March 2005 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

favicon
by discardable1＠gmail.com 06 Mar '05

06 Mar '05

Has anyone concidered making a favicon which reflected the general state of the monitored sites? Robin

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alerting alternate pagesets
by dstuffle＠deltafaucet.com 06 Mar '05

06 Mar '05

Hello, >From what I can tell, defining alerts such as "PAGE=os/aix SERVICE=*" does not work for alternate pagesets. Does the "PAGE" keyword in alert rules only work on pages in the host file and not the alternate pagesets? I have set up alternate pagesets for AIX, Linux, and Windows, and it would be nice to be able to define alerts based on these pages. Thank you DavidThis email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the company. Finally, the recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The company accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email.

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[hobbit] Log sizes
by Kevin.Hanrahan＠novainfo.com 06 Mar '05

06 Mar '05

Nice! I will check it out...and I may have a few questions later. Thanks KEvin -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 12:02 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Log sizes On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 11:41:46AM -0500, Kevin Hanrahan wrote: > OK, but I thought I saw a reference in a past mail to something called > pagesets. Is this something that I can use to build different > views...say, for instance, an executive view to show critical apps > that would take systems previously defined under other system-subsets > and combine them for an overall application view? Is there info in the > man pages? Yes, the idea with pagesets is that you can group your hosts any way you like - so that the view people have of the hosts is customized to the way they work, instead of having a single view of all hosts. E.g. where I work there is one view where we group servers by customer - this is used by the people responsible for the customer contact - and another view where the servers are grouped by OS - this is used by our second-line support group. Pagesets have existed for a long time, and are handled entirely by the bbgen tool. There's a description of this in the bbgen man-page (look for the "Building alternate pagesets" section. Regards, Henrik > > KEvin > > -----Original Message----- > From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] > Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 11:22 AM > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: Re: [hobbit] Log sizes > Importance: Low > > On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 11:14:28AM -0500, Kevin Hanrahan wrote: > > I can probably say it is no bug. I do have a few hosts listed > > twice. > > I was trying to build different views for different departments. I now > > think this is the wrong approach and I am supposed to use pagesets??...is > that correct? > > It's allright to have hosts listed twice, as long as only one host has > the network definitions set. > > I don't know how well tools like "bb-fetch" handles hosts that are > defined twice; perhaps they will pull the status twice and send both > reports off to Hobbit, which would also trigger this message. > > > 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 > > -- Henrik Storner 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] Log sizes
by Kevin＠ewormhole.com 06 Mar '05

06 Mar '05

OK, but I thought I saw a reference in a past mail to something called pagesets. Is this something that I can use to build different views...say, for instance, an executive view to show critical apps that would take systems previously defined under other system-subsets and combine them for an overall application view? Is there info in the man pages? KEvin -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 11:22 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Log sizes Importance: Low On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 11:14:28AM -0500, Kevin Hanrahan wrote: > I can probably say it is no bug. I do have a few hosts listed twice. > I was trying to build different views for different departments. I now > think this is the wrong approach and I am supposed to use pagesets??...is that correct? It's allright to have hosts listed twice, as long as only one host has the network definitions set. I don't know how well tools like "bb-fetch" handles hosts that are defined twice; perhaps they will pull the status twice and send both reports off to Hobbit, which would also trigger this message. Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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[hobbit] Log sizes
by Kevin＠ewormhole.com 06 Mar '05

06 Mar '05

Thanks, I can probably say it is no bug. I do have a few hosts listed twice. I was trying to build different views for different departments. I now think this is the wrong approach and I am supposed to use pagesets??...is that correct? KEvin -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 1:46 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Log sizes Importance: Low On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 06:02:24PM -0500, Kevin.Hanrahan at novainfo.com wrote: > Henrik, > I was looking at the size of the logs and some of them are quite > large. The largest is the larrd-status.log which has lots of entries like this: > > 2005-03-05 17:53:37 RRD error updating > /home/hobbit/data/rrd/satlcwr01/disk,E.rrd: illegal attempt to update > using time 1110063217 when last update time is 1110063217 (minimum one > second > step) > 1) what does this mean? This means that an update of the RRD file failed. The actual text describing the error is provided by the rrdtool library - in this case, it refused to update the file because it's been less than one second since the last update. So how can it happen that it tries to update the same RRD file twice in a second ? I've seen it mostly with data from network tests, e.g. if you happen to have the same host or test listed twice in your bb-hosts file. With client reports (cpu, disk, ..) it can happen if you have two clients reporting with the same name. Or it may be a bug in the hobbit larrd handler, so it mistakenly sees the same data twice. > 2) Other than troubleshooting, are the logs used for any other function? No. > Can I delete them? Yes, but they are kept open by the various hobbitd* processes running. hobbitlaunch and hobbitd will re-open the logs when you send them a SIGHUP, but the various hobbitd_* modules don't. I'll get that fixed. Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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Log sizes
by Kevin.Hanrahan＠novainfo.com 06 Mar '05

06 Mar '05

Henrik, I was looking at the size of the logs and some of them are quite large. The largest is the larrd-status.log which has lots of entries like this: 2005-03-05 17:53:37 RRD error updating /home/hobbit/data/rrd/satlcwr01/disk,E.rrd: illegal attempt to update using time 1110063217 when last update time is 1110063217 (minimum one second step) s 1110063217 (minimum one second step) 2005-03-05 17:53:37 RRD error updating /home/hobbit/data/rrd/satlcwr01/users.rrd: illegal attempt to update using time 1110063217 when last update time is 1110063217 (minimum one second step) 2005-03-05 17:53:37 RRD error updating /home/hobbit/data/rrd/satlcwr01/disk,C.rrd: illegal attempt to update using time 1110063217 when last update time is 1110063217 (minimum one second step) 2005-03-05 17:53:37 RRD error updating /home/hobbit/data/rrd/satlcwr01/disk,E.rrd: illegal attempt to update using time 1110063217 when last update time is 1110063217 (minimum one second step) 1) what does this mean? 2) Other than troubleshooting, are the logs used for any other function? Can I delete them? 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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new version of hobbit client
by brianlynch＠gmail.com 06 Mar '05

06 Mar '05

Henrik, This is pretty minor, but when do you expect to rev the hobbit client? The current version seems a bit shaky on the compile. Are you planning on changing the paradigm used by the bb clients (i.e. collection of scripts calling 'bb')? Best, Brian

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completely confused
by trotunda＠opushealthcare.com 05 Mar '05

05 Mar '05

Ok, maybe I have spent too much time looking at too many different man pages for too many different products. Whatever the case may be, I could really use a cold slap in the face. I want to monitor anything and everything I can on 100+ servers (numbers growing monthly) all over the US. Some are HP-UX, some are Linux, some are Windows. I am focused on HP-UX and Linux for now. I would like to use bb-central so that I do not have to deploy clients across my enterprise, but I won't be so stubborn that I won't use bb-clients, as I really need to have a hand full of remote servers monitored (cpu, disk space, etc) by next Thursday. I am trying to fend off a "wannabe" administrator who is pushing Nagios, which I do not want to deploy. Ok, here are the questions (please forgive my ignorance)..... - It looks like I need to install Hobbit and BB-Client to monitor the OS level on the Hobbit server. True? - Can I "hobbit" enable my applications to report status from remote servers without any middleware (bb-client)? o I would think this could be a "one liner" in my apps (20-30 of them) to report their internal status.???? - Where can I see the message format for sending my own messages to the display server, if that is possible? - It looks like if I want to use bb-central: o Do I need both bb-server and bb client on the display server? o Should I modify bb-central to not use BB or maybe just rewrite that functionality to fit hobbit? Any advice, comments, suggestion welcome. Thanks, Tim Rotunda I.T. & Systems Integration Manager Opus Healthcare Solutions, Inc. Austin, Texas 78759

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Purple after RC5 install
by cmorrison＠corniceco.com 05 Mar '05

05 Mar '05

I installed RC5 on a new server today after running RC3 for several weeks without a problem. Initially RC5 picked up right away and was fine. After about an hour I now get purple on all conn, ssh, http and bdb items for every server monitored (including the hobbit server) on the main page. Each sub page I go to shows a purple background, but OK on each test. This is a new install, I wiped the RC3 server, installed an OS upgrade (formatted everything) and reinstalled RC5 as new, using only the old bb-hosts file. Any hints on what this could be ? Chuck Morrison

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[hobbit] BOARDBUSY messages in logs
by dstuffle＠deltafaucet.com 04 Mar '05

04 Mar '05

I see, thanks. My main goal is trying to get the mail acks to work. That's why I was digging through the log files. Anyway, my mail acks are only sometimes working. I haven't been able to find a pattern to it yet so I will need to investigate more. I do know though that adding MESSAGE=something to the subject line when replying to an email alert doesn't work. Should that work, or am I misunderstanding something? I get this in the acklog (all one line): 1109963670 126510 30 126510 np_filename_not_used zenmaster.memory red ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\nAcked by: "Stuffle, David" dstuffle at deltafaucet.com Several times that I acked, I get nothing at all in the acklog. Thanks, David -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 12:13 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] BOARDBUSY messages in logs On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 12:00:22PM -0500, Stuffle, David wrote: > I am still seeing BOARDBUSY messages in my logs like the following: > larrd-status.log: > 2005-03-04 11:36:11 Tried to down BOARDBUSY: Invalid argument This one is harmless, and happens when Hobbit shuts down. The master daemon (hobbitd) sends a shutdown-message to all of the hobbitd_channel worker modules, then marks the shared memory segments used for communication with the modules for deletion. Depending on how fast the workers respond, they may try to access the shared memory segment when it has been deleted, and you'll get this message. > My log files don't seem to be getting updated properly and I'm > wondering if this has anything to do with it. I'm on Fedora. Which log files, specifically ? The only files that Hobbit normally updates while running are the historical logs in the data/hist/ and data/histlogs/ directories - and they only get updated when there are status changes. Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the company. Finally, the recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The company accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email.

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