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[hobbit] New enable/disable tool ready for testing
by dhd733＠yahoo.se 19 Apr '05

19 Apr '05

If I start from scratch i.e. from hobbit-4.0.2.tar.gz. Which patches and in which order shall I apply. 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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alerting rules for ldaps
by jonbjorn＠hi.is 19 Apr '05

19 Apr '05

I have been setting up alert rules on my hobbit server and noticed one strange thing. If I want to get an alert based on ldaps I get no email, but if I change the service name to ldap, hobbit will send an alert. Is this a bug ? -- Jon Bjorn Njalsson <jonbjorn at hi.is>

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[hobbit] Forcing content test to be IE like
by henrik＠hswn.dk 19 Apr '05

19 Apr '05

Just wanted to point out that Hobbit does support sending cookies with a request - see the bbtest-net man-page; you drop the cookies into a Netscape-cookie-format file in ~/server/etc/cookies, and they are sent with any requests. However, requiring a cookie for a "one-shot" test which is what Hobbit does - it doesn't follow redirects - really does not make much sense, unless it's used as some form of simple user identification. So as Larry points out, for these kinds of tests where you might want to script a full transaction or session, a custom script using curl or some similar tool might be superior. Regards, Henrik On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 01:22:24PM -0400, Larry.Barber at usda.gov wrote: > Curl will allow you to set the user-agent and store and send cookies. > See the curl man page. > > Thanks, > Larry Barber > > > On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 11:28 -0500, ctbeers at syr.edu wrote: > > We have a web service that requires IE and cookies enabled in the > > browser. I am trying to test that with hobbit and I get error > > message. > > > > The current one is you must have cookies enabled, but I am sure > > the next will be you must be using IE 5.2 or later. Any ideas on > > how to get hobbit to do this for me.?

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[hobbit] Forcing content test to be IE like
by Larry.Barber＠usda.gov 19 Apr '05

19 Apr '05

Curl will allow you to set the user-agent and store and send cookies. See the curl man page. Thanks, Larry Barber On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 11:28 -0500, ctbeers at syr.edu wrote: > We have a web service that requires IE and cookies enabled in the > browser. > I am trying to test that with hobbit and I get error message. > > The current one is you must have cookies enabled, but I am sure the > next > will be you must be using IE 5.2 or later. Any ideas on how to get > hobbit > to do this for me.? > > Chris > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > > >

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Forcing content test to be IE like
by ctbeers＠syr.edu 19 Apr '05

19 Apr '05

We have a web service that requires IE and cookies enabled in the browser. I am trying to test that with hobbit and I get error message. The current one is you must have cookies enabled, but I am sure the next will be you must be using IE 5.2 or later. Any ideas on how to get hobbit to do this for me.? Chris

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[hobbit] New Features #2
by ian.marsh＠hants.gov.uk 19 Apr '05

19 Apr '05

To be honest I don't mind where the cookie info appears, just so long as I can get at it! My original suggestion was loosely based around the proposed new enable/disable system. I'd be more than happy with an 'acknowledge page' as you've suggested as that brings them all into one place. Thanks, Ian Marsh -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: 19 April 2005 13:37 To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] New Features #2 On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 10:44:36AM +0100, Marsh, Ian wrote: > What I'd like to be able to do is to pre-empt the alert by having > access to the ack code earlier, as soon as the status changes to red, > and have the code displayed on the individual test page. The way I > envisage this happening is that the ack code is generated when the test > turns red rather than when an alert is sent out. This code can then be > included on the tests status page where we have easy access to it. The > text could be displayed in a similar fashion to the text currently added > when an alert is acknowledged. Try the attached patch - should work against 4.0.2. Apply with cd hobbit-4.0.2 patch -p0 </tmp/hobbit-4.0.2-cookies.patch make stop hobbit make install (as root) start hobbit This makes the cookie appear on the detailed status page if it has not yet been acknowledged. By default I've disabled this - you must add the option "--publish-cookies" to the hobbitsvc.cgi command in ~/server/cgi-bin/bb-hostsvc.sh to enable this. I haven't yet made up my mind if this is a good idea or not. Another solution I've thought about is to make an acknowledge webpage similar to the enable/disable webpage, where you can choose which tests to acknowledge. And publishing the cookies on the status-page becomes more difficult with the planned changes to the alerting where escalations are handled. Regards, Henrik

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Disable hangs from infopage
by dhd733＠yahoo.se 19 Apr '05

19 Apr '05

Hi all, Nothing is shown in any logfile. Doesn't anyone here have the same problem running hobbit on HP-UX 11.11? This is from Apache access.log 192.168.0.100 - - Ä19/Apr/2005:15:02:08 +0200Å "GET /hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?HOSTSVC=Leo.info&IP=192.168.0.100&DISPLAYNAME=Leo HTTP/1.1" 200 12877 "http://192.168.0.2/hobbit/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; sv-SE; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050318 Firefox/1.0.2" 192.168.0.100 - - Ä19/Apr/2005:15:02:09 +0200Å "GET /hobbit/gifs/bkg-green.gif HTTP/1.1" 200 740 "http://192.168.0.2/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?HOSTSVC=Leo.info&IP=192.168.0.1…" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows;U;WindowsNT5.1;svSE;rv:1.7.6Gecko/20050318Firefox/1.0.2" 192.168.0.100 - - Ä19/Apr/2005:15:02:21 +0200Å "POST /hobbit-seccgi/hobbit-enadis.sh HTTP/1.1" 401 487 "http://192.168.0.2/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?HOSTSVC=Leo.info&IP=192.168.0.1…" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1;sv-SE; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050318 Firefox/1.0.2" Regards Lars Hobbithobbyist "If you run UNIX and you don't have a UPS, you should see a psychiatrist...." --Byte Magazine (years ago) 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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New Features #2
by ian.marsh＠hants.gov.uk 19 Apr '05

19 Apr '05

Whilst we're on the subject of new features would it be possible to have easier access to the acknowledgement code for an alert? As things stand at the moment the only place that you can get the ack code is on the email notification that gets sent out once the alert has been triggered. With our setup this means that we have to wait for the frontline support people to contact us before we can ack the alert, even if we knew about it as soon as it happened. What I'd like to be able to do is to pre-empt the alert by having access to the ack code earlier, as soon as the status changes to red, and have the code displayed on the individual test page. The way I envisage this happening is that the ack code is generated when the test turns red rather than when an alert is sent out. This code can then be included on the tests status page where we have easy access to it. The text could be displayed in a similar fashion to the text currently added when an alert is acknowledged. I know that we could turn the test offline without the ack code but that tends to leave a hole in the graphs, acknowledging the alert allows everything to be logged/graphed as per normal. Does this sort of behaviour sound feasible? Thanks, Ian Marsh

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Fwd: Re: [hobbit] New enable/disable tool ready for testing
by dhd733＠yahoo.se 19 Apr '05

19 Apr '05

Hi all I stopped and started Apache for an other reason. Then I saw that a test was disabled. The disabling for the test had been hanging for hours, and I had forgotten it. So stopping and starting Apache fix the disabling, but that I can't do everytime I disable a test from info page. Best regards Lars lars ebeling <dhd733 at yahoo.se> wrote: Datum: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 07:29:31 +0200 (CEST) Från: lars ebeling <dhd733 at yahoo.se> Till: hobbit <hobbit at hswn.dk> Ämne: Fwd: Re: [hobbit] New enable/disable tool ready for testing ---------- Från: lars ebeling[SMTP:DHD733 at YAHOO.SE] Skickat: den 18 april 2005 07:29:31 Till: hobbit Ämne: Fwd: Re: [hobbit] New enable/disable tool ready for testing Automatiskt vidarebefordrat av en regel Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote: On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 11:46:07AM +0200, lars ebeling wrote: > If I start from scratch i.e. from hobbit-4.0.2.tar.gz. Which patches > and in which order shall I apply. 1) hobbit-4.0.2-setup.patch 2) hobbit-4.0.2-acknowledge.patch 3) maintenance-feature-v2.patch The first two are available at http://www.hswn.dk/hobbitsw/, the last one at http://www.hswn.dk/beta/ Now I have done this and still everything hangs when I try to disable from info page. Regards Lars Hobbithobbyist "If you run UNIX and you don't have a UPS, you should see a psychiatrist...." --Byte Magazine (years ago) 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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ldap test
by jonbjorn＠hi.is 18 Apr '05

18 Apr '05

Are any of you using hobbit to monitor ldap servers ? If so could you please give me an example entry in bb-hosts because Im having a hard time figuring it out. -- Jon Bjorn Njalsson <jonbjorn at hi.is>

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