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trends and info columns
by michael_frey＠glic.com 22 May '06

22 May '06

Info and Trends columns disappeared. Just applied the latest snapshot. Graphs show up on individual test pages. Appears to be working fine otherwise. Michael Frey ----------------------------------------- This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you.

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hobbit-confreport.sh not working
by michael.nemeth＠lmco.com 22 May '06

22 May '06

Hobbit Monitor 4.2-alfa-20060423 sunos 5.9 geting Interal Server Errorr and apache log shows premature end of head. Ok 20060423 a bit old cann't update untill after Thurday because of a demo. But because of the demo I want to know if thereis a simple work around or fix. Thanks -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ | _p_ Mike Nemeth | ___| |_____ email(w) michael.nemeth at lmco.com Work: 856 359-1425 |><___________) | Home Page:http://www.geocities.com/mjnemeth/ | Work Page:http://faraday.motown.lmco.com:3000/~nemethm/ | Work Page:http://ortfsb/~mnemeth/ |++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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[hobbit] Hobbit + MRTG
by pwilliamson＠mandtbank.com 22 May '06

22 May '06

>>> jeff at myinternetservices.com 05/21/06 8:01 AM >>> > Ok, I've read the Hobbit + MRTG page. Now, question... I know I need > to run mrtg on each machine that I'm monitoring BUT what I'm unsure > of is how does Hobbit know about this data? IE do all the RRD files need > to be copied over at some point to the display server? WHAT? MRTG only needs to be running on the collection server. SNMP needs to be running on the remote machine. You need to read some MRTG docs to figure out what MRTG can do, and there is no reason to run MRTG on every machine you monitor. I'd get shot if I asked to run MRTG on all 10,000 or so servers I'm monitoring... Paul

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[hobbit] Hobbit + MRTG
by Robert.Taylor＠HendrickAuto.com 22 May '06

22 May '06

I use MRTG and Hobbit to monitor routers and switches. My config basically is a follows: 1. bbmrtg.sh runs on a host that collects all of our bandwidth information. 2. bbmrtg.sh sends the information to Hobbit. 3. Hobbit displays it as a mrtg column similar to the way that it used to work in Big Brother. I have reconfigured bbmrtg.sh to work with the 14all.cgi application instead of the original configuration as 14all.cgi allowed me to display performance in a per-minute graph as opposed to the 5 minute graph that was originally displayed. The mrtg column shows a 6 hour bandwidth view and still alerts based on the pre-defined thresholds. If there is a particular host that I want to represent the bandwidth for then I just add that port to the bbmrtg.sh configuration file. If I could get Hobbit to display graphs on finer detail for bandwidth then I would likely move things off of the mrtg host that I am using now, but I just haven't given it a good look. The other main reason that I like bbmrtg.sh is that I don't have to mess with any of my mrtg configuration files. From what I have seen in other configurations I have to go into the mrtg files and edit them individually before Hobbit would recognize them. I could be wrong on this, but that is what I recall. I have left things this way as opposed to moving them into the trends section of Hobbit as I prefer to have 1 minute averages versus the 5 minute ones as it is a little easier to spot problem situations when there is greater granularity in the graph. Robert Taylor | Senior Manager of Information Systems | Hendrick Automotive Group -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Stuart [mailto:jeff at myinternetservices.com] Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 9:15 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit + MRTG Hmm ok thx... looks like this'll be my next big project. ;) (Last one was to integrate hobbit with our server provisioning system/database. IE adds/deletes add and delete hosts in hobbit via a couple of perl scripts.) On Sunday 21 May 2006 5:41 am, Sue Bauer-Lee wrote: > I'd still really like to see a successful configuration that monitors > Cisco routers and switches. > > I've yet to be able to display the graphs for the few with successful data > collection; most of them fail and we're fairly certain it has nothing to do > with ACLs. > > I was able to collect data for, which are few, and mo > -- Jeff Stuart Network Admin MyInternetServices.com 1-800-300-HOST To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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PDF reporting [news] ! third part
by thomas.seglard.enata＠cnp.fr 22 May '06

22 May '06

Hi, here is the third part with the php pages. I don't say it before but in this file, you have a "glossary" which explains the different metrics and graphs. You have access to this document when you click on "Glossaire" on the pdf.php page. It's totally in french for now. If someone is interested by an english translation, I will see what can I do ! Regards, Thomas Seglard Ce message (et toutes ses pieces jointes eventuelles) est confidentiel et etabli a l'intention exclusive de ses destinataires. Toute utilisation de ce message non conforme a sa destination, toute diffusion ou toute publication, totale ou partielle, est interdite, sauf autorisation expresse. L'internet ne permettant pas d'assurer l'integrite de ce message, CNP Assurances et ses filiales declinent toute responsabilite au titre de ce message, s'il a ete altere, deforme ou falsifie. ***** This message and any attachments (the "message") are confidential and intended solely for the addressees. Any unauthorised use or dissemination is prohibited. E-mails are susceptible to alteration. Neither CNP Assurances nor any of its subsidiaries or affiliates shall be liable for the message if altered, changed or falsified.

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suggestion on command pathes in hobbitclient-$BBOSTYPE.sh
by Dominique.Frise＠unil.ch 22 May '06

22 May '06

Hi, We compiled Hobbit on one reference client per OS and distributed the client installation from there (we use sunos, darwin, linux -rhel2, rhel3, rhel4, debian-) We then noticed than several clients did not find commands like "netstat" or "ifconfig". Depending on OS release the inherited PATH for the user running Hobbit can be different. We had to hack hobbitclient-{sunos|linux|darwin}.sh to put the full pathes to these commands. Now my suggestion: ------------------ Would it be possible to add the full path for all commands in hobbitclient-$BBOSTYPE.sh? Thanks Dominique UNIL - University of Lausanne

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Hobbit + MRTG
by jeff＠myinternetservices.com 21 May '06

21 May '06

Ok, I've read the Hobbit + MRTG page. Now, question... I know I need to run mrtg on each machine that I'm monitoring BUT what I'm unsure of is how does Hobbit know about this data? IE do all the RRD files need to be copied over at some point to the display server? It's not very clear in the documentation as to if this scales to running MRTG on multiple boxes that you're already monitoring and if hobbit will actually display the graphs and if so, how specifically it will do it. -- Jeff Stuart Network Admin MyInternetServices.com 1-800-300-HOST

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multiple network testers
by peter.welter＠gmail.com 21 May '06

21 May '06

Hi, Currently I find it difficult to solve the problem that I have with one Hobbit-Server (HS) that tests my entire network, but... there are some firewall setups that prevent me from testing the ssh- or oratns-specific stuff. I do have Another Host (let's say AH; now just running a Hobbit client) that can run the ssh and oratns test. Is it possbile to have this host, AH, test these specific ssh- and oratns-tests and put the result back to my one and only Hobbit server so it show up on one display? Thanks, Peter -------------------------------------------------------------- >From a previous post from Henrik: Setup an extra server to do half the network tests, and configure your bb-hosts file with "NET:net-a" and "NET:net-b" tags on the hosts. Then you set BBLOCATION="net-a" on one box, and "BBLOCATION=net-b" on the other. Then they'll only test those hosts where the NET:... setting matches.

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[hobbit] Latest snapshot crashes, hobbitd_alert
by David.Gore＠verizonbusiness.com 20 May '06

20 May '06

Crashes in hobbitd_alert: hobbitd_alert --checkpoint-file=/home/hobbit/server/tmp/alert.chk --checkpoint- To roll back to the previous version that works, I remove the snapshot directory and extract the snapshot from May 18, recompile and reinstall. Suggestions? As you can tell the server is on a PC running Redhat, specifically Fedora Core 5. -rw------- 1 hobbit apache 831488 May 20 14:03 core.32291 -rw------- 1 hobbit apache 0 May 20 14:05 ping-stdout.32358 -rw------- 1 hobbit apache 0 May 20 14:05 ping-stderr.32358 [hobbit at hobbit1 tmp]$ file core.32291 core.32291: ELF 32-bit LSB core file Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), SVR4-style, from 'hobbitd_alert' [hobbit at hobbit1 tmp]$ gdb ../bin/hobbitd_alert core.32291 GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (6.3.0.0-1.122rh) Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux-gnu"...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1". Reading symbols from shared object read from target memory...done. Loaded system supplied DSO at 0x4f2000 Core was generated by `hobbitd_alert --checkpoint-file=/home/hobbit/server/tmp/alert.chk --checkpoint-'. Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted. warning: svr4_current_sos: Can't read pathname for load map: Input/output error Reading symbols from /lib/libpcre.so.0...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libpcre.so.0 Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2 #0 0x004f2402 in __kernel_vsyscall ()

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[hobbit] Latest snapshot crashes, hobbitd_client
by David.Gore＠verizonbusiness.com 19 May '06

19 May '06

Latest snapshot crashes repeatedly, specifically hobbitd_client. I sent the trace to your personal e-mail Henrik, so I wouldn't publicly release IPs and hostnames. Linux hobbit1 2.6.16-1.2096_FC5smp #1 SMP Wed Apr 19 05:31:55 EDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux [hobbit at hobbit1 tmp]$ ls -lrt total 24928 -rw------- 1 hobbit apache 0 May 18 17:03 ping-stderr.21532 -rw------- 1 hobbit apache 23654 May 18 17:03 ping-stdout.21532 -rw------- 1 hobbit apache 0 May 18 17:38 ping-stderr.24475 -rw------- 1 hobbit apache 23650 May 18 17:38 ping-stdout.24475 -rw------- 1 hobbit apache 1732608 May 19 11:16 core.21189 -rw------- 1 hobbit apache 1732608 May 19 11:16 core.21239 -rw------- 1 hobbit apache 1732608 May 19 11:17 core.21246 -rw------- 1 hobbit apache 1888256 May 19 11:17 core.21441 -rw------- 1 hobbit apache 2265088 May 19 11:18 core.21485 -rw------- 1 hobbit apache 1732608 May 19 11:18 core.21513 -rw------- 1 hobbit apache 2215936 May 19 11:20 core.21606 -rw------- 1 hobbit apache 1908736 May 19 11:21 core.21630 -rw------- 1 hobbit apache 1732608 May 19 11:21 core.21641 -rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit apache 4186626 May 19 11:27 hobbitd.chk -rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit apache 113 May 19 11:28 alert.chk.sub -rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit apache 119074 May 19 11:28 alert.chk -rw------- 1 hobbit apache 1732608 May 19 11:31 core.22114 -rw------- 1 hobbit apache 1732608 May 19 11:31 core.22122 -rw------- 1 hobbit apache 1732608 May 19 11:31 core.22117 -rw------- 1 hobbit apache 1732608 May 19 11:32 core.22132 -rw------- 1 hobbit apache 1908736 May 19 11:32 core.22135 -rw------- 1 hobbit apache 1732608 May 19 11:33 core.22211 -rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit apache 120 May 19 11:33 ping..status -rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit apache 48 May 19 11:33 http..status -rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit apache 35 May 19 11:33 frequenttests. -rw------- 1 hobbit apache 0 May 19 11:33 ping-stdout.22340 -rw------- 1 hobbit apache 0 May 19 11:33 ping-stderr.22340 [hobbit at hobbit1 tmp]$ file core.22211 core.22211: ELF 32-bit LSB core file Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), SVR4-style, from 'hobbitd_client' [hobbit at hobbit1 tmp]$ gdb ../bin/hobbitd_client core.22211 GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (6.3.0.0-1.122rh) Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux-gnu"...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1". Reading symbols from shared object read from target memory...done. Loaded system supplied DSO at 0x4f2000 Core was generated by `hobbitd_client --no-ps-listing --no-clear-msgs'. Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted. warning: svr4_current_sos: Can't read pathname for load map: Input/output error Reading symbols from /lib/libpcre.so.0...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libpcre.so.0 Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2 #0 0x004f2402 in __kernel_vsyscall () (gdb) bt -- David Gore

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