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[hobbit] CUSTOM RRD DATA VIA SCRIPTS
by subhash.gada＠logicacmg.com 16 Mar '06

16 Mar '06

Hi Greg, I Apologise for bothering you all with script debugging! I thought of the following script, however I could not debug the script. I have the following questions? I thought of taking advantage of the common letters PRN and grep it with "PRN*". Is this the correct way to grep the value? Example data from server1 PRN327:0 PRN203:1 PRN202:0 Example data from server2 PRN123:3 #-----------------------name:value PRN314:0 PRN137:0 PRN136:0 The idea is to create separate rrd files of each value. The host which send the data to hobbit does not have a fixed number of name:values but maximum of 30 If I trigger the script with hobbd_rrd nothing is happening and the CPU utilisation is growing up to 90% Around 25 hosts have the test "printq" running. #!/bin/sh # Input parameters: Hostname, testname (column), and messagefile HOSTNAME="$1" TESTNAME="$2" FNAME="$3" index=0 if [ "$TESTNAME" = "printq" ] then # For test purpose looping fixed number of times. while [ $index -lt 30 ] do p[index]=`grep "^PRN*:" $FNAME | awk '{print $2}'` # The RRD dataset definitions echo "DS:$index:GAUGE:600:0:U" # The filename echo "printq.$index.rrd" #The data echo ${p[index]} let index=$index+1 #exit the loop when the value of $p{[index]} is null if [ $p{[index]} -eq "" ] then exit fi done fi exit 0 Regards Subhash -----Original Message----- From: Hubbard, Greg L [mailto:greg.hubbard at eds.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 9:37 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] CUSTOM RRD DATA VIA SCRIPTS Well, it does not appear to be that difficult. For each data element, you need to put out the DS line, then the file name, then the values. Make the file name match the element. So, if F070 = 1, F001 = 2, F037 = 5 "DS:value:GAUGE:600:0:U" "F070.rrd" "1" "DS:value:GAUGE:600:0:U" "F001.rrd" "2" "DS:value:GAUGE:600:0:U" "F037.rrd" "5" The Hobbit RRD support will do the right thing, creating these datasets in the directory for the associated host. Then, in the Hobbit graph definition, you have to figure out how to use the wildcard mechanism to find all the F*.rrd files. The file names can be used to replace the parameter value "value" in the dataset would become F070, F001, F037, etc. This seems to be how the disk magic works. Good luck! GLH -----Original Message----- From: Werner (Ext Lists) [mailto:wmlist_ext at terra.com.br] Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 6:09 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] CUSTOM RRD DATA VIA SCRIPTS Hi You can see the disk rrd handler in <source_code_home_dir>hobbitd/rrd/do_disk.c , who`s an include to hobbitd/rrd/do_rrd.c -wm On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 12:47:17 +0530 "Gada, Subhash" <subhash.gada at logicacmg.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Yes the graph mechanism of disk suites similarly to the requirement. > > Can any one explain how the the separate rrd files are created for > different disk volumes. I couldn't trace how this is happening. > > > > Regards > Subhash > > 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 This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Thank you.

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[hobbit] CUSTOM RRD DATA VIA SCRIPTS
by greg.hubbard＠eds.com 15 Mar '06

15 Mar '06

Well, it does not appear to be that difficult. For each data element, you need to put out the DS line, then the file name, then the values. Make the file name match the element. So, if F070 = 1, F001 = 2, F037 = 5 "DS:value:GAUGE:600:0:U" "F070.rrd" "1" "DS:value:GAUGE:600:0:U" "F001.rrd" "2" "DS:value:GAUGE:600:0:U" "F037.rrd" "5" The Hobbit RRD support will do the right thing, creating these datasets in the directory for the associated host. Then, in the Hobbit graph definition, you have to figure out how to use the wildcard mechanism to find all the F*.rrd files. The file names can be used to replace the parameter value "value" in the dataset would become F070, F001, F037, etc. This seems to be how the disk magic works. Good luck! GLH -----Original Message----- From: Werner (Ext Lists) [mailto:wmlist_ext at terra.com.br] Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 6:09 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] CUSTOM RRD DATA VIA SCRIPTS Hi You can see the disk rrd handler in <source_code_home_dir>hobbitd/rrd/do_disk.c , who`s an include to hobbitd/rrd/do_rrd.c -wm On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 12:47:17 +0530 "Gada, Subhash" <subhash.gada at logicacmg.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Yes the graph mechanism of disk suites similarly to the requirement. > > Can any one explain how the the separate rrd files are created for > different disk volumes. I couldn't trace how this is happening. > > > > Regards > Subhash > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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/www.hswn.dk/hobbit/
by lars.ebeling＠leopg9.no-ip.org 15 Mar '06

15 Mar '06

It seems like www.hswn.dk/hobbit is down 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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[hobbit] CUSTOM RRD DATA VIA SCRIPTS
by subhash.gada＠logicacmg.com 15 Mar '06

15 Mar '06

Hi, Yes the graph mechanism of disk suites similarly to the requirement. Can any one explain how the the separate rrd files are created for different disk volumes. I couldn't trace how this is happening. Regards Subhash ________________________________ From: Hubbard, Greg L [mailto:greg.hubbard at eds.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 8:24 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] CUSTOM RRD DATA VIA SCRIPTS Subhash, Check out how data is collected for disk volumes. I think you want to create a different data set for each element, and then you can use the matching items (like is used for the disk graphs) to plot all of the relevant items in the same set of graphs. GLH ________________________________ From: Gada, Subhash [mailto:subhash.gada at logicacmg.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 12:49 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: FW: [hobbit] CUSTOM RRD DATA VIA SCRIPTS Hi, May be I need to put this more clearly. Few custom test are running on the host side on windows systems which measures print queue length of the print server. Hobbit is receiving data in the following format from the host systems. From Server 1 3/13/2006 Total queued jobs: 0 PRN324:0 PRN323:0 PRN142:0 PRN141:0 PRN140:0 PRN139:0 PRN138:0 From server 2 3/13/2006 Total queued jobs: 0 PRN327:0 PRN203:0 PRN202:0 Initially I could thought of the following script to create rrd file but if I use this script the data existing in all the rrd files of different host is similar as am using the NAMES PRN327, PRN203, PRN202 to capture the values (different hosts has different names). The length of the NAMES are also not consistent across the hosts i.e. for server1 7 name:value are sent to hobbit & for server 2 only 3 name:value How can I make the script dynamic ? #!/bin/sh # Input parameters: Hostname, testname (column), and messagefile HOSTNAME="$1" TESTNAME="$2" FNAME="$3" if [ "$TESTNAME" = "printq" ] then p1=`grep "^PRN327:" $FNAME | awk '{print $2}'` p2=`grep "^PRN203:" $FNAME | awk '{print $2}'` p3=`grep "^PRN202:" $FNAME | awk '{print $2}'` # The RRD dataset definitions echo "DS:p1:GAUGE:600:0:U" echo "DS:p2:GAUGE:600:0:U" echo "DS:p3:GAUGE:600:0:U" # The filename echo "printq.rrd" # The data echo "$p1:$p2:$p3" fi exit 0 And how can I make the configuration even dynamic in the hobbitgraph.cfg [printq] TITLE Print Queue Status YAXIS Print Queue Length DEF:p1=printq.rrd:PRN327:AVERAGE DEF:p2=printq.rrd:PRN203:AVERAGE DEF:p3=printq.rrd:PRN202:AVERAGE AREA:p1#00FF00: PRN 327 GPRINT:p1:LAST: \: %5.1lf (cur) GPRINT:p1:MAX: \: %5.1lf (max) GPRINT:p1:MIN: \: %5.1lf (min) GPRINT:p1:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf (avg)\n AREA:p2#FF0000: PRN 230 GPRINT:p2:LAST: \: %5.1lf (cur) GPRINT:p2:MAX: \: %5.1lf (max) GPRINT:p2:MIN: \: %5.1lf (min) GPRINT:p2:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf (avg)\n AREA:p3#0000FF: PRN 202 GPRINT:p3:LAST: \: %5.1lf (cur) GPRINT:p3:MAX: \: %5.1lf (max) GPRINT:p3:MIN: \: %5.1lf (min) GPRINT:p3:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf (avg)\n Please let me know, if more information is required. Regards Subhash ________________________________ From: Gada, Subhash [mailto:subhash.gada at logicacmg.com] Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 5:23 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] CUSTOM RRD DATA VIA SCRIPTS Hi, We have few custom tests that measures printq of the print server (windows). How can I write a script to create a rrd file and generate graphs. For example P Server 1 3/13/2006 Total queued jobs: 0 PRN324:0 PRN323:0 PRN142:0 PRN141:0 PRN140:0 PRN139:0 PRN138:0 P Server 2 3/13/2006 Total queued jobs: 0 PRN314:0 PRN137:0 PRN136:0 How to count the number of columns that vary from host to host. The column names are not common for all the hosts. Can any one help me further ? if [ "$TESTNAME"="printq" ] then p1=`grep "^PRN*:" $FNAME | awk '{print $2}'` p2=`grep "^PRN*:" $FNAME | awk '{print $2}'` p3=`grep "^PRN*:" $FNAME | awk '{print $2}'` # The RRD dataset definitions echo "DS:p1:GAUGE:600:0:U" echo "DS:p2:GAUGE:600:0:U" echo "DS:p3:GAUGE:600:0:U" # The filename echo "printq.rrd" # The data echo "$p1:$p2:$p3" Regards, Subhash Gada This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Thank you.

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BBWin Preview 0.4 available
by etienne.grignon＠gmail.com 15 Mar '06

15 Mar '06

Hello Everyone, As I told you on March 1th, I publish today the first preview of BBWin, a free Big Brother Hobbit windows client. You can download the MSI installer of this preview from http://sourceforge.net/projects/bbwin The preview contains the following stuffs: * The executable BBWin: it is the native service in charge of executing the agents * The executable BBWinCmd : it is a command line utility to send messages to an hobbit server * The Externals agent dll: it is an agent in charge of executing all your existing BB scripts or executables * The Procs agent dll : it is an agent in charge of checking running processes * The Uptime agent dll: it will monitor uptime of the server including an alarm if reboot recently. It was interesting to separate this alarm from cpu column. * The external wlbs.vbs: monitor wlbs (nlb) windows clusters * The external cluster.exe: monitor mscs windows clusters * The agents SDK: contains an example and the necessary headers to develop your own C++ BBWin agents After installing the BBWin package, please read the Readme.txt file to understand its working. It is located in C:\Program Files\BBWin\doc if you installed it by default. I'm currently working on the most important agents: I mean cpu, memory, and disk. I try to get the best ideas from the existing bbnt and also from the Henrik hobbit unix client. These agents will have 2 working modes: One mode with local configuration where status are decided by the BBWin agent (used for back compatibily) and a hobbit full mode where the agents will report only data with green status as the hobbit unix client, the final status will be determined via the hobbit server depending your monitoring rules (Henrik, I will email you soon about that because I would like to be sure to implement it correctly).So, the next preview release should get them (will try to deliver it for April 3th). Also, in the next weeks, I will work to improve the BBWin core service to fortify it. So, all your feedbacks about BBWin behavior are important to me. You can post bugs reports, features requests on the sourceforge website, if submit doesn't works, email me directly with bbwin in the mail subject. To finish, this preview version is only intended for tests purpose. In spite of all my tests on it, it can still have some bugs. So, please be merciful with me if you find bugs :), I have more experience in Unix development, but my try on Windows doesn't look too bad for the moment :) So, I hope you will enjoy my small program even if everything is not perfect and not finished for the moment. -- Etienne

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Report blue dot
by peter.welter＠gmail.com 15 Mar '06

15 Mar '06

Hi, Our manager would like to know the actual hours downtime: -during working hours and -during maintenance windows. It seems to me that this info can only be obtained if the service was not 100% up during the interval. Then you can drill down to the figure and see the percentage green, red, blue dot etc. If the service is 100% up, I only see the green diamond sign but can not see if the system was actually 100% up and running, or 5% up and running and 95% blue dotted. Any suggestions? Peter

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[hobbit] Clear status
by mlowery＠alliedtechgroup.com 14 Mar '06

14 Mar '06

Thank you! That is in the documentation, I just overlooked it. -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 8:45 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Clear status On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 08:33:32AM -0600, Michael Lowery wrote: > The default for hobbit seems to be that if the conn test fails, > everything else goes clear. I have specific reasons to not want this to > happen. Can anyone tell me how to disable that default action? On a per-test basis: Put a tilde "~" in front of the testname, e.g. 10.0.0.1 myhost # ~ftp ~cont;http://myhost/;Welcome On a per-host basis: Add the "noclear" tag on the host entry, e.g. 10.0.0.1 myhost # noclear ftp cont;http://myhost/;Welcome For a group of hosts: Put the noclear tag on a ".default." entry, e.g: 0.0.0.0 .default. # noclear 10.0.0.2 myhost1 # cont;http://myhost/;Welcome 10.0.0.2 myhost2 # cont;http://myhost/;Welcome 0.0.0.0 .default. # Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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blue
by mlowery＠alliedtechgroup.com 14 Mar '06

14 Mar '06

Is there a way to configure blue as an alert color? I changed the hobbitserver.cfg to reflect what I thought would make it work, but when I configure hobbit-alerts.cfg to send mail when a status is blue, it does not. I basically want to be automatically alerted if one of my co-workers disables a test, maybe there's an easier way to do this?

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[hobbit] CUSTOM RRD DATA VIA SCRIPTS
by greg.hubbard＠eds.com 14 Mar '06

14 Mar '06

Subhash, Check out how data is collected for disk volumes. I think you want to create a different data set for each element, and then you can use the matching items (like is used for the disk graphs) to plot all of the relevant items in the same set of graphs. GLH ________________________________ From: Gada, Subhash [mailto:subhash.gada at logicacmg.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 12:49 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: FW: [hobbit] CUSTOM RRD DATA VIA SCRIPTS Hi, May be I need to put this more clearly. Few custom test are running on the host side on windows systems which measures print queue length of the print server. Hobbit is receiving data in the following format from the host systems. From Server 1 3/13/2006 Total queued jobs: 0 PRN324:0 PRN323:0 PRN142:0 PRN141:0 PRN140:0 PRN139:0 PRN138:0 From server 2 3/13/2006 Total queued jobs: 0 PRN327:0 PRN203:0 PRN202:0 Initially I could thought of the following script to create rrd file but if I use this script the data existing in all the rrd files of different host is similar as am using the NAMES PRN327, PRN203, PRN202 to capture the values (different hosts has different names). The length of the NAMES are also not consistent across the hosts i.e. for server1 7 name:value are sent to hobbit & for server 2 only 3 name:value How can I make the script dynamic ? #!/bin/sh # Input parameters: Hostname, testname (column), and messagefile HOSTNAME="$1" TESTNAME="$2" FNAME="$3" if [ "$TESTNAME" = "printq" ] then p1=`grep "^PRN327:" $FNAME | awk '{print $2}'` p2=`grep "^PRN203:" $FNAME | awk '{print $2}'` p3=`grep "^PRN202:" $FNAME | awk '{print $2}'` # The RRD dataset definitions echo "DS:p1:GAUGE:600:0:U" echo "DS:p2:GAUGE:600:0:U" echo "DS:p3:GAUGE:600:0:U" # The filename echo "printq.rrd" # The data echo "$p1:$p2:$p3" fi exit 0 And how can I make the configuration even dynamic in the hobbitgraph.cfg [printq] TITLE Print Queue Status YAXIS Print Queue Length DEF:p1=printq.rrd:PRN327:AVERAGE DEF:p2=printq.rrd:PRN203:AVERAGE DEF:p3=printq.rrd:PRN202:AVERAGE AREA:p1#00FF00: PRN 327 GPRINT:p1:LAST: \: %5.1lf (cur) GPRINT:p1:MAX: \: %5.1lf (max) GPRINT:p1:MIN: \: %5.1lf (min) GPRINT:p1:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf (avg)\n AREA:p2#FF0000: PRN 230 GPRINT:p2:LAST: \: %5.1lf (cur) GPRINT:p2:MAX: \: %5.1lf (max) GPRINT:p2:MIN: \: %5.1lf (min) GPRINT:p2:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf (avg)\n AREA:p3#0000FF: PRN 202 GPRINT:p3:LAST: \: %5.1lf (cur) GPRINT:p3:MAX: \: %5.1lf (max) GPRINT:p3:MIN: \: %5.1lf (min) GPRINT:p3:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf (avg)\n Please let me know, if more information is required. Regards Subhash ________________________________ From: Gada, Subhash [mailto:subhash.gada at logicacmg.com] Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 5:23 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] CUSTOM RRD DATA VIA SCRIPTS Hi, We have few custom tests that measures printq of the print server (windows). How can I write a script to create a rrd file and generate graphs. For example P Server 1 3/13/2006 Total queued jobs: 0 PRN324:0 PRN323:0 PRN142:0 PRN141:0 PRN140:0 PRN139:0 PRN138:0 P Server 2 3/13/2006 Total queued jobs: 0 PRN314:0 PRN137:0 PRN136:0 How to count the number of columns that vary from host to host. The column names are not common for all the hosts. Can any one help me further ? if [ "$TESTNAME"="printq" ] then p1=`grep "^PRN*:" $FNAME | awk '{print $2}'` p2=`grep "^PRN*:" $FNAME | awk '{print $2}'` p3=`grep "^PRN*:" $FNAME | awk '{print $2}'` # The RRD dataset definitions echo "DS:p1:GAUGE:600:0:U" echo "DS:p2:GAUGE:600:0:U" echo "DS:p3:GAUGE:600:0:U" # The filename echo "printq.rrd" # The data echo "$p1:$p2:$p3" Regards, Subhash Gada This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Thank you.

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Clear status
by mlowery＠alliedtechgroup.com 14 Mar '06

14 Mar '06

The default for hobbit seems to be that if the conn test fails, everything else goes clear. I have specific reasons to not want this to happen. Can anyone tell me how to disable that default action? Thanks!

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