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DNS reboot causes purples
by billieperez＠gmail.com 12 Jan '06

12 Jan '06

Hi all, I'm hoping someone might be able to help me. I'm running Hobbit 4.1.2 on a Fedora Core 4, monitoring approximately 500 servers. I have been running Hobbit for a few months and a few times our DNS server has been rebooted for patching. When this happens it causes some servers to go purple and the only way I've been able to fix this is to restart the Hobbit service but it has generated a ton of alerts and not a lot of happy alert recipients. My /etc/resolv.conf file has primary and secondary DNS servers, so I would have thought if one wasn't available it would use the other, but this doesn't seem to be the case. Has anyone seen this or know what I could do to prevent these purples from occuring when the DNS server is rebooted? Thanks much in advance.

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Bbtest Program crashed
by subhash.gada＠logicacmg.com 12 Jan '06

12 Jan '06

Hi, Bbtest is crashed and getting the following error - Program crashed, Fatal signal caught!. All the connectivity test turned to purple after some time. This is what am getting when I run bbtest-net with gdb tool. Any help is appreciated. (gdb) run Starting program: /home/hobbit/server/bin/bbtest-net Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x400943ca in strcmp () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 Regards, Subhash This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Thank you.

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bbtest-net core dumps when reading bb-services
by ad＠dg-i.net 12 Jan '06

12 Jan '06

Hi, I'm running the 4.1.2.p1-1 .deb-package on a Debian Sarge box. After not getting any test results I realized that the bbtest-net daemon does not even start, but directly segfaults after startup. After playing around with strace I figured out that it has to do with the service definitions. After I moved /etc/hobbit/bb-services away, it starts perfectly, just complaining that it has to use internal defaults. Another uncorrect behaviour (I guess) with the bb-services file from the package in its default location: ------------------------- hobbit at debianbox:~$ bbtest-net --services --debug 2>&1 Command: bbtest-net '--services' '--debug' Environment BBLOCATION='' Environment CONNTEST='TRUE' Environment IPTEST_2_CLEAR_ON_FAILED_CONN='TRUE' Service list dump BBNETSVCS set to : smtp telnet ftp pop pop3 pop-3 ssh imap ssh1 ssh2 imap2 imap3 imap4 pop2 pop-2 nntp Service list dump hobbit at debianbox:~$ -------------------------- I tried even a very minimalistic bb-services file with just the smtp service definition from the bb-services.5 man-page. That also leads to a segfault. Is this a known problem for the Debian package? Could this also have to do with our bb-hosts file that I copied from a BB 1.9c server? Regards, Andreas Dembach

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[hobbit] Default order of Current non-green Systems
by andrew＠bccit.co.uk 12 Jan '06

12 Jan '06

So, is there any reason for the partially sorted order of my items? Andrew -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Clarke [mailto:andrew at bccit.co.uk] > Hmm - strange. On my system :- > AKA r********-fs > ARAD**** arad* > DG*** Dg*** > FB* ten******* > THA***-N***** > THA***-P****** > bcc***02 > bcc***04 > CB*** t**** > C&C cn****** > CAN*** co*****1 > DG*** Dg***** > DG*** Dg********1 > RE**** ho-********1 > So, sort of A-Z a-z but in two blocks. > NB: This is a list of remote & local BB clients as well as CONN tests > NB2: I use the NAMES statement in the hosts file to help identify the > clients. -----Original Message----- > > From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk]=20 > > On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 12:01:23PM -0000, Andrew Clarke wrote: > > > Is there any logic in the order of items on the "Current non-green > > > Systems" screen? > > > Is it possible to have it sorted alphabetically? > > Huh ? It *is* sorted alphabetically - strictly, so A B C ... a b c ... > > Henrik

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does client/bin/hobbitlaunch read clientlaunch.cfg after changes?
by Schrittenlocher＠rz.uni-frankfurt.de 11 Jan '06

11 Jan '06

Hi, according to the manpages hobbitlaunch on the server recognizes changes in the config file automatically. I have the impression that client/hobbitlaunch doesn't. Is there another way to make client/bin/hobbitlaunch reread clientlaunch.cfg than restarting (something like kill -HUP ...)? kind regards Rolf -- Mit freundlichen Gruessen Rolf Schrittenlocher HRZ/BDV, Senckenberganlage 31, 60054 Frankfurt Tel: (49) 69 - 798 28908 Fax: (49) 69 798 2881 LBS: lbs-f at mlist.uni-frankfurt.de Persoenlich: schritte at rz.uni-frankfurt.de

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disable using command line
by Schrittenlocher＠rz.uni-frankfurt.de 11 Jan '06

11 Jan '06

Hi, I've searched the archive (pooh, so many entries for "disble") and the help-pages, but I didn't find it: How can I disable tests on the command line (I want to do this by cron)? Thanks, Rolf -- Mit freundlichen Gruessen Rolf Schrittenlocher HRZ/BDV, Senckenberganlage 31, 60054 Frankfurt Tel: (49) 69 - 798 28908 Fax: (49) 69 798 2881 LBS: lbs-f at mlist.uni-frankfurt.de Persoenlich: schritte at rz.uni-frankfurt.de

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MRTG & Hobbit
by jeffnewman75＠gmail.com 10 Jan '06

10 Jan '06

All, I am using the built-in mrtg hobbit functionality (i.e. not using bb-mrtg) I used cfgmaker on my server to build my mrtg.cfg. I am running mrtg against a cisco 6509 switch BTW. cfgmaker generated the mrtg.cfg with all the interfaces on the switch. A little tweaking got it generating graphs correctly. The labels on each graph look mostly correct (i.e. .fa0_0_0 inbound and .fa0_0_0) {the . in front of the label name is why I say mostly correct, I don't really care much about that} so that is all good. Here's the question. The fa0_0_0 is useful for my network guy, but doesn't mean anything to me. Looking at the mrtg.cfg I see it has in it the info that would be useful to me. Here is a snippet (question below snippet) Title[mrtg.Fa0_0_0]: Traffic Analysis for Fa0/0/0 -- RPCFIR1 PageTop[mrtg.Fa0_0_0]: <H1>Traffic Analysis for Fa0/0/0 -- RPCFIR1</H1> <TABLE> <TR><TD>System:</TD> <TD>RPCFIR1 in </TD></TR> <TR><TD>Maintainer:</TD> <TD></TD></TR> <TR><TD>Description:</TD><TD>FastEthernet0/0/0 OA Link Subnet15 </TD></TR> <TR><TD>ifType:</TD> <TD>ethernetCsmacd (6)</TD></TR> <TR><TD>ifName:</TD> <TD>Fa0/0/0</TD></TR> <TR><TD>Max Speed:</TD> <TD>12.5 MBytes/s</TD></TR> <TR><TD>Ip:</TD> <TD>167.76.15.2 ()</TD></TR> </TABLE> is there a way to either make the title of the graph match the title (or description) from the snippet above (for each interface) or just have text in the trends page do it? (i.e. Line from title above, then show pic, then show title line for next graph, then that graph etc...) ? Thanks, Jeff

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Hobbit and Webmin / Delegated Hobbit
by AlonO＠BEZEQINT.CO.IL 10 Jan '06

10 Jan '06

I have two questions: 1. Is there a chance that someone is working on Webmin module for Hobbit? Something likes the existing BigBrother module. Does anyone knows about other (not Webmin) Hobbit Admin Web interface 2. Is there a way to enable users to view only its own monitoring systems? It is easy to create the HTML directory but the CGI files are shared. I want to create a few "views" or split in some way the Hobbit hosts page. The only way I am thinking about is to run several separated Hobbit servers which is not very efficient Alon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The information contained in this message is proprietary of Bezeq International, protected from disclosure, and may be privileged. The information is intended to be conveyed only to the designated recipient(s) of the message. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, use, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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[hobbit] Default order of Current non-green Systems
by andrew＠bccit.co.uk 10 Jan '06

10 Jan '06

Hmm - strange. On my system :- AKA r********-fs ARAD**** arad* DG*** Dg*** FB* ten******* THA***-N***** THA***-P****** bcc***02 bcc***04 CB*** t**** C&C cn****** CAN*** co*****1 DG*** Dg***** DG*** Dg********1 RE**** ho-********1 So, sort of A-Z a-z but in two blocks. NB: This is a list of remote & local BB clients as well as CONN tests NB2: I use the NAMES statement in the hosts file to help identify the clients. -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk]=20 Sent: 10 January 2006 14:47 To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Default order of Current non-green Systems On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 12:01:23PM -0000, Andrew Clarke wrote: > Is there any logic in the order of items on the "Current non-green > Systems" screen? > Is it possible to have it sorted alphabetically? Huh ? It *is* sorted alphabetically - strictly, so A B C ... a b c ... Henrik

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Default order of Current non-green Systems
by andrew＠bccit.co.uk 10 Jan '06

10 Jan '06

Is there any logic in the order of items on the "Current non-green Systems" screen? Is it possible to have it sorted alphabetically? Ta, Andrew

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