April 2006 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

stop receiving notice alerts
by iqbala-hobbit＠qwestip.net 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

Hi All I just realized that we are not receiving NOTICE alerts anymore when disable or enable host.service through the web. tail -10 /var/log/hobbit/enadis.log. I have always seen them but not showing the host whose service I disabled and then enabled. 2005-11-30 07:52:15 Could not remove disable-file '/export/home/hobbit/data/disabled/maskit,inet,here,net.scanmsg':No such file or directory 2005-11-30 07:52:15 Could not remove disable-file '/export/home/hobbit/data/disabled/maskit,inet,here,net.top':No such file or directory 2005-11-30 07:52:15 Could not remove disable-file '/export/home/hobbit/data/disabled/maskit,inet,here,net.netinfo':No such file or directory Also not receiving any email related to NOTICE. ./bin/bbcmd hobbitd_alert --dump-config [..] HOST=%(.*) MAIL groupemail at here.net FORMAT=TEXT REPEAT=30 NOTICE NOALERT Version: ./bin/bbgen --version bbgen version 4.1.2 I do not think I made any recent changes. 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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Downsecs wrong?
by patrick_a_vaughan＠hotmail.com 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

I've just noticed that the $DOWNSECS variable seems to be wrong. I've seen lots of times that it's 0. I found one time today where the history page says the duration was 1:49:57, but $DOWNSECS in the recovery message was set to 48. I don't know when this started, but I've got odd recovery times going back a couple of weeks.

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Display until ok
by Craig_Whilding＠mentor.com 01 Jun '06

01 Jun '06

Display until ok is an excellent improvement to Hobbit and I have begun to use it. One thing I've noticed is that (on mine at least) the tests disabled this was don't show up under info or on the currently disabled tests page and that there is no ok message when they are disabled. I would like to see them with the other disabled tests so I know what has been taken down although the enable feature wouldn't really be needed for these. Thanks, Craig Whilding

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Disk Status in hobbit-clients.cfg
by CHRIS.MORRIS＠RWEnpower.com 30 May '06

30 May '06

Henrik, Can you say if / when the ability to change the "disk status based on free KB" feature will be included in Hobbit? TIA Chris **************************************************************************** The information contained in this email is intended only for the use of the intended recipient at the email address to which it has been addressed. If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this document in error and that any review, dissemination or copying of the message or associated attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please contact the sender by return email or call 01793 877777 and ask for the sender and then delete it immediately from your system.Please note that neither RWE npower nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any). *****************************************************************************

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Monitoring RAID status
by Thorsten.Erdmann＠daimlerchrysler.com 30 May '06

30 May '06

Hi, I once extended the BigBrothers Disk Script to show a status dot and the sync status of mirrored disks in front of every filesystems status line. Now I migrated to Hobbit. Nearly all works fine but this extension causes the disk graphs to fail. If I understand it right, the do_disk.c program simply reads each line of the status file and displays the fifth column as the disk usage. Since my outfile from the client has two columns in front of each line this fails. The disk usage is now on column seven. I can now alter the C code but that's bad if I ever install a new version of Hobbit. So is there any idea out there how to add data to an output file without disturbing the Hobbit's standard functions. BTW: the disk test on a RedHat Box shows one "graph" to much. It's only a non referenced link, so I think Hobbit tries to interpret things that it cannot read, maybe the title line of the DF commmand's output. Thanks for help Thorsten Erdmann

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compiling hobbit client for SunOS 5.5.1
by great.dilla＠gmail.com 30 May '06

30 May '06

i have a hobbit client whose host operating system is a SunOS 5.5.1. i get these errors trying to compile the hobbit client.. i'm no good in C/C++ programming, so if anyone can trace help me as to what to tweak to make it compile, it will be very much appreciated. ** snip ** gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -DSunOS -I. -I/opt/hobbit-4.1.2p1/include -DCLIENTONLY=1 -I. -I../include -c -o sendmsg.o sendmsg.c sendmsg.c: In function `sendtobbd': sendmsg.c:247: warning: implicit declaration of function `inet_aton' sendmsg.c:298: error: `SHUT_RDWR' undeclared (first use in this function) sendmsg.c:298: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once sendmsg.c:298: error: for each function it appears in.) sendmsg.c:322: warning: passing arg 4 of `getsockopt' from incompatible pointer type sendmsg.c:387: error: `SHUT_RD' undeclared (first use in this function) sendmsg.c:402: error: `SHUT_WR' undeclared (first use in this function) sendmsg.c: In function `sendmessage': sendmsg.c:501: warning: implicit declaration of function `usleep' make[1]: *** [sendmsg.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/hobbit-4.1.2p1/lib' make: *** [lib-client] Error 2 ** snip ** gcc=3.3.2 make=3.8 thanks, great

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Report blue dot
by peter.welter＠gmail.com 30 May '06

30 May '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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logfetch.status on Darwin clients
by Dominique.Frise＠unil.ch 30 May '06

30 May '06

Hi, On Darwin clients logfetch.status never get updated (shows 0 bytes) and thus alert messages never get expired: -----clientdata------ [msgs:/var/log/system.log] Apr 28 03:15:01 zelda2 cp: error processing extended attributes: Operation not permitted Apr 28 03:15:01 zelda2 cp: error processing extended attributes: Operation not permitted Apr 28 03:15:01 zelda2 cp: error processing extended attributes: Operation not permitted Apr 28 06:17:13 zelda2 sudo: bb : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/Users/bb ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/sbin/shutdown -H Apr 28 08:13:21 zelda2 su: bb to root on /dev/ttyp1 Apr 28 08:14:02 zelda2 sudo: bb : TTY=ttyp1 ; PWD=/Users/bb ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/sbin/SystemStarter stop BB Apr 28 08:15:36 zelda2 su: bb to root on /dev/ttyp1 Apr 28 08:16:08 zelda2 sudo: bb : TTY=ttyp1 ; PWD=/soft/pub/BB/hobbit/client/ext ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/sbin/SystemStarter stop BB Apr 28 08:16:08 zelda2 SystemStarter[3131]: "/Library/StartupItems/BB/BB" failed security check: not owned by UID 0 Apr 28 08:16:08 zelda2 SystemStarter[3131]: "/Library/StartupItems/BB/BB" failed security check: not owned by GID 0 Apr 28 08:16:08 zelda2 SystemStarter[3131]: Unknown service: BB Apr 28 08:16:12 zelda2 sudo: bb : TTY=ttyp1 ; PWD=/soft/pub/BB/hobbit/client/ext ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/sbin/SystemStarter stop BB Apr 28 08:16:12 zelda2 SystemStarter[3132]: "/Library/StartupItems/BB/BB" failed security check: not owned by UID 0 Apr 28 08:16:12 zelda2 SystemStarter[3132]: "/Library/StartupItems/BB/BB" failed security check: not owned by GID 0 Apr 28 08:16:12 zelda2 SystemStarter[3132]: Unknown service: BB Apr 28 08:16:18 zelda2 sudo: bb : TTY=ttyp1 ; PWD=/soft/pub/BB/hobbit/client/ext ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/sbin/SystemStarter start BB Apr 28 08:16:18 zelda2 SystemStarter[3133]: "/Library/StartupItems/BB/BB" failed security check: not owned by UID 0 Apr 28 08:16:18 zelda2 SystemStarter[3133]: "/Library/StartupItems/BB/BB" failed security check: not owned by GID 0 Apr 28 08:16:18 zelda2 SystemStarter[3133]: Unknown service: BB Apr 28 08:16:37 zelda2 sudo: bb : TTY=ttyp1 ; PWD=/soft/pub/BB/hobbit/client/ext ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/sbin/SystemStarter -d start BB Apr 28 08:16:37 zelda2 SystemStarter[3137]: "/Library/StartupItems/BB/BB" failed security check: not owned by UID 0 Apr 28 08:16:37 zelda2 SystemStarter[3137]: "/Library/StartupItems/BB/BB" failed security check: not owned by GID 0 Apr 28 08:16:37 zelda2 SystemStarter[3137]: Unknown service: BB Apr 28 08:20:49 zelda2 su: pam_authenticate: Authentication failure Apr 28 08:20:55 zelda2 su: bb to root on /dev/ttyp1 Apr 28 08:21:27 zelda2 SystemStarter[3154]: "/Library/StartupItems/BB/BB" failed security check: not owned by UID 0 Apr 28 08:21:27 zelda2 SystemStarter[3154]: "/Library/StartupItems/BB/BB" failed security check: not owned by GID 0 Apr 28 08:21:27 zelda2 SystemStarter[3154]: Unknown service: BB Apr 28 08:22:56 zelda2 sudo: bb : TTY=ttyp1 ; PWD=/soft/pub/BB/hobbit/client/ext ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/sbin/SystemStarter start BB Apr 28 08:24:12 zelda2 sudo: bb : TTY=ttyp1 ; PWD=/soft/pub/BB/hobbit/client/tmp ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/sbin/SystemStarter restart BB Apr 28 08:57:20 zelda2 su: bb to root on /dev/ttyp1 [logfile:/var/log/system.log] type:100000 (file) mode:640 (-rw-r-----) linkcount:1 owner:0 (root) group:80 (admin) size:3 clock:1146219697 (2006/04/28-12:21:37) atime:1146219697 (2006/04/28-12:21:37) ctime:1146207446 (2006/04/28-08:57:26) mtime:1146207446 (2006/04/28-08:57:26) ------------------ zelda:/soft/pub/BB/hobbit/client/tmp bb$ ls -la total 80 drwxr-xr-x 5 bb ci 170 28 Apr 12:28 . drwxr-xr-x 9 bb ci 306 27 Apr 09:10 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 bb ci 63 28 Apr 12:28 logfetch.cfg -rw-r--r-- 1 bb ci 34 28 Apr 12:28 logfetch.status -rw-r--r-- 1 bb ci 29495 28 Apr 12:28 msg.txt zelda:/soft/pub/BB/hobbit/client/tmp bb$ cat logfetch.status /var/log/system.log:0:0:0:0:0:0:0 zelda:/soft/pub/BB/hobbit/client/logs bb$ wc /var/log/system.log 349 2847 47437 /var/log/system.log hobbitclient.log is empty. Where could be the problem? Dominique UNIL - University of Lausanne

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Hobbit client data truncated by server?!
by saam＠tomikoni.de 30 May '06

30 May '06

Hi, after reading the docs, searching the list, searching the source code i have no idea, what is going wrong here: Data that is sent by the hobbit client is truncated somewhere. My Hobbit client messages are about 30kB. The client sents the message to the server without loss (verified with netcat). Monitoring the client channel via [clientlogger] CMD hobbitd_channel --channel=client cat in hobbitlaunch.cfg results in: > >DATADATADATA >DATADATADATA >DATADATAD > >... DATA TRUNCATED ... > The received data is cut at approx 10kB. All MSG_* variables that limit communication are clearly above this value (MSG_CLIENT=256*1024). I have set anything to debug with no results. I did not find the place in the source code where the "DATA TRUNCATED" message is generated, so i can't trace back why it is truncated... Help me please! Regards, Mirko ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

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RECOVERED alerts still sent outside of TIME window
by EES2Y＠hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu 29 May '06

29 May '06

Howdy all, We just had one of our engineers get a rude awakening last night by a UPS that had recovered from an error; I had thought that the RECOVERED pages were under the same TIME restrictions as normal alerts, but a quick look at the code leads me to believe that this is not so. Before I (or somebody else ;) attempts a fix, I wanted to make sure that there wasn't a valid reason behind this implementation. (I'm looking at the criteria match routine in the do_alerts.c file, specifically lines 899 through 914). TIA, -Eric Schwimmer Network Engineer UVA HSCS Network Engineering

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