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[hobbit] NCV module doesn't seem to accept GAUGE
by Jehrenberg＠nysar.com 11 Mar '06

11 Mar '06

I did not have a new line between NCV_ExchDB and NCV_smtphealth, but I did add one but it didn't make a difference. The ExchDB GAUGE is not working either. When I dump the rrd file it also shows up us DERIVE. I am running Hobbit 4.1.2p1. -----Original Message----- From: Dan Vande More [mailto:bigdan at gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 5:33 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] NCV module doesn't seem to accept GAUGE Is it the formatting of your email client, or are you missing a newline between NCV_ExchDB and NCV_smtphealth? Is NCV_ExchDB's gauge working? On 3/10/06, Jeff Ehrenberg <Jehrenberg at nysar.com> wrote: > I have created a test to check the SMTP queues on a Windows box using WMI I have added the appropriate ncv settings to the hobbitserver.cfg file and the also created the definition for the graph in hobbitgraph.cfg. I am getting the graph to display on my status page but the lines are all flat. I used the rrdtool to dump the results of my rrd file and it looks like all of the data sets are being entered as DERIVE although I specified GAUGE. Here are some of the output. > > -STATUS MESSAGE Sent to Hobbit- > smtphealth > SMTP Health Check: > Inbound Connections: 10 > Outbound Connections: 20 > Local Queue Length: 1 > Local Retry Queue Length: 0 > Remote Queue Length: 3 > Remote Retry Queue Length: 3 > > -FROM hobbitserver.cfg- > TEST2RRD="cpu=la,disk,inode,qtree,memory,$PINGCOLUMN=tcp,http=tcp,dns=tc p,dig=tcp,time=ntpstat,vmstat,iostat,netstat,temperature,apache,bind,sen dmail,mailq,nmailq=mailq,socks,bea,iishealth,citrix,bbgen,bbtest,bbproxy ,hobbitd,ExchDB=ncv,smtphealth=ncv" > NCV_ExchDB="STORE:GAUGE" NCV_smtphealth="InboundConnections:GAUGE,OutboundConnections:GAUGE,Local QueueLength:GAUGE,LocalRetryQueueLeng:GAUGE,RemoteQueueLength:GAUGE,Remo teRetryQueueLen:GAUGE" > >  > <rrd> > <version> 0001 </version> > <step> 300 </step>  > <lastupdate> 1142001796 </lastupdate>  > > <ds> > <name> InboundConnections </name> > <type> DERIVE </type> > <minimal_heartbeat> 600 </minimal_heartbeat> > <min> 0.0000000000e+00 </min> > <max> NaN </max> > >  > <last_ds> 0 </last_ds> > <value> 0.0000000000e+00 </value> > <unknown_sec> 0 </unknown_sec> > </ds> > > <ds> > <name> OutboundConnections </name> > <type> DERIVE </type> > > > Jeff Ehrenberg > > Technology Services Coordinator > NY State Association of REALTORS, Inc. > 130 Washington Avenue > Albany, NY 12210 > 518.463.0300 > jehrenberg at nysar.com > > > > 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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NCV module doesn't seem to accept GAUGE
by Jehrenberg＠nysar.com 10 Mar '06

10 Mar '06

I have created a test to check the SMTP queues on a Windows box using WMI. I have added the appropriate ncv settings to the hobbitserver.cfg file and the also created the definition for the graph in hobbitgraph.cfg. I am getting the graph to display on my status page but the lines are all flat. I used the rrdtool to dump the results of my rrd file and it looks like all of the data sets are being entered as DERIVE although I specified GAUGE. Here are some of the output. -STATUS MESSAGE Sent to Hobbit- smtphealth SMTP Health Check: Inbound Connections: 10 Outbound Connections: 20 Local Queue Length: 1 Local Retry Queue Length: 0 Remote Queue Length: 3 Remote Retry Queue Length: 3 -FROM hobbitserver.cfg- TEST2RRD="cpu=la,disk,inode,qtree,memory,$PINGCOLUMN=tcp,http=tcp,dns=tcp,dig=tcp,time=ntpstat,vmstat,iostat,netstat,temperature,apache,bind,sendmail,mailq,nmailq=mailq,socks,bea,iishealth,citrix,bbgen,bbtest,bbproxy,hobbitd,ExchDB=ncv,smtphealth=ncv" NCV_ExchDB="STORE:GAUGE" NCV_smtphealth="InboundConnections:GAUGE,OutboundConnections:GAUGE,LocalQueueLength:GAUGE,LocalRetryQueueLeng:GAUGE,RemoteQueueLength:GAUGE,RemoteRetryQueueLen:GAUGE"  <rrd> <version> 0001 </version> <step> 300 </step>  <lastupdate> 1142001796 </lastupdate>  <ds> <name> InboundConnections </name> <type> DERIVE </type> <minimal_heartbeat> 600 </minimal_heartbeat> <min> 0.0000000000e+00 </min> <max> NaN </max>  <last_ds> 0 </last_ds> <value> 0.0000000000e+00 </value> <unknown_sec> 0 </unknown_sec> </ds> <ds> <name> OutboundConnections </name> <type> DERIVE </type> Jeff Ehrenberg Technology Services Coordinator NY State Association of REALTORS, Inc. 130 Washington Avenue Albany, NY 12210 518.463.0300 jehrenberg at nysar.com

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Randomly purple...
by lhaught＠broadline.tv 10 Mar '06

10 Mar '06

I can finally say that I have hobbit working. Still a lot to do with the alert system and getting it laid out how I want it to do status alerts, but everything is happy and green and doing well... ...except. This morning I came in to the office to discover lots of purple status markers. I dug into the reports and found literally nothing that reported as anything except green status. I am a little confused, I see how I can stop the alteration from effecting server status reports, but I don't see how to stop it from happening, specifically, I can't see why it is happening. Thanks, --L

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NCV help
by Jehrenberg＠nysar.com 10 Mar '06

10 Mar '06

I have created a test to check the SMTP queues on a Windows box using WMI. I have added the appropriate ncv settings to the hobbitserver.cfg file and the also created the definition for the graph in hobbitgraph.cfg. I am getting the graph to display on my status page but the lines are all flat. I used the rrdtool to dump the results of my rrd file and it looks like all of the data sets are being entered as DERIVE although I specified GAUGE. Here are some of the output. -STATUS MESSAGE Sent to Hobbit- smtphealth SMTP Health Check: Inbound Connections: 10 Outbound Connections: 20 Local Queue Length: 1 Local Retry Queue Length: 0 Remote Queue Length: 3 Remote Retry Queue Length: 3 -FROM hobbitserver.cfg- TEST2RRD="cpu=la,disk,inode,qtree,memory,$PINGCOLUMN=tcp,http=tcp,dns=tcp,dig=tcp,time=ntpstat,vmstat,iostat,netstat,temperature,apache,bind,sendmail,mailq,nmailq=mailq,socks,bea,iishealth,citrix,bbgen,bbtest,bbproxy,hobbitd,ExchDB=ncv,smtphealth=ncv" NCV_ExchDB="STORE:GAUGE" NCV_smtphealth="InboundConnections:GAUGE,OutboundConnections:GAUGE,LocalQueueLength:GAUGE,LocalRetryQueueLeng:GAUGE,RemoteQueueLength:GAUGE,RemoteRetryQueueLen:GAUGE"  <rrd> <version> 0001 </version> <step> 300 </step>  <lastupdate> 1142001796 </lastupdate>  <ds> <name> InboundConnections </name> <type> DERIVE </type> <minimal_heartbeat> 600 </minimal_heartbeat> <min> 0.0000000000e+00 </min> <max> NaN </max>  <last_ds> 0 </last_ds> <value> 0.0000000000e+00 </value> <unknown_sec> 0 </unknown_sec> </ds> <ds> <name> OutboundConnections </name> <type> DERIVE </type> Jeff Ehrenberg Technology Services Coordinator NY State Association of REALTORS, Inc. 130 Washington Avenue Albany, NY 12210 518.463.0300 jehrenberg at nysar.com

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Todays snapshot
by lars.ebeling＠leopg9.no-ip.org 10 Mar '06

10 Mar '06

Installed todays snapshot (7/3) on HP-UX 11.11. Main view was empty. No hosts no services. 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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bbd display...
by lhaught＠broadline.tv 10 Mar '06

10 Mar '06

Ok, one more from the peanut gallery. on my current status page, the only system currently reporting correct operations is the local system the server is installed in. However literally everything else is showing correctly. So, I know the service is running unless bbd is referancing the daemon side of the server. So, I have 4 systems reporting, Name bbd bbgen bbtest conn cpu disk etc etc server green green green green green green sys1 red blank blank green blank blank sys2 red blank blank green green green sys3 red blank blank green green green So I have the bbd, bbgen, bbtest configs set the same for all the systems, I just fail to see why I am getting the odd behavior off of the remote systems when literally everything else is reporting correctly showing that the hobbit-client service is in fact functioning. --Launce

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Availability report
by lars.ebeling＠leopg9.no-ip.org 10 Mar '06

10 Mar '06

Hi, I tried to create an availability report for february. On the drop down menu for year I only can choose 1965-1970. This is on HP-UX 11.11 running snapshot from yesterday afternoon. 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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Well.. I got a Windows client.. sort of...
by papo＠dcentral.net 10 Mar '06

10 Mar '06

Hi: I managed to get the hobbit client working on Cygwin. In a way there it is a way to have some basic monitoring on windows boxes. Perhaps with some scripts and connections to COM components, something interesting could be done in this setup, like talking to Outlook and get tasks and such. The only caveat is that the server does not have a trap to handle cygwin hosts, hence my hair pulling for the past few days. I worked it around by spoofing the server by changing the reported operating system on the client from cygwin to linux and then changing the linux script to be cygwin friendly. Regards, Luis

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HTML Code in Alerts
by CBlank＠abcgroup.com 09 Mar '06

09 Mar '06

I am using server custom scripts that return HTML code to the hobbit for displaying. One of which is bbmrtg! I upgraded the latest snapshot because of another e-mail stating that it was patched in RC2. I am still getting the following: red Sun Feb 26 03:12:35 2006 &red<A HREF="http://10.32.1.48/cgi-bin/routers2.cgi?rtr=master.cfg&bars=Cami&pa ge=graph&xgtype=dwmy&xgstyle=l2&if=mrtg.10.32.3.229.mult1&xmtype=options ">Traffic Analysis for Multilink 1 Ranson to Orange:</A> In: 333800 bytes/sec (86.5%) Out: 10590 bytes/sec (2.7%) <CENTER> <A HREF="http://10.32.1.48/cgi-bin/routers2.cgi?rtr=master.cfg&bars=Cami&pa ge=graph&xgtype=dwmy&xgstyle=l2&if=mrtg.10.32.3.229.mult1&xmtype=options "><IMG SRC="http://10.32.1.48/cgi-bin/routers2.cgi?rtr=master.cfg&if=mrtg.10.32 .3.229.mult1&xgtype=d&page=image" ALT="Last 24 Hours" BORDER=0></A> </CENTER> <TABLE BORDER=1 ALIGN=CENTER> <TR> <TH COLSPAN=6>Rules</TH> </TR> <TR> <TD>In</TD> <TD BGCOLOR=red>< 0.0%</TD> <TD BGCOLOR=yellow>< 0.0%</TD> <TD BGCOLOR=green>0.0% - 60.0%</TD> <TD BGCOLOR=yellow>> 60.0%</TD> <TD BGCOLOR=red>> 80.0%</TD> </TR> <TR> <TD>Out</TD> <TD BGCOLOR=red>< 0.0%</TD> <TD BGCOLOR=yellow>< 0.0%</TD> <TD BGCOLOR=green>0.0% - 60.0%</TD> <TD BGCOLOR=yellow>> 60.0%</TD> <TD BGCOLOR=red>> 80.0%</TD> </TR> </TABLE> How can I get the Hobbit to send everything as HTML formatted e-mails vice text? Chris Blank Network Engineer AB&C Group (304) 725-7050 x 2221

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Fping ...
by lhaught＠broadline.tv 09 Mar '06

09 Mar '06

Hey folks, Ok, I am fairly successful with my roll-out so far, the help here has been great, thanks! So, todays issue is fping, I am getting the following out of my error logs: 2006-03-09 11:14:37 Execution of '/usr/local/sbin/fping -Ae' failed - program not suid root? however when running an ls -al it shows: -rwxrwxrwt 1 root root 47723 Mar 7 10:53 fping any ideas? --Launce

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