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Program crashed - MY FAULT
by mlowery＠alliedtechgroup.com 18 Feb '05

18 Feb '05

Henrik, At some point just before I patched the file, I had also added the "apache" key word to a host in bb-hosts. After removing it and restarting Hobbit, everything returned to normal. Sorry for blaming that on the patch. I will try to re-patch it and let you know if the patch works, as it probably does. Thank you for your help! Michael Lowery -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 2:07 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Program crashed - Fatal Signal Caught On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 07:47:30AM +0100, Henrik Stoerner wrote: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 09:37:47PM -0600, Lowery, Michael wrote: > > Ok, I re-downloaded RC2, un-tarred, re-configured, did make and make > > install, I still get the "program crashed fatal signal caught" on the > > bbtest page and all network tests are still purple. > > > > Any idea what I need to do to get back to the working hobbit I had > > before I tried to apply the patch? > > bbtest-net shouldn't crash like that, and it cannot possibly have > anything to do with the patch you installed. (Especially not after you > re-downloaded and re-built it all). > > Send me the ~/server/bin/bbtest-net binary, and the newest core-file > from either ~/server/ or ~/server/tmp/ I got a report from another user that this can happen if you define a test only as "http", e.g. 10.0.0.1 www.foo.com # http So I'd like to have a look at your bb-hosts file also, if that is possible. Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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pagetype: HOST alerting feature?
by blysik＠shutterfly.com 18 Feb '05

18 Feb '05

Hi, So I migrated one of our BB installations officially over to Hobbit today. Woohoo. So now the questions and comments from the other sysadmins start to come in. Bigbrother apparently has a paging setting where if all the hosts for a check fail, it will only page you on one of the checks. ie, a host's nic fails, so ping, http checks, snmp checks fail, but bigbrother would only page you about the ping check failing and preventing a deluge to your pager. Does hobbit have a way to do this? -- Bruce Z. Lysik <blysik at shutterfly.com> Operations Engineer

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[hobbit] pagetype: HOST alerting feature?
by blysik＠shutterfly.com 18 Feb '05

18 Feb '05

> Bigbrother apparently has a paging setting where if all the > hosts for a check fail, it will only page you on one of the > checks. Er, I meant: a paging setting where if all the checks for a host fail... -- Bruce Z. Lysik <blysik at shutterfly.com> Operations Engineer

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Strange problem
by kevin.grady＠gmail.com 17 Feb '05

17 Feb '05

Ok, I just did a clean install of RC2 and everything seems to be working, accept when I attempt to access http://myhost.mydomain/hobbit, I get a directory listing instead of the display. I've done clean hobbit installs of RC1 without any problems so i removed the RC2 install and tried a clean install of RC1 and I get the same results. Looking at the contents of ~/server/www it appears to be missing files, any ideas? Thanks

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changing hobbit port to 1985
by olivier＠qalpit.com 17 Feb '05

17 Feb '05

hobbit doesnt seem to start another port than 1984 i've do 3 things: -changed bbd in bb-services -changed port in hobbitserver.cfg -and even re-compiled hobbit with PORT 1985 in the makefile but still doesnt work.. did i forget something ? -- Olivier Beau

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[hobbit] hobbitd purple
by GThiesfeld＠webmd.net 17 Feb '05

17 Feb '05

I corrected the entry and restarted, but still purple. Thanks _____ From: Charles Jones [mailto:jonescr at cisco.com] Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 4:31 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] hobbitd purple Thiesfeld, Gordon wrote: I installed the post-RC2 patch and 30 minutes later hobbitd went purple. The last entry in hobbitd.log is: 2005-02-17 15:43:56 hobbitd servername MACHINE='server,domain,com' not listed in bb-hosts, dropping hobbitd status I checked bb-hosts, and it's in there: 1.2.3.4 server.domain.com # testip BBDISPLAY BBPAGER BBNET bbd ssh http://server.domain.com <http://server.domain.com> /hobbit/ https://1.2.3.4 <https://1.2.3.4> smtp apache:http://127.0.0.1/server-status?auto <http://127.0.0.1/server-status?auto> Did I botch the patch? Shouldn't that be "apache=http://127.0.0.1/server-status?auto <http://127.0.0.1/server-status?auto> " ? If you have a typo maybe its making hobbitd crash...it seems particular about the apache keyword. -Charles

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trying to get netapp filer data into larrd graphs
by tgeorgoulias＠nandomedia.com 17 Feb '05

17 Feb '05

I'm using the filerstats2bb script from deadcat.net to get from my Netapp filers and displaying it in hobbit. This is what is displayed on the status page: conn, cpu, disk, info, inode, qtree, trends, user_quota The data displayed is accurate, but the only graph that works is conn. The rest are severely broken. I checked the rrd directory and the only files that existed were: memory.real.rrd memory.swap.rrd tcp.conn.rrd Not sure why memory* exist at all, but they do and are empty. I would like to fix this, starting with CPU. I'm hoping that what I learn here can be used when I attempt to create custom graphs for user_quota & qtree with the custom RRD feature described in hobbitd_larrd. The rest of this message concerns only the load average/CPU graph problem, since I figure this ought to work without any modification. For example, this is the contents of a status summary displayed on the CPU status page: == Wed Feb 16 14:59:46 EST 2005 - CPU Utilization on filerA.nandomedia.com is OK. Uptime: 63 days, 06:57:54.29, load=1 LOAD AVG on filerA.nandomedia.com is 1 == Underneath the status message, a link for "hobbit graph la" instead of a real graph. There is data in the usual places in hobbit/data/hist/ cat hobbit/data/hist/filerA,nandomedia,com.cpu <snip> Sat Feb 12 16:32:47 2005 purple 1108243967 140478 Mon Feb 14 07:34:05 2005 green 1108384445 1050 Mon Feb 14 07:51:35 2005 purple 1108385495 304 Mon Feb 14 07:56:39 2005 green 1108385799 cat hobbit/data/hist/filerA.nandomedia.com | grep cpu <snip> cpu 1108128065 1108073455 54610 gr pu 1 cpu 1108243967 1108128065 115902 pu gr 2 cpu 1108384445 1108243967 140478 gr pu 1 cpu 1108385495 1108384445 1050 pu gr 2 cpu 1108385799 1108385495 304 gr pu 1 So why isn't the data being pulled from the status report messages and put into an rrd file to larrd can use it? Tom

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Small tweaks in the "findhost" web page
by frederic.mangeant＠steria.com 17 Feb '05

17 Feb '05

Hi Henrik I've noticed you updated the post-RC2 patch today, and that we can now search a host with it's IP address. Cool ;-) Could you add a check box named "Exact search", because searching for xxx.xxx.xxx.10 can return xxx.xxx.xxx.10 and xxx.xxx.xxx.101 if they both exist. It would be nice too if the result of the search includes hostname -> IP -> location Also, by looking at bb-findhost.c, I've seen that searching multiple hosts is allowed with host1|host2|... Maybe this could be added to $BBHOME/www/help/hobbit-tips.html, or $BBHOME/web/findhost_form ? Many thanks in advance. Regards, -- Frédéric Mangeant

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[hobbit] Program crashed - MY FAULT
by mlowery＠alliedtechgroup.com 17 Feb '05

17 Feb '05

I'm unable to send the files, they are too big for the mail server to accept. I've tried sending them separately and separately with maximum compression. Do you have another method? Michael Lowery -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 10:33 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Program crashed - MY FAULT Hi Michael, On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 10:24:25AM -0600, Lowery, Michael wrote: > Henrik, > At some point just before I patched the file, I had also added the > "apache" key word to a host in bb-hosts. After removing it and > restarting Hobbit, everything returned to normal. I thought the "apache" crashes were fixed in RC2. If your bbtest-net is RC2 - "bbtest-net --version" - then I'm still curious to see what caused this to crash. So a copy of the bbtest-net binary, the core dump and your bb-hosts file is still interesting. Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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Hobbitd column not updated with new post-RC2 patch
by frederic.mangeant＠steria.com 17 Feb '05

17 Feb '05

Hi again With the new post-RC2 patch, the 'hobbitd' column is not updated anymore : $ grep dropping /var/log/hobbit/hobbitd.log 2005-02-17 16:52:52 hobbitd servername MACHINE='hades' not listed in bb-hosts, dropping hobbitd status My Hobbit server ('hades') is not directly listed in my bb-hosts, because I use the 'include' tag : $ cat $BBHOME/etc/bb-hosts include /BB/clients/xxx/config/bb-hosts $ grep hades /BB/clients/xxx/config/bb-hosts xx.xx.xx.xx hades # BBDISPLAY BBPAGER BBNET bbd https://xx.xx.xx.xx/ ssh Regards, -- Frédéric Mangeant

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