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[hobbit] Hobbit 4.0 RC4 available
by Kevin＠ewormhole.com 27 Feb '05

27 Feb '05

Looks like you were right.....sorry about that -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 4:18 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit 4.0 RC4 available Importance: Low On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 01:00:38PM -0500, Kevin Hanrahan wrote: > [root at nemesis hobbit-4.0-RC4]# su hobbit [hobbit at nemesis > hobbit-4.0-RC4]$ /home/hobbit/server/bin/starthobbit.sh > start > Hobbit must be started as the apache user Configuration error (you probably did as I said and ran "configure"). You must have answered "apache" to the question of What userid will be running Hobbit [hobbit] ? Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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[hobbit] Hobbit 4.0 RC4 available
by Kevin＠ewormhole.com 27 Feb '05

27 Feb '05

OK, Here's a strange one...I built the new version (RC4) just like all the others, and went to start it and got this: To start Hobbit, as the hobbit user run '/home/hobbit/server/bin/starthobbit.sh start' To view the Hobbit webpages, go to http://nemesis/hobbit <http://nemesis/hobbit> [root at nemesis hobbit-4.0-RC4]# su hobbit [hobbit at nemesis hobbit-4.0-RC4]$ /home/hobbit/server/bin/starthobbit.sh start Hobbit must be started as the apache user Why does it want me to be the apache user? I told it I would be running Hobbit as user: hobbit Other info: - I installed right over the existing RC3 version - This was the second install attempt...the first attempt actually worked but the version was actually showing as RC3! I then removed all other directories except /hobbit-4.0-RC4 and re-built - During the first build, I was asked TWICE who was the user that apache ran as Maybe I should just wipe clean and start again? please advise. KEvin _____ From: lars ebeling [mailto:dhd733 at yahoo.se] Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 12:46 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit 4.0 RC4 available Importance: Low Hi All, isn't hobbitd_larrd used or updated? Hobbitd gets yellow with this message: Latest errormessages: Unknown option '--purple-conn=conn' - ignored Loading hostnames Loading saved state Setting up network listener on 0.0.0.0:1984 Regards Lars Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote: > ---------- > Från: Henrik Stoerner[SMTP:HENRIK at HSWN.DK] > Skickat: den 27 februari 2005 18:03:24 > Till: hobbit at hswn.dk; hobbit-announce at hswn.dk > Ämne: [hobbit] Hobbit 4.0 RC4 available > Automatiskt vidarebefordrat av en regel > OK, so RC3 was slightly disastrous, and lots of patches have been flying around this past week. So to get everyone aligned on the same code-base, I've packaged up release candidate #4 which you'll find in the usual places: http://sourceforge.net/projects/hobbitmon/ and http://www.hswn.dk/beta/ This of course fixes the bugs that caused RC3 to crash left and right. I also have gone over the alert code again, and now believe that it has reached a state of Nirvana where it is "obviously correct". In other words, alerts should go out as intended; if they don't then add the "--trace=FILENAME" option to hobbitd_alert and let me have the logfile after you've re-created the problem. The flickering purples for disabled tests should be a thing of the past. Several problems with building on various platforms were resolved. As part of this change, you must re-run the configure script to have it pickup a couple of new settings that have been added. Along the way, I found out that I'd made a slight error of judgment in choosing the format of the hobbitlaunch.cfg file. So that has changed! If you have modified your hobbitlaunch.cfg - especially if you have deleted or commented out sections - I strongly advise you to copy the new file over from hobbit-4.0-RC4/etcfiles/, or at least look over the differences between that file and your current configuration. "make install" will not overwrite the file, but it might re-add sections that you have removed; instead of removing them or commenting them o ut, add the keyword "DISABLED" to make them permanenly disabled. Also, the hobbitserver.cfg file didn't quote the commands added for BB client scripts, resulting in errors being logged by some of the reporting CGI scripts. So copy over the new hobbitserver.cfg file that is generated in hobbitd/etcfiles/ when you build hobbit. Full list of changes below. Regards, Henrik Changes from RC-3 -> RC-4 ------------------------- Bugfixes: * Loading the bb-services file no longer causes bbtest-net, hobbitd_larrd et al to crash. * The alert configuration loader was fixed, so that recipient criteria are applied correctly. * hobbitd_alert handling of "recovered" status messages was slightly broken. This was probably the cause of the unexpected "green" alerts that some have reported. * SCRIPT recipients can now have a "@" in their names without being silently treated as MAIL recipients. * An acknowl edge message is now cleared when the status changes to an OK color (defined by the --okcolors option). Previously it would have to go "green" before the ack was cleared. * Acked and disabled statuses can not go purple while the acknowledge or disable is valid. This was causing brief flickers of purple for tests that were disabled for more than 30 minutes. * maint.pl "combo" message support was dropped. This was causing runtime warnings, and it has never been possible to send enable or disable messages inside combo's (neither with Hobbit nor BB). Building Hobbit: * bb-infocolumn should build without problems again. * The "configure" script now also looks in /opt/csw for tools and libraries (for Solaris/x86) * An OpenBSD Makefile was contributed. * The gcc option "-Wl,--rpath" is now used when linking the tools on Linux and *BSD. This should resolve a lot of the issues with runtime libraries that cannot be found. * "configure" now looks for your perl utility, and adjusts the maint.pl script accordingly. * HP-UX does not have an atoll() routine. So a simple implementation of this routine was added. Configuration file changes: * hobbitlaunch.cfg now supports a DISABLED keyword to shut off unwanted tasks. This permits upgrading without having to re-disable stuff. * All commands in hobbitserver.cfg are now quoted, so it can be sourced by the CGI scripts without causing errors. Note that this is NOT automatically changed in an existing configuration file. Improvements: * The detailed status display now lets you define what graphs should be split onto multiple graph images (the "--multigraphs" option for bb-hostsvc.cgi and hobbitd_filestore). Currently the "disk", "inode" and "qtree" graphs are handled this way. * The detailed status display now includes a line showing how long an acknowledgment is valid. This is conf igurable via the ACKUNTILMSG setting in hobbitserver.cfg. * A new "notify" message is supported as part of the Hobbit protocol. This takes a normal hostname+testname paramater, plus a text message; this is sent out as an informational message using the hobbit-alerts.cfg rules to determine recipients. This replaces the BB "notify-admin" recipient with a more fine-grained and configurable system. Currently used by maint.pl when enabling and disabling tests. * Alert scripts now receive a CFID environment variable with the linenumber of the hobbit-alerts.cfg file that caused this alert to go out. * A new tool - hobbit-mailack - was added. If setup to run from e.g. the Hobbit users' .procmailrc file, you can acknowledge alerts by responding to an alert email. * Temperature reports now accept additional text in parenthesis without being confused. -- Henrik Storner To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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[hobbit] Hobbit 4.0 RC3
by blysik＠shutterfly.com 27 Feb '05

27 Feb '05

> * The info-pages now list the Hobbit alert configuration. This is an awesome feature! One comment, the COLOR column doesn't seem to know if you set the --alertcolors different hobbitlaunch.cfg. (I've set --alertcolors to purple,red, but the COLORS column says I'm alerting on purple,yellow,red.) Hobbit is chugging along great. -- Bruce Z. Lysik <blysik at shutterfly.com> Operations Engineer

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[hobbit] bb-ack.sh submit fails
by GThiesfeld＠webmd.net 27 Feb '05

27 Feb '05

I'm sorry, I've been on vacation. > On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 04:11:10PM -0600, Thiesfeld, Gordon wrote: > > The page comes up fine, but when I hit the send button, it sends me to > > /hobbit-cgi/bb-ack.sh, which isn't there anymore. I'm running RC2 with > the > > post-RC2.patch. > > Could you check if the ~hobbit/server/web/acknowledge_form was updated > with the RC2-version of that file ? It should have the line > > <FORM METHOD="GET" ACTION="&REQUEST_URI"> > > near the top of the file; if not, copy the file over from > hobbit-4.0-RC2/hobbitd/webfiles/ I'll take care of this when I get home tonight. > > > > Also, I like how you've fixed up the disabled status page to show > > who disabled it, and for how long, etc. Would it be possible to > > have that info in the disabled email as well? > > I don't quite follow you here. What email is this ? Disabling a test > doesn't normally result in e-mails being sent out. Hmm, I was doing some testing, so I "downed" my test server, and it went red. I got an email with the subject "Test_Server:conn is RED". Then I tried to ack the red page. That's when I noticed the problem above. When that didn't work, I disabled the test. After that, I got an email with this subject "Test_Server:conn is disabled". In big brother we have it set up so that when someone disables something the big brother admin (me) gets an email. I was assuming this was the same function. > > > Regards, > Henrik > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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disabled monitors showing purple occasionally on web ui
by blysik＠shutterfly.com 27 Feb '05

27 Feb '05

Hi, I've noticed this problem for a while now: Occasionally I see a host showing on the monitor page which is all purple (minus the info and trends column), and it disappears when hobbit regens the html. This host is always one which is disabled. This doesn't generate any pages, but is definitely confusing for anyone keeping an eye on the web gui. Has anyone else noticed this problem? Note that I haven't applied the RC3 patch yet, so apologies if this is a resolved bug. -- Bruce Z. Lysik <blysik at shutterfly.com> Operations Engineer

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maint.pl with no email
by iqbala-hobbit＠qwestip.net 26 Feb '05

26 Feb '05

Hi All In bigbrother the following code of maint.pl were able to send a page. "&bbsend("now","$bbpager","page notify-admin.maint enable\n\nThe f ollowing at jobs that were scheduled to disable tests have been CANCELLED\nDate: " . &POSIX_time( $nowtime) . "\n$cancelledby$notification");" But in Hobbit I tried with the same code and it did not send any page. I have HOST=notify-admin SERVICE=maint MAIL my.email at here And when I did the ./bin/bbcmd hobbitd_alert --test notify-admin maint, it matches the rule fine. However 'man bb' shows 'page HOSTNAME.TESTNAME COLOR <additional text>'. So for testing I ran bb 127.0.0.1 "page HOSTNAME.TESTNAME COLOR <additional text>" but I did not receive any page. Is that mean I need to have an entry for notify-admin in bb-hosts file? But that is not a valid hostname. So I am in a predicament now. Is there a trick/tip to make the page work when using maint.pl? Thanks -- Asif Iqbal PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." - Charles Darwin

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custom graphs
by blysik＠shutterfly.com 26 Feb '05

26 Feb '05

Hey, Just wanted to say I started using the custom graphing feature. Manager is very impressed. Thanks Henrik. -- Bruce Z. Lysik <blysik at shutterfly.com> Operations Engineer

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[hobbit] disabled monitors showing purple occasionally on web ui
by blysik＠shutterfly.com 26 Feb '05

26 Feb '05

> If you click on one of these phantom purples to get the detailed > status page, is that one blue or purple ? Since no page-messages are > triggered, I suspect it's a problem with the way bbgen decides to > go purple (so I'd expect the detailed status to be blue). > Yep. If I click on a phatom purple, the detailed status page is blue. -- Bruce Z. Lysik <blysik at shutterfly.com> Operations Engineer

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DISK is 96% but shows yellow
by iqbala-hobbit＠qwestip.net 25 Feb '05

25 Feb '05

Hi I have a system that has one of the disk partition is 96% but it is still showing yellow. Hobbit: RC2 Client is Solaris 8. The df -k on the client shows Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on /dev/md/dsk/d2 494235 294735 150077 67% / /dev/md/dsk/d8 4131866 3099740 990808 76% /usr /proc 0 0 0 0% /proc fd 0 0 0 0% /dev/fd mnttab 0 0 0 0% /etc/mnttab /dev/md/dsk/d14 6033690 5676502 296852 96% /var swap 5196544 48 5196496 1% /var/run swap 5505992 309496 5196496 6% /tmp /dev/md/dsk/d11 1525647 1089202 375420 75% /opt /dev/md/dsk/d17 1018191 103998 853102 11% /export/home The BBDISPLAY shows exact same output but with Yellow. Is there something I can check to troubelshoot this issue? Thanks -- Asif Iqbal PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." - Charles Darwin

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[hobbit] disabled monitors showing purple occasionally on web ui
by blysik＠shutterfly.com 25 Feb '05

25 Feb '05

> Just patched to RC3 yesterday and am noticing occasional purple today. > I currently have 4 disabled hosts, but I can't remember if it was > showing purple for all 4. > > As you mentioned a page regen clears it up. I have a lot of disabled hosts, so it's definitely not showing all of them. I think I've seen at most four of these phantom purples at one time. -- Bruce Z. Lysik <blysik at shutterfly.com> Operations Engineer

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