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Hobbit Snapshot report
by rsmrcina＠wi.rr.com 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

When I try to generate a Snapshot report, I get a web page that says: Cannot create output directory I changed the permissions on /home/hobbit/server/rep to 777, and it had no effect. Any tips here? Thanks. -- Rich Smrcina VM Assist, Inc. Main: (262)392-2026 Cell: (414)491-6001 Ans Service: (866)569-7378 rich.smrcina at vmassist.com Catch the WAVV! http://www.wavv.org WAVV 2005 - Colorado Springs - May 20-24, 2005

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problem patching
by dhd733＠yahoo.se 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

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 Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option? The text leading up to this was: -------------------------- ödiff -urN beta/hobbit-4.0-RC6/bbdisplay/acklog.c /tmp/hobbit-4.0-RC6/bbdisplay/ acklog.c ö--- beta/hobbit-4.0-RC6/bbdisplay/acklog.c 2005-03-06 17:39:06.000000000 +0 100 ö+++ /tmp/hobbit-4.0-RC6/bbdisplay/acklog.c 2005-03-22 10:03:47.000000000 +0 100 -------------------------- File to patch: $ pwd /home/hobbit/hobbit-4.0-RC6 $ 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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TIME parameter in alert rules
by dstuffle＠deltafaucet.com 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

Henrik, I'm in the process of converting all my Big Brother rules to Hobbit. When I reached the following BB rule, it turned in to a really long Hobbit rule TIME specification. The TIME parameter in the Hobbit rule is all one line. There are about 12 Citrix servers. I know I can put the TIME's in the bb-host file as DOWNTIME, but it would still be that long of a line and I would have to put in on each of the 12 Citrix servers. Being able to specify multiple days in one TIME parameter would greatly simplify this rule, like you can in Big Brother. For example: TIME=124-6:0615:0800 or TIME=12456:0615:0800 Would this TIME specification be do-able in Hobbit, maybe in a future release? Or, am I missing something that would simplify this rule? It really messes up the info column. BB Rule: hg-indy_citrix;;conn disk;;1 2 4-6;0000-0300 0615-0800 1800-2359;dlm-p at linus daveh-p at linus dal1-p at linus:~60 jeb1-p at linus:~90 Hobbit Rule: HOST=$CITRIXSERVERS SERVICE=conn,disk TIME=0:0500:0100,1:1800:0300,1:0615:0800,2:1800:0300,2:0615:0800,4:1800:0300 ,4:0615:0800,5:1800:0300,5:0615:0800,6:1800:0300,6:0615:0800 MAIL $dmcfatridge MAIL $dherrmann MAIL $dlohr DURATION>60 MAIL $jbuser DURATION>90 Sorry for the disclaimer, I can't remove it. Thanks, 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] Help with DOWNTIME tag
by tbarnes1＠hfhs.org 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

Yikes - I did this and now I have everything green alright - problem is there are no hosts listed. Everything is gone except the "Pages hosted locally" page links. Tried enable/disable - no hosts listed on that either. Terry Barnes Siemens Com @ HFHS 248-853-4968 (Office) 586-405-8382 (Cellular) 248-844-3030 (Fax) 5864058382 at messaging.nextel.com (Text Pager) tbarnes1 at hfhs.org >>> henrik at hswn.dk 3/25/05 3:36:39 AM >>> On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 11:43:59PM -0500, Terry Barnes wrote: > Just took the plunge to HOBBIT today and overall it is working very > nice. Big Brother has been great - this is going to be a winner! > > Reading through the bb-hosts manpage i discovered the DOWNTIME tag. [snip description of it not working] I think you're right - there is a bug in how this is handled. Glad you spotted it. Attached is a patch for this. To apply it, save the attachment to /tmp/postrc6-downtime.patch, and: cd hobbit-4.0-RC6 patch -p0 </tmp/postrc6-downtime.patch make Stop Hobbit, su to root and run "make install", then start Hobbit again. Regards, Henrik CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email contains information from the sender that may be CONFIDENTIAL, LEGALLY PRIVILEGED, PROPRIETARY or otherwise protected from disclosure. This email is intended for use only by the person or entity to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, disclosure, copying, distribution, printing, or any action taken in reliance on the contents of this email, is strictly prohibited. If you received this email in error, please contact the sending party by replying in an email to the sender, delete the email from your computer system and shred any paper copies of the email you printed. Note to Patients: There are a number of risks you should consider before using e-mail to communicate with us. These risks are described in our Privacy Policy at http://henryford.com. Review that policy carefully before continuing to communicate with us by e-mail. For greater Internet security, our policy describes the Henry Ford MyHealth electronic communication process - you may register at http://henryford.com. If you do not believe that our policy gives you the privacy and security protection you need, do not send e-mail or Internet communications to us.

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[hobbit] hobbit-mailack
by TBARNES1＠hfhs.org 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

>>> iqbala-hobbit at qwestip.net 3/28/05 12:37:57 AM >>> >Hi > >I am loving the hobbit-mailack. It works very well. I just like to >request a 'notify' feature to the SYNOPSIS Arg - that is a feature I have been missing in Hobbit that was great in Big Brother. So - is there a mail-ack capability in Hobbit. I have scoured the docs I have and have not seen anything about it. If it exists - please point me to something that lets me know how to set it up. Also, I did an ack from Hobbit's administration - acknowledge alert page. Did not appear to have done anything. In data/acks there is data in the notificatrions .log but acklog is 0 bytes. I have replied to alet emails, and used the webpage ack, but nothing seems to happen. Thanks for any help Terry Barnes Siemens Com @ HFHS 248-853-4968 (Office) 586-405-8382 (Cellular) 248-844-3030 (Fax) 5864058382 at messaging.nextel.com (Text Pager) tbarnes1 at hfhs.org CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email contains information from the sender that may be CONFIDENTIAL, LEGALLY PRIVILEGED, PROPRIETARY or otherwise protected from disclosure. This email is intended for use only by the person or entity to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, disclosure, copying, distribution, printing, or any action taken in reliance on the contents of this email, is strictly prohibited. If you received this email in error, please contact the sending party by replying in an email to the sender, delete the email from your computer system and shred any paper copies of the email you printed. Note to Patients: There are a number of risks you should consider before using e-mail to communicate with us. These risks are described in our Privacy Policy at http://henryford.com. Review that policy carefully before continuing to communicate with us by e-mail. For greater Internet security, our policy describes the Henry Ford MyHealth electronic communication process - you may register at http://henryford.com. If you do not believe that our policy gives you the privacy and security protection you need, do not send e-mail or Internet communications to us.

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Updated post-RC6 patch
by henrik＠hswn.dk 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

Folks, I found a problem with the disk report handler in the post-RC6 patch - it could get stuck in an infinite loop, due to a bug I introduced when trying to add support for AS/400 disk reports. If you're bitten by this, you'll have a hobbitd_larrd proces that is just spinning like mad, burning cpu time but doing absolutely nothing (so no graph updates). I have updated the post-RC6 patch with a proper way of handling this. If you applied the original post-RC6 patch, back it out with: cd hobbit-4.0-RC6 patch -R -p1 </tmp/post-RC6.patch Then apply the new one: cd hobbit-4.0-RC6 patch -p1 </tmp/post-RC6-v2.patch Then run "make clean; make", stop Hobbit and run "make install", then start Hobbit again. This also includes a couple of other fixes, including one where removing a host from the bb-hosts file could cause it to get "stuck" in Hobbit as purple, with no way of removing the host (except stopping and starting Hobbit); and an improvement so you can list multiple week-days in time-specifications for alerts, downtime etc. Regards, Henrik

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[hobbit] hobbit-mailack - found docs!
by TBARNES1＠hfhs.org 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

>>> TBARNES1 at hfhs.org 3/28/05 2:20:41 AM >>> >>> iqbala-hobbit at qwestip.net 3/28/05 12:37:57 AM >>> >Hi > >I am loving the hobbit-mailack. It works very well. I just like to >request a 'notify' feature to the SYNOPSIS Well - I couldn't find a link to hobbit-mailack anywhere , but manually enetered url and got it. One question - there is info for setting up with procmail or qmail, can it be setup with just postfix alone via entries in /etc/aliases? I would prefer not having to install procmail if I can avoid it and also don;t want to interfere with mailman running on same box. Thanks. ps. the web-page acks still not working for me - also wondering what is up with that. Terry Barnes Siemens Com @ HFHS 248-853-4968 (Office) 586-405-8382 (Cellular) 248-844-3030 (Fax) 5864058382 at messaging.nextel.com (Text Pager) tbarnes1 at hfhs.org CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email contains information from the sender that may be CONFIDENTIAL, LEGALLY PRIVILEGED, PROPRIETARY or otherwise protected from disclosure. This email is intended for use only by the person or entity to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, disclosure, copying, distribution, printing, or any action taken in reliance on the contents of this email, is strictly prohibited. If you received this email in error, please contact the sending party by replying in an email to the sender, delete the email from your computer system and shred any paper copies of the email you printed. Note to Patients: There are a number of risks you should consider before using e-mail to communicate with us. These risks are described in our Privacy Policy at http://henryford.com. Review that policy carefully before continuing to communicate with us by e-mail. For greater Internet security, our policy describes the Henry Ford MyHealth electronic communication process - you may register at http://henryford.com. If you do not believe that our policy gives you the privacy and security protection you need, do not send e-mail or Internet communications to us.

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hobbit-mailack
by iqbala-hobbit＠qwestip.net 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

Hi I am loving the hobbit-mailack. It works very well. I just like to request a 'notify' feature to the SYNOPSIS hobbit-mailack --env=FILENAME [--debug] Something like hobbit-mailack --env=FILENAME [--debug] --notify <email at address.one> <email2 at address.one> That way when I delay an alert everyone else who were also getting alerts will have an option to be notified about this action So if I send an email as a reply to an alert delay 1h msg I am working on it now All admins/users who were receiving the alert should get an email hostname:service has been delayed 1h Delayed by: <users info who delayed it> Reason: I am working on it now Just my feedback for a future feature :-) -- Asif Iqbal PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu "..there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit...try to be in the first group;...less competition there." - Indira Gandhi

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Acknowledging alerts
by Kevin＠ewormhole.com 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

Is there a limit of how long you can ACK an alert?...a max accepted value for that field?

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paging with REPEAT problem...
by olivier＠qalpit.com 27 Mar '05

27 Mar '05

i've setup a rule with REPEAT=7d in the "info" page, i see what i execpt : ping olivier at qalpit.com (R) 2m - 1w - red but i keep receiving mails every, not a regular basis in notifications.log : Sun Mar 27 11:26:03 2005 Sun Mar 27 11:56:20 2005 Sun Mar 27 12:11:42 2005 up to now in page.log, i see this : 2005-03-27 11:09:08 Worker process died with exit code 0, terminating 2005-03-27 11:09:08 Could not get shm of size 102400: No such file or directory 2005-03-27 11:09:08 Channel not available 2005-03-27 11:18:54 Worker process died with exit code 0, terminating 2005-03-27 11:18:54 Could not get shm of size 102400: No such file or directory 2005-03-27 11:18:54 Channel not available 2005-03-27 11:48:39 Worker process died with exit code 0, terminating 2005-03-27 12:01:01 Worker process died with exit code 0, terminating should i restart hobbit, to clean up all ipc ?.. -- Olivier Beau

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