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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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Mail archive now searchable
by henrik＠hswn.dk 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

After some prodding from a couple of users, I finally got around to setting up a search facility for the Hobbit mail-archive, using ht://Dig as the search- and indexing-tool. It's available from the mail-archive front page at http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/ Regards, Henrik

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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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graphs with external script
by Etienne.Roulland＠cvf.fr 21 Oct '05

21 Oct '05

Hi, i'm trying to get graphes from mysql-status BB side client. I followed the man page and a post from Henrik. Now i have mysql.rrd which is updated but i cannot get graphs. I use Hobbit 4.1.0. I have in by bb-hosts : x.x.x.x box1.cvf.fr # noping GRAPHS:*,mysql:mysqlslow,mysqlthread And [mysqlslow] DEF:slow=mysql.rrd:Slowqueries:AVERAGE TITLE MySQL Slow Queries LINE2:slow#00CCCC:Slow Queries COMMENT:\n GPRINT:slow:LAST: \: %5.1lf (cur) GPRINT:slow:MAX: \: %5.1lf (max) GPRINT:slow:MIN: \: %5.1lf (min) GPRINT:slow:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf (avg)\n [mysqlthread] DEF:threads=mysql.rrd:Threads:AVERAGE TITLE MySQL Active Threads AREA:threads#00CCCC:Threads COMMENT:\n GPRINT:threads:LAST: \: %5.1lf (cur) GPRINT:threads:MAX: \: %5.1lf (max) GPRINT:threads:MIN: \: %5.1lf (min) GPRINT:threads:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf (avg)\n in hobbitgraph.cfg... In larrd-status i can see in debug log : 2005-07-25 11:25:56 RRD update param 03: 'Threads:Questions:Slowqueries:Opens:Flushtables:Opentables:Queriespersecondavg' 2005-07-25 11:25:56 RRD update param 04: '1122283556:180:205393153:556:26208:3:512:92.123' Where did i make a mistake ? Regards, -- Etienne Roulland -- CVF Bordeaux

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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 4.1.0 available - includes Unix client
by henrik＠hswn.dk 02 Sep '05

02 Sep '05

Hobbit 4.1.0 is available now on http://www.hswn.dk/hobbitsw/, and will be uploaded to Sourceforge in a few hours as I get the pre- compiled binary packages ready. This release fixes a number of bugs in the previous version (4.0.4), most notably some bugs that could allow an attacker to crash the Hobbit server by sending certain malformed messages to the Hobbit server. It is therefore recommended that you upgrade your Hobbit installation. This release also has some optimizations in the hobbitd and hobbitd_alert tools, that improve the performance of Hobbit in large installations. The big change causing the version number to go from 4.0 -> 4.1, however, is the addition of a brand new Hobbit client implementation. The Hobbit client is included with support for Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, HP-UX (untested) and Darwin (untested). Support for other Unix-like operating systems will appear as soon as possible; support for Windows-based systems is not currently planned, but will most likely appear later this year. The Hobbit client reports data for the "cpu", "disk", "memory" and "procs" columns in Hobbit, as well as feeding the "netstat" and "vmstat" graphs. It does not currenly handle system log monitoring (the "msgs" status column). The Hobbit client is compatible with most extension scripts written for the Big Brother client. Unlike other client implementations, the Hobbit client has no client-side configuration. All disk thresholds, process checks etc. are configured on the Hobbit server; no configuration is needed on the systems running the Hobbit client. See the etc/hobbit-clients.cfg file on your Hobbit server for a description of how to configure the client software. The Hobbit client is automatically installed and activated when a Hobbit server is installed. Client-only installations are described in the README.CLIENT file included with Hobbit 4.1. Regards, Henrik

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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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graph compare
by olivier＠qalpit.com 20 Aug '05

20 Aug '05

Hi Henrik i'm sure this question was asked before, but cant find it in the archive.. under bb/larrd, i used to compare graphs from differents hosts, with larrd-graphs.cgi (mainly to see that load-balancing was done correctly..) is there a way to do this under hobbit ? if not, no problem; but it'll be nice to have this feature one day :) actually, i think the display should be done a different way than with larrd-graphs.cgi : could it be possible (and not to hard to code) to display several DS from different host on the same graph ? (so i could really easy compare for example the cpu load of different host.. using LINE and not AREA fo course..) -- Olivier Beau

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eventlog patch
by EES2Y＠hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu 08 Aug '05

08 Aug '05

Hi Henrik et al., I was fiddling around a little bit with the event log reporting code; I added the ability to search through a specific time interval, and also the ability to apply a regular expression against the host, test and/or status color. You can fetch it from http://www.nerdvana.org/eric/files/eventlog-patch Apply it from the base hobbit src direction: patch -p0 < eventlog-patch It could probably use a little refinement. Right now if a user wants to specify a start/end date, they have to use a very strict format: ccyy/mm/dd at hh:mm:ss I considering doing dropdowns in the event_form webfile, but that would either have to have years in the future (2006,2007, etc) or would have to be updated every year. If there's another code-savvy person out that that might want to take a swing at this, have at it :) -Eric Schwimmer Network Engineer UVA HSCS Network Engineering

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4.1.1 client vmstat under RedHat
by Dirk.Kastens＠uni-osnabrueck.de 06 Aug '05

06 Aug '05

Hi, the new hobbit client doesn't recognize the different vmstat versions that exist under RedHat. Using the bbclient, I changed the BBOSTYPE in vmstat-bf.sh to debian3 or redhat or whatever. What can I do in the new hobbit client? Dirk

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