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Need help to debug
by iqbala-hobbit＠qwestip.net 18 Mar '05

18 Mar '05

I have a Sol 8 running bb1.9c client. It has multiple interface. I did a route get to find out which interface the client takes to send the data to hobbitd on the server. Then I put the IP of that interface and name (that matches to that IP in the /etc/hosts file) in the bb-hosts file in both the hobbitd server and bb1.9c client. I started BB client and it started fine. I verified that the client can talk to hobbitd server on port 1984. Now I also snoop on the hobbitd server for the client's IP and I see packets are coming in. How do I check for the hostnmae.service that should be showing up in the hobbitdboard, but it is not? 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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Who's using
by ajeffco＠orhs.org 17 Mar '05

17 Mar '05

Hello All, We presented Hobbit to our new director today, in hopes of getting it more widely utilized(he's also looking for a solution to monitor applications running on windows servers on our network, some of which have a serious failure rate.) We have been using it to monitor the UNIX/Big Iron side of the house for about 6 years now, but could never grow it outside of that, for various reasons (free=no support, non-acceptance of unix based products from our windows admins, etc). He really was impressed with Hobbit, and said it's the first time he's seen a presentation where someone wasn't asking for any money and the product was already implemented. During the presentation, he asked who else is using BB/Hobbit. There used to be a client list on the bb4.net page, which is no longer there. So I figured I'd solicit the list to see who else is using Hobbit or BB (commercial or free), to answer the only question he asked that I couldn't. Thank you Al Jeffcoat 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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mail list archive
by rdeal＠tigr.org 17 Mar '05

17 Mar '05

Is the mail list archive at http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/ down? It seems to work for January and February but for March it gives permission denied.

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Donation Link
by iqbala-hobbit＠qwestip.net 16 Mar '05

16 Mar '05

I like to personally show my appreciation for making such an awesome tool, like 'Hoobit', available to public by GPL license. Hint: There is 'Donate to Hobbit Monitor' link from the hobbitmon.sf.net page. 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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Searchable archives?
by kmckinnis＠macrovision.com 16 Mar '05

16 Mar '05

This may have been asked before, but there were a lot of threads to go through :) I have gotten so behind on the mailing list, and I was glad to see that the archives are available online. Whatever you are using to generate the archives pages... Is there a way to make it searchable? Also, I just jumped from beta 4 to RC5, and was pleased with the bug fixes and everything else. Thanks again Heinrik! ~Kimberly

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Report in Excel format
by iqbala-hobbit＠qwestip.net 16 Mar '05

16 Mar '05

Hi Henrik Is it possible to add a feature to be able to create report in Excel format? My director was wondering if that is possible. Looking forward to migrate to hobbit when it releases. Thanks -- Asif Iqbal PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu "...it said: Install Windows XP or better...so I installed Solaris..."

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Migrate BBVAR to data
by iqbala-hobbit＠qwestip.net 16 Mar '05

16 Mar '05

Hi I had been running bbro for more than 3yrs and I am running hobbit since the beginning of this year. I read the Step 4 and 5 on http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/docs/bb-to-hobbit.html. However I am not clear the following. If I migrate the BBVAR contents to data dir will my current hobbit data/rrd get overwritten or they can stay side-by-side? 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] DURATION tag
by Kevin＠ewormhole.com 16 Mar '05

16 Mar '05

I typically get the alert message closely followed by the recovery message which doesn't make sense since if the poll time is 5 min. I would expect the alert and recovery to have some seperation in them but they seem to have the same timestamp....I will verify that. Yes, I am running RC5 plus the patch for the duplicate recovery messages I need to qualify this...It seems that this is a problem but I can't say for certain yet since I haven't tried to manually cause high cpu load for <20 minutes but I will try that. I just wanted to see if anyone else had seen any similar symptoms KEvin -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 5:21 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] DURATION tag Importance: Low On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 05:06:20PM -0500, Kevin.Hanrahan at novainfo.com wrote: > I'm not sure the duration tag is working correctly in the > hobbit-alerts.cfg setup. I have tests like I/O and CPU that will spike > for a short time and I wanted to eliminate the email notifications for > those spikes. I set the DURATION tag for 10 or 20 minutes like this: > > > HOST=$SERVER1 > MAIL $SYSADMIN COLOR=red EXSERVICE=msgs,cpu,http,webContent > REPEAT=30m RECOVERED > MAIL $SYSADMIN COLOR=red SERVICE=cpu DURATION>20 REPEAT=30m > RECOVERED The messages you get - are they alert messages or recovery messages? I suppose you're running RC5 plus the patch I sent you for the duplicate recovery messages ? Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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[hobbit] Red History Green Cuurent
by dhd733＠yahoo.se 16 Mar '05

16 Mar '05

OK, since it seems like nobody have any ideas about this I cured the symptoms, by disabling and enabling telnet and procs. Then the histfiles were updated. Regards Lars lars ebeling <dhd733 at yahoo.se> wrote: ---------- Från: lars ebeling[SMTP:DHD733 at YAHOO.SE] Skickat: den 15 mars 2005 10:22:07 Till: hobbit Ämne: [hobbit] Red History Green Cuurent Automatiskt vidarebefordrat av en regel Hi All, I found this but no solution. I think I have the same problem. Current status are green for "telnet" and "procs" but when I look at History they are red since 2005-03-03 and 2005-03-04. All files in data/hist are at least 666 -rw-rw-rw- 1 hobbit users 88 Mar 3 08:22 leopg9.telnet $ pg leopg9.telnet Mon Feb 28 09:09:58 2005 green 1109578198 256337 Thu Mar 3 08:22:15 2005 red 1109834535 http://leopg9.no-ip.org/hobbit/ Regards Lars Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote: > ---------- > Från: Henrik Stoerner[SMTP:HENRIK at HSWN.DK] > Skickat: den 14 mars 2005 23:07:57 > Till: hobbit at hswn.dk > Ämne: Re: [hobbit] 'conn' history pages all showing red > Automatiskt vidarebefordrat av en regel > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:04:26AM -0800, Bruce Lysik wrote: > The color bars on all my hosts are showing red since February 15th. > And the history list shows all my hosts going red since that date. > I wonder if that was the day I installed a new release. But it's > weird that only the ping check shows this behaviour. > > I'll get a screenshot if that's not clear enough. Please do. And if you could send me one of those history files (~hobbit/data/hist/HOSTNAME.conn) that would probably also help. I take it that the current status shows up as green for those hosts ? Did you check the ownership and permissions on the files in ~hobbit/data/hist/ ? Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk Hobbithobbyist I am not young enough to know everything. -Oscar Wilde Hobbithobbyist I am not young enough to know everything. -Oscar Wilde Hobbithobbyist I am not young enough to know everything. -Oscar Wilde

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Need help with manual BBGEN report
by iqbala-hobbit＠qwestip.net 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

I have this script which is suppose to create a monthly report as a cronjob, but it never worked with hobbit. It used to work fine with bb1.9c with bbgen 3.2 Here is the script #!/bin/sh # [ "$#" -gt 0 -a "$#" -lt 3 ] && echo && echo Usage: $0 [31 Jan 2004] && exit 1 [ "$#" -gt 3 ] && echo && echo Usage: $0 [31 Jan 2004] && exit 1 DAY=$1 MONTH=$2 YEAR=$3 DATE=/usr/local/bin/date MKDIR=/usr/local/bin/mkdir DAY=${DAY:=`$DATE +%d`} MONTH=${MONTH:=`$DATE +%b`} YEAR=${YEAR:=`$DATE +%Y`} START=`$DATE +%s --date="01 $MONTH $YEAR 00:00:00"` END=`$DATE +%s --date="$DAY $MONTH $YEAR 23:59:59"` $MKDIR -p /usr/local/apache/htdocs/reports/monthly/$YEAR/$MONTH BBHOME=/export/home/hobbit/server . $BBHOME/etc/hobbitserver.cfg BBWEB=/reports/monthly/$YEAR/$MONTH \ $BBHOME/bin/bbgen --reportopts=$START:$END:1:crit \ --larrd043 --ignorecolumns=ssh,bbgen,bbtest --subpagecolumns=2 \ /usr/local/apache/htdocs/reports/monthly/$YEAR/$MONTH When I run it I get this as output report.monthly.sh: -l: not found report.monthly.sh: -Pk: not found report.monthly.sh: -Pk: not found report.monthly.sh: ax: not found report.monthly.sh: -n: not found report.monthly.sh: /dev: cannot execute report.monthly.sh: WARNING: not found 2005-03-15 13:38:09 xgetenv: Cannot find value for variable BBREPGREEN 2005-03-15 13:38:09 xgetenv: Cannot find value for variable MACHINE 2005-03-15 13:38:09 Environment variable MACHINE not defined 2005-03-15 13:38:09 Aborting I am running RC5. The report page is empty. Thanks for any help -- 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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