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Hobbit and SNMP Traps
by Andy.Farrior＠victoriacollege.edu 15 May '06

15 May '06

It's been a while since I fiddled with hobbit-trap. http://cerebro.victoriacollege.edu/hobbit-trap.html Changes: Added installation notes for Perl, NetSNMP, MySQL, SNMPTT, and SEC. Added a PHP script that can query a MySQL database where SNMPTT stores each trap (known and unknown). Updated trap.pl script to include link to trap.php script in messages. The general layout of the trap.php script was "borrowed" from Dan McDonald's findmac.php script that's a part of his useful "cammer" distribution: http://www.austinnetworkdesign.com/mrtg/ Added an install.sh script to install configuration files for each package. It's a crude installation script. I'd like to make it more automated someday... The default configuration I have in the snmptt.ini file is for MySQL logging to be disabled. Enable it there and in the trap.pl if you want to see a link to the trap history on the status page. Added mibs directory and a script to automatically download the mibs from Cisco and APC as well as make snmptt.conf files for each. I've tar'd the various scripts and config files into a tar.gz file. There's a link on the web page. If you find any glowing errors, please let me know. Thanks, Andy

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[hobbit] Skinning BB
by mlowery＠alliedtechgroup.com 15 May '06

15 May '06

If speed is the problem, I know that the pages load extremely slow if you are going through a PIX or Cisco router when "fixup protocol http" or "inspect iosfw http" are enabled due to the javascript menu. Turning that off will greatly speed up the loading of the hobbit pages. -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2006 3:17 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Skinning BB On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 05:10:27PM +1200, Alun Watson wrote: > This might be heresy but has anyone changed Hobbit so the web page > layout is different? I'm sure someone has modified it to fit in with their local setups. > Perhaps one that uses less graphics ... replace current and recently changed > gifs with html text etc. "less graphics" ??? The entire "gifs" directory in Hobbit is a whopping 141 KB of data. This is very little by any current web-standard. So if you want to get rid of all the graphics, you have something else in mind. > Is there an easy way to change this by changing templates or do I have to > hack the C code to modify how the client data in the pages are displayed? For a complete elimination of the graphics, you will need to hack the C code - specifically, bbdisplay/pagegen.c and lib/*log.c . And the templates. Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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[hobbit] today 15/05/06 snapshot client problems - Hobbit Monitor 4.2-alfa-20060502
by Craig_Whilding＠mentor.com 15 May '06

15 May '06

Change the owner of hobbitping to root to fix the 1st problem, not sure about the other things. Craig -----Original Message----- From: Marco Avvisano [mailto:marco.avvisano at regione.toscana.it] Sent: 15 May 2006 13:15 To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] today 15/05/06 snapshot client problems - Hobbit Monitor 4.2-alfa-20060502 Hi , i have these problems (updated): - conn test failed 2006-05-15 14:06:53 Execution of '/usr/local/hobbit/server/bin/hobbitping -Ae' failed - program not suid ro ot? - On my hpux box and linux box the file size test is not correct hpux box type:100000 (file) mode:644 (-rw-r--r--) linkcount:1 owner:260 (bbuser) group:20 (users) size:0 clock:1147682387 (2006/05/15-10:39:47) atime:1147246483 (2006/05/10-09:34:43) ctime:1147614096 (2006/05/14-15:41:36) mtime:1147347402 (2006/05/11-13:36:42) ll total 84-rw-r--r-- 1 bbuser users 332 May 11 13:36 BBOUT - For server that have a long fs name, the disk graph not show the last column values (avg) It's correct that the last line of client-data is [clientversion]? - Not la graph for linux client installed on the server regards, Marco To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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mail subject
by damiano.vozza＠apss.tn.it 15 May '06

15 May '06

Is it possible to insert in the mail subject the name of the page/subpage in which is present the critical server/service ? In general, is possible to insert in the subject other Hobbit information or modify it, and how? Thanks 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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Possible bugs
by kolbjorn.barmen＠uninett.no 15 May '06

15 May '06

I have a handfull of issues (IT jargon for "problems") with Hobbit that I'm not sure whether are bugs or just misconfigurations on my part: * Menu: Administration -> Find No matter what host I search for, the resulting page claims the machine location is "Top page" - I wonder, could this be so because I use alternate pages for all hosts? * The Help-menu assumes that hobbit-URL is /hobbit, which is not the case for me at least, so I put an alias for /hobbit/ in my apache config. * Missing manpages: /hobbit/help/manpages/man1/hobbit-confreport.cgi.1.html /hobbit/help/manpages/man1/hobbit-statusreport.cgi.1.html /hobbit/help/manpages/man1/hobbit-ackinfo.cgi.1.html /hobbit/help/manpages/man1/hobbit-nkview.cgi.1.html /hobbit/help/manpages/man1/hobbit-nkedit.cgi.8.html (the latter should probably be in man8 anyhow, I guess) * I'm probably stupid or lazy, but I cant make any sense of the NK editor, nothing happens when I try to use it, and the man pages are missing. My /etc/hobbit/hobbit-nkview.cfg exists and is writeable for the webserver, the search button gives no results, and the apache log doesnt say much either. Any tip? -- Kolbjørn Barmen UNINETT Driftsenter

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Skinning BB
by Alun.Watson＠fp.co.nz 14 May '06

14 May '06

Hi there, This might be heresy but has anyone changed Hobbit so the web page layout is different? Perhaps one that uses less graphics ... replace current and recently changed gifs with html text etc. Is there an easy way to change this by changing templates or do I have to hack the C code to modify how the client data in the pages are displayed? Regards, Alun

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[hobbit] FILE, file, hobbit-clients.cfg, client-local.cfg?
by David.Gore＠verizonbusiness.com 13 May '06

13 May '06

Henrik, I think this is what you told me to try to get what I want, basically tell the client what command to run to return one or more file names? My 'ls' should return exactly one filename. Is there a way to debug this to see where it is breaking? Server config: hobbit-clients.cfg: FILE "%mci-.*SNMP_COMMUNITY.VOIP_DEVICES.nxg17:VOIP_SNMP.*" yellow mtime>300 client-local.cfg: file:`ls -rt /export/home/netx/Archive/nxg17/nxg17:VOIP_SNMP|tail -1` Perhaps I cannot use pipes in my command and need something simpler? -- David Gore

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who uses Hobbit
by Elena.Lalley＠dot.gov 12 May '06

12 May '06

Would you help me to create a short but true and impressive list of sites where Hobbit is installed for middle-sized to large networks? I can start 1. Washington, DC - Department of Transportation, Federal highway Administration; It will help to keep the product here and persuade to install it in other government agencies. I know some trial installation sites but the proof is in numbers. Thank you Elena Lalley UNIX group manager

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[hobbit] easy way to get rid of "actual" memory usage plot?
by gmbfly98＠gmail.com 12 May '06

12 May '06

Is there any easy way to get rid of the "actual" memory usage plot on the graphs? It looks like one could get rid of all "actual" references in hobbitgraph.cgi, but I would think there should be an easier way...

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[hobbit] Purples, all non-green view
by David.Gore＠verizonbusiness.com 12 May '06

12 May '06

There was some talk of the purples not showing up on the 'All non-green view'. We are also disappointed that the purples have been removed from this page. Our main page is the ANV page and would really like to have that back. Could we at least have it back with a flag? Or did we some how remove the purples on the ANV page with some flag in the latest snapshot? -- David Gore

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