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Contact to Henrik
by wolfgang.wutz＠siemensvdo.com 02 Jan '07

02 Jan '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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[hobbit] SMTP and FTP Services Red
by geoff＠hallford.ca 02 Dec '06

02 Dec '06

I tried putting all IP's and hostname's into their respective hosts files and changing the resolution order but it didn't help. It appears the server on the far side is just plain slow to respond with a 220. The only thing that would help is if I can set the time delay (wait 15 seconds before failing). I think this would be a good feature to have if it doesn't exist already. Thanks anyways. On 11/29/06, PNIXON at ci.somerville.ma.us <PNIXON at ci.somerville.ma.us> wrote: > > Did you try putting an entry for Hobbit server into their hosts files? I > think the delay is from the Server trying to do a reverse lookup on the IP > Address. > > > You may also have to change the order in which they resolve DNS.... > > in /etc/nsswitch.conf (or whatever is appropriate for your distribution) > > change from > hosts: db files nisplus nis dns > to > hosts: files nisplus nis dns db > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Geoff Hallford [mailto:geoff.hallford at gmail.com] > *Sent:* Wednesday, November 29, 2006 3:46 PM > *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk > *Subject:* [hobbit] SMTP and FTP Services Red > > Hello, > > On a few of our servers the SMTP and FTP services are RED but when I > telnet to them, they do show the proper 220 status good. They are quite slow > to respond though, taking sometimes 10-15 seconds. Is there anyway to get > Hobbit to pause and wait for this? If not, how long does it wait before it > shows a red status? > > Thank you very much for your help. > > Geoff Hallford > > > -- 'If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.' --Sam Jackson from Pulp Fiction

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HTTP error 0
by lebarber＠gmail.com 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

What does "HTTP error 0" signify when given as the result of an http test? An empty page? Thanks, Larry Barber

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Custom RRD graphs
by ger＠fwi.ie 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

Hi folks, I have created a custom script for capturing CPU utilisation from a device and updated all the relevant files but I cannot get my rrd files to update correctly. An initial rrd file gets created but the data does not get input into it. I have created a rrd-ext sript which is running and is capturing the incomming status data and by looking at the /tmp files I can see that the echo outputs are being generated correctly every 5 mintes. ----> rrd-ext.sh HOSTNAME="$1" TESTNAME="$2" FNAME="$3" if [ "$TESTNAME" = "acpu" ] then echo "`date`" >> /tmp/hobbit.$HOSTNAME.$TESTNAME echo "$FNAME" >> /tmp/hobbit.$HOSTNAME.$TESTNAME # Analyze the message we got # ACPU=`grep "connected" $FNAME | awk '{print $14}'` ACPU=`grep "The 5" $FNAME | cut -d"(" -f2 | cut -d"." -f1` # The RRD dataset definitions echo "DS:acpu:GAUGE:600:0:100" # The filename echo "acpu.rrd" # The data echo "$ACPU" echo "$ACPU" >> /tmp/hobbit.$HOSTNAME.$TESTNAME fi The value I want to graph is simply a cpu % counter, have I got the above values and setting correct for this ? Any help or pointers appreciated. Output that this produces is below showing that it is getting the data correctly from the status input. ---> /tmp/hobbit.$HOSTNAME.$TESTNAME Wed Nov 29 19:54:07 GMT 2006 /usr/lib/hobbit/server/tmp/rrd_msg_13879 14 Wed Nov 29 19:59:05 GMT 2006 /usr/lib/hobbit/server/tmp/rrd_msg_26569 25 Wed Nov 29 20:04:07 GMT 2006 /usr/lib/hobbit/server/tmp/rrd_msg_2788 17 Wed Nov 29 20:09:12 GMT 2006 /usr/lib/hobbit/server/tmp/rrd_msg_11944 9 Ger.

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lsof monitor?
by jkwade＠futurefrontiers.com 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

Has anyone written or will Hobbit monitor the number of open connections to an application? As an example, using lsof. Sorry if I'm repeating myself. I asked earlier but didn't get an answer. I thought I'd ask again and see if anyone knows a way to monitor it across the clients. I want to check and alert if an application has to many open connections. ie. >1000 Thanks..James

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more than one custom graph using ncv because of large value differences
by stefan_loos＠hotmail.com 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

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Help - Worker process died exit code 134
by a.a.bakshi＠gmail.com 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

Hi All, I have read the mailing list for it, & read that this maybe happenning coz of large client data, I have very limited clients & have stopped them. still when I start the hobbit server , the client data still reports as purple, even for hobbit server. I also keep getting error with the worker process termination error *xstrdup: Cannot dup NULL string* Anu suggestion, where to look at ? -- Regrds Amit

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Error compiling snapshot
by lars.ebeling＠leopg9.no-ip.org 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

I have not downloaded the latest snapshot for a while, but today I did. The same error that I had the last time occured today again. I am compiling on HP-UX 11.11 gcc -g -O -D_REENTRANT -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DHPUX -I. -I /home/hobbit/snapshot/include -I/usr/local/include -I. -I../include -c -o loc ator.o locator.c locator.c: In function écall_locator': locator.c:81: error: éMSG_DONTWAIT' undeclared (first use in this function) locator.c:81: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once locator.c:81: error: for each function it appears in.) makeÄ1Å: *** Älocator.oÅ Error 1 makeÄ1Å: Leaving directory é/home/hobbit/snapshot/lib' make: *** Älib-buildÅ Error 2 Regards Lars Ebeling http://leopg9.no-ip.org Hobbithobbyist "It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt." -- Mark Twain

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resolver failures
by dan.mcdonald＠austinenergy.com 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

I am seeing intermittent resolver failures in /var/log/hobbit/bb-network.log. This box also runs MRTG, which chews up a lot of resources with as many points as I monitor. The failures appear to occur one minute and 3-10 seconds into the MRTG polling cycle, during which time the box is CPU bound for about 30 seconds (decrypting several thousand SNMP V3 PDU's) Is there a way to extend the ares resolver timeout? Or is there some local resolver caching I could set up to help mitigate this problem? At any other point in the MRTG polling cycle the resolver seems to work fine. The other pieces cause the system to be network bound during the initial poll (about 25 seconds), and disk bound (40 seconds) whilst re-writing the ~6000 RRD files. -- Daniel J McDonald, CCIE # 2495, CISSP # 78281, CNX Austin Energy http://www.austinenergy.com

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Client data not appearing on hobbit server
by Allan.Marillier＠dana.com 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

I know I've had this problem once before but I don't remember how I resolved it, and have not yet been able to find an answer while searching the archives. Any clues, please help! I have a server running hobbit-4.1.2p1 on Fedora Core 4, and a new one I am migrating to which is running hobbit-4.2.0 on Fedora Core 6. On the older 4.1.2p1 server I have many client servers correctly reporting their data (CPU, memory, filesystems etc.) and a few that are not. Only the conn, ssh, ftp, html etc tests initiated by the server are displaying data. My entry in bb-hosts is exactly the same as for some other servers where data is being correctly reported and all hobbit client processes look normal with nothing unusual in log files. In troubleshooting today I also compiled and started the 4.1.2p1 client on an HP-UX server and verified all configs there look good. I also have some servers configured on the 4.2.0 server running the client installed from the pre-built FC5-hobbit-client-4.2.0-1.i386.rpm that are not reporting in any of the data. Both servers have plenty of available disk and seem to be functioning normally. The hobbit server IP address is correctly configured in BBDISP in hobbitclient.cfg on the 4.1.2p1 client, and in HOBBITSERVERS in /etc/default/hobbit-client. In both cases, I can telnet to port 1984 of the hobbit servers from the clients The hobbit processes are running correctly: hobbit 21472 1 0 Nov23 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/hobbit/client/bin/hobbitlaunch --config=/usr/lib/hobbit/client/etc/clientlaunch.cfg --log=/usr/lib/hobbit/client/logs/clientlaunch.log --pidfile=/usr/lib/hobbit/client/logs/clientlaunch.plmws01.pid hobbit 7855 1 0 09:44 ? 00:00:00 sh -c vmstat 300 2 1>/usr/lib/hobbit/client/tmp/hobbit_vmstat.plmws01.7838 2>&1; mv /usr/lib/hobbit/client/tmp/hobbit_vmstat.plmws01.7838 /usr/lib/hobbit/client/tmp/hobbit_vmstat.plmws01 hobbit 7857 7855 0 09:44 ? 00:00:00 vmstat 300 2 Log files look normal: -rw-rw-r-- 1 hobbit hobbit 452 Nov 25 11:32 clientlaunch.log -rw-rw-r-- 1 hobbit hobbit 6 Nov 23 21:55 clientlaunch.plmws01.pid -rw-rw-r-- 1 hobbit hobbit 0 Nov 23 21:55 hobbitclient.log cat clientlaunch.log: 2006-11-29 09:54:17 hobbitlaunch starting 2006-11-29 09:54:17 Loading tasklist configuration from /usr/lib/hobbit/client/etc/clientlaunch.cfg Thanks! </PRE> <div style="font-family:arial;font-size:8pt;"> <hr> <p>This e-mail, and any attachments, is intended solely for use by the addressee(s) named above. It may contain the confidential or proprietary information of Dana Corporation, its subsidiaries, affiliates or business partners. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail or are an unauthorized recipient of the information, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail or any attachments, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender by reply e-mail and permanently delete the original and any copies or printouts.</p> <p>Computer viruses can be transmitted via email. The recipient should check this e-mail and any attachments for the presence of viruses. Dana Corporation accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this e-mail.</p> English, Francais, Espanol, Deutsch, Italiano, Portugues:<br> <a href="http://www.dana.com/overview/EmailDisclaimer.shtm">http://www.dana.com/overview/EmailDisclaimer.shtm</a> <hr> </div>

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