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creating a macro made of macro's in hobbit-alerts.cfg
by tgeorgoulias＠mcclatchy.com 25 May '05

25 May '05

Is it possible to create some macros of hosts, then bundle combinations of those smaller macros into larger ones? Say I have 3 groups of systems: $DB=%(db1|data1|dbase).domain.com $MAIL=%(mail1|smtp|webmail).domain.com $WS=%(ws1|fred|wilma).domain.com I'd like to make 2 macros of those systems, one for critical systems, the other for everthing on my network: $CRITICAL=%($DB|$MAIL) $ALL=%($DB|$MAIL|$WS) Then use only the variables $CRITICAL or $ALL as my HOST=<variable name> entry. If this can be done, I'm having problems getting the syntax right. Any pointers? Thanks, Tom

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DFWARN
by podsds＠netcape.net 25 May '05

25 May '05

How can I set DFWARN at different levels for filesystems , like bb-dftab?

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Question about BB-Hobbit (BBRELAY)
by peter.welter＠gmail.com 25 May '05

25 May '05

Hi, Perhaps somebody can point me in the right direction? I have a configuration with two servers: Suse linux running BB with 106 BB-clients. Now I have set up Hobbit 4.0.3 on Solaris 8. I have set up on the Linux-box in bb-hosts: BBRELAY=Solaris-box I commented out bbnet, so I expect the bbtest to be purple which it is. But the conn, bbd and http are purple too? Although there are firewalls being used, there is a connection possible between Linux and Solaris on port 1984: bb at linux> telnet solaris 1984 Trying 132.229.43.113... Connected to solaris. Escape character is '^]'. But the first screen with 34 hosts (with group-compress) shows up with only names, but no other info at all; just the default hobbit columns!? I guess it has to do with the bbd not running. The only things that show up and are green are Solaris bbgen, hobbitd (see stats below), info and trends. Statistics for Hobbit daemon Up since 24-May-2005 12:08:01 (0 days, 00:20:05) Incoming messages : 73 - status : 20 - combo : 20 - page : 0 - summary : 0 - data : 0 - notes : 0 - enable : 0 - disable : 0 - ack : 0 - config : 0 - query : 0 - hobbitdboard : 20 - hobbitdlog : 12 - drop : 0 - rename : 0 - dummy : 0 - notify : 0 - schedule : 0 - Bogus/Timeouts : 1 Incoming messages/sec : 0 (average last 301 seconds) status channel messages: 23 (1 readers) stachg channel messages: 2 (1 readers) page channel messages: 2 (1 readers) data channel messages: 0 (1 readers) notes channel messages: 0 (0 readers) enadis channel messages: 0 (0 readers) Thanks, Peter

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Verification of process for added graphs
by rsmrcina＠wi.rr.com 25 May '05

25 May '05

I have created client code for a couple of zSeries operating systems. I would like the information generated by the clients to be graphed on the status pages for the tests related to those clients. I want to verify that the process to do this is to use the 'data' message and process it with special scripts in HOBBITD_LARRD. If this is not the preferred method, please let me know what is. Thank you. -- Rich Smrcina VM Assist, Inc. Main: (262)392-2026 Cell: (414)491-6001 Ans Service: (360)715-2467 rich.smrcina at vmassist.com Catch the WAVV! http://www.wavv.org WAVV 2005 - Colorado Springs - May 20-24, 2005

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Potential problem with enable-disable and subpages
by KauffmanT＠nibco.com 25 May '05

25 May '05

Note that I'm on 4.03rc1; this may have been addressed in 4.04 All of the entries I include for subpages are defined as 'noconn' and have no other tests defined -- these are all configured (for testing) on the primary pages. I just went in to disable the connectivity test for a couple of new rf-antennas at one of our sites and was presented with an enable/disable page that showed no hosts and no tests. The filter shows as RF-Equipment/nac-rf; if I clear the filter I get all hosts. If I then try to filter on just 'nac-rf' I go back to no hosts showing. This is just a bit non-intuitive. Tom The bb-hosts definition for this page: page RF-Equipment <H3><I>RF Equipment </I></H3> subparent RF-Equipment nac-rf <H3><I>Nacogdoches RF Equipment</I></H3> group-compress <H3><I>Nacogdoches RF Equipment</I></H3> include hosts/nac-stuff/rf-gear and the include file: # Nacogdoches, TX rf equipment host/nac-stuff/rf-gear 10.32.254.11 nac-firewall-1 # noconn 10.33.254.11 nac-rf-antenna-1 # noconn 10.33.254.12 nac-rf-antenna-2 # noconn 10.33.254.13 nac-rf-antenna-3 # noconn 10.33.254.14 nac-rf-antenna-4 # noconn 10.33.254.15 nac-rf-antenna-5 # noconn 10.33.254.16 nac-rf-antenna-6 # noconn 10.33.254.17 nac-rf-antenna-7 # noconn 10.33.254.18 nac-rf-antenna-8 # noconn 10.33.254.19 nac-rf-antenna-9 # noconn 10.33.254.20 nac-rf-antenna-10 # noconn 10.33.254.21 nac-rf-antenna-11 # noconn 10.33.254.22 nac-rf-antenna-12 # noconn 10.33.254.23 nac-rf-antenna-13 # noconn 10.33.254.24 nac-rf-antenna-14 # noconn 10.33.254.25 nac-rf-antenna-15 # noconn 10.33.254.26 nac-rf-antenna-16 # noconn 10.33.254.27 nac-rf-antenna-17 # noconn And, later on, in the main section for the bb-hosts: group-compress <H3>Nacogdoches RF equipment</A></H3> 10.32.254.11 nac-firewall-1 # prefer route:whq-router1,nac-router-hsrp 10.33.254.11 nac-rf-antenna-1 # prefer route:whq-router1,nac-router-hsrp,nac-firewall-1 10.33.254.12 nac-rf-antenna-2 # prefer route:whq-router1,nac-router-hsrp,nac-firewall-1 10.33.254.13 nac-rf-antenna-3 # prefer route:whq-router1,nac-router-hsrp,nac-firewall-1 10.33.254.14 nac-rf-antenna-4 # prefer route:whq-router1,nac-router-hsrp,nac-firewall-1 10.33.254.15 nac-rf-antenna-5 # prefer route:whq-router1,nac-router-hsrp,nac-firewall-1 10.33.254.16 nac-rf-antenna-6 # prefer route:whq-router1,nac-router-hsrp,nac-firewall-1 10.33.254.17 nac-rf-antenna-7 # prefer route:whq-router1,nac-router-hsrp,nac-firewall-1 10.33.254.18 nac-rf-antenna-8 # prefer route:whq-router1,nac-router-hsrp,nac-firewall-1 10.33.254.19 nac-rf-antenna-9 # prefer route:whq-router1,nac-router-hsrp,nac-firewall-1 10.33.254.20 nac-rf-antenna-10 # prefer route:whq-router1,nac-router-hsrp,nac-firewall-1 10.33.254.21 nac-rf-antenna-11 # prefer route:whq-router1,nac-router-hsrp,nac-firewall-1 10.33.254.22 nac-rf-antenna-12 # prefer route:whq-router1,nac-router-hsrp,nac-firewall-1 10.33.254.23 nac-rf-antenna-13 # prefer route:whq-router1,nac-router-hsrp,nac-firewall-1 10.33.254.24 nac-rf-antenna-14 # prefer route:whq-router1,nac-router-hsrp,nac-firewall-1 10.33.254.25 nac-rf-antenna-15 # prefer route:whq-router1,nac-router-hsrp,nac-firewall-1 10.33.254.26 nac-rf-antenna-16 # prefer route:whq-router1,nac-router-hsrp,nac-firewall-1 10.33.254.27 nac-rf-antenna-17 # prefer route:whq-router1,nac-router-hsrp,nac-firewall-1 Is this me, 4.03rc1, or a 'feature'? TK

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.default. and LARRD settings
by rdeal＠tigr.org 25 May '05

25 May '05

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hobbit still crashes - bbdisplay problems after adding some new hosts
by stefan_loos＠hotmail.com 25 May '05

25 May '05

Hi, I was hoping that the new release (4.0.3) fixes this but it still crashes or rather hangs with the following error messages in bb-display.log: 2005-05-25 10:27:42 Could not connect to bbd at 10.207.193.41:1984 - Connection refused 2005-05-25 10:27:42 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - Connection failed 2005-05-25 10:27:42 hobbitd status-board not available 2005-05-25 10:27:42 Could not connect to bbd at 10.207.193.41:1984 - Connection refused 2005-05-25 10:27:42 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - Connection failed When this happens no more hosts are displayed at the hobbit webpage (for a small period of time you see the hosts, but when you try to click on a specific test you run into a timeout). Telnet to port 1984 at the hobbit server didn't work then. There are normally no core-dumps when this happens. When I try to stop the hobbit server, the hobbitd --pidfile ... --restart process didn't stop - have to kill it. What I've tried so far: - try to find out if a specific test or host causes the crash - first I thought it is a specific test, but now I'm shure it's not. - disabled all my customized tests (had some for generating larrd-graphs for oracle tablespaces and sessions) - reinstalled everything Nothing helped so far. Any idea is welcome! Regards, Stefan

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BB and 4.0.3 compatibility
by peter.welter＠gmail.com 25 May '05

25 May '05

Hi, Within the release notes of 4.0.3 it says: Beginning with this release, Hobbit can no longer be used as an add-on to Big Brother. Hobbit retains compatibility with BB clients and extension scripts, but you can no longer run eg. the Hobbit network test tool and have it report to a Big Brother server. and * 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. Also, the sending of messages has dropped all support for the Big Brother method of sending "page" messages when a status-message is sent with an alert-color, so the BBPAGE and BBPAGERS settings are no longer used. Does this means that the BBRELAY-option from a BB-server to a Hobbit-server on another host does not work anymore? Thanks, Peter

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AW: Re: [hobbit] Questions about the webpage created by hobbit
by bb4＠richter-it.net 25 May '05

25 May '05

Hi Henrik, thanks for the answer. That was exactly what I was looking for. And yes an evironment variable would be nice but is not necessary when I know where to look :-) I also changed BBGENOPTS to "...--subpagecolumns=1" but bb.html and the subpages still display 2 columns. :-( How long does it take to reflect the changes? I restarted hobbit but everything looks like before. Regards Torsten > >On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 05:57:19PM +0200, bb4 at richter-it.net wrote: >> >> I was just wandering around at the website of my hobbit installation and >> wanted to know, if there is a way to increase the time and events displayed > >> at bb2.html (... events received in the last ... minutes). >> I didn't find a variable to set in the scripts. > >The only way to change that is to modify the bbdisplay/pagegen.c file. >It has these two settings: > > int bb2eventlogmaxcount = 100; > int bb2eventlogmaxtime = 240; > >It could be done with an environment variable or a couple more options, >but noone has requested that until now, so ... > >> And maybe there is also a trick not to have 2 columns displayed but only 1. > >That one is easy - it's the "--subpagecolumns=2" option for bbgen that >does this. In the default setup, it comes from the BBGENOPTS setting in >hobbitserver.cfg. > > >Henrik > > >To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to >hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > >

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[hobbit] citirx user graph
by rdeal＠tigr.org 25 May '05

25 May '05

yes very interested, this is something we have been looking for to help monitor our citrix cluster and keep track of license usage. Thanks -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Storner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Tue 5/24/2005 5:11 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] citirx user graph In <CAAF27359A31D44FA9A90AF7E299C36FF59D04 at EXCHANGE.TIGR.ORG> "Deal, Richard" <rdeal at tigr.org> writes: >What script is used to generate the data for the citrix user graph that >is defined in hobbit? >It doesn't seem to be using the bb-citrix.pl script on deadcat. No, this is a custom BBNT client extension I wrote for work. It's basically the output from "query session" passed through a filter that counts the number of "Active" sessions and prints out "42 users active" at the end of the report and sends it off to a "citrix" status column in Hobbit. If you're interested, I can put it up for download somewhere. Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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