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[hobbit] Install Question
by ajeffco＠orhs.org 24 Feb '05

24 Feb '05

Being the adventurous type, I tried it with the just a /, and it appears to be working... Problem is now I've got bbtest and hobbitd_larrd red, and the details say "Program Crashed" on the subpage... Thanks tho :-) Al Jeffcoat IBM Certified Support Specialist, AIX Enterprise Storage Administrator System Programmer II (321)843-1051 ajeffco at orhs.org _____ From: Jeffcoat, Al Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 10:44 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Install Question Hello All, When installing hobbit as a virtual host, how should I answer this question: What URL will you use for the Hobbit webpages [/hobbit] ? Instead of the URL being http://server/hobbit, it will http://hobbit <http://hobbit/> Should I just put a / there? I think this is what my problem was earlier when I post an issue with the URL. TIA Al Jeffcoat IBM Certified Support Specialist, AIX Enterprise TotalStorage Administrator System Programmer II (321)843-1051 ajeffco at orhs.org This e-mail message and any attached files are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the addressee(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, any review, use, or distribution of this e-mail message and any attached files is strictly prohibited. This communication may contain material protected by Federal privacy regulations, attorney-client work product, or other privileges. If you have received this confidential communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail message and permanently delete the original message. To reply to our email administrator directly, send an email to: postmaster at orlandoregionalorg <mailto:postmaster at orlandoregional.org> . If this e-mail message concerns a contract matter, be advised that no employee or agent is authorized to conclude any binding agreement on behalf of Orlando Regional Healthcare by e-mail without express written confirmation by an officer of the corporation. Any views or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Orlando Regional Healthcare. This e-mail message and any attached files are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the addressee(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, any review, use, or distribution of this e-mail message and any attached files is strictly prohibited. This communication may contain material protected by Federal privacy regulations, attorney-client work product, or other privileges. If you have received this confidential communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail message and permanently delete the original message. To reply to our email administrator directly, send an email to: postmaster at orlandoregional.org . If this e-mail message concerns a contract matter, be advised that no employee or agent is authorized to conclude any binding agreement on behalf of Orlando Regional Healthcare by e-mail without express written confirmation by an officer of the corporation. Any views or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Orlando Regional Healthcare.

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Install Question
by ajeffco＠orhs.org 24 Feb '05

24 Feb '05

Hello All, When installing hobbit as a virtual host, how should I answer this question: What URL will you use for the Hobbit webpages [/hobbit] ? Instead of the URL being http://server/hobbit, it will http://hobbit <http://hobbit/> Should I just put a / there? I think this is what my problem was earlier when I post an issue with the URL. TIA Al Jeffcoat IBM Certified Support Specialist, AIX Enterprise TotalStorage Administrator System Programmer II (321)843-1051 ajeffco at orhs.org This e-mail message and any attached files are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the addressee(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, any review, use, or distribution of this e-mail message and any attached files is strictly prohibited. This communication may contain material protected by Federal privacy regulations, attorney-client work product, or other privileges. If you have received this confidential communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail message and permanently delete the original message. To reply to our email administrator directly, send an email to: postmaster at orlandoregional.org . If this e-mail message concerns a contract matter, be advised that no employee or agent is authorized to conclude any binding agreement on behalf of Orlando Regional Healthcare by e-mail without express written confirmation by an officer of the corporation. Any views or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Orlando Regional Healthcare.

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[hobbit] Preliminary patch for RC3 brokenness
by blysik＠shutterfly.com 23 Feb '05

23 Feb '05

Hmm. I just got some odd page with RC3-patch. This group: HOST=$HG-IMAGE SCRIPT /opt/bb/server/ext/email onduty SERVICE=procs RECOVERED SCRIPT /opt/bb/server/ext/email ops SERVICE=procs RECOVERED SCRIPT /opt/bb/server/ext/email onduty SERVICE=http,conn DURATION>6 RECOVERED SCRIPT /opt/bb/server/ext/email ops SERVICE=http,conn DURATION>6 RECOVERED SCRIPT /opt/bb/server/ext/email ops EXSERVICE=procs,http,conn RECOVERED And I just got some cpu alerts sent to the onduty address. In fact, the 'info' page looks totally wrong for alerts. Ack. Just got another alert I shouldn't have. (A purple for a vmstat monitor which should have only gone to the 'ops' address.) -- Bruce Z. Lysik <blysik at shutterfly.com> Operations Engineer > -----Original Message----- > From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] > Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 3:19 PM > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: [hobbit] Preliminary patch for RC3 brokenness > > > is available at http://www.hswn.dk/beta/post-RC3.patch > > It's been running for an hour now without problems, so I think I've > got the embarassing bugs fixed: > > * hobbitd_larrd should not crash anymore > * the alert-configuration should load correctly > * runtime-libraries should hopefully be found correctly on > Linux and *BSD > * maint.pl should no longer complain about un-initialised variables > > In addition, you get: > * A new hobbit-mailack tool was added, so you can acknowledge > alerts via e-mail without having to use BB's bb-mailack.sh > (see the hobbit-mailack man-page for instructions on setting it up) > * Support for OpenBSD was added > > To install the patch, do: > > cd hobbit-4.0-RC3 > patch -p0 </tmp/post-RC3.patch > rm Makefile > ./configure > make > su -c "make install" > > Note that you MUST delete the old Makefile, and re-run the configure > script. > > > Regards, > Henrik > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > >

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Hobbit 4.0 RC3
by henrik＠hswn.dk 23 Feb '05

23 Feb '05

Another release candidate - 4.0 RC3 - is now available on Sourceforge. There are a couple of outstanding bug reports related to alerts that I would like to get a grip on before calling this an official release. The list of changes - see below - is again rather long. Most notably, hobbitd crashing because of a mis-setting of the MACHINE variable has been fixed, as well as the bbtest-net crashes that happened with the apache-test. Also of note: Instaling Hobbit is now always done by running "make install". The old "setup" target no longer exists; "make install" will install everything, and even update your configuration files if new settings have been added. Expect quite a few updates when you upgrade from a previous version to 4.0-RC3, as I added all of the settings needed by the BB client package (so that extension scripts have all of the environment variables they expect). Regards, Henrik Changes from RC-2 -> RC-3 ------------------------- Configuration file changes: * The bb-services file format was changed slightly. Instead of "service foo" to define a service, it is now "[foo]". Existing files will be converted automatically by "make install". * The name of the "conn" column (for ping-tests) is used throughout Hobbit, and had to be set in multiple locations. Changed all of them to use the setting from the PINGCOLUMN environment variable, and added this to hobbitserver.cfg. * The --purple-conn option was dropped from hobbitd. It should be removed from hobbitlaunch.cfg. * The --ping=COLUMNNAME option for bbtest-net should not be used any more. "--ping" enables the ping tests, the name of the column is taken from the PINGCOLUMN variable. * The GRAPHS setting in hobbitserver.cfg no longer needs to have the simple TCP tests defined. These are automatically picked up from the bb-services file. Bugfixes: * hobbitd no longer crashes, if the MACHINE name from hobbitserver.cfg is not listed in bb-hosts. Thanks to Anonymous for helping me track down this bug. * If hobbitd crashed, then hobbitlaunch would attempt to restart it immediately. Added a 5 second delay, so that there's time for the OS to clean up any open sockets, files etc that might prevent a restart from working. * The "disk" RRD handler could be confused by reports from a Unix server, and mistake it for a report from a Windows server. This caused the report to try and store data in an RRD file with an invalid filename, so no graph-data was being stored. * The "cpu" and "disk" RRD handlers were enhanced to support reports from the "filerstats2bb" script for monitoring NetApp systems. The disk-handler also supports the "inode" and "qtree" reports from the same script. * bb-services was overwritten by a "make install". This wiped out custom network test definitions. * bbnet would crash if you happened to define a "http" or "https" test instead of using a full URL. * bbnet was mis-calculating the size of the URL used for th apache-test. This could cause it to overflow a buffer and crash. * hobbitd would ignore the BBPORT setting and always default to using port 1984. * Portability problems on HP-UX 11 should be resolved. From reports it appears that building RRDtool on HP-UX 11 is somewhat of a challenge; however, the core library is all that Hobbit needs, so build-problems with the Perl modules can be ignored as far as Hobbit is concerned. * hobbitd_alert could not handle multiple recipients for scripts, and mistakenly assumed all recipients with a "@" were for e-mail recipients. * Alert messages no longer include the "<!-- flags:... ->" summary; this is for Hobbit internal use only. * "suse" and "mandrake" are recognized as aliases for "linux" in the RRD handler. Improvements: * The info-pages now list the Hobbit alert configuration. * hobbitd_alert now has a "--trace=FILENAME" option. This causes it to log a complete trace of all messages received from hobbitd, and how they are handled and what alerts get sent out as a result. This should help in tracking down alert problems. * New FORMAT=PLAIN setting for alert recipients. This is the same as FORMAT=TEXT, except that the URL link to the status- page is left out of the message. * The "setup" target for make has been removed. "make install" will now do all of the work, and will also merge in any added settings to the hobbitserver.cfg, hobbitgraph.cfg, hobbitlaunch.cfg, columndoc.csv and bb-services files. The standard files in ~/server/web/ and ~/server/www/ are also updated, if a previous version of the standard file is found. * The graph included on a status view page can now be zoomed directly, without having to go over the "view all period graphs" page. * Color-names in hobbit-alerts.cfg are now case-insensitive. * If the "acknowledge alert" webpage is password-protected, the login-username is now included in the acknowledge message. This will also appear in the BB2 acknowledgement log display, and on the status page. * More tips added to the "Tips & Tricks" document: How to get temperature graphs with Fahrenheit, how to configure Apache to allow viewing of the CGI man-pages. * A native MD5 message-digest routine was added, so content- checks using digests will work even when Hobbit is built without OpenSSL support. The routine was taken from http://sourceforge.net/projects/libmd5-rfc/ * bb-findhost CGI will let you search for IP-adresses. * The "--recentgifs" option to bbgen now has a parameter, so you can specify what the threshold is for a status to have changed "recently". The default is 24 hours.

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Alerts syntax
by Kevin.Hanrahan＠novainfo.com 23 Feb '05

23 Feb '05

Can someone tell me the syntax of excluding multiple services in the alert config? Will this work?: HOST=$GROUP1 MAIL $SYSADMIN EXSERVICE=cpu,msgs COLOR=red REPEAT=30 RECOVERED MAIL $SYSADMIN SERVICE=cpu COLOR=red DURATION>10 REPEAT=30 RECOVERED Thank you Kevin Note: The information contained in this email and in any attachments is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. The recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. Sender accepts no liability for any damages caused by any virus transmitted by this email. If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and delete the email from your computer. This e-mail is and any response to it will be unencrypted and, therefore, potentially unsecure. Thank you. NOVA Information Systems, Inc.

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[hobbit] iostat data from redhat hosts into hobbit?
by blysik＠shutterfly.com 23 Feb '05

23 Feb '05

Yes, I've installed the sysstat rpm, and I've had some success with the bb-iostat package. But long term trending is what we're really interested in, so graphing is necessary. -- Bruce Z. Lysik <blysik at shutterfly.com> Operations Engineer > -----Original Message----- > From: Larry.Barber at usda.gov [mailto:Larry.Barber at usda.gov] > Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 11:47 AM > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: Re: [hobbit] iostat data from redhat hosts into hobbit? > > > I suppose I should also mention, that I'm using the vmio script from > deadcat to get iostat data. It doesn't produce larrd graphs, though. > > Thanks, > Larry Barber > > On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 13:28 -0600, blysik at shutterfly.com wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Has anyone successfully gotten iostat data (as from iostat-bf.sh in > > larrd) into hobbit? I notice that out of the box, the iostat-bf > > script doesn't seem to support linux. (And my tweakings > aren't being > > very successful at the moment.) > > > > -- > > Bruce Z. Lysik <blysik at shutterfly.com> > > Operations Engineer > > > > 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] iostat data from redhat hosts into hobbit?
by Larry.Barber＠usda.gov 23 Feb '05

23 Feb '05

I suppose I should also mention, that I'm using the vmio script from deadcat to get iostat data. It doesn't produce larrd graphs, though. Thanks, Larry Barber On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 13:28 -0600, blysik at shutterfly.com wrote: > Hi, > > Has anyone successfully gotten iostat data (as from iostat-bf.sh in > larrd) into hobbit? I notice that out of the box, the iostat-bf > script doesn't seem to support linux. (And my tweakings aren't being > very successful at the moment.) > > -- > Bruce Z. Lysik <blysik at shutterfly.com> > Operations Engineer > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > > >

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[hobbit] iostat data from redhat hosts into hobbit?
by Larry.Barber＠usda.gov 23 Feb '05

23 Feb '05

Most Linuxes don't come with iostat in the default install. You need to install iostat, first. You don't mention what distro your using, but I didn't have any problem with Red Hat ES3, once I installed iostat. For Red Hat iostat is included in the "sysstat" rpm. Thanks, Larry Barber On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 13:28 -0600, blysik at shutterfly.com wrote: > Hi, > > Has anyone successfully gotten iostat data (as from iostat-bf.sh in > larrd) into hobbit? I notice that out of the box, the iostat-bf > script doesn't seem to support linux. (And my tweakings aren't being > very successful at the moment.) > > -- > Bruce Z. Lysik <blysik at shutterfly.com> > Operations Engineer > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > > >

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iostat data from redhat hosts into hobbit?
by blysik＠shutterfly.com 23 Feb '05

23 Feb '05

Hi, Has anyone successfully gotten iostat data (as from iostat-bf.sh in larrd) into hobbit? I notice that out of the box, the iostat-bf script doesn't seem to support linux. (And my tweakings aren't being very successful at the moment.) -- Bruce Z. Lysik <blysik at shutterfly.com> Operations Engineer

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acks through email
by kevin.grady＠gmail.com 23 Feb '05

23 Feb '05

Does hobbit support acks through email? Thanks

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