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entries in bb-services
by c.rehberger＠oclcpica.org 17 Oct '06

17 Oct '06

Hi all, I want to check the cupsd and tomcat with entries in the bb-services file, but it doesn't works :-( Who can tell me how the checks works exactly? For the cupsd I'm using the entry: [cupsd] send "GET /printers\r\n" expect "HTTP/0.9 200 OK" port 631 The cupsd delivers a wrong answer. What is meant by the send string? Is it a telnet connection or how can I check the send end expect on the shell? The tomcat is best checked with the shell command: wget http://localhost:8080 | grep "200 OK" Is there a possibility to put something like that in the bb-services file? Thanks a lot Chris -- Christian Rehberger System Consultant · OCLC PICA GmbH Grünwalder Weg 28g · 82041 Oberhaching · Germany t +49-(0)89-61308 333 · f +49-(0)89-61308 399 e c.rehberger at oclcpica.org · w http://www.oclcpica.org

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Hobbit SNMP Trap
by Oluwagbenga.Dada＠accelonafrica.com 16 Oct '06

16 Oct '06

Hi All, I want to configure Hobbit to receive SNMP Traps from a third party enterprise NMS tool. I also want to have results of these traps displayed in Hobbit. Has anyone ever worked on anything like this? Thanks for your anticipated co-operation. Gbenga Dada 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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Hobbit : Status not Available
by raymund.layoso＠teamglac.com 16 Oct '06

16 Oct '06

Hi Henrik, I am encountering this problem "Status not avalable" when I click on green icon like http,bbgen,conn,hobbitd. The cgierror logs is: hobbitsvc connect to bbd failed - Permission denied hobbitsvc Whoops ! bb failed to send message - Connection failed but in info and trends column is working fine. I checked the bb-hostsvc.sh in /usr/libexec/hobbit/cgi-bin and it is own by root with rwxr-xr-x permission. I need your advice... regards, Raymond ----------------------------------------- WWW.TEAMGLAC.COM - Now Online! Powered by: MIS TEAM https://www.teamglac.com/

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hobbit: How to change the default client port number?
by jameshong＠motorola.com 16 Oct '06

16 Oct '06

I can't find the information which I need in the list archive. Please help me!!! thanks! Hobbit version: 4.2.0 I change port 1984 to 1937 on hobbit server for Big Brother was running on port 1984. change file hobbitserver.cfg: BBPORT="1937" change file hobbitclient.cfg: BBPORT="1937" It is work on hobbit server. But other server I have changed BBPORT in hobbitclient.cfg on client, but it arrived nothing on the server, only conn is well.

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[Fwd: Hobbit : Status not Available]
by raymund.layoso＠teamglac.com 16 Oct '06

16 Oct '06

---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Hobbit : Status not Available From: "Raymund Layoso" <raymund.layoso at teamglac.com> Date: Sat, October 14, 2006 7:21 pm To: hobbit at hswn.dk -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi Henrik, I am encountering this problem "Status not avalable" when I click on green icon like http,bbgen,conn,hobbitd. The cgierror logs is: hobbitsvc connect to bbd failed - Permission denied hobbitsvc Whoops ! bb failed to send message - Connection failed but in info and trends column is working fine. I checked the bb-hostsvc.sh in /usr/libexec/hobbit/cgi-bin and it is own by root with rwxr-xr-x permission What seems to be the problem? My hobbit version is 4.2 running on Fedora 4. regards, Raymond ----------------------------------------- WWW.TEAMGLAC.COM - Now Online! Powered by: MIS TEAM https://www.teamglac.com/ ----------------------------------------- WWW.TEAMGLAC.COM - Now Online! Powered by: MIS TEAM https://www.teamglac.com/

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Can the main Hobbit entry page be organized into sections?
by D.Mostardi＠mdl.com 14 Oct '06

14 Oct '06

Hello Henrik, Is the bb-hosts file at http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit-cgi/viewconf.sh the same one that creates the main entry page at http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/bb.html? I'm trying to figure out a way to organize the main Hobbit entry page (or any page of subpages) into sections, something like this: Infrastructure -------------- DNS (green dot) Security (dot) VPN (dot) Development ----------- Source code (dot) Build servers (dot) QA (dot) On pages full of hosts, I can use the "group" tag to organize the hosts into sections. But on the main entry page, is there a way to organize the pages/sub-pages into sections? You seem to be trying to do that at http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/bb.html, with a section called "Pages Hosted Locally" and another section below called "Remote Status Display" (though I understand that's a host and not a subpage). I can't see anything in the bb-hosts file that says "Remote Status Display", so I confess I'm not sure how that part is getting displayed on the entry page. Regards, David David Mostardi Advisory Systems Manager Elsevier MDL 2440 Camino Ramon, Suite 300 San Ramon CA 94583 925.543.7350 www.mdl.com

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Feature request: SSL/TLS client/server negotiation
by EES2Y＠hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu 13 Oct '06

13 Oct '06

The subject pretty much says it all :) The top item on my hobbit wish list is to see some sort of client/server authentication & encryption. This will take care of three of my largest hobbit worries/problems: 1. Having to poke a hole in my hobbit server's firewall every time I add a new hobbit client. 2. The possibility that someone might compromise one machine running a hobbit client and use that machine to send false reports or DOS the hobbit server. 3. Prevent tender bits of info (such as my log files) that would otherwise traverse the network unencrypted. Of course, this would break a lot of existing scripts (devmon, bb-xsnmp, etc); perhaps it would be possible to have the secure server listen on a different port? I know I could do all of this with stunnel, but that's one more thing I'd have to install and setup (and one more thing that could break) on all of my hobbit clients. Plus, there's always the laziness factor :) Food for thought. -Eric

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Netstat rrd error updating
by matthew.epp＠us.army.mil 13 Oct '06

13 Oct '06

Searched the archives and found other mentions of this error but no solution. I have a Solaris 8 server with the Hobbit client reporting to the Hobbit server, and everything works except the netstat trend graph. I made sure Hobbit generates the netstat.rrd file itself, and verified that it has the correct fields: $ rrdtool dump netstat.rrd |grep "<name>" <name> udpInDatagrams </name> <name> udpOutDatagrams </name> <name> udpInErrors </name> <name> tcpActiveOpens </name> <name> tcpPassiveOpens </name> <name> tcpAttemptFails </name> <name> tcpEstabResets </name> <name> tcpCurrEstab </name> <name> tcpOutDataBytes </name> <name> tcpInInorderBytes </name> <name> tcpInUnorderBytes </name> <name> tcpRetransBytes </name> <name> tcpOutDataPackets </name> <name> tcpInInorderPackets </name> <name> tcpInUnorderPackets </name> <name> tcpRetransPackets </name> But viewing a debug output of rrd-data.log shows that something is making it think there should only be 11 fields: 2006-10-13 19:18:18 Want msg 667, startpos 66490, fillpos 66490, endpos -1, usedbytes=0, bufleft 461893 2006-10-13 19:18:22 hobbitd_rrd: Got message 667 @@data#667|1160767102.598295|10.x.x.x||x.x.x.x|netstat 2006-10-13 19:18:22 startpos 72703, fillpos 72703, endpos -1 2006-10-13 19:18:22 RRD update param 00: 'rrdupdate' 2006-10-13 19:18:22 RRD update param 01: '/cust/bbh/data/rrd/x.x.x.x/netstat.rrd' 2006-10-13 19:18:22 RRD update param 02: '-t' 2006-10-13 19:18:22 RRD update param 03: 'udpInDatagrams:udpOutDatagrams:udpInErrors:tcpActiveOpens:tcpPassiveOpens:t cpAttemptFails:tcpEstabResets:tcpCurrEstab:tcpOutDataBytes:tcpInInorderBytes :tcpInUnorderBytes' 2006-10-13 19:18:22 RRD update param 04: '1160767102:1580411:5594723:0:113952:19256340:17330:36082:7:653169856:440119 035:9398449:159635980:26380336:13186666:30559:612744' 2006-10-13 19:18:22 RRD error updating /cust/bbh/data/rrd/x.x.x.x/netstat.rrd from x.x.x.x: expected 11 data source readings (got 16) from 1160767102:1580411:5594723:0:113952:19256340:17330:36082:7:653169856:4401190 35:9398449:159635980:26380336:13186666:30559:612744:... Where is "param 03" coming from? From some configuration on the client side?

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call for monitors
by gjohnson＠trantor.org 13 Oct '06

13 Oct '06

Alrighty, Until I can wrap some order around it I'd appreciate it if you'd send me you Hobbit monitors or the links to your project page so I can start making them available...I'll refine the process later...The Shire has remained stagnant too long... Once recieved, I'll try to put something together on each one for the web pages...please include OS, instructions and contact info...if you send a script please subscribe to theshire-developers as well so users can send general queries for the scripts there. I'm also still hoping for explicit tutorials for creating: Monitors Monitors with graphing (NCV) Monitors with graphing (external scripts) I know there is a fair amount of info out there already in the mailing list archives and on Henriks site but I'd like to have this site be the one stop shop for all things monitoring script related (initially I may just provide links to Henrik's pages but would like to extend what is already there)...this is one thing that was always missing from Big Brother (it's not really all that hard and the basics are there already but I had to dig through quite a bit of documentation to roll my own) (also, Henrik's decriptions are much more complete than BBs). =G=

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Iostat graphs missing line data
by shea_greg＠emc.com 13 Oct '06

13 Oct '06

Hi all, Hobbit Server 4.2.0 + all-in-one on RHEL 4 BB19c client sending iostat-bf.sh as STATUS Iostat graph shows up on the web page and the cur,max,min and avg fields all show data greater than 0 for the root and apps disks but no lines on the graph. Other similar clients might show one or two points on the graph, but for the most part thy're blank. Any assistance would be appreciated -Grs- Gregory R Shea EMC Corporation

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