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Changing the sender emaill address
by cam＠delcam.com 30 May '06

30 May '06

Hi, I would like to be able to specify the sender address on the email notifications. Is this possible? Many Thanks Carl.

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[hobbit] RECOVERED alerts still sent outside of TIME window
by greg.hubbard＠eds.com 30 May '06

30 May '06

Maybe you need a "RECOVERED=ALWAYS" option for those who want to know that things that they didn't receive a notification about are now fixed... (or NUISANCE=FULL or ...) I personally prefer the approach you just suggested... GLH -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Monday, May 29, 2006 4:29 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] RECOVERED alerts still sent outside of TIME window Hi Eric, On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 11:19:15AM -0500, Schwimmer, Eric E *HS wrote: > > We just had one of our engineers get a rude awakening last night by a > UPS that had recovered from an error; I had thought that the > RECOVERED pages were under the same TIME restrictions as normal > alerts, but a quick look at the code leads me to believe that this is not so. you're right that the recovery-messages are not filtered through the TIME restrictions. I seem to recall there was a bit of discussion about this quite some time ago, where some people requested that they be informed about recoveries, whether they were inside the time-window or not. After thinking about this for 5 minutes, I've decided to change the behaviour so recovery messages are dropped if they happen outside of the permitted TIME setting. If anyone thinks this is wrong, speak up now. Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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[hobbit] Skinning BB
by Alun.Watson＠fp.co.nz 30 May '06

30 May '06

Thanks for the Cisco info Michael I'll get the network guys to have a look for me. Our helpdesk uses the All Non-green web page a lot and are only interested in the errors and have problems when they have to scroll up and down the page to figure out which column is which. hostname con msg hostname2 msg ports hostname23 disk So I wanted to have the all non green out put like this ... no pretty gifs etc and I might be able to fit more on the page. A --nogifs option for bbdisplay in hobbitlaunch.cfg would be an ideal option for me if Henrick would consider it ;o). Alun -----Original Message----- From: Michael Lowery [mailto:mlowery at alliedtechgroup.com <mailto:mlowery at alliedtechgroup.com> ] Sent: Tuesday, 16 May 2006 2:01 To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] Skinning BB 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 <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 To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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False positive during network test
by JamesHorwath＠glic.com 30 May '06

30 May '06

I have a quirky firewall which is throttling back traffic every so often, the result is an ssh failure to every host on the subnet. I am not using ping tests for connectivity but rather an ssh test. I have this definition in the bb-hosts file: 10.10.10.10 dmz_node # !telnet ssh noconn badssh:1:1:2 In hobbitlaunch.cfg CMD bbtest-net --report --ping --checkresponse --timeout=60 --debug Is there a way to bump the time-out up for ssh tests? I am obviously not using the badtest correctly. In bb I lengthened the three net test time-out variables and did not suffer from this malady. Any suggestions? Regards, Jim Horwath ----------------------------------------- This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you.

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compiling hobbit client for SunOS 5.5.1
by great.dilla＠gmail.com 30 May '06

30 May '06

i have a hobbit client whose host operating system is a SunOS 5.5.1. i get these errors trying to compile the hobbit client.. i'm no good in C/C++ programming, so if anyone can trace help me as to what to tweak to make it compile, it will be very much appreciated. ** snip ** gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -DSunOS -I. -I/opt/hobbit-4.1.2p1/include -DCLIENTONLY=1 -I. -I../include -c -o sendmsg.o sendmsg.c sendmsg.c: In function `sendtobbd': sendmsg.c:247: warning: implicit declaration of function `inet_aton' sendmsg.c:298: error: `SHUT_RDWR' undeclared (first use in this function) sendmsg.c:298: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once sendmsg.c:298: error: for each function it appears in.) sendmsg.c:322: warning: passing arg 4 of `getsockopt' from incompatible pointer type sendmsg.c:387: error: `SHUT_RD' undeclared (first use in this function) sendmsg.c:402: error: `SHUT_WR' undeclared (first use in this function) sendmsg.c: In function `sendmessage': sendmsg.c:501: warning: implicit declaration of function `usleep' make[1]: *** [sendmsg.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/hobbit-4.1.2p1/lib' make: *** [lib-client] Error 2 ** snip ** gcc=3.3.2 make=3.8 thanks, great

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include directives in hobbitlaunch.cfg, hobbitgraph.cfg
by bgmilne＠staff.telkomsa.net 30 May '06

30 May '06

Since we're looking to package some of our (server and client) extension scripts for hobbits in RPMs (to work nicely with the rest of our server deployment setup for Linux boxen), it would be really convenient if we could dump the entry for hobbitlaunch.cfg/clientlaunch.cfg and hobbitgraph.cfg in separate files, and use include directives (with support for globs) in the relevant config files. ie, supporting something like: include /etc/hobbit/hobbitlaunch.d/*.cfg Regards, Buchan -- Buchan Milne ISP Systems Specialist B.Eng,RHCE(803004789010797),LPIC-2(LPI000074592)

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bb-sar script
by ndo＠unikservice.com 30 May '06

30 May '06

Hi, hobbit is really great ! Thanks for this tool. I'd like to suggest one big thing : it would be to integrate sar graphs. Does anyone try to work on this ? Nicolas

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two questions on content test
by marco.avvisano＠regione.toscana.it 30 May '06

30 May '06

Hi, it's possible to make, for the same host, more content check and put the result under the same column? Henrik have you in plan to add the possibility to hide the tested URL and content output? regards, Marco

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[hobbit] Memory check
by mlowery＠alliedtechgroup.com 30 May '06

30 May '06

Ok, I don't have a clear understanding of the memory check. I do understand what has been discussed, but I have a Redhat 9 where the "actual" memory utilized is 96%. However, when I run: ps vax --sort -rss, I get the following. It looks like my actual memory usage shouldn't be at 96%, is this correct? PID TTY STAT TIME MAJFL TRS DRS RSS %MEM COMMAND 2916 ? SL 0:00 470 298 2093 2388 0.9 [ntpd] 2948 pts/1 R 0:00 187 66 2561 684 0.2 ps vax --sort -rss 2690 ? S 0:00 11252 265 6594 612 0.2 /usr/sbin/sshd 2692 pts/1 S 0:00 2666 588 3775 604 0.2 -bash 891 ? S 3:15 30426 24 1415 100 0.0 syslogd -m 0 31227 ? S 0:00 50692 33 1374 60 0.0 /home/hobbit/client/bin/hobbitlaunch --config=/home/hobbit/client/etc/client 1 ? S 0:04 28806 23 1352 36 0.0 init 2878 ? S 0:00 7714 131 4480 36 0.0 [nqmgr] 2885 ? S 0:00 4231 190 4481 16 0.0 [smtpd] 2902 ? S 0:00 2566 130 4485 16 0.0 [cleanup] 895 ? S 0:00 124 18 1349 4 0.0 klogd -x 1029 ? S 0:01 520 265 3238 4 0.0 /usr/sbin/sshd 1043 ? S 0:00 97 129 1890 4 0.0 xinetd -stayalive -reuse -pidfile /var/run/xinetd.pid 1142 ? S 0:00 340 56 1347 4 0.0 gpm -t ps/2 -m /dev/psaux 1151 ? S 0:00 42450 19 1404 4 0.0 crond 1185 tty1 S 0:00 98 6 1345 4 0.0 /sbin/mingetty tty1 1186 tty2 S 0:00 98 6 1345 4 0.0 /sbin/mingetty tty2 1187 tty3 S 0:00 98 6 1345 4 0.0 /sbin/mingetty tty3 1188 tty4 S 0:00 98 6 1345 4 0.0 /sbin/mingetty tty4 1189 tty5 S 0:00 98 6 1345 4 0.0 /sbin/mingetty tty5 1190 tty6 S 0:00 98 6 1345 4 0.0 /sbin/mingetty tty6 31309 ? S 0:10 185817 16 9287 4 0.0 /usr/sbin/snmpd -s -l /dev/null -P /var/run/snmpd -a 2941 ? S 0:00 473 588 1447 4 0.0 sh -c vmstat 300 2 1>/home/hobbit/client/tmp/hobbit_vmstat.2930 2>&1; mv /ho 2943 ? S 0:00 118 7 1408 4 0.0 vmstat 300 2 2 ? SW 0:00 0 0 0 0 0.0 [keventd] Thanks, Michael -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 9:47 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Memory check On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 09:26:31AM -0500, David Gilmore wrote: > Ok I understand the concept. However, I don't want to continue to receive > Alerts because Linux is doing exactly what it is designed to do. Does > anyone have a script that can clear the buffers and stop hobbit from paging > me? Can I modify the script to only alert when REAL memory is at 100% or > higher? Or do I have to reboot my server ever morning to resolve this > alert? I currently have the alerts disabled, but I am concerned that I > could miss a critical error Assuming that you're using the Hobbit client on the Linux box, you can just configure the client to only go red if the actual memory usage goes above a certain threshold. In your hobbit-clients.cfg, you would have HOST=linux.foo.com MEMPHYS 100 101 MEMACT 80 95 MEMSWAP 40 70 Then it will stay green as long as the "actual" memory usage is below 80%, go yellow when it's between 80-95%, and go red when it is at 95% or higher. Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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BBWin 0.7 available
by etienne.grignon＠gmail.com 30 May '06

30 May '06

Hello everyone, I publish today BBWin 0.7 (a free Big Brother Hobbit Windows client). I know I'm late, I said it would be on last monday :-) You can download the MSI installer of this preview from http://sourceforge.net/projects/bbwin This preview contains the new following stuffs: * The msgs agent : it monitors the event logs. It uses match and ignore rules with a lot of options. Rules can be specified with EventId, Event type, Source, LogFile and description (perl regular expressions can be used). * BBWin configuration auto reloading : BBWin auto reload can be set so any change to the BBWin.cfg file will indicate BBWin to reload its configuration without restarting the service itself. * bbpager : BBWin now supports bbpager feature (used with Big Brother server, not compatible with hobbit) * cpu improved : Cpu has been rewritten and reports now contains process owner and priority * Documentation: the documentation is now delivered as a chm file, easyer to read than first my ReadMe.txt file. It will be more complete with time. Also, it may contains many english bad spelling. I will take english lesssons soon but you are welcome to send me corrections :) * Migration tools: configuration migration from bbnt to BBWin for bbpager and msgs has been implemented Note : This new version now use registry for the hostname setting. I decided that because it will help to have generic BBWin.cfg files. You may delete the hostname xml setting in your BBWin.cfg file and fill the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\BBWin\hostname. The BBWin 0.6 contained the following stuffs : * Resolution of a major bugs with the configuration agents which was the cause of many crashs at the start or stop of the BBWin service. * The svcs agent dll : it monitors the windows services ---------- I also create a poll on the BBWin forum page about future features of BBWin. You are welcome to participate to it, so people can give ideas and remarks so, we can improve BBWin to obtain the best tool for everyone. To finish, I would like to thanks Steve Aiello and Hermann-Josef Beckers for their help in testing BBWin. Have a nice day, Etienne.

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