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Installing on RH4
by bill.matthews＠gmail.com 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

I'd like to install the server on my RedHat 4 system. Would the FC5 RPM work, or should I compile from source? Thx, BM

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Automated client updates
by neil.camp＠deca.mil 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

Hello, I must be blind, but I am having a hard time finding documentation on setting up my hobbit server to push new client code. I know the feature is new under 4.2.0, but I cannot find how to configure it. I know I have overlooked it somewhere. Would someone be kind enough to point me in the right direction. Thanks! P.S. I too am looking forward to the 4.2.1 release!

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[hobbit] New patches for Hobbit 4.2.0, and a combined "all-in -one" patch is available
by admmdc＠deltafaucet.com 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

I think I speak for all on this list, thanks for all the hard work. Thanks Mark Chastain Unix Admin Delta Faucet Company -----Original Message----- From: henrik at hswn.dk [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 8:50 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] New patches for Hobbit 4.2.0, and a combined "all-in-one" patch is available Everyone, I'm slowly getting back into doing Hobbit development after a seriously stressing period of other work. To get things started, I've merged a series of minor enhancement patches into the code, and dropped a couple of changes that didn't work out right. So there is a new set of patches available on the 4.2.0 patches page http://www.hswn.dk/hobbitsw/patches/ And in response to popular demand, there is now also an all-in-one patch so you can get all of the new stuff in one go. I'll probably give this a bit more testing - if you have the time, please test it also - and then do a 4.2.1 release later this month. Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk 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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[hobbit] pb with hobbit-perl-client and dbcheck (End)
by oboyaval＠ch-bethune.fr 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

Hello, I have installed the full oracle client instead of the oracle instant client and the hobbit perl client can be connected with the database. :-) With the last version of the hobbit perl client, I have to set LANG=en_EN:UTF-8 because I have some warning with conv_str_to_time function. Cdl Olivier

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RE [hobbit] Hobbit_perl_client 1.13
by thomas.seglard.enata＠cnp.fr 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

Hello, just for those who don't want some FS types on AIX, you could add this line to your client 'bin/hobbitclient-aix.sh' # The sed stuff is to make sure lines are not split into two. df -Ik `lsfs -v jfs | awk '{print $1}' | sed -e '1d'` | sed -e '/^[^ ][^ ]*$/{ N s/[ ]*\n[ ]*/ / }' I'm using Clearcase on AIX and don't want to see all these vob files in my df output :) Sincerly, Thomas Ce message (et toutes ses pieces jointes eventuelles) est confidentiel et etabli a l'intention exclusive de ses destinataires. Toute utilisation de ce message non conforme a sa destination, toute diffusion ou toute publication, totale ou partielle, est interdite, sauf autorisation expresse. L'internet ne permettant pas d'assurer l'integrite de ce message, CNP Assurances et ses filiales declinent toute responsabilite au titre de ce message, s'il a ete altere, deforme ou falsifie. ***** This message and any attachments (the "message") are confidential and intended solely for the addressees. Any unauthorised use or dissemination is prohibited. E-mails are susceptible to alteration. Neither CNP Assurances nor any of its subsidiaries or affiliates shall be liable for the message if altered, changed or falsified.

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

03 Oct '06

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 gdb bin/hobbitd_client tmp/core.2790 GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (6.3.0.0-1.21rh) Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu"...Using host libthread_db library "/lib64/libthread_db.so.1". Core was generated by `hobbitd_client'. Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted. Reading symbols from /lib64/libpcre.so.0...done. Loaded symbols for /lib64/libpcre.so.0 Reading symbols from /lib64/libc.so.6...done. Loaded symbols for /lib64/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 #0 0x0000003bd882f3b0 in raise () from /lib64/libc.so.6 (gdb) bt #0 0x0000003bd882f3b0 in raise () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #1 0x0000003bd8830860 in abort () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #2 0x0000000000417953 in sigsegv_handler (signum=Variable "signum" is not available. ) at sig.c:57 #3 <signal handler called> #4 0x0000003bd8872250 in strlen () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #5 0x000000000040b660 in addalertgroup (group=0x6 <Address 0x6 out of bounds>) at client_config.c:366 #6 0x000000000040643a in unix_disk_report ( hostname=0x2aaaaab1fd8c "wisprddb1", clientclass=0x2aaaaab1fd9c "sunos", os=OS_SOLARIS, hinfo=0x528820, fromline=0x7fffff8c7e40 "\nStatus message received from 10.1.201.241\n", timestr=0x2aaaaab1fdc6 "Mon Oct 2 21:33:11 PDT 2006", freehdr=0x41adef "avail", capahdr=0x41ade6 "capacity", mnthdr=0x41ad66 "Mounted", dfstr=0x2aaaaab1ffe9 "Filesystem", ' ' <repeats 12 times>, "kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on\nswap", ' ' <repeats 17 times>, "20532336 1112 20531224 1% /etc/svc/volatile\nswap", ' ' <repeats 17 times>, "20589984 58760 20531224 1% /t"...) at hobbitd_client.c:452 #7 0x0000000000407619 in handle_solaris_client ( hostname=0x2aaaaab1fd8c "wisprddb1", clienttype=0x2aaaaab1fd9c "sunos", os=OS_SOLARIS, hinfo=0x528820, sender=Variable "sender" is not available. ) at client/solaris.c:60 #8 0x000000000040a714 in main (argc=Variable "argc" is not available. ) at hobbitd_client.c:1787 (gdb) -- Please help to solve this issue.. Thanks Ram --------------------------------- Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. Great rates starting at 1¢/min.

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2 questions
by gjohnson＠trantor.org 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

Hey Henrik, I'm playing around with the Ports monitoring that is built into Hobbit. I'm planning to use the graphing function to trend the number of connections for a particular port...the questions I have are: 1) Why can I not set a minimun of 0? I thought that by explicitly specifying 0 for the min count I should be able to have it always be green and graph the number of connections...however, it seems that Hobbit is overriding the hard 0 setting. 2) when using TEXT="Some Service", it shows up on the web page as "Some Service...leading quote visible...I'm assuming this is not expected behavior...I haven't checked the patch page yet but I'll be headed there next. Note, this is Hobbit 4.2...August download. =G=

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Page name in header / footer files
by robertholden＠gmail.com 02 Oct '06

02 Oct '06

We are in the process of creating custom header / footer files for our implementation of hobbit. Everything is going smoothly (the bulletin_header / footer files made things MUCH easier), but we have run into a couple of snags. Right now we are putting all the meta tag and page TITLE info (and a few of the page specific JS functions) into the normal bb_header, bb2_header, etc files, while removing all the other information normally contained in those files. We then created a bulletin_header file and moved everything else into that file. This helps us to have a standard look to all of the pages such that when we want to make a change to the appearance we only have to change the bulletin files. One of the problems with method is the page name ("Current Status", "Current non-green Systems", "EventLog", etc). Because there is no variable for this, we have no easy way to put the page name into the page body. Do you have any plans to add this variable? Because the bbgen already knows the name of the page, couldn't you just create two dimensional array or lookup table to populate this variable? The other issue we have encountered deals with the 'FONT' tags. We are converting the page to be styled using css, but the hardcoded fonts make this more difficult. We are able to unset some of the font information by setting the font variables in hobbitserver.cfg to be blank, but some of the fonts are hardcoded. What do you think about making these hardcoded fonts variables instead? How about not printing the FONT tag when the variable assigned to it (MKBBACKFONT, MKBBCOLFONT, MKBBROWFONT, etc) are set to be blank? What do you think about having a header / footer for the help files? FWIW: We are using version 4.2.0 on Solaris 8. Thanks for all the great work. We have been big fans of hobbit since converting from BB to hobbit 4.0.2.

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Page name in header / footer files
by robertholden＠gmail.com 02 Oct '06

02 Oct '06

We are in the process of creating custom header / footer files for our implementation of hobbit. Everything is going smoothly (the bulletin_header / footer files made things MUCH easier), but we have run into a couple of snags. Right now we are putting all the meta tag and page TITLE info (and a few of the page specific JS functions) into the normal bb_header, bb2_header, etc files, while removing all the other information normally contained in those files. We then created a bulletin_header file and moved everything else into that file. This helps us to have a standard look to all of the pages such that when we want to make a change to the appearance we only have to change the bulletin files. One of the problems with method is the page name ("Current Status", "Current non-green Systems", "EventLog", etc). Because there is no variable for this, we have no easy way to put the page name into the page body. Do you have any plans to add this variable? Because the bbgen already knows the name of the page, couldn't you just create two dimensional array or lookup table to populate this variable? The other issue we have encountered deals with the 'FONT' tags. We are converting the page to be styled using css, but the hardcoded fonts make this more difficult. We are able to unset some of the font information by setting the font variables in hobbitserver.cfg to be blank, but some of the fonts are hardcoded. What do you think about making these hardcoded fonts variables instead? How about not printing the FONT tag when the variable assigned to it (MKBBACKFONT, MKBBCOLFONT, MKBBROWFONT, etc) are set to be blank? What do you think about having a header / footer for the help files? FWIW: We are using version 4.2.0 on Solaris 8. Thanks for all the great work. We have been big fans of hobbit since converting from BB to hobbit 4.0.2. Robert

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selected bb2.html
by rower.master＠gmail.com 02 Oct '06

02 Oct '06

Hi friends, I want to generate a summary page with some selected hosts, I would like something similar of the script from deadcat mkbb3.sh, but hacking this code , I've found that it uses the log file summary page from the big brother and in hobbit we generate the bb2 page directly from the bbgen. Has someone have an suggestion or did something like this? Thanks in advance, Mario.

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