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maint.pl and alarms
by ctbeers＠syr.edu 26 Mar '05

26 Mar '05

Last night I had the first opportunity to use maint.pl. After performing so tasks to get it to work (Let apache have permissions to bb commands, let apache run at jobs (may want to put a hint about this)) I was able to schedule a downtime for a particular machine from 8:30 - 9:00 this morning. I received no alarms between 8:30 and 9:00 so I was happy it worked. However at 9am when hobbit enabled the service, hobbit-alert sent 4 alarms in purple states for the various test. Within minutes they went green after hobbit performed the test (content, https, sslcert and conn). This seems like a bug. Shouldn't hobbit try to poll the service just before enabling (or give some grace period) so it will come on in a green state (and not purple)? -- 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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[hobbit] External scripts
by dave＠auctionhelper.com 26 Mar '05

26 Mar '05

I looked at the log file and its empty. When hobbit starts it creates the log file but nothing is ever writen to it. Any ideas what enviornment varables need to be set? I didnt add anything to the bbsys.local on the BB install. I am running other external scripts that work fine. Thanks, Dave -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Mon 3/21/2005 1:03 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] External scripts On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 09:21:15PM -0800, David Garaway wrote: > I have a question about external scripts. I just moved over to > Hobbit from BB and need to run my scripts. I have been using the > "snmp" for my netapps and "bb-xsnmp" for my switches. I added an > entry to the "hobbitlaunch.cfg" > > [bbxsnmp] > CMD $BBHOME/ext/bb-xsnmp.pl > LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/bb-xsnmp.log > INTERVAL 1m > > but it doesnt work. Does anyone have any advice on using these BB > scripts? First thing to do is check that logfile you have in /var/log/hobbit/bb-xsnmp.log and see if it shows any errors. The most common reason for BB extensions failing with Hobbit is that some environment variables defined by the BB configuration files are not setup by Hobbit. Especially if you have added your own custom settings in bbsys.local. Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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Fwd: Re: [hobbit] maint.pl, only get the last host + ALL
by dhd733＠yahoo.se 26 Mar '05

26 Mar '05

Trying not to top-quoting it became a little bit wrong regards Lars lars ebeling <dhd733 at yahoo.se> wrote: Datum: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 06:10:29 +0100 (CET) Från: lars ebeling <dhd733 at yahoo.se> Till: hobbit <hobbit at hswn.dk> Ämne: Fwd: Re: [hobbit] maint.pl, only get the last host + ALL ---------- Från: lars ebeling[SMTP:DHD733 at YAHOO.SE] Skickat: den 26 mars 2005 06:10:29 Till: hobbit Ämne: Fwd: Re: [hobbit] maint.pl, only get the last host + ALL Automatiskt vidarebefordrat av en regel Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote: Datum: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 22:56:15 +0100 Från: Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> Till: hobbit at hswn.dk Ämne: Re: [hobbit] maint.pl, only get the last host + ALL > ---------- > Från: Henrik Stoerner[SMTP:HENRIK at HSWN.DK] > Skickat: den 25 mars 2005 22:56:15 > Till: hobbit at hswn.dk > Ämne: Re: [hobbit] maint.pl, only get the last host + ALL > Automatiskt vidarebefordrat av en regel > I've dropped this feature for now, so the enable/disable will always grab the full hostlist. I need some more time to test it before putting it into a release. Is the patchbundle containing patches for/against this? Regards, Henrik Regards Lars Hobbithobbyist The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. --Bertrand Russell 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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Fwd: Re: [hobbit] maint.pl, only get the last host + ALL
by dhd733＠yahoo.se 26 Mar '05

26 Mar '05

Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote: Datum: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 22:56:15 +0100 Från: Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> Till: hobbit at hswn.dk Ämne: Re: [hobbit] maint.pl, only get the last host + ALL > ---------- > Från: Henrik Stoerner[SMTP:HENRIK at HSWN.DK] > Skickat: den 25 mars 2005 22:56:15 > Till: hobbit at hswn.dk > Ämne: Re: [hobbit] maint.pl, only get the last host + ALL > Automatiskt vidarebefordrat av en regel > I've dropped this feature for now, so the enable/disable will always grab the full hostlist. I need some more time to test it before putting it into a release. Is the patchbundle containing patches for/against this? Regards, Henrik 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] TIME directive
by Kevin＠ewormhole.com 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

Excellent, thank you sir -----Original Message----- From: Asif Iqbal [mailto:iqbala-hobbit at qwestip.net] Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 5:54 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] TIME directive Importance: Low On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 05:41:01PM, Kevin Hanrahan wrote: > The man pages for the TIME directive give examples of it's use that > specify start and stop times as in: > TIME=*:0800:1700 > and this works great for each day but what is the syntax for days of > the week? I suspect the day goes where the asterisk is but what values > go there? For instance, how do I specify Monday thru Friday, 8 am to 5 pm? > man bb-hosts and check out the NKTIME syntax > Thanks > > kevin > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > > -- 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

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TIME directive
by Kevin＠ewormhole.com 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

The man pages for the TIME directive give examples of it's use that specify start and stop times as in: TIME=*:0800:1700 and this works great for each day but what is the syntax for days of the week? I suspect the day goes where the asterisk is but what values go there? For instance, how do I specify Monday thru Friday, 8 am to 5 pm? Thanks kevin

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RC6 not paging.
by dan.mcdonald＠austinenergy.com 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

I imagine whatever my problem with hobbit-alerts is, it is contained in the hobbitlaunch.cfg that I'm using: [mcdonalddj at ldap2 etc]$ grep color /etc/hobbit/hobbitlaunch.cfg CMD hobbitd --pidfile=$BBSERVERLOGS/hobbitd.pid --restart= $BBTMP/hobbitd.chk --checkpoint-file=$BBTMP/hobbitd.chk --checkpoint-interval=600 --log=$BBSERVERLOGS/hobbitd.log --alertcolors="red" --okcolors="green,blue" --admin-senders=127.0.0.1, $BBSERVERIP CMD hobbitd_channel --channel=page --alertcolors="red" --okcolors="green,blue" --log=$BBSERVERLOGS/page.log hobbitd_alert Is that the correct syntax for specifying alertcolors and okcolors?

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Post RC6 patches
by kevin.grady＠gmail.com 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

Henrik, is there a list of post RC6 pacthes out there that need to be applied? I know I've seen at least one floating through the mailing list. I wanted to double check as I am now building out our soon to be production hobbit server. Thanks

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Hobbit 4.0 RC6 now available
by henrik＠hswn.dk 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

Hobbit 4.0 RC6 is now available on http://sourceforge.net/projects/hobbitmon/ This includes pre-built Debian packages for Debian/Sarge (i386 and SPARC platforms), as well as an RPM-package (built on Mandrake, but it will probably work on most recent RPM-based systems). These should be considered "experimental", although I am currently running the Debian packages on a full pre-production system at work, and the RPM package at home. Please let me know if you have any problems with these. As I mentioned in my 4.0 release status mail, this release-candidate is the final wrap-up before the official release. It includes a small number of important bugfixes, and a large number of portability and packaging improvements. Full changelog below. Yell if I broke something :-) Regards, Henrik Changes from RC-5 ----------------- Bugfixes: * Recovery messages were sent to all recipients, regardless of any color-restrictions on the alerts they received. Changed this so that recipients only get recovery messages for the alerts they received. * The "NOALERT" option was not applied when multiple recipients were listed in one rule. * bbtest-net now performs a syntax check on all URL's before adding them to the test queue. This should stop it from crashing in case you happen to enter a syntactically invalid URL in your bb-hosts file. * The acknowledgment log on the BB2 page could mix up data from different entries in the log. * The default mail-utility used to send out e-mail alerts is now defined per OS. Solaris and HP-UX use "mailx", others use "mail". * Client tests no longer go purple when a host has been disabled. * bb-larrdcolumn no longer dumps core if there are no RRD files. * With the right input, bb-larrdcolumn could use massive amounts of memory and eventually terminate with an out-of-memory error. * A memory leak in hobbitd_larrd handling of "disk" reports was fixed. * bb-infocolumn now accepts a "--repeat=N" setting to inform it of the default alert-repeat interval. If you use --repeat with hobbitd_alert, you should copy that option to bb-infocolumn to make it generate correct info-column pages. * If bbgen cannot create output files or directories, the underlying error is now reported in the error message. * The "merge-lines" and "merge-sects" tools used during installation could crash due to a missing initialization of a pointer. Improvements: * It is now possible to make Hobbit re-open all logfiles, e.g. after a log rotate. Use "server/hobbit.sh rotate". * The hobbit-mailack tool now recognizes the BB format of alert message responses, i.e. putting "delay" and "msg" in the subject line will work. * bbcmd defaults to running /bin/sh if no command is given * hobbitd_larrd now logs the sender IP of a message that results in an error. * A network test definition for SpamAssassin's spamd daemon was added. * The default web/*header files now refer to a HOBBITLOGO setting for the HTML used in the upper-left corner of all pages. The default is just the text "Hobbit", but you can easily replace this with e.g. a company logo by changing this setting in hobbitserver.cfg. * The Hobbit daemon's "hobbitdboard", "hobbitdxboard" and "hobbitdlist" commands now support a set of primitive filtering techniques to limit the number of hosts returned. * maint.pl uses the new Hobbit daemon filtering and a cookie defined by the header in webpages to show only the hosts found on the page where it was called from, or just a single host. * Hobbit should now compile on Mac OS X (Darwin). * The info- and graph-column names are now defined globally as environment variables "INFOCOLUMN" and "LARRDCOLUMN", respectively. This eliminates the need to have them listed as options for multiple commands. Consequently, the --larrd and --info options have been dropped. * Systems with the necessary libraries (RRDtool, PCRE, OpenSSL etc) in unusual locations can now specify the location of these as parameters to the configure script, overriding the auto-detect routine. See "./configure --help" for details. * A definition for the "disk1" graph in LARRD was added, this shows the actual use of filesystems instead of the normal percentage.

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recentgifs
by Kevin＠ewormhole.com 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

Can someone tell me where I specify the "--recentgifs=XX" option so that I can change the default of 24 hours? Also, is the XX number in minutes? Thank you KEvin

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