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Help with graphing
by v.everett＠afgonline.com.au 06 May '05

06 May '05

Hi all Any help appreciated here. I was trying to create a custom graph of database tablespace utilization. I was getting some input from the clients, which my external script was eventually reducing to this. ---snip--- DS:siebprod.XDB:GAUGE:600:0:100 DS:siebprod.WHS_INDEX:GAUGE:600:0:100 DS:siebprod.WHS_DATA:GAUGE:600:0:100 DS:siebprod.USERS:GAUGE:600:0:100 DS:siebprod.UNDOTBS1:GAUGE:600:0:100 DS:siebprod.TOOLS:GAUGE:600:0:100 DS:siebprod.SYSTEM:GAUGE:600:0:100 DS:siebprod.SIEB_INDEX:GAUGE:600:0:100 DS:siebprod.SIEB_DATA:GAUGE:600:0:100 DS:siebprod.LOADER_DATA:GAUGE:600:0:100 tablespace.rrd 0:71:78:1:26:66:69:81:84:0 ---snip--- No worries so far, except no .rrd file was created. I checked the logs, and found ---snip--- 2005-05-06 11:36:30 RRD error creating /var/lib/hobbit/rrd/aufin2/tablespace.rrd: can't parse argument 'DS:siebprod.XDB:GAUGE:600:0:100' ---snip--- It was getting stuck on the first row. On a hunch, I changed the output from database.tablename to database_tablename, so my output looked like this. ---snip--- DS:siebprod_XDB:GAUGE:600:0:100 DS:siebprod_WHS_INDEX:GAUGE:600:0:100 DS:siebprod_WHS_DATA:GAUGE:600:0:100 DS:siebprod_USERS:GAUGE:600:0:100 DS:siebprod_UNDOTBS1:GAUGE:600:0:100 DS:siebprod_TOOLS:GAUGE:600:0:100 DS:siebprod_SYSTEM:GAUGE:600:0:100 DS:siebprod_SIEB_INDEX:GAUGE:600:0:100 DS:siebprod_SIEB_DATA:GAUGE:600:0:100 DS:siebprod_LOADER_DATA:GAUGE:600:0:100 tablespace.rrd 0:71:78:1:26:66:69:81:84:0 ---snip--- Still nothing in the .rrd file, but the logs now showed this. ---snip--- 2005-05-06 12:01:30 RRD error creating /var/lib/hobbit/rrd/aufin2/tablespace.rrd: can't parse argument 'DS:siebprod_LOADER_DATA:GAUGE:600:0:100' ---snip--- The last line! I thought stuff-it, I can do without the last line, and took it out with a grep -v All of a sudden, I had my tablespace.rrd Woohoo! I left it for an hour, and came back from lunch hoping to find a lovely graph. No dice. All I get is a link to a graph, and the link gives me 4 (empty) links to the history graphs. No graphs appeared. My hobbitgraph.cfg entry for this looks like this. ---snip--- [ora9-sga] FNPATTERN tablespace(.*).rrd TITLE TableSpace Utilization YAXIS % Full DEF:p at RRDIDX@=@RRDFN@:pct:AVERAGE LINE2:p at RRDIDX@#@COLOR@:@RRDPARAM@ -u 100 -l 0 GPRINT:p at RRDIDX@:LAST: \: %5.1lf (cur) GPRINT:p at RRDIDX@:MAX: \: %5.1lf (max) GPRINT:p at RRDIDX@:MIN: \: %5.1lf (min) GPRINT:p at RRDIDX@:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf (avg)\n ---snip--- and the hobbitserver.cfg looks like this ---snip--- LARRDS="cpu=la,disk,inode,qtree,memory,ora9-sga,vmio,$PINGCOLUMN=tcp,htt p=tcp,dns=tcp,dig=tcp,time=ntpstat,vmstat,iostat,netstat,temperature,apa che,bind,sendmail,nmailq,socks,bea,iishealth,citrix,bbgen,bbtest,bbproxy ,hobbitd" GRAPHS="la,disk,inode,qtree,memory,users,vmstat,iostat,tcp.http,tcp,nets tat,mrtg::1,temperature,ntpstat,apache,bind,sendmail,nmailq,socks,bea,ii shealth,citrix,bbgen,bbtest,bbproxy,hobbitd,ora9-sga,vmio" ---snip--- What am I missing? Right now I will settle for any advice that will get the graphs to display. However I am curious about the "couldn't parse" logs. Any ideas? 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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Help with nopropred (I think)
by TBARNES1＠hfhs.org 06 May '05

06 May '05

I have Hobbit's bb.html page displaying just a list of other pages organized by OS platform. On a few of these pages we have production and non-production servers listed. In our environment - the non-production servers are deemed basically as important as the production servers since many highly visible and much highly politcally oriented development work and production support work is done. Now, i have been requested to separate the non-production servers from the production servers, placing them on a subpage of the productions servers page. No problem there - just a page tag and it is done. The other part of this, and what I am having trouble understanding how to do, is to prevent propagation of non-green events to the parent page where the production servers ar listed. We still generate alerts, pages, etc. for problems on the non-production pages, but I can't seem to find a way to prevent the non-green alerts for all tests on the non-prod subpages from propagting upward. Even if every single non-prod server went up in smoke, the production page should remain green (assuming there are no production problems). It seems I can alter the propagation status either globally or for a single test at a time, but there are hundreds of tests being done on the non-production systems and disabling all of them individually would really clutter up the bb-hosts file. Mosts of the tests are being done with bb client and are not even listed in Hobbit's bb-hosts file. Thanks for any help! 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 ============================================================================== HFHS 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] vmstat
by Kevin.Hanrahan＠novainfo.com 05 May '05

05 May '05

My mistake, allow me to rephrase...I can run the vmstat command on my solaris boxes but I never get anything to show up on Hobbit - larrd graphs OR numeric data... -----Original Message----- From: henrik at hswn.dk [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 5:07 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] vmstat On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 10:14:40AM -0400, Kevin.Hanrahan at novainfo.com wrote: > Does anybody know why the vmstat tool does not work on solaris? What exactly do you mean ? bb-sms:~ $ uname -a SunOS bb-sms.csc.dk 5.8 Generic_117350-24 sun4u sparc bb-sms:~ $ vmstat 2 10 procs memory page disk faults cpu r b w swap free re mf pi po fr de sr dd f0 s0 -- in sy cs us sy id 0 0 0 665296 154240 8 55 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 312 140 226 1 1 98 0 0 0 657272 150424 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 314 87 231 1 0 99 0 0 0 657272 150424 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 313 71 225 0 0 100 0 0 0 657272 150424 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 315 75 230 0 0 100 ^C Henrik 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 and RRDtool 1.2.x
by henrik＠hswn.dk 05 May '05

05 May '05

Just a "heads-up" for those of you who may be thinking about using the new version of RRDtool (1.2.x) with Hobbit: Right now, it won't compile, because one of the RRDtool functions used by Hobbit has gotten some extra parameters. I've fixed that, and made the Hobbit configuration tool also recognize the new version. So starting with 4.0.3, Hobbit should compile without any problems with RRDtool 1.2.x. However, there's a bug in RRDtool that Hobbit triggers - causing all except one of the generated RRD-files to contain no data. So you must apply a patch to RRDtool 1.2.1 for it to work - it is available at http://www.hswn.dk/hobbitsw/rrdtool-1.2.1-rrdcreate.patch I've sent the patch to the RRDtool maintainers, and it seems that they will fix this in the next release. Henrik

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vmstat
by Kevin.Hanrahan＠novainfo.com 05 May '05

05 May '05

Does anybody know why the vmstat tool does not work on solaris? Kevin 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] bbnet terminating on signal 6
by KauffmanT＠nibco.com 05 May '05

05 May '05

Ask and ye shall receive: This GDB was configured as "i586-suse-linux"... Core was generated by `bbtest-net --report --ping --checkresponse --debug --no-ssl'. Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted. Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.6 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 0x4004c691 in kill () from /lib/libc.so.6 The bb-network.log is interesting -- doesn't bbtest-net understand the 'noconn' tag? I've got my systems multiply defined, to allow groupings by function and groupings by site; the function groupings all have 'noconn' specified. I'll attach the log -- but this looks like where the problem hit: 2005-05-04 13:07:57 Got DNS result for host rey-primary-router : 10.112.254.12 2005-05-04 13:07:57 Got DNS result for host gos-secondary-router : 10.16.254.13 2005-05-04 13:07:57 DNS lookup failed for lod-router-hsrp - status Domain name not found (4) 2005-05-04 13:08:02 DNS lookup failed for whq-intranet-d.nibco.com - status Channel is being destroyed (16) 2005-05-04 13:08:02 DNS lookup failed for gos-iqserver - status Channel is being destroyed (16) As I said, it seems to run just fine on SuSE 9.0, so I'm planning on updating this 8.2 (unpatched 8.2, at that!) to either 9.0 or 9.3. I had been hoping to wait until I got my 'new' hardware (this is a 4-way P4-450 Xeon box, an old Dell 4300; the replacement will be a 2-way Dell currently in use by another application). Tom -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 3:29 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] bbnet terminating on signal 6 On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 12:43:14PM -0500, Kauffman, Tom wrote: > Loaded symbols for /lib/libnss_files.so.2 > #0 0x4004c691 in kill () from /lib/libc.so.6 Hrm - that doesn't say much about what's happening. Meaning that it's probably some sort of memory/stack corruption. Could you try running it with --debug ? That should at least give some idea about what it is doing when it crashes. > This is SuSE 8.2 (yeah, I know!); I did not include ssl or lapd testing > at config time. Still, it shouldn't crash. > I saw one other signal 6 on the list, but no resolution. Have I missed > something? No I haven't figured out what happened there - since no one else reported something like that, I was suspecting a local setup issue of some kind. With two reports, that is rather unlikely. Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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[hobbit] bbnet terminating on signal 6
by KauffmanT＠nibco.com 05 May '05

05 May '05

Running with "--no-ares" cured the problem; I'll just leave it this way until I do the rebuild sometime next month. After all, bbtest is reporting 359 dns lookups, a run time of 22.669 seconds, and a ping time of 21.018 seconds. It's not like I'm sitting on the host count a lot of the rest of you have. Reading somewhat between the lines, I'm assuming this is normal: 2005-05-05 12:32:16 Task bbnet started with PID 26979 2005-05-05 12:33:18 Task bbdisplay started with PID 26999 2005-05-05 12:34:20 Task bbdisplay started with PID 27004 2005-05-05 12:35:20 Task bbdisplay started with PID 27026 2005-05-05 12:36:24 Task bbdisplay started with PID 27028 2005-05-05 12:37:18 Task bbcombotest started with PID 27031 2005-05-05 12:37:18 Task bbnet started with PID 27032 2005-05-05 12:37:28 Task bbdisplay started with PID 27039 bbdisplay firing up once per minute to build the displays, and bbnet running every five minutes to run the network tests. Now to verify my alert rules work, and I'm home free! Thanks for all the help! Tom -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 1:21 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] bbnet terminating on signal 6 On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 03:47:31PM -0500, Kauffman, Tom wrote: > > The bb-network.log is interesting -- doesn't bbtest-net understand the > 'noconn' tag? I've got my systems multiply defined, to allow groupings > by function and groupings by site; the function groupings all have > 'noconn' specified. It does know about the "noconn" tag, but the way the bb-hosts file get parsed and tests added to the queue may not be quite as you expected. Suffice to say, I do believe it ends up doing the right thing :-) > I'll attach the log -- but this looks like where the problem hit: Yes, it seems to be a problem in the resolver library. Just to verify that, could you try running bbtest-net with the "--no-ares" option and see if that keeps it from crashing ? I know this may cause bbtest-net to spend much more time doing DNS lookups, but I'd like to have the problem narrowed down as much as possible. Thanks, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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A little off topic - Apache redirect/rewrite
by allan＠zandahar.net 05 May '05

05 May '05

Hi all. I know this isnt hobbit related but someone out there may be able to help me. Just wonderng if anyone is an apache guru and could assist me with some redirects I am having issues with. Obviously off list would be preferred so please contact me via allan at zandahar.net Please dont beat me for posting this here :) Cheers Allan

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Mail archive back in shape
by henrik＠hswn.dk 04 May '05

04 May '05

OK, after some prodding by a new Hobbit user I finally got around to getting the mail archive back into working order. It should now be fully up-to-date, with automatic updates once an hour. http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/ The acid-test will be if things still work after the end of the month. Regards, Henrik

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[hobbit] Trying to run network test on one hobbit server and get results posted to two --
by KauffmanT＠nibco.com 04 May '05

04 May '05

Doh! Sorry 'bout that! And I was looking right at it earlier today. Tom -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 3:26 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Trying to run network test on one hobbit server and get results posted to two -- On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 01:09:46PM -0500, Kauffman, Tom wrote: > But it's not working. > > How do I convince bbtest-net to report to all configured 'BBDISPLAYS'? Setting these in hobbitserver.cfg BBDISP="0.0.0.0" BBDISPLAYS="10.0.0.1 10.0.0.2" should do it. If BBDISP is not set to 0.0.0.0, then BBDISPLAYS is ignored. Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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