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Fwd: [hobbit] repeated purple to blue transistions for disabled, offline servers
by dhd733＠yahoo.se 30 Mar '05

30 Mar '05

Tom Georgoulias <tgeorgoulias at mcclatchy.com> wrote: I've got 2 servers offline at the moment and I'm using the disabled function to prevent them from alerting/paging. What is confusing to me is the way that my hobbit front page and the individual monitored parameters for the system keep transitioning between purple and blue. Shouldn't they all just stay blue until the disabled period ends? Tom Aha, I just experienced the same, I also have one disabled server and it was all purple a moment ago and now all blue. I have only seen it once, so I thought it was a temporary insanity. /Lars Hobbithobbyist The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. --Bertrand Russell

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[hobbit] hobbit-central?
by trotunda＠opushealthcare.com 30 Mar '05

30 Mar '05

Well, at present it is written in the POSIX shell on hpux, but I have lots of stuff running on Linux that started on hpux, so if your question is will it run on Linux, I would say, probably. If you are asking if it will run on T64, I would say I have no idea and I won't be porting it there either so if it doesn't I can't imagine it will unless you want to port it there. As for the data coming back from a T64 server, I have not a clue. I guess given the commands on the T64 system, it wouldn't be that big a deal to feed it into Hobbit. As for the beta, let me finish out the week working on it and I think early next week it will be at a state where it might be of some use to you. Tim -----Original Message----- From: Daniel J McDonald [mailto:dan.mcdonald at austinenergy.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 3:55 PM To: Hobbit List Subject: RE: [hobbit] hobbit-central? On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 15:27 -0600, Tim Rotunda wrote: > Well, I guess that would be me. > > I started to port BB-Central, but with my limited knowledge of BB and > Perl, I decided that writing Hobbit-Central was a better and faster > solution. > > I am scripting it to begin with and will probably finalize it in C. I > currently have HC querying the local HP-UX Hobbit server, 3 remote HP-UX > hosts and 2 remote Linux hosts. Ok, how O/S dependent is it? I can certainly run openssh with DSA keys on all of the boxes, but will Tru-64 give it fits? If so, is it easy to change the template for a particular O/S? Can I get a hold of a beta to play with? Yes, I know it will change, but multiple eyes are useful... To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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Fwd: Re: Fwd: Re: [hobbit] problem patching
by dhd733＠yahoo.se 30 Mar '05

30 Mar '05

Daniel J McDonald <dan.mcdonald at austinenergy.com> wrote: On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 14:05 +0200, lars ebeling wrote: > > > Henrik Stoerner wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 01:04:43PM +0200, lars ebeling wrote: > > I'l give it another try. Could someone please help me. > > > > When patching I get this: > > > > $ /home/bb/patch -p1 < /tmp/post-rc6-v2_patch.txt > > (Stripping trailing CRs from patch.) > > can't find file to patch at input line 4 I'm trying to add the patch to the SRPM, and I get: + echo 'Patch #0 (post-RC6-v2.patch):' Patch #0 (post-RC6-v2.patch): + patch -p1 -b --suffix .2 -s The text leading up to this was: -------------------------- |diff -urN hobbit-4.0-RC6/Changes-4.0 hobbit-4.0-RC6.2/Changes-4.0 |--- hobbit-4.0-RC6/Changes-4.0 2005-03-21 17:38:02.000000000 +0100 |+++ hobbit-4.0-RC6.2/Changes-4.0 2005-03-28 12:35:37.958731000 +0200 -------------------------- File to patch: Most confused... I had no problems with the version 2 patch Regards Lars Hobbithobbyist The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. --Bertrand Russell

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How to show recent notifications
by dstuffle＠deltafaucet.com 29 Mar '05

29 Mar '05

Does someone have a way to show the most recent notifications sent out through Hobbit? I thought I saw talk about it in this list but now I can't find it. It would basically be a button you click that does a tail of the notifications.log so you can see who was actually emailed about something. If not, I can probably create it but I thought I'd ask first. Thanks ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ David Stuffle Delta Faucet Company 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] hobbit-central?
by trotunda＠opushealthcare.com 29 Mar '05

29 Mar '05

Well, I guess that would be me. I started to port BB-Central, but with my limited knowledge of BB and Perl, I decided that writing Hobbit-Central was a better and faster solution. I am scripting it to begin with and will probably finalize it in C. I currently have HC querying the local HP-UX Hobbit server, 3 remote HP-UX hosts and 2 remote Linux hosts. I am using SSH and shared public keys so it isn't exactly bullet proof as far as security goes. It isn't particularly speedy either. There are some things that could be done to speed things up because if it took 8 seconds to collect from one host, that would be too long for an update to refresh. The solution would be to have a multithreaded application that would query more than one hosts at a time. I guess a possible alternative would be to launch several different HC instances each with their own config files. Thinking out loud there. Anyway, I am still pretty early in this but what you would need for to use this is ssh between all hosts using RSA public keys. Let me know if you have more questions. Tim -----Original Message----- From: Daniel J McDonald [mailto:dan.mcdonald at austinenergy.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 1:04 PM To: Hobbit List Subject: [hobbit] hobbit-central? Someone on the list took it upon themselves to re-write bb-central as hobbit-central. What's the status of that effort? I'm going to need to run a hobbit-central style environment with linux as the poller and Tru64 as the client. There will be about 100 clients, I think - I'm not certain how many Windows boxes are scattered in the 137 machines I'm supposed to monitor, but I don't think it is very many. -- Daniel J McDonald, CCIE # 2495, CNX Austin Energy dan.mcdonald at austinenergy.com To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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Fwd: Re: [hobbit] problem patching
by dhd733＠yahoo.se 29 Mar '05

29 Mar '05

Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 01:04:43PM +0200, lars ebeling wrote: > I'l give it another try. Could someone please help me. > > When patching I get this: > > $ /home/bb/patch -p1 < /tmp/post-rc6-v2_patch.txt > (Stripping trailing CRs from patch.) > can't find file to patch at input line 4 Duh - feel free to call me stupid. Badly generated patch, sorry. Grab it again, and it should work. Ok am I the first one patching the full patch? I had the same problem with "v1" Regards Lars Hobbithobbyist The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. --Bertrand Russell

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hobbit-central?
by dan.mcdonald＠austinenergy.com 29 Mar '05

29 Mar '05

Someone on the list took it upon themselves to re-write bb-central as hobbit-central. What's the status of that effort? I'm going to need to run a hobbit-central style environment with linux as the poller and Tru64 as the client. There will be about 100 clients, I think - I'm not certain how many Windows boxes are scattered in the 137 machines I'm supposed to monitor, but I don't think it is very many. -- Daniel J McDonald, CCIE # 2495, CNX Austin Energy dan.mcdonald at austinenergy.com

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# noconn = conn purple ?
by grossi＠acantho.net 29 Mar '05

29 Mar '05

I have added a new host to bb-hosts, and hobbit-RC6 (correctly) started to display a "red" conn. I then added "noconn", and the conn test became white, but after 30 minutes it changed to purple, is this the correct behaviour?

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[hobbit] monitoring (cisco) routers
by dave＠auctionhelper.com 29 Mar '05

29 Mar '05

I have been using bb-xsnmp with BB in the past and really like it. Since I rolled out HOBBIT the script isn't working. I really like bb-xsnmp because it displays port status and description so I know what speed and duplex and whats attached to each port. I haven't had time to figure out why its not working (it creates the log file but doesn't write anything in it) but will let you know when I do. Does anyone have any other suggestions of scripts they use to check among other things speed/duplex and port descriptions? Dave -----Original Message----- From: Marco Avvisano [mailto:marco.avvisano at regione.toscana.it] Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 9:26 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] monitoring (cisco) routers Someone have tried scripts to monitor cpu, memory and temperature for cisco routers, that work correctly in hobbit (also the rrd graphs)? I'm tryng bb-xsnmp script, but i have some problems. Marco To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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Fwd: Re: [hobbit] vmsat as in www.sslug.dk
by dhd733＠yahoo.se 29 Mar '05

29 Mar '05

Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 11:39:48AM +0530, Soumya K. Das wrote: > Which script do I use to get vmstat as in www.sslug.dk also where do I > get it As I wrote to you yesterday, get the client-side part of LARRD setup on your box, and you'll have the vmstat graphs. LARRD is available at http://www.deadcat.net/viewfile.php?fileid=82 Download the file above, gzip and untar, move the file vmstat-bf.sh to your bbclient ext directory and update the bb-bbexttab. Restart bb Lars Hobbithobbyist The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. --Bertrand Russell

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