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Alering on log file entries
by Phil.Wild＠asgardwealthsolutions.com.au 19 May '06

19 May '06

Hello all, I have a requirement to monitor a number of log files on one system and to page different people depending on what it sees in the different files. From what I can tell, this functionality is not available. Am I wrong here? My thoughts on setting this up would be to clone and modify the existing bb-msgs feeder script to accept a different config file and report as a different test and then through hobbit, set up alerts to the different group for the additional test. Is this a sound approach or is there a better way? Cheers Phil ======================================================= IMPORTANT INFORMATION This message and any files transmitted with it are confidential and should be read only by those persons to whom it is addressed. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by way of reply. Please also destroy and delete the message from your computer. Any unauthorised form of reproduction of this message is strictly prohibited. It is the duty of the recipient to virus scan and otherwise test the information provided before loading on to any computer system. No warranty is given or made by Asgard Wealth Solutions Limited, Asgard Capital Management Limited or SECURITOR Financial Group Limited that the information is free of a virus or any other defect or error and they will not be liable for the proper and complete transmission of the information contained in this communication, nor for any delay in its receipt. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states they are the views of Asgard Wealth Solutions Limited, Asgard Capital Management Limited or SECURITOR Financial Group Limited, as the case may be. =======================================================

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small tweak in loaddata.c
by olivier＠qalpit.com 19 May '06

19 May '06

quick mail for henrik, the sendmessage procedure dont use BBTALK_TIMEOUT, but 30 instead.. (i have a busy server..) by the way wmlgen.c is in the same case.. olivier

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hobbit-alerts parsing order
by rmunsch＠solutionsforprogress.com 19 May '06

19 May '06

hello list, i'm having some trouble with my alert priorities. I can't find anything definitive in docs or archives about the order that hobbit-alerts is parsed in (frex, should Service come before Host?). Generally, some rules aren't getting matched on events, and no "STOP"ped rules before them are matching, so I'm not sure why. ATM i have some host-specific rules near the top that have NO rules for conn. Later in the file is a SERVICE=conn. When one of the hosts that matches for HOST= loses conn, i get no alerts. I had assumed that if a service was left out of a HOST block, then the SERVICE= blocks would catch them. Was this wrong, or have I done something else..? Thanks, -- Rob Munsch Solutions For Progress IT

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msgs column trouble
by ndo＠unikservice.com 18 May '06

18 May '06

Hi, Could you please give me pointer to allow me to have a funcitonnal msgs column ? I've tried to use bb-msgs.pl from deadcat, bb-msgs.sh from BB distro...but it seems that hobbitclient send itself a "clear" status regularly ! TIA Nicolas

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[hobbit] Oops, I'm screwed now!
by Jason.Chambers＠geosoft.com 18 May '06

18 May '06

Hey David, Thanks for helping me. I just did the suid bit right now for fping, but the other tests such as http smtp pop3 etc. all fail (purple) Trying to figure that one out right now. Jason Chambers IT Helpdesk Support Geosoft Inc. 85 Richmond St. West - 8th Floor Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5H 2C9 Tel: 416-369-0111 x344 Fax: 416-369-9599 www.geosoft.com -----Original Message----- From: David Gore [mailto:David.Gore at verizonbusiness.com] Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 1:08 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Oops, I'm screwed now! Jason Chambers wrote: > > I need help. I just upgraded our PC from Fedora Core 4 to FC5. Now > fping, and external tests don't run. Is there anything I can do to fix > this? > > Jason Chambers > > **IT Helpdesk Support** > > [http://www.geosoft.com/20] <http://www.geosoft.com/20>eosoft Inc. > > 85 Richmond St. West - 8th Floor > > Toronto, Ontario, Canada > > M5H 2C9 > > Tel: 416-369-0111 x344 > > Fax: 416-369-9599 > > www.geosoft.com <http://www.geosoft.com> > We are running Core 5 for our server and it works fine. Just make sure you recheck everything, fping installed with the suid bit set? Can you run the external scripts through bbcmd ok? ~David To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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Oops, I'm screwed now!
by Jason.Chambers＠geosoft.com 18 May '06

18 May '06

I need help. I just upgraded our PC from Fedora Core 4 to FC5. Now fping, and external tests don't run. Is there anything I can do to fix this? Jason Chambers IT Helpdesk Support <http://www.geosoft.com/20> eosoft Inc. 85 Richmond St. West - 8th Floor Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5H 2C9 Tel: 416-369-0111 x344 Fax: 416-369-9599 www.geosoft.com

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[hobbit] hobbitping oddities
by EES2Y＠hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu 18 May '06

18 May '06

> Sounds like it is the re-test thing that is broken. Do you have the > [bbretest] section enabled in hobbitlaunch.cfg ? Yep: [bbretest] ENVFILE /usr/local/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg NEEDS hobbitd CMD $BBHOME/ext/bbretest-net.sh LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/bb-retest.log INTERVAL 1m

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IRIX client
by crlangfo＠ugs.com 18 May '06

18 May '06

Hi all, I have about 200 SGI IRIX systems that I am going to have to start monitoring. Does anyone already have a hobbitclient-irix.sh created???? I guess the other question is will hobbit server handle the data sent to it????? Ken,

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hobbitping oddities
by EES2Y＠hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu 18 May '06

18 May '06

Had a some unexpected behaviour from hobbitping that I thought I'd let you know about. When a host goes down, hobbitping will report it red, but the next poll cycle, it will report green again. The next poll cycle it will go red once more (this time with a message in the conn page that the host has been down for 3 consecutive polling cyclings), then it goes green again, etc etc. This wouldn't be quite so troublesome if it didn't page us once for every red conn message :) This is on hobbit 4.1.2p1, and all of our hosts are using the badconn:1:1:2 flag. Regards. -Eric > -----Original Message----- > From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] > Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 8:35 AM > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: Re: [hobbit] fping tuning > > On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 10:00:25AM +0200, Fr?d?ric Mangeant wrote: > > many thanks for writing hobbitping ! It works fine on my > test system > > (Gentoo Linux x86, glibc 2.3.6, GCC 3.4.6). > > > > Is it / will it be possible to run it on top of a 4.1.2p1 > installation ? > > Shouldn't be a problem, since it's a very simple stand-alone tool. > Just build it - you've already done that - and copy over the > hobbitping > binary to your 4.1.2 installation. Then change the FPING setting in > hobbitserver.cfg to run hobbitping instead of fping. > > Make sure you have hobbitping installed suid-root. > > > Regards, > Henrik > > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > >

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[hobbit] Files suggestion
by David.Gore＠verizonbusiness.com 18 May '06

18 May '06

ERROR: No such file or directory When the files test fails to find the file it is looking for should this report as a yellow or red alarm, not green OK for the 'files' column. ~David

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