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PROC test question
by marco.pizzoli＠gmail.com 21 Aug '09

21 Aug '09

Hi all, I am a hobbit newby. I have a question about the PROC test: is there a way to define a test about the presence of a particular proc executed by a particular user? I'm in a situation where I have some daemons that could be started by a lot of (machine)users and so I would like to check the user the proc run as. Thanks in advance Marco

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cupsd
by stoner-lists＠comcast.net 04 Jun '08

04 Jun '08

For those who want to monitor a cups print server, here's a definition you can put in your bb-services file: [cupsd] send "GET /printers\r\n" expect "HTTP/1.1 200 OK" port 631 Alternatively, you could just use http://host:631/printers in your bb-hosts file. The cupsd is, for monitoring purposes, a web server. -Jeff "Fun with Users #1: ln -s /dev/random /etc/motd"

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ntpdate question
by Dirk.Kastens＠uni-osnabrueck.de 09 Mar '08

09 Mar '08

Hi, before updating our hobbit server to version 4.2.0, I tested the ntp configuration with the bb-ntp-1_4.sh script on the client nodes. When I now configure the server to use the ntp network test instead, I realize that this doesn't work with most of our RedHat clients. I get the response ntpdate -u -q -p 2 a.b.c.d server a.b.c.d, stratum 0, offset 0.000000, delay 0.00000 29 Aug 10:53:26 ntpdate[3509]: no server suitable for synchronization found The network test works with all AIX clients and with older RedHat clients. The manual page of ntpdate on a RedHat machine says, that "the ntpdate program is to be retired from this distribution". Is there another way of testing the ntp synchronisation from the server side or do I still have to use the bb-ntp.sh script? Best wishes, Dirk Kastens

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Client for NetApp storage and Weblogic Server
by fduranti＠q8.it 01 Oct '07

01 Oct '07

Hi all, I'm currently developing 3 perl client to use with Network appliance Storage, Weblogic Servers and Database (SQL/Oracle/Informix and Mysql). At this moment only the weblogic and netapp scripts are available, the database check for Oracle/Informix and with connection check to sqlserver will be probably available the next week. I uploaded the scripts to deadcat but i got some problems downloading them so I've also created a project on sourceforge and I'm uploading the scripts there (and I will also try to create a mailing list so that if users have the need to contact me they can do that there). The homepage on sourceforge is http://sourceforge.net/projects/hobbit-perl-cl/ <BLOCKED::http://sourceforge.net/projects/hobbit-perl-cl/> Thanks and sorry for the advertise but this seems the better place to let users know about hobbit clients available :D Regards Francesco Duranti

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[patch] split-ncv and maximum value tracking
by cgoyard＠cvf.fr 21 Jul '07

21 Jul '07

Hi all, here is a patch that provides two new features to the NCV graph backend. It answers to a request I did on August 2nd (subject: "Dynamic or Split NCV"). - split-ncv : Lets you store an ever-changing set of data on a status column basis. Say, you want to keep track of who is accessing a database. It works by creating a rrd file per ncv line instead of packing a lot of DS in a single rrd file. I use it to keep track of tomcat session number per context, harddrive temperature, database connexions, and a whole bunch of other things, such a the repartition of loaded classes on a jvm (useful to find memory leaks). - trackmax : it lets you keep track of the maximum value of a dataset, along with the average. It's useful when the maximum is somehow as significant than the average over time. (say, to track a hard-limited ressource, such as telephone lines). I use it to keep track of the maximum number of busy X25 lines on a specific application. It only works for NCV at the time, but I may add it to other tests. The patch includes the documentation for all this. It applies on today's snapshot and on october' all-in-one. It does not work with the plain release because of a nasty bug in do_ncv.c. Well, here's the patch. Consider it beta, but yet it works on my production server. I strongly hope it will be included in the mainstream hobbit (I don't like maintaining local patches :)). Regards, -- Charles Goyard - cgoyard at cvf.fr - (+33) 1 45 38 01 31

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msgs file with html code
by vadud3＠gmail.com 05 Jul '07

05 Jul '07

Hi When I receive alerts related to messages file it comes with html code in my mail box like this. &red Critical entries in <a href="/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?CLIENT=hobbit.client.com&SECTION=msgs:/var/adm/mess +ages">/var/adm/messages</a> &red Aug 17 15:39:55 hobbit.client.com WARNING: [ID 702911 user.error] this is a test message Full log <a href="/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?CLIENT=hobbit.client.com&SECTION=msgs:/var/adm/messages">/var/adm/m +essages</a> Aug 17 15:39:55 hobbit.client.com WARNING: [ID 702911 user.error] this is a test message I am using hobbit client 4.2.0 and hobbit server 4.2.0. I sure did not play with any html code to make the output like this. Also I saw an email about keeping the full log link in the web gui for easy troubleshooting. But is that also apply to email. In otherwords can I just receive alert related lines and not the full log underneath. OR do I need to define SMS in hobbit-alerts.cfg page to achieve that? Thanks -- Asif Iqbal PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu

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[hobbit] multiple RRD graphs for a single column
by gumby3203＠gmail.com 01 Mar '07

01 Mar '07

How can I get Hobbit to display multiple physical RRD graphs for a single column of data? Specifically, I'd like to have two distinct graphs (each with their own Y-scale) for a single data column that is being generated from an external script. This would be similar to how Hobbit sometimes shows multiple graphs under the "disk" column. I can't seem to find this anywhere in the documentation.

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[hobbit] - MySQL monitoring
by fduranti＠q8.it 23 Feb '07

23 Feb '07

You can use also dbcheck.pl to track the mysql database (connection and same stats as the normal sqlstatus script). The new version also has a custom query engine so it's possible to write to query to analyze and if someone know how to get more data out of sqlserver with query or sql command I can arrange some more checks for it (and graphs also...). Francesco > -----Original Message----- > From: thomas.seglard.enata at cnp.fr > [mailto:thomas.seglard.enata at cnp.fr] > Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 5:09 PM > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: [hobbit] - MySQL monitoring > > Hi, > > I'm just asking you how do you monitor your MySQL databases ? > I've setted up the bb-mysqlstatus.sh and modify it to support > NCV format. Now I got graphs for queries/sec and slowqueries. > That's cool but it's not very accurate... I'm using MySQL > Administrator from > http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/gui-tools/5.0.html and results > are not the same. Did you write something to track insert, > select, etc. from 'mysqladmin extended-status' ? Thanks for > your help ! > Sincerly, > > Thomas > > > Ce message (et toutes ses pieces jointes eventuelles) est > confidentiel et etabli a l'intention exclusive de ses destinataires. > Toute utilisation de ce message non conforme a sa > destination, toute diffusion ou toute publication, totale ou > partielle, est interdite, sauf autorisation expresse. > L'internet ne permettant pas d'assurer l'integrite de ce > message, CNP Assurances et ses filiales declinent toute > responsabilite au titre de ce message, s'il a ete altere, > deforme ou falsifie. > > ***** > > This message and any attachments (the "message") are > confidential and intended solely for the addressees. > Any unauthorised use or dissemination is prohibited. > E-mails are susceptible to alteration. > Neither CNP Assurances nor any of its subsidiaries or > affiliates shall be liable for the message if altered, > changed or falsified. > > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > > >

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How to display only a section of clientlog ?
by tj_yang＠hotmail.com 22 Feb '07

22 Feb '07

as you can see the intent of showing only prtconf has failed in following command. bash-3.00$ bb 127.0.0.1 "clientlog test.test.com section=prtconf" |egrep '^\[.*' [date] [uname] [uptime] [who] [df] [mount] [prtconf] [memory] [swap] [ifconfig] [route] [netstat] [ports] [ifstat] [ps] [vmstat] [iostatcpu] [iostatdisk] [msgs:/var/adm/messages] [logfile:/var/adm/messages] [clientversion] [clock] bash-3.00$ bb -v Unknown option -v Hobbit version 4.2.0 Usage: bb [--debug] [--proxy=http://ip.of.the.proxy:port/] RECIPIENT DATA RECIPIENT: IP-address, hostname or URL DATA: Message to send, or "-" to read from stdin _________________________________________________________________ Add a Yahoo! contact to Windows Live Messenger for a chance to win a free trip! http://www.imagine-windowslive.com/minisites/yahoo/default.aspx?locale=en-u…

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Adding data to a client
by vadud3＠gmail.com 21 Feb '07

21 Feb '07

I like to use `bb data hostname.serial<newline><the serial number>' to hobbit server. I do not want a column to be created. Then is it possible to query the serial number from within hobbit server using `bb query hostname.serial' just for the serial info? I don't want the data to expire. I guess I could test it myself. I dont want this data in the info column since it is suppose to be confidential due to support contract with SUN. -- Asif Iqbal PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu

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