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DOWNTIME tag question
by etmsys＠rit.edu 04 Oct '06

04 Oct '06

Just wondering if anyone had more experience with the DOWNTIME tag. I'm just starting to use Hobbit for monitoring. The DOWNTIME tag I have a question with. I had this: 129.21.35.49 sc3oracle02 # ssh oracle:COBDPROD DOWNTIME=*:0244:0546:Backups COMMENT:"<font size=-1>cobddb</font> The Database went down at 2:45am, however things went Red. I see this in the hobbitd.log: 2006-09-28 02:44:33 Invalid timespec - expected 4 digits, got: 'Backups' 2006-09-28 02:44:37 Invalid timespec - expected 4 digits, got: 'Backups' 2006-09-28 02:44:41 Invalid timespec - expected 4 digits, got: 'Backups' 2006-09-28 02:44:41 Invalid timespec - expected 4 digits, got: 'Backups' 2006-09-28 02:44:46 Invalid timespec - expected 4 digits, got: 'Backups' 2006-09-28 02:44:47 Invalid timespec - expected 4 digits, got: 'Backups' 2006-09-28 02:44:49 Invalid timespec - expected 4 digits, got: 'Backups' 2006-09-28 02:44:49 Invalid timespec - expected 4 digits, got: 'Backups' So I thought maybe it was Backups was not quoted, so I changed it to: 129.21.35.49 sc3oracle02 # ssh oracle:COBDPROD DOWNTIME=*:0244:0546:"Backups" COMMENT:"<font size=-1>cobddb</font> I then extended the Endtime and shutdown the DB, I still got this error: 2006-09-28 08:11:32 Invalid timespec - expected 4 digits, got: 'Backups' However this time it appeared that it was blue and disabled. My question is more of a clarification. I have not tried to put in DOWNTIME=oracle:*:0244:0546:"Backups" Can someone clear up what is happening and how it should work? Thanks. ---Eric

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Hobbit - Alerts - Groups
by ManningR＠uhd.edu 04 Oct '06

04 Oct '06

I have been looking at the email lists and searching the web but can't find an answer. In BB, you can set up groups of people and clients in bbwarnrules and bbwarnsetup so you don't have to list every client separately when you set up the alerts. Does Hobbit have some convention like this, or am I doomed to set up a "paragraph" on each client I want to alert on? Robert Manning Unix and Web Administrator University of Houston-Downtown Information Technology Voice:713.221.2790 Email:manningr at uhd.edu

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[hobbit] MRTG Integration - Graph titles
by KauffmanT＠nibco.com 04 Oct '06

04 Oct '06

Henrik -- same question from me; I've got mrtg gathering data for san switches, with the titles identifying port connection. It would be nice to see this, so I don't have to pass out my technicolor cross-mapping sheet. Tom -----Original Message----- From: Shane Presley [mailto:shane.presley at gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 2:31 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] MRTG Integration - Graph titles Hello, Running Hobbit Monitor 4.2.0 I'm using the instructions found in hobbit-mrtg.html. I've created my MRTG config files, using RRD and the appropriate WorkDir. Also setup the Directory statements. In fact, I see my RRD files going into the correct path. And clicking on the trends column for a various server shows new graphs. My only problem, is the graph titles seem odd. The legend on each graph is correct (as I've given in the Target name). But the title is always "Server Name Network Traffic (MRTG)" Is there a way for it to use my TITLE tag from the MRTG config file? Thanks Shane To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email and any attachments are for the exclusive and confidential use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, distribute or take action in reliance upon this message. If you have received this in error, please notify us immediately by return email and promptly delete this message and its attachments from your computer system. We do not waive attorney-client or work product privilege by the transmission of this message.

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[feature request] pass ghosts info to a channel
by cgoyard＠cvf.fr 04 Oct '06

04 Oct '06

Hello all, I feel like having hobbit to pass ghost reports on to a worker could be useful. Say, mapping page, status, notes, and data, to ghost_page, ghost_status and so on... Regards, -- Charles Goyard - cgoyard at cvf.fr - (+33) 1 45 38 01 31

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[hobbit] Premature end of script headers: bb-hostsvc.sh, referer: ...
by neil.camp＠deca.mil 04 Oct '06

04 Oct '06

I found this link. Let me know if it works for you. http://www.gnu.org/software/gmp/manual/html_node/ABI-and-ISA.html -----Original Message----- From: Craig Cook [mailto:craig at cookitservices.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 2:52 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] Premature end of script headers: bb-hostsvc.sh, referer: ... I have very similar symptons to this thread: http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2006/02/msg00302.html I am on Solaris 9 though (New Hobbit 4.2.0 install). I only get the error when trying to view the info column, other columns work. How do I force hobbit to compile in 32bit mode on Solaris? Thanks Craig Cook -- Systems Monitoring Consulting and Support Services http://www.cookitservices.com To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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[hobbit] Premature end of script headers: bb-hostsvc.sh, referer: ...
by craig＠cookitservices.com 04 Oct '06

04 Oct '06

I have very similar symptons to this thread: http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2006/02/msg00302.html I am on Solaris 9 though (New Hobbit 4.2.0 install). I only get the error when trying to view the info column, other columns work. How do I force hobbit to compile in 32bit mode on Solaris? Thanks Craig Cook -- Systems Monitoring Consulting and Support Services http://www.cookitservices.com

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BBREPWARN variable (bug?)
by robertholden＠gmail.com 04 Oct '06

04 Oct '06

Was dumping all variables in bulletin_footer and ran across something strange. When I insert &BBREPWARN into any page (header / body or footer), it will cause the page to not display correctly, or in some cases not display at all. Any ideas why it would do this? For pages like bb.html it will refuse to generate a newly updated page until the variable is removed and hobbit is rebooted. Looking at hobbitserver.cfg and environ.c this variable is just assigned "97" or some other value. I tried this in Hobbit versions 4.1.2 and 4.2.0 and get the same result. Robert

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version 4.2.0 possible bug in ghosts report
by robertholden＠gmail.com 04 Oct '06

04 Oct '06

When the Ghost Client report is called it appears that the variables set in hobbitserver.cfg are not used, instead their default values are set. This includes BBSERVERWWWURL, BBSERVERIP, BBSERVERHOSTNAME, etc. For our implementation we are using /audit instead of /hobbit, so the following variable are automatically set: BBMENUSKIN: /audit/menu BBSERVERWWWURL: /audit BBWEB: /audit BBSKIN: /audit/gifs BBHELPSKIN: /audit/help BBNOTESSKIN: /audit/notes BBREPURL: /audit/rep BBSNAPURL: /audit/snap BBWAP: /audit/wml But on the ghosts report, they are set to: BBMENUSKIN: /hobbit/menu BBSERVERWWWURL: /hobbit BBWEB: /hobbit BBSKIN: /hobbit/gifs BBHELPSKIN: /hobbit/help BBNOTESSKIN: /hobbit/notes BBREPURL: /hobbit/rep BBSNAPURL: /hobbit/snap BBWAP: /hobbit/wml I found the above values by adding those variables to the bulletin_footer file and seeing the differences on bb.html vs ghost report. This mainly causes a problem with the menu JS. It is referenced using BBMENUSKIN, which on the ghosts report is /hobbit/menu instead of /audit/menu. The actual ghost report does work for us. We do not see the menu or images correctly. We are using Hobbit version 4.2.0. Thanks for your help. Robert

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Hobbitd_client crash
by dunne＠accuweather.com 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

Greetings, The hobbitd_client module has been crashing on and off all day. Below is the gdb output. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. This GDB was configured as "powerpc-apple-darwin". Reading symbols for shared libraries .. done #0 0x9004312c in kill () (gdb) bt #0 0x9004312c in kill () #1 0x9009fb9c in abort () #2 0x00016bdc in receive_samples () #3 <signal handler called> #4 0x90007260 in strlen () #5 0x0000ec68 in error_message () #6 0x00002dc8 in main (argc=1192252, argv=0xa0005290) at bb.c:138 (gdb) quit Thanks, Mike Michael Dunne Network Support Specialist AccuWeather, Inc. ~HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools. (Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary")~

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Termination Error. Hobbit - 4.2.0
by grsamy＠yahoo.com 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

References: <20061003044836.74972.qmail at web33511.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Thanks for your fast patch It worked. Thanks again and sorry for the duplicate posting.. -- Rama On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 09:48:36PM -0700, RAMA wrote: > Hi, > > All were fine for a month until I get this error in > /var/log/hobbit/clientdata.log > 2006-10-02 21:35:00 Worker process died with exit code 134, terminating > > and I am getting purple message for all hobitclient messages from that server. > > Using hobbit 4.2.0 Thanks for your report, it was quite clear as to what the problem is. The attached patch should solve this. Regards, Henrik --- hobbitd/client_config.c 2006/08/06 21:03:46 1.50 +++ hobbitd/client_config.c 2006/10/03 05:25:53 @@ -1249,6 +1249,7 @@ *abswarn = 0; *abspanic = 0; *ignored = 0; + *group = NULL; rule = getrule(hostname, pagename, classname, C_DISK); while (rule && !namematch(fsname, rule->rule.disk.fsexp->pattern, rule->rule.disk.fsexp->exp)) { --------------------------------- All-new Yahoo! Mail - Fire up a more powerful email and get things done faster.

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