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[hobbit] Configuration database backend.
by pwilliamson＠mandtbank.com 08 Dec '06

08 Dec '06

I use cfengine to distribute my host files to my different machines. I have 8 machines. Having a database to manage configuration would be a mistake IMHO. Paul

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[hobbit] Configuration database backend.
by Johann.Eggers＠teleatlas.com 08 Dec '06

08 Dec '06

> -----Original Message----- > From: Stef Coene [mailto:stef.coene at docum.org] > Sent: Donnerstag, 7. Dezember 2006 23:27 > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: Re: [hobbit] Configuration database backend. > > On Thursday 07 December 2006 23:01, Trent Melcher wrote: > > Has anyone thought about or implemented a configuration database backend > > for hobbit, primarily a database replacement for the hobbit-clients.cfg > > and hobbit-alerts.cfg to start....these are a couple that I would like > > to buils a webfront to and be able to give limited access to users so > > they could modify thresholds and alerting capabilities when needed. > > > > I did this about 4 years back for Big Brother using Informix, I was > > able to setup thresholds and a replacement for the bb-host file inside a > > couple tables in a database. However back then Big Brother was mostly > > shell scripts and flat files for all its configuration. So adding hooks > > into it for talking to a databse was easy. With hobbit its all compiled > > code and Im not sure where to start, plus I don't have access to an > > Informix database or the API's for it anymore so Im looking at mysql and > > its api's for writing code in C. > We are thinking about using mysql for storing trends and status messages. > > For the configuration, I think mysql is overkill and makes it too complex. > I > love the simplicity of the config files. I'm more thinking about making a > web-based frontend for the config files. The config files can be parsed > as > ini-files. And for parsing ini-files, perl is perfect. So writing a > web-based frontend for the config files in perl, is not that hard. > > > Stef > I totally agree, Using a database just for configurations makes things more complex. It would be marvellous if somebody is willing to develop a web-based frontend for editing the config files. Johann

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More events (240 min -> 48 hrs) ? Relay from BigBrother?
by Ralf.Strandell＠silja.com 08 Dec '06

08 Dec '06

Hi 1) Does anyone know how I could display all the events from the past 48-72 hours and a minimum of X events? The present 240 min list in "all non green events" does not present a very good overview over the last weekend on a monday morning... I just love to see the raw event list. It is surprisingly efficient tool. 2) How do I configure Hobbit to receive bbrelay messages from a BigBrother installation? I guess I need to create some sort of line in the Hobbits bb-hosts... Thanks

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CPU Utilization Not Correct or Averaging
by jkwade＠futurefrontiers.com 08 Dec '06

08 Dec '06

We have a couple other monitoring tools here in-house; although Hobbit is catching on more. I've had questions about CPU Utilization, The charts don't seem to correlate with the other two monitoring tools. As an example, The other tools show CPU Utilization at 80% during a couple hours at night, and Hobbit shows 26% Utilization. Both the other Tools show 80% utilization during those hours, but Hobbit doesn't. I looked into this once before, and I know it depends on how the data sampling is being done. Any ideas on this would be helpful. Thanks.James

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bb2.html page
by iain＠shihad.org 08 Dec '06

08 Dec '06

Good Morning, Is there anyway of increasing the 240 minutes limit on listed alerts on the bb2.html page? Can this be configured on the fly? Cheers Iain

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iostat, no rrd info
by jkwade＠futurefrontiers.com 08 Dec '06

08 Dec '06

I'm looking into getting iostat working with disks, and I see that my clients generate the information with hobbit: example: hobbit_iostatdisk.u004.23237 device,r/s,w/s,kr/s,kw/s,wait,actv,svc_t,%w,%b, sd0,a,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0,0 sd0,b,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,8.2,0,0 sd0,c,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.3,0,0 sd0,d,1.0,1.3,41.4,7.1,0.0,0.0,18.9,0,1 sd0,e,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,6.5,0,0 sd0,f,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0,0 sd0,g,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0,0 sd1,a,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0,0 sd1,c,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.1,0,0 sd1,d,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.6,0,0 sd1,e,1.0,1.3,41.6,7.1,0.0,0.0,19.3,0,1 nfs12,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0,0 nfs34765,0.0,0.2,0.0,0.4,0.0,0.0,8.3,0,0 nfs40924,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.3,0,0 nfs40925,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,1472.8,0,1 However, I don't have any rrd data for iostat coming in. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.James

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When is next hobbit release ?
by tj_yang＠hotmail.com 08 Dec '06

08 Dec '06

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Message to Henrik
by tj_yang＠hotmail.com 08 Dec '06

08 Dec '06

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Additional Tests - iostat, top, losf
by jkwade＠futurefrontiers.com 08 Dec '06

08 Dec '06

I am looking to implement some other tests, and I was wondering if anyone had done these or if Hobbit can do them: 1) IOSTAT: I need to start tracking iostat of disk,nfs i/o. Will hobbit do this or has anyone written anything to do this. As an example, iostat -xtn 5 5 (Solaris) 2) TOP: Also, has anyone done anything with the multicpu top command? I'd like to use top to track multiple CPU information, and what processes are taking up the most memory and cpu. 3) LSOF: Has anyone done anything with LSOF, If I have a high iowait time as shown by iostat, I'd like to use lsof to show me which processes are writing to those busy disk or nfs i/o's. Thanks..James

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[hobbit] More events (240 min -> 48 hrs) ? Relay from BigBrother?
by Johann.Eggers＠teleatlas.com 08 Dec '06

08 Dec '06

> -----Original Message----- > From: Strandell, Ralf [mailto:Ralf.Strandell at silja.com] > Sent: Freitag, 8. Dezember 2006 17:46 > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: RE: [hobbit] More events (240 min -> 48 hrs) ? Relay from > BigBrother? > > Thanks. That works nicely, but I would prefer modifying the "All > non-green view" as I use it as my default view and it gets updated > automatically. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Johann Eggers [mailto:Johann.Eggers at teleatlas.com] > Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 6:03 PM > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: RE: [hobbit] More events (240 min -> 48 hrs) ? Relay from > BigBrother? > > ________________________________________ > From: Strandell, Ralf [mailto:Ralf.Strandell at silja.com] > Sent: Freitag, 8. Dezember 2006 16:57 > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: [hobbit] More events (240 min -> 48 hrs) ? Relay from > BigBrother? > > >Hi > >1) Does anyone know how I could display all the events from the past > 48-72 >hours and a minimum of X events? > >The present 240 min list in "all non green events" does not present a > very >good overview over the last weekend on a monday morning... > >I just love to see the raw event list. It is surprisingly efficient > tool. > > You can use the "Event Log Report" To have more envent-logs on the bb2-page change the bbgen-opts. >From the BBGEN man-page: --max-eventcount=N Limit the eventlog on the BB2 page to only N events. Default: 100. --max-eventtime=N Limit the eventlog on the BB2 page to events that happened within the past N minutes. Default: 240.

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