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

31 May '06

...and in the configuration file (to override either/both)? Frank -----Original Message----- From: Etienne Grignon [mailto:etienne.grignon at gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 3:36 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] BBWin 0.7 available Hi Frédéric, 2006/5/30, Frédéric Mangeant <frederic.mangeant at steria.com>: > > do you think the bbwin installer could automagically fill the registry > and/or the .cfg file with the computer name ? > It would save IMO a lot of time... > > Thanks in advance for your answer. > Indeed, an other user advise me to support environment variables for the hostname setting, so in next BBWin version, the registry is by default %COMPUTERNAME% so it gets the current computer name. Regards, Etienne. 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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Feature Request: Client Message Queue
by craig＠cookitservices.com 31 May '06

31 May '06

Some commercial software I have used stores messages on the local client if it can not contact the master server. i.e. WAN/external internet link is down (or even if you take your hobbit server offline). An example is the free SRS Netconnect software from Sun. A portal is hosted at Sun and the netconnect client is installed on your local Solaris server. If your internet link is down the messages are stored and sent later when your link is back up. This could also help with DMZ hosts. Force the internal hobbit server (or another internal proxy host) to contact the DMZ host and get its messages. Thanks Craig Cook -- Systems Monitoring Consulting and Support Services http://www.cookitservices.com

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Disk Status in hobbit-clients.cfg
by CHRIS.MORRIS＠RWEnpower.com 30 May '06

30 May '06

Henrik, Can you say if / when the ability to change the "disk status based on free KB" feature will be included in Hobbit? TIA Chris **************************************************************************** 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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Disk status reports for HP-UX, OSF/1 and Darwin
by henrik＠hswn.dk 30 May '06

30 May '06

Quick question: What's the header for the KB/blocks free in your "df" output ? E.g. on Linux it's "Available": Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2 99511580 9184820 90326760 10% / but it varies across platforms (AIX has "Free", Solaris has "avail", *BSD uses "Avail"). Regards, Henrik

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Compile errors on hobbit client
by Jason.Chambers＠geosoft.com 30 May '06

30 May '06

gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -DLINUX -I. -I/home/jason/hobbit-4.2-alfa-20060423/include -DCLIENTONLY=1 -DLOCALCLIENT=1 -I/usr/local/include -c -o hobbitd_buffer.o hobbitd_buffer.c gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -DLINUX -I. -I/home/jason/hobbit-4.2-alfa-20060423/include -DCLIENTONLY=1 -DLOCALCLIENT=1 -I/usr/local/include -c -o client_config.o client_config.c gcc -o ../client/hobbitd_client -Wl,--rpath=/usr/local/lib hobbitd_client.o hobbitd_worker.o hobbitd_buffer.o client_config.o ../lib/hobbitclient.a -L/usr/local/lib -lpcre hobbitd_client.o: In function `file_report': /home/jason/hobbit-4.2-alfa-20060423/hobbitd/hobbitd_client.c:791: undefined reference to `hostsvcclienturl' /home/jason/hobbit-4.2-alfa-20060423/hobbitd/hobbitd_client.c:797: undefined reference to `hostsvcclienturl' /home/jason/hobbit-4.2-alfa-20060423/hobbitd/hobbitd_client.c:804: undefined reference to `hostsvcclienturl' hobbitd_client.o: In function `msgs_report': /home/jason/hobbit-4.2-alfa-20060423/hobbitd/hobbitd_client.c:656: undefined reference to `hostsvcclienturl' /home/jason/hobbit-4.2-alfa-20060423/hobbitd/hobbitd_client.c:712: undefined reference to `hostsvcclienturl' hobbitd_client.o:/home/jason/hobbit-4.2-alfa-20060423/hobbitd/hobbitd_cl ient.c:662: more undefined references to `hostsvcclienturl' follow collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [../client/hobbitd_client] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jason/hobbit-4.2-alfa-20060423/hobbitd' make: *** [hobbitd-client] Error 2 This is happening on Fedora Core 5, fully updated today. I've created a second linux box that I want to monitor to my main server, and when I compile with ./configure.client, I get 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 4.1.2p1 on AIX 5.2
by mdchristoph＠gmail.com 30 May '06

30 May '06

Greetings! I use hobbit to monitor a network of both Solaris and AIX machines. The hobbit server and client compiled without any problems on Solaris. But I ran into some problems on AIX 5.2. During the compile I got errors like this: In file included from hobbit-4.1.2p1/include/libbbgen.h:24, from sendmsg.c:35: hobbit-4.1.2p1/lib/osdefs.h:21: error: conflicting types for `socklen_t' /usr/include/sys/socket.h:80: error: previous declaration of `socklen_t' sendmsg.c: In function `sendtobbd': sendmsg.c:322: warning: passing arg 5 of `getsockopt' from incompatible pointer type My workaround was to edit hobbit-4.1.2p1/lib/osdefs.h to change this line: typedef int socklen_t; to this: typedef __ulong32_t socklen_t; Then I was able to compile the client and it works. But when I try to graph network bits/second using TRENDS:*,netstat:netstat|netstat0 in the bb-hosts entry for my AIX machines, I get blank spots in the graph. The packets per second graph looks fine. But there are gaps in the bits per second graph on my busiest servers. Also the current value at the bottom of the bits per second graph will be NaN. Has anyone else dealt with these two problems? Are they related? I have checked the archives and have not seen any messages mentioning these exact problems. Thank you, Mark

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Some configuration questions
by greg.hubbard＠eds.com 30 May '06

30 May '06

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... 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 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? BTW -- Henrik -- I have seen the downstream suppression stuff work -- awesome! It is a lot more difficult to achieve this in my commercial tools. GLH

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[hobbit] Darwin clients: empty memory graph
by FRamaekers＠ailife.com 30 May '06

30 May '06

What is the URL for the snapshot? (Sorry, had to rebuild the hard drive and lost all of my bookmarks). TIA, Frank -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 11:06 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Darwin clients: empty memory graph On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 10:24:35AM -0500, Frank M. Ramaekers wrote: > Has this been resolved? I'm having the same problem (reporting one > item, in my case Virtual). I committed that change to my source code Sunday evening, so yes - this should be fixed now. 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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Monitoring RAID status
by Thorsten.Erdmann＠daimlerchrysler.com 30 May '06

30 May '06

Hi, I once extended the BigBrothers Disk Script to show a status dot and the sync status of mirrored disks in front of every filesystems status line. Now I migrated to Hobbit. Nearly all works fine but this extension causes the disk graphs to fail. If I understand it right, the do_disk.c program simply reads each line of the status file and displays the fifth column as the disk usage. Since my outfile from the client has two columns in front of each line this fails. The disk usage is now on column seven. I can now alter the C code but that's bad if I ever install a new version of Hobbit. So is there any idea out there how to add data to an output file without disturbing the Hobbit's standard functions. BTW: the disk test on a RedHat Box shows one "graph" to much. It's only a non referenced link, so I think Hobbit tries to interpret things that it cannot read, maybe the title line of the DF commmand's output. Thanks for help Thorsten Erdmann

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[hobbit] Darwin clients: empty memory graph
by FRamaekers＠ailife.com 30 May '06

30 May '06

Has this been resolved? I'm having the same problem (reporting one item, in my case Virtual). Thanks, Frank -----Original Message----- From: Dominique Frise [mailto:Dominique.Frise at unil.ch] Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 3:47 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Darwin clients: empty memory graph Dominique Frise wrote: > Hi, > > With today's snapshot the memory graph is still empty :-( > Memory/Used/Total/Percentage info is reported correctly (only one line > for Physical) > > Same issue with Darwin 8.6.0 (OSX 10.4.6) or 7.9.0 (OSX 10.3.9) > > > Dominique > UNIL - University of Lausanne > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > > We had to ack hobbitd/rrd/do_memory.c to make this work: [super at iris rrd]# diff -u do_memory.c.dist do_memory.c --- do_memory.c.dist Thu May 4 17:30:37 2006 +++ do_memory.c Wed May 17 09:44:35 2006 @@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ swap = strstr(msg, "Swap"); if (swap == NULL) swap = strstr(msg, "Page"); actual = strstr(msg, "Actual"); if (actual == NULL) actual = strstr(msg, "Virtual"); - if (phys && swap) { + if (phys) { char *eoln; int physval = -1, swapval = -1, actval = -1; @@ -125,11 +125,13 @@ eoln = strchr(phys, '\n'); if (eoln) *eoln = '\0'; physval = get_mem_percent(phys); if (eoln) *eoln = '\n'; + + if (swap) { + eoln = strchr(swap, '\n'); if (eoln) *eoln = '\0'; + swapval = get_mem_percent(swap); + if (eoln) *eoln = '\n'; + } - eoln = strchr(swap, '\n'); if (eoln) *eoln = '\0'; - swapval = get_mem_percent(swap); - if (eoln) *eoln = '\n'; - if (actual) { eoln = strchr(actual, '\n'); if (eoln) *eoln = '\0'; actval = get_mem_percent(actual); Henrik, thanks to notice this for next snapshot. Dominique UNIL - University of Lausanne 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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