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

22 Mar '05

> It seems my Mandrake names libraries slightly different that what your > Fedora does - I kind of expected this to happen. Could you try > fetching the source RPM package (the one with .src.rpm extension) and > rebuilding it into a binary package on your system ? It should be as > simple as running > > rpmbuild --rebuild hobbit-4.0RC6-4.src.rpm > > and after a while it should generate an installable hobbit*.i386.rpm > in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/ That worked, thanks for your help. I didn't realize that it would put the files in different directories than /home/hobbit/ so I had a little trouble with that. But I finally blew the contents of that directory away and did a fresh install and it became clear. Oh well, it's a test box after all. Would you like the RPM I built, Henrik?

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

22 Mar '05

> This includes pre-built Debian packages for Debian/Sarge (i386 and > SPARC platforms), as well as an RPM-package (built on Mandrake, but it > will probably work on most recent RPM-based systems). These should be > considered "experimental", although I am currently running the Debian > packages on a full pre-production system at work, and the RPM package > at home. Please let me know if you have any problems with these. I'm afraid I need some guidance from someone with more linux experience than I have. When I try to install from RPM I get the error below. I've been running hobbit since at least beta4, so I think I should have all the required libraries installed. I'm running Fedora Core 3, and I've installed all of the required packages w/ yum. When I build hobbit, it finds all of the libraries fine. # rpm -i hobbit-4.0RC6-4.i586.rpm warning: hobbit-4.0RC6-4.i586.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID a8649321 error: Failed dependencies: perl-base is needed by hobbit-4.0RC6-4.i586 libcrypto.so.0.9.7 is needed by hobbit-4.0RC6-4.i586 liblber.so.2 is needed by hobbit-4.0RC6-4.i586 libldap.so.2 is needed by hobbit-4.0RC6-4.i586 librrd.so.0 is needed by hobbit-4.0RC6-4.i586 libssl.so.0.9.7 is needed by hobbit-4.0RC6-4.i586 Thanks, Gordon

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different vmstat profile
by marco.avvisano＠regione.toscana.it 22 Mar '05

22 Mar '05

On my bb-larrd installation i have defined in vmstat-larrd 3 different redhat profiles. It's possible to include it for default ? Marco redhat => { cpu_r => 0, cpu_b => 1, cpu_w => 2, mem_swpd => 3, mem_free => 4, mem_buff => 5, mem_cach => 6, mem_si => 7, mem_so => 8, dsk_bi => 9, dsk_bo => 10, cpu_int => 11, cpu_csw => 12, cpu_usr => 13, cpu_sys => 14, cpu_idl => 15, }, RedhatAS => { cpu_r => 0, cpu_b => 1, mem_swpd => 2, mem_free => 3, mem_buff => 4, mem_cach => 5, mem_si => 6, mem_so => 7, dsk_bi => 8, dsk_bo => 9, cpu_int => 10, cpu_csw => 11, cpu_usr => 12, cpu_sys => 13, cpu_idl => 14, cpu_wa => 15, }, RedhatES => { cpu_r => 0, cpu_b => 1, mem_swpd => 2, mem_free => 3, mem_buff => 4, mem_cach => 5, mem_si => 6, mem_so => 7, dsk_bi => 8, dsk_bo => 9, cpu_int => 10, cpu_csw => 11, cpu_usr => 12, cpu_sys => 13, cpu_wa => 14, cpu_idl => 15, },

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About guidelines for posting, disclaimers and such
by henrik＠hswn.dk 22 Mar '05

22 Mar '05

Everyone: Please calm down, if you haven't done so already. I've been administering public mailing lists long enough to know that fighting "bad" posting manners is most often an excercise in futility (you can choose whatever "bad" means here). Disclaimers are annoying, but I know that some people just cannot avoid them because if silly policies in their company - I too work for one of those large US-based corporations that require this on all outgoing e-mails. I have the option of using my personal mail system instead, but not everyone does. And frankly, using a Hotmail or some other public account for stuff you do at work is just annoying - I'd never do it myself. As for top- or bottom-quoting, each has his preference. I prefer people to quote *intelligently* - ie. quote just enough of the original message at the beginning of the e-mail to make the reader remember what this is about before adding your own comments. But in the end, I care about *what* people write, not *how* they do it. If you have a question about Hobbit, you're allowed to ask it here. (Of course, no-one is obliged to actually *answer* questions, so when you post it is a good idea to be civilized, or you'll just end up being ignored). Henrik

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Help with hobbitclient
by soumya＠in-corporate.pacenet-india.com 22 Mar '05

22 Mar '05

hi, Till now i have configured hobbit in a stand alone serever and monitoring all the servers and network based on default network test/feature available with the hobbit server. But now i want to use the hobbitclient.... i am not able to use the "make" command after ./configure. The ./configure does not gives any error. but "make" gives me this error. cc -g -O2 -DSYSCONFDIR="\"/usr/local/etc\"" -c -o conf_parse.o conf_parse.c cc -g -O2 -DSYSCONFDIR="\"/usr/local/etc\"" -c -o report.o report.c report.c: In function `open_report': report.c:90: warning: initialization makes integer from pointer without a cast cc -g -O2 -DSYSCONFDIR="\"/usr/local/etc\"" -c -o osdep.o osdep.c cc -o hobbitc cc: no input files make: *** [hobbitc] Error 1 and then it stops at the prompt. I am not able to understand the problem....can someone help... thanks again Soumya

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Remote status display
by Kevin.Hanrahan＠novainfo.com 22 Mar '05

22 Mar '05

Hi all, can someone please tell me what is the correct syntax to get rid of the remote status displays? I was experimenting with several configs and now I have half a dozen of them on my display! Thanks 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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RSS link
by iqbala-hobbit＠qwestip.net 22 Mar '05

22 Mar '05

Hi All I added the --rss --rsslimit=yellow to bbgen and now it created a bb.rss file under my www dir. But the content of the file is <?xml version="1.0"?> <rss version="0.91"> <channel> <title>Hobbit Alerts</title> <link>https://hobbit.qwest.net/hobbit</link> <description>Last updated on Fri Feb 25 16:07:56 2005</description> <item> <title>No Critical Alerts</title> <link>https://bigbrother.arl.qwestip.net/hobbit</link> </item> </channel> </rss> Is there a way I can change the link to https://hobbit.qwest.net/hobbit/ so everytime it updates it stays the same way? Also I was expecting some of the existing yellow alerts to show up as well since I have --rsslimit is set to yellow 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] alerts still not alerting
by Dan.McDonald＠austinenergy.com 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

I tried a couple of these, and it says it's sending mail to me, but there is nothing in the log... Ah wait, here's something in the log: postfix got munged when an updated mailman rpm was loaded on the box. But it should have still queued the message. I'll see if anything goes down today. Probably will... -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 7:23 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] alerts still not alerting On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 10:33:09AM -0600, Daniel J McDonald wrote: > I'm still flummoxed by hobbit-alerts. I'm certain I broke something, > because I am not getting any alerts from the box. It's probably a config error ... > The only logs in /var/log/hobbit/page.log are > 2005-03-11 07:49:30 Tried to down BOARDBUSY: Invalid argument > 2005-03-14 17:24:21 Tried to down BOARDBUSY: Invalid argument These are harmless, and often occur when Hobbit is shutdown or restarted. > I see a couple of those in the hobbitlaunch.log file as well, I also see > the following error: > 2005-03-19 10:14:21 Task bbdisplay started with PID 7417 > 2005-03-19 10:14:21 Task bbretest started with PID 7418 > 2005-03-19 10:14:29 Our child has failed and will not talk to us > 2005-03-19 10:14:36 Our child has failed and will not talk to us That's a first - and you're right it should be more detailed in the error-message. I've fixed that. But it generally means that one of the hobbitd helper tasks has stopped responding. > Here is a sample host that is not paging. The info page lists: > Service Recipient 1st Delay Stop after Repeat Time of Day Colors > conn dan.mcdonald at austinenergy.com (R) 30m - 5d - red > telnet dan.mcdonald at austinenergy.com (R) 30m - 5d - red > > Both telnet and conn have been down on this host for over two hours. > > The salient rule is: > HOST=%. > MAIL=dan.mcdonald at austinenergy.com REPEAT=140h DURATION>30m > RECOVERED COLOR="red" UNMATCHED Your "HOST=" is wrong - it will only match hostnames with exactly one letter (do you really have a host named "a" ?) - if you want to match all hosts, then it's "HOST=%.*" or the simple form "HOST=*" So some other rule must be generating the info-column output you have, and therefore even if your HOST entry was correct, the rule would not trigger because of the UNMATCHED restriction. Could you try running exec ~hobbit/server/bin/bbcmd hobbitd_alert --test HOSTNAME conn "" 120 red That should tell you how the alert is handled, and who gets notified using what rules. Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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hobbitlaunch.cfg
by dhd733＠yahoo.se 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

I have installed Hobbit und /home/hobbit. In hobbitlaunch.log I get: 2005-03-21 21:10:17 Cannot open env file /usr/local/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserv er.cfg - No such file or directory Regards Lars Hobbithobbyist I am not young enough to know everything. -Oscar Wilde

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bbgen
by dhd733＠yahoo.se 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

The bbgen page starts with this: Mon Mar 21 21:00:27 2005 bbgen version 4.0-RC6 with hobbitdStatistics: Hosts : 4 Status messages : 45 Purple messages : 0 Pages : 1Error output:Unknown option : --larrd043 Is that something I have put there, not what I remember, but I am not young enough ..... Regards Lars Hobbithobbyist I am not young enough to know everything. -Oscar Wilde

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