September 2005 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

[hobbit] deadcat.net clients
by nfigaro＠effigie.fr 29 Sep '05

29 Sep '05

Hi, deadcat extension scripts work quite fine with hobbit client. the configuration is not the same (no bb-bbexttab anymore), but it works. So you can use the hobbit client with most deadcat extension scripts. Nicolas Figaro -----Message d'origine----- De : patrick_healy at nywd.uscourts.gov [mailto:patrick_healy at nywd.uscourts.gov] Envoyé : jeudi 29 septembre 2005 16:02 À : hobbit at hswn.dk Objet : [hobbit] deadcat.net clients Is it safe to say that I would need to install a Big Brother client on machines where I'd like to use a module from deadcat.net? Thanks! ==================================================== Patrick Healy U.S. District Court, NYWD patrick_healy at nywd.uscourts.gov 304 U.S. Courthouse Voice: 716-332-1770 68 Court Street FAX: 716-551-4850 Buffalo, NY 14202

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Custom graphs on the status page
by matti＠saffron.net 29 Sep '05

29 Sep '05

Is it possible to add graphs of custom tests to a status page as well as the trends page? I'm running a custom test (named "foo") that measures response times of a service. So far I've managed to get a graph of foo to appear under trends using Hobbit's NCV handler, but I'm not having any luck getting it on foo's status page. Here's what I have: - custom test named "foo" that sends status messages in "sec: <time>" format - in hobbitgraph.cfg, added a [foo] section - in hobbitserver.cfg, added "foo=ncv" to TEST2RRD and "foo" to GRAPHS - in hobbitserver.cfg, added NCV_foo="sec:GAUGE" I tried adding "GRAPHS:*,foo" to the host entry in bb-hosts, as per this message about mysqlstatus [1], but that had no effect. Thanks for any suggestions. Matti [1] http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2005/06/msg00268.html

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Hobbit Chart & Time based monitoring
by Oluwagbenga.Dada＠accelonafrica.com 29 Sep '05

29 Sep '05

Thanks Guys, I would also love to know if Hobbit can display Pie chart based images/graph when reporting. I would love to incorporate this into my Hobbit NMS for better understanding of uptime & reporting. Also do you know how i could configure Hobbit to monitor devices between specific time of the day, thus reflecting this in its availiability report. I want to monitor some devices between mornings & evenings. I only want Hobbit to concern itself with this period & not bother about whether these devices are up or down after specified time has expired. Thanx once more. Disclaimer **************************************************************************************************************************** The information contained in this e-mail, any attached files, and response threads are confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the use of individual(s) or entity to which it is addressed and others authorised to receive it. If you are not the intended recipient, kindly notify the sender by return mail and delete this message and any attachment(s) immediately. Save as expressly permitted by the author, any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking action in reliance on the contents of the information contained in this e-mail is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Unless otherwise clearly stated, and related to the official business of Accelon Nigeria Limited, opinions, conclusions, and views expressed in this message are solely personal to the author. Accelon Nigeria Limited accepts no liability whatsoever for any loss, be it direct, indirect or consequential, arising from information made available in this e-mail and actions resulting there from. For more information about Accelon Nigeria Limited, please see our website at http://www.accelonafrica.com ******************************************************************************************************************************

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More newbie client questions
by patrick_healy＠nywd.uscourts.gov 28 Sep '05

28 Sep '05

Thanks to all who responded to my last message... New problem: I've installed the Hobbit client on my Linux systems and it works wonderfully. However I have a number of Solaris 2.X servers on x86 platforms. The client compiles fine, and appears to be running, but none of the information is being reported to the server. I checked the client names, and there aren't any exceptions listed in the hobbitd report, so I'm assuming they names are right. Any idea how I can go about debugging this further? THanks again, Pat ==================================================== Patrick Healy U.S. District Court, NYWD patrick_healy at nywd.uscourts.gov 304 U.S. Courthouse Voice: 716-332-1770 68 Court Street FAX: 716-551-4850 Buffalo, NY 14202

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[hobbit] Features request.
by adam.scheblein＠marquette.edu 28 Sep '05

28 Sep '05

I think you were thinking of 11iv1 and 11iv2 (where there was some interface/usability changes and v2 runs on both the rp and rx boxes) there is unfortunately a huge difference between 11 and 11i's ADam -----Original Message----- From: Dan Vande More [mailto:bigdan at gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 1:49 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Features request. Oh, whoops, my apologies. I not big into HPUX, so I wasn't aware that 11 != 11.11, I thought they were mostly the same. On a related note, I know that I was not able to get rdist to compile on this sucker. What I ended up doing for a few things on my HPUX machine was scp'ing, which, fortunately, still works. -Dan On 9/28/05, Michael Nemeth <michael.nemeth at lmco.com> wrote: > We don't have ANY hpux 11.11 system! Thats the problem.! Lots more come > with/for 11.11! > > Dan Vande More wrote: > > On 9/28/05, Henrik Storner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote: > > > In <433A97A3.5070309 at lmco.com> Michael Nemeth <michael.nemeth at lmco.com> > writes: > > > > Henrik Storner wrote: > > > > In <432AAC9D.1070008 at lmco.com> Michael Nemeth <michael.nemeth at lmco.com> > writes: > > > > > > I complete lost my hobbit server for a day. Is there any work done > on setting up fail over servers? > > The simplest solution: Setup a server identical to your Hobbit server, > and rsync the server/etc/ and data/{hist,rrd,tmp} periodically from > your main server. If the main server dies, start Hobbit on the spare > box. > > > Well no rsync for hp-ux 11. I might be able to rcp/scp . I don't have > another HP set up as a server identical to my Hobbit server. > > rsync is reasonably portable. If you could compile Hobbit on HP-UX, > I'd think you could also compile rsync. > > > > Yes, rsync _should_ compile on hp-ux, but I can't confirm. However, I > use the depot package from here: > > http://gatekeep.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Networking/Admin/rsync-2.6.6/ > > I am running: > > HP-UX presap B.11.11 U 9000/785 > > Once you have it installed all you'd need to do is sync the important > files (bb-hosts, etc) like Henrik said. I use a combination of rdist > and rsync to push my bb/hobbit configuration around to 90+ > hosts(linux, solaris, hpux, bsd), and it works well. > > -Dan > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > > > > > > > -- > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > | _p_ Mike Nemeth > | ___| |_____ email(w) michael.nemeth at lmco.com Work: 856 359-1425 > |><___________) | Home > Page:http://www.geocities.com/mjnemeth/ > | Work Page:http://faraday.motown.lmco.com:3000/~nemethm/ > | Work Page:http://ortsweb/~mnemeth/ > |++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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BBLOCATION
by tlp-hobbit＠holme-pedersen.dk 28 Sep '05

28 Sep '05

Hi all, Will a BBLOCATION tag prevent a defined BBPAGER from paging on all hosts regardless of location tags ? BR Thomas

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R: hobbit-confreport.cgi syntax
by fduranti＠q8.it 28 Sep '05

28 Sep '05

A correction to this: with pageset the config report script will not work I think. It work for the page I've also in the main bb files but if I have a page in the pageset not present in the main BB file it will not work. The output of config report in this case is a web page with: Unable to find host information Francesco -----Messaggio originale----- Da: Francesco Duranti [mailto:fduranti at q8.it] Inviato: lunedì 26 settembre 2005 11.58 A: hobbit at hswn.dk Oggetto: [hobbit] R: [hobbit] hobbit-confreport.cgi syntax If i use the config report from a page inside a pageset it work well but if i use it from the first page of a pagesets it will report all the configured object and not only those in the pageset. Francesco -----Messaggio originale----- Da: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Inviato: mercoledì 21 settembre 2005 17.12 A: hobbit at hswn.dk Oggetto: Re: [hobbit] hobbit-confreport.cgi syntax On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 04:25:53PM +0200, Thomas wrote: > What's the syntax for hobbit-confreport.cgi ? It's invoked as a CGI script. I noticed now that the normal ".sh" wrapper script wasn't included in 4.1.1 - fixed that. A simple script like this in cgi-bin/hobbit-confreport.sh: #!/bin/sh exec /usr/lib/hobbit/server/bin/hobbit-confreport.cgi --env=/etc/hobbit/hobbitserver.cfg And then you should be able to run it by picking it from the "Reports" menu. It uses a cookie to determine what pages/hosts to include in the report. 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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COLOR=yellow not recognized
by dstuffle＠deltafaucet.com 28 Sep '05

28 Sep '05

Hello. Running Hobbit 4.0.4. In my alerts, I have the following alert: HOST=dclcore SERVICE=aaierr MAIL vhm at deltafaucet.com COLOR=yellow But, it doesn't recognize the COLOR=yellow. In the info column, it's just blank under the COLORS column and doesn't alert either. If I change it to COLOR=red, it shows red. COLOR=yellow,red shows red only. In the hobbitserver.cfg, I have: ALERTCOLORS="red,purple" # Colors to alert on. The command: ~/server/bin/bbcmd --env=/usr/local/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg hobbitd_alert --dump-config shows this: HOST=dclcore SERVICE=aaierr MAIL vhm at deltafaucet.com FORMAT=TEXT REPEAT=30 COLOR=yellow Has anyone had the same problem? Thanks David This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the company. Finally, the recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The company accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email.

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DESCR tag in BB-HOSTS
by Emanuele.Mazza＠opcgroup.it 28 Sep '05

28 Sep '05

Hi, does anyone know if there is a string length limit in the DESCR field and if there is a way to get a basic formatting of text -e.g. new-line, bold, ecc..... thanks

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[hobbit] Features request.
by Winn.Beutler＠mcdata.com 28 Sep '05

28 Sep '05

I have used 'rdist' for many years to synchronize system. It is simple to use and comes already available on many systems. Winn -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Storner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 8:16 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Features request. In <433A97A3.5070309 at lmco.com> Michael Nemeth <michael.nemeth at lmco.com> writes: >Henrik Storner wrote: >>In <432AAC9D.1070008 at lmco.com> Michael Nemeth <michael.nemeth at lmco.com> writes: >> >> >> >>>I complete lost my hobbit server for a day. Is there any work done >>>on setting up fail over servers? >> >>The simplest solution: Setup a server identical to your Hobbit server, >>and rsync the server/etc/ and data/{hist,rrd,tmp} periodically from >>your main server. If the main server dies, start Hobbit on the spare >>box. >> >Well no rsync for hp-ux 11. I might be able to rcp/scp . I don't have >another HP set up as a server identical to my Hobbit server. rsync is reasonably portable. If you could compile Hobbit on HP-UX, I'd think you could also compile rsync. >Ive a sun but I don't think the rrds would work . Anyone know if this >is so? Probably not, you would have to do a dump/import of each RRD file. Anyway, the reason I suggested that you should copy over the RRD files was just to keep your historical trends data. If you can live without that - and just need to get monitoring up and running ASAP - then ignore the RRD files. >>>Next I just added 87 clients as a test. I may want to remove them. Yes >>>I CAN write a script to do the drop and >>>Im not worried about editing the bb-host file, but maybe the the >>>enable/disable gui could be extended to include >>>a drop feature or a separate GUI? Im not one for GUIs but others will >>>be admining this too. >> >>It's a "nice to have" thing. Not difficult, just need a day or two to >>implement it. > >Great! in 4.1.2 ? Nope. 4.1.2 is in "feature-freeze". >>>There is an old unix program out there called Watcher. One nice >>>feature was it alerted you to large changes. >>>Like a FS grew or decreased by 5% or 1G . (Or decreased by 100% ;rm >>>-rf *!! >> >>Could be useful, but I'll leave that for later. >> >OK . It IS useful . Here is the link to watcher : >http://www.i-pi.com/watcher.html Thanks, I tried google'ing it but couldn't find it. >>>How about move or duplicating the tip: >>>What do the little red/yellow/green icons mean ? >>>on the web page in the head or footer ? >> >>I prefer to keep the pages as clean as possible, but feel free to >>customize the templates any way you like :-) > >Fair enough. But how as a separate help item ; legend . I would >prefer if to be in there header, click on it and it display the page. >IM ALWAYS ask what they are. Add an entry to your ~hobbit/server/www/menu/menu_items.js file, like ['Hobbit Icons', '/hobbit/help/hobbit-tips.html#icons'], Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk SPECIAL NOTICE All information transmitted hereby is intended only for the use of the addressee(s) named above and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution of confidential and privileged information is prohibited. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient(s) or the employee or agent responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you must not read this transmission and that disclosure, copying, printing, distribution or use of any of the information contained in or attached to this transmission is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. Anyone who receives confidential and privileged information in error should notify us immediately by telephone and mail the original message to us at the above address and destroy all copies. To the extent any portion of this communication contains public information, no such restrictions apply to that information. (gate01)

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