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Mrtg with Hobbit howto
by arun.nale＠tcs.com 19 Jul '05

19 Jul '05

Dear All, I had installed Hobbit on my machine. I want bbmrtg.pl to work with it. How do I do that. I do not find any bb-bbexttab file where I can call the script. Arun Sopanrao Nale Notice: The information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, use, review, distribution, printing or copying of the information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it are strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us by reply e-mail or telephone and immediately and permanently delete the message and any attachments. Thank you

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[hobbit] Mrtg with Hobbit howto
by Robert.Taylor＠HendrickAuto.com 18 Jul '05

18 Jul '05

I also have a version of bbmrtg.sh that works with hobbit without any issues. I did hack up the script file just a bit to use routers2 to generate the graphs instead of 14all.cgi as it allows for different time periods. Robert -----Original Message----- From: Al Payne [mailto:apayne at pleiades.com] Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 1:25 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Mrtg with Hobbit howto I cut over from BB to Hobbit without any changes other than getting Hobbit to call the script. It should (key word!) work without any changes. If you're finding it doesn't, send any changes directly to me and I'll sort out what's happening. I've got a some other updates to release soon related to problems with running it on Windows. Al Payne Henrique Kopschitz praxedes wrote: > Henrik, > > The Script bbmrtg.pl works with hobbit but you have to do some changes > in the script ... i´ll take my script with the changes and send to the > mail-list. > > Att, > Henrique Kopschitz Praxedes To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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[hobbit] Handling SNMP traps with Hobbit
by Andy.Farrior＠victoriacollege.edu 18 Jul '05

18 Jul '05

>-----Original Message----- >From: Thomas [mailto:tlp-hobbit at holme-pedersen.dk] >Sent: Mon 7/18/2005 3:20 AM >To: hobbit at hswn.dk >Subject: Re: [hobbit] Handling SNMP traps with Hobbit > >Hi andy, > >I am using snmptt also but set it up using the mysql web page and then have a ext script to test if >any unacknowledged events are on the web page. My primary reason for doing it this way was that I was >not able to make sure that all traps were recorded. How do you make sure that 2 consecutive traps >from the same device are recorded both and not only the last ? If two Normal traps arrive, only the last one will be seen. If a WARNING or CRITICAL trap arrives followed by a Normal trap, you will still get an alert for the yellow/red trap but you'll see the green trap on the page; however, the yellow/red trap should be in the history. I wanted to include MySQL logging with SNMPTT, but haven't had a chance to work with it. I'd also want to have some link from the Hobbit status page to a SNMPTT web page so you could see all past alerts. Instead of waiting or forcing a user to acknoledge a trap, I treat it like a regular alert. Just wanted to keep it simple. >Also you mention the "problem" with classification. This has rased som issues in my organisation, >because some server people did not agree on a specific alert levels (ie CRITICAL etc). Do you edit >this by hand ? I edited these by hand. We're fairly small, only two people receive network alerts, two receive server alerts; so, we didn't have any issues. Thanks, Andy

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Handling SNMP traps with Hobbit
by Andy.Farrior＠victoriacollege.edu 18 Jul '05

18 Jul '05

My technicians have been bugging me about wanting to receive SNMP traps from various equipment. The only references to SNMP traps and Hobbit I could find were forwarding Hobbit events as SNMP traps to NMS servers like OpenView or something. I don't have either; so I've tried to implement SNMP trap handling with Hobbit using an external perl script, snmptrapd, SNMPTT, and SEC. I've put my configuration notes here if you're interested: http://cerebro.victoriacollege.edu/hobbit-trap.html If you find something grossly wrong, let me know. thanks, andy

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Release candidate 4.05 compilation errors
by lars.ebeling＠leopg9.no-ip.org 18 Jul '05

18 Jul '05

Hi, got this: cc -o hobbitd_rrd hobbitd_rrd.o hobbitd_worker.o do_rrd.o ../lib/libbbgen .a -L/usr/local/lib -lrrd -L/usr/local/lib -lz -lm -L/usr/local/lib -lpcre -lnsl /usr/ccs/bin/ld: Unsatisfied symbols: strtoll (code) collect2: ld returned 1 exit status makeÄ1Å: *** Ähobbitd_rrdÅ Error 1 makeÄ1Å: Leaving directory é/home/hobbit/hobbit-4.0.5RC1/hobbitd' make: *** Ähobbitd-buildÅ Error 2 $ Regards Lars Ebeling http://leopg9.no-ip.org Hobbithobbyist "Never run after your own hat. Others will be delighted to do it; why spoil their fun?" -- Mark Twain

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[hobbit] Handling SNMP traps with Hobbit
by Andy.Farrior＠victoriacollege.edu 16 Jul '05

16 Jul '05

I've updated the trap.pl script to read from hobbitdboard. let's try that again. http://cerebro.victoriacollege.edu/hobbit-trap.html thanks, Andy

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[hobbit] Host info screen question
by Al.Jeffcoat＠orhs.org 16 Jul '05

16 Jul '05

Bah... Stupid typo... Thanks for pointing it out to me... You've no idea how long I looked at the one that works, and then looked at the one that didn't work, and missed that... Al __________________________________ Al Jeffcoat -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 5:31 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Host info screen question On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 04:41:43PM -0400, Jeffcoat, Al wrote: > On another host, we had put in a DESCR previously as a test, and removed > it today when I put in the DOWNTIME tag. Now, on the info tab for that > system, it did remove the Description, but is not putting the DOWNTIME > tag in the same place as the other "working" downtime tags. However, on > the bottom of this page, it has "Other tags:ftp telnet > DOWNTIME:0:1930:2000", so I'm assuming that Hobbit knows about the > downtime. If it's not listed as a downtime-setting, Hobbit doesn't recognize it as such. The "other tags" is basically just a list of all unknown (to Hobbit) tags defined for this host - e.g. for custom tests you have enabled for this host. Check the syntax. If it's as you wrote, then it's wrong: It should be "DOWNTIME=....", not "DOWNTIME:". Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk This e-mail message and any attached files are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the addressee(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, any review, use, or distribution of this e-mail message and any attached files is strictly prohibited. This communication may contain material protected by Federal privacy regulations, attorney-client work product, or other privileges. If you have received this confidential communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail message and permanently delete the original message. To reply to our email administrator directly, send an email to: postmaster at orlandoregional.org . If this e-mail message concerns a contract matter, be advised that no employee or agent is authorized to conclude any binding agreement on behalf of Orlando Regional Healthcare by e-mail without express written confirmation by an officer of the corporation. Any views or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Orlando Regional Healthcare.

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[hobbit] Handling SNMP traps with Hobbit
by Andy.Farrior＠victoriacollege.edu 16 Jul '05

16 Jul '05

-----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Sat 7/16/2005 2:22 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Handling SNMP traps with Hobbit >Instead of reading the checkpoint file, I'd query the hobbit daemon >directly. You do this with the bb client tool and the "hobbitdboard" >command. E.g. to fetch the hostname and expiry-time for all "trap" >statuses you can do this: > $BB $BBDISP "hobbitdboard test=trap fields=hostname,validtime" >The output looks like this: > adsl.hswn.dk|1121498714 > backup-mx.post.tele.dk|1121498714 > www.sslug.dk|1121498623 I should have known you could do something like that with Hobbit.... I'll play with that. (There was a voice in the back of my head that told me not to use the checkpoint file, but I didn't know what else to use. must read all docs...) Thanks. >Another - perhaps more elegant - solution is to change Hobbit so >that you can send a status-message that does not expire. I'd be >willing to implement such a change since it does make sense for >this kind of integration with other systems. (I have a similar >problem on my system where it receives e-mails instead of SNMP >traps). However, then you will not get any indication if your >SNMP module stops working, so each method has its benefits and >drawbacks. For now, I think I'll try using long LIFETIME values like 24h or 48h and set the status to "no traps to report" after that time period. >My Perl skills are really poor, so I'd love it if you could >change the trap.pl script to use the hobbitdboard command instead >of the checkpoint file. I *should* have something by Monday. thanks Henrik! Andy

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NKTIME and DOWNTIME
by Al.Jeffcoat＠orhs.org 15 Jul '05

15 Jul '05

Hello All, I have a question regarding NKTIME and DOWNTIME. If a host has a specified DOWNTIME, and also has a specified NK:test, do I need to also specify an NKTIME? Or does the DOWNTIME cover both pieces? What I don't want is for a test to show up on the NK page during a normal downtime. I've specified downtime, so that a tech doesn't get a page, but some tests are also on the NK view for executives to see. Thank you __________________________________ Al Jeffcoat This e-mail message and any attached files are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the addressee(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, any review, use, or distribution of this e-mail message and any attached files is strictly prohibited. This communication may contain material protected by Federal privacy regulations, attorney-client work product, or other privileges. If you have received this confidential communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail message and permanently delete the original message. To reply to our email administrator directly, send an email to: postmaster at orlandoregional.org . If this e-mail message concerns a contract matter, be advised that no employee or agent is authorized to conclude any binding agreement on behalf of Orlando Regional Healthcare by e-mail without express written confirmation by an officer of the corporation. Any views or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Orlando Regional Healthcare.

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Looking at Hobbit, have a few questions
by steve.aiello＠ge.com 15 Jul '05

15 Jul '05

Is there a maillist archive, I am sure others have had the same questions as me. We currently use BigBrother, and have a bbclient on most of our servers. I see hobbit has a young/alpha client only for BSD. Could I just use the BigBrother client to send data to a hobbit server ? We currently have Solaris, Linux, & windows servers to be monitored. Thanks, Steven

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