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[hobbit] eventlogs
by Kevin.Hanrahan＠novainfo.com 01 Mar '05

01 Mar '05

Yeah, I looked there but I was hoping for a bit more info....such as when I see a red services or procs alert, I would like to know which one it is if it is possible. -----Original Message----- From: Brian Lynch [mailto:brianlynch at gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 3:35 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] eventlogs You can also look at the data/hist/allevents file that logs every single event received by the hobbit server. - Brian On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 15:23:25 -0500 (EST), Larry.Barber at usda.gov <Larry.Barber at usda.gov> wrote: > There are logs for each host and each host.test in the data/hist > directory. You could use fam (assuming your using a Unix-like OS) to > watch the files alert your program when each file changed. > > Thanks, > Larry Barber > > On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 14:11 -0600, Kevin.Hanrahan at novainfo.com wrote: > > 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. > > > > 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] eventlogs
by brianlynch＠gmail.com 01 Mar '05

01 Mar '05

You can also look at the data/hist/allevents file that logs every single event received by the hobbit server. - Brian On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 15:23:25 -0500 (EST), Larry.Barber at usda.gov <Larry.Barber at usda.gov> wrote: > There are logs for each host and each host.test in the data/hist > directory. You could use fam (assuming your using a Unix-like OS) to > watch the files alert your program when each file changed. > > Thanks, > Larry Barber > > On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 14:11 -0600, Kevin.Hanrahan at novainfo.com wrote: > > 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. > > > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > >

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[hobbit] eventlogs
by Larry.Barber＠usda.gov 01 Mar '05

01 Mar '05

There are logs for each host and each host.test in the data/hist directory. You could use fam (assuming your using a Unix-like OS) to watch the files alert your program when each file changed. Thanks, Larry Barber On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 14:11 -0600, Kevin.Hanrahan at novainfo.com wrote: > 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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Status not available
by brianlynch＠gmail.com 01 Mar '05

01 Mar '05

I am getting a sporadic problem with the latest release (RC4). The bb-hostsvc.cgi starts returns the message "Status not available" for all services. After a restart of the hobbitd daemon, everything is back to normal. There doesn't seem to be a pattern on this one yet. Looking at every hour or so. Note that I am running on Solaris 2.8. - Brian

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[hobbit] Custom RRD graphs
by dstuffle＠deltafaucet.com 01 Mar '05

01 Mar '05

The hobbitgraph.cgi man page has a reference to the rrdgraph man page but I don't have the rrdgraph man page on my system. Does anyone else? I'll check out the CDEF. Sorry, I didn't think about the RRD mailing list. David Stuffle -----Original Message----- From: Asif Iqbal [mailto:iqbala-hobbit at qwestip.net] Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 10:36 AM To: 'hobbit at hswn.dk' Subject: Re: [hobbit] Custom RRD graphs On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 08:06:34AM, Stuffle, David wrote: > Hello, > I'm trying to learn how to create custom graphs. I have it working > for graphing license usage but I'm am not clear on a few things. Here > is what I put in the hobbitgraph.cfg: > > [license] > TITLE License Utilization > YAXIS Used Licenses > DEF:avg=license.rrd:license:AVERAGE > LINE2:avg#@COLOR@:Used Licenses > GPRINT:avg:LAST: \: %5.1lf (cur) > GPRINT:avg:MAX: \: %5.1lf (max) > GPRINT:avg:MIN: \: %5.1lf (min) > GPRINT:avg:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf (avg)\n > > > My question is, what does AVERAGE mean in the DEF line? What other > options man rrdgraph OR http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/manual/rrdgraph.html > are there besides AVERAGE? > > Also, the license count will always be a whole number from say, 0 to 30. > Sometimes my graph shows, for example, 3.6 licenses used. Is there an You should be able to use CDEF get whole numbers. Here is tutorial on that http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/tutorial/cdeftutorial.htm l I would think RRD questions should be directed to RRD mailing list http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/mailinglists.html Thanks > option I need to add to tell it to always use a whole number? My > custom_rrd script doesn't send anything except a whole number. > > Thanks for any help. > > 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. -- Asif Iqbal PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." - Charles Darwin 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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[hobbit] Availability Reports in RC4
by MilburnJA＠dot.il.gov 01 Mar '05

01 Mar '05

I was using the menu to generate the reports. The problem was the directory I used to hold the include files. The display was OK, but the report module could't open the include files. I moved the directory to /home/hobbit/etc/inc and it works fine now. -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Storner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 10:33 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Availability Reports in RC4 On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 05:44:09PM -0600, John A. Milburn wrote: > I upgraded to RC4 and noticed that the reports module does not seem to > handle includes in the bb-hosts file. > The only host in my bb-hosts file is the hobbit server. The others are all > in other files with include lines in bb-hosts. > I used bbhostshow and directed the output to a file. I replaced bb-hosts > with that file and the system works fine. How do you generate reports ? Via the "Reports -> Availability reports" menu ? If yes, could you check your webserver error-log for error-messages ? And how does your bb-rep.sh CGI script look ? I just tried it here and include works fine. So something odd is going on at your site. Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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Availability Reports in RC4
by JohnAMilburn＠hotmail.com 01 Mar '05

01 Mar '05

I upgraded to RC4 and noticed that the reports module does not seem to handle includes in the bb-hosts file. The only host in my bb-hosts file is the hobbit server. The others are all in other files with include lines in bb-hosts. I used bbhostshow and directed the output to a file. I replaced bb-hosts with that file and the system works fine.

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Alerts config
by JohnAMilburn＠hotmail.com 01 Mar '05

01 Mar '05

The docs for alert config using the PAGE say to use the page name. I found that if you are using a subpage, that you need the full path (PAGE/SUBPAGE) to make it work.

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Custom RRD graphs
by dstuffle＠deltafaucet.com 01 Mar '05

01 Mar '05

Hello, I'm trying to learn how to create custom graphs. I have it working for graphing license usage but I'm am not clear on a few things. Here is what I put in the hobbitgraph.cfg: [license] TITLE License Utilization YAXIS Used Licenses DEF:avg=license.rrd:license:AVERAGE LINE2:avg#@COLOR@:Used Licenses GPRINT:avg:LAST: \: %5.1lf (cur) GPRINT:avg:MAX: \: %5.1lf (max) GPRINT:avg:MIN: \: %5.1lf (min) GPRINT:avg:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf (avg)\n My question is, what does AVERAGE mean in the DEF line? What other options are there besides AVERAGE? Also, the license count will always be a whole number from say, 0 to 30. Sometimes my graph shows, for example, 3.6 licenses used. Is there an option I need to add to tell it to always use a whole number? My custom_rrd script doesn't send anything except a whole number. Thanks for any help. 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] nwstats2bb external going purple every 30
by dstuffle＠deltafaucet.com 01 Mar '05

01 Mar '05

Thanks Henrik! Changing the "exit 1" to "exit 0" fixed it. By the way, I did have to add BBSLEEP=300 to the hobbitserver.cfg also, but changing the exit code is what did it. David Stuffle -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 9:18 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] nwstats2bb external going purple every 30 On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 09:03:40AM -0500, Stuffle, David wrote: > Hi all, > I'm using the nwstats2bb external to monitor my Novell servers. It's > going purple about every 30 minutes and then back to green in 1-2 > minutes. It was working fine under the old BB. Is anyone else > running this external script? I was going to point out that hobbitlaunch logs an exit code of 1, which usually indicates an error condition - but then I see that it's your script that does an "exit 1". You may want to change that to "exit 0" to keep that line out of the logs... But what's in the logfile from the script itself (the file you point at with the LOGFILE entry) ? I'll bet it is some environment setup that Hobbit doesn't do for you but the nwstats2bb.pl script expects. 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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