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format for CPU data?
by mikee＠mikee.ath.cx 19 Oct '06

19 Oct '06

I'm writing agents for other systems than linux and I want the data to be graphed just like the linux data is graphed. Can someone please post the expected format for CPU data so the data will be graphed? Mike

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Help with an Upgrade Path
by Todd.Costa＠state.ma.us 19 Oct '06

19 Oct '06

Hello Listers, I am running Debian 3.1 with Hobbit 4.1.2p1. I would like to upgrade to 4.2 in the very near future. Is there a good source of documentation in doing this properly? Or should I just do an apt-get install with the new package from sourceforge? Thanks for your shared input. "Work Smarter not Harder...use Open Standards with Software that supports it." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Todd M. Costa ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---

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Hobbit : Status not Available
by raymund.layoso＠teamglac.com 19 Oct '06

19 Oct '06

---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: [Fwd: Hobbit : Status not Available] From: "Raymund Layoso" <raymund.layoso at teamglac.com> Date: Mon, October 16, 2006 4:21 pm To: hobbit at hswn.dk -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------- 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 All, 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/ ----------------------------------------- WWW.TEAMGLAC.COM - Now Online! Powered by: MIS TEAM https://www.teamglac.com/

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[hobbit] Host notes
by fduranti＠q8.it 19 Oct '06

19 Oct '06

> That sounds perfect, small considerations maybe an asset tag > field? Plus a hardware specification section? The procedures > is the most interesting for us here since at the moment it's > all kept in a small red file which annoyingly always seems to > be lost when you need it :) > Well I think I can put some more field like asset tag, hardware vendor, hardware description for the hardware part. I think about letting the user define his own custom field so that everyone can define what is needed. Francesco

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Host notes
by fduranti＠q8.it 19 Oct '06

19 Oct '06

Hi all, after some testing with the php scripts for notes I finally decided to write a perl program to show host notes and edit them trying to get all the things I really need on it an trying to make this a "page" that could be really useful to someone looking at it. First of all there will be some field dedicated to describe what the host is and do like: Aliases : if the alias is known with other names Purpose : what this host do, what service it run Services: list of services checked by bb with links Service Level Hours: hour at which the server have to be up and running (I've to see if this will be get automatically or if I'll leave the field manually editable) Then there will be a section dedicated to people to contact Contact Emails : emails of supporting peoples (as links to send email) Contact Phone: phone number of people (and with hours at which you can call them) Those field will also have a description so that you can have different support email for different problems (hardware/software/etc) Another section will show support information for the server so you can define phone or email address to call for support for hardware/software problems Serial Number: serial number or information for support call Support Email: email to get support Support Phone: phone number to get support A section will have procedures and notes: special procedures: Here you can describe what to do if something goes wrong with the server notes: Anything else A section will have information like related server or grouping of this server with other servers so that you can simply walk from one node of a cluster to the others or from the web servers to the application server or db server for a specific application. A section will include links you can need when checking this host or that will show more documentation on those. At the end of the page (probably) I'll also put link to HOSTNAME.html or HOSTNAME file available in the notes directory so that for example you can collect cfg2html files there and show them from this information page. I also want to define some "group" of definition that you can simply attach in the editor to host so that for example you can define the URL to ciscoworks globally and then attach this link to all your routers and they'll all show the ciscoworks link in the notes pages and you can get there from here. In the editing there will also be the possibility to define some links that will show in the notes pages like a link to hobbitperl-graph.pl or to info column of the host. Another idea I had was to make some field visible only to authenticated users so that you can put here information you want only your administrator to see and not all users. A first version will probably be available during the next week if I've some time to work on it. If you've more idea or something that I've missed and can be useful let me know and I'll check if it can be implemented. Francesco

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msgs Test made on client Systems Problems (H 4.2.0)
by stefan.freisler＠aspect-online.de 19 Oct '06

19 Oct '06

Hi, Every 5 minutes I see the same error in my hobbitclient.log file: ... 2006-10-19 10:51:44 Failed to get a message, terminating 2006-10-19 10:56:47 Failed to get a message, terminating 2006-10-19 11:01:51 Failed to get a message, terminating 2006-10-19 11:06:54 Failed to get a message, terminating ... My Problem is that msgs test is in Clear mode and i can nothing do to change this (i can't add msgs tests on my client mashine) We actually port Big Brother to Hobbit but the first Client we port makes Problems with this test (any else looks fine) and we can't go on bevore this is fixed, because this test is important for our produktive systems. This test works on Hobbit-Serversystem very well. thx a lot Stefan What i have done on client mashine: localclient.cfg added this: ---------------------------------- HOST=mytest.aspect-online.de PROC ls3 1 1 red PROC caagentd 1 1 red PROC smbd 1 1 red PROC httpd 1 8 red PROC java 1 251 red PROC sshd 1 1 red PROC syslogd 1 1 red PROC crond 1 1 red PROC usermin 1 1 yellow PROC webmin 1 1 yellow PROC bb 1 19 yellow PROC postfix 1 1 yellow PROC ntpd 1 1 yellow LOG /var/log/messages error,fail,panic,NOTICE COLOR=red %uthentication.failure,PIX,scsi_hostadapter LOG /var/log/messages warn,WARN COLOR=yellow %uthentication.failure,PIX,scsi_hostadapter LOG /var/log/boot.log error,fail,panic,NOTICE COLOR=red LOG /var/log/boot.log warn,WARN COLOR=yellow LOG /var/log/maillog error,fail,panic,NOTICE COLOR=red %format.error LOG /var/log/maillog warn,WARN COLOR=yellow %format.error LOG /var/log/cron error,fail,panic,NOTICE COLOR=red LOG /var/log/cron warn,WARN COLOR=yellow ------------------------------------ client-local.cfg i added this [mytest.aspect-online.de] log:/var/log/messages:10240 log:/var/log/boot.log:10240 log:/var/log/maillog:10240 log:/var/log/cron:10240 ignore MARK ------------------------------------

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Latency check?
by hobbit＠visions.se 19 Oct '06

19 Oct '06

Is there anyway to generate a latency check without an extra module for Hobbit 4.2.0? I'd like to be able to ping hosts outside and raise a red alert if latency is high, telling us there might be a problem at our end. Using the hobbitping right now. David

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rrdtool from private scripts
by joel＠carnat.net 18 Oct '06

18 Oct '06

Hi, I wrote a script to get alert about CPU loads on a windows server using SNMP (no I don't want to / can't install the hobbit client on the server ;). The status is returned OK (green before 50%, orange from 50 to 75 and red over 75). The thing is, there is no graph done (yet). I would like a graph that would show the load average variation. (how) can the script be used to fill a RRD database ? Should the load average value be returned in a special variable ? Thanks for help, Jo

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Config Report issue/bug
by jonescr＠cisco.com 18 Oct '06

18 Oct '06

When I generate a confreport, under the "Local tests" section it lists various tests and their thresholds. For example: memoryNo-/-/-Yellow: swap/pagefile use > 80%, Red: swap/pagefile use > 90% The problem I am experiencing, is that for "procs", instead of showing what proc patterns are being checked along with their thresholds, it is showing the actual PS output! Example: procsNo-/-/-sshd (found 2, req. 1 or more)\n\n PID PPID USER STARTED S PRI %CPU TIME %MEM RSZ VSZ CMD\n 1 0 root Aug 16 S 24 0.0 00:09:36 0.0 468 1540 init\n 2 0 root Aug 16 S 139 0.0 00:00:00 0.0 0 0 [migration/0]\n 3 0 root Aug 16 S 139 0.0 00:00:00 0.0 0 0 [migration/1]\n 4 1 root Aug 16 S 24 0.0 00:00:00 0.0 0 0 [keventd]\n 5 1 root Aug 16 S 5 0.0 00:00:21 0.0 0 0 [ksoftirqd/0]\n This creates a HUGE confreport that is basically unreadable since it contains pages and pages of ps output. Surely this is a bug? -Charles

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[hobbit] hobbitd_client crashed.
by tmelcher＠saionline.com 18 Oct '06

18 Oct '06

Output from both cores is attached. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/hobbit/server/bin/hobbitd_client 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 0x0000002a955b3779 in kill () from /lib64/libc.so.6 (gdb) bt #0 0x0000002a955b3779 in kill () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #1 0x0000002a955b323d in raise () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #2 0x0000002a955b4842 in abort () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #3 0x0000000000417193 in sigsegv_handler (signum=3064) at sig.c:52 #4 <signal handler called> #5 0x000000000040e909 in scan_log (hinfo=0x5335e0, classname=0x0, logname=0x2a957ed0a3 "/var/log/messages", logdata=0x2a957ed0b6 "<...SKIPPED...>\n116.195.in-addr.arpa'?): 194.204.159.1#53\nOct 16 16:01:41 smtp1 named[26640]: client 12.45.200.130#2869: updating zone 'saionline.com/IN': update failed: 'RRset exists (value dependent"..., section=0x0, summarybuf=0x535e30) at client_config.c:1371 #6 0x000000000040441e in msgs_report (hostname=0x2a957e40cb "smtp1.saionline.com", clientclass=0x2a957e40e5 "linux", os=OS_SOLARIS, hinfo=0x52bac0, fromline=0x7fbfffdee0 "\nStatus message received from 172.16.1.2\n", timestr=0x2a957e4119 "Mon Oct 16 16:14:58 CDT 2006", msgsstr=0x0) at hobbitd_client.c:876 #7 0x0000000000405c27 in handle_linux_client (hostname=0x2a957e40cb "smtp1.saionline.com", clienttype=0x2a957e40e5 "linux", os=OS_LINUX, hinfo=0x52bac0, sender=0x1 <Address 0x1 out of bounds>, timestamp=118, clientdata=0x2a957e40eb "client smtp1,saionline,com.linux linux\n[date") at client/linux.c:61 #8 0x000000000040a74f in main (argc=-1786887957, argv=0x7fbfffe548) at hobbitd_client.c:1773 ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/hobbit/server/bin/hobbitd_client 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 0x0000002a955b3779 in kill () from /lib64/libc.so.6 (gdb) bt #0 0x0000002a955b3779 in kill () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #1 0x0000002a955b323d in raise () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #2 0x0000002a955b4842 in abort () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #3 0x0000000000417193 in sigsegv_handler (signum=1759) at sig.c:52 #4 <signal handler called> #5 0x000000000040e909 in scan_log (hinfo=0x5335e0, classname=0x0, logname=0x2a9582e2a2 "/var/log/messages", logdata=0x2a9582e2b5 "<...SKIPPED...>\n3749: updating zone 'saionline.com/IN': update failed: 'RRset exists (value dependent)' prerequisite not satisfied (NXRRSET)\nOct 16 16:00:07 smtp1 named[26640]: client 71.123.51.29#637"..., section=0x0, summarybuf=0x539690) at client_config.c:1371 #6 0x000000000040441e in msgs_report (hostname=0x2a9582540d "smtp1.saionline.com", clientclass=0x2a95825427 "linux", os=OS_SOLARIS, hinfo=0x52bac0, fromline=0x7fbfffdee0 "\nStatus message received from 172.16.1.2\n", timestr=0x2a9582545b "Mon Oct 16 16:09:56 CDT 2006", msgsstr=0x0) at hobbitd_client.c:876 #7 0x0000000000405c27 in handle_linux_client (hostname=0x2a9582540d "smtp1.saionline.com", clienttype=0x2a95825427 "linux", os=OS_LINUX, hinfo=0x52bac0, sender=0x1 <Address 0x1 out of bounds>, timestamp=118, clientdata=0x2a9582542d "client smtp1,saionline,com.linux linux\n[date") at client/linux.c:61 #8 0x000000000040a74f in main (argc=-1786620883, argv=0x7fbfffe548) at hobbitd_client.c:1773 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Trent Trent Melcher Unix/Linux Systems Administrator Securities America Financial Corporation (402) 399-9111 x2774 tmelcher at saionline.com Securities America, Inc., a Registered Broker/Dealer, Member NASD/SIPC. Advisory services offered through Securities America Advisors, Inc., an SEC Registered Investment Advisory -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 10:48 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] hobbitd_client crashed. On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 10:34:53AM -0500, Trent Melcher wrote: > I have a problem with the hobbitd_client crashing on my hobbit server. > I get - Program crashed Fatal signal caught! This is a new install of > hobbit, I just compiled the 4.2.0 on the server. Could you run the core dump through gdb as described in http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/help/known-issues.html#bugreport Thanks, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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