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bb-disk_by_fs.sh
by iqbala-hobbit＠qwestip.net 29 Jan '06

29 Jan '06

Hi All Has anyone used bb-disk_by_fs.sh with BB client? I am trying to find out how it will work with HOBBIT? There are few things I am concern about. 1. How will I manage alerts per partition which this script offers? 2. How will the graph work? Thanks for any feedbacks. I guess I could always try it myself on a test system if there is no feedback already. -- Asif Iqbal PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." - Charles Darwin

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[hobbit] Changing default graph resolution
by v.everett＠afgonline.com.au 22 Dec '05

22 Dec '05

Hi all Anybody help me with graphing? In hobbitgraph.cfg, I have the following definition, and it produces wonderful, but somewhat cluttered graphs. ---snip--- [ora9-sga] FNPATTERN tablespace.rrd TITLE TableSpace Utilization YAXIS % Full DEF:xdb at RRDIDX@=@RRDFN@:siebprd_XDB:AVERAGE DEF:whsidx at RRDIDX@=@RRDFN@:siebprd_WHS_INDEX:AVERAGE DEF:whsdata at RRDIDX@=@RRDFN@:siebprd_WHS_DATA:AVERAGE DEF:users at RRDIDX@=@RRDFN@:siebprd_USERS:AVERAGE DEF:undotbs1 at RRDIDX@=@RRDFN@:siebprd_UNDOTBS1:AVERAGE DEF:tools at RRDIDX@=@RRDFN@:siebprd_TOOLS:AVERAGE DEF:system at RRDIDX@=@RRDFN@:siebprd_SYSTEM:AVERAGE DEF:siebind at RRDIDX@=@RRDFN@:siebprd_SIEB_INDEX:AVERAGE DEF:siebdata at RRDIDX@=@RRDFN@:siebprd_SIEB_DATA:AVERAGE DEF:loader at RRDIDX@=@RRDFN@:siebprd_LOADER_DATA:AVERAGE LINE2:xdb at RRDIDX@#@COLOR@:XDB LINE2:whsidx at RRDIDX@#@COLOR@:WHS_INDEX LINE2:whsdata at RRDIDX@#@COLOR@:WHS_DATA LINE2:users at RRDIDX@#@COLOR@:USERS LINE2:undotbs1 at RRDIDX@#@COLOR@:UNDO LINE2:tools at RRDIDX@#@COLOR@:TOOLS LINE2:system at RRDIDX@#@COLOR@:SYSTEM LINE2:siebind at RRDIDX@#@COLOR@:SIEB_INDEX LINE2:siebdata at RRDIDX@#@COLOR@:SIEB_DATA LINE2:loader at RRDIDX@#@COLOR@:LOADER -u 100 -l 0 ---snip--- How do I get it to split this across 2 or even 3 graphs, like the disk utilisation graphs. Cheers Vernon _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ NOTICE: This message and any attachments are confidential and may contain copyright material of Australian Finance Group Limited or a third party. It is intended solely for the purpose of the addressee and any other named recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, distribution, disclosure or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. The confidentiality attached to this message is not waived or lost by reason of the mistaken transmission or delivery to any unintended party. If you have received this message in error, please notify the author immediately or contact Australian Finance Group on +61 8 9420 7888.

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rrd graphs for bb-xsnmp.pl script
by rdeal＠tigr.org 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

I had a lot of graphs for several routers, ups, etc but they seem to be rather hosed. It looks like the data that was transferred is graphed well but no new data is going in correctly. It seems that any script sending data in a status message is not working. I suspect due to the formatting. One example is bb-xsnmp.pl script. I am using against routers, switches and apc ups. Using an APC ups as an example I get this in the web page: Tue Apr 5 09:23:03 2005 green UPS Temperature: 37? C bb-xsnmp.pl Version: 1.78 but in hobbit/data/rrd/apc1.tigr.org I have: tcp.conn.rrd tcp.telnet.rrd temperature.UPS_Temperature:_37&deg_C.rrd temperature.UPS_Temperature:_38&deg_C.rrd and the graph on the temperature page has no data but two entries at the bottom for UPS_Temperature:_37&deg_C and UPS_Temperature:_38&deg_C This problem is much worse on my switches and routers which have a different line for each sensor and every temperature ever reported.

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Hobbit 4.0.4 released
by henrik＠hswn.dk 27 Aug '05

27 Aug '05

Version 4.0.4 is now available on SourceForge: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=128058&release_id=33… This fixes the bugs reported since Hobbit 4.0.3 was released. The only new stuff in this release is a new "beastat" utility to collect performance statistics from an BEA Weblogic server via SNMP. This replaces the old "bea-snmpstats" script, and should work for sites with a large number of BEA instances per server. This is still somewhat experimental, but I am interested to hear reports of it working or not. (It's been tested with Weblogic ver. 8). The Changelog is appended. Regards, Henrik Changes from 4.0.3 -> 4.0.4 --------------------------- Bugfixes: * "nodisp" tag re-implemented for hosts that should not appear on the Hobbit webpages. * Enabling the "apache" data collection could crash bbtest-net if the /server-status page returned was larger than 32 KB. * The "bbcmd" tool would not pass a --debug option to the command it was running. * Nested macros in hobbit-alerts.cfg were not working. * Using TAB's in hobbit-alerts.cfg could confuse the alert module. * hobbitd_alert's --test option now determines the page-name for a host automatically. It will also now accept a time-parameter to simulate how alerts are processed at specific time-of-day. * Status messages from "dialup" hosts should not go purple. * The "mailq" RRD handler would pick up the first number from the "requests" line, which might not be the right number. * Scheduling a "disable" did not work. * The startup-script was modified to correctly handle stale PID files left over from an unclean shutdown of Hobbit. These are now removed, and startup will proceed normally. Improvements: * CGI tools now log error-output to dedicated logs in /var/log/hobbit/ * The "bea-snmpstats.sh" script has been removed, and replaced with an enhanced tool "beastat". This collects statistics via SNMP from BEA Weblogic servers, and reports these via "data" messages to Hobbit. The data collected are run-time data for the JRockIT JVM and thread/memory utilization data from each Weblogic server instance. * The "ntpstat" RRD handler now accepts the raw output from "ntpq -c rv" * The heartbeat-timeout for hobbitd has been increased to 60 seconds.

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bb-hostedit v1.1 beta released
by EES2Y＠hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu 25 Jul '05

25 Jul '05

Get it here: http://www.nerdvana.org/eric/files/bb-hostedit-1.1b.tar.gz Once you guys have beaten on it for a little bit, I'll put it up on deadcat (although I'll make all the options set to the bigbrother defaults when I do that). Regards, -Eric Schwimmer Network Engineer UVA HSCS Network Engineering

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hobbit-mailack
by iqbala-hobbit＠qwestip.net 12 Jul '05

12 Jul '05

Hi I am loving the hobbit-mailack. It works very well. I just like to request a 'notify' feature to the SYNOPSIS hobbit-mailack --env=FILENAME [--debug] Something like hobbit-mailack --env=FILENAME [--debug] --notify <email at address.one> <email2 at address.one> That way when I delay an alert everyone else who were also getting alerts will have an option to be notified about this action So if I send an email as a reply to an alert delay 1h msg I am working on it now All admins/users who were receiving the alert should get an email hostname:service has been delayed 1h Delayed by: <users info who delayed it> Reason: I am working on it now Just my feedback for a future feature :-) -- 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

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[hobbit] HOBBIT 4.0.3 ignoring bb-dftab
by Winn.Beutler＠mcdata.com 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

Sorry, my mistake. But why is it listed in the hobbitserver.cfg? I assume bb-cputab file along with bb-msgstab and the others are the same way, even though they are also listed in the file? Thanks for the help and the great product! Winn -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 11:36 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] HOBBIT 4.0.3 ignoring bb-dftab On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 03:05:54PM -0600, Winn Beutler wrote: > I upgraded from BB to HOBBIT 4.0.3rc2 and notice that HOBBIT > seems to be ignoring the entries in bb-dftab. How do I > troubleshoot the problem? bb-dftab is used by the BB client. Hobbit only implements the server-side of your monitoring. Check the configuration of your client. bb-dftab needs to be installed on the clients, not the server. Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk SPECIAL NOTICE All information transmitted hereby is intended only for the use of the addressee(s) named above and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution of confidential and privileged information is prohibited. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient(s) or the employee or agent responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you must not read this transmission and that disclosure, copying, printing, distribution or use of any of the information contained in or attached to this transmission is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. Anyone who receives confidential and privileged information in error should notify us immediately by telephone and mail the original message to us at the above address and destroy all copies. To the extent any portion of this communication contains public information, no such restrictions apply to that information. (gate01)

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OpenBSD compile issue
by toaster＠imber.com 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

Hi Group. Just downloaded 4.0.4 and tried to compile on OpenBSD 3.7 and got this at the bottom of the gmake UMBER=1984 -I. -I/home/lee/Hobbit/hobbit-4.0.4/include -o bbdigest - Wl,--rpath=/usr/local/lib -Wl,--rpath=/usr/local/lib bbdigest.o ../ lib/libbbgen.a ld: invalid command option `--rpath=/usr/local/lib' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status gmake[1]: *** [bbdigest] Error 1 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/home/lee/Hobbit/hobbit-4.0.4/common' gmake: *** [common-build] Error 2 $ Any ideas? Thanks, Lee

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Other tags on info page
by iqbala-hobbit＠qwestip.net 31 May '05

31 May '05

Hi All I noticed if the tags are not added in bb-hosts file the info page does not show in the othertags field. May be something that can be added in next version. I ususally do not put the tags and have hobbit dynamically created colums for every service status I push using the client. Thanks -- 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

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issues with hobbit-enadis.sh
by iqbala-hobbit＠qwestip.net 31 May '05

31 May '05

Hi All On hobbit-enadis.sh page when I click on a host nothing shows up in Tests column. I tried with Firefox 1.0.2 and IE 6.0 SP2 I saw patch came out for old versions but I am using hobbit-4.0.4 Thanks for the help -- 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

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