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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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[hobbit] Script to configure and show graphs and group of graphs
by fduranti＠q8.it 13 Oct '06

13 Oct '06

> > Something I have been dying to see is the whatever view of > the graphs I am looking at, single graph, multiple stat > grpahs, multiple servers, etc.... Would be a great option to > be able to export the data out. So whatever data is making up > the displayed graph, have the option to download a file with > that same data stats, csv, xml, whatever. It's an option that is available in the tool we use to display mrtg generated traffic. I'll check if something can be done about this too.

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[hobbit] Script to configure and show graphs and group of graphs
by fduranti＠q8.it 13 Oct '06

13 Oct '06

> This sounds cool! I had a discussion with some coworkers > yesterday, who were asking me how long Hobbit keeps its data. > I showed them how the rrd files kept data for 576 days. They > then asked me how we could retain data longer than that. I > was thinking we could periodically (every > quarter?) archive the rrd files to another dir or storage, > and start fresh. They then asked me how we would look at > those graphs from older archived rrd files, to which I am not sure. > > It sounds to me like your tool could be an answer, if it > could be modified to use an alternate location of rrd files. > This would allow viewing older data that was no longer > accessible via the normal Hobbit interface. > I can check what can be done... I've to check if using the standard hobbitgraph cgi it's possible to make it read the data in another directory (I think it should be possible) and then It will be also possible to get data from another source. For our routers we've archived rrd files generated by rrd of last 15 days, and then we have archived 1 rrd file for the 1st of each month just to go back and check what was happening in the past and if the traffic really changed during a normal working day/week. I'll check if it's possible to do something about. Francesco

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[hobbit] clearing "msgs" status
by gumby3203＠gmail.com 13 Oct '06

13 Oct '06

Without editing the actual log files, is there any way to tell Hobbit to go green on the "msgs" column? We have several machines that have fairly quiet logs, and as such sometimes end up with Hobbit being yellow because of log messages that are a week or two old. It would be nice to be able to tell Hobbit that these messages have been taken care of, and to go green again.

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Script to configure and show graphs and group of graphs
by fduranti＠q8.it 13 Oct '06

13 Oct '06

Hi all, some day ago I was thinking on how to get the graphs generated by hobbit rrd in a more presentable way because now with the netapp scripts I'm getting about more then 1000 rrd file on some objects and most of the time I've to search for the data I really need in the trends column loosing some time just to check that what I want to see is just in the middle of the page and difficult to spot. So I decided to create a script that will let me choose what graphs I want to see. At this moment I'm finishing some tests on the scripts and I want to know what people would like to see added to it or get some ideas from other that had the same problems I got. The script at this moment have 2 mode of work: 1) It can be called via the hobbit menu (you have to add it to the menu) 2) It can be run from a test column like the trends graph (you've to run a custom extention script that will add that column to every object in hobbit) The only difference between the 2 running mode is that in the first mode you can choose the host you want to see the graphs from a list and in the second case you just see the graphs of the hosts of the column you clicked. In the first case the list of host is constructed with all the host on the page you're on and all host of the subpages. In the webpage you'll be able to choose a group of test and/or a list of test you want to display. The definition of what tests will be in a defined group and what host have that group to be displayed is done in a configuration file. After I finish the script to create the graphs I'll also start to work on a script to modify the configuration (add/remove test to group, link group of test to hosts and change how many rrd file will be displayed in a single graph for tests that have a FNPATTERN (like disk or inode). For the moment you could only choose one host from the hostlist, I'm thinking on how to display multiple graphs (at least 2) and there are 2 solution I could think about: one is to display the data using the "*-multi" defined into the hobbitgraphs.cfg, the other one will be to display the graphs one near the other (probably not too elegant) but at least it should work with most of the graphs and it's possible to check also graphs with multiple dataset with this one. In the web page there will be the possibility to choose what group of graph display for the selected (or default) host or to choose just some of the tests for that host. When you change the selected host the list of test group will change according to the host showing only group defined for that host. When you change the selected group of test it will display the list of test of that group so you can choose just one or two graphs to show. At the head of the selection box of group and test list there will be a "ALL" that if choosen will display all the graphs that take part in the group defined on that host or all the graphs for that host. The list of test will also be defined (and changed automatically) to show only test defined (and for which there are file with data in them) for that host. After you choose to display graph groups or single tests the page is refreshed and will be divided in 3 parts: 1) at the top there will be the same boxes/button to choose new graphs. 2) after the choosing boxes there will be a series of link that will move you into the web page to the selected graph 3) the graph you choose to display After each graph there will be a link to return to the top of the page. I'm thinking if it can also be usefull to put a "previous test graph"/"next test graph" link to go to the previous or next test graphs. The configuration file will be something like this: #define a graph group named performance [GROUP performance] testlist=la,vmstat,vmstat1,vmstat2 hostlist=server1,server2,server3 #define a group that will show disk, inode, snapshot and qtree usage [GROUP diskusage] testlist=disk,inode,snapshot,qtree hostlist=filer1,filer2 #define a group to show single snapshot space usage by volume [GROUP snapshotusage] testlist=snaplist,snaplist1,snaplist2 hostlist=filer1,filer2 #define default number of graph to show for each test [graphnumbers] # 5 disk % usage per graphs disk=5 disk1=5 qtree=5 inode=5 # 1 snaplist space usage for each graph snaplist2=2 snaplist1=2 snaplist=2 Well I think at this moment I've finished so if want let me know what you think and what you think can be improved. I hope that the first version will be out before the start of the next week (probably full of bugs :D) Francesco

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