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purple square?
by hj.beckers＠kreis-steinfurt.de 31 May '05

31 May '05

According to the documentation, this means no report for more than 24 hours. But this is the BBDISPLAY server, local messages coming from bigbrother. When I click the button for cpu, disk or http and display the screen for every instance, everything is ok and shows the actual date/time. Hobbit is 4.0.3, kernel 2.6.8, Mandriva 10.1. Any hints? Yours hjb

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Hobbit 4.0.4 released
by henrik＠hswn.dk 31 May '05

31 May '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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Hosts file entry for dynamic address
by allan＠zandahar.net 31 May '05

31 May '05

Hi all, Just been looking at adding a host that has a dynamic IP address and wondering if you have to actually define an ip address in the host file ? I know unless you put in testip it will use the hostname so thats fine. I found an example of using just 0.0.0.0 which I tested and it works fine but just want to make sure there isnt another way to do it. On another note with the setting IPTEST_2_CLEAR_ON_FAILED_CONN="TRUE" set globally is there any way of being able to override this for a particuar client ? Lastly if you read this cheers Henrik you champion for adding in the TIME param on the alerts test function. Its awesome to see developers actually listen to you and add things that you feel are great additions to the software 8-) Allan

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[hobbit] Disk Graphs
by v.everett＠afgonline.com.au 31 May '05

31 May '05

Dunno what happened there, but it wasn't supposed to send just yet. Let's try again. Hi Henrik/all I just noticed something interesting with disk graphs. Last night, one of my disks hit 99% (for a few minutes) which made me look more closely at the history graphs for the disk in question. The 48 hour graph shows Max to be 99% - No worries there. The 12 day graph shows it to be 95.5% The 48 day only 65.3, and the 576 day, a tiny 39.9% However, every night, since I started monitoring, this disk hits over 95% for a few minutes. (An overnight process uses the space then releases it) Have I found a bug with Hobbit/RRDTool, or am I doing something silly? Regards Vernon P.S. Running Hobbit 4.0.3 with rrdtool 1.0.49 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 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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Disk Graphs
by v.everett＠afgonline.com.au 31 May '05

31 May '05

Hi Henrik/all I just noticed something interesting with disk graphs. Last night, one of my disks hit 99% (for a few minutes) which made me look more closely at the history graph _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 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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[hobbit] bb-hostedit v1.1 beta
by brent.mccrackin＠bell.ca 30 May '05

30 May '05

There is a misleading "Add/Change group" link when editing a host. There doesn't actually appear to be an "Add" function from this link, it only changes the name and options of the group the host belongs to or got added to. Adding a new group doesn't appear to exist. Another couple of little bugs I've found... When adding a host, the host options provided do not seem to get saved. Three different hosts that I added did not get added with the options I provided. When adding the host options afterwards, the refresh does not actually happen. For navigational ease, a home button should be added somewhere on the page. Also, links to return to the page the host appears on would also be nice (especially when several clicks deep in editing options), as well as 'page up' type links from subpages to return to the parent page. The browser 'back' button doesn't always go where you expect to go. --- 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 30, 2005 3:12 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] bb-hostedit v1.1 beta Hey Eric... Either I've missed it completely, or its just not available yet - how does one add a new group (of any available type) to a page? Lots of links all over for adding new hosts and subpages, and editing existing groups works fine, but nothing is apparent for adding new groups. :-) --- Brent B McCrackin UNIX Systems Specialist - Bell Sympatico Brent.McCrackin at Bell.ca PH: 416-353-0692 "Serenity through viciousness." To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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[hobbit] bb-hostedit v1.1 beta
by brent.mccrackin＠bell.ca 30 May '05

30 May '05

Hey Eric... Either I've missed it completely, or its just not available yet - how does one add a new group (of any available type) to a page? Lots of links all over for adding new hosts and subpages, and editing existing groups works fine, but nothing is apparent for adding new groups. :-) --- Brent B McCrackin UNIX Systems Specialist - Bell Sympatico Brent.McCrackin at Bell.ca PH: 416-353-0692 "Serenity through viciousness."

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BB-Central
by arnoud＠koekiemonster.com 30 May '05

30 May '05

I've read a few threads in the archive about bb-central, but not everybody is having luck getting it to work. We currently use bb-central for over 100 hosts, this poses some difficulties. When a connection failes during one of the ssh sessions, the whole bb-central script hangs and everything turns purple. Another is the bb-central script can take longer that 5 minutes because it probes 1 host at a time, this causes timeouts and purple displays. This pushes to make a good working replacement for bb-central with the following ideas: - small scripts so you can test serveral (say 5 or 10) hosts at a time - possible timeouts so the following scripts won't wait on it. - a bbcentral-hosts file from wich the scripts are generated (hostnames and commands per host) - should stay working after a Hobbit upgrade, so prefferably no editting the startup files or other files. Before I start on this I would like some ideas, comments and if possible some people who would like to help because I'm not such a good shell-script-kiddy. Grtz, Arnoud Post The Netherlands

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Startup problem on FreeBSD
by arnoud＠koekiemonster.com 29 May '05

29 May '05

I have just installed version 4.0.4 for the first time. I'm running FreeBSD 5.3 on Intel. When I startup Hobbit I don't get the html pages, just a few directories. I'm really without any clue right now, so I hope someone out here can help me on this one. Looking at de logfile gives: 2005-05-29 20:25:14 Task hobbitd started with PID 43892 2005-05-29 20:25:14 Loading hostnames 2005-05-29 20:25:14 Loading saved state 2005-05-29 20:25:14 Cannot access checkpoint file /usr/local/bb/server/tmp/hobbitd.chk for restore 2005-05-29 20:25:14 Setting up network listener on 0.0.0.0:1984 2005-05-29 20:25:14 Setting up signal handlers 2005-05-29 20:25:14 Setting up hobbitd channels 2005-05-29 20:25:14 Could not get sem: No space left on device 2005-05-29 20:25:14 Cannot setup status channel 2005-05-29 20:25:14 Task hobbitd terminated, status 1 ps -aux |grep hobbit gives: hobbit 43877 0.0 0.2 1284 812 ?? Ss 8:24PM 0:00.03 /usr/local/bb/server/bin/hobbitlaunch --config=/usr/loc So I'm missing a whole bunch of processes. And last but not least because of the logfile I checked my filesystem: df -h: Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 248M 49M 179M 21% / devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev /dev/ad0s1e 1.9G 32M 1.7G 2% /tmp /dev/ad0s1f 107G 6.3G 92G 6% /usr /dev/ad0s1d 1.9G 120M 1.7G 7% /var linprocfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /usr/compat/linux/proc devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /usr/local/psa/named/run-root/dev I checked the tmp dir, it is empty. I tried linking it to a directory on another slice, which gave the same effect. Grtz, Arnoud Post

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disabling services
by sblee＠tazmania.org 29 May '05

29 May '05

Does anyone know how to identify windows services (obviously client side) to run off such as scheduler nessages, browser messages, cpu mods, etc.? Also I need to double check but I'm pretty sure I modified the MSGWARN variable in hobbitserver.cfg to disable warnings/alerts on Unix messages file but it doesn't seem to be working. If I disable it (set to FALSE) on the server side, would I still have to define some kind of bb-msgtab on the client side? If the client side bb-msgtab file is required, does anyone know the format of it? Will it work to just modify the MSGWARN variable in the client setup files (we're currently using the BB client)?

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