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[hobbit] completely confused
by dhd733＠yahoo.se 09 Mar '05

09 Mar '05

Well it's normally not open, but since I wrote the URL I had to open. Tom Georgoulias <tgeorgoulias at mcclatchy.com> wrote: > ---------- > Från: Tom Georgoulias[SMTP:TGEORGOULIAS at MCCLATCHY.COM] > Skickat: den 9 mars 2005 14:56:06 > Till: hobbit at hswn.dk > Ämne: Re: [hobbit] completely confused > Automatiskt vidarebefordrat av en regel > lars ebeling wrote: > Hello Tom, > So you were into my small homenetwork looking. It's fun to know who > were there. (gw2-outside-fe.nandomedia.com) Yup, that was me. I saw your question on the list and wondered what you were seeing. I expect you will see many others checking out your hobbit systems in the future, once the email message is archived and others stumble across the URL for one reason or another. Tom 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 dhd733＠yahoo.se 09 Mar '05

09 Mar '05

Hello Tom, So you were into my small homenetwork looking. It's fun to know who were there. (gw2-outside-fe.nandomedia.com) /Lars Hobbithobbyist Tom Georgoulias <tgeorgoulias at mcclatchy.com> wrote: > ---------- > Från: Tom Georgoulias[SMTP:TGEORGOULIAS at MCCLATCHY.COM] > Skickat: den 9 mars 2005 14:06:28 > Till: hobbit at hswn.dk > Ämne: Re: [hobbit] completely confused > Automatiskt vidarebefordrat av en regel > 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 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

Well I guess I could port HobbitClient to HP-UX. I will have to noodle on that for awhile. I have tried to make it on 11i already and ran into two issues. First I don't have err.h on my system and when I change err.h to errno.h I get this make error which I have no clue as to why: root at dev6:/var/tmp/hobbitclient-0.3 $gmake bison -y -p`echo conf_parse.c|sed 's/^$[^_]\{1,\}_$.*$/\1/'` conf_parse.y gmake: *** [conf_parse.c] Error 141 I will make the assumption here that BB1.9e will work for my needs here if I decide not to make the port? This status lifetime parameter is very cool. I will add that now. Thanks again for the info, Tim -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 2:33 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] completely confused On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 02:03:31PM -0600, Tim Rotunda wrote: > So just for clarification, before I start, I need to install the BB > Client for the OS level reporting to Hobbit. This is not the Hobbit > Client and if not, what is the Hobbit Client for? The Hobbit client is a replacement for the BB client; however, it is still a very new piece of software, and currently supports only OpenBSD. It is obviously annoying that Hobbit relies on the BB client to do some of the monitoring, but things take time ... > I have had success in Hobbit enabling one of my apps and it works very > well. Only issue I see is that if the app takes a powder, Hobbit Server > needs to alert me quickly. I am still looking for the "Time to Purple" > parameter. The way you control when the status goes purple is to set a lifetime for the status when it is reported. Your application sends in a status report that begins status www,foo,com.mytest green .... This gets the default lifetime of 30 minutes - meaning that it will stay green for 30 minutes, or until a new status update arrives. If you want it to only stay green for e.g. 10 minutes, then send this instead: status+10 www,foo,com.mytest green .... The "+N" means that the status is valid for N minutes; after that it goes purple. It is normally used to prolong the lifetime of a status report, but you can shorten it as well. > Any help there would be great. I am going into a meeting on > Friday and will propose that we "Hobbit Enable" 10 or so of our "key" > applications. Our CEO has bought off on this and so it is just a matter > of getting engineering to buy into it as well. This will enable our IT > staff to respond very quickly to application failure. Sounds great :-) > That will take care of about half of our remote monitoring needs. As > for the other half, I am still looking to deploy BB-Central, but looking > at the scripts, it looks pretty tightly tied into BB so I am not sure > how successful I will be with that. I will begin this task after I get > my Hobbit server reporting CPU, disk and such. Let us know what problems you run into. Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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bb-test
by dhd733＠yahoo.se 09 Mar '05

09 Mar '05

Hi, isn't bb-test aware of disabled tests? I close down one server (leopg7) at night, before that I disable ALL. But I see a "considerable" change in the bb-test graph every night. http://62.119.162.107/hobbit/ Regards Lars Hobbithobbyist I'm not young enough to know everything. -Oscar Wilde

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unexpected green mails
by discardable1＠gmail.com 08 Mar '05

08 Mar '05

Hi I installed hobbit around a week ago and am very impressed with it but I have a question. I am occasionally getting a set of emails from it telling me things have a status of green. These aren't after a state change as far as I can tell as there are no other mails before them. I am getting these once every couple of days, not at any particular time. Can anyone suggest why? ta Robin

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Hobbit Failover...
by craig＠cookitservices.com 08 Mar '05

08 Mar '05

I just came across this... spread.org Looks like it could be used to cluster hobbit... Craig Cook -- Big Brother Consulting and Training Services www.cookitservices.com

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mailx
by dhd733＠yahoo.se 08 Mar '05

08 Mar '05

I found this under Tips and Tricks. If you want you could add HP-UX. Regards Lars My alert emails come without a subject Hobbit by default uses the system mail command to send out messages. Solaris mail-command does not understand the "-s SUBJECT" syntax that Hobbit uses. So you get mails with no subject. The solution is to change the MAIL setting in etc/hobbitserver.cfg to use the mailx command instead. Hobbit needs to be restarted after this change./p> I'm not young enough to know everything. -Oscar Wilde

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[hobbit] trying to get netapp filer data into larrd graphs
by mlowery＠alliedtechgroup.com 08 Mar '05

08 Mar '05

Ok, after following the instructions, I get this on the BBTEST page: - Program crashed Fatal signal caught! Now all the network tests have gone purple... What did I do wrong? Michael Lowery -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 4:30 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] trying to get netapp filer data into larrd graphs On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 11:18:28PM +0100, Henrik Stoerner wrote: > > Here is what the status message looks like from the ciscocpu script: > > > > @@status#28646|1108591336.263764|10.10.10.22||WAN.jvbs-router.atg.com|cp > > u|1108593136|green||green|1108550383|0||0| > > status WAN,jvbs-router,atg,com.cpu green Wed Feb 16 16:02:16 CST 2005 > > <br>CPU 5 min average: 4% > > Wouldn't be hard to add support for this in the standard hobbitd_larrd > handler. I've added a couple of lines to the "cpu" handler in hobbitd_larrd, and from your message I think it should make it work. I also added the lines that should make the Netapp cpu-reports work. I've attached a small patch for this (also available at http://www.hswn.dk/beta/cpu-reports.patch) apply with GNU patch using "cd hobbit-4.0-RC2; patch -p0 </tmp/cpu-reports.patch" then rebuild with "make" and "make install" and restart Hobbit. If graphs appear after 10-15 minutes, it worked. Let me know if it's OK. Regards, Henrik (off to bed now)

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SV: [hobbit] hobbitd_larrd crash
by lars.ebeling＠duni.se 08 Mar '05

08 Mar '05

Isn´t this an old problem related to RC3. If the timestams in the logs below are correct. I think I have seen the exact same messages here before. Regards Lars -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- Från: Bruce Lysik [mailto:blysik at shutterfly.com] Skickat: den 7 mars 2005 19:05 Till: hobbit at hswn.dk Ämne: [hobbit] hobbitd_larrd crash Hi. So hobbitd_larrd has been crashing on my hobbit install. I don't see any core files anywhere, but I see this in larrd-data.log: 2005-02-23 15:15:25 xfree: Trying to free a NULL pointer2005-02-23 15:15:25 Worker process died with ex it code 134, terminating 2005-02-23 15:25:33 xfree: Trying to free a NULL pointer2005-02-23 15:25:33 Worker process died with ex it code 134, terminating 2005-02-23 16:06:43 Worker process died with exit code 0, terminating 2005-02-23 16:06:43 Could not get shm of size 102400: No such file or directory 2005-02-23 16:06:43 Channel not available I'm using the custom larrd graphs, and I figure the crashes started after I implemented it. Any info I can provide to track this down? Thanks. -- Bruce Z. Lysik <blysik at shutterfly.com> Operations Engineer To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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[hobbit] Double recovery messages
by Kevin.Hanrahan＠novainfo.com 08 Mar '05

08 Mar '05

Henrik, You were correct. I got cfid:210 and cfid:212 for one of the double recoveries which correspond to: HOST=$AV MAIL $SYSADMIN COLOR=red EXSERVICE=msgs,cpu REPEAT=30m RECOVERED (210) MAIL $SYSADMIN COLOR=red SERVICE=cpu DURATION>20 REPEAT=30m RECOVERED (211) MAIL $SYSADMIN COLOR=purple REPEAT=1h RECOVERED (212) What is wrong with line 212? Could it be that because I did not specify ANY service that it corresponds to ALL services?....is there a better way to do this? I want to put the purple alerts on a longer repeat Timer if possible. Please advise. Kevin -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 6:14 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Double recovery messages On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 01:26:28PM -0500, Kevin.Hanrahan at novainfo.com wrote: > I am getting double recovery messages. When I get a failed test, I > get a single message...as I should but when the service recovers, I > get double recovery messages. Could you try adding the --cfid option on the hobbitd_alert command in hobbitlaunch.cfg ? I'd like to know which lines exactly in the setup is triggering these alerts - the "[cfid:LINENUMBER]" in the messages will let me know. I have a hunch that it might be the last line (for the purple tests) that is causing the duplicate, but I'd like to know for certain. I'll try replicating this tomorrow - it's too late now for serious debugging. 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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