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Todays snapshot (11/5) doesn't start
by lars.ebeling＠leopg9.no-ip.org 11 May '06

11 May '06

I am running hobbit on HP-UX 11.11 using gcc 3.4.2 Regards Lars Ebeling http://leopg9.no-ip.org Hobbithobbyist "It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt." -- Mark Twain

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BBWin error after installing v0.6
by david＠stenhouseconsulting.com 11 May '06

11 May '06

When I attempt to start the service I get "Could not start the Big Brother Hobbit Client service on Local Computer.Error 193: 0xc1" Application log shows that the upgrade occurred successfully, but then logs an Application Error Event Type: Information Event Source: DrWatson Event Category: None Event ID: 4097 Date: 5/10/2006 Time: 3:20:57 PM User: N/A Computer: WINSERVER01 Description: The application, D:\Program Files\BBWin\bin\BBWin.exe, generated an application error The error occurred on 05/10/2006 @ 15:20:57.785 The exception generated was c0000005 at address 004058E6 (BBWin) TIA David Gilmore Consultant Stenhouse Consulting, LLC. 4 Traverse St Providence, RI 02906 401.453.6900 x12 401.454.7581 (fax)

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/data/logs directory
by siggi＠betware.com 10 May '06

10 May '06

Hi All In the old days when I was using the Big Brother monitoring server I always got some files to the /data/logs directory. Since I begun to use Hobbit I have never seen any files there.... Witch is causing me some trouble on custom made script I wrote when using Big Brother, then I got files to this directory, example file1 and file2 and I could compare the two, now ..I just get files to /data/hist and histlogs with timestamp in the name and that files I cannot use..! Is this directory not longer used with Hobbit ?.. and if not.. why does it still exists ? Regards Siggi

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Oversize status or data/client msg
by Dominique.Frise＠unil.ch 10 May '06

10 May '06

Hi, What is the unit for "n" and "limit" -is it really bytes?- in following messages: Oversize data/client msg from 1.2.3.4 truncated (n=815596, limit 524288) Oversize status msg from 1.2.3.5 for smaug:ports truncated (n=370718, limit=262144) I'm asking this because although we get quite offen messages like above, the biggest file stored in the histlogs is only ~75 KB. [bb at iris data]$ find hist* -size +75000c -exec ls -la {} \; -rw-r--r-- 1 bb ci 95558 May 9 11:07 ./hist/allevents -rw-r--r-- 1 bb ci 76828 May 5 11:41 ./histlogs/zeb1/ports/Fri_May_5_11:40:59_2006 Dominique UNIL - University of Lausanne

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AIX client - can someone confirm a "ps" command?
by henrik＠hswn.dk 10 May '06

10 May '06

I'm modifying the client "ps" command to provide information about processes CPU- and memory-usage, so that sometime in the (not so distant) future Hobbit can track these and perhaps warn if a process becomes a cpu-hog. I have gotten most of the OS'es that Hobbit supports, but I need someone with an AIX box to confirm that this "ps" command works, and provides information about the ressource usage for all processes on the box: ps axww -o pid,ppid,user,stat,pri,pcpu,time,pmem,rss,vsz,cmd This was constructed from an AIX man-page I found on the 'net (and it is very much like the others). One thing that puzzled me is that AIX apparently does not support reporting the start-time of a process. It that really correct ? And if not, what is the keyword for this ? And while I have the attention of you AIX people out there: If someone could grab the latest snapshot and build me a Hobbit client for AIX 5.3 I would really appreciate it - I need to install a client on such boxes, but I would have to get the development tools setup first. Thanks, Henrik

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Todays snapshot 10/5
by lars.ebeling＠leopg9.no-ip.org 10 May '06

10 May '06

On HP-UX 11.11 I git this today: Wed May 10 06:16:33 METDST 2006 - Filesystems NOT ok Expected strings (Capacity and Mounted) not found in df output header Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on LEOPG4:/M 244196000 212578320 31617680 88% /M LEOPG4:/BUPP 244196000 53132432 191063568 22% /bupp LEOPG4:/L 160079656 149167984 10911672 94% /L /dev/vg01/lvol21 8511839 5628562 2883277 67% /extra /dev/vg00/lvol4 2549976 801288 1748688 32% /home /dev/vg00/lvol7 3687696 2194416 1493280 60% /opt /dev/vg00/lvol5 716800 356624 360176 50% /tmp /dev/vg00/lvol6 2047120 1888728 158392 93% /usr /dev/vg00/lvol8 1553480 645448 908032 42% /var /dev/vg00/lvol1 176984 45792 131192 26% /stand /dev/vg00/lvol3 204728 133920 70808 66% / Regards Lars Ebeling http://leopg9.no-ip.org Hobbithobbyist "It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt." -- Mark Twain

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[hobbit] AIX client - can someone confirm a "ps" command?
by greg.hubbard＠eds.com 10 May '06

10 May '06

Well, for AIX 5.2, I got this: $ ps axww -o pid,ppid,user,stat,pri,pcpu,time,pmem,rss,vsz,cmd Usage: ps [-ANaedfklm] [-n namelist] [-F Format] [-o specifier[=header],...] [-p proclist][-G|-g grouplist] [-t termlist] [-U|-u userlist] [-c classlist] Usage: ps [aceglnsuvwxU] [t tty] [processnumber] I must have done something wrong... GLH -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 4:17 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] AIX client - can someone confirm a "ps" command? I'm modifying the client "ps" command to provide information about processes CPU- and memory-usage, so that sometime in the (not so distant) future Hobbit can track these and perhaps warn if a process becomes a cpu-hog. I have gotten most of the OS'es that Hobbit supports, but I need someone with an AIX box to confirm that this "ps" command works, and provides information about the ressource usage for all processes on the box: ps axww -o pid,ppid,user,stat,pri,pcpu,time,pmem,rss,vsz,cmd This was constructed from an AIX man-page I found on the 'net (and it is very much like the others). One thing that puzzled me is that AIX apparently does not support reporting the start-time of a process. It that really correct ? And if not, what is the keyword for this ? And while I have the attention of you AIX people out there: If someone could grab the latest snapshot and build me a Hobbit client for AIX 5.3 I would really appreciate it - I need to install a client on such boxes, but I would have to get the development tools setup first. Thanks, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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[hobbit] TEXT field, feature request/modification?
by David.Gore＠verizonbusiness.com 09 May '06

09 May '06

Henrik, The TEXT field is a nice addition. Unfortunately, some of our custom scripts that monitor logs, ports, files etcetera, output a very nice page of how to troubleshoot the problem, contact responsible parties etcetera. Would it be too much to make the TEXT field HTML friendly, so we can embed a link? That way we can direct the end-user to the info on our troubleshooting pages. ~David

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OpenLDAP performance and replication monitoring with Hobbit
by bgmilne＠staff.telkomsa.net 09 May '06

09 May '06

We run a number of OpenLDAP servers, currently we have about 11 in production (depending how you count clusters) and a few in DR sites etc. We have been doing performance monitoring in the past (ie running scripts via snmp, monitoring with mrtg), but it seemed logical to move it to Hobbit and do everything in one place (useful for the syncrepl monitoring below). We have two separate instances that we manage, only one currently uses Hobbit for production monitoring (the other installation has hobbit installed, which is publicly accessible at present, but isn't used for production monitoring). The instance with the publicly accessible installation has OpenLDAP 2.1 and 2.2 servers, the other one has OpenLDAP 2.3 servers (using sync replication). So, I have written an extension script using perl-ldap (and Date::Manip) which we are now using via Hobbit's ncv module for performance monitoring. Replication status of sync-repl slaves is also checked (green for in sync, yellow for out of sync, clear if the sync-repl master could not be contacted to check the contextCSN, green if it is not a sync-repl slave). The script is available here: http://www.zarb.org/~bgmilne/bb-openldap.pl An extract from hobbitgraph.cfg is available here: http://www.zarb.org/~bgmilne/hobbitgraph-ol.cfg Some examples: http://196.25.211.20/hobbit/ldap/ldap.html Slave running OpenLDAP 2.2.x: http://196.25.211.20/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?HOSTSVC=io.ol Master cluster running OpenLDAP 2.1.x: http://196.25.211.20/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?HOSTSVC=metis.ol The only problem is with the parsing in ncv when a slave is out of sync. For slaves using sync-repl (no examples publicly available for now), the "&green Not a syncrepl slave" can be something like: &yellow dc=mydomain,dc=com out of sync 4 weeks 4 days 15:5:11 behind or &green dc=mydomain,dc=com in sync (with one such line for each syncrepl database, we have two or more on our production OL 2.3 boxen) Now, I could s/:/;/g or similar, but it would be nice if there were a way to prevent ncv from parsing a line (since I would also like to be able to graph the CIM extension results with ncv, but it has output and &green/&yellow/&red's all over). Regards, Buchan -- Buchan Milne ISP Systems Specialist B.Eng,RHCE(803004789010797),LPIC-2(LPI000074592)

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ShellExecute api call
by Al.Jeffcoat＠orhs.org 09 May '06

09 May '06

Hello All, I've got a programmer here trying to send a status message to hobbit from a windows machine. He's having a problem executing the bb code. I myself am not a programmer, so I figured I'd pass on his e-mail and see if anyone else knows the answer to his problem. TIA, Al --- Quote --- There is a problem doing this from within a program. The shellexecute function requires you to pass the program name and parameters seperate. E.G., program = "bb.exe" parameters = "hobbit status kn306109.dtr-status red <center>DTR-STATUS</center> Last Failure = 05/04/20 06 00:00:01 Last Success = 05/08/2006 00:00:01 Copies = 50" (hobbit is not part of the program name and that is why it can't be part of program name) If I try to simulate this on command line with bb "hobbit status kn306109.dtr-status red <center>DTR-STATUS</center> Last Failure = 05/04/20 06 00:00:01 Last Success = 05/08/2006 00:00:01 Copies = 50" I get bb: incorrect number of arguments --- /Quote --- I know the format of a message, and if I change his message to read bb hobbit "status kn306109.dtr-status red <center>DTR-STATUS</center> Last Failure = 05/04/20 06 00:00:01 Last Success = 05/08/2006 00:00:01 Copies = 50" It works fine. My thought was to write a "wrapper" batch file. I'm open to any other ideas.

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