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findhost ?
by olivier＠qalpit.com 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

Hi Henrik, This feature doesn't seem to work anymore, i remember you added this in bbgen 3.3 : * bb-findhost will now show all of the pages where the host exists, instead of just the primary one. Suggested by Thomas Schaefer. -- Olivier

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darwin client: Expected string (Capacity and Mounted) not found in df output header
by Dominique.Frise＠unil.ch 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

Hi, Darwin clients (Mac OSX 10.3.9) report errors for df output: "Expected string (Capacity and Mounted) not found in df output header" $ uname -a Darwin zelda.unil.ch 7.9.0 Darwin Kernel Version 7.9.0: Wed Mar 30 20:11:17 PST 2005; root:xnu/xnu-517.12.7.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc df option -T is not supported under 10.3.x: use -t instead. ----extract of client data----- client zelda.darwin darwin [date] Thu Apr 13 17:08:42 CEST 2006 [uname] Darwin zelda.unil.ch 7.9.0 Darwin Kernel Version 7.9.0: Wed Mar 30 20:11:17 PST 2005; root:xnu/xnu-517.12.7.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc [uptime] 17:08 up 15 days, 6:28, 2 users, load averages: 0.19 0.17 0.14 [who] admin console Mar 29 10:41 bb ttyp1 Apr 13 17:08 (iris.unil.ch) [df] [meminfo] Mach Virtual Memory Statistics: (page size of 4096 bytes) Pages free: 168406. Pages active: 43999. Pages inactive: 24801. Pages wired down: 24938. "Translation faults": 613667922. Pages copy-on-write: 99055444. Pages zero filled: 125346054. Pages reactivated: 26786. Pageins: 2968388. Pageouts: 25192. Object cache: 15975479 hits of 19124352 lookups (83% hit rate) ---------------------------------- --------hobbitclient-darwin.sh---- #!/bin/sh # #----------------------------------------------------------------------------# # Darwin (Mac OS X) client for Hobbit # # # # Copyright (C) 2005 Henrik Storner <henrik at hswn.dk> # # # # This program is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL), # # version 2. See the file "COPYING" for details. # # # #----------------------------------------------------------------------------# # # $Id: hobbitclient-darwin.sh,v 1.9 2006/02/17 13:07:50 henrik Exp $ echo "[date]" date echo "[uname]" uname -a echo "[uptime]" uptime echo "[who]" who echo "[df]" # The sed stuff is to make sure lines are not split into two. df -H -T nonfs,nullfs,cd9660,procfs,volfs,devfs,fdesc | sed -e '/^[^ ][^ ]*$/{ N s/[ ]*\n[ ]*/ / }' echo "[meminfo]" vm_stat echo "[ifconfig]" ifconfig -a echo "[route]" netstat -r echo "[netstat]" netstat -s echo "[ps]" ps -axw echo "[top]" top -l 1 -n 20 # logfiles $BBHOME/bin/logfetch $BBTMP/logfetch.cfg $BBTMP/logfetch.status exit ------------------------------- I also noticed that the "memory" column does not show any data. Normal? Domininique University of Lausanne

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[hobbit] Hobbit Monitor 4.2-alfa-20060404 and dns
by FRamaekers＠ailife.com 20 Apr '06

20 Apr '06

Reading through other posts, I discovered that the problem was on the bb-hosts file. Specifically, the name did not match the DNS name of the host. Thanks, Frank M. Ramaekers Jr. Systems Programmer; MCP, MCP+I, MCSE & RHCE American Income Life Insurance Company Phone: (254) 761-6649 Fax: (254) 741-5777 -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 2:57 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit Monitor 4.2-alfa-20060404 and dns On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 12:07:34PM -0500, Frank M. Ramaekers wrote: > It appears that the DNS tests don't work....anyone else verify? Works for me ... > It appears that dns|dig is not defined in bb-services, is that right? Yes, they are "built-in" to the bbtest-net program - mostly because they use a special library, whereas the tests in bb-services are implemented in a more generic fashion. Could you try building the "adig" utility that comes with the DNS library Hobbit uses: Go to the bbnet/c-ares/ directory, and: $ gcc -I. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -o adig adig.c .libs/libcares.a This should give you an "adig" binary. Then run $ ./adig -s IP.OF.DNS.SERVER -t A HOSTNAME.OF.DNS.SERVER (substitute the IP+hostname you have in bb-hosts). This is the lookup that Hobbit's dns/dig tests perform. Does that work ? Could you show me the entry you have in bb-hosts for your dns/dig tests? And how does it fail - does the dns/dig status show up on the Hobbit web page? If it does, what error does it report? What happens if you run (as the hobbit user): bbcmd bbtest-net --debug HOSTNAME.WITH.DNS.TEST Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk ---------------------------------------- This message contains information which is privileged and confidential and is solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, be aware that any review, disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the contents of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this in error, please destroy it immediately and notify us at PrivacyAct at ailife.com.

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[hobbit] Hobbit Monitor 4.2-alfa-20060404 and dns
by FRamaekers＠ailife.com 20 Apr '06

20 Apr '06

That seems to work... $ ./adig -s 10.2.0.21 -t A aildc1.ailife.com id: 51361 flags: qr aa rd ra opcode: QUERY rcode: NOERROR Questions: aildc1.ailife.com. A Answers: aildc1.ailife.com. 3600 A 10.2.0.21 NS records: Additional records: $ ./adig -s 10.2.0.22 -t A aildc2.ailife.com id: 50599 flags: qr aa rd ra opcode: QUERY rcode: NOERROR Questions: aildc2.ailife.com. A Answers: aildc2.ailife.com. 3600 A 10.2.0.22 NS records: Additional records: But when I had the 'dns' in the bb-hosts it NEVER went green. Details showed: Service dns on DNS1 is not OK : Service unavailable Server failed Seconds: 0.000 Frank M. Ramaekers Jr. Systems Programmer; MCP, MCP+I, MCSE & RHCE American Income Life Insurance Company Phone: (254) 761-6649 Fax: (254) 741-5777 -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 2:57 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit Monitor 4.2-alfa-20060404 and dns On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 12:07:34PM -0500, Frank M. Ramaekers wrote: > It appears that the DNS tests don't work....anyone else verify? Works for me ... > It appears that dns|dig is not defined in bb-services, is that right? Yes, they are "built-in" to the bbtest-net program - mostly because they use a special library, whereas the tests in bb-services are implemented in a more generic fashion. Could you try building the "adig" utility that comes with the DNS library Hobbit uses: Go to the bbnet/c-ares/ directory, and: $ gcc -I. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -o adig adig.c .libs/libcares.a This should give you an "adig" binary. Then run $ ./adig -s IP.OF.DNS.SERVER -t A HOSTNAME.OF.DNS.SERVER (substitute the IP+hostname you have in bb-hosts). This is the lookup that Hobbit's dns/dig tests perform. Does that work ? Could you show me the entry you have in bb-hosts for your dns/dig tests? And how does it fail - does the dns/dig status show up on the Hobbit web page? If it does, what error does it report? What happens if you run (as the hobbit user): bbcmd bbtest-net --debug HOSTNAME.WITH.DNS.TEST Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk ---------------------------------------- This message contains information which is privileged and confidential and is solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, be aware that any review, disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the contents of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this in error, please destroy it immediately and notify us at PrivacyAct at ailife.com.

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[hobbit] Hobbit client sending data but server seems to not get data.
by crlangfo＠ugs.com 20 Apr '06

20 Apr '06

Thank you!!!! That is what was wrong!!! I had been pulling out what little hair that I have left out for the last eight hours trying to figure out what I had done wrong. 8-) Thanks again!!! Ken, -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 4:02 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit client sending data but server seems to not get data. On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 03:28:00PM -0400, Langford, Kenneth wrote: > > I am switching my clients over from using the big brother client to using the hobbit client. I am having problems with 2 of my clients that are running Red Hat 9. They seem to be sending data but the server is not collecting the data. Other client systems are working. Any ideas of where I need to look????? Most common cause for this is that the clients are reporting data with a hostname which is different than what you have in the bb-hosts file. Typically, one side has the fully-qualified hostname, and the other only has the raw hostname (without domain). The client uses the "uname -n" command to determine what name it uses to report data. Check if this matches the name you have in bb-hosts. If it doesn't, you can either start the client with the "--hostname=my.host.name" option, or you can put a CLIENT:clienthostname tag on the host definition in the bb-hosts file. Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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Hobbit client sending data but server seems to not get data.
by crlangfo＠ugs.com 20 Apr '06

20 Apr '06

All, I am switching my clients over from using the big brother client to using the hobbit client. I am having problems with 2 of my clients that are running Red Hat 9. They seem to be sending data but the server is not collecting the data. Other client systems are working. Any ideas of where I need to look????? Below is from the hobbitclient.log were I turned on debugging for an external program that is working on my other clients. 2006-04-20 14:42:51 Transport setup is: 2006-04-20 14:42:51 bbdportnumber = 1984 2006-04-20 14:42:51 bbdispproxyhost = NONE 2006-04-20 14:42:51 bbdispproxyport = 0 2006-04-20 14:42:51 Recipient listed as 'xxx.xxx.14.84' 2006-04-20 14:42:51 Standard BB protocol on port 1984 2006-04-20 14:42:51 Will connect to address xxx.xxx.14.84 port 1984 2006-04-20 14:42:51 Connect status is 0 2006-04-20 14:42:51 Sent 407 bytes 2006-04-20 14:42:51 Closing connection

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System log messages for hobbit client
by TIM.EVANS＠jpmchase.com 20 Apr '06

20 Apr '06

Hi, I am running hobbit version 4.1.2. I recently compiled and began running it on an aix server along with a few clients. I was wondering if there were plans to add the msgs functionality to the client side any time soon. The README.CLIENT states that it currently does not send this data. I have tried to configure client-local.cfg and hobbit-clients.cfg to see if maybe it did work but it does not seem to work. Thanks in advance, Tim

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[hobbit] Hobbit Monitor 4.2-alfa-20060404 and dns
by FRamaekers＠ailife.com 20 Apr '06

20 Apr '06

It appears that dns|dig is not defined in bb-services, is that right? Frank M. Ramaekers Jr. <mailto:FRamaekers at AILife.com> Systems Programmer; MCP, MCP+I, MCSE & RHCE American Income Life Insurance Company Phone: (254) 761-6649 Fax: (254) 741-5777 Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors. Ralph Waldo Emerson -----Original Message----- From: Frank M. Ramaekers [mailto:FRamaekers at ailife.com] Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 8:13 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Hobbit Monitor 4.2-alfa-20060404 and dns It appears that the DNS tests don't work....anyone else verify? Frank M. Ramaekers Jr. <mailto:FRamaekers at AILife.com> Systems Programmer; MCP, MCP+I, MCSE & RHCE American Income Life Insurance Company Phone: (254) 761-6649 Fax: (254) 741-5777 ---------------------------------------- This message contains information which is privileged and confidential and is solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, be aware that any review, disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the contents of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this in error, please destroy it immediately and notify us at PrivacyAct at ailife.com."

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Linux memory Usage
by vaish＠opussoft.com 20 Apr '06

20 Apr '06

Hi friends, I have installed Hobbit on Red Hat ES Linux. Everything works fine but I feel the memory usage by Hobbit is high. My Hobbit version is 4.1.2p1 I am not very good on Linux and am not sure how to find out which process is consuming so much memory. The reason for my concern is especially because the server had crashed after a week of Hobbit running continuously. There is nothing but couple of apache web sites running on that server( Those ae also experimental sites and dont have much activity on them) Following is a snapshot of how memory was used Initial @Thu Apr 20 03:05:45 IST 2006 total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 2066872 1631232 435640 0 98028 1230052 -/+ buffers/cache: 303152 1763720 Swap: 8193108 160 8192948 Started Hobbit @Thu Apr 20 03:11:08 IST 2006 total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 2066872 1639936 426936 0 98612 1233888 -/+ buffers/cache: 307436 1759436 Swap: 8193108 160 8192948 @Thu Apr 20 03:47:42 IST 2006 total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 2066872 1644304 422568 0 101072 1235068 -/+ buffers/cache: 308164 1758708 Swap: 8193108 160 8192948 @Thu Apr 20 09:16:34 IST 2006 total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 2066872 1868176 198696 0 143732 1364528 -/+ buffers/cache: 359916 1706956 Swap: 8193108 160 8192948 Stopped Hobbit total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 2066872 1865080 201792 0 144216 1364564 -/+ buffers/cache: 356300 1710572 Swap: 8193108 160 8192948 I would be grateful for any pointers to resolving this problem. -- Thanks and regards, Vaishnavi R ======================================================== This message contains information that may be privileged or confidential and is the property of Opus Software Solutions Group. It is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, you are not authorized to read, print, retain, copy, disseminate, distribute, or use this message or any part thereof. If you receive this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete all copies of this message

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netstat commands and output on AIX, HP-UX, Darwin, OSF/1
by henrik＠hswn.dk 20 Apr '06

20 Apr '06

I'm merging some code I got 6 months ago for checking the "netstat" output for what ports are being used - both for active connections and listen-ports. For that, I need the "netstat" commands to put into the client code, and an example of the output so I can tell the client-module how to interpret the data. I'm only interested in TCP ports. I have the data I need for Linux, Solaris and the BSD variants, but I would like them also for AIX, HP-UX, Darwin and OSF/1. So I need: * The "netstat" command to run to get the set of TCP ports currently in use, including ports used for incoming connections. Typically this will be some sort of "netstat -na", with some extra options to get only the TCP sockets. Note that it may be necessary to run two commands to get both IPv4 and IPv6 ports. On the BSD's, I noticed that connections to the loopback interface register as IPv6 sockets, not IPv4. * A sample of the output, so I can see which columns the various data go into. Anyone there who could get me this info ? Thanks, Henrik PS: This lets you setup rules in hobbit-clients to track eg the number of connections to your webserver, and put this into a graph so you can see the activity over the day. It can also alert you if there is a port 25 open on a server where it shouldn't be, or if the number of connections to your ssh daemon goes above 20.

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