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SV: [hobbit] BBWin 0.7 available
by jt＠su.dk 31 May '06

31 May '06

Hello Etienne I have installed the new Hobbitclient on a 2003 server, but I can't get it to run - the service stops by it self. I can see, that the operating system doesn't include Win2003, but...? Regards, Jan -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: Etienne Grignon [mailto:etienne.grignon at gmail.com] Sendt: 31. maj 2006 08:33 Til: hobbit at hswn.dk Emne: Re: [hobbit] BBWin 0.7 available Hi Franck, 2006/5/30, Frank M. Ramaekers <FRamaekers at ailife.com>: > ...and in the configuration file (to override either/both)? > Of course. Configuration file will be able to override the registry setting and will handle environments variables. Regards, Etienne. To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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[hobbit] BBWin 0.7 available
by FRamaekers＠ailife.com 31 May '06

31 May '06

Did you read the README? You need to put the hostname (as hobbit knows it) into the registry. Frank -----Original Message----- From: Jan Telling [mailto:jt at su.dk] Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 11:38 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: SV: [hobbit] BBWin 0.7 available Hello Etienne I have installed the new Hobbitclient on a 2003 server, but I can't get it to run - the service stops by it self. I can see, that the operating system doesn't include Win2003, but...? Regards, Jan -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: Etienne Grignon [mailto:etienne.grignon at gmail.com] Sendt: 31. maj 2006 08:33 Til: hobbit at hswn.dk Emne: Re: [hobbit] BBWin 0.7 available Hi Franck, 2006/5/30, Frank M. Ramaekers <FRamaekers at ailife.com>: > ...and in the configuration file (to override either/both)? > Of course. Configuration file will be able to override the registry setting and will handle environments variables. Regards, Etienne. To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk 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] Latest snapshot has ports clear
by FRamaekers＠ailife.com 31 May '06

31 May '06

No that's fine, but I cannot find where to configure it (yes, I'm a n00b!) -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 11:35 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Latest snapshot has ports clear On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 11:25:39AM -0500, Frank M. Ramaekers wrote: > The latest snapshot (well, yesterday's) shows clear on the ports (for > the hobbit server). I didn't have this on the latest alfa (alpha). It's deliberate, actually. What color should the status be when you haven't defined any checks? Green (OK) ? or clear (nothing to report) ? Right now it's "clear", but I can be made to change my mind. Same goes for the "files" check. 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] Latest snapshot has ports clear
by greg.hubbard＠eds.com 31 May '06

31 May '06

Sounds like a new config option to me! Since very opinionated people can make a passionate case for either approach! GLH -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 11:35 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Latest snapshot has ports clear On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 11:25:39AM -0500, Frank M. Ramaekers wrote: > The latest snapshot (well, yesterday's) shows clear on the ports (for > the hobbit server). I didn't have this on the latest alfa (alpha). It's deliberate, actually. What color should the status be when you haven't defined any checks? Green (OK) ? or clear (nothing to report) ? Right now it's "clear", but I can be made to change my mind. Same goes for the "files" check. Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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[hobbit] Some configuration questions
by greg.hubbard＠eds.com 31 May '06

31 May '06

Regarding topology -- The fully-fleshed out route statement almost mirrors a "traceroute" function. The topology is really a multiway tree, rooted in the Hobbit server itself (or rooted in each network test server, anyway). To me, multi-way means more than two branches from a node. I believe multiway trees can be described as a list of parent-child relationships. The challenges are many, especially if there are gaps in the path. This has always been part of the network management tool challenge. And purists, of course, will say that just because things are wired in a certain path doesn't mean that traffic goes that way... So I guess it depends on how much work you want to do in the software versus in bb-hosts. My hierarchy is pretty simple, so I can go through and make the changes by hand to provide the explicit end-to-end path from the Hobbit server to each host. But down the road, it would be cool if the Hobbit server could process the bb-hosts file and either a) automatically discover the path to each host with traceroute, and use this to build the dependency tree, or b) let the admin specify the parent for each host, and build up the levels internally. Each approach has warts and programming challenges. But thanks for the clarification, and all the hard work. It is hard for one programmer to keep hundreds of people happy -- but you are doing a great job! GLH -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 11:34 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Some configuration questions On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 11:16:59AM -0500, Hubbard, Greg L wrote: > Hobbits: > > Some general questions, based on 4.1... > > A) Do you know if the keywords in bb-hosts are case sensitive? I > noticed that the documentation is very careful to match case in > examples as well as the definitions -- but some keywords are in ALL > CAPS and others are lower case. One wonders why this is so...unless > they are case-insensitive, and it is just a curiosity in Hobbit-lore... It's mostly historical, based on the Big Brother ancestry. I don't have the full picture in my head, but in most cases it is not case-sensitive. The "bbgen" and "bbtest-net" are slightly more picky, for historical reasons - they still do some parsing of the bb-hosts file by themselves. Specifically, I know the "depends" and "route" tags are case-sensitive. > B) Regarding the "route" keyword? Can these be chained, or does the > whole path have to be specified for each item in the file? > > Example: hobbit server -- firewall -- router a -- router b -- host -- > app > > Can it be coded this way? > > Firewall no route statement > Router A route:firewall > Router B route:router A > Host route:router B > > Or do I have to say this: > > Router B route:firewall,router A > Host route:firewall,router A,router B The latter one will definitely work. I am not sure if the first one will; a quick glance at the code appears not to support these tree-like dependencies. It would be nice to feed a map of your network topology into Hobbit so when some router breaks, it will automatically know what tests will go red as a result. It's just a little difficult to implement, I think. Especially how you would describe your network topology. > C) I have some custom tests that are run by the client on "Host" -- > these messages (which go purple) don't seem to get suppressed if a > node is unreachable because of something else. Is there some way to > code this to take advantage of the downstream suppression? If you have a "conn" test for that host, they shouldn't go purple. <checking the code> wait, that only works if the "conn" test is red,yellow or blue - not clear, which is what the dependency checks make it. Will fix. > BTW -- Henrik -- I have seen the downstream suppression stuff work -- > awesome! It is a lot more difficult to achieve this in my commercial > tools. Thanks, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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Latest snapshot has ports clear
by FRamaekers＠ailife.com 31 May '06

31 May '06

The latest snapshot (well, yesterday's) shows clear on the ports (for the hobbit server). I didn't have this on the latest alfa (alpha). Frank M. Ramaekers Jr. Systems Programmer; MCP, MCP+I, MCSE & RHCE American Income Life Insurance Company Phone: (254) 761-6649 Fax: (254) 741-5777 Alright! We're lost! But we're making good time. Sulu, "Star Trek V" ---------------------------------------- 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-confreport.sh not working
by michael.nemeth＠lmco.com 31 May '06

31 May '06

Still not working with may 31 snapshot sunos 5.9 geting Interal Server Error and apache log shows premature end of script headers. >On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 06:21:35AM -0400, Michael Nemeth wrote: >> Hobbit Monitor 4.2-alfa-20060502 >> sunos 5.9 >> geting Interal Server Error >> and apache log shows premature end of script headers. >Missing an initialiser inside the alert-printing routine, I think. Fixed >in tomorrows snapshot. Henrik -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ | _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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variable for test script in bb-hosts?
by kolbjorn.barmen＠uninett.no 31 May '06

31 May '06

I have a small challenge at hand.. I have a test that involves checking information about a host on some certain web source, however, depending on the host the "base" URL of the source is different. So I'm podinger if it is possible to this in bb-hosts, kind of like how the http test works with cont=bla:http://blabla;bla I picture something like mytest;key=val and then being able to pick up ${key} with value "val" from the test script. The alternative is to have a new test for each "val", and several quite identical test scripts. -- Kolbjørn Barmen UNINETT Driftsenter

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[hobbit] Disk Status in hobbit-clients.cfg
by CHRIS.MORRIS＠RWEnpower.com 31 May '06

31 May '06

Henrik, Thanks for that, I looked at the web version of the man page which hasn't been updated and in the hobbit-clients.cfg which doesn't mention it either. I see this has changed for file min/max size reporting but unlike the documentation doesn't seem to default to KB but to bytes now!! Regards, Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: henrik at hswn.dk [SMTP:henrik at hswn.dk] > Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 10:42 AM > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: Re: [hobbit] Disk Status in hobbit-clients.cfg > > On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 10:36:23AM +0100, Morris, Chris (Shared Services) > wrote: > > Hi Henrik, > > > > That is great, I can now look to rolling hobbit into production - I'll > wait > > for the pukka 4.2 release though. > > > > What is the syntax for using the new feature - I couldn't find it > > documented? > > It's in the hobbit-clients.cfg man-page: > > If the utilization of "filesystem" is reported to exceed "warnlevel" or > "paniclevel", the "disk" status will go yellow or red, respectively. > "warnlevel" and "paniclevel" are either the percentage used, or > the space available as reported by the local "df" command on the host. > > For the latter type of check, the "warnlevel" must be followed by the > letter "U", e.g. "1024U". > > It will simply compare the number reported as "free space" in the df > output with the number in the DISK config. That neatly sidesteps any > issues of what metric df is using - mega, giga or kilobytes; it doesn't > matter since we're just comparing numbers. > > > Henrik > > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > **************************************************************************** The information contained in this email is intended only for the use of the intended recipient at the email address to which it has been addressed. If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this document in error and that any review, dissemination or copying of the message or associated attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please contact the sender by return email or call 01793 877777 and ask for the sender and then delete it immediately from your system.Please note that neither RWE npower nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any). *****************************************************************************

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[hobbit] Disk Status in hobbit-clients.cfg
by CHRIS.MORRIS＠RWEnpower.com 31 May '06

31 May '06

Hi Henrik, That is great, I can now look to rolling hobbit into production - I'll wait for the pukka 4.2 release though. What is the syntax for using the new feature - I couldn't find it documented? Keep up the good work. Regards, Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: henrik at hswn.dk [SMTP:henrik at hswn.dk] > Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 10:38 PM > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: Re: [hobbit] Disk Status in hobbit-clients.cfg > > On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 05:07:11PM +0000, Rob MacGregor wrote: > > On 2/7/06, Morris, Chris (Shared Services) <CHRIS.MORRIS at rwenpower.com> > wrote: > > > Henrik, > > > > > > Can you say if / when the ability to change the "disk status based on > free > > > KB" feature will be included in Hobbit? > > > > That would be useful. In these days of multi TB disk arrays, alerting > > on percentage is becoming less than useful (as at even 99% there can > > still be a lot of disk space left). > > I just finished coding this, so ... now :-) > > > Regards, > Henrik > > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > **************************************************************************** The information contained in this email is intended only for the use of the intended recipient at the email address to which it has been addressed. If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this document in error and that any review, dissemination or copying of the message or associated attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please contact the sender by return email or call 01793 877777 and ask for the sender and then delete it immediately from your system.Please note that neither RWE npower nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any). *****************************************************************************

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