November 2006 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Check log - ignore
by pierre.ronnefalk＠relacom.com 28 Nov '06

28 Nov '06

Hi, I have the following check HOST=host01 LOG /var/adm/messages %WARNING COLOR=yellow IGNORE=ARERR LOG /var/adm/messages %ERROR COLOR=red IGNORE=ARERR The problem is that ignore is not working. If i understand it right the rows with the ignore text shoult not show up. I have also tried IGNORE=%ARERR, but sam result... /Pierre [####################### RELACOM CORPORATE EMAIL FOOTER #######################] 1. This communication is confidential and is only intended for use of the individual or entity to which it is directed. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, please delete it without forwarding any of its contents. 2. Opinions and thoughts expressed in this email may be the personal opinions of the sender and do not necessarily represent the corporate values of Relacom. 3. For further information please visit: http://security.relacom.com/email/ [##################################################################################]

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Need client for HP-UX 10.20
by johnellallen＠gmail.com 28 Nov '06

28 Nov '06

Im having a hard time putting up a hobbit client for HP-UX 10.20 system. Could someone give me a working client for it. Would really appreciate your kind help. - Johnell Allen Averilla

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Disk test getting wrong info
by rmunsch＠solutionsforprogress.com 27 Nov '06

27 Nov '06

Using hobbit 4.2, i have one host that keeps alternating between yellow and green. From the commandline on the host, df consistently gets ----- Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda3 31004488 8095932 22908556 27% / date.tbb:/home 83883516 70860176 13023340 85% /home date.tbb:/shared 2097084 333308 1763776 16% /shared ----- (and df -l omits the latter two of course). However when the status most recently went yellow, i saw on the hobbit status page: ----- - Filesystems NOT ok Expected strings (Capacity and Mounted) not found in df output total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 4150856 2530912 1619944 0 36424 426328 -/+ buffers/cache: 2068160 2082696 Swap: 2097136 434284 1662852 ----- Which looks a lot like memory info to me! The last time it went yellow i saw a bunch of network interface stats. I don't know how but every few checks the client seems to run the wrong test for disk - or at least the wrong data is making it over in place of df info. Anyone ever see this happen or know how it could..? -- Rob Munsch Solutions For Progress IT www.solutionsforprogress.com

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HTML Emails
by mprice＠hst.nasa.gov 27 Nov '06

27 Nov '06

It looks hobbit sends the alerts via email in HTML format. For some reason its not formatted correctly to be read as HTML code. I have turned on HTML in my emails and tested with other emails accounts and still I cant get the emails to be formatted corecctly in HTML to be displayed correct. Has anyone else had this problem?? thanx, michael -- Michael A. Price Performance Network Engineering NASA/GSFC Code 440.8/LMB Greenbelt, Maryland 20770 Phone: 240-684-1356 Cell: 410-507-7476 e-mail: mprice at hst.nasa.gov ----------------------------------------------

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bbproxy configuration and setup
by pjhealy＠healyville.com 27 Nov '06

27 Nov '06

Hi, I've got a small network running in my basement that I'd like to monitor using hobbit. I also have another network at my office that is behind a firewall that I'd like to monitor. So far I have successfully configured my home network such that all the machines are monitored using hobbit. However, I can't find any suitable documentation on how to use bbproxy to monitor the firewall-protected office network. I'm looking for a little guidance on how to configure this. Specifically: 1) Do I install a full server version of hobbit on one machine at my office that I'm going to designate as my bbproxy? How should I go about compiling that instance? 2) After I've gotten the bbproxy machine compiled, what do I actually run? 3) I can install client versions of hobbit on the various machines, but what IP address to I set for the 'server'? Is it my home master hobbit server, or the proxy? (I'm sure it's the proxy, but how does the proxy know who to forward things to?) 4) On my home machine, how do I configure bb-hosts to list the separate remote clients? I promise if I get this working I'll write a short 'How To' document to memorialize this. Thanks to all! Pat Healy

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Problems with custom graphs
by tom＠tom-krieger.de 26 Nov '06

26 Nov '06

Hello, I have a little problem with custom graphs being displayed in the trends page. My setup: I use my own script to maintain a rrd file. The rrd file is located in the data/rrd/<host>/ directory. The rrd database contains the expected values and this part works fine. Now I created an entry "sqksec"in hobbitgraph.cfg to display my values in the trends page as a custom graph and added the graph "sqksec" to the GRAPHS variable in hobbitserver.cfg. The problem: Clicking on the trends column my graph isn't displayed. I verified the webserver log and did not see hobbitgraph.sh being called with my graph. Calling hobitgraph.sh directly from the browser with appropriate parameters the graph is being displayed. Here are the URLs called: http://bbtesteu/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?HOST=proxy01&SERVICE=trends My graph will not show up http://bbtesteu/hobbit-cgi/hobbitgraph.sh?host=proxy01&service=sqksec&graph… My graph shows up as a single picture and all works well. Can anyone tell me what the problem is or where to look for error messages? The webserver log does not show any error messages and hobbitsvc.cgi does not accept debug as parameter. Thanks in advance. Thomas

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SAR data
by khanrahan＠charter.net 26 Nov '06

26 Nov '06

Does anyone have or know of a script to import SAR data into Hobbit? Kevin

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Custom Menus
by TIM.EVANS＠jpmchase.com 25 Nov '06

25 Nov '06

Hi Henrik, I've been asked to create different menus for certain systems so that someone can look at non-green items for certain pages and groups rather than viewing all-non green servers. Can I utilize one of the existing scripts under cgi-bin to achieve this or should I use bbgen? I would like to have the page generated at the same intervals as bb2.html and bbnk.html. I saw one post that used bbgen but I wasn't sure if they used cron to create the output or incorporated it into hobbit itself. What would be the best method to get this result? Thanks in advance, Tim ----------------------------------------- This transmission may contain information that is privileged, confidential, legally privileged, and/or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the information contained herein (including any reliance thereon) is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. Although this transmission and any attachments are believed to be free of any virus or other defect that might affect any computer system into which it is received and opened, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that it is virus free and no responsibility is accepted by JPMorgan Chase & Co., its subsidiaries and affiliates, as applicable, for any loss or damage arising in any way from its use. If you received this transmission in error, please immediately contact the sender and destroy the material in its entirety, whether in electronic or hard copy format. Thank you.

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old glibc
by maik＠vegasystems.com 24 Nov '06

24 Nov '06

Hello, I use the Hobbit-Server 4.2 on FC5 Linux. I also user the client-software on Windos- and Linux Operatingsystems. Sometimes, We use old linux distributions with an old glibc (ver. 2.25). Is there a way to install the hobbit client on those systems without updating the glibc? I checked it by google but I didn`t find any answers. Thanks for your soon answer. Maik

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depends tag?
by etmsys＠rit.edu 24 Nov '06

24 Nov '06

We have the following: x.x.x.x hostA # ssh y.y.y.y hostB # ssh ldap://hostB.rit.edu:389/ou=People,dc=rit,dc=edu?uid?sub?(uid=authtest) depends=(conn:hostA/conn),(ldap:hostA/conn) These run Solaris 10 zones. hostA is the physical system, hostB is a zone within hostA. So if the hostA goes down, then hostB will be down also. However it appears that if the "conn" test fails for hostA, it fails for hostB also, but hostB "conn" shows red, not clear. Is this correct? We have many Solaris 10 zones that if the physical host goes down, then all the zones will fail the test too. We don't want to be emailed (or paged) with massive amounts of hosts going down, when we know that other host test will fail. Thanks. ---Eric

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