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[hobbit] NCV_testname= specification
by Thomas.Kern＠hq.doe.gov 05 Dec '06

05 Dec '06

I don't know yet. I can't get my hobbit admin to acknowledge any of my email or voicemail about hobbit. She is avoiding me. I think something can be done because of the special metrics disk report. It shows all of the disk data in a single chart rather than the 4/chart that is standard in the disk and trend pages. I also looked at the hobbit server source code about the vmstat trend chart. It is a nice 3 color chart for SYS, USR, IDLE cpu utilization. The backend code is the only process that deals with the vmstat section of the client-data stream and there is only the cpu section is used. I coded a HOBVMSTT exec to build a [vmstat] section from the VM Performance ToolKit data. It got automatically sent to the hobbit server and in the trends page a placeholder graph appeared (nice magic). Unfortunately the hobbit server has permissions issues with every new graph so all I get is the red-x. Once I get these things to graph nicely, I will package them up with a little write-up as a SAMPLE extension to Hobbit/VM for those sites that also use VMPTK. /Thomas Kern /301-903-2211 > -----Original Message----- > From: Rich Smrcina [mailto:rsmrcina at wi.rr.com] > Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 2:58 PM > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: Re: [hobbit] NCV_testname= specification > > I was getting ready to ask the same question for a different reason > (thanks Thomas). Now the follow-on, how do you graph this without > having to specify each dataset name individually? > > Charles Goyard wrote: > > Kern, Thomas wrote : > >> Can I code NCV_LPAR="*:GAUGE" instead of > >> NCV_LPAR="LEGACY:GAUGE,ZOSEPROD:GAUGE,ZOSPROD:GAUGE,Total:GAUGE" ? > > > > Yes, you can. > > > > -- > 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 > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > > > >

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NCV_testname= specification
by Thomas.Kern＠hq.doe.gov 05 Dec '06

05 Dec '06

Can the wildcard be used to dynamically define all of the data? I would like avoid changing the central hobbit config (not under my control) every time one of the z/OS sysprogs decides to fire up a test LPAR. My test sends this status msg. Tue Dec 5 10:40:25 EST 2006 General Processor LPAR utilization exceeds threshold: 95 % LEGACY:1.7 ZOSEPROD:94.3 ZOSPROD:2.9 Total:98.9 Can I code NCV_LPAR="*:GAUGE" instead of NCV_LPAR="LEGACY:GAUGE,ZOSEPROD:GAUGE,ZOSPROD:GAUGE,Total:GAUGE" ? /Thomas Kern >Henrik Stoerner wrote: > >>On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 09:45:10PM -0400, Galen Johnson wrote: >> >>Active Sessions: 2 >>Disconnected Sessions: 14 >>Group1 Users: 7 >>Group2 Users: 9 >> >>There needs to be a way to define a data block within a status message and have NCV >>graphing ignore everything outside of it... >> >Setup the NCV_foo setting like this: > >NCV_foo="ActiveSessions:GAUGE,DisconnectedSessions:GAUGE,Group1Users:GA UGE, >Group2Users:GAUGE,*:NONE" > >The "*:NONE" makes the NCV handler ignore everything except the datasets >explicitly listed. > >Note: you'll have to delete the current rrd file when making this kind >of change. > >Regards, >Henrik

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[hobbit] Ext scripts not working from an include file?
by Ben_Boulanger＠cable.comcast.com 05 Dec '06

05 Dec '06

Wow... I'm incredibly stupid for not realizing that! I get it. Thank you Charles. Of course, I'm parsing the file which has nothing in it. Please delete all emails from me on this subject so that I can hide my shame. -----Original Message----- Maybe you should modify your scripts so they use "bbhostgrep" utility (in bin/) instead of directly grepping the bb-hosts file.

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Ext scripts not working from an include file?
by Ben_Boulanger＠cable.comcast.com 05 Dec '06

05 Dec '06

Hello, First - thank you for Hobbit, It's excellent and I personally love it. The real reason for the email: I've got a bunch of ext scripts that I converted from big brother and they seem to work fine from the bb-hosts file, but they don't operate from the include file. Here's an example of a line that works in the bb-hosts but not in the include: 192.168.1.1 Hostname_of_Box # snmp chassis ntsvcs ipedge clustat drivechk pcanywhere strmstat snapchk verchk filesizes driveerrors The only thing I would get is conn info and trends. Anyone encounter this before? Thanks, Ben Boulanger

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Ext scripts not working from an include file?
by Ben_Boulanger＠cable.comcast.com 05 Dec '06

05 Dec '06

Hello, First - thank you for Hobbit, It's excellent and I personally love it. The real reason for the email: I've got a bunch of ext scripts that I converted from big brother and they seem to work fine from the bb-hosts file, but they don't operate from the include file. Here's an example of a line that works in the bb-hosts but not in the include: 192.168.1.1 Hostname_of_Box # snmp chassis ntsvcs ipedge clustat drivechk pcanywhere strmstat snapchk verchk filesizes driveerrors The only thing I would get is conn info and trends. Anyone encounter this before? Thanks, Ben Boulanger

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Regex help with disk mount points
by shea_greg＠emc.com 05 Dec '06

05 Dec '06

Hi all, I'm pulling my hair out on what should be a straight forward regex but it's not working. I have a ton of database partitions that the client group doesn't care about so I'm trying to create an entry in the hobbit-clients.cfg with the disk values greater than 100. Here's my entry: DISK "%^/tidw.*" 102 102 With the disk mount points being something like: /tidwiwdev_db_data01 /tidwiwdev_db_data02 /tidwiwdev_db_data03 /tidwiwdev_db_data04 /tidwiwdev_db_data05 ... etc. /tidwiwapp_db_app01 /tidwiwapp_db_app02 /tidwiwapp_db_app03 /tidwiwapp_db_app04 /tidwiwapp_db_app05 ... etc. What am I not doing correctly?? Thanks -Grs- Gregory R Shea EMC Corporation

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Error compiling snapshot
by lars.ebeling＠leopg9.no-ip.org 05 Dec '06

05 Dec '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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failover?
by trever＠nogglefamily.org 05 Dec '06

05 Dec '06

Does hobbit support fail over yet? When I last looked at it the support was planned but not implemented.

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Uptime bug with Solaris
by peter.welter＠gmail.com 04 Dec '06

04 Dec '06

Hi Henrik, In Hobbit 4.2.0 (and the previous version) there seems to be a bug in the uptime parsing. When it's exactly on the hour, here 21 o'clock, Solaris show a different output format. Sample output 1 - green: ... [date] Sun Jan 22 16:31:59 MET 2006 [uname] SunOS sherlock 5.8 Generic_117350-29 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraAX-i2 [uptime] 4:31pm up 75 day(s), 21 hr(s), 1 user, load average: 0.26, 0.22, 0.23 ... [cut...] Sample output 2 - yellow: ... [date] Sun Jan 22 16:37:01 MET 2006 [uname] SunOS sherlock 5.8 Generic_117350-29 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraAX-i2 [uptime] 4:37pm up 75 day(s), 21:05, 1 user, load average: 0.17, 0.20, 0.22 ... [cut...] Regards, Peter

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hobbitfetch crash
by dan.mcdonald＠austinenergy.com 04 Dec '06

04 Dec '06

I see the following message on the hobbitfetch status page: - Program crashed Fatal signal caught! But it appears to operate properly, I get status information for my two DMZ hosts that I am currently using hobbitfetch for, and there are no messages in hobbitfetch.log hobbitlaunch.log shows intermittent errors: hobbitlaunch.log.1:2006-12-02 20:31:37 Task hobbitfetch terminated by signal 6 hobbitlaunch.log.1:2006-12-02 23:42:09 Task hobbitfetch terminated by signal 6 hobbitlaunch.log.1:2006-12-03 01:07:19 Task hobbitfetch terminated by signal 6 hobbitlaunch.log.1:2006-12-03 01:43:42 Task hobbitfetch terminated by signal 6 hobbitlaunch.log.1:2006-12-03 03:18:57 Task hobbitfetch terminated by signal 6 hobbitlaunch.log.1:2006-12-03 03:44:01 Task hobbitfetch terminated by signal 6 There appears to be a core dump: [root at ldap tmp]# gdb /usr/lib/hobbit/server/bin/hobbitfetch core.7.21 GNU gdb 6.3-5mdk (Mandriva Linux release 2006.0) Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i586-mandriva-linux-gnu"... (no debugging symbols found) Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1". Reading symbols from shared object read from target memory...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded system supplied DSO at 0xffffe000 Core was generated by `/usr/lib/hobbit/server/bin/hobbitfetch --server=127.0.0.1 --no-daemon --pidfile'. Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted. warning: svr4_current_sos: Can't read pathname for load map: Input/output error Reading symbols from /lib/tls/libc.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/tls/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/libnss_files.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libnss_files.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/libnss_dns.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libnss_dns.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/libresolv.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libresolv.so.2 #0 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall () (gdb) bt #0 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall () #1 0xb7e6c051 in raise () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #2 0xb7e6da3b in abort () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #3 0x0804f89f in ?? () #4 0x08056180 in stderr () #5 0x00000000 in ?? () -- Daniel J McDonald, CCIE # 2495, CISSP # 78281, CNX Austin Energy http://www.austinenergy.com

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