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[hobbit] Looking at Hobbit, have a few questions
by Larry.Barber＠usda.gov 15 Jul '05

15 Jul '05

The BigBrother client will work fine with hobbit. Thanks, Larry Barber On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 13:25 -0500, steve.aiello at ge.com wrote: > 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 > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > > >

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Need some pointers on logrotate script..
by hobbit＠visions.se 15 Jul '05

15 Jul '05

Hey, Trying to fix so that my logrotate will add a line at the top after each rotation so that /var/log/messages file wont be empty (dont want to disable lenght checking through bb client - since the log might be emptied if a box is hacked). This is how my /etc/logrotate.d/syslog looks like: /var/log/messages /var/log/secure /var/log/maillog /var/log/spooler /var/log/boot.log /var/log/cron { sharedscripts postrotate /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid 2> /dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true endscript } This is what I think I should change it to (never touched these kinda files before): /var/log/messages { postrotate /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid 2> /dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true echo '### This file has been rotated by logrotate ###' >> /var/log/messages endscript } /var/log/secure /var/log/maillog /var/log/spooler /var/log/boot.log /var/log/cron { sharedscripts postrotate /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid 2> /dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true endscript } Will this work? Thanks in advance for any advice :)

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[hobbit] Page, subpage directives
by mlowery＠alliedtechgroup.com 15 Jul '05

15 Jul '05

Great! Saves a lot of typing... :-) Thank you for your help!! Michael -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Storner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 9:37 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Page, subpage directives In <11A68CB62CC8384C847633FE841BFF60017E0D at atlitswing.atg.local> "Lowery, Michael" <mlowery at alliedtechgroup.com> writes: >Is it possible to put a directive such as NKTIME or DOWNTIME or >REPORTTIME as a page or subpage directive to act globally for everything >underneath it? You can do it with the ".default." host. Like this: page somepage This is a page # Define defaults for all hosts that follow this, until the next .default. host 0.0.0.0 .default. # DOWNTIME=0:0200:0600 NKTIME=W:0900:1700 10.0.0.1 host1.foo.com # ssh 10.0.0.2 host2.foo.com # ftp 0.0.0.0 .default. This was added in Hobbit 4.0.2. Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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Page, subpage directives
by mlowery＠alliedtechgroup.com 15 Jul '05

15 Jul '05

Is it possible to put a directive such as NKTIME or DOWNTIME or REPORTTIME as a page or subpage directive to act globally for everything underneath it? Thanks, Michael

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Trying to migrate to BigSister client
by Etienne.Roulland＠cvf.fr 15 Jul '05

15 Jul '05

Hello, i'm coming back after upgrading my BB server with hobbit, now i'm trying to upgrade my clients with big sister to have a full free monitoring system. Perhaps somebody has ever get these problemes but i didn't find it on the archives list. I'm using Hobbit 4.04 and i have some problem with disk test. I get this : Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Resource name N/A 9.2GB 575.7MB 8.6GB 6.1% / N/A 9.2GB 32.1MB 9.1GB 0.3% /home N/A 204.7GB 32.1MB 204.7GB 0% /usr2 N/A 13.2GB 113.5MB 13.1GB 0.8% /var Henrik already told me that it's looks like the bigsister client telling he has windows filsystems. on the RRD graphes i also see some errors like : / /home/ /no <== this partition doesn't exist. (on another box i get a "/cannot"). /usr2 /var I dumped what is sent to the hobbit server : status box1.cvf.disk green (1121424863) Fri Jul 15 12:54:23 2005 no errors logged.&green /usr2 203.7GB (99.5%) free, &green / 8.6GB (93.8%) free.&green /var 13.1GB (99.2%) free, &green /home 9.1GB (99.7%) free.&html<HR><PRE>Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Resource name..N/A 9.2GB 582MB 8.6GB 6.2 % /.N/A 9.2GB 32.1MB 9.1GB 0.3% /home.N/A 204.7GB 1GB 203.7GB 0.5% /usr2.N/A 13.2GB 111.7MB 13.1GB 0.8% /va r.</PRE>. I also get some "&html" which appears on some tests. The dump sent : status box1.cvf.net green (1121424863) Fri Jul 15 12:54:23 2005 &green lo ok, &green eth0 ok.&html<HR><PRE>Iface InErr OutErr InRate OutRate InLoad OutLoad ..lo 0/s 0/s /s /s 0% 0% .eth0 0/s 0/s /s /s 0% 0% .</PRE>. And last one the cpu test doesn't seems to be "Hobbit compatable": status box1.cvf.cpu green (1121424863) Fri Jul 15 12:54:23 2005 CPU load = 0.00.&green Swap Space 1.9GB (100%) free, &green logged on users = 2.&clear status not known (yet).top - 12:54:23 up 23 days, 47 min, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00.Tasks: 37 total, 1 running, 36 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie.Cpu(s): 0.0% user, 0.3% system, 0.0% nice, 99.8% idle.Mem: 904340k total, 849784k used, 54556k free, 175368k buffers.Swap: 1951736k total, 0k used, 1951736k free, 522692k cached.. PID USER PR NI VIRT R ES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND . 2486 root 10 0 904 900 760 S 0.3 0.1 0:08.31 syslogd .29286 root 15 0 1044 1044 848 R 0.3 0.1 0:00.0 2 top . 1 root 8 0 508 508 452 S 0.0 0.1 0:07.82 init . 2 root 8 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 keventd . 3 root 19 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 ksoftirqd_CPU0 . 4 root 18 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd_CPU1 . 5 root 19 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd_CPU2 . 6 root 18 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd_CPU3 . 7 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.49 k swapd . 8 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 bdflush . 9 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:12.06 kupdated . 10 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_0 . 11 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:03.57 kjournald . 148 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.12 kjournald . 149 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.80 kreiserfsd . 150 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:05.94 kjournald . 617 Debian-e 9 0 1728 1724 1480 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.20 exim4 . 623 root 9 0 732 732 660 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.01 inetd . 671 root 9 0 368 364 320 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 rebootmgr . 675 daemon 9 0 640 640 560 S 0.0 0. 1 0:00.00 atd . 678 root 8 0 744 744 620 S 0.0 0.1 0:01.22 cron . 706 root 9 0 476 476 424 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 getty . 707 root 9 0 476 476 424 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.01 getty . 708 root 9 0 476 476 424 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 getty . 709 root 9 0 476 476 424 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 getty ..&html<HR><PRE>Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Resource name..N/A 1.9G B 0B 1.9GB 0% Swap Space.</PRE>. I think that it would be very nice to make BS client with Hobbit to bypass completly BigBrother (to have the choice). Regards, -- Etienne Roulland -- CVF Bordeaux

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[hobbit] upgrade to 4.0.4, barrage of purples forhttp/smtp/dns queries
by blysik＠shutterfly.com 15 Jul '05

15 Jul '05

> > That makes sense. What options does hobbit use for ntpdate > to check > > an ntp server? I want to run it by hand and see what happens. > > ntpdate -u -q -p 2 HOSTNAME Yes, that command just sits there. Would it be possible to add some sort of timeout in bbtest-net where if ntpdate doesn't return within an amount of time it will just kill it? -- Bruce Z. Lysik <blysik at shutterfly.com> Operations Engineer The information contained in this message (including any attachments) may be confidential. This message (including any attachments) is intended to be read only by the recipient(s) to whom it is addressed. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are on notice that any distribution of this message, in any form, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender and/or Shutterfly by telephone at (650) 610-5200 and delete or destroy any copy of this message (including any attachments).

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Conn Column always red in Hobbit when BB and Hobbit on same machine
by arun.nale＠tcs.com 15 Jul '05

15 Jul '05

Dear All, I had installed Big Brother PE 3.1 and Hobbit on the same machine. I am getting the status (conn column) of all the devices including the BB server as red when I check the hobbit URL. But it is green in bb URL. Pl. help. Pl. note that both BB and hobbit services are up and running on this machine. I understand that it is performing ping check in the background and then display the status for the conn column. I had stopped the BB service and checked but the status remains the same. Does it mean Hobbit is not performing the ping test for the hosts? Can Hobbit and BB work together on same server for same hosts? One more thing I observed is that if I stop the BB server, the bbd column of hobit shows gray, saying that 'Dialup host/service, or test depends on another failed test'. Pl. help. Arun 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] Conn Column always red in Hobbit when BB and Hobbit on samemachine
by arun.nale＠tcs.com 15 Jul '05

15 Jul '05

Yes I got it. The permissions on fping were not allowing to execute is as a user hobbit arun.nale at tcs.com 07/15/2005 08:42 AM Please respond to hobbit at hswn.dk To hobbit at hswn.dk cc Subject [hobbit] Conn Column always red in Hobbit when BB and Hobbit on same machine Dear All, I had installed Big Brother PE 3.1 and Hobbit on the same machine. I am getting the status (conn column) of all the devices including the BB server as red when I check the hobbit URL. But it is green in bb URL. Pl. help. Pl. note that both BB and hobbit services are up and running on this machine. I understand that it is performing ping check in the background and then display the status for the conn column. I had stopped the BB service and checked but the status remains the same. Does it mean Hobbit is not performing the ping test for the hosts? Can Hobbit and BB work together on same server for same hosts? One more thing I observed is that if I stop the BB server, the bbd column of hobit shows gray, saying that 'Dialup host/service, or test depends on another failed test'. Pl. help. Arun 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 ForwardSourceID:NT00007D22 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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Henrik
by v.everett＠afgonline.com.au 14 Jul '05

14 Jul '05

Ladies and Gentlemen of the list I would like to take a moment to publicly thank Henrik for his time. Not only did Henrik write an amazing tool, but he released it as open source, allowing all of us to benefit from his effort. Henrik didn't ask for anything in return. I work for a financial company. Their philosophy is, if it's free, it must be worth exactly what we paid for it. I proved them wrong. I showed them Hobbit is fantastic application which has, in the past 3 months, proven itself over and over. But then at the end of last month, Hobbit had a serious problem. My colleagues laughed. "You running open source. Let's see where you get your support from." I mailed this list, and Henrik jumped into action. We discussed it on the list for a while, then took it offline. Later, we were joined offline by Stefan Loos. Henrik wrote new versions. Inserted more logging. Analysed data we sent him. Debugged his code. Wrote new versions again. We did rebuilds, monitored problems, gathered logs, collected data, and made it all available to Henrik. Eventually, Henrik mailed us a final new hobbitd.c and asked us to rebuild the application. Touch wood, but so far (48 hours later) everything looks good. People, Henrik worked hard on this bug. 12 days, for no reward. He had no problem with his Hobbit, and no incentive to fix ours, except for a commitment to the open source community, and to us. We are not entitled to Henrik's software, bug fixes, support, time or advice. It is something Henrik gives us of his own free will, and for that I am most grateful. Henrik, thank-you. Regards 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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[hobbit] Henrik
by Kevin.Hanrahan＠novainfo.com 14 Jul '05

14 Jul '05

I also work for a financial company and also was given looks of disapproval when I suggested and implemented Hobbit....but we also had similar results! So far we have had three vendors with their "Amazing fix-everything" products that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, require dozens of servers, and an army of people to get them working. ALL of them have been shown the door! The bottom line is that Hobbit just plain works! ...and the support from Henrik and this message board has fixed any problem better and faster than any commercial support I have ever dealt with (try calling HP !! - you better have a lot of time and patience!) Thanks Henrik! Kevin -----Original Message----- From: Vernon Everett [mailto:v.everett at afgonline.com.au] Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 9:11 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Henrik Ladies and Gentlemen of the list I would like to take a moment to publicly thank Henrik for his time. Not only did Henrik write an amazing tool, but he released it as open source, allowing all of us to benefit from his effort. Henrik didn't ask for anything in return. I work for a financial company. Their philosophy is, if it's free, it must be worth exactly what we paid for it. I proved them wrong. I showed them Hobbit is fantastic application which has, in the past 3 months, proven itself over and over. But then at the end of last month, Hobbit had a serious problem. My colleagues laughed. "You running open source. Let's see where you get your support from." I mailed this list, and Henrik jumped into action. We discussed it on the list for a while, then took it offline. Later, we were joined offline by Stefan Loos. Henrik wrote new versions. Inserted more logging. Analysed data we sent him. Debugged his code. Wrote new versions again. We did rebuilds, monitored problems, gathered logs, collected data, and made it all available to Henrik. Eventually, Henrik mailed us a final new hobbitd.c and asked us to rebuild the application. Touch wood, but so far (48 hours later) everything looks good. People, Henrik worked hard on this bug. 12 days, for no reward. He had no problem with his Hobbit, and no incentive to fix ours, except for a commitment to the open source community, and to us. We are not entitled to Henrik's software, bug fixes, support, time or advice. It is something Henrik gives us of his own free will, and for that I am most grateful. Henrik, thank-you. Regards 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. To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk Note: The information contained in this email and in any attachments is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. The recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. Sender accepts no liability for any damages caused by any virus transmitted by this email. If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and delete the email from your computer. This e-mail is and any response to it will be unencrypted and, therefore, potentially unsecure. Thank you. NOVA Information Systems, Inc.

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