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hobbitd_alert crash
by ctbeers＠syr.edu 04 Mar '05

04 Mar '05

hobbitd_alert crashed earlier this afternoon. Hobbit started to send out alerts like this red - Program crashed Fatal signal caught! See http://host.domain.com/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?HOSTSVC=host,domain,com.hob… Since I had not applied the post RC4 patch to my RC4 instance, I figured I must have run into the hobbitd_alert bug. So I stopped hobbit, applied the patch to the source, make clean, make, make install. Restarted hobbit. Now it appears to be working because the alert module is sending out actual alerts (mrtg alerts and vmio to high alerts). However, I am still getting those hobbitd_alert crashed messages, but its running with a ps -ef.... How can I get rid of the 100 or so per hour of hobbitd_alert crashed emails that are being sent out. -- 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] bbmap
by Dan.McDonald＠austinenergy.com 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

>From: Kevin Hanrahan [mailto:Kevin at ewormhole.com] > Has anyone gotten BBMAP or any other kind of map overlay program to work >with Hobbit? Somewhat >The intructions for BBMAP are difficult to understand and rely >on BB path defs and It would be nice to have a map style view. Thanks bug me to work on it some more in a couple of days and I'll try to get the remainder of the kinks worked out. It takes considerable modification to get it to work with Hobbit. I've also extended it tremendously to look at a toplogy table that I generate using bb-eigrp and bb-ospf.

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Alerts problems
by Kevin.Hanrahan＠novainfo.com 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

I just installed the post-RC4.patch and I am also getting alert messages every minute but it is setup to alert every 30 minutes Kevin Hanrahan 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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Newbe question
by trotunda＠opushealthcare.com 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

Can I feed bb from a script (my own) or even C code to report back to the server status of my own programs? Do I really need BB agents? Tim

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[hobbit] unexpected green mails
by Kevin.Hanrahan＠novainfo.com 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

Green smiles = change of state < 24 hours Green diamonds = no change of state > 24 hours (this parameter is now configurable) -----Original Message----- From: Robin Wood [mailto:discardable1 at gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 3:20 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] unexpected green mails I've just put rc4 on so I'll see if anything does get fixed, two questions though, first why would things stop reporting? I'm monitoring 3 different boxes, one local, 2 remote on different hosts, what constitutes "stopping reporting"? I have my internet connection all night so it can't be that, especially as one box is the box that has the monitor on it. The other is why are some of my green entries smilies and others diamonds? Ta Robin On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 12:58:09 +0100, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 08:35:09AM +0000, Robin Wood wrote: > > Just some extra info, this is the top of a mail I was getting: > > > > Subject: BB [182299] otherdomain.com:ssh stopped reporting to BB > > Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 06:23:42 +0000 (GMT) > > From: bb at mydomain.co.uk (BigBrother) > > > > green  Mon Feb 28 05:53:31 2005 ssh ok > > OK, this isn't a "green" mail - it's purple! The clue is the subject > "otherdomain.com:ssh stopped reporting". The "green" is just the last > statusreport that was sent before it stopped reporting any further > status. > > > 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 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] Alerts problems
by blysik＠shutterfly.com 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

> > I just installed the post-RC4.patch and I am also getting > alert messages > > every minute but it is setup to alert every 30 minutes > > Hmm - there's been one more report like that. So I probably messed up > something. > > Will look at it later tonight. Yeah, I just noticed the same thing. Alerts every minute. -- Bruce Z. Lysik <blysik at shutterfly.com> Operations Engineer

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Failover Hobbit
by ajeffco＠orhs.org 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

Hello, Is anyone doing any type of failover or load balancing between two hobbit servers? I know that there was a function to do failover in BB. I have two separate servers that I've installed Hobbit onto, and am having clients reporting to both, and they both are "clients" for each other, but I just want to make sure I'm doing it the right way, and see if there might be a better way. 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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[hobbit] Post-RC4 patch available
by RWaegner＠questia.com 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

Anybody get these errors during the patch install? patching file Changes-4.0 patching file bbdisplay/bb-hist.c patching file bbdisplay/bb-histlog.sh-hobbitd.DIST patching file bbdisplay/bb-hist.sh-hobbitd.DIST patching file bbdisplay/event_footer patching file bbdisplay/event_header patching file bbnet/bbtest-net.c Hunk #2 FAILED at 466. 1 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file bbnet/bbtest-net.c.rej patching file build/ldap.sh patching file build/Makefile.test-ssl patching file build/merge-sects.c patching file build/pcre.sh patching file build/rrd.sh patching file build/ssl.sh patching file configure patching file hobbitd/do_alert.c Hunk #12 FAILED at 969. 1 out of 28 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file hobbitd/do_alert.c.rej patching file hobbitd/do_larrd.c patching file hobbitd/hobbit-alerts.cfg.5 patching file hobbitd/hobbitd_alert.c patching file hobbitd/hobbitd.c patching file hobbitd/hobbitd_channel.c patching file hobbitd/hobbitd_filestore.c patching file hobbitd/hobbitd_history.c patching file hobbitd/hobbitd_ipc.c patching file hobbitd/hobbitd_larrd.c patching file hobbitd/hobbitd_worker.c patching file hobbitd/larrd/do_bea.c patching file hobbitd/larrd/do_external.c patching file hobbitd/larrd/do_hobbitd.c patching file hobbitd/larrd/do_iostat.c patching file hobbitd/larrd/do_sendmail.c patching file hobbitd/starthobbit.sh.DIST patching file lib/htmllog.c patching file lib/memory.c patching file lib/netservices.c patching file lib/url.c Henrik Stoerner To: hobbit at hswn.dk <henrik at hswn. cc: dk> Subject: [hobbit] Post-RC4 patch available 03/03/2005 03:43 AM Please respond to hobbit A couple of problems have shown up in RC4 - these have hopefully been solved now. The most spectacular bug was the repeated crashes that Brian Lynch reported; it turned out that sending Hobbit a message larger then ~100 KB would crash hobbitd. There was code to catch this, it just didn't work. Thanks a lot for Brian's help in tracking this down. hobbitd_alert no longer crashes when trying to send a message. This is the one-line fix sent out just after the RC4 was made available. Another bug that's been resolved is the unexpected "green" recovery-messages. Kevin Hanrahan actually found the cause for me, and once you know what is going on it is so much easier to fix. And the "route" tag is now working again for the network tests. A patch for these issues is at http://www.hswn.dk/beta/post-RC4.patch To install: cd hobbit-4.0-RC4 patch -p0 </tmp/post-RC4.patch make clean make shutdown hobbit, run "make install" and start hobbit Note that you must first un-install the one-line hobbitd_alert fix if you installed this: Run "patch -R -p0 < RC4-hobbitd_alert-crash.patch" to back out this patch. If there are no obvious problems after this patch, I'm tempted to do the official release next week. Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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Alerts problems
by Kevin＠ewormhole.com 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

I am having a bit of trouble with the alerts. I have the following rule: HOST=% MAIL kevin at domain.com COLOR=red EXSERVICE=http RECOVERED My understanding is that this should work as follows: For ALL hosts: Mail kevin at domain.com if, the alert is RED only and if the service is other than http and mail when it recovers What actually happens is: I get ALL alerts, for ALL colors, and ALL services What did I do wrong? Please advise. Thank you Kevin

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[hobbit] Alerts problems
by Kevin.Hanrahan＠novainfo.com 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

Also, acknowledgements for these alerts no longer works -----Original Message----- From: Hanrahan, Kevin Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 10:36 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Alerts problems I just installed the post-RC4.patch and I am also getting alert messages every minute but it is setup to alert every 30 minutes Kevin Hanrahan 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. 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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