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bbdisplay errors
by dunne＠accuweather.com 14 Nov '06

14 Nov '06

Greetings, I am running a secondary Hobbit server that relays statuses to our primary server. On the secondary server I've noticed that bbdisplay keeps crashing with the following error: Task bbdisplay terminated by signal 6 Here is the bt output: #0 0x9004802c in kill () (gdb) bt #0 0x9004802c in kill () #1 0x9012dfb4 in abort () #2 0x00018938 in ucp_table () #3 <signal handler called> #4 internal_dfa_exec (md=0x0, this_start_code=0x0, current_subject=0x1 "", start_offset=-1876859368, offsets=0x8, offsetcount=1413816420, workspace=0x2, wscount=4198465, ims=0, rlevel=3, recursing=0) at ./pcre_dfa_exec.c:1579 #5 0x00003cfc in compile_regex (options=0, oldims=0, brackets=0x0, codeptr=0x0, ptrptr=0x0, errorcodeptr=0x0, lookbehind=3154208, skipbytes=4198465, firstbyteptr=0x0, reqbyteptr=0x0, bcptr=0x0, cd=0x0) at ./pcre_compile.c:3157 (gdb) Using Hobbit 4.2.0, fully patched. Thanks in advance for any assistance. Mike

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[hobbit] File status information in client-data
by Thomas.Kern＠hq.doe.gov 14 Nov '06

14 Nov '06

Got it, one or the other. Status message or client-data section but not both. /Thomas Kern /301-903-2211 > -----Original Message----- > From: henrik at hswn.dk [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] > Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 11:01 AM > > On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 08:55:33AM -0500, Kern, Thomas wrote: > > > > If the hobbit server receives a complete client-data stream > with file: > > status information and a separate status message for > machinename.files, > > which one gets used for creating the files webpage? > > If both are sent, and the client-data message is recognized and > processed by hobbitd_client, then you will get "random" results. > Internally, the client-data information results in > status-messages being > generated, so you would alternately see a status-message > generated from > the client-data, and one generated by your own system. > > In other words, "don't do that". >

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Building server with no rrd libs to be bbproxy only
by iain＠shihad.org 14 Nov '06

14 Nov '06

Hello people, Quick question. Is it possible to build the hobbit daemon for use as a bbproxy server and not have the rrd libraries or the prce libraries installed? Cheers Iain

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[hobbit] File status information in client-data
by Thomas.Kern＠hq.doe.gov 14 Nov '06

14 Nov '06

I will take a look at the logfetch.c to check on what it writes into the client-data stream. If the hobbit server receives a complete client-data stream with file: status information and a separate status message for machinename.files, which one gets used for creating the files webpage? /Thomas Kern /301-903-2211 > -----Original Message----- > From: henrik at hswn.dk [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] > Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 3:30 AM > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: Re: [hobbit] File status information in client-data > > You should take a look at the printfiledata() routine in > client/logfetch.c - this is where those [file:/foo/bar.baz] data are > generated. > > However, that is only part of the picture. What you want to > do is really > to build a more-or-less complete Hobbit client message. This > begins with > a line that identifies the OS the message is from (see the > ~client/tmp/msg.HOSTNAME.txt file on any Hobbit client); this in turn > determines how the data are processed by hobbitd_client. The > catch here > is that if your OS name is not recognized, then no processing > is done - > even though part of the message might be formatted just like > another OS. > > So to get your data recognized by Hobbit, you must add the OS to those > recognized, and write a back-end module for hobbitd_client > that picks up > those parts of the client message you want to process and sends them > through Hobbit's built-in routines that match the data against the > hobbit-clients.cfg configuration settings. It's not a whole > lot of code; > you can copy one of the existing files in the hobbitd/client/ > directory, > and use it more or less unchanged for your OS. Then a couple of lines > must be added in hobbitd/hobbitd_client.c to call your new OS module, > and in lib/misc.c to recognize the OS name. I'll be happy to help you > with those bits if you need assistance.

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what is the folder server/www/html used for ?
by plardinois＠be.tiauto.com 14 Nov '06

14 Nov '06

Hello, simple question : what is the ~/server/www/html directory used for ? Thank You. Regards, Pierre _____________________________ Pierre Lardinois Int. ICT Infrastructure Team TI Automotive The information contained in this transmission may contain privileged and confidential information. It is intended only for the use of the person(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution or duplication of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message.

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Help with Alerting
by jkwade＠futurefrontiers.com 14 Nov '06

14 Nov '06

I setup alerting for a group of folks, and they are not getting the pages. Can someone tell me where I went wrong. Here's the config: HOST=sys002,sys003,sys004,sys005,sys3001,nu002,net003, \ u004,unx013,net004,com001,com003,com004,com005, \ unx006,unx012,com002 SERVICE=conn,disk,http,ldap,ports,memory MAIL user1 at mydomain.com REPEAT=20 COLOR=RED RECOVERED MAIL user2 at mydomain.com REPEAT=20 COLOR=RED,YELLOW RECOVERED MAIL user3 at mydomain.com REPEAT=20 COLOR=RED RECOVERED MAIL user4 at mydomain.com REPEAT=20 COLOR=RED,YELLOW RECOVERED I also added these: HOST=sysdu* SERVICE=conn,disk MAIL DB_TEAM at mydomain.com REPEAT=90 COLOR=RED RECOVERED HOST=unixdu* SERVICE=conn,disk MAIL DB_TEAM at mydomain.com.com REPEAT=90 COLOR=RED RECOVERED All the hosts have a similar name for the db systems...sysdu001, sysdu002 or unixdu1, unixdu2 Thanks for the help. James

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[hobbit] File status information in client-data
by Thomas.Kern＠hq.doe.gov 14 Nov '06

14 Nov '06

Now comes the twist in this. Rich and I are building a hobbit client for a NON-Linux platform, so whatever code that reads hobbit-clients.cfg and determines the rules, doesn't run on our platform. We have to figure out how to completely mimic the data flow to the server. So if a linux server has a hobbit-client.cfg that has a file entry for /var/log/special and we only care that the file exists, what does the client-data stream need to contain in the [file:/var/log/special] section that will signal a hobbit server to mark this as a Yellow condition? The size and modification date might be other conditions that people will want to check on our platform. /Thomas Kern /301-903-2211 > -----Original Message----- > From: henrik at hswn.dk [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] > Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 5:29 PM > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: Re: [hobbit] File status information in client-data > > On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 03:44:49PM -0600, Rich Smrcina wrote: > > Henrik, > > > > Just to clarify, is this still true for a locally > administered client > > (even Linux)? > > On a locally admin'ed client, you have the "hobbit-clients.cfg" file > locally. You still need to put a FILE entry into hobbit-clients.cfg to > tell Hobbit what rules should be applied to the file you're checking. > (Should it exist? Or not? Have a certain size? Be owned by "root"?)

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File status information in client-data
by Thomas.Kern＠hq.doe.gov 13 Nov '06

13 Nov '06

I am running on a z/VM 5.1 system and trying to deliver our data to a hobbit server in a client-data format that hobbit will read & process without backend changes. This is a locally configured client. I am working on the 'file', 'logfile' and 'messages' components of our system. I can get our system log and its status information to hobbit as well as file status information for other files. The unaltered, minimally configured hobbit server shows the msgs and files columns fine, IF there is good data. I am now trying to provide an error condition, where one of the monitored files does not exist. I found some syntax for this error condition by running logfetch on a SLES10 system with a special logfetch.cfg. When I mimic that same syntax in my z/VM client data file, Hobbit still shows the file as green but with 'No Data'. I would like the file to be marked Yellow in the hobbit files display. Must there be a file configuration record in the hobbit server before it will check for the error condition? Here is the piece from my client data file. [file:/VMSYSU/DFSMS./RMSMASTR.%TODAY] ERROR: No such file or directory [file:/DISKACNT/0191/ACCOUNT.$A111306] type:100000 (file) mode:640 (-rw-r-----) linkcount:1 owner:0 (root) group:3 (sys) size:6880 clock:1163443363 (2006/11/13-13:42:43) atime:1163442621 (2006/11/13-13:30:21) ctime:1163442621 (2006/11/13-13:30:21) mtime:1163442621 (2006/11/13-13:30:21) md5:79d5fe932a2784f2650e17a811fb4a17 /Thomas Kern /301-903-2211

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[hobbit] File status information in client-data
by Thomas.Kern＠hq.doe.gov 13 Nov '06

13 Nov '06

Thanks, I will put in a request to the Hobbit admin to add a check for this test file and see what happens. /Thomas Kern /301-903-2211 > -----Original Message----- > From: henrik at hswn.dk [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] > Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 4:40 PM > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: Re: [hobbit] File status information in client-data > > On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 02:03:48PM -0500, Kern, Thomas wrote: > > client data file, Hobbit still shows the file as green but with 'No > > Data'. I would like the file to be marked Yellow in the hobbit files > > display. Must there be a file configuration record in the > hobbit server > > before it will check for the error condition? > > Yes, you need a definition in the hobbit-clients.cfg file for the > "files" column to change colour. Sending the file data in the client > message doesn't do anything until you define the checks that are > relevant for the file in hobbit-clients.cfg > > Regards, > Henrik

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Alternate pagesets and Alerting
by jkwade＠futurefrontiers.com 13 Nov '06

13 Nov '06

I've setup alternate pagesets in bb-hosts and generate them. Is there a way to page using the alternate pagesets with the hobbit-alerts.cfg file. I see where you can do a PAGE=subpage, but what about pagesets. I've tried putting my pageset name in, but I don't get any pages. ossubpage win (In bb-hosts) hostname1 # ENV:win hostname2 # ENV:win (in hobbit-alerts.cfg) PAGE=win SERVICE=conn,disk,http MAIL jw at test.com REPEAT=20 COLOR=RED,YELLOW RECOVERED Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.James

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