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bbstatus section
by iqbala-hobbit＠qwestip.net 27 Mar '05

27 Mar '05

Hi I see by default I have hobbitd_filestore enabled in my bbstatus section. However since I have BBLOGSTATUS set to DYNAMIC (uupercase) by default, I should just disable the hobbitd_filestore. Now is there cool way of disabling it OR I just uncomment that section in hobbitlaunch.cfg file? Thanks -- 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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[hobbit] Pageset options
by Kevin.Hanrahan＠novainfo.com 26 Mar '05

26 Mar '05

-----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2005 4:54 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Pageset options On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 04:01:24PM -0500, Kevin.Hanrahan at novainfo.com wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 12:22:50PM, Kevin Hanrahan wrote: >> >> Is it possible to use the "--ignorecolumns" option when generating >> >> pagesets?...such as to get rid of the "msgs" column?? If so, where >> >> exactly would I specify that option? >> >> >in etc/hobbitlaunch.cfg under bbdisplay section >> >> Yes, I saw the info in the man pages and read it before posting but >> that will eliminate the "msgs" column for ALL of the systems. I only >> want to eliminate it in the "Alternate Pagesets" sections that I am >> generating. Is this an option? >Each pageset is generated by a separate invocation of bbgen. So >just add the --ignorecolumns for the pagesets you want it to be on, and leave it out for the others. Yes, I think I tried that but I must have made some mistake. As you previously told me, I made a new bbdisplay section in hobbitlaunch.cfg like this: [bbdisplay-tier0] ENVFILE /home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg NEEDS hobbitd GROUP generators CMD $BBHOME/ext/ps0.sh --ignorecolumns=msgs LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/bb-display.log INTERVAL 5m And then made a file to build the pageset: BBWEB="/hobbit/ps0" $BBHOME/hobbit/bin/bbgen \ --pageset=ps0 --ignorecolumns=msgs \ $BBHOME/www/ps0/ I tried using the --ignorecolumns=msgs directive in either and then both sections but it dodn't work. Where did I make my mistake? Kevin Henrik 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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Executive overview of Hobbit?
by tbarnes1＠hfhs.org 26 Mar '05

26 Mar '05

Even though we have been using Big Brother for over a year, and it has been in our Operations staff's hands now for several months, I have been asked to prepare an executive level overview for our tech support staff and management. Seems that if our operations staff ha sno problem, our theoretically highly skilled tech staff should have no problems at all. Many of them however, including me, come from a mainframe techincal background and have become extremely reliant on having shelves of documentation describing the various methods of getting to the last line of a file in vi. So - that having been said, does anyone know of such a thing that someone has already put together that I could shamelessly beg, borrow or steal from? It doesn't matter waht format or how pretty, etc., I can take care of that. Maybe you have done such a thing already for your company. I would relly appreciate it if you could forward it to me or point me to a place to access it. I would be happy to point appropriate credit for anything that i can use. Thanks! 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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defaults LINE for hobbitgraph.cfg ?
by olivier＠qalpit.com 26 Mar '05

26 Mar '05

Henrik, for me, "LINE2" is too big, i've changed all LINE2 in LINE1, What do you think of havinf LINE1 for defaults ? -- Olivier Beau

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notifications.log question
by olivier＠qalpit.com 26 Mar '05

26 Mar '05

it looks like there is only one log file in hobbit. (in bb, i'm used to look at notifications.log and recoverymsgs.log) how do i know what is an alarm and what is a recovery in hobbit's notification.log ? -- Olivier Beau

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Bb-memory
by Kevin.Hanrahan＠novainfo.com 26 Mar '05

26 Mar '05

I am using bb-memory to get memory data for each of my hosts and I am seeing an odd result. This is from a system with 16 gig of memory installed: Memory Used Total Percentage ----------------------------------------------- Physical 682M 784M 86% Actual 66M 784M 8% Swap 0M 2047M 0% The host is running linux....any ideas why I see this reading? Thanks Kevin 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] Pageset options
by Kevin.Hanrahan＠novainfo.com 26 Mar '05

26 Mar '05

-----Original Message----- From: Asif Iqbal [mailto:iqbala-hobbit at qwestip.net] Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2005 3:01 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Pageset options On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 12:22:50PM, Kevin Hanrahan wrote: >> Is it possible to use the "--ignorecolumns" option when generating >> pagesets?...such as to get rid of the "msgs" column?? If so, where >> exactly would I specify that option? >in etc/hobbitlaunch.cfg under bbdisplay section >For details man bbgen Yes, I saw the info in the man pages and read it before posting but that will eliminate the "msgs" column for ALL of the systems. I only want to eliminate it in the "Alternate Pagesets" sections that I am generating. Is this an option? -- 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 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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regex for service in hobbit-alerts.cfg
by olivier＠qalpit.com 26 Mar '05

26 Mar '05

hobbit doesnt match my contents with SERVICE=http,%tcp.*,%cont.* nor with SERVICE=http,%(tcp|cont).* but matches with SERVICE=http,%cont.* is it possible to have several services with regex ? -- Olivier Beau

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Pageset options
by Kevin＠ewormhole.com 26 Mar '05

26 Mar '05

Is it possible to use the "--ignorecolumns" option when generating pagesets?...such as to get rid of the "msgs" column?? If so, where exactly would I specify that option? Thanks KEvin

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info page and alerts
by ctbeers＠syr.edu 26 Mar '05

26 Mar '05

Seems like the info page does not understand the STOP and UNMATCHED keywords. I have a server that I set alarms based on hostname to 2 particular addresses with the STOP keyword. At the bottom I have a catchall UNMATCHED rule. The info page on hobbit shows the alerts for both the STOP and UNMATCHED set, but hobbit only alarms the STOP rules. Maybe a bug? -- 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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