February 2006 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

New problem with acknowledging alerts?
by glarkin＠sourcehosting.net 21 Feb '06

21 Feb '06

Hi folks, I've started configuring my hobbit-alerts.cfg and have been experimenting with acknowledging alerts. So far, I can't get ACKs to work, and it looks like this has been a problem in the past for previous versions of Hobbit. However, I am using 4.1.2p1 server and clients on all of my machines. When I try to ACK an alert, I get this on my Mac OS X 10.3.9 server in hobbitd.log: 2006-02-20 16:28:07 Cookie 0 not found, dropping ack I researched the old postings on the mailing list, and all of the other questions about this problem seemed to have a valid value for the cookie. What does the 0 zero signify? I looked through the hobbitd source code, but couldn't figure out how to fix the problem. Any ideas? Thank you, Greg SourceHosting.net, LLC Ready. Set. Code. http://www.sourcehosting.net/

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[hobbit] Another odd-ball question -- can I get alerts when a dial-up device connects?
by Craig_Whilding＠mentor.com 21 Feb '06

21 Feb '06

That wont work as clear isn't a state to recover from, only purple, yellow and red I believe. Not sure if this could be changed in the source somewhere? Craig -----Original Message----- From: Hubbard, Greg L [mailto:greg.hubbard at eds.com] Sent: 21 February 2006 15:46 To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] Another odd-ball question -- can I get alerts when a dial-up device connects? Can you make them "dialup" and then configure an alert for a "recover" message? Then change them to normal? GLH -----Original Message----- From: Kauffman, Tom [mailto:KauffmanT at nibco.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 9:38 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] Another odd-ball question -- can I get alerts when a dial-up device connects? 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. 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

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Tips to get custom availability metrics?
by Shawn.Maschino＠ge.com 21 Feb '06

21 Feb '06

Hi guys, I was wondering if anyone could shed some light (or share some code!) on processing the Hobbit data files to generate custom availability reports for servers/test pairs in Hobbit. I'm sure there is a way to do it, I'm just not smart enough to figure it out :-) 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. Any pointers would be appreciated! Shawn Maschino GE Plastics (413)448-6375 shawn.maschino at ge.com

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[hobbit] Another odd-ball question -- can I get alerts when a dial-up device connects?
by greg.hubbard＠eds.com 21 Feb '06

21 Feb '06

Can you make them "dialup" and then configure an alert for a "recover" message? Then change them to normal? GLH -----Original Message----- From: Kauffman, Tom [mailto:KauffmanT at nibco.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 9:38 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] Another odd-ball question -- can I get alerts when a dial-up device connects? 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. To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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hobbit and procmail
by damiano.vozza＠apss.tn.it 21 Feb '06

21 Feb '06

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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Another odd-ball question -- can I get alerts when a dial-up device connects?
by KauffmanT＠nibco.com 21 Feb '06

21 Feb '06

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.

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[hobbit] Alerts as .dat attachments
by kmckinnis＠macrovision.com 20 Feb '06

20 Feb '06

Just to follow up... I'm noticing that the .dat attachments with blank emails are only sent for all recovery emails. This box is running Ubuntu, and I didn't set it up, so I'm not sure where else to look for weirdness with mail. Does anyone else have any suggestions? A minor issue... but I'm not the one receiving alerts, so I'm being bugged about it, and am floundering. -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 1:04 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Alerts as .dat attachments On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 11:35:38AM -0800, Kimberly McKinnis wrote: > Perhaps someone can help me shed some light on this. I'm receiving > some red alerts as .dat attachments. Is this normal behavior? [snip] > Is this a default behavior I didn't know about? It doesn't seem to be > consistent. I've looked through the online page about configuring > alerts. Perhaps I've missed something in my alerts.cfg. Thanks! You need to look at your local mail setup. Hobbit only generates a text file with the URL for the status page; this is then handed off to the "mail" utility installed on the Hobbit server. How that tool formats the e-mail - possible with different MIME codings etc. - is beyond Hobbit's control. Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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Intervals and graphs
by dougl＠mybetter.com 20 Feb '06

20 Feb '06

Hello, I'm running a Hobbit server and have one other client connecting to it. All are running Linux. So far I've been pleased with it except for one issue. I changed the interval from 5m to 15m for several settings (bbcombotest, bbnet, hobbitclient) in the "hobbitlaunch.cfg" config file (on both the server & client), restarted the Hobbit server and client and then noticed that it stopped graphing. It would still update the current status board, etc. but it stopped adding to the graphs. I let it go like this for a few days and then recently set the intervals back to 5m, restarted the server and client and then it started adding to the graphs again. Is this normal? Shouldn't I be able to run the tests every 15 minutes instead of every 5 and still get graphs? Am I missing something? Thanks, -dougl ____________________________________________________________ Doug Ledbetter --> dougl at mybetter.com MyBetter Web Hosting - Budget Web Hosting http://www.mybetter.com/ PGP Public Key: http://www.mybetter.com/public_key.html

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alternate Icon for empty pages
by plardinois＠be.tiauto.com 20 Feb '06

20 Feb '06

Hi all, We monitor more than 1300 devices which are located in several countries around the world. All sites are organized with the same pages/subpage/subparent structure, like this : LocationName --- Workstations -------- Unix Workstations -------- Windows Workstations --- Servers -------- Unix Servers -------- Windows Servers --- Printers -------- Ink -------- Laser In many cases, some of these subpages are empty (For example, some local sites don't have any Laser printers). For these empty pages, the default icon is a green diamond. My question is : is it possible to have a specific icon that says the subpage is empty ? Thank you for your support. Regards, _____________________________ 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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todays snapshot (060220)
by lars.ebeling＠leopg9.no-ip.org 20 Feb '06

20 Feb '06

Installed todays snapshot. bb-hostsvc.sh doesn't work cgierror.log contains: $ cat /var/log/hobbit/cgierror.log 2006-02-20 07:09:58 hobbitsvc xstrdup: Cannot dup NULL string 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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