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auto-restart clients
by kevin＠ewormhole.com 23 Apr '05

23 Apr '05

Hello all, For reasons which I cannot understand, our unix admins feel the need to reboot their machines constantly. I don't think there is an uptime exceeding 2 weeks!! However when that happens, the BB client stops reporting and I eventually get the purple alerts from Hobbit. Can someone tell me how to get the clients to auto-restart? Also, I am not a coder so please don't tell me to "write a script to make them start at reboot" because that is obvious....i just don't know how. Thank you for all input on this. kevin

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Windows Client
by Gerard＠ets.biz 23 Apr '05

23 Apr '05

Stew, >On the agent side, though I am not a programmer by trade, I am trying to >develop a windows client. Just working on it when I have the time. I'll >post something when I get it, however I expect it won't be for a month or >two. We are looking into development for the Windows platform, but focusing more on WMI scripts for testing given services/Applications (i.e. Exchange / RPC / SQL Server, that kind of stuff) Although we planned to just continue using the BBClient, there might be value in coordinating efforts here. We are evaluating the methods available to us in managing this; with the following considerations: About 30 servers each with about 10 tests, hence upward of 300 scripts (given each bbclient has a different install path / log directory), with the added burden of rolling out updates or amendments to these scripts. We are finding that management of client side tests has become cumbersome with as little as 30 servers, and would like to work toward a unified deployment and or deployment method. Also, I am sure there are a number of people involved in monitoring Microsoft servers; I would be interested to hear how you achieved this, in addition to any indication of interest in the development of a client / test architecture. -Gerard Lill -----Original Message----- From: Stew Lambert [mailto:slambert at lambertsolutions.com] Sent: Friday, 22 April 2005 14:49 To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [Bayesian SPAM] - RE: [hobbit] Comments wanted - OK to drop BB support in Hobbit? - Bayesian Filter detected spam I think you've done an amazing job. Cutting the ties with Qwest is a good thing. I bought the PE version during a big sale last year, and haven't heard a thing from them (upgrades, etc). They should have given you a big check and thrown bbgen into BB. Just my personal opinion. On the agent side, though I am not a programmer by trade, I am trying to develop a windows client. Just working on it when I have the time. I'll post something when I get it, however I expect it won't be for a month or two. Thanks for everything Henrik. <snip> > > To be honest, I wonder if the quest version of BB is > > actually selling/successful... ie, are there still loads > > of new BB users sprouting up, or is it just old BTF > > license users who are using/maintaining old BB > > installations.... > > There haven't been many commercial updates, and it looks > like Quest is starting to move away from giving the source > out. One thing I've noticed is that traffic on the BB mailing list appears to have dropped significantly after the Hobbit mailinglist started, and the beta-testing really got going. There are currently 169 adresses subscribed to the Hobbit list, and a handful more only on the announcement-list. I guess I must be doing something right :-) Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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Fwd: RE: [hobbit] Trends
by dhd733＠yahoo.se 23 Apr '05

23 Apr '05

U.Kirbach at EnBW.com wrote: Hello Lars the definition of disk1 in etc/hobbitgraph.cfg ignores / overlookes, that these values are already in Kilobyte. Apply this patch to hobbitgraph.cfg to the [disk1] stanza Ok that fixed the scalingproblem, but still I only get the rootfilesystem Regards Lars Hobbithobbyist "If you run UNIX and you don't have a UPS, you should see a psychiatrist...." --Byte Magazine (years ago)

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clamd-test
by dhd733＠yahoo.se 23 Apr '05

23 Apr '05

Hi All, I have installed CLAMAV on my hobbitserver. I added clamd in bb-hosts. The test didn't perform well. After that I added options banner to the clamd-section in bb-services the test seems to work. Regards Lars Hobbithobbyist "If you run UNIX and you don't have a UPS, you should see a psychiatrist...." --Byte Magazine (years ago)

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[hobbit] Comments wanted - OK to drop BB support in Hobbit?
by pwilliamson＠mandtbank.com 22 Apr '05

22 Apr '05

>>> mailinglists at websitemanagers.com.au 04/21/05 8:22 AM >>> > Well, I don't see any problem with this, but I would like to > see bbclient compatibility remain. I don't think hobbit yet > has the right amount of client tests to be able to ignore > what BB has. ie, even just the standard BB client works > better than the current hobbit version (not that I've tried > it, since you keep telling us it doesn't work)... but add to > that all the stuff on www.deadcat.net, and, well... you > know, thats a lot to try and replicate... Losing deadcat stuff would be a bad thing. I guess that's part of breaking away. Hobbit will just need to spring something up like deadbunny or some other typical pet for a Hobbit. > To be honest, I wonder if the quest version of BB is > actually selling/successful... ie, are there still loads > of new BB users sprouting up, or is it just old BTF > license users who are using/maintaining old BB > installations.... We haven't seen any BTF releases, > and I've not seen anything anywhere to indicate that > there have been any commercial updates/changes either. There haven't been many commercial updates, and it looks like Quest is starting to move away from giving the source out. I got an e-mail a couple of weeks ago, inviting me to try the new BBPe 3.1. Interestingly enough, there is a pdf on their site that goes through the differences between the Pe and BTF versions, and there's really only one - integration with SpotLight and FogLight. Apparently the QA cycle for the new features is much longer than when it used to be purely BTF. Paul

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[hobbit] getting config files via "bb $BBDISP "config file" failes
by U.Kirbach＠EnBW.com 22 Apr '05

22 Apr '05

> From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] > Subject: Re: [hobbit] getting config files via "bb $BBDISP > "config file" failes > > On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 01:42:51PM +0200, U.Kirbach at EnBW.com wrote: > > > i tried on my debian linux (okay - debian running as Colinux on > > WindowsXP Pro my test environment for hobbit + bb) to pull config > > files for the bb client from hobbit server. > > > > I don't get any config files transfered. > > Looks like I forgot to put the full path onto the filename when > opening the config file. The patch below should solve that - it will > be in 4.0.3. Hello Henrik, applied the attached patch for hobbit 4.0.2 and retrieving config files runs smoothly now. Thanks Mit freundlichen Grüßen Uwe Kirbach -- Uwe Kirbach EnBW Service GmbH Betrieb Enterprise Systeme und Infrastruktur Systemmanagement Unix Durlacher Allee 93 76131 Karlsruhe Tel: +49 (0)721-63-14139

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[hobbit] getting config files via "bb $BBDISP "config file" failes
by U.Kirbach＠EnBW.com 22 Apr '05

22 Apr '05

Hello Hendrik, i tried on my debian linux (okay - debian running as Colinux on WindowsXP Pro = my test environment for hobbit + bb) to pull config files for the bb client from hobbit server. I don't get any config files transfered. Hobbit server and BB client are on the same machine. hobbit user = bb-client user = "sysperf" bb-hosts on hobbit server: root at colinux:/usr/local/perf/hobbit/server/etc# ls -al bb-hosts -rw-r--r-- 1 sysperf staff 49748 2005-04-21 13:36 bb-hosts BB-Client: sysperf at colinux:~/bb-cln$ export BBHOME=/usr/local/perf/bb-cln/ sysperf at colinux:~/bb-cln$ . etc/bbdef.sh sysperf at colinux:~/bb-cln$ echo $BBDISP 172.16.16.2 sysperf at colinux:~/bb-cln$ $BB --debug $BBDISP "config bb-hosts" 2005-04-21 13:40:35 Transport setup is: 2005-04-21 13:40:35 bbdportnumber = 1984 2005-04-21 13:40:35 bbdispproxyhost = NONE 2005-04-21 13:40:35 bbdispproxyport = 0 2005-04-21 13:40:35 Recipient listed as '172.16.16.2' 2005-04-21 13:40:35 Standard BB protocol on port 1984 2005-04-21 13:40:35 Will connect to address 172.16.16.2 port 1984 2005-04-21 13:40:35 Connect status is 0 2005-04-21 13:40:35 Sent 15 bytes 2005-04-21 13:40:35 Closing connection Mit freundlichen Grüßen Uwe Kirbach -- Uwe Kirbach EnBW Service GmbH Betrieb Enterprise Systeme und Infrastruktur Systemmanagement Unix Durlacher Allee 93 76131 Karlsruhe Tel: +49 (0)721-63-14139

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Trends
by dhd733＠yahoo.se 22 Apr '05

22 Apr '05

Hi All, in bb-hosts I have after LARRD:*,.........|disk1 This gives me a graph with diskutilization for / (root) only. The scale is wrong it should be M bit it says K. (90 K instead of 90 M) Regards Lars. Hobbithobbyist "If you run UNIX and you don't have a UPS, you should see a psychiatrist...." --Byte Magazine (years ago)

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[hobbit] hobbit log dir
by ian.marsh＠hants.gov.uk 21 Apr '05

21 Apr '05

You'll need to write an extension script to process the information as it's received by Hobbit and output the appropriate data to the lard subsystem. There are instructions on the 'hobbitd_larrd' manpage in the 'Custom RRD Data' section. Note that there is an error on each of the grep/awk lines in the example script; each line is missing a back tick to close the command. I ended up writing my own version of the script in Perl which will be easier for me/someone to maintain. It took a couple of hours for me to get this working this morning but having a graph for the Exim (MTA) queue size is already proving very useful! Thanks, Ian Marsh _____ From: Jon Bjorn Njalsson [mailto:jonbjorn at hi.is] Sent: 21 April 2005 15:53 To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] hobbit log dir Is there no directory where bbclient information is gaterd. In bigbrother I hade exhangeservers sending in information about private and public database sizes, the log file would contain f ex green 20.4.2005 16:29:02 Exchange Database size check (GB): &green PrivateDatabase: 12.99 &green PublicDatabase : 3.22 and I was able to graph that with larrd. I am able to let hobbit display this graph but hobbit isn´t getting the feed from the client. ----- Original Message ----- From: Lowery, Michael <mailto:mlowery at alliedtechgroup.com> To: hobbit at hswn.dk Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 2:40 PM Subject: RE: [hobbit] hobbit log dir /var/logs/hobbit is where mine are kept. -----Original Message----- From: Jon Bjorn Njalsson [mailto:jonbjorn at hi.is] Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 9:35 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] hobbit log dir I just migrated from bb to hobbit server and I was wondering where is hobbit´s incoming log directory (bb had $BBVAR/logs). regards Jon Bjorn

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[hobbit] hobbit log dir
by mlowery＠alliedtechgroup.com 21 Apr '05

21 Apr '05

/var/logs/hobbit is where mine are kept. -----Original Message----- From: Jon Bjorn Njalsson [mailto:jonbjorn at hi.is] Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 9:35 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] hobbit log dir I just migrated from bb to hobbit server and I was wondering where is hobbit´s incoming log directory (bb had $BBVAR/logs). regards Jon Bjorn

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