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Local Machine stat
by soumya＠in-corporate.pacenet-india.com 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

How do I get the local machine stat of the server? I have installed BBclient, but I am not sure that should I write in the bb-host file and what directives should I give for monitoring CPU, Disk, Memory. Gr8 work Hernik for mrtg. Your process is better than bb-mrtg.pl Regards Soumya

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BB and Hobbit on same server
by rgordonjr＠gmail.com 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

Hello - Is there a way that I can run Hobbit and BB on the same server with them both listening to traffic on port 1984? I am running into an internal political issue at the office and as of now this is the only way that I am able to resolve the issue... Thanks! -- --==[ Bob Gordon ]==--

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How to integrate Hobbit and MRTG
by henrik＠hswn.dk 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

I've been playing about with MRTG today, and found out that adding MRTG graphs to the Hobbit set of graphs was a very simple task. Since this is probably something that others can use, I've written up a short description of how to do it: http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/help/hobbit-mrtg.html The short story is that you can configure MRTG so that it stores its datafiles in RRDtool format directly into the directory where Hobbit looks for all of the other RRD files for a host. So with a "mrtg" entry in the hobbitgraph.cfg file and an extra entry for "mrtg" in hobbitserver.cfg's GRAPHS setting, I've got the MRTG graphs showing up as normal Hobbit graphs on the "trends" page: http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?HOSTSVC=fenris,hswn,dk.trends&I… (a bit down that page, 3rd and 4th last graphs) The detailed view is here: http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit-cgi/hobbitgraph.sh?host=fenris.hswn.dk&service=mr… I did make one simple tweak to the Hobbit code for this - hobbitgraph normally bundles graphs into bunches of 5, which doesn't work well for the MRTG graphs. So I made the "5" configurable so I could get one graph per network interface. I think it's neat :-) Henrik

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[hobbit] How to integrate Hobbit and MRTG
by MilburnJA＠dot.il.gov 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

-----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 11:07 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] How to integrate Hobbit and MRTG On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 05:48:54PM +0100, Henrik Stoerner wrote: > I've been playing about with MRTG today A patch against Hobbit RC6 is avaiable at http://www.hswn.dk/beta/postRC6-mrtg.patch This adds the "mrtg" entry to hobbitgraph.cfg, changes the default "GRAPHS" setting in hobbitserver.cfg (just add ",mrtg::1" to the entry in your file), and makes bb-larrdcolumn recognize the "::1" syntax for Hobbit. Install with cd hobbit-4.0-RC6 patch -p0 </tmp/postRC6-mrtg.patch make Then stop Hobbit, do "make install" as root, and start Hobbit. Henrik Will this interfere with bbmrtg.pl? I am currently using it with mrtg-rrd.cgi to generate graphs as needed.

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[hobbit] How to integrate Hobbit and MRTG
by pwilliamson＠mandtbank.com 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

>>> dan.mcdonald at austinenergy.com 03/23/05 12:37 PM >>> > >That's ok for a few, but it won't scale terribly well. I have >over 5000 points that I am currently monitoring with mrtg. >I have that broken down into a three tier directory structure > (region - site - device), with all of the thresholds and >alerting from bbmrtg.pl. I'd agree. If you've got less than ~100 systems/devices, this would be fine. If you want to do much more than that, you'll want a separate hobbitgraph process to handle this. >Is there a way I can point to my existing rrd directory >structure for the graphing bit - which bbmrtg.pl doesn't >do terribly well - but still keep my stuff in its nice >hierarchy? Sure, leave it up to you to find a way to make things difficult, eh? LOL! I've tried this a couple of way without much luck. I'll be working on it tonight to see if there's a way...there's got to be a way... Paul

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Nice work on RC6 Henrik
by RWaegner＠questia.com 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

Any further progress on the BEA stats? Rick

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[hobbit] External Scripts
by dave＠auctionhelper.com 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

Sorry about this post. Its Monday. Dave ________________________________ From: David Garaway [mailto:dave at auctionhelper.com] Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 9:30 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] External Scripts I have 10am...1-888-346-3950...login id: 3256808#. Dave

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rpm useful addition
by dan.mcdonald＠austinenergy.com 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

Great job on the RPM - I installed it (rebuilt SRPM) and it works pretty well. That will make deploying this much easier for my consulting side-business. One very useful addition would be a file in /etc/httpd/conf.d/ with the apache config. I named mine 90_hobbit.conf, and it contains: # This file is for Apache 1.3.x and Apache 2.0.x # # Add this to your Apache configuration, it makes # the Hobbit webpages and cgi-scripts available in the # "/hobbit" and "/hobbit-cgi" URLs. Alias /hobbit/ "/var/lib/hobbit/www/" <Directory "/var/lib/hobbit/www/"> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes MultiViews Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> ScriptAlias /hobbit-cgi/ "/usr/lib/hobbit/cgi-bin/" <Directory "/usr/lib/hobbit/cgi-bin"> AllowOverride None Options ExecCGI Includes Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> ScriptAlias /hobbit-seccgi/ "/usr/lib/hobbit/cgi-secure/" <Directory "/usr/lib/hobbit/cgi-secure"> AllowOverride None Options ExecCGI Includes <IfModule mod_access.c> Order allow,deny Allow from all </IfModule> <IfModule mod_auth_ldap.c> AuthLDAPEnabled On #AuthLDAPFrontPageHack On AuthType Basic AuthName "Hobbit" require valid-user AuthLDAPURL ldaps://127.0.0.1:636/dc=example,dc=com?uid?one </IfModule> </Directory> --

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fping problems
by joe＠tmsusa.com 22 Mar '05

22 Mar '05

I need a sanity check here - running bb-1.9e-btf + bbgen-3.5 I've attempted to clone copied a bb server by copying all the files from one linux box to another one running the same distro and revision of the OS I've removed all the old files from /usr/local/bbvar I've edited $BBHOME/etc/bb-hosts to reflect the new environment I've set fping to suid root, and the bb user can run the fping command with no problem All tests work fine, with the exception of the "conn" test, which fails universally This is the content of BBOUT: 2005-03-22 13:23:57 Execution of 'fping' failed with error-code 99 2005-03-22 13:28:57 Execution of 'fping' failed with error-code 99 2005-03-22 13:33:57 Execution of 'fping' failed with error-code 99 2005-03-22 13:38:57 Execution of 'fping' failed with error-code 99 2005-03-22 13:43:57 Execution of 'fping' failed with error-code 99 2005-03-22 13:48:57 Execution of 'fping' failed with error-code 99 2005-03-22 13:53:57 Execution of 'fping' failed with error-code 99 2005-03-22 13:58:57 Execution of 'fping' failed with error-code 99 2005-03-22 14:03:57 Execution of 'fping' failed with error-code 99 2005-03-22 14:08:57 Execution of 'fping' failed with error-code 99 What is this "error 99"? Regards, Joe

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[hobbit] Hobbit 4.0 RC6 now available
by GThiesfeld＠webmd.net 22 Mar '05

22 Mar '05

> Thanks, but the only information I'd like to get from it is what is > reported if you run "rpm -q --requires hobbit" ? # rpm -q --requires hobbit /bin/sh /bin/sh /bin/sh /bin/sh /usr/bin/perl config(hobbit) = 4.0RC6-4 fping libc.so.6 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.4) libcrypto.so.4 liblber-2.2.so.7 libldap-2.2.so.7 libm.so.6 libm.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) libpcre.so.0 libssl.so.4 libz.so.1 perl(CGI) perl(CGI::Carp) perl(POSIX) perl(Sys::Hostname) perl(strict) rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1 rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1

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