November 2006 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

No recovered mail if red goes yellow?
by stefan.freisler＠aspect-online.de 02 Nov '06

02 Nov '06

Hi, what is to do if i will get recovered when status changed from red to yellow? I send SMS via Scripts where i made a test if the recovered Flag is set. My Problem is that we would get an recovered massage if it is going yellow. Is there an solution? thx wdsl

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[hobbit] New Hobbit stuff: Scalability and H/A work
by olivier.beau＠telecomitalia.fr 02 Nov '06

02 Nov '06

oh oh oh !!! loook verrry interesting :))) i have 2 questions: -if the heavy work (rrd updates) is distributed on 2 or more dedicated "rrd servers", the data wont be redondant on each of these "rrd server", right ? -what would happen if an "rrd server" crashes ?? recently i changed my 2 hobbit servers, which now have 2G of ram each would it make sense to have hobbit evolve and take full advantage of that memory ? olivier -----Message d'origine----- De : Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Envoyé : mardi 31 octobre 2006 17:04 À : hobbit at hswn.dk Objet : [hobbit] New Hobbit stuff: Scalability and H/A work 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 To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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Ports data from other platforms
by rsmrcina＠wi.rr.com 01 Nov '06

01 Nov '06

I want to be able to provide ports data to Hobbit from the mainframe operating systems. They do not have and 'standard' Hobbit client nor do they present the equivalent of 'netstat' in the way that Linux does. I can reformat the 'netstat' into the Linux way, that's not a problem. What I would like to know is how to present this data to Hobbit so that it shows up properly in the ports column (with server based configuration and optional tracking capabilities). Is it as simple as sending the data as a 'ports' test or do I need to create a 'client' package and send it. If so, is the format the same as the 'client data' link with just that text data in the message? Thanks. -- 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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bbtest-net.c
by Bradley_Wallace＠glic.com 01 Nov '06

01 Nov '06

Hobbit Server - version 4.1.2p1 When a server that's monitored by Hobbit does not respond to ping (it's down), Hobbit generates the following message: nro6000c:conn red [201160] red  Wed Nov 1 13:22:18 2006 conn NOT ok Service conn on nro6000c is not OK : Host does not respond to ping System unreachable for 1 poll periods (0 seconds) &red 10.102.0.197 is unreachable See http://Hobbit/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?HOSTSVC=nro6000c.conn The "!" in the second line of the message causes problems in Linux when handling the error message with ksh shell scripts. I believe that this message is generated by bbnet/bbtest-net.c, line 1582. If I take out the exclamation, is there a way I can just recompile bbtest-net.c and insert it into Hobbit, without re-making the whole installation? Or am I better off re-making the whole thing? <hr size=1> 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-alerts.cfg with TIME option
by shane.presley＠gmail.com 01 Nov '06

01 Nov '06

Hello, For most of our servers, we have a MAIL statement that sends e-mails out 24x7 for failures. But then we have another MAIL statement in the same rule that e-mails another group, and that should only happen 7AM to 5PM. My question is, if the failure happens at 3AM, e-mail #1 goes out. If it is still down at 7AM, shouldn't e-mail #2 go out? It appears right now that only failures that start during 7-5 will send e-mail. Anything that happens overnight, even if it is still failed at 7AM, it will not e-mail. Could this be because I've increased my ALERTREPEAT="1440" in hobbitserver.cfg? PAGE=vpn MAIL me at domain.com MAIL another at domain.com DURATION>5m TIME=*:0700:1700 SCRIPT qpage.sh qp-me FORMAT=SMS DURATION>30 TIME=*:0700:1700 Thanks, Shane

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[hobbit] Critical Systems / NK
by rmunsch＠solutionsforprogress.com 01 Nov '06

01 Nov '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Henrik Stoerner wrote: > On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 01:09:32PM -0500, Rob Munsch wrote: >>> See the Hobbit-help menu for ciritical systems or see >>> http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/help/criticalsystems.html >> You know, i seem to have done Something Strange. Again. >> Hobbit identifies itself as 4.2.0 in the lower right of the generated >> page; but there is no "edit Critical Systems" link present anywhere. > > If you upgraded from a previous version, the menu-system files need some > manual tweaking to get the new items. See the release-notes in the 4.2.0 > sources. oops. thanks! - -- Rob Munsch Solutions For Progress IT www.solutionsforprogress.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFSMkfBvBcJFK6xYURAuJOAJ436XuQNuISj2JV/0BPAAVsXhD8IgCfegId Y+QP3UVImy5bjm6XtDQJKSQ= =4Tfe -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[hobbit] Hobbit-perl-notes
by fduranti＠q8.it 01 Nov '06

01 Nov '06

> This is great! The only problem I'm having is > if I define a > Link, the link URL is ignored and instead the > link that is > created is a link to the notes page. A sample > link definition > that I am using is: > "Reports URL|Internal > Link|http://internal.reports.mydomain.com/" > > When I view the notes for the host, the > "Internal Link" takes > me to > > https://hobbitserver/hobbit-cgi/hobbitperl-notes.sh?HOST=myhostname# > > > > > The link is right, it should launch a javascript that > will open a new > page with the link. > Can you check the source of the html page? > > > Strange...I havn't changed anything, but now when I click the > link, Firefox prompts me to download a binary file. I > downloaded the file and it contains a small amount of binary > data along with ".com". > It's strange... Can you check the source code and find the find where the link is? It should be something like: <a onclick="javascript:window.open('http://www.dell.it')" href="#">Homepage</a> I've tested it and work with Explorer and Firefox 2 and it works good (opening a new page). It's possible that you have to check for firefox to let that site open popup windows (it will open a new window or new page it depend from the settings of firefox).

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[hobbit] hobbit-alerts.cfg REPEAT option
by shane.presley＠gmail.com 01 Nov '06

01 Nov '06

On 10/31/06, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote: > Set > ALERTREPEAT=<some.large.number> > in hobbitserver.cfg, then restart Hobbit. Thanks, that worked! Shane

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