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iostat graph help
by b-kennedy1＠raytheon.com 26 Oct '06

26 Oct '06

Hi. I sent this question a few days ago without response, so I thought I would try again. I have been trying to figure out how to add iostat graphs to the trends column, but I have had no luck. I was hoping someone already knows how to do this. I see that iostat already has a graph configuration ready to use, but I'm not sure how to generate the rrd file. Is there a way to graph iostat? Thank you for your help. Regards, Bryan

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mrtg and tweaking hobbitgraph.cfg
by kamayamaya＠gmail.com 26 Oct '06

26 Oct '06

I'd like to tweak the [mrtg] section in hobbitgraph.cfg "@RRDIDX@" "@RRDPARAM@" is there one for the time units it measures against ie wether it is 48 hour 12 day, 48 day or 576 Day measurement of time I want to be able to calculate the total bandwidth for the alotted period of time for my mrtg interfaces. I've done this crude modification, to hobbitgraph.cfg, for now but was wondering if there was a better way get the bandwidth IN/OUT to reflect the current graph and its length of time snapshot Thanx for your input, also if you see any mistakes in my calculations please let me know. Cheers, Ariel [mrtg] FNPATTERN mrtg.*\.(.+).rrd TITLE Network Traffic (MRTG) YAXIS Bits/second DEF:inbytes at RRDIDX@=@RRDFN@:ds0:AVERAGE CDEF:in at RRDIDX@=inbytes at RRDIDX@,8,* DEF:outbytes at RRDIDX@=@RRDFN@:ds1:AVERAGE CDEF:out at RRDIDX@=outbytes at RRDIDX@,8,* CDEF:48htotalin at RRDIDX@=inbytes at RRDIDX@,172800,* CDEF:48htotalout at RRDIDX@=outbytes at RRDIDX@,172800,* CDEF:48htotal at RRDIDX@=48htotalout at RRDIDX@,48htotalin at RRDIDX@,+ CDEF:12dtotalin at RRDIDX@=inbytes at RRDIDX@,1036800,* CDEF:12dtotalout at RRDIDX@=outbytes at RRDIDX@,1036800,* CDEF:12dtotal at RRDIDX@=12dtotalout at RRDIDX@,12dtotalin at RRDIDX@,+ CDEF:48dtotalin at RRDIDX@=inbytes at RRDIDX@,4147200,* CDEF:48dtotalout at RRDIDX@=outbytes at RRDIDX@,4147200,* CDEF:48dtotal at RRDIDX@=48dtotalout at RRDIDX@,48dtotalin at RRDIDX@,+ CDEF:576dtotalin at RRDIDX@=inbytes at RRDIDX@,49766400,* CDEF:576dtotalout at RRDIDX@=outbytes at RRDIDX@,49766400,* CDEF:576dtotal at RRDIDX@=576dtotalout at RRDIDX@,576dtotalin at RRDIDX@,+ LINE2:in at RRDIDX@#@COLOR@:@RRDPARAM@ inbound GPRINT:in at RRDIDX@:LAST: \: %10.1lf (cur) GPRINT:in at RRDIDX@:MAX: \: %10.1lf (max) GPRINT:in at RRDIDX@:MIN: \: %10.1lf (min) GPRINT:in at RRDIDX@:AVERAGE: \: %10.1lf (avg)\n LINE2:out at RRDIDX@#@COLOR@:@RRDPARAM@ outbound GPRINT:out at RRDIDX@:LAST: \: %10.1lf (cur) GPRINT:out at RRDIDX@:MAX: \: %10.1lf (max) GPRINT:out at RRDIDX@:MIN: \: %10.1lf (min) GPRINT:out at RRDIDX@:AVERAGE: \: %10.1lf (avg)\n COMMENT: 48h 12d 48d 576d\n GPRINT:48htotalin at RRDIDX@:AVERAGE:Total in \: %7.2lf %sB GPRINT:12dtotalin at RRDIDX@:AVERAGE: \: %7.2lf %sB GPRINT:48dtotalin at RRDIDX@:AVERAGE: \: %7.2lf %sB GPRINT:576dtotalin at RRDIDX@:AVERAGE: \: %7.2lf %sB GPRINT:48htotalout at RRDIDX@:AVERAGE:Total out \: %7.2lf %sB GPRINT:12dtotalout at RRDIDX@:AVERAGE: \: %7.2lf %sB GPRINT:48dtotalout at RRDIDX@:AVERAGE: \: %7.2lf %sB GPRINT:576dtotalout at RRDIDX@:AVERAGE: \: %7.2lf %sB GPRINT:48htotal at RRDIDX@:AVERAGE:Total \: %7.2lf %sB GPRINT:12dtotal at RRDIDX@:AVERAGE: \: %7.2lf %sB GPRINT:48dtotal at RRDIDX@:AVERAGE: \: %7.2lf %sB GPRINT:576dtotal at RRDIDX@:AVERAGE: \: %7.2lf %sB

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All network tests now purple
by rsmrcina＠wi.rr.com 26 Oct '06

26 Oct '06

We had a very strange problem happen this morning. About two hours ago, all of the tests performed by the Hobbit server turned purple. The clients are still reporting and they are (mostly) green. I applied the all-in-one patch and still there is no joy. I checked the archive for similar problems and don't see any messages in bb-network.log. Also, there are no core files (in the directory where Hobbit starts, or /). hobbitlaunch.log shows: 2006-10-26 10:54:17 hobbitlaunch starting 2006-10-26 10:54:17 Loading tasklist configuration from /home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitlaunch.cfg 2006-10-26 10:54:17 Loading hostnames 2006-10-26 10:54:17 Loading saved state 2006-10-26 10:54:17 Setting up network listener on 0.0.0.0:1984 2006-10-26 10:54:17 Setting up signal handlers 2006-10-26 10:54:17 Setting up hobbitd channels 2006-10-26 10:54:17 Setting up logfiles -- Rich Smrcina VM Assist, Inc. Phone: 414-491-6001 Ans Service: 360-715-2467 rich.smrcina at vmassist.com Catch the WAVV! http://www.wavv.org WAVV 2007 - Green Bay, WI - May 18-22, 2007

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Status test timeout
by Manuel.Cortes＠ORHS.ORG 26 Oct '06

26 Oct '06

We are currently send a test status to hobbit from the BBWin 0.8 client using the following syntax: Bbwincmd hobbit status+120 <hostname> <test> green "html formatted text" If the test is not updated within 2 hours, the expectation is that 2 hours after that last status was sent, the test will turn purple, however, we are seeing the above test turn purple 40 minutes. I don't believe this was an issue with the older BB windows client and the default was minutes for the "status+120" statement. Is anyone else experiencing this problem? Thanks, Manny Cortes IS systems This e-mail message and any attached files are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the addressee(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, any review, use, or distribution of this e-mail message and any attached files is strictly prohibited. This communication may contain material protected by Federal privacy regulations, attorney-client work product, or other privileges. If you have received this confidential communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail message and permanently delete the original message. To reply to our email administrator directly, send an email to: postmaster at orlandoregional.org . If this e-mail message concerns a contract matter, be advised that no employee or agent is authorized to conclude any binding agreement on behalf of Orlando Regional Healthcare by e-mail without express written confirmation by an officer of the corporation. Any views or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Orlando Regional Healthcare.

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[hobbit] logrotate - hobbit
by gumby3203＠gmail.com 26 Oct '06

26 Oct '06

I ran across the following thread when looking up some info on setting up logrotate (linux) for Hobbit. I'm curious, though... The man page for hobbitd says that SIGHUP will cause hobbitd to "Re-read the bb-hosts configuration file." Does that mean the example below with the postrotate command will actually work as intended, or will it only have hobbitd re-read the config file? Re: [hobbit] logrotate - hobbit ------------------------------ - *To*: hobbit (at) hswn.dk - *Subject*: Re: [hobbit] logrotate - hobbit - *From*: Rich Smrcina <rsmrcina (at) wi.rr.com> - *Date*: Mon, 23 May 2005 00:26:00 -0500 - *References*: <b537f65105052222162e6c25d1 at mail.gmail.com<http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2005/05/msg00283.html> > - *User-agent*: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050317) ------------------------------ Great stuff Brian. Thanks for contributing. Brian Lynch wrote: For anyone using 'logrotate', the following file will rotate all the hobbit logs. Create the file as logrotate.cfg: # Configuration file for logrotate application # # Add the following line to cron: # 0 8 * * * /usr/sbin/logrotate [hobbit directory]/server/etc/logrotate.cfg # # Global options compress /var/log/hobbit/bbcombotest.log { missingok weekly rotate 5 } /var/log/hobbit/bb-display.log { missingok weekly rotate 5 } /var/log/hobbit/bb-retest.log { missingok weekly rotate 5 } /var/log/hobbit/enadis.log { missingok weekly rotate 5 } /var/log/hobbit/history.log { missingok weekly rotate 5 } /var/log/hobbit/hobbitd.log { missingok weekly rotate 5 postrotate /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/log/hobbit/hobbitd.pid` endscript } /var/log/hobbit/hobbitlaunch.log { missingok weekly rotate 5 postrotate /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/log/hobbit/hobbitlaunch.pid` endscript } /var/log/hobbit/larrd-data.log { missingok weekly rotate 5 } /var/log/hobbit/larrd-status.log { missingok weekly rotate 5 } /var/log/hobbit/page.log { missingok weekly rotate 5 } /var/log/hobbit/purple.log { missingok weekly rotate 5 } -- Rich Smrcina VM Assist, Inc. Main: (262)392-2026 Cell: (414)491-6001 Ans Service: (360)715-2467 rich.smrcina at vmassist.com Catch the WAVV! http://www.wavv.org WAVV 2005 - Colorado Springs - May 20-24, 2005

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[hobbit] Enable/Disable question
by Johann.Eggers＠teleatlas.com 26 Oct '06

26 Oct '06

Hi, I think this was handled in the past (see http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2006/07/msg00236.html ) Install the actual All-in-one-patch and add the --no-cookies switch in hobbitcgi.cfg # hobbit-enadis.cgi options CGI_ENADIS_OPTS="--no-cookies --env=/opt/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg" For me it works fine. Johann ________________________________ From: Eric Meddaugh [mailto:etmsys at rit.edu] Sent: Donnerstag, 26. Oktober 2006 14:15 To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Enable/Disable question I notice in the man page for hobbit-enadis.cgi there is this at the end: BUGS When using alternate pagesets, hosts will only show up on the Enable/Disable page if this is accessed from the primary page in which they are defined. So if you have hosts on multiple pages, they will only be visible for disabling from their main page which is not what you would expect. I'm just curious if anyone knows when that might be fixed. Thanks. ---Eric

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RRD data not being created.
by rmunsch＠solutionsforprogress.com 26 Oct '06

26 Oct '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm pretty sure this is the trouble. Ladies and gentlemen, i am stumped. Following all the instructions in the docs, manpages, faqs and alien communications, as well as the very helpful samples provided by list members... no new file ever gets created in ~/data/rrd/<hostname>. I have status, so i know client info is reaching server. I have copied almost verbatim the sample server-side script needed to parse this info and spit it back out to RRD. And i have eschewed NCV and gone in favor of hobbitd_channel --options to make this all work right, or so I thought. If you make a custom script and the rrd file never happens, where would you look first? The serverside script itself? hobbitlaunch. or - -graph.cfg options? Somewhere else? Mars? I'd be willing to check Mars at this point. - -- Rob Munsch Solutions For Progress IT www.solutionsforprogress.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFN8gNBvBcJFK6xYURAlP2AJ49r6WJg4Pg10Nc1JgYDEbmkNvbIgCcD58W lnm6fVJIn7V4PQqvSOktFGQ= =iyfa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Enable/Disable question
by etmsys＠rit.edu 26 Oct '06

26 Oct '06

I notice in the man page for hobbit-enadis.cgi there is this at the end: BUGS When using alternate pagesets, hosts will only show up on the Enable/Disable page if this is accessed from the primary page in which they are defined. So if you have hosts on multiple pages, they will only be visible for disabling from their main page which is not what you would expect. I'm just curious if anyone knows when that might be fixed. Thanks. ---Eric

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bbdisplay core dump
by Johann.Eggers＠teleatlas.com 26 Oct '06

26 Oct '06

Hi Henrik, I think this task is for you: After applying the allinone.patch from 03/10/2006 to the actual 4.2.0 release the task bbdisplay core dumps every time it is executed. Below is the output of the GBD. I've tried this on my test-system running under SuSE Linux 9.2. If you need more information, let me know... Any help is appreciated... Regards Johann B.t.w: Had anybody else problems after applying this patch?? > gdb bin/bbgen tmp/core GNU gdb 6.2.1 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 "i586-suse-linux"...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1". Core was generated by `bbgen --recentgifs --pagetitle-links --subpagecolumns=1 --report'. Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted. warning: current_sos: Can't read pathname for load map: Input/output error Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libpcre.so.0...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libpcre.so.0 Reading symbols from /lib/tls/libc.so.6...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/tls/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2 #0 0xffffe410 in ?? () (gdb) bt #0 0xffffe410 in ?? () #1 0xbfff759c in ?? () #2 0x00000006 in ?? () #3 0x000050b4 in ?? () #4 0x4006ad41 in raise () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #5 0x4006c529 in abort () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #6 0x08063cb2 in sigsegv_handler (signum=11) at sig.c:57 #7 <signal handler called> #8 calc_pagecolors (phead=0x8083ab8) at process.c:106 #9 0x08051c90 in calc_pagecolors (phead=0x8083a38) at process.c:155 #10 0x08051c90 in calc_pagecolors (phead=0x80839a8) at process.c:155 #11 0x0804b1da in main (argc=5, argv=0xbfffcb44) at bbgen.c:594 (gdb) quit

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hobbit-clients.cfg syntax for LOG
by b-kennedy1＠raytheon.com 25 Oct '06

25 Oct '06

Hi. I am trying to configure hobbit-clients.cfg to flag (change color to red) a string in /var/adm/messages. I can get it to work on a single word, but I want to flag on a string (multiple words). How do I edit the hobbit-clients.cfg file to check for a string instead of a single word? I have tried these settings with no luck: LOG /var/adm/messages "invalid read" LOG /var/adm/messages 'invalid read' LOG /var/adm/messages invalid read LOG /var/adm/messages %"invalid read" LOG /var/adm/messages %'invalid read' LOG /var/adm/messages %(invalid read) Thanks for your help. Regards, Bryan Kennedy

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