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RC5 and "not updated" pages
by ctbeers＠syr.edu 11 Mar '05

11 Mar '05

I was receiving alerts for removed hosts from the bb-hosts file as noted earlier. I tried to drop the service and the host without luck. Finally restarting hobbit fixed this, so this may be a bug??? Chris

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[hobbit] completely confused
by trotunda＠opushealthcare.com 10 Mar '05

10 Mar '05

Henrik, I have bb-central loaded but I can't get it to .def file to build unless I manually run bb-central.sh. Now I have to comment out the call to bbnet, and insert a command I want to run between the quotes on the ssh line. Then it dumps the output from my ssh into bb-central.dat in the tmp dir. So after jacking with this most of my day, I decided to just run bb with what looks like the data that the bb-xxxx.pl scripts are trying to send and viola, I get something. That seemed way to easy and tells me I need to be pulling metrics and feeding them using my own code. I am just not real clear on how I feed data into hobbit and get the graphing too. Where can I see details of the format for sending data into Hobbit. I used bb to send data into hobbit and it brought up a graph when I drilled into that metric, unlike sending it from my own code via the IP:PORT from a remote system. Did that make any sense? Thanks for any help. 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

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[hobbit] Acknowledge Alert in RC5
by ctbeers＠syr.edu 10 Mar '05

10 Mar '05

Found it. Fixed it. It was because I have digest authentication on and MSIE does not abide by RFC's (not that anyone would have guessed that). So if you run digest authentication see this site <http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_auth_digest.html#msie> I added this to the apache conf BrowserMatch "MSIE" AuthDigestEnableQueryStringHack=On But it seems like if Henrik wanted to change this to a POST command it would fix this as well. But I got it to work. It fixes my IMP implementation as well, so that was an added bonus. -- Christopher T. Beers Lead UNIX Architect - System Infrastructure Services (SIS) Syracuse University | 250 Machinery Hall | Syracuse, NY 13244 (315) 443-4103 Office | (315) 443-1621 Fax | p-ctbeers at syr.edu Pager

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drop host
by ctbeers＠syr.edu 10 Mar '05

10 Mar '05

I can't seem to run a drop command and have it remove the warning messages I get. The hosts have been removed from bb-hosts and I started to receive the servername:service stopped reporting to BB alerts. Remembered I needed to run the bb drop stuff, but it does not seem to take affect. I am sure I did this in previous RC, but it seems not to work right in RC5. This is what I am trying to run ~/server/bin/bb 127.0.0.1 "drop db-server14.syr.edu" For this message I am receiving. From: Hobbit User <hobbit at darwin.syr.edu> To: ctbeers at syr.edu Subject: BB [254826] db-server14.syr.edu:conn stopped reporting to BB Date-Sent: March 10, 2005 3:21:09 PM -0500 green Thu Mar 10 08:16:04 2005 conn ok Service conn on db-server14.syr.edu is OK (up) &green 128.230.159.78 is alive (5.19 ms) See http://helpme.syr.edu/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?HOSTSVC=db-server14,syr,edu.…

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Acknowledge Alert in RC5
by ctbeers＠syr.edu 10 Mar '05

10 Mar '05

Seems IE browsers are not allowed to acknowledge alerts. When I fill in the fields and press the button, a web page is returned that says Bad request! Your browser (or proxy) sent a request that this server could not understand If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster Error 400 I am running apache 2.0.52 on Solaris and this is what the access log shows. The firefox one underneath works. Anyone have any ideas? Seems like the username is not passed in the log??? IE on WinXP (all latest and greatest versions and patches) 128.230.4.95 - - [10/Mar/2005:11:32:48 -0500] "GET /hobbit-seccgi/bb-ack.sh?ACTION=Ack&DELAY=60&MESSAGE=testing+IE&NUMBER=804723&Send=Send HTTP/1.1" 400 963 "http://helpme.syr.edu/hobbit-seccgi/bb-ack.sh" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)" Firefox 128.230.49.190 - ctbeers [10/Mar/2005:11:34:18 -0500] "GET /hobbit-seccgi/bb-ack.sh?ACTION=Ack&DELAY=60&MESSAGE=testing+firefox&NUMBER=804723&Send=Send HTTP/1.1" 200 1827 "http://helpme.syr.edu/hobbit-seccgi/bb-ack.sh" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8" -- Christopher T. Beers Lead UNIX Architect - System Infrastructure Services (SIS) Syracuse University | 250 Machinery Hall | Syracuse, NY 13244 (315) 443-4103 Office | (315) 443-1621 Fax | p-ctbeers at syr.edu Pager

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[hobbit] Acknowledge Alert in RC5
by dhd733＠yahoo.se 10 Mar '05

10 Mar '05

Hi, I'm running MS IE on XP-Home Edition and Apache 2.0.46 and here it works Regards Lars Hobbithobbyist "Christopher T. Beers" <ctbeers at syr.edu> wrote: > ---------- > Från: Christopher T. Beers[SMTP:CTBEERS at SYR.EDU] > Skickat: den 10 mars 2005 17:38:08 > Till: Hobbit > Kopia: Peter Jepson > Ämne: [hobbit] Acknowledge Alert in RC5 > Automatiskt vidarebefordrat av en regel > Seems IE browsers are not allowed to acknowledge alerts. When I fill in the fields and press the button, a web page is returned that says Bad request! Your browser (or proxy) sent a request that this server could not understand If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster Error 400 I am running apache 2.0.52 on Solaris and this is what the access log shows. The firefox one underneath works. Anyone have any ideas? Seems like the username is not passed in the log??? IE on WinXP (all latest and greatest versions and patches) 128.230.4.95 - - [10/Mar/2005:11:32:48 -0500] "GET /hobbit-seccgi/bb-ack.sh?ACTION=Ack&DELAY=60&MESSAGE=testing+IE&NUMBER=804723&Send=Send HTTP/1.1" 400 963 "http://helpme.syr.edu/hobbit-seccgi/bb-ack.sh" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)" Firefox 128.230.49.190 - ctbeers [10/Mar/2005:11:34:18 -0500] "GET /hobbit-seccgi/bb-ack.sh?ACTION=Ack&DELAY=60&MESSAGE=testing+firefox&NUMBER=804723&Send=Send HTTP/1.1" 200 1827 "http://helpme.syr.edu/hobbit-seccgi/bb-ack.sh" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8" -- Christopher T. Beers Lead UNIX Architect - System Infrastructure Services (SIS) Syracuse University | 250 Machinery Hall | Syracuse, NY 13244 (315) 443-4103 Office | (315) 443-1621 Fax | p-ctbeers at syr.edu Pager To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk I'm not young enough to know everything. -Oscar Wilde

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[hobbit] Graphs and maint.pl
by dhd733＠yahoo.se 10 Mar '05

10 Mar '05

Well I thought you already had /Lars Henrik Storner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote: > ---------- > Från: Henrik Storner[SMTP:HENRIK at HSWN.DK] > Skickat: den 10 mars 2005 09:16:01 > Till: hobbit at hswn.dk > Ämne: Re: [hobbit] Graphs and maint.pl > Automatiskt vidarebefordrat av en regel > In <20050310040718.GC22983 at qwestip.net> Asif Iqbal writes: >On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 07:30:01AM, Henrik Stoerner wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 07:21:19AM +0100, lars ebeling wrote: >> >> Maybe I'll do my own maint.pl replacement someday. >What you waiting for? Just kidn' I'm waiting for the effects of Einstein's theory of relativity to kick in, so I can have 40-hour days :-) Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk I'm not young enough to know everything. -Oscar Wilde

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[hobbit] Graphs and maint.pl
by dhd733＠yahoo.se 10 Mar '05

10 Mar '05

Hi Henrik, This is from my httpd.conf <Directory "/home/hobbit/cgi-secure"> SetEnv PATH /bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin AllowOverride None Options ExecCGI Includes Order allow,deny Allow from all This doesn't help. You always could come here and try Regards Lars Hobbithobbyist Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote: I guess around the same place in httpd.conf that you added the hobbi-cgi definitions. The note I wrote about SetEnv and maint.pl was purely done from the perlsec man-page. Since the problem doesn't show up anywhere I can try Hobbit, it's a bit difficult to dive into. > However changing -wT to -wt in maint.pl works. But probably makes it > more unsecure. It does make it accept "tainted" data. But since the same script runs with -wT in lots of places, it shouldn't be a problem. Maybe I'll do my own maint.pl replacement someday. Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk I'm not young enough to know everything. -Oscar Wilde

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[hobbit] completely confused
by trotunda＠opushealthcare.com 09 Mar '05

09 Mar '05

Tom, Thanks for the confirmation. It indeed does work. I installed BB1.9e on my Hobbit server and am getting the info I wanted. 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. Thanks, Tim -----Original Message----- From: Tom Georgoulias [mailto:tgeorgoulias at mcclatchy.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 7:06 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] completely confused Tim Rotunda wrote: > I will make the assumption here that BB1.9e will work for my needs here > if I decide not to make the port? You are correct, the client bb 1.9e will do client OS monitoring for parameters like CPU load average, disk utilization, processes, and a couple others. You can add even more functional tests by using add-on scripts from deadcat.net to collect data for in areas like vmstat, memory, etc. Tom To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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[hobbit] completely confused
by trotunda＠opushealthcare.com 09 Mar '05

09 Mar '05

Well aright then. Here goes........... -----Original Message----- From: Tom Georgoulias [mailto:tgeorgoulias at mcclatchy.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 11:52 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] completely confused 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 think a bunch of us were hoping to learn from you. ;) Tom To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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