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[hobbit] 4.0.3rc1 available - Configure Error
by CHRIS.MORRIS＠RWEnpower.com 03 May '05

03 May '05

on Monday, May 02, 2005 7:51 AM, Henrik Stoerner wrote : >For now, use RRDtool 1.0.x. > >The funny thing is that this error happens because of a change in >RRDtool that I suggested and sent Tobi Oetiker a patch for a couple >of months ago. Now it comes back to haunt me :-)) I have tried RRDtool 1.2.1 whicha has just been released - same error. I then reverted to RRDtool 1.0.33 and now get the same error as when trying to compile on either AIX 4.3.3 or AIX 5.1 which is :- gcc -o hobbitd_larrd hobbitd_larrd.o hobbitd_worker.o do_larrd.o ../lib/libbbgen.a -L/usr/local/rrdtool-1.0.33/lib -lrrd -L/usr/local/lib -lpng -L/usr/lib -lz -lm -L/usr/local/lib -lpcre ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .atoll ld: 0711-345 Use the -bloadmap or -bnoquiet option to obtain more information. collect2: ld returned 8 exit status gmake[1]: *** [hobbitd_larrd] Error 1 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/hobbit-4.0.3rc1/hobbitd' gmake: *** [hobbitd-build] Error 2 Chris **************************************************************************** The information contained in this email is intended only for the use of the intended recipient at the email address to which it has been addressed. If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this document in error and that any review, dissemination or copying of the message or associated attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please contact the sender by return email or call 01793 877777 and ask for the sender and then delete it immediately from your system.Please note that neither RWE npower nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any). *****************************************************************************

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R: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released
by fduranti＠q8.it 03 May '05

03 May '05

Hi all. I had some mail problems during the last days so i think I missed the original post with the link to the tarball of the bb-hostedit Can someone post it? Thanks Francesco Duranti -----Messaggio originale----- Da: Schwimmer, Eric E *HS [mailto:EES2Y at hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu] Inviato: venerdì 29 aprile 2005 17.45 A: hobbit at hswn.dk Oggetto: RE: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released Okay, here's the patch: http://www.nerdvana.org/eric/files/bb-hostedit-hostdupe-patch The tarball has been updated; new users don't need to download this patch. -Eric -----Original Message----- From: Schwimmer, Eric E *HS [mailto:EES2Y at hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu] Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 9:31 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released Hi Thomas, thanks for helping test out the script :) >1. If the a line starts with #, it is a comment. The script reports me >a syntax-error I added the following lines: >---snip--- > # Exclude Comments > elsif($item =~ /^#/) { > next; > } >---snap--- > Ahh, I was handling comments incorrectly (if they had whitespace before them on a line they were being parsed, instead of ignored). Now fixed. >2. I included one host on more than one page, so the script reports me >about already definded host. >To get a step forward, I comment out the part in the sctipt. > >Now I see the subpages, but no hosts. I can add hosts to the subpage. >I already tried to make a script, that builds the bb-hosts from a >MySQL-Database. I got it never finished, because of all the possible >combinations :( If you comment out the line that reads in hosts, its to be expected that you wont see any on the pages/subpages :) I assumed (yet another possibly incorrect assumption on my part) that you couldn't have the same hostname defined in two places in your bigbrother/hobbit hierarchy; I'll have to play around with this some to see how bigbrother behaves. Hopefully, I'll have a patch out in an hour or so. Regards, -Eric To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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Log files for alerts
by rgordonjr＠gmail.com 03 May '05

03 May '05

Morning All! Anyone know what log file has the list of what alerts went out and when? I see page.log under /var/log/hobbit but it is totally empty (and an email alert just went out)... Thanks! -- --==[ Bob Gordon ]==--

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[hobbit] &green status tags
by stefan_loos＠hotmail.com 03 May '05

03 May '05

yes - here it is..... >From: henrik at hswn.dk (Henrik Stoerner) >Reply-To: hobbit at hswn.dk >To: hobbit at hswn.dk >Subject: Re: [hobbit] &green status tags >Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 16:17:45 +0200 > >On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 01:43:22PM +0000, Stefan Loos wrote: > > > > with bb you could send some tags like &green &red to the bb-server and > > where replaced by the corresponding image source tag. with hobbit I only > > get the text "&green" instead of the green icon displayed. Is there a way > > to configure this with hobbit? most of our customized scripts uses this > > tags..... > >Hobbit does convert any "&COLOR" into the corresponding icon when >showing the detailed status log; this is done by the hobbitsvc.cgi >too. At least - it does so for me, and I cannot see why that shouldn't >be the case for all status logs. > >Could you send me the output from > > ~hobbit/server/bin/bb 127.0.0.1 "hobbitdlog HOSTNAME.TEST" > >for one of your host.test status logs that have this problem ? > > >Regards, >Henrik > > >To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to >hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > >

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[hobbit] Where do I put the documentation/help for user-written tests?
by KauffmanT＠nibco.com 02 May '05

02 May '05

Well, *ours* were in notes <grin>. Works like a charm! Tom (Whatintheheck hours do you work, anyway??) -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 4:04 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Where do I put the documentation/help for user-written tests? On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 03:31:59PM -0500, Kauffman, Tom wrote: > This used to go in $BBHOME/www/notes -- but hobbit is returning "No > match". Uhm, no - they used to go in $BBHOME/www/help/ actually. That should still work, I believe, but the COLUMNDOCURL setting in hobbitserver.cfg overrides it and makes it point to the /hobbit-cgi/hobbitcolumn.sh CGI script. > OK, I found it under $HOBBITHOME/server/etc in columndoc.csv. Now -- > we've a couple of in-house generated tests documented in > www/notes/<test>.html -- among other things, these docs include urls to > recovery documentation. I'm not real comfortable with trying to shoehorn > this into a common csv file. > > Suggestions? Change the hobbitcolumn.sh CGI script. It's passed only one parameter in the QUERY_STRING environment - the name of the column. So you could do something like #!/bin/sh QS="${QUERY_STRING}" if [ -f /usr/local/hobbit/server/www/help/$QS.html ]; then echo "Content-type: text/html" echo "" cat /usr/local/hobbit/server/www/help/$QS.html else QUERY_STRING="db=columndoc.csv&key=${QS}" export QUERY_STRING exec /usr/lib/hobbit/server/bin/bb-csvinfo.cgi \ --env=/usr/lib/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg \ --color=purple --hffile=columndoc fi Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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[hobbit] PCRE regular expressions (help?)
by KauffmanT＠nibco.com 02 May '05

02 May '05

That fixes it! Tom -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 3:53 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] PCRE regular expressions (help?) On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 12:47:15PM -0500, Kauffman, Tom wrote: > I thought I knew what I was doing, but apparently not: > > PCRE compile of NORRDDISKS='^/oracle/PRD/sapdata.*' failed > > I'm trying to use the patch Henrik so kindly provided earlier. Hmm - it's not my lucky day for doing patches, sorry. There's a clear cut'n'paste bug in the patch I sent out: Line 39 of hobbitd/larrd/do_disk.c reads: if (!inclpattern) errprintf("PCRE compile of NORRDDISKS .... It was meant to test the *exclude* pattern there, so it should be if (!exclpattern) errprintf("PCRE compile of NORRDDISKS .... This means you'll get that error-message no matter what you put into the NORRDDISKS variable. > And what I really want to suppress (shell syntax) is: > /oracle/*/sapdata* > /oracle/*/data? > /oracle/*/mirr* > /oracle/*/orig* > > Here's the generic I tried: > PCRE compile of NORRDDISKS='^/oracle/.../sapdata.*|^/oracle/.../mirr.*|^/oracle/.../orig .*|^/oracle/.../data.*' failed I tested it with this one: NORRDDISKS="^/oracle/[a-z,0-9]+/sapdata.*|^/oracle/[a-z,0-9]+/mirr.*|^/o racle/[a-z,0-9]+/orig.*|^/oracle/[a-z,0-9]+/data.*" Feeding it some hand-crafted disk status messages it seems to work OK. Note that hobbitserver.cfg is processed by a C program, not a shell tool. So you shouldn't need to escape any of the special characters. Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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Where do I put the documentation/help for user-written tests?
by KauffmanT＠nibco.com 02 May '05

02 May '05

This used to go in $BBHOME/www/notes -- but hobbit is returning "No match". OK, I found it under $HOBBITHOME/server/etc in columndoc.csv. Now -- we've a couple of in-house generated tests documented in www/notes/<test>.html -- among other things, these docs include urls to recovery documentation. I'm not real comfortable with trying to shoehorn this into a common csv file. Suggestions? TIA Tom

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PCRE regular expressions (help?)
by KauffmanT＠nibco.com 02 May '05

02 May '05

I thought I knew what I was doing, but apparently not: PCRE compile of NORRDDISKS='^/oracle/PRD/sapdata.*' failed I'm trying to use the patch Henrik so kindly provided earlier. And what I really want to suppress (shell syntax) is: /oracle/*/sapdata* /oracle/*/data? /oracle/*/mirr* /oracle/*/orig* Here's the generic I tried: PCRE compile of NORRDDISKS='^/oracle/.../sapdata.*| ^/oracle/.../mirr.*| ^/oracle/.../orig.*| ^/oracle/.../data.*' failed What am I missing? TIA Tom -----Original Message----- From: Uwe Kirbach [mailto:uwe.kirbach at arcor.de] Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 2:27 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] bb-sar - was: CPU info Am Samstag, den 30.04.2005, 15:19 -0400 schrieb John Turner: > On Apr 30, 2005, at 11:41 AM, Henrik Stoerner wrote: > > We use the bb-sar extension from www.deadcat.net on many of our hosts. > I haven't tried to get it working with Hobbit yet, but it does CPU > utilization in percentages. > > John Hello John, how did you got bb-sar running ? I tried it, but the sar-page of a host had only dead links. Do you hae a little howto or a tip ? Would be interested to get it running inside hobbit. If you want too, we could try it together. Uwe Kirbach To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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[hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released
by brent.mccrackin＠bell.ca 02 May '05

02 May '05

Hey, no rush... I saw that you hadn't tested on BB, and gave it a spin myself. Nice piece of work! :-) --- Brent B McCrackin UNIX Systems Specialist - Bell Sympatico Brent.McCrackin at Bell.ca PH: 416-353-0692 "Serenity through viciousness." -----Original Message----- From: Schwimmer, Eric E *HS [mailto:EES2Y at hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu] Sent: May 2, 2005 4:11 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released Give me a few... I'm on-call this week, so I wont have quite the response time that I did last week ;) -Eric > -----Original Message----- > From: brent.mccrackin at bell.ca [mailto:brent.mccrackin at bell.ca] > Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 3:59 PM > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: RE: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released > > An update to this... I can see in the code that it should > support group-only, but it doesn't appear to work very well. > I haven't been able to find any changes yet that will make it > work, though - but my regex isn't as sharp as most people's > seem to be :-) > > Everything else appears to work well with BB1.9c/BBgen 3.5, though! > > --- > Brent B McCrackin > UNIX Systems Specialist - Bell Sympatico > Brent.McCrackin at Bell.ca PH: 416-353-0692 > "Serenity through viciousness." > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: McCrackin, Brent (6002384) > Sent: May 2, 2005 12:38 PM > To: 'hobbit at hswn.dk' > Subject: RE: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released > > > Here's another one... > > You do not appear to have any support for the "group-only" directive. > > This works like group-compress, but you list exactly which services to > display for the hosts included in the group. > > EG: > > group-only test1|test2|test3|test4|test5 Servers Group > > > This facilitates having hosts with more tests than > comfortably fit on a > single line in the display to be split among multiple lines, or which > have services that only apply to a specific page grouping. > > An example I have is a database server with a dozen different > databases > each monitored by bb-moracle, but producing their own dot. I > split the > server to have an 'OS-Tests' line and a 'Database-Tests' line in the > display. This is performed with group-only. > > --- > Brent B McCrackin > UNIX Systems Specialist - Bell Sympatico > Brent.McCrackin at Bell.ca PH: 416-353-0692 > "Serenity through viciousness." > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Schwimmer, Eric E *HS [mailto:EES2Y at hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu] > Sent: April 29, 2005 11:45 AM > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: RE: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released > > > Okay, here's the patch: > > http://www.nerdvana.org/eric/files/bb-hostedit-hostdupe-patch > > The tarball has been updated; new users don't need to download this > patch. > > -Eric > > -----Original Message----- > From: Schwimmer, Eric E *HS [mailto:EES2Y at hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu] > Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 9:31 AM > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: RE: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released > > > Hi Thomas, thanks for helping test out the script :) > > >1. If the a line starts with #, it is a comment. The script > reports me > >a syntax-error I added the following lines: > >---snip--- > > # Exclude Comments > > elsif($item =~ /^#/) { > > next; > > } > >---snap--- > > > > Ahh, I was handling comments incorrectly (if they had > whitespace before > them on a line they were being parsed, instead of ignored). > Now fixed. > > >2. I included one host on more than one page, so the script > reports me > >about already definded host. > >To get a step forward, I comment out the part in the sctipt. > > > >Now I see the subpages, but no hosts. I can add hosts to the subpage. > >I already tried to make a script, that builds the bb-hosts from a > >MySQL-Database. I got it never finished, because of all the possible > >combinations :( > > If you comment out the line that reads in hosts, its to be > expected that > you wont see any on the pages/subpages :) I assumed (yet another > possibly incorrect assumption on my part) that you couldn't have the > same hostname defined in two places in your bigbrother/hobbit > hierarchy; > I'll have to play around with this some to see how bigbrother behaves. > Hopefully, I'll have a patch out in an hour or so. > > Regards, > -Eric > > > > > > 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 > > > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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[hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released
by EES2Y＠hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu 02 May '05

02 May '05

Give me a few... I'm on-call this week, so I wont have quite the response time that I did last week ;) -Eric > -----Original Message----- > From: brent.mccrackin at bell.ca [mailto:brent.mccrackin at bell.ca] > Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 3:59 PM > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: RE: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released > > An update to this... I can see in the code that it should > support group-only, but it doesn't appear to work very well. > I haven't been able to find any changes yet that will make it > work, though - but my regex isn't as sharp as most people's > seem to be :-) > > Everything else appears to work well with BB1.9c/BBgen 3.5, though! > > --- > Brent B McCrackin > UNIX Systems Specialist - Bell Sympatico > Brent.McCrackin at Bell.ca PH: 416-353-0692 > "Serenity through viciousness." > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: McCrackin, Brent (6002384) > Sent: May 2, 2005 12:38 PM > To: 'hobbit at hswn.dk' > Subject: RE: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released > > > Here's another one... > > You do not appear to have any support for the "group-only" directive. > > This works like group-compress, but you list exactly which services to > display for the hosts included in the group. > > EG: > > group-only test1|test2|test3|test4|test5 Servers Group > > > This facilitates having hosts with more tests than > comfortably fit on a > single line in the display to be split among multiple lines, or which > have services that only apply to a specific page grouping. > > An example I have is a database server with a dozen different > databases > each monitored by bb-moracle, but producing their own dot. I > split the > server to have an 'OS-Tests' line and a 'Database-Tests' line in the > display. This is performed with group-only. > > --- > Brent B McCrackin > UNIX Systems Specialist - Bell Sympatico > Brent.McCrackin at Bell.ca PH: 416-353-0692 > "Serenity through viciousness." > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Schwimmer, Eric E *HS [mailto:EES2Y at hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu] > Sent: April 29, 2005 11:45 AM > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: RE: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released > > > Okay, here's the patch: > > http://www.nerdvana.org/eric/files/bb-hostedit-hostdupe-patch > > The tarball has been updated; new users don't need to download this > patch. > > -Eric > > -----Original Message----- > From: Schwimmer, Eric E *HS [mailto:EES2Y at hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu] > Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 9:31 AM > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: RE: [hobbit] cgi bb-hostedit script released > > > Hi Thomas, thanks for helping test out the script :) > > >1. If the a line starts with #, it is a comment. The script > reports me > >a syntax-error I added the following lines: > >---snip--- > > # Exclude Comments > > elsif($item =~ /^#/) { > > next; > > } > >---snap--- > > > > Ahh, I was handling comments incorrectly (if they had > whitespace before > them on a line they were being parsed, instead of ignored). > Now fixed. > > >2. I included one host on more than one page, so the script > reports me > >about already definded host. > >To get a step forward, I comment out the part in the sctipt. > > > >Now I see the subpages, but no hosts. I can add hosts to the subpage. > >I already tried to make a script, that builds the bb-hosts from a > >MySQL-Database. I got it never finished, because of all the possible > >combinations :( > > If you comment out the line that reads in hosts, its to be > expected that > you wont see any on the pages/subpages :) I assumed (yet another > possibly incorrect assumption on my part) that you couldn't have the > same hostname defined in two places in your bigbrother/hobbit > hierarchy; > I'll have to play around with this some to see how bigbrother behaves. > Hopefully, I'll have a patch out in an hour or so. > > Regards, > -Eric > > > > > > 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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