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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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EXT script showing critical in 1 hr when interval 7 days
by shawn.saunders＠jpl.nasa.gov 02 Nov '06

02 Nov '06

I have created an 'ext' script that is set in the clientlaunch.cfg to run on an interval of 7 days "INTERVAL 7d" After it has run, going GREEN as it should, in about 15 minutes it goes purple, and will go Red shortly thereafter. But it is not scheduled to run for 7 days. I even tried putting an entry on the server-side: hobbit-clients.cfg: sysdb 8d This to no avail. What should I do to get it to only have this go red or purple if it fails on the next time it is run? It appears that every time the hobbit client reports, that it views this weekly scheduled event as a failure. -- Shawn Saunders MIST Team member Jet Propulsion Laboratory 4800 Oak Grove Drive Pasadena, CA 91109 MS 230-310 Office: (818) 354-4667 / 230-310A Mobile: (818) 458-0789 FAX: (818) 393-9022 Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of courage-to move in the opposite direction. Albert Einstein

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

02 Nov '06

I decreased the bbnet test from 5 minute to 2 hrs. This is one thing I dare not do on BB server.I did it on my test server ;) Am I missing anything to adjust the bbnet check interval ?I am starting to see gap on all the trending graphs. [bbnet] ENVFILE /opt/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg NEEDS hobbitd CMD bbtest-net --report --ping --checkresponse --dnslog=$BBSERVERLOGS/dns.log --concurrency=1000 LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/bb-network.log INTERVAL 120mT.J. Yang _________________________________________________________________ Call friends with PC-to-PC calling -- FREE http://get.live.com/messenger/overview

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

02 Nov '06

Well, I got all lots of purple icons now. it now make sense since the hobbit system work around 5m interval.So the question is what is the maximum interval without triggering the purple icons ?T.J. YangFrom: tj_yang at hotmail.comTo: hobbit at hswn.dkDate: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 13:55:50 -0600Subject: [hobbit] bbtest frequency fromm 5 m to 120m I decreased the bbnet test from 5 minute to 2 hrs. This is one thing I dare not do on BB server.I did it on my test server ;) Am I missing anything to adjust the bbnet check interval ?I am starting to see gap on all the trending graphs. [bbnet] ENVFILE /opt/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg NEEDS hobbitd CMD bbtest-net --report --ping --checkresponse --dnslog=$BBSERVERLOGS/dns.log --concurrency=1000 LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/bb-network.log INTERVAL 120mT.J. YangCall friends with PC-to-PC calling -- FREE Connect now! _________________________________________________________________ Call friends with PC-to-PC calling -- FREE http://get.live.com/messenger/overview

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Hosts going purple
by jeffnewman75＠gmail.com 02 Nov '06

02 Nov '06

Hi, I am running the latest hobbit server/client (with all the patches applied) and I still have AIX hosts going purple due to the netstat command (nearest I can tell) >From ps: # ps -ef | grep hob hobbit 13306 16692 0 03:58:28 - 0:00 sh /usr/local/hobbit/client/bin/hobbitclient.sh hobbit 15572 13306 0 03:58:28 - 0:00 sh /usr/local/hobbit/client/bin/hobbitclient-aix.sh root 16262 12252 0 11:07:52 pts/0 0:00 grep hob hobbit 16692 1 0 Oct 30 - 0:03 /usr/local/hobbit/client/bin/hobbitlaunch --config=/usr/local/hobbit/client/etc/clientlaunch.cfg --log=/usr/local/hobbit/client/logs/clientlaunch.log --pidfile=/usr/local/hobbit/client/logs/clientlaunch.devarb2.pid hobbit 18104 15572 64 03:58:29 - 206:41 netstat -an hobbit 20870 15572 0 03:58:29 - 2:55 grep ^tcp If I go on that host (which is purple right now) and run "netstat -an | grep ^tcp" it runs just fine. This happens mostly on AIX 4.3.3 There is nothing in any log file on the client to indicate any problem. Can provide any needed info. Thanks, Jeff

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Too many tests for one host
by ndorfsman＠gmail.com 02 Nov '06

02 Nov '06

Hi, I'm currently working on bb-roracle test (I'll post the new version on deadcat, probably with NCV numbers). It's raising an issue which I did't think about....I will have too many test to display for one host without horizontal scrolling ! Does anyone ever meet this ? Any idea to go against that ?

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[hobbit] OpenVMS, Hobbit client, precompiled?
by dunne＠accuweather.com 02 Nov '06

02 Nov '06

Greetings, We have a rather dire need for an OpenVMS client. Has anyone been able to compile the hobbit client for OpenVMS. We're currently trying to use the Big Brother client available on Dead Cat for VMS, but it leaves much to be desired. Any response would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Mike On 9/20/06 9:15 AM, "David Gore" <David.Gore at verizonbusiness.com> wrote: > > Anyone have a compiled hobbit client for OpenVMS they would like to share? > > ~David > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > > > Michael Dunne Network Support Specialist AccuWeather, Inc. ~HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools. (Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary")~

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Ignoring proc alerts in the default section
by JamesHorwath＠glic.com 02 Nov '06

02 Nov '06

All: I have a default section in my /etc/hobbit/hobbit-alerts.cfg with something like this: PROC my_process PROC his_process I have a couple of servers that do not run the processes my_process or his_process and as a result they are showing errors because of the definitions in my DEFAULT section. How can I have a server ignore the default section? If I have 99.9% of the hosts using the 2 process and only 2 or 3 which don't, any suggestions on how to handle it? Thanks in advance, Jim ----------------------------------------- This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you.

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[hobbit] log file monitoring issues
by gmbfly98＠gmail.com 02 Nov '06

02 Nov '06

Maybe I'm just missing something in the documentation, but I can't seem to get the log file monitoring to work properly. In the example below, I'm trying to look at the "messages" and "maillog" files on Linux. Particularly, I'm trying to EXCLUDE the following "messages" lines: Aug 9 21:19:45 www upsd[7860]: Connection from 127.0.0.1 Aug 9 21:19:45 www upsd[7860]: Client on 127.0.0.1 logged out Aug 9 21:19:45 www upsd[7860]: Connection from 127.0.0.1 Aug 9 16:44:01 www crond(pam_unix)[5382]: session opened for user root by (uid=0) Aug 9 16:44:14 www crond(pam_unix)[5382]: session closed for user root Aug 9 16:45:01 www crond(pam_unix)[5484]: session opened for user mailman by (uid=0) Aug 9 16:45:01 www crond(pam_unix)[5484]: session closed for user mailman And EXCLUDE the following "maillog" lines: Aug 6 11:55:02 www sendmail[15076]: k76Ft1pU015076: from=<mailman at HOSTNAME>, size=576, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200608061555.k76Ft1A2015075 at HOSTNAME>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1] Below is the respective lines from the "client-local.cfg" file: log:/var/log/messages:10240 ignore upsd* Client|Connection 127.0.0.1 ignore session opened|closed for user mailman|root log:/var/log/maillog:10240 ignore relay=localhost.localdomain trigger denied And below the specific log entries I'm looking for from "hobbit-clients.cfg": LOG /var/log/maillog "relaying denied" color="yellow" Now, the problem I'm having... The "ignore" line for the /var/log/maillog file appears to be working correctly, as it does indeed ignore such entries as shown above. Also working is the "ignore session opened..." line for the /var/log/messages file. What is NOT working is the "ignore" line for the "upsd*" lines in /var/log/messages. For the life of me, I just can't figure out how to get that to work properly. That is, two of the three "ignore" lines are not working, as those lines still show up in the "full log" output. If anyone has any ideas, let me know. I'm also having problems with some logs not showing up on the messages page. Do you need both a "LOG" entries in the hobbit-clients.cfg AND client-local.cfg, or will an entry in only client-local.cfg be sufficient to have it show up on the messages page?

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