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Purple Status
by zakki.ashidiqi＠indosat.com 23 Feb '06

23 Feb '06

I am using hobbit 4.1.1 on Redhat 9, Linux 2.4.20-8. I got this problem this Tuesday. The status of all of the services is back to purple. If I restart the hobbit server the status back to normal. But, in two hour or more, the status will be backt to purle again. Do you have any solution? Thanks Zakki If You need more data, I can provide it. ================================= scanned by Indosat TM-IMSS System

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DELAY did not work as expected (BUG??)
by iqbala-hobbit＠qwestip.net 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

According to the acknowledge log and alert that I received, hobbit did not honor the 24h delay request and alerted back after 4hrs with same alert code. 1140458126 611248 1440 611248 np_filename_not_used host.here.net.conn red Chris is checking on whether it's been decomm'ed.\nAcked by: "Asif Iqbal" iqbala at qwestip.net Mon Feb 20 12:52:39 2006 host.here.net.conn (1.2.3.4) iqbala at qwestip.net 1140457957 500 Mon Feb 20 17:06:32 2006 host.here.net.conn (1.2.3.4) iqbala at qwestip.net 1140473190 500 Masked the hostname and IPs to save the innocense Thanks -- Asif Iqbal PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu "..there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit...try to be in the first group;...less competition there." - Indira Gandhi

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Using "WithPeak" on mrtg rrd graphs
by Paul.Nichols＠fallonclinic.com 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

First I have to say Hobbit is a great tool. I am just testing with it and it seems to provide great features. Should the "WithPeak" option work if I am using mrtg with LogFormat: rrdtool ? It seems to just ignore this option for me. thanks paul My mrtg.cfg: WorkDir: /var/lib/hobbit/rrd LogFormat: rrdtool HtmlDir: /var/www/mrtg ImageDir: /var/www/mrtg LogDir: /var/lib/mrtg ThreshDir: /var/lib/mrtg PathAdd: /usr/bin LibAdd: /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi # auburn primary link Directory[mrtg.auburn_pri_WAN.fhs.com]: auburn_pri_WAN.fchs.com Target[mrtg.auburn_pri_WAN.fhs.com]: /10.10.1.6:communitystring at aubtls01.fchs.com: MaxBytes[mrtg.auburn_pri_WAN.fhs.com]: 1250000 WithPeak[mrtg.auburn_pri_WAN.fhs.com]: dwm Title[mrtg.auburn_pri_WAN.fhs.com]: Traffic Analysis for 1 -- AUBTLS01.fchs.com Note: The information contained in this message is intended only for the use by the individual or entity to which it is addressed. This message may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this information is strictly prohibited. If you received this communication in error, please notify us immediately and delete the original message.

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[hobbit] Tips to get custom availability metrics?
by Shawn.Maschino＠ge.com 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

Thanks Henrik, very helpful as always. I was able to hack together this little Perl script to do the job. I still need to make sure all the date and availability calculations are correct (since I won't pretend to be good at perl or math!) but it does what I needed so I figured I'd share in case anyone else will find it useful. If anyone sees problems or improves it let me know! I'm sure it would be must more useful with a web interface to chose the dates and systems to report on, but this works what I needed. -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 11:17 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Tips to get custom availability metrics? On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 10:37:51AM -0500, Maschino, Shawn (GE Indust, Plastics) wrote: > > To better describe my situation - I have all my servers in > Hobbit, and then a database that has server details - like site, > criticality, ... and I'm looking to be able to run reports like - "what > was my conn test uptime for anything at site XYZ", or "what was my http > uptime for our business critical apps". > > I can easily query the database and load the server list into an array > as the source list to process, but when it comes to knowing how to > process the Hobbit data files to get the % uptime for that list of > servers I am lost. I suppose in a perfect solution I'd be looking to be > able to populate and array with the list of hostnames, pass that and the > test name that I'm looking for to a routine, and get back a single > number as the % uptime for that list of hosts for that test. Hobbit has some built in availability reporting, which also lets you output the result in a CSV format for importing into a spreadsheet. But that only gives you availability for each of the status columns in Hobbit - which is not very useful, when you want to combine multiple statuses into a single availability measure. The easiest way would be if you know what combinations you want to measure in advance. E.g. if you have 4 webservers handling you business app, and you run an http check on all 4, then you can make a combotest out of those 4. E.g. if you add this to the bbcombotest.cfg file: app01.http=(web01.http+web02.http+web03.http+web04.http)>=2 then you'll get a status for the host "app01" where the "http" column will be green if 2 or more of the web01-04 http columns are green. Then you can run the normal Hobbit availability report, and it will give you the percentage available for the combined test also, which is what you want. If that is not sufficient - e.g. you want to do ad-hoc queries that combine hosts/tests you had not planned in advance - then it gets complicated. The historical logs for each status are in the ~hobbit/data/hist/HOSTNAME.COLUMN files, but they only log when a status changes color. In the Hobbit source, lib/availability.c is the file that deals with calculating availability - you're free to have a look at how it works. It does have a debugging utility built-in, but this won't build in the current version (I rarely use it nowadays). If you pickup the current snapshot you can see how it's used: E.g. running ./lib/availability /var/lib/hobbit/hist/osiris.hobbitd \ `date +%s --date="01 Jan 2006"` `date +%s` will call the routine that determines how much time the hobbitd column has had the various color from Jan 1st until now. Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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[hobbit] Premature end of script headers: bb-hostsvc.sh, referer: ...
by neil.camp＠deca.mil 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

All, Here is a note on HP-UX. If you get the error that I did (in the subject) then there is a good chance that you are trying to compile in 64 bit mode. Come to find out trying to compile hobbit (and all of its required libraries) caused problems when linking with HP-UX 64 bit libraries. I have learned (talking with other developers) that the 64 bit libraries on HP-UX leave a lot to be desired. Once I compiled everything 32 bit using 32 bit gcc, I was golden. I would be happy to provide help on HP-UX in the future if anyone is interested. Henrik was very kind in troubleshooting the issue with me, and got me pointed in the right direction. --neil ManTech DeCA Operations Systems Administrator (804) 734-8353 neil.camp at deca.mil

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Recovered alerts : no messages
by plardinois＠be.tiauto.com 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

Hello, I have set this rule for being mailed every hour when the host is down for more than 15 minutes, but I don't receive any mail when the service is OK again and furthermore, I receive the message every 30 minutes... The message is bbbwanrouter01.domain.com(111.222.222.111).conn: [red] Ack: [511437] Is there something wrong in the definition ? HOST=%(.*wanrouter.*).domain.com TIME=1234567:0000:2359 SCRIPT /usr/home/hobbit/server/ext/scriptname.pl emailaddress at localhost PAGE=ISPRouters SERVICE=conn COLOR=RED REPEAT=1h DURATION>15m RECOVERED Thank you for your help. Regards, Pierre Lardinois. _____________________________ Pierre Lardinois Int. ICT Infrastructure Team TI Automotive The information contained in this transmission may contain privileged and confidential information. It is intended only for the use of the person(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution or duplication of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message.

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Dynamically named rrd columns
by Craig_Whilding＠mentor.com 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

Hi, On my hobbit install I'm monitoring netapp quotas, volumes as well as printer media usage. I would like to graph these items but the names are dynamic dependant on what is picked up through SNMP. Is it possible to use PCRE with NCV formatted rrd definitions and graph them with the dynamic names? Im not sure how this related to the way in which disk names are found and graphed for the disk column? Hope I haven't missed something easy! Thanks, Craig Whilding

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[hobbit] Another odd-ball question -- can I get alerts when a dial-up device connects?
by KauffmanT＠nibco.com 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

Great, thanks! I'm off the next few days doing the Disaster Recovery drill bit, but I'll grab it next Monday and take a look. One of the other problems I have with our current setup this will help with -- we also configure at least one spare access point for a site. Which means that if they need six, we ship seven. Some of the plant people fire up the spare in an office and we can see it. Some of the sites wait until one of the installed systems to break before the open the box with the spare. And them we've got one site that just seems to loose the spares . . . I will say that this kind of support and service far exceeds anything I've seen in a commercial product for years. Thanks! Tom -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 5:11 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Another odd-ball question -- can I get alerts when a dial-up device connects? On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 10:24:06PM +0100, Henrik Stoerner wrote: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 10:38:21AM -0500, Kauffman, Tom wrote: > > The problem I've got is that we configure the access points here, then > > ship them to the remote sites for install. They're down until the guys > > at the remote site get around to unpacking them, renting a scissor lift, > > and installing them up in the rafters. Once they're plugged in, they're > > live and a connectivity failure is a problem. > > So what you're really after is something like "disable them until we > see an OK status". [snip] > It seems fairly simple to implement ... It's in the next snapshot, although I would caution people against using this in a production setup. It works for me, but there are still some things being worked on, and some things that need more testing. Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email and any attachments are for the exclusive and confidential use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, distribute or take action in reliance upon this message. If you have received this in error, please notify us immediately by return email and promptly delete this message and its attachments from your computer system. We do not waive attorney-client or work product privilege by the transmission of this message.

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R: [hobbit] hobbit and procmail
by damiano.vozza＠apss.tn.it 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

/usr/local/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg exists; I tried to make it readable and also writeable for all (permissions 666) and the problem remains. But now I tried also to modify the string |"$HOBBIT/server/bin/hobbit-mailack \ --env=$HOBBIT/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg" removing --env option and mailack seems to work; I used the string as in hobbit-mailack.8.html document, So I think there is something wrong in the string sintax (too long?), but I don't know what is the correct solution. The string |"$HOBBIT/server/bin/hobbit-mailack --env=$HOBBIT/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg" all in one line whithout \ also doesn't work. Thanks Damiano Vozza Azienda Provinciale per i Servizi Sanitari Servizio Sistemi Informativi Ospedale S. Chiara Via Crosina Sartori 6 Trento - Italy tel. (+39) 0461364856 fax. (+39) 0461903593 e-mail damiano.vozza at apss.tn.it web site www.apss.tn.it <http://www.apss.tn.it/> -----Messaggio originale----- Da: Larry Barber [mailto:lebarber at gmail.com] Inviato: martedì 21 febbraio 2006 15.55 A: hobbit at hswn.dk Oggetto: Re: [hobbit] hobbit and procmail This seems to be the critical error: /bin/sh: /usr/local/hobbit/server/bin/hobbit-mailack --env=/usr/local/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg: No such file or directory Make sure your /usr/local/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg exists and that it is readable by the procmail user. Thanks, Larry Barber On 2/21/06, Vozza Damiano <damiano.vozza at apss.tn.it> wrote: Sorry for my poor english I use Hobbit 4.1.2p1 on FC4 and works fine; I tried to use hobbit-mailack but if I send a Re to a message alert, Hobbit doesn't acknoledge the reply. I cannot understand if my problem is with hobbit configuration or with procmail (ver. 3.22); any help? My .procmailrc is: SHELL=/bin/sh HOBBIT=/usr/local/hobbit DEFAULT=$HOME/mailbox LOGFILE=$HOME/procmail.log VERBOSE=yes :0:$HOME/mailbox.lock |"$HOBBIT/server/bin/hobbit-mailack \ --env=$HOBBIT/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg" Procmail.log contains something like this: procmail: [13686] Mon Feb 20 16:57:36 2006 procmail: Locking "/home/hobbit/mailbox.lock" procmail: Executing "/usr/local/hobbit/server/bin/hobbit-mailack --env=/usr/local/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg" /bin/sh: /usr/local/hobbit/server/bin/hobbit-mailack --env=/usr/local/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg: No such file or directory procmail: Non-zero exitcode (127) from "/usr/local/hobbit/server/bin/hobbit-mailack --env=/usr/local/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg" procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/usr/local/hobbit/server/bin/hobbit-mailack --env=/usr/local/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg" procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/home/hobbit/mailbox" procmail: Opening "/home/hobbit/mailbox" procmail: Acquiring kernel-lock procmail: Unlocking "/home/hobbit/mailbox.lock" procmail: Notified comsat: "hobbit at 1527:/home/hobbit/mailbox" >From root at uschasbc1.apss.tn.it Mon Feb 20 16:57:36 2006 Subject: Hobbit [240636] uschasbc1:procs CRITICAL (RED) Folder: /home/hobbit/mailbox 781 Damiano Vozza Azienda Provinciale per i Servizi Sanitari Servizio Sistemi Informativi Ospedale S. Chiara Via Crosina Sartori 6 Trento - Italy tel. (+39) 0461364856 fax. (+39) 0461903593 e-mail damiano.vozza at apss.tn.it <mailto:damiano.vozza at apss.tn.it> web site www.apss.tn.it <http://www.apss.tn.it/>

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[hobbit] Another odd-ball question -- can I get alerts when a dial-up device connects?
by KauffmanT＠nibco.com 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

The problem I've got is that we configure the access points here, then ship them to the remote sites for install. They're down until the guys at the remote site get around to unpacking them, renting a scissor lift, and installing them up in the rafters. Once they're plugged in, they're live and a connectivity failure is a problem. I need to see them go green when they get plugged in and change the config so we'll be notified on an outage. And it looks like my idea of the NK page won't work, either. Back to the drawing board. Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -----Original Message----- From: Thomas [mailto:tlp-hobbit at holme-pedersen.dk] Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 6:08 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Another odd-ball question -- can I get alerts when a dial-up device connects? Use the DOWNTIME tag for this. This preventes the alert from being generated but you still trend the conn access. Kauffman, Tom wrote: > We have a number of manufacturing and warehouse sites that do bar-code > scanning with rf 'guns'. We've been through a cycle of equipment > upgrades and swapouts, and I now have about a dozen new rf access points > configured in hobbit that are still in the box and not hooked up. > > I've currently configured them as 'dialup', so we don't get pestered by > alerts. But I'd like to know when they actually get installed, so I can > drop the 'dialup' tag. Is there a way to do it? > > We don't currently use the 'NK' pages -- I'm tempted to put these > devices, with the 'conn' test, on the NK page and just check it from > time to time. Is there a better way? > > TIA > > Tom Kauffman > NIBCO, Inc > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email and any attachments are for the > exclusive and confidential use of the intended recipient. If you are not > the intended recipient, please do not read, distribute or take action in > reliance upon this message. If you have received this in error, please > notify us immediately by return email and promptly delete this message > and its attachments from your computer system. We do not waive > attorney-client or work product privilege by the transmission of this > message. > > > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email and any attachments are for the exclusive and confidential use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, distribute or take action in reliance upon this message. If you have received this in error, please notify us immediately by return email and promptly delete this message and its attachments from your computer system. We do not waive attorney-client or work product privilege by the transmission of this message.

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