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trimhistory request
by olivier＠qalpit.com 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

Hi Henrik, Could it be possible to have a kind "--simulate" option to trimhistory, that would'nt delete files; that would only show what files would be deleted ? Olivier

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Config Report
by allan＠zandahar.net 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

Hai All, Just been looking on Henriks' demo site and noticed the config report bit under one of the menus so I went looking to try and do the same. About the only thing I can find is the header and footer files in the web directory but I cant see anything else about how to get this (but I may be blind) Can someone tell me if this is possible or is this something cool Henrik has done :) Cheers folks Allan

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[hobbit] Problems supressing yellow alerts
by EES2Y＠hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

After looking at this a little more, I realize that the NOPROPYELLOW statement is working (don't know about the bbgen --nopropyellow flag, though). I was fooled by the fact that the yellow alarms were appearing in the event-log display on the bb2 page (they were not appearing at the top of the bb2 page, and were not setting the background 'alarm color'). We have one non-critical test that is cluttering up our event-log display. I'd really like to be able to prevent a specific test from appearing in the bb2 event-log display; is there a way to do this, and, if not, could I put in a feature request? :) Regards, -Eric > -----Original Message----- > From: Schwimmer, Eric E *HS [mailto:EES2Y at hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu] > Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 11:03 AM > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: [hobbit] Problems supressing yellow alerts > > > Howdy all, > > I wanted to see if anybody else had any experience /w this > before I go poking at code. > > I've got a test (called 'if_load') that I want to suppress > yellow alerts for. Now I've tried three methods for doing this: > > . using the 'NOPROPYELLOW:if_load' explicity for each host. > . using 'NOPROPYELLOW:if_load' in conjunction with a > .default. host statement > . using --nopropyellow=if_load in the bbgen cmd line in > hobbitlaunch.cfg > > In the first two cases, I get a "Suppressed warnings > (yellow): if_load" in the 'info' screen of all defined hosts. > When using --nopropyellow method, I dont even get a msg in > the info screen (even after restarting hobbit). > > Regardless of which method I use, yellow alerts for if_load > still trickle upwards to the bb2 screen. Anybody seen > anything like that? > > Regards, > -Eric > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > > >

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Multiple ps commands
by rsmrcina＠wi.rr.com 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

Would is be possible for the Hobbit client to issue the ps command once? It looks as if it is done twice now, to populate the 'Client data' page and to populate the 'procs' page. I can remove the ps command from the script that populates the 'Client data' page, but then I lose the processes count and graph data. This could be better, since processes could come and go between the time the two commands are issued. Using one command could provide a more consistent view of what is going on. -- Rich Smrcina VM Assist, Inc. Main: (262)392-2026 Cell: (414)491-6001 Ans Service: (360)715-2467 rich.smrcina at vmassist.com Catch the WAVV! http://www.wavv.org WAVV 2006 - Chattanooga, TN - April 7-11, 2006

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Hobbit 4.1.1 released
by henrik＠hswn.dk 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

Hot on the heels of 4.1.0 comes 4.1.1, fixing the bugs that have been reported today by the courageous people who dare to install a ".0" release. Of course, now that it has become ".1" it is perfect :-) This should actually build on systems that have PCRE headers in a non-default location or use Korn shell; it will get the "disk" status color right; it won't flood your Hobbit server with "vmstat" processes; and a couple of annoying crashes got fixed as well. My apologies - this one should be a lot better. Regards, Henrik.

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hpux
by cits.bogajewski＠daimlerchrysler.com 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

Hi, i have still problems to get the newest version of hobbit server on HPUX 11.11 running. Since the server component is not running, i cant say something about the new client.. :( So it would be interesting to hear whether someone got 4.1.1 or the latest snapshot running and i would be grateful if you could take a look on this problem.. some additional details are included within my last email on 26.07.. The error appears once a minute within bb-display.log: "hobbitd status-board not available" The "hobbitd" task dies with signal 6 once a minute as well, leaving a core file. GDB output as following: t040m902:/opt/hobbit/server # gdb bin/hobbitd tmp/core GNU gdb 5.3 Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.11"... Core was generated by `hobbitd'. Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted. warning: The shared libraries were not privately mapped; setting a breakpoint in a shared library will not work until you rerun the program. warning: Can't find file hobbitd referenced in dld_list. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libnsl.1...done. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libxti.2...done. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libc.2...done. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libdld.2...done. #0 0xc0209378 in kill () from /usr/lib/libc.2 (gdb) bt #0 0xc0209378 in kill () from /usr/lib/libc.2 #1 0xc01a46ac in raise () from /usr/lib/libc.2 #2 0xc01e4aa0 in abort_C () from /usr/lib/libc.2 #3 0xc01e4afc in abort () from /usr/lib/libc.2 #4 0x00012400 in sigsegv_handler (signum=8216) at sig.c:57 #5 <signal handler called> #6 0xc0195558 in mallinfo () from /usr/lib/libc.2 #7 0xc0196484 in _sigfillset () from /usr/lib/libc.2 #8 0xc019901c in free () from /usr/lib/libc.2 #9 0x0000bf9c in main (argc=0, argv=0x0) at hobbitd.c:3621 #10 0xc0143158 in _start () from /usr/lib/libc.2 Thanks a lot, Anatoli Bogajewski

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bbtest-net to hobbitd problem
by olivier＠qalpit.com 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

Hi Henrik, i'm having a problem: -bbtest-net reports one or two "Whoops ! bb failed to send message - timeout" in the report -which is causing a bunch of net test to go purple (pretty embarrasing..) -i tried to play with BBMAXMSGSPERCOMBO and BBSLEEPBETWEENMSGS, but doesnt seem to have any effect... -once in while bbtest-net does report everything fine to hobbitd, without any changes on the server here's the output from bbtest-net --debug where the whoops happens: 2005-08-01 13:15:24 Recipient listed as '127.0.0.1' 2005-08-01 13:15:24 Standard BB protocol on port 1985 2005-08-01 13:15:24 Will connect to address 127.0.0.1 port 1985 2005-08-01 13:15:24 Connect status is 0 2005-08-01 13:15:24 Sent 65532 bytes 2005-08-01 13:15:24 Sent 81921 bytes 2005-08-01 13:15:24 Sent 49152 bytes 2005-08-01 13:15:29 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - timeout it looks like bbtest-net actually connected to hobbitd ! -> could bbtest-net re-open a connection and resend the affected statuses when a oops happens ? later in the bbtest-net log i see this, which is different since i suppose bbtest-net got a connection closed the first try: 2005-08-01 13:15:29 Recipient listed as '127.0.0.1' 2005-08-01 13:15:29 Standard BB protocol on port 1985 2005-08-01 13:15:29 Will connect to address 127.0.0.1 port 1985 2005-08-01 13:15:34 Timeout while talking to bbd at 127.0.0.1:1985 - retrying 2005-08-01 13:15:35 Will connect to address 127.0.0.1 port 1985 2005-08-01 13:15:35 Connect status is 0 2005-08-01 13:15:35 Sent 466 bytes 2005-08-01 13:15:35 Closing connection Any idea of what could be going in hobbitd ? (my understanding is that hobbitd kind of drops heavy status connections..) -- Olivier Beau

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Wrong permissions on bb.html
by dan.mcdonald＠austinenergy.com 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

I built a new hobbit server, running 4.1.1, on Mandriva 2005. bb.html, bb2.html, and bbnk.html show up with permissions of 600. Apache refuses to read the files.... I know I fixed this somewhere once before, but I can't find it anywhere. any ideas? -- Daniel J McDonald, CCIE # 2495, CNX, CISSP # 78281 Austin Energy dan.mcdonald at austinenergy.com

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[hobbit] client, /usr/ucb/ps wide output needed
by David.Gore＠mci.com 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

hobbitclient.cfg: # Adjust ps output to your liking PS="/usr/ucb/ps wwax" This will not work on the client? I need the long listing to parse the proc names for java binaries. The client does not appear to be sending the /usr/ucb/ps wwax in msg.txt. -- David

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4.1.1 client hostname
by Dirk.Kastens＠uni-osnabrueck.de 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

Hi, I just installed the new hobbit client on one of our linux machines. It didn't send data to the hobbit server until I changed its hostname to a fully qualified name. The bb client has the option FQDN that must be set to "true" if the server needs a fully qualified name. What about the hobbit client? The bb client also supports a file named bbaliasname where you can define an alias for the client hostname. Do I now have to edit the runbbclient.sh file directly and change the MACHINEDOTS variable if I want to change the hostname? Dirk

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