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[hobbit] host without FQDN monitoring
by tj_yang＠hotmail.com 04 Nov '06

04 Nov '06

T.J. Yang> Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 16:45:27 -0600> From: rsmrcina at wi.rr.com> To: hobbit at hswn.dk> Subject: Re: [hobbit] host without FQDN monitoring> > Use testip.appreciate the pointer. short and works ;)tj> > T.J. Yang wrote:> > I have many router IPs need to be monitored but they don't have fully > > qualify domain name.> > Is there a way to disable dns test for those ips to error messages in > > dns.log> > Excuse me if this is a FAQ.> > > > > > T.J. Yang> > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------> > Try the next generation of search with Windows LiveT Search today! Try > > it now! <http://search.live.com>> > -- > 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> > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to> hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk> > _________________________________________________________________ Personalize your Live.com homepage with the news, weather, and photos you care about. Try it. http://www.live.com/getstarted.aspx

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host without FQDN monitoring
by tj_yang＠hotmail.com 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

I have many router IPs need to be monitored but they don't have fully qualify domain name.Is there a way to disable dns test for those ips to error messages in dns.logExcuse me if this is a FAQ.T.J. Yang _________________________________________________________________ Check the weather nationwide with MSN Search: Try it now! http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=weather&FORM=WLMTAG

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[hobbit] Hobbit Perl Notes question
by fduranti＠q8.it 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

Hi, It seems something related to accessibility of the file or directory, try to check the permission/group access of the user running the webserver (apache or www or something like that) and accessibility of the www and notes directory for that user... Francesco > -----Original Message----- > From: Doug Anderson [mailto:danderson at scotlandonline.co.uk] > Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 5:17 PM > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: [hobbit] Hobbit Perl Notes question > > > Hi guys 'n gals, > > I'm in the throws of getting Perl notes running with Hobbit. > However, things are not going to plan. When clicking on any > linked host, or on the 'notes export' option from the Reports > dropdown, I get the following message. > > Inifile /home/hobbit/server/www/notes/hobbitperl-notes.cfg > doesn't exist > > The above config file does exist, and for the meantime at > least has 777 properties. > > Has anyone seen this problem before? > > Many thanks, > > Doug > > ______________________________________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by the Scotland Online Email > Security System. > > > Powered by MessageLabs > For more information please visit > http://www.messagelabs.com/email > ______________________________________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > > >

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RSS feeds
by jdustin＠usm.maine.edu 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

Greetings - I have a new installation of Hobbit v4.2.0 (with all-in-one patch), and it is working VERY well. I had been running Big Brother for over 10 years, it was showing its limits (performance), and I REALLY like the flexibility and features in Hobbit. But here is my question: We are using the RSS page option to generate some status pages, for a custom "traffic light" in our HelpDesk and Network Staff areas (very slick - used BB prior to this). RSS works great, easy to configure. Would it be possible to have an RSS generated with a user-configurable time-period for a "report" listing? My director would like to use RSS in his browser, and see what has happened "recently", rather than just what exists "now". Possible? Probable? Not necessary? Thanks for any comments, and for a great product. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Jon Dustin - Network Specialist University of Southern Maine Portland, ME

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Netware 6 Monitoring
by PNIXON＠ci.somerville.ma.us 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

Hey there, Is anyone monitoring a netware 6 server? If so, snmp or a dedicated client? Thanks! --Pat

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Hobbit Perl Notes question
by danderson＠scotlandonline.co.uk 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

Hi guys 'n gals, I'm in the throws of getting Perl notes running with Hobbit. However, things are not going to plan. When clicking on any linked host, or on the 'notes export' option from the Reports dropdown, I get the following message. Inifile /home/hobbit/server/www/notes/hobbitperl-notes.cfg doesn't exist The above config file does exist, and for the meantime at least has 777 properties. Has anyone seen this problem before? Many thanks, Doug ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Scotland Online Email Security System. Powered by MessageLabs For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________

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change check frequency for one client only?
by jjj863＠gmail.com 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

I had a stability problem with a client where the disk may become inaccessible. We have a test plan but needs something to detect whether the disk is writable every minute. Hobbit is running on it. So, if I can adjust the check frequency for this client alone to 1m instead of the default 5m, hobbit checks would fail then alert us, since hobbit clients needs to write temp files. Actually, this was how we get alerted yesterday.

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[hobbit] bbtest frequency fromm 5 m to 120m
by tj_yang＠hotmail.com 02 Nov '06

02 Nov '06

> Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 22:05:36 +0100> To: hobbit at hswn.dk> From: henrik at hswn.dk> Subject: Re: [hobbit] bbtest frequency fromm 5 m to 120m> > On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 01:55:50PM -0600, T.J. Yang wrote:> > I decreased the bbnet test from 5 minute to 2 hrs. > > This begs the question: Why ?>Trying to lower the traffice impact on network, especially WAN connections.Can I apply longer bbnet test interval to WAN subnets ?> > Am I missing anything to adjust the bbnet check interval ?I am > > starting to see gap on all the trending graphs.> > Yep, that will be the result. The RRD graphs require regular updates,> and with 2 hour intervals there isn't enough data for them to provide> any kind of meaningful graphs.> > Besides, all of the network tests have a lifetime of 30 minutes so> any interval longer than that will give you purple statuses.I will try 20m to see what is the impact.Thanks for the replytj> > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to> hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk> > _________________________________________________________________ Personalize your Live.com homepage with the news, weather, and photos you care about. Try it. http://www.live.com/getstarted.aspx

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Enable/Disable command
by rsmrcina＠wi.rr.com 02 Nov '06

02 Nov '06

Does the bb enable/disable command accept multiple tests to act on, eg; bb 127.0.0.1 "disable hostname.(cpu|disk)" or do the commands need to be issued separately? -- 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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New Hobbit stuff: Scalability and H/A work
by henrik＠hswn.dk 02 Nov '06

02 Nov '06

A couple of weeks ago, I was asked if our Hobbit system at work could handle monitoring of one more customer. Of course, I said - no problem. Well, there was one gotcha: This customer has 1100+ servers that need to be monitored. Which means my Hobbit installation is about to double in the number of hosts monitored. Hmm ... This will be interesting to watch. I am fairly confident that Hobbit can handle it, with one exception: The disks on my Hobbit server will be overloaded. It already spends about 50% of it's time in I/O wait, so doubling the number of hosts with cpu/memory/disk etc. graphs will probably crash it. So something needs to be done - fast: These hosts should go into our Hobbit before Christmas. That is why I currently may seem a bit absent from the mailing list. The way I plan to handle it will be by distributing the load of RRD updates onto several servers, each handling a subset of the total set of hosts; Hobbit will automatically detect which of the 3 RRD-servers handles a specific host and direct rrd-updates to that server. New hosts are distributed across all of the RRD servers in a weighted round-robin fashion. The way this is going to be done means that it can be used not only for distributing the load of the RRD file updates, but also for distributing the other hobbitd_* modules (alerting, history logs, client data processing etc). In other words, this will be a major win for Hobbit in large installations. It also has one more benefit: I think this can be evolved to handle automatic failover, so you can run multiple Hobbit servers that process the same data - meaning all of the on-disk data will be identical across all of the Hobbit servers. This should make it possible to setup a group of Hobbit servers for very high availability of the monitoring system. I haven't worked out all of the implementation details yet, but I think it is possible. Regards, Henrik

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