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Enable/Disable
by hobbitsam＠gmail.com 22 Jul '05

22 Jul '05

HI .. again.. Enable/Disable page is not working... I can disable/enable tests and machines only using command line... Can anyone help me ? Thanks!

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Setting up test in bb-services
by Alun.Watson＠fp.co.nz 22 Jul '05

22 Jul '05

Hi, I've been duplicating a number of the tests that we ran in Big Brother through external scripts in the bb-services config file. One of these old perl test files opened up a telnet session and navigates through some menus to confirm the application is running. The application is crap and needs to pause between each command otherwise the session remains open. Is there a way to pause for a length of time as this app doesn't seem to cache the commands? Here is what I've been trying test with in the bb-services. [rft] send "\r\n 6 \r\n" options banner,telnet port 23 This is the simplest way to get in an out of the app. I've included my perl script that tests our RFT servers at the moment #!/usr/local/bin/perl use IO::Socket; my $sock = IO::Socket::INET->new( PeerAddr => @ARGV, PeerPort =>'23' ); if ($sock) { #print "Opened @ARGV\n"; my $line = <$sock>; print $sock "\015"; print $sock "\012"; sleep 1; print $sock "6"; sleep 1; print $sock "\015"; print $sock "\012"; exit 0;} else { print "not opened @ARGV\n"; exit 1; } close($sock); Alun

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histlog issue for large sites
by olivier＠qalpit.com 21 Jul '05

21 Jul '05

Hi, until now, i haven't did much cleaning in my histlogs, (i'll have to play with the trimhistory command) basicly i would like to keep as much history as i can afford. i have over 1 million files in my histlogs on my production bb server, and just realized that i'm over 50% of used inodes (which could become of probleme in less that a year in my case, soi'll plan to newfs that partition to have more inodes..) henrik : have you thought of managing the histlogs another way ? (from my user point of view, i'ld need to have recent history (less that 30 days) quickly available; older history (over 30 days) is less important but i would still like to have it online...) -- Olivier Beau

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performance issue with multiple pagesets
by olivier＠qalpit.com 21 Jul '05

21 Jul '05

Hi Henrik, i loaded hobbit 4.0.5RC1 on my standby server (which isn't as fast as my production bbgen3.5 server..) i'm having lots of iowait, (it isn't swapping), i suspect it's bbgen i have 8 pagesets, and my hobbit/www directory is over 20M... and generating all that every minute (sshhh.. i know..) i'm using most of my pagesets only for the bb2.html, and i am not using the bb.html page at all. here's what is looks for my unix pageset : [root at bigbrother-stdby www]# ls -lh unix/ total 2.0M -rw-r--r-- 1 bb-dev alert 94K Jul 20 16:22 bb2.html -rw-r--r-- 1 bb-dev alert 1.8M Jul 20 16:22 bb.html -rw-r--r-- 1 bb-dev alert 519 Jul 20 16:22 bbnk.html lrwxrwxrwx 1 bb-dev alert 7 Jul 20 16:07 index.html -> bb.html [root at bigbrother-stdby www]# --> Is there a way to disable the generating of the bb.html page for pagesets ? -- Olivier Beau

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Acknowledging & Enable/Disable Permissions
by pbmurray＠syr.edu 21 Jul '05

21 Jul '05

In our quest for a more distributed environment, we have a need to allow a select group of users the ability to acknowledge alerts, but do NOT want to give those users the ability to enable/disable any of the services. It appears that a given userID/password will allow both. Is there any way we can restrict this to disallow the enable/disable ability for some but not all? Thank you. Peter Murray Computing & Media Services Syracuse University Syracuse NY 13244 <pbmurray at syr.edu>

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Failover Servers
by PBMURRAY＠syr.edu 20 Jul '05

20 Jul '05

I have two Hobbit servers with the intent of using one as a failover server. Each is set up to monitor the same hosts. They differ in how the Hobbit servers themselves are defined. Within the primary server I have "# BBDISPLAY BBPAGER BBNET bbd http://primary-server" for the primary server and nothing additional for the failover. Within the failover server I have "# BBDISPLAY BBPAGER BBNET bbd http://failover-server" for the failover server and nothing additional for the primary. (Yes, I did simplify the names for purpose of illustration.) Both servers sit outside of a firewall and monitor servers on each side of the firewall. When either server is up and the other down everything is fine. Or, if both servers are up and I modify their bb-hosts file so that they don't know of each other, everything is fine as well. However, when both servers are up and one knows of the other it's a different story. The "conn" column for the monitored servers that reside behind the firewall goes red, even though I can still successfully ping those servers. These fluctuate between red and green about every minute. I'm at a loss as to what to do. A couple of months ago it was mentioned that a detailed walk-through of how to setup two Hobbit servers existed (Brian Lynch?). Is this document available for downloading or does anyone have any thoughts as to how to solve this? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you. Peter Murray Computing & Media Services Syracuse University Syracuse NY 13244 <pbmurray at syr.edu>

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[hobbit] hobbitd.log : Oversize status msg
by nfigaro＠effigie.fr 20 Jul '05

20 Jul '05

Ce paramètre est défini dans le script "configure" de hobbit. Il faut donc recompiler hobbit. This parameter is in the configure script that comes with the hobbit source archive. You need to recompile hobbit. NF -----Message d'origine----- De : Olivier Beau [mailto:olivier at qalpit.com] Envoyé : mercredi 20 juillet 2005 17:08 À : hobbit at hswn.dk Objet : Re: [hobbit] hobbitd.log : Oversize status msg euh.. :/ whereis do i set MAXMSG in hobbit ? Olivier

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hobbitd.log : Oversize status msg
by olivier＠qalpit.com 20 Jul '05

20 Jul '05

Hi Henrik, (i'm beginning on hobbit) i got 2 of these logs : 2005-07-20 13:53:04 Oversize status msg from vdl-bdd1:content truncated (n=102399) 2005-07-20 14:07:51 Oversize status msg from vdl-bdd1:content truncated (n=102399) Do i have to change MAXLINE in hobbitserver.cfg ? currently my MAXLINE ist default (32768) -- Olivier Beau

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bbmessage.cgi
by tlp-hobbit＠holme-pedersen.dk 20 Jul '05

20 Jul '05

Would anybody have a small html page with the neccesary form tags for the bbmessage.cgi script Mine suggests to download the bbmessage.cgi file :-( Regards, Thomas

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[hobbit] Newbie install questions
by Al.Jeffcoat＠orhs.org 20 Jul '05

20 Jul '05

You'll need to install rrdtool-devel also. I'm not sure but I think I also had to do pcre-devel to put hobbit on fc4 here. HTH. Al -----Original Message----- From: richard kennard [mailto:richard.kennard at oxfordgenomesciences.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 11:58 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Newbie install questions Dear All, Please forgive what (no doubt) will be very noddy level questions! I'm running fedora core 4, and am trying to install hobbit. I've installed rrd using the rpm (rrdtool-1.0.49-5.fc4.i386.rpm) and it /appears/ to have installed. When I attempt to run ./configure I get: Checking for RRDtool ... RRDtool include- or library-files not found. These are REQUIRED for hobbitd RRDtool can be found at http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/ If you have RRDtool installed, use the "--rrdinclude DIR" and "--rrdlib DIR" options to configure to specify where they are. When I add the rrinclude and rrdlib lines (pointing to /usr/bin and user/lib respectively) I get: Checking for RRDtool ... test-rrd.c:3:17: error: rrd.h: No such file or directory test-rrd.c: In function ÔÇÿmainÔÇÖ: test-rrd.c:26: warning: implicit declaration of function ÔÇÿrrd_clear_errorÔÇÖ test-rrd.c:30: warning: implicit declaration of function ÔÇÿrrd_graphÔÇÖ make: *** [test-compile] Error 1 Not RRDtool 1.0.x, checking for 1.2.x test-rrd.c:3:17: error: rrd.h: No such file or directory test-rrd.c: In function ÔÇÿmainÔÇÖ: test-rrd.c:26: warning: implicit declaration of function ÔÇÿrrd_clear_errorÔÇÖ test-rrd.c:28: warning: implicit declaration of function ÔÇÿrrd_graphÔÇÖ make: *** [test-compile] Error 1 ERROR: RRDtool include files found in /usr/bin, but compile fails. Any advice would be much appeciated! Also, is there an FAQ or archive somewhere? Cheers! Richard 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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