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eventlogs
by Kevin.Hanrahan＠novainfo.com 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

Is there an eventlog that I can grep through that will show each event as it happens? I am writing a prog to send messages to an L.E.D. sign for our dept to show outages and it would be nice to just extract it from an existing log Kevin Hanrahan Systems Engineer Nova Information Systems CCNA 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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Alerts REPEAT time
by dstuffle＠deltafaucet.com 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

Hello, I am seeing a few issues regarding alerts. 1. I have a device called Cisco8.24 that has been red for a few days but I just now enabled alerting. It is now alerting me via email once every minute. 2. Although I have added the --repeat=15 option to the page channel in hobbitlaunch.cfg, the info column still shows Repeat is 30m. Is the info column only getting alert info from the hobbit-alerts.cfg. 3. I am seeing the following message in my log files: e.g. page.log: 2005-03-03 09:55:32 Tried to down BOARDBUSY: Invalid argument Here are some of my config settings: hobbitlaunch.cfg: [bbpage] ENVFILE /usr/local/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg NEEDS hobbitd CMD hobbitd_channel --channel=page --log=$BBSERVERLOGS/page.log hobbitd_alert --repeat=15 hobbit-alerts.cfg: HOST=Cisco8.24 SERVICE=* MAIL $dstuffle I have installed the post-RC4 patch. I was getting the errors in the log files before the patch but I'm not sure about the once per minute paging. I have looked through the log files and I don't see anything relevant to this. Although, the page.log file is not getting populated with anything other than the above error message, and it's only getting that when I restart hobbit. Thanks for any assistance. David Stuffle 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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hobbit start restart
by dhd733＠yahoo.se 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

Hi All was going to restart Hobbit and started instead. Then I think I started 2 instances of Hobbit. Then I stopped hobbit without any complaints. But still the first Hobbit instance was running. Then I tried to stop Hobbit again and got: Hobbit is not running. I think it would be good with a test if Hobbit already is running when starting. Regards Lars

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hover with mouse over menu : Help -> Configure Hobbit Alert
by benny.kjellgren＠staff.spray.se 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

A minor appearance bug. The "Alert" disappear when hover with the mouse. //benny

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Perl
by dhd733＠yahoo.se 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

Hi, this isn't for this mailinglist, but I have to every time change -wT to -wt in maint.pl because executing gives an error: Insecure directory in $ENV{PATH} while running with -T switch at maint.pl line 414. Regards Lars

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post RC4 patch
by dhd733＠yahoo.se 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

I was also to say that I had no problems to install and start after the patch. Regards Lars

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Post-RC4 patch available
by henrik＠hswn.dk 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

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

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Availibity report
by dhd733＠yahoo.se 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

Hi All, is it possible to get an availibityreport even if it's 100%. Those 100% could consist of a mix of blue and gree. Regards Lars

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[hobbit] Alert Rules
by Kevin＠ewormhole.com 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

Excellent! Thank you....new release candidate?..or a patch to check out maybe? -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 3:55 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Alert Rules Importance: Low On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 02:46:06PM -0500, Kevin.Hanrahan at novainfo.com wrote: > I have an alert rule question. I have the following rule defined: > > HOST=$AV > MAIL $SYSADMIN COLOR=red EXSERVICE=msgs,cpu REPEAT=30m RECOVERED > MAIL $SYSADMIN COLOR=red SERVICE=cpu DURATION>20 REPEAT=30m > RECOVERED > MAIL $SYSADMIN COLOR=purple REPEAT=1h RECOVERED > > I did this because I was tired of getting those Windows event log messages. > I no longer get the event log alert or warning messages but I get > "recovered" messages for the "msgs" category. I thought the first line > would eliminate ALL "msgs" alerts including when it recovers or goes > green. Am I thinking about this the wrong way? No, your thinking is absolutely right. It's a bug in RC4 (and earlier versions) that "recovered" messages are sent even if no alert was sent originally. I have this fixed now, so relief is on its way. Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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route statement in bb-hosts
by idxman01＠gmail.com 02 Mar '05

02 Mar '05

Hi, I've been trying to use the `route:` statement in bb-hosts and it's either not working, or I'm not understanding it correctly. Here's a sample: 1.2.3.4 foo1 # 1.2.3.5 foo2 # route:foo1 So the ping test fails for foo1 and it goes red. Ping fails for foo2, but the failure is really due to foo1's problem and I thought my route statement would make it turn yellow instead of red.. No luck.. What am I missing? Thank You, -r

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