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[hobbit] Help with DOWNTIME tag - Fixed!
by tbarnes1＠hfhs.org 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

>>> tbarnes1 at hfhs.org 3/25/05 1:13:59 PM >>> >>> 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 > >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. > >bb-display.log, bb-network.log and bb-retest.log shows >2005-03-25 13:03:52 Could not connect to bbd at x.x.x.x:1984 - Connection >refused >2005-03-25 13:03:52 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - Connection >failed >2005-03-25 13:03:52 hobbitd status-board not available (this line only >in bb-display.log) > >netstat -an|grep 1984 - returns nothing > >Any ideas? Fixed! - I found that even after stopping hobbit, some processes were still running. They were likely running when I did the make install. So - I stopped hobbit - had to kill hobbitlaunch which took everything else down, did a make clean, reran configure, make and make install. Restarted hobbit and verything is working again. Now - I have to wait till 11:00 pm to see if the Downtime fix works. 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] Help with DOWNTIME tag
by tbarnes1＠hfhs.org 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

>>> 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 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. bb-display.log, bb-network.log and bb-retest.log shows 2005-03-25 13:03:52 Could not connect to bbd at x.x.x.x:1984 - Connection refused 2005-03-25 13:03:52 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - Connection failed 2005-03-25 13:03:52 hobbitd status-board not available (this line only in bb-display.log) netstat -an|grep 1984 - returns nothing Any ideas? 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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Help with DOWNTIME tag
by TBARNES1＠hfhs.org 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

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. This is great by its description. I have been preventing alerts at specified times of the day, but unfortunately things still go red, though no alerts go out. If I understand DOWNTIME correctly, it should allow failed tests during this downtime window to result in a blue status instead of red. I added it to bb-hosts on a host specific line similar to the following. 1.2.3.4 myhost.com # DOWNTIME=*:2259:0531test1 test2 test3 test4 test... I anxiously awaited the moment several processes stopped for dayend backups and processing, but the staus went red as usual. Am i coding this wrong or not understnding its implementation correctly? 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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Fwd: Re: [hobbit] maint.pl, only get the last host + ALL
by dhd733＠yahoo.se 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

lars ebeling <dhd733 at yahoo.se> wrote:Datum: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 08:10:06 +0100 (CET) Från: lars ebeling <dhd733 at yahoo.se> Ämne: Fwd: Re: [hobbit] maint.pl, only get the last host + ALL Till: hobbit <hobbit at hswn.dk> Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote: Could you try removing these two lines from the ~/server/web/hostsvc_header file: I did that and perhaps you could try it yourself. and let me know if that helps ? There were no changes to the better. Now I only get the same host and ALL 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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VMstat
by soumya＠in-corporate.pacenet-india.com 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

How do I get vmstat from the client? Which file should I use for vmstat. Thanks Soumya

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bb-maint.pl
by dhd733＠yahoo.se 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

I mean to try it here Henrik 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 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:Could you try removing these two lines from the ~/server/web/hostsvc_header file: I did that and perhaps you could try it yourself. and let me know if that helps ? Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk 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] completely confused
by trotunda＠opushealthcare.com 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

Henrik, Thanks for the info. Very helpful indeed. I have made much progress over the last few days. My first install of Hobbit was on Linux RH 7.3 and I had polluted the install with lots of experimentation. Anyway, I have abandoned that install and have installed Hobbit server on HP-UX 11i v1. Took some work to get rrdtool and fping working, but looking back it wasn't too bad, and it runs very well. So just for clarification, before I start, I need to install the BB Client for the OS level reporting to Hobbit. This is not the Hobbit Client and if not, what is the Hobbit Client for? I have had success in Hobbit enabling one of my apps and it works very well. Only issue I see is that if the app takes a powder, Hobbit Server needs to alert me quickly. I am still looking for the "Time to Purple" parameter. Any help there would be great. I am going into a meeting on Friday and will propose that we "Hobbit Enable" 10 or so of our "key" applications. Our CEO has bought off on this and so it is just a matter of getting engineering to buy into it as well. This will enable our IT staff to respond very quickly to application failure. That will take care of about half of our remote monitoring needs. As for the other half, I am still looking to deploy BB-Central, but looking at the scripts, it looks pretty tightly tied into BB so I am not sure how successful I will be with that. I will begin this task after I get my Hobbit server reporting CPU, disk and such. Thanks again for the info, Best Regards, Tim -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 4:03 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] completely confused On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 12:32:27PM -0600, Tim Rotunda wrote: > Ok, maybe I have spent too much time looking at too many different man > pages for too many different products. Whatever the case may be, I > could really use a cold slap in the face. Well, it's pretty cold outside so if I stick my hand in the snow for a couple of minutes, I'll try and provide what you're asking for :-) > - It looks like I need to install Hobbit and BB-Client to > monitor the OS level on the Hobbit server. True? Yes. I guess with "OS level" you mean stuff like disk utilisation, what the load is on the box, if processes are running and such. You need something running on the box to get those data - that "something" is the BB client. > - Can I "hobbit" enable my applications to report status from > remote servers without any middleware (bb-client)? > > o I would think this could be a "one liner" in my apps (20-30 of > them) to report their internal status.???? You can do that, and if you have the possibility of adding such a "health check" function in your application, it is by far the best and most rewarding way of monitoring application availability. Since the application knows best what errors and problems can occur, it has the option of checking for those - like if it needs a database connection, it can check if there's a database available and responding by doing a query on one of the tables. Or if some other ressource is needed, it can check up on that. There are (at least) two ways for an application to report its status to Hobbit. One way is that the application periodically - on its own - sends in a status report about its health; this means building a small status message in the format status HOSTNAME.APPLICATIONNAME green 05 Mar 2005 22:51 The FOO application is up and running (If there's a problem, you can obviously make it yellow or red, and include whatever troubleshooting information is relevant). After building the message, either setup a tcp connection to the hobbit server on port 1984 and just send this message across, or use the "bb" client program which is included with Hobbit to handle the details of getting the message across to the Hobbit server. The other way of doing this is if your application is web-enabled. Then you can let the application generate a dynamic webpage with the status of the application, and just setup a network test in Hobbit where you check the contents of that webpage to see if everything is OK. One of my customers has done this with all of the web-applications: The simply have a "checkOK" webpage that returns the status of the application, and sets the background color of the webpage to green if it is ok. So in Hobbit I just have a simple webpage content check to request this page and look for a "BGCOLOR=#00FF00" string which will be there if everything is OK. In bb-hosts that is 10.0.0.1 www.foo.com # cont=myapp;http://www.foo.com/app;BGCOLOR=#00FF00 This generates a "myapp" column with the contents of the webpage - if the BGCOLOR string is found then the status is green, otherwise it is red. > - Where can I see the message format for sending my own messages > to the display server, if that is possible? The "bb" manpage has a description of the messages you can send to Hobbit. > - It looks like if I want to use bb-central: I'm not really qualified to answer questions on bb-central since I've never used it. I am sure someone else can help you with this. Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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Bbnet core dumping
by sclark＠nyroc.rr.com 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

I just (tried) to migrate a bbserver to a hobbit Here is what a get: 2005-03-24 14:02:04 hobbitlaunch starting 2005-03-24 14:02:04 Loading tasklist configuration from /usr/local/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitlaunch.cfg 2005-03-24 14:02:04 Task hobbitd started with PID 12434 2005-03-24 14:02:04 Loading hostnames 2005-03-24 14:02:04 Loading saved state 2005-03-24 14:02:04 Setting up network listener on 0.0.0.0:1984 2005-03-24 14:02:04 Setting up signal handlers 2005-03-24 14:02:04 Setting up hobbitd channels 2005-03-24 14:02:04 Setting up logfiles 2005-03-24 14:02:09 Task bbhistory started with PID 12435 2005-03-24 14:02:09 Task bbenadis started with PID 12436 2005-03-24 14:02:09 Task bbpage started with PID 12437 2005-03-24 14:02:09 Task larrdstatus started with PID 12438 2005-03-24 14:02:09 Task larrddata started with PID 12440 2005-03-24 14:02:09 Task bbdisplay started with PID 12441 2005-03-24 14:02:09 Task bbcombotest started with PID 12443 2005-03-24 14:02:09 Task bbnet started with PID 12445 2005-03-24 14:02:09 Task bbretest started with PID 12447 2005-03-24 14:02:09 Task larrdcolumn started with PID 12449 2005-03-24 14:02:09 Task infocolumn started with PID 12452 2005-03-24 14:02:09 Task bbnet terminated by signal 6 2005-03-24 14:03:09 Task bbdisplay started with PID 12458 2005-03-24 14:03:09 Task bbretest started with PID 12459 Then when I look in tmp: hobbit at homenet tmp $ gdb ../bin/bbtest-net core GNU gdb 6.0 Copyright 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-linux-gnu"...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1". Core was generated by `bbtest-net --dns=ip --report --ping --checkresponse --debug'. Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted. warning: current_sos: Can't read pathname for load map: Input/output error Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libldap.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libldap.so.2 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/liblber.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/liblber.so.2 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.7...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.7 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.7...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.7 Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib/libresolv.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libresolv.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/libdl.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libdl.so.2 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libsasl2.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libsasl2.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/libnss_files.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libnss_files.so.2 #0 0xb7d643d1 in kill () from /lib/libc.so.6 Bbtest-net is not producing any logfile at all Any ideas? -Sean

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Install issue - libssl.so open failed
by white＠cs.umn.edu 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

All, I'm trying to compile hobbit, and have gotten most of the way there, but now am running into this error when doing a 'make install' (the make itself worked fine): cd etcfiles; ../../build/merge-lines columndoc.csv /opt/hobbit/server/etc/columndoc.csv cd etcfiles; (echo "bb-hosts"; echo "hobbit-alerts.cfg"; echo "bbcombotest.cfg") | ../../build/setup-newfiles /opt/hobbit/server/etc/ ld.so.1: ../../build/setup-newfiles: fatal: libssl.so.0.9.7: open failed: No such file or directory Killed make[1]: *** [install-cfg] Error 137 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/cwhite/hobbit/hobbit-4.0-RC6/hobbitd' make: *** [install-hobbitd] Error 2 libssl.so.0.9.7 is available: # locate libssl.so.0.9.7 /usr/local/ssl/lib/libssl.so.0.9.7 Any ideas? I didn't see anything about this referenced in any prior messages. Thanks all. CW

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