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[hobbit] Disk graph zooming
by Craig_Whilding＠mentor.com 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '06

Ah yes your right, theres a mnt/cdrom coming up amongst the graphs (not sure why its meant to have ignored those). Have to try and remove it.. Thanks, Craig ________________________________ From: lars ebeling [mailto:lars.ebeling at leopg9.no-ip.org] Sent: 10 April 2006 16:25 To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Disk graph zooming I had a look at my graphs, and saw also some similar things when I zoomed. But I had some filesystems that are not used any more and rrd-files not updated.. When I removed those rrd-files everything looks fine here. Lars ----- Original Message ----- From: Whilding, Craig <mailto:Craig_Whilding at mentor.com> To: hobbit at hswn.dk Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 4:25 PM Subject: [hobbit] Disk graph zooming Another curious little thing ive noticed is that if I use the zoom function on a disk graph other than the 1st in the list (when I have more than 4 disks/partitions) it actually zooms in on the 1st graph and not whichever one I had selected! Thanks, Craig Whilding

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Disk graph zooming
by Craig_Whilding＠mentor.com 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '06

Another curious little thing ive noticed is that if I use the zoom function on a disk graph other than the 1st in the list (when I have more than 4 disks/partitions) it actually zooms in on the 1st graph and not whichever one I had selected! Thanks, Craig Whilding

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4.2 client messaging and proxy forwarding
by Craig_Whilding＠mentor.com 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '06

Hi, Ive just upgraded one of our sites Hobbit server to the new alfa 4.2 build. Client messaging works well but I have now reconfigured the proxy that forwards the data to an additional sites display as well as being shown locally as discussed recently. Client message files seem to go directly to the local port and bypass the proxy, can I reconfigure this in a similar way to the bb network tests to point to the external port? Before this I did keep getting "bbproxy terminating with status 1" messages in its log every 5 minutes. Are there any services I may have missed having setup wrapper scripts for the network and network retest processes as per the recent display how-to. Thanks for the messaging, nice to get rid of the white dots as I upgrade the clients! Craig Whilding

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[hobbit] BBWin 0.5 available
by damiano.vozza＠apss.tn.it 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '06

Hi, I use BBwin 0.5 on XP and works fine but "netstat" doesn't show any graph; netstat.rrd is not present Language (italian) may be a problem? Thanks Html output is: 2006-Apr-10 09:29:38 [c5-54627] win32 Pacchettiricevuti=4655708 Erroridiintestazionericevuti=0 Erroridiindirizzoricevuti=80139 Datagrammiinoltrati=0 Protocollisconosciutiricevuti=0 Pacchettiricevutiscartati=320 Pacchettiricevuticonsegnati=4655244 Richiestedioutput=4552319 Routingscartati=0 Pacchettidioutputscartati=0 Pacchettioutputsenzaroute=0 Richiestediriassemblaggio=2 Riassemblaggiriusciti=1 Erroridiriassemblaggio=0 Datagrammiframmentati=1 Erroriframmentazionedatagrammi=0 Frammenticreati=2 Apertureattive=432885 Aperturepassive=415082 Tentativiconnessionenonriusciti=147 Connessionireimpostate=966 Connessionicorrenti=12 Segmentiricevuti=4500661 Segmentitrasmessi=4532985 Segmentiritrasmessi=7401 DatagrammiRicevuti=145692 Nessunaporta=4603 Erroriinricezione=29 Datagrammitrasmessi=3225 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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4.2 - Critical systems ACK?
by johng＠idttechnology.com 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

I think I understand mostly how KN Editor is designed to work. Search button seems to only work for exact hostname matches. Next button goes to next record. Host: hostname. Example web1 Status: conn, disk, etc. Resolver group: Is which group or person to contact to resolve problem. Host is MANAGED: days and hours rule applies. Host becomes MANAGED: Date to start monitoring Host becomes UN-MANAGED: Date to end monitoring Instruction: Is a note for any kind of special instructions to follow. Clones of this host: Add hosts with the same requirements as defined above. Example web2 could be a clone of web1. Current Critical Systems page is obvious. The thing I just noticed. When I ACK a something on the Critical Systems page it shows a check mark, but the bb and bb2 pages don't show a check mark. Is this by design or a bug? John

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msgs column alerting
by Dominique.Frise＠unil.ch 08 Apr '06

08 Apr '06

Hi Henrik, For us, the LOG directive does not work as expected (see my previous mails on the subject). I don't think this could be an issue on Solaris 9 only, because other directives (hobbit-alert, hobbit-clients) are interpreted correctly. It is really annoying because we cannot carry on the configuration of all our linux/rhel3/sunos clients. Could you please have a look of what could be broken in the hobbitd_client code. Thanks in advance for your help. Dominique UNIL - University of Lausanne

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msgs column alerts (hobbit-4.2-alfa-20060404)
by Dominique.Frise＠unil.ch 08 Apr '06

08 Apr '06

Hi, I still could not trigger any alert (yellow/red) for the msgs column :-( Config. for clients was made following the man pages for hobbit-clients.cfg and client-local.cfg. -----hobbit-clients.cfg---- HOST=argos,eliot LOAD 8.0 16.0 LOG messages quota_ufs --------------------------- -----client-local.cfg---- [sunos] log:/var/adm/messages:10240 ------------------------- On argos client (sunos),there are lots of entries with "quota_ufs" in /var/adm/messages but the msgs column stays green even if I start the client from scratch (erasing tmp files). BTW: hobbitd-client in testing mode does not support the new LOG tag: [bb at iris etc]$ ../bin/hobbitd_client --test Hostname (.=end, ?=dump, !=reload) []: argos Test (cpu, mem, disk, proc): Please help: I'm stuck! Dominique UNIL - University of Lausanne

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BBWin 0.5 available
by etienne.grignon＠gmail.com 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

Hello everyone, I publish today the second 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 This preview contains the new following stuffs: * The Cpu agent dll : it will monitor your cpu with a full ps report sorted by cpu usage * The Disk agent dll : it will monitor your disks usage * The Memory agent dll : it will monitor your memory usage * The Stats agent dll : just to send statistics reports like netstat for trends purpose * The external fsmon: a small script used to monitor folders (files counting for IIS smtp queue for example) * The externals agent can now work with report file using lifetime feature * The uptime agent doesn't use anymore the pdh library * The converting tools: migrate your current bbnt configuration to the BBWin configuration format instantaneously Note : the cpu, disk, memory and stats agents are bbnt trends back compatible. So, you will be able to keep your trends history if you are moving from bbnt client. Also, it contains the already existing stuffs with some bugs corrections. You may look at the change log file to get more details. * 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. Note : If upgrading from BBWin 0.4, just install the new version, it will upgrade your BBWin agent without erasing your existing configuration files. The centralized BBWin version is not ready (I have to provide some hobbit server side code to Henrik) so BBWin agents need local configuration for the moment. The next preview (0.6) should be delivered on April 17th. It will contain : * the Services agent dll : monitor Windows services with autorestart features * the Event agent dll : a small version to monitor the windows event log * Improvement of the cpu agent * Improvement of the BBWin core service (To be more robust) * A better documentation Also, I created a newsletter that you can use for questions, requests or bug reports about BBWin. You can subscribe to the list on : http://sourceforge.net/news/?group_id=136450 Etienne.

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alternate pages and PAGE in client/alerts does not work?
by kolbjorn.barmen＠uninett.no 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

It seems to me that the use of PAGE in hobbit-alerts.cfg and hobbit-clients.cfg does not work with alternate page-sets? At least I'm not sure what to use here, I have alternate pages, like PRIVAT:kolla and I have tried to use PAGE=PRIVAT:kolla, PAGE=kolla, PAGE=%kolla, PAGE=%.*kolla.* and various, but it wont work for me. Is this a bug or just me not grasping something again? :) Server is running 4.2pre from some weeks ago. -- Kolbjørn Barmen UNINETT Driftsenter

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ignore pages
by kolbjorn.barmen＠uninett.no 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Thomas wrote: > Kolbjørn Barmen wrote: > > >Hello, > > > >I just set up a Hobbit-server for testing, to see if we (hopefully) can > >"upgrade" from our old bigbrother. One feature we have missed is to be > >able to set up pages with non-critical/testing/private machines, that wont > >affect the over-all status of the Hobbit main-page. > > > >If one could set this as a page property flag or something > >("ignore-in-parent"), that would be superb. > >Is this perhaps already possible? > > All of this can be done with building alternate page sets. OK, I finally got around to try it out. I put this into my bb-hosts: ##### PRIVATE maskiner ##### privatpage kolla Kolla sine maskiner privatgroup-compress privatpage einar Einar sine maskiner privatgroup-compress privatpage oep Øyvind sine maskiner privatgroup-compress <b>Here goes...</b> and put in PRIVAT:kolla, PRIVAT:einar and PRIVAT:oep on the respective's machines. Then I made a $BBHOME/ext/privat.sh looking like this: #!/bin/sh BBWEB="/private-maskiner" $BBHOME/bin/bbgen --pageset=privat $BBHOME/www/private-maskiner/ and lastly, made an entry in $BBHOME/etc/hobbitlaunch.cfg: [bbprivat] ENVFILE /home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg NEEDS hobbitd CMD $BBHOME/ext/privat.sh LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/privat.log INTERVAL 1m And it works nicely - for /private-maskiner - however, they machines are still showing up on the default pages, and alarms are not limited to show up inside /private-maskiner. Am I missing something, or is it not possible to configure it so that certain machines are only viewable/"alarmable" from within a certain alternate page? -- Kolbjørn Barmen UNINETT Driftsenter

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