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[hobbit] Status Unavailable
by v.everett＠afgonline.com.au 11 Jul '05

11 Jul '05

Never actually checked that. Nope, hobbitd refuses to die. You got any ideas? -----Original Message----- From: Stefan Loos [mailto:stefan_loos at hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, 4 July 2005 2:43 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] Status Unavailable And can you stop the hobbit server with hobbit.sh or is one process still running after that? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 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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logfiles
by tlp-hobbit＠holme-pedersen.dk 08 Jul '05

08 Jul '05

With hobbit you have the option not to create the bbvar hist log files and in the hobbitlaunch.cfg file you have a task to create this if you need it. My question is how can I have hobbit only to some logfiles and not all ? is it possible ie adding a LOG entry to the host in bb-hosts Regards, Thomas

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[hobbit] RE : [hobbit] RE : [hobbit] I can't get any graph on hobbit
by nfigaro＠effigie.fr 08 Jul '05

08 Jul '05

I just commented out the "COMMENT" part in hobbitd/hobbitgraph.cgi, and it works. (I can see my graphs on hobbit on AIX). Here are the lines commented : +815 /* #ifdef RRDTOOL12 */ +816 /* strftime(timestamp, sizeof(timestamp), "COMMENT:Updated\\: %d-%b-%Y %H\\:%M\\:%S", localtime(&now)); */ +817 /*#else */ +818 /* strftime(timestamp, sizeof(timestamp), "COMMENT:Updated: %d-%b-%Y %H:%M:%S", localtime(&now)); */ +819 /*#endif */ +820 /* rrdargs[argi++] = strdup(timestamp); */ But I don't know why the COMMENT generates an error in rrd on AIX. Thanks Henrik and Rolf for the replies. NF -----Message d'origine----- De : FIGARO Nicolas [mailto:nfigaro at effigie.fr] Envoyé : vendredi 8 juillet 2005 14:35 À : hobbit at hswn.dk Objet : [hobbit] RE : [hobbit] RE : [hobbit] I can't get any graph on hobbit I started with hobbit 4.0.4, and I use the rrdtool 1.2.10. I can create an rrd graph using this command line: rrdtool graph ~hobbit/server/www/test.png DEF:avg=la.rrd:la:AVERAGE CDEF:la=avg,100,/ AREA:la#00CC00:"CPU Load Average" -u 1.0 I don't know if I can comment some parts of the hobbitgraph.cfg file, or increase a debug level somewhere . (but the garbage message comes from the rrd_graph_helper.c file of rrdtool, perhaps I should send the problem to the rrd mailing list. ). NF -----Message d'origine----- De : Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Envoyé : vendredi 8 juillet 2005 13:56 À : hobbit at hswn.dk Objet : Re: [hobbit] RE : [hobbit] I can't get any graph on hobbit On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 01:48:44PM +0200, FIGARO Nicolas wrote: > <html><head><title>Invalid request</title></head> <body>Garbage ': > 08-Jul-2005 13:38:46' after command: > COMMENT:Updated: 08-Jul-2005 13:38:46</body></html> The latest (4.0.4) Hobbit version has some changes to hobbitgraph.cfg which were needed for RRDtool 1.2.x. If you originally installed an older version (4.0, 4.0.2, maybe even 4.0.3) then it will not update your hobbitgraph.cfg because it's a file that you might customize yourself. So the easiest solution - if you haven't done any modifications - is to just copy the hobbit-4.0.4/hobbitd/etcfiles/hobbitgraph.cfg to your ~hobbit/etc/directory. Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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[hobbit] RE : [hobbit] I can't get any graph on hobbit
by nfigaro＠effigie.fr 08 Jul '05

08 Jul '05

I started with hobbit 4.0.4, and I use the rrdtool 1.2.10. I can create an rrd graph using this command line: rrdtool graph ~hobbit/server/www/test.png DEF:avg=la.rrd:la:AVERAGE CDEF:la=avg,100,/ AREA:la#00CC00:"CPU Load Average" -u 1.0 I don't know if I can comment some parts of the hobbitgraph.cfg file, or increase a debug level somewhere . (but the garbage message comes from the rrd_graph_helper.c file of rrdtool, perhaps I should send the problem to the rrd mailing list. ). NF -----Message d'origine----- De : Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Envoyé : vendredi 8 juillet 2005 13:56 À : hobbit at hswn.dk Objet : Re: [hobbit] RE : [hobbit] I can't get any graph on hobbit On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 01:48:44PM +0200, FIGARO Nicolas wrote: > <html><head><title>Invalid request</title></head> <body>Garbage ': > 08-Jul-2005 13:38:46' after command: > COMMENT:Updated: 08-Jul-2005 13:38:46</body></html> The latest (4.0.4) Hobbit version has some changes to hobbitgraph.cfg which were needed for RRDtool 1.2.x. If you originally installed an older version (4.0, 4.0.2, maybe even 4.0.3) then it will not update your hobbitgraph.cfg because it's a file that you might customize yourself. So the easiest solution - if you haven't done any modifications - is to just copy the hobbit-4.0.4/hobbitd/etcfiles/hobbitgraph.cfg to your ~hobbit/etc/directory. Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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[hobbit] I can't get any graph on hobbit
by nfigaro＠effigie.fr 08 Jul '05

08 Jul '05

Hi, I'm back with some troubles( again ?). First of all, if you didn't have fun today, I just spent my last day rebuilding my /usr/local/bin dir I trashed due to a stupid "find -rm" command. (I can send the complete command if you don't know how to spend the rest of your workday). I recompiled a lot of stuff, and at last hobbit. I tried to run the hobbitcgi from command line, and here is the result : export QUERY_STRING="host=hostname&service=la&disp=hostname&graph=hourly&action=view" exec ~hobbit/server/bin/hobbitgraph.cgi $CGI_HOBBITGRAPH_OPTS Content-type: image/png Expires: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 11:43:46 GMT Content-type: text/html <html><head><title>Invalid request</title></head> <body>Garbage ': 08-Jul-2005 13:38:46' after command: COMMENT:Updated: 08-Jul-2005 13:38:46</body></html> The rrd looks good : rrdtool fetch ~hobbit/data/rrd/hostname/la.rrd AVERAGE <snip> 1120821300: 2.0000000000e+01 1120821600: 1.1990000000e+01 1120821900: 9.0000000000e+00 1120822200: 8.0000000000e+00 1120822500: 8.0000000000e+00 1120822800: 6.6666666667e+00 1120823100: 6.6666666667e+00 1120823400: NaNQ Any idea ? NF -----Message d'origine----- De : Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Envoyé : jeudi 7 juillet 2005 10:22 À : hobbit at hswn.dk Objet : Re: [hobbit] I can't get any graph on hobbit On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 09:41:48AM +0200, FIGARO Nicolas wrote: > Hi, > > After recompiling rrdtool 1.2.10 on aix 5.2 and hobbit 4.0.4, I have > infos in my rrd files (rrd fetch shows some entries). > > But I can't get any graph at the bottom of hobbit pages. Did you also recompile Hobbit ? If you are moving from rrdtool 1.0.x to 1.2.x you must do a "make distclean; ./configure; make; make install" of Hobbit because the library interface is different in the two rrdtool versions. > I tried to run the cgi from command line, but I have the following > message : > "xgetenv: Cannot find value for variable QUERY_STRING" QUERY_STRING is set by the webserver when running a CGI program. It the "query" part of the URL, ie. everything after the '?' mark in the URL. Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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how to implement custom tests
by ReifJefferyM＠JohnDeere.com 08 Jul '05

08 Jul '05

I installed Hobbit on my (former) BB server. The clients are reporting in normally. However, I have some tests for hosts (NetApp, Tandem - that have no BB client) that run on the BB server and use the bb executable to "trick" the server into thinking it received it from an external client. For example: exec("/opt/bb/bin/bb", $IP, "status $machine.$test $color $now\n $status\n @array\n ") or die( "$1: Couldn't execute BB"); Is there an equivalent function on the Hobbit server that can accomplish this without having both BB and Hobbit installed?

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DHCP server monitor
by r.savigni＠ausl.fe.it 08 Jul '05

08 Jul '05

Good Morning. I've installed Hobbit on a BB server. It is able to monitor everything I need except DHCP daemon. The DHCP server is the same of BB server in the main location, while I've 3 more DHCP servers in remote locations (each running bb-client). I've tried to use the external program that make the use of DHCPING (bb-dhcp) that I've found on deadcat.net, but this is not able to dhcping -s localhost. In BBSERVER I've added the following line in $BBHOME/bin/bb-network.sh to test it and it works ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------------------- # DHCP support...Ray DeJean ( <mailto:ray at selu.edu> ray at selu.edu) # most of this code is stolen from # Frank T. Kujawski < <mailto:frank at bluegrass.net> frank at bluegrass.net> who added DNS support # requires nmap tool in /usr/local/bin dhcp ) # echo "looking for dhcp server" /usr/bin/nmap -sU -p 67 ${HOSTIP} | $GREP "closed dhcpserver" > /dev/null 2>&1 if test "$?" = "0" then LINE="DHCP Server on ${FULLNAME} down" echo "$NONETPAGE" | $GREP "dhcp" > /dev/null 2>&1 if test $? = "1" # NOT FOUND - PAGE then COLOR="red" else COLOR="yellow" LINE="$LINE - configured not to page" fi else COLOR="green" LINE="DHCP Server OK" fi $BB $BBDISP "status ${MACHINE}.dhcp $COLOR `date` $LINE" ;; ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------------------------- Any suggestion on how I can made the same check with Hobbit? Thanks in advance Roberto

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[hobbit] how to implement custom tests
by Larry.Barber＠usda.gov 07 Jul '05

07 Jul '05

The hobbit 'bb' program in the $BBHOME/server/bin directory behaves the same as the BigBrother bb program. You should just need to change the directories in your scripts to make them work. Thanks, Larry Barber On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 15:27 -0500, ReifJefferyM at JohnDeere.com wrote: > I installed Hobbit on my (former) BB server. The clients are > reporting > in normally. However, I have some tests for hosts (NetApp, Tandem - > that have no BB client) that run on the BB server and use the bb > executable to "trick" the server into thinking it received it from an > external client. For example: > > exec("/opt/bb/bin/bb", $IP, "status $machine.$test $color $now\n > $status\n > @array\n > ") > or die( "$1: Couldn't execute BB"); > > > Is there an equivalent function on the Hobbit server that can > accomplish > this without having both BB and Hobbit installed? > > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > > >

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[hobbit] how to implement custom tests
by mlowery＠alliedtechgroup.com 07 Jul '05

07 Jul '05

I'm assuming you'd still want a BB client on your Hobbit server, if not, ignore... but you can still do those things in the ext folder on the BB client piece and it should still report them to Hobbit as usual. I have a few scripts from BB server now running in my BB client in the same manner. Michael -----Original Message----- From: Reif Jeffery M [mailto:ReifJefferyM at JohnDeere.com] Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 3:28 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] how to implement custom tests I installed Hobbit on my (former) BB server. The clients are reporting in normally. However, I have some tests for hosts (NetApp, Tandem - that have no BB client) that run on the BB server and use the bb executable to "trick" the server into thinking it received it from an external client. For example: exec("/opt/bb/bin/bb", $IP, "status $machine.$test $color $now\n $status\n @array\n ") or die( "$1: Couldn't execute BB"); Is there an equivalent function on the Hobbit server that can accomplish this without having both BB and Hobbit installed? To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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[hobbit] minor documentation error
by henrik＠hswn.dk 06 Jul '05

06 Jul '05

On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 04:50:32PM -0400, Larry.Barber at usda.gov wrote: > In "Configuring Hobbit Alerts" it says: > > SECS Number of seconds the service has been down. > > will be in the environment of the alert scripts. The variables actual > name is DOWNSECS. Thanks, fixed. Regards, Henrik

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