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PROC test question
by marco.pizzoli＠gmail.com 21 Aug '09

21 Aug '09

Hi all, I am a hobbit newby. I have a question about the PROC test: is there a way to define a test about the presence of a particular proc executed by a particular user? I'm in a situation where I have some daemons that could be started by a lot of (machine)users and so I would like to check the user the proc run as. Thanks in advance Marco

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cupsd
by stoner-lists＠comcast.net 04 Jun '08

04 Jun '08

For those who want to monitor a cups print server, here's a definition you can put in your bb-services file: [cupsd] send "GET /printers\r\n" expect "HTTP/1.1 200 OK" port 631 Alternatively, you could just use http://host:631/printers in your bb-hosts file. The cupsd is, for monitoring purposes, a web server. -Jeff "Fun with Users #1: ln -s /dev/random /etc/motd"

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ntpdate question
by Dirk.Kastens＠uni-osnabrueck.de 09 Mar '08

09 Mar '08

Hi, before updating our hobbit server to version 4.2.0, I tested the ntp configuration with the bb-ntp-1_4.sh script on the client nodes. When I now configure the server to use the ntp network test instead, I realize that this doesn't work with most of our RedHat clients. I get the response ntpdate -u -q -p 2 a.b.c.d server a.b.c.d, stratum 0, offset 0.000000, delay 0.00000 29 Aug 10:53:26 ntpdate[3509]: no server suitable for synchronization found The network test works with all AIX clients and with older RedHat clients. The manual page of ntpdate on a RedHat machine says, that "the ntpdate program is to be retired from this distribution". Is there another way of testing the ntp synchronisation from the server side or do I still have to use the bb-ntp.sh script? Best wishes, Dirk Kastens

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Client for NetApp storage and Weblogic Server
by fduranti＠q8.it 01 Oct '07

01 Oct '07

Hi all, I'm currently developing 3 perl client to use with Network appliance Storage, Weblogic Servers and Database (SQL/Oracle/Informix and Mysql). At this moment only the weblogic and netapp scripts are available, the database check for Oracle/Informix and with connection check to sqlserver will be probably available the next week. I uploaded the scripts to deadcat but i got some problems downloading them so I've also created a project on sourceforge and I'm uploading the scripts there (and I will also try to create a mailing list so that if users have the need to contact me they can do that there). The homepage on sourceforge is http://sourceforge.net/projects/hobbit-perl-cl/ <BLOCKED::http://sourceforge.net/projects/hobbit-perl-cl/> Thanks and sorry for the advertise but this seems the better place to let users know about hobbit clients available :D Regards Francesco Duranti

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msgs file with html code
by vadud3＠gmail.com 05 Jul '07

05 Jul '07

Hi When I receive alerts related to messages file it comes with html code in my mail box like this. &red Critical entries in <a href="/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?CLIENT=hobbit.client.com&SECTION=msgs:/var/adm/mess +ages">/var/adm/messages</a> &red Aug 17 15:39:55 hobbit.client.com WARNING: [ID 702911 user.error] this is a test message Full log <a href="/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?CLIENT=hobbit.client.com&SECTION=msgs:/var/adm/messages">/var/adm/m +essages</a> Aug 17 15:39:55 hobbit.client.com WARNING: [ID 702911 user.error] this is a test message I am using hobbit client 4.2.0 and hobbit server 4.2.0. I sure did not play with any html code to make the output like this. Also I saw an email about keeping the full log link in the web gui for easy troubleshooting. But is that also apply to email. In otherwords can I just receive alert related lines and not the full log underneath. OR do I need to define SMS in hobbit-alerts.cfg page to achieve that? Thanks -- Asif Iqbal PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu

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[hobbit] - MySQL monitoring
by fduranti＠q8.it 23 Feb '07

23 Feb '07

You can use also dbcheck.pl to track the mysql database (connection and same stats as the normal sqlstatus script). The new version also has a custom query engine so it's possible to write to query to analyze and if someone know how to get more data out of sqlserver with query or sql command I can arrange some more checks for it (and graphs also...). Francesco > -----Original Message----- > From: thomas.seglard.enata at cnp.fr > [mailto:thomas.seglard.enata at cnp.fr] > Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 5:09 PM > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: [hobbit] - MySQL monitoring > > Hi, > > I'm just asking you how do you monitor your MySQL databases ? > I've setted up the bb-mysqlstatus.sh and modify it to support > NCV format. Now I got graphs for queries/sec and slowqueries. > That's cool but it's not very accurate... I'm using MySQL > Administrator from > http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/gui-tools/5.0.html and results > are not the same. Did you write something to track insert, > select, etc. from 'mysqladmin extended-status' ? Thanks for > your help ! > 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. > > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > > >

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How to display only a section of clientlog ?
by tj_yang＠hotmail.com 22 Feb '07

22 Feb '07

as you can see the intent of showing only prtconf has failed in following command. bash-3.00$ bb 127.0.0.1 "clientlog test.test.com section=prtconf" |egrep '^\[.*' [date] [uname] [uptime] [who] [df] [mount] [prtconf] [memory] [swap] [ifconfig] [route] [netstat] [ports] [ifstat] [ps] [vmstat] [iostatcpu] [iostatdisk] [msgs:/var/adm/messages] [logfile:/var/adm/messages] [clientversion] [clock] bash-3.00$ bb -v Unknown option -v Hobbit version 4.2.0 Usage: bb [--debug] [--proxy=http://ip.of.the.proxy:port/] RECIPIENT DATA RECIPIENT: IP-address, hostname or URL DATA: Message to send, or "-" to read from stdin _________________________________________________________________ Add a Yahoo! contact to Windows Live Messenger for a chance to win a free trip! http://www.imagine-windowslive.com/minisites/yahoo/default.aspx?locale=en-u…

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Adding data to a client
by vadud3＠gmail.com 21 Feb '07

21 Feb '07

I like to use `bb data hostname.serial<newline><the serial number>' to hobbit server. I do not want a column to be created. Then is it possible to query the serial number from within hobbit server using `bb query hostname.serial' just for the serial info? I don't want the data to expire. I guess I could test it myself. I dont want this data in the info column since it is suppose to be confidential due to support contract with SUN. -- Asif Iqbal PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu

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Contact to Henrik
by wolfgang.wutz＠siemensvdo.com 03 Feb '07

03 Feb '07

Hello everybody, sorry for spamming the mailing list, but I'm quite desperate. Currently I'm doing my diploma thesis and part of it is setting up and customizing a monitoring environment using hobbit. Due to the fact, that my Prof wants me to write s.th. about the hobbit system architecture, I tried to reach Henrik personally by mail, but unfortunately got no reaction. Probably the spam filters blocked my messages. So Henrik, if you read this, please tell me a way to get in contact with you. Thanks for your time. Wolfgang

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[bug?] Crash of hobbitsvc.cgi on trends column display
by cgoyard＠cvf.fr 29 Jan '07

29 Jan '07

Hi Henrik, Yesterday I upgraded my hobbit server to take advantage of the all-in-one corrections, plus the "split-ncv" feature (have a peek in your spambox to see my message about this :)). I then found a bug that did not show up on the test host, so I rolled back. Since then, hobbitsvc.cgi segfaults when I click on the trends column (renamed _graphs in my setup) : http://monitor/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?HOST=somehost.dom&SERVICE=_graphs Here's gdb output : #0 bbh_find_item (host=0x8088210, item=BBH_DISPLAYNAME) at loadhosts.c:160 #1 0x0804e652 in rrdlink_text (host=0x807f980, rrd=0x80881f0,wantmeta=HG_PLAIN_LINK) at hobbitsvc-trends.c:120 #2 0x0804eb99 in generate_trends (hostname=0x80769d8 "somehost.dom") at hobbitsvc-trends.c:288 #3 0x08049feb in do_request () at hobbitsvc.c:216 #4 0x0804aeb6 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbf935594) at hobbitsvc.c:518 just before the crash, I have : i=0 host->elems gives "Cannot access memory at address 0x0" item=BBH_DISPLAYNAME bbh_item_key[item]="NAME:" 160 while (host->elems[i] && strncasecmp(host->elems[i],bbh_item_key[item], strlen(bbh_item_key[item]))) i++; Can it come from a missing "something" in the configuration ? Can it crash because of corrupted rrd files ? I continue my investigations, but you sure can help :). [oh, I found another small bug, not severe at all: when running hobbitsvc.cgi from the command line, it segfaults if SCRIPT_NAME is not set. Maybe it should set SCRIPT_NAME to a sensible default or at least exit grcefully] -- Charles Goyard - cgoyard at cvf.fr - (+33) 1 45 38 01 31

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