNPAT MAIL pnixon at ci.somerville.ma.us REPEAT=5m EXHOST=$IGNPAT,%sps* TIME=*:0800:1700 MAIL 6175559689 at myairmail.com REPEAT=15m FORMAT=SMS MAIL 6175559776 at myairmail.com REPEAT=15m FORMAT=SMS I need to have it email the pager group for the first alert in a 15minute window, and then for 15minute intervals. Suggestions? 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] Alert Setup Question
by Jason.Chambers＠geosoft.com 18 Nov '05

18 Nov '05

I think you want the DURATION tag! http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/docs/manpages/man5/hobbit-alerts.cfg.5. html this site should help you. Jason Chambers IT Helpdesk Support Geosoft Inc. 85 Richmond St. West - 8th Floor Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5H 2C9 Tel: 416-369-0111 x344 Fax: 416-369-9599 www.geosoft.com -----Original Message----- From: PNIXON at ci.somerville.ma.us [mailto:PNIXON at ci.somerville.ma.us] Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 12:35 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] Alert Setup Question Now for the rest of my email.... Okay, I'm working on getting my alerts setup. My current hobbit-alert.cfg is: $IGNPAT=%(annex-nw|gozo|mis-server) EXHOST=$IGNPAT MAIL pnixon at ci.somerville.ma.us REPEAT=5m EXHOST=$IGNPAT,%sps* TIME=*:0800:1700 MAIL 6175559689 at myairmail.com REPEAT=15m FORMAT=SMS MAIL 6175559776 at myairmail.com REPEAT=15m FORMAT=SMS I need to have it email the pager group for the first alert in a 15minute window, and then for 15minute intervals. Suggestions? To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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