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[hobbit] Two minor items on hobbit (very minor)
by EES2Y＠hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu 28 Apr '05

28 Apr '05

While it might not fix your color blindness (assuming you are red-green colorblind, like I am :), I've removed the animation and the smilies from the gifs on our hobbit server (which also made them more 'businesslike', so our higher-ups would treat us more seriously ;) You can gnab them here: http://www.nerdvana.org/eric/files/hobbit-gifs.tar.gz Regards, -Eric -----Original Message----- From: Larry.Barber at usda.gov [mailto:Larry.Barber at usda.gov] Sent: Thu 4/28/2005 11:00 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Cc: Subject: Re: [hobbit] Two minor items on hobbit (very minor) While we're on the subject of artistic talent, it would be nice to have an alternative to the recent-gif smileys. The smileys are cute, but it would be very difficult for someone who is color-blind (about 7% of men) to distinguish between them. Thanks, Larry Barber On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 09:52 -0500, henrik at hswn.dk wrote: > On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 09:37:34AM -0500, Kauffman, Tom wrote: > > I've been looking at hobbit as it progressed, without actually > > implementing. Tomorrow, I plan on throwing the Big Red Switch and > > cutting over to hobbit, so I re-read all the doc. > > Fantastic. Hope all goes well. > > I've been running Hobbit for a few months on my backup system, so I > knew it was working OK. But this past Tuesday I put Hobbit on our > production system. The reactions so far have been very positive. > > > > First -- would someone with an artistic bent please do a logo for > hobbit > > suitable to adding to a web menu (for those not using the hobbit > main > > display as their home page)? (I'm bent, but not artisticly). > > Me too. Some sort of logo would be nice, but I'm not capable of doing > that myself. > > > > > Second -- I've just read the mini-faq on where the name came from. > And > > here I'd always thought 'hobbit' stood for Henrik's Own Big Brother > > Integrated Toolset. . . > > :-) > > > 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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Two minor items on hobbit (very minor)
by KauffmanT＠nibco.com 28 Apr '05

28 Apr '05

I've been looking at hobbit as it progressed, without actually implementing. Tomorrow, I plan on throwing the Big Red Switch and cutting over to hobbit, so I re-read all the doc. First -- would someone with an artistic bent please do a logo for hobbit suitable to adding to a web menu (for those not using the hobbit main display as their home page)? (I'm bent, but not artisticly). Second -- I've just read the mini-faq on where the name came from. And here I'd always thought 'hobbit' stood for Henrik's Own Big Brother Integrated Toolset. . . Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc

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[hobbit] Two minor items on hobbit (very minor)
by henrik＠hswn.dk 28 Apr '05

28 Apr '05

On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 11:00:15AM -0400, Larry.Barber at usda.gov wrote: > While we're on the subject of artistic talent, it would be nice to have > an alternative to the recent-gif smileys. The smileys are cute, but it > would be very difficult for someone who is color-blind (about 7% of men) > to distinguish between them. There are some more icon-sets available on www.deadcat.net. I just picked some that I thought were nice, and which had a license that without any doubt allowed me to distribute them with Hobbit. If you have a BB license, you could probably get away with using their icons. Henrik

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[hobbit] Two minor items on hobbit (very minor)
by Larry.Barber＠usda.gov 28 Apr '05

28 Apr '05

While we're on the subject of artistic talent, it would be nice to have an alternative to the recent-gif smileys. The smileys are cute, but it would be very difficult for someone who is color-blind (about 7% of men) to distinguish between them. Thanks, Larry Barber On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 09:52 -0500, henrik at hswn.dk wrote: > On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 09:37:34AM -0500, Kauffman, Tom wrote: > > I've been looking at hobbit as it progressed, without actually > > implementing. Tomorrow, I plan on throwing the Big Red Switch and > > cutting over to hobbit, so I re-read all the doc. > > Fantastic. Hope all goes well. > > I've been running Hobbit for a few months on my backup system, so I > knew it was working OK. But this past Tuesday I put Hobbit on our > production system. The reactions so far have been very positive. > > > > First -- would someone with an artistic bent please do a logo for > hobbit > > suitable to adding to a web menu (for those not using the hobbit > main > > display as their home page)? (I'm bent, but not artisticly). > > Me too. Some sort of logo would be nice, but I'm not capable of doing > that myself. > > > > > Second -- I've just read the mini-faq on where the name came from. > And > > here I'd always thought 'hobbit' stood for Henrik's Own Big Brother > > Integrated Toolset. . . > > :-) > > > Henrik > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > > >

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installing hobbit
by jonbjorn＠hi.is 28 Apr '05

28 Apr '05

I migrated from bb server to hobbit server one week ago. As I was configuring some alert rules I noticed when I ran ~server/bin/bbcmd hobbitd_alert --test hostname testname that hobbit was using default environment file from /usr/local/bb/etc/hobbitserver.cfg although I installed hobbit in /usr/local/hobbit and changed BBHOME in the top Makefile to /usr/local/hobbit/server it still reads the environment file from /usr/local/bb where bigbrother was installed. Any ideas ? -- Jon Bjorn Njalsson <jonbjorn at hi.is>

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MRTG graphs no longer show up
by mlowery＠alliedtechgroup.com 28 Apr '05

28 Apr '05

I'm still on 4.0.1, but for no apparent reason, my MRTG graphs have decided to no longer display on Hobbit. It is not only the graph, but the only thing showing up in the <body> is the history button and "status unchanged" message... Ok, I've figured out the problem already. After updating with MS's latest patches, I can't view them in IE, but Firefox displays them fine... Thanks for listening. :-)

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4.0.3rc1 available
by henrik＠hswn.dk 27 Apr '05

27 Apr '05

I've put together a 4.0.3rc1 package - it's available at http://www.hswn.dk/beta/hobbit-4.0.3rc1.tar.gz This obviously has all the fixes that have been patched since the 4.0.2 release. It also includes the new enable/disable tool - there's no man-page for it yet, but I'll write one before the release. I have improved on this compared to the "maintenance-feature-v2" patch, by adding a simple way of enabling all tests for a host, or even multiple tests for all hosts. In other words, I think this one should satisfy everyone here. And hopefully it will also work on HP-UX; I think I understand the CGI "POST" specs now. Paul Backer's favicons are also in there. Based on the feedback last week, I decided to rip out the Big Brother compatibility code that had accumulated in Hobbit. (Just the BB server compatibility code - Hobbit still works fine with BB clients). It wasn't a lot of code, actually: This was almost entirely confined to the "bbgen" tool and how it loads the current state of Hobbit when it builds the webpages. So most of this clean-up job was going through the documentation, but it did result in a much needed cleanup of the purple-handling code in bbgen. So "--purplelog" actually works now. The full Changelog is below. I expect this to be very close to the final 4.0.3, but I would like it to have a bit of testing with you - especially the final version of the enable/disable tool, and any breakage caused by the removal of BB compatibility. Note that if you upgrade, then the ~/data/www/menu/menu_items.js file will *not* automatically be changed to point at the new "hobbit-enadis.sh" tool instead of "maint.pl" - you'll need to do that change by hand. Regards, Henrik Changes from 4.0.2 -> 4.0.3 --------------------------- Bugfixes: * Acknowledgments were broken in 4.0.2. * Fix file-descriptor leak in the "setup-newfiles" tool used during installation. This could cause "make install" to abort while installing new files, on systems with a low setting for the max. number of simultaneous open files. * The BBALPHAMSG text passed to scripts as a default alert message now includes the URL link to the statuslog. * Some header/footer files for the snapshot report HTML docs were missing. * The bb-datepage CGI tool was reading the POST data in an incorrect way; it worked on most systems, but did not adhere to the CGI specification. * The "info_header" and "info_footer" files were not being used for the "info" column pages. * Using PAGE=... in hobbit-alerts.cfg to pick out hosts on the front-page was not possible. The front page is now recognized with the name "/", so PAGE=/ will find them. * hobbitgraph.cgi could show "@RRDPARAM@" on graphs if it was matched by a NULL string (would happen for mailq graphs). * The "disk1" graph definition failed to take into account that the numbers logged were already in KB of data. So the axis-label was wrong. * RRD files were not being updated while a status was blue (disabled), even though status messages were received. Changed so that blue logs are passed off to the RRD parser - we might as well track data when it's there. * The "mailq" RRD handler now finds the queue-length regardless of whether it is before or after the "requests" keyword in the "mailq" or "nmailq" status message. Improvements: * All remnants of Big Brother compatibility have been removed. If you want to stick with the old Big Brother tool, use bbgen. This allowed for some much needed cleaning up of the bbgen code that loaded the status data, especially for the handling of purple status logs. * The maint.pl script has been removed. A new tool, hobbit-enadis.cgi, replaces this with a native Hobbit tool. If you are upgrading, you should change the ~/server/www/menu/menu_items.js file to point link to "hobbit-enadis.sh" instead of "maint.pl". * The "info" column page now includes a form to disable and enable tests for a single host. If you prefer not to have this on the info page, add the option "--no-disable" to the hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh wrapper. * The hobbit-mailack CGI will now find a "delay=DURATION" line in the mail message, and use that as the duration of the acknowledgment. Reports show that there are some types of mail/SMS systems where you cannot modify the message subject. * Paul D. Backer contributed "favicon" images generated from the Hobbit "recent" GIF files. These have been added and are now loaded from the Hobbit web/*_header files, so that browsers supporting this (Mozilla, Firefox) will display a favicon-image in the titlebar or on the page-tab holding the Hobbit webpage.

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Client on server doubt
by rower.master＠gmail.com 27 Apr '05

27 Apr '05

Hi friends, I finally start to migrate from my old and excellent bbgen version 2.15to Hobbit (to me works fine and sincerely your work had contributed a lot to me and my job, my family send thanks too). My question is: If I want to monitor the hobbit server cpu, disk, etc. What I have to do ? My display only show bbd bbgen btest conn hobbit ... best regards, Mario.

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[hobbit] Client on server doubt
by Kevin.Hanrahan＠novainfo.com 27 Apr '05

27 Apr '05

You need to install the BB client for this -----Original Message----- From: mario andre [mailto:rower.master at gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 1:51 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Client on server doubt Hi friends, I finally start to migrate from my old and excellent bbgen version 2.15to Hobbit (to me works fine and sincerely your work had contributed a lot to me and my job, my family send thanks too). My question is: If I want to monitor the hobbit server cpu, disk, etc. What I have to do ? My display only show bbd bbgen btest conn hobbit ... best regards, Mario. 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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[hobbit] ntpstat graphs
by Kevin.Hanrahan＠novainfo.com 27 Apr '05

27 Apr '05

Henrik cooked up some custom scripts for those graphs himself. I tried to get them to work but never could....probably something stupid on my part -----Original Message----- From: Deal, Richard [mailto:rdeal at tigr.org] Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 1:09 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] ntpstat graphs How does one get the ntp drift graphs like on : http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit-cgi/hobbitgraph.sh?host=fenris.hswn.dk&service =ntpstat&first=1&count=1&disp=fenris%2ehswn%2edk&action=menu I primarily use the server-time-ntp.0.9.2.3.tar.gz script from deadcat but on machines that are not supported I use the hobbit built in ntp test I tried using bb-ntp-1_5.sh.gz as well with no results. The man page for hobbitd_larrd states: ntpstat Tracks the deviation between the local system time and an NTP server, using the output from the "ntpq" and "ntpdc" commands. To get these data, your server must be running an NTP daemon, and the LARRD "ntpstat" add-on script must be installed in the BB client. But I couldn't find the ntpstat script in lard-0.43d Also shouldn't this ntpstat graph show up on the ntp test page? Thanks 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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