March 2005 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

RFE, Alert View
by benny.kjellgren＠staff.spray.se 14 Mar '05

14 Mar '05

Hi, I would like to have a page with the latest alerts (with auto refresh). For me there is a big different if a non-green is alerting or not. Sometimes there is problem with the email2sms gateway then it would be nice with a alert view. Some NOC people prefer to watch a page with alerts instead of emails (SMS) or RSS. And if you can ack and disable test from alert view it would be great. //benny

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[hobbit] 'conn' history pages all showing red
by blysik＠shutterfly.com 14 Mar '05

14 Mar '05

> > So I just noticed that if I click on the 'conn' monitor, and then > > the HISTORY button, all my hosts are showing red on that histogram. > > Yet everything is fine otherwise. They aren't actually alerting, > > just the history page. > > I think you need to show us the image you're seeing. > > The histograms consist of the time-markers (showing the hours, or > days, or months) and the color-bar. The time-markers can very well be > red without there being a red stripe in the color-bar; that is just an > indication that there was an outage e.g. in August, but it was too > short to show up as a stripe on the color-bar. (That's what the > "Min. duration shown" tells you). 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. -- Bruce Z. Lysik <blysik at shutterfly.com> Operations Engineer

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[hobbit] completely confused
by trotunda＠opushealthcare.com 14 Mar '05

14 Mar '05

I give up. I am going mad trying to hobbitize BB-Central. Too complicated for a non-author to rewrite without more details. Sorry for those who were looking forward to BB-Central-For-Hobbit version 1.0. Instead of rewriting something I didn't write, don't know, requires BB Client, and think is way to complicated for my feeble brain, I have created HobbitCentral Version 0.1a. In its very early state, it consists of a C program called ipxfer, a script called hobcen.sh, a config file called hobcen.cfg and a data file called xfer.dat. I am deploying initially to my remote HP-UX servers and will figure out how to release the HP-UX version when I am satisfied that it works well enough for an initial release. I have only written free software for the FlightSim community so I will have to learn how to do it for the real world. I will tweak it for Linux after I have released the HP version. Updates as they become available. Tim -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 4:13 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] completely confused On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 09:46:32PM +0100, Henrik Stoerner wrote: [about BB-central] > I'll play around with it a bit more and see if I can get it running. Well, this one has me stumped. Getting it to run was pretty easy, but it appears to be rather broken. The main script bb-central.pl generates bb-central.sh, which has the commands needed to login to a remote system via ssh and retrieve data. The only problem is that it generates an ssh command that just logs in; then it sits there in an interactive session and does nothing. As far as I can see, the perl-script should add the commands needed to collect the data, but it doesn't. I even tried setting it up to run under a BB client, and it gives me the same problem. I think I'll post to the BB list and see if the author has some idea about what's going on. Henrik 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] Pagesets
by Kevin＠ewormhole.com 14 Mar '05

14 Mar '05

I noticed that when using pagesets, the icons in each column do not change from the smiley faces to the diamonds and the other icons. They remain as one type of icon. Is this also by design or did I forget some option? -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Storner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2005 12:29 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Pagesets Importance: Low In <EF22302EC121A246A79988281A534DFC0866 at hermes.ewormhole> Kevin Hanrahan <Kevin at ewormhole.com> writes: >Thank you sir. I am ALMOST there... After playing with it for a while, >I got it to generate the new pagesets, and I can get there if I manually type the >pageset name in the URL as in : >http://nemesis/hobbit/test >But a link to "test" never shows up on the main page: >http://nemesis/hobbit/ > Is this the way it is intended to work or am I missing another piece >of the puzzle? That is the way it's supposed to work. The pagesets don't know about each other - and they shouldn't, because one of the reasons for doing pagesets might be that you want to hide some hosts from one group of users. For an easy link between pagesets, add a link to each pageset to the "Views" menu. It's in the file ~hobbit/server/www/menu/menu_items.js Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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Iishealth
by Kevin＠ewormhole.com 14 Mar '05

14 Mar '05

I noticed that when using the iishealth script and Win2003, only "connections" get any data, in both the text and graph area. Is this a function of how Hobbit interprets the data or is this a function of the original script just not fully adapting to Win2003? Anybody got any ideas? Thanks Kevin

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[hobbit] Pagesets
by Kevin.Hanrahan＠novainfo.com 13 Mar '05

13 Mar '05

Very good then... I believe that this will work nicely. Thank you -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Storner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2005 12:29 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Pagesets In <EF22302EC121A246A79988281A534DFC0866 at hermes.ewormhole> Kevin Hanrahan <Kevin at ewormhole.com> writes: >Thank you sir. I am ALMOST there... After playing with it for a while, >I got it to generate the new pagesets, and I can get there if I manually type the >pageset name in the URL as in : >http://nemesis/hobbit/test >But a link to "test" never shows up on the main page: >http://nemesis/hobbit/ > Is this the way it is intended to work or am I missing another piece >of the puzzle? That is the way it's supposed to work. The pagesets don't know about each other - and they shouldn't, because one of the reasons for doing pagesets might be that you want to hide some hosts from one group of users. For an easy link between pagesets, add a link to each pageset to the "Views" menu. It's in the file ~hobbit/server/www/menu/menu_items.js Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk 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] completely confused
by trotunda＠opushealthcare.com 13 Mar '05

13 Mar '05

Ok, so I got everything "hobbitlaunching" and now ready to tackle the bbnet issue. Yesterday I wrote a small C prog to make a connection with hobbitd, bump a given file into hobbit and disconnect. Is that what bbnet is doing here? If so, how do I feed hobbit graphing parameters? I am getting the status, setting color and a bdf, for instance, but I can't figure out how to feed hobbit parms to graph. Again, any help certainly appreciated. Tim -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 2:47 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] completely confused On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 10:52:27AM -0600, Tim Rotunda wrote: > > Now the $64k question is can I get BB-Central to work with my Hobbit > Server/BB1.9 Client install. I fear I need to have BB-Server running, > but we shall see unless someone can spare me the pain of learning this > on my own. I've had a look at bb-central today, and it doesn't seem terribly difficult to make it work with Hobbit. There are two issues that I've found so far. 1) bb-central reads the bbsys.sh and bbdef.sh files from BB to pick up the locations of various tools. This is easily handled by having it read hobbitserver.cfg instead - either change bb-central files to read that file, or setup a symlink from bbdef.sh and bbsys.sh to hobbitserver.cfg. 2) bb-central uses the "bbnet" utility from BB to check if a server is up before it starts connecting to it with ssh. There is no bbnet utility included with Hobbit, so some replacement for that must be found. Other than that, it seems that bb-central uses the normal "bb" tool to send in status reports for the hosts it monitors, and that should work without any problems. I'll play around with it a bit more and see if I can get it running. I think I may have to setup a page on how to port popular BB server-side extensions to Hobbit - bb-central could be the first item on that page. Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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trace & service checks OK but not conn
by joel＠carnat.net 13 Mar '05

13 Mar '05

Hi, I don't understand why all my service checks are OK expect the conn one. Here's an exemple of the "trace" result : ######################################################################## Sun Mar 13 18:12:38 2005 conn NOT ok Service conn on www.netbsd.org is not OK : Host does not respond to ping System unreachable for 2 poll periods (123 seconds) Traceroute results: traceroute to 204.152.190.12 (204.152.190.12), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 81.56.68.254 (81.56.68.254) 26.252 ms 26.551 ms 27.078 ms 2 vlq-6k-2-a5.routers.proxad.net (213.228.4.254) 28.354 ms 0.200 ms 0.008 ms 3 vlq-6k-2-v802.intf.routers.proxad.net (212.27.50.46) 9.105 ms 25.475 ms 25.550 ms 4 th1-6k-2-v804.intf.routers.proxad.net (212.27.50.37) 27.136 ms 26.442 ms 26.306 ms 5 above.FreeIX.net (213.228.3.234) 25.743 ms 25.168 ms 26.491 ms 6 pos8-0.cr1.cdg2.fr.above.net (208.184.231.214) 167.884 ms 167.828 ms 168.095 ms 7 so-5-1-0.cr1.lhr3.uk.above.net (64.125.31.129) 33.118 ms 32.007 ms 32.014 ms 8 so-7-0-0.cr1.dca2.us.above.net (64.125.31.186) 169.311 ms 107.482 ms 107.233 ms 9 so-0-0-0.cr2.dca2.us.above.net (64.125.29.122) 143.849 ms 107.455 ms 108.470 ms 10 so-2-2-0.cr2.dfw2.us.above.net (64.125.29.9) 136.716 ms 135.829 ms 135.404 ms 11 so-0-0-0.cr1.dfw2.us.above.net (64.125.28.209) 133.695 ms 135.320 ms 134.291 ms 12 so-4-0-0.mpr4.sjc2.us.above.net (64.125.29.53) 180.325 ms 178.895 ms 179.727 ms 13 so-4-0-0.mpr4.pao1.us.above.net (64.125.29.162) 180.410 ms 181.167 ms 179.676 ms 14 so-0-0-0.mpr3.pao1.us.above.net (64.125.27.81) 179.653 ms 179.116 ms 179.909 ms 15 isc-above-oc3.pao.isc.org (216.200.0.10) 179.953 ms 179.287 ms 179.679 ms 16 r8-pao1.r3.sfo2.isc.org (192.5.4.233) 180.885 ms 180.857 ms 179.254 ms 17 www.netbsd.org (204.152.190.12) 179.750 ms 182.364 ms 180.609 ms ######################################################################## BBSERVERHOSTNAME and BBSERVERIP are correctly set (!=127.0.0.1) and I **can** ping any machines (in my LAN or on the Internet) Can anyone tell me why conn would fail when ping works on command line ? TIA, Jo -- ,- This mail runs ------. `--------- NetBSD/i386 -'

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[hobbit] Pagesets
by Kevin＠ewormhole.com 13 Mar '05

13 Mar '05

Thank you sir. I am ALMOST there... After playing with it for a while, I got it to generate the new pagesets, and I can get there if I manually type the pageset name in the URL as in : http://nemesis/hobbit/test But a link to "test" never shows up on the main page: http://nemesis/hobbit/ Is this the way it is intended to work or am I missing another piece of the puzzle? Thanks KEvin -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2005 1:21 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Pagesets Importance: Low On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 12:18:33AM -0500, Kevin Hanrahan wrote: > OK, I'm lost! I am trying to define and build alternate pagesets but I > am not sure where I made my mistakes! I ahe defined one pageset as follows: [snip config] > But no extra page shows up! > > >From the man pages, it says: > > All of this just defines the layout of the new pageset. To generate > it, you must run bbgen once for each pageset you define > How do I do this?? Where is bb-display.sh?? I know these instructions > were written for someone running bbgen on top of the normal BB setup > But is there a way to use it on Hobbit? Put the commands to run bbgen into a script, e.g. ~hobbit/server/ext/testpages.sh BBWEB="/bb/test" $BBHOME/bin/bbgen \ --pageset=test --template=tes \ $BBHOME/www/test/ And add a new section to hobbitlaunch.cfg to run that at whatever interval you want - you can copy the [bbdisplay] part and just change the command: [bbdisplay-test] ENVFILE /usr/local/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg NEEDS hobbitd GROUP generators CMD $BBHOME/ext/testpages.sh LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/bb-display.log INTERVAL 5m Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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running multiple bbgen's
by dstuffle＠insightbb.com 13 Mar '05

13 Mar '05

Hello, My event log report shows bbgen going from green to yellow and then back to green all within one second. When I click on the yellow, it still shows a green status page. This is happening once every minute. My bb-display.log has corresponding entries that say the following: 2005-03-13 07:50:04 Cannot rename bb2.html.tmp to bb2.html - error 2 2005-03-13 07:51:04 Cannot rename bb2.html.tmp to bb2.html - error 2 2005-03-13 07:52:05 Cannot rename bb2.html.tmp to bb2.html - error 2 2005-03-13 07:53:05 Cannot rename bb2.html.tmp to bb2.html - error 2 2005-03-13 07:54:06 Cannot rename bb2.html.tmp to bb2.html - error 2 Also, the larrd-status.log has corresponding entries that say this for the bbgen.rrd: RRD error updating <servernamepath>/bbgen.rrd: illegal attempt to update using time 1110719366 when last update time is 1110719366 (minimum one second step) I have a feeling this is related to my pagesets. I'm running bbgen from bb-display.sh a total of three times since I have 2 pagesets. Are each of these trying to update the bbgen.rrd and causing this error? Thanks!

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