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[hobbit] problem compiling HP-UX 11.11 using gcc
by Camp.external＠qimonda.com 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

Have you tried 4.1.1 from this site? http://h21007.www2.hp.com/dspp/tech/tech_TechSoftwareDetailPage_IDX/1,1703,… -----Original Message----- From: lars ebeling [mailto:lars.ebeling at leopg9.no-ip.org] Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 12:17 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] problem compiling HP-UX 11.11 using gcc I thought I had some problems earlier with some version of gcc 4.x.x I installed gcc 4.1.0 and got gcc -g -O -D_REENTRANT -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DHPUX -I. -I /home/hobbit/snapshot/include -I/usr/local/include -DBBGEN_SSL -I/usr/local/inc lude -c -o bbtest-net.o bbtest-net.c bbtest-net.c: In function 'send_rpcinfo_results': bbtest-net.c:1788: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast bbtest-net.c:1795: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type bbtest-net.c:1807: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type bbtest-net.c:1812: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type makeÄ1Å: *** Äbbtest-net.oÅ Error 1 makeÄ1Å: Leaving directory é/home/hobbit/snapshot/bbnet' make: *** Äbbnet-buildÅ Error 2 $ Regards Lars To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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[hobbit] Hobbit vs Nagios
by henrik＠hswn.dk 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 09:47:47PM -0400, Matthew Davis wrote: > I tried out nagios and one huge winning factor for Hobbit was > simplicity. I put quite a bit of time into getting nagios off the > ground with little luck. And in the same amount of time, I was able > to get nearly all functionality I required out of a monitoring > program. I had a funny experience last week. There was a Linux Users group meeting here in Copenhagen, where the subject was "Setting up Nagios". Since I'm always interested to see what the competitors look like, I attended. The guy who told about Nagios knew that I am behind Hobbit, as did a couple of the people in the audience. So when the talk about Nagios was over and there was some spare time left, they asked me if I could give a quick overview of Hobbit. Which I did, thanks to a wireless Internet connection they managed to setup quickly. After about an hour, someone in the audience asked the Nagios guy "after hearing about Nagios and Hobbit tonight, why didn't you just install Hobbit?" I think that tells a lot about how easy it is to setup Hobbit compared to Nagios. Regards, Henrik

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Graph Network Usage
by jeff＠myinternetservices.com 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

As we all know, you can use MRTG + SNMP to graph network usage. BUT instead of having to install 2 new programs + an external hobbit script that runs either on each box or on a centralized location, you can use this external script that runs on the client. Basically it just grabs the data from the /proc/net/dev file. Note: this probably only works on Linux. Then you add the following lines to your hobbitserver.cfg: TEST2RRD="cpu=la,disk,inode,...,hobbitd,bandwidth=ncv" NCV_bandwidth="bytesin:COUNTER,bytesout:COUNTER" GRAPHS="la,disk,inode,...,hobbitd,ncv,bandwidth" Then in your hobbitgraph.cfg, add this entry: [bandwidth] TITLE Network Traffic YAXIS Bits/Second DEF:inbytes=bandwidth.rrd:bytesin:AVERAGE CDEF:in=inbytes,8,* DEF:outbytes=bandwidth.rrd:bytesout:AVERAGE CDEF:out=outbytes,8,* CDEF:total=in,out,+ VDEF:pct95=total,95,PERCENT LINE2:in#00FF00:Inbound GPRINT:in:LAST: \: %9.1lf (cur) GPRINT:in:MAX: \: %9.1lf (max) GPRINT:in:MIN: \: %9.1lf (min) GPRINT:in:AVERAGE: \: %9.1lf (avg)\n LINE2:out#FF0000:Outbound GPRINT:out:LAST: \: %9.1lf (cur) GPRINT:out:MAX: \: %9.1lf (max) GPRINT:out:MIN: \: %9.1lf (min) GPRINT:out:AVERAGE: \: %9.1lf (avg)\n LINE2:total#00CCCC:Total Usage GPRINT:total:LAST: \: %8.1lf (cur) GPRINT:total:MAX: \: %8.1lf (max) GPRINT:total:MIN: \: %8.1lf (min) GPRINT:total:AVERAGE: \: %9.1lf (avg)\n LINE1:pct95#0000FF:Outbound 95th percentile GPRINT:pct95:\: %6.2lf %Sbps \n And then finally setup this script as an external script for each client: #!/bin/sh /bin/grep eth0 /proc/net/dev | /bin/awk '{print "bytes_in : " $2 "\nbytes_out : " $10}' > $BBTMP/bandwidth.txt $BB $BBDISP "status $MACHINE.bandwidth green `date` `cat $BBTMP/bandwidth.txt` " /bin/rm $BBTMP/bandwidth.txt exit 0 Hope this helps someone! P.S. Thx Henrik for your EXCELLENT tutorial on the NCV graph stuff. Made my job a 1000x easier! :) Also, in the next week, I'm gonna be blowing my boss's mind with some of the stuff I'll be able to track and graph. Hehe.. there's just SOO MUCH you can do when you can do it on the command line vs a windows program that can only access stuff via SNMP/TCP/UDP probes. -- Jeff Stuart Network Admin MyInternetServices.com 1-800-300-HOST

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PORT
by lechef71＠gmail.com 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

Hi all I am trying to get hobbit to count all ESTABLISHED ports on one host, not just local port also the remote once.. I did setup line in the hobbit-clients.cfg for the host.. PORT LOCAL=%[\.:]8093$ REMOTE=%[\.:]8093$ STATE=ESTABLISHED MIN=0 TRACK=8093 But.. I am not having any luck with this.. it works in separet lines.. like PORT LOCAL=%[\.:]8093$ STATE=ESTABLISHED MIN=0 TRACK=8093 PORT REMOTE=%[\.:]8093$ STATE=ESTABLISHED MIN=0 TRACK=8093 is there any way of combining the 2 ? regards Siggi

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problem compiling HP-UX 11.11 using gcc
by neil.camp＠deca.mil 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

Sorry, done. Has anyone had luck with HP-UX. I have searched and searched and searched. It seems like several people have had luck, but I keep getting compilation errors. Here is my latest using gcc gmake[1]: Entering directory `/home/campnd/hobbit-4.1.2p1/bbnet' gcc -static -DHPUX -D_REENTRANT -DHPUX -I. -I/home/campnd/hobbit-4.1.2p1/include -I/usr/local/pcre-6.4/include -DBBGEN_SSL -I/usr/include -c -o bbtest-net.o bbtest-net.c bbtest-net.c: In function 'send_rpcinfo_results': bbtest-net.c:1795: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast bbtest-net.c:1802: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type bbtest-net.c:1814: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type bbtest-net.c:1819: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type bbtest-net.c: In function 'main': bbtest-net.c:2262: warning: pointer targets in assignment differ in signedness gmake[1]: *** [bbtest-net.o] Error 1 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/home/campnd/hobbit-4.1.2p1/bbnet' gmake: *** [bbnet-build] Error 2 --neil ManTech DeCA Operations Systems Administrator (804) 734-8353 neil.camp at deca.mil -----Original Message----- From: Thomas Krieger [mailto:tom at tom-krieger.de] Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 1:07 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] problem compiling HP-UX 11.11 using aCC Can you please stop requesting reading confirmations for your emails. It's anoying. Bye

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Latest snapshot - DOWNTIME applied to individual tests
by frederic.mangeant＠steria.com 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

Hi again Henrik I'm trying to use the new DOWNTIME settings. From the Changelog : * DOWNTIME can now be applied to individual tests, and you can specify a text explaining why the service is down. The new format in the bb-hosts file is: DOWNTIME=columns:days:starttime:endtime:cause If you have more than one service that you want to set the downtime for, "column" can be "*" to match all services, or you can define multiple downtime-settings: "DOWNTIME=http,ftp:*:0300:0315:CMS update;*:0:0200:0210:Reboot" I added this to a host : DOWNTIME=*:*:1000:1600:Test In the 'info' colum, that appeared correctly : Planned downtime:All days:*:1000:1600:Test Sent (with BBwin 0.7) a red status which appeared as... red, and an alert was sent. Maybe I'm not using DOWNTIME the right way ? Another thing, adding a space in the cause field seems not to work. Thanks in advance for your answer. -- Frédéric Mangeant Steria EDC Sophia-Antipolis

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turning up (way up) debugging for the conn tests
by tomg＠mcclatchyinteractive.com 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

Hi, I've been trying to debug a seemingly false conn failure between one of the interfaces of my Netapp filer and my Hobbit server. This problem has persisted for a very long time, and I'm just not able to narrow down or capture enough information to find out what is causing it. I'm using Hobbit 4.1.2p1 on my server, and Data ONTAP 7.0.4 on my FAS3020c filers. My hobbit server is configured to monitor 2 IPs for 2 different interfaces on the netapp filer. At seemingly random intervals, the conn tests will fail for one of those interfaces, even though NFS continues to work just fine out of that interface. After the interface "fails", it'll either flap between green and red, or just stay red for 30 mins, an hour, sometimes 4 hours. THere does not appears to be a regular pattern or time period for this behavior. Since tcpdump became my new buddy, I've noticed a few behaviors between the hobbit server and the "failing" filer interface that I'd like to better understand. 1. How may pings are sent by fping to each host, by default? If I understand what the man page says, fping will send several before giving up. If fping gets a reply from the first, does it continue to send more? 2. How can I turn up the debugging output for the conn tests, beyond this line in my [bbnet] config in hobbitlaunch.cfg: CMD bbtest-net --report --ping --checkresponse --debug --timing Is there one I can add for bbretest, since it'll be handling the network tests after the first conn failure? 3. Would a hobbit network test ever initiate a connection using UDP on a high numbered port, like 37383? Thanks for any help on this. Tom

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msgs
by lechef71＠gmail.com 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

Hi all I have two clients monitoring files, in the client-local.cfg file I have [linux] log:/var/log/messages:10240 log:/var/log/bull/bull.log:10240 file:/var/log/messages:md5 in the hobbit-clients.cfg I have # # CC # HOST=cc-1 UP 1h LOAD 5.0 10.0 DISK * 90 95 MEMPHYS 100 101 MEMSWAP 50 80 MEMACT 90 97 FILE /var/log/messages yellow SIZE>0 MTIME<600 TRACK FILE /var/log/bull/bull.log yellow SIZE>0 MTIME<600 TRACK LOG %/var/log/messages %(I/O|read).error COLOR=red # # Jabber # HOST=jabber-1 UP 1h LOAD 5.0 10.0 DISK * 90 95 MEMPHYS 100 101 MEMSWAP 50 80 MEMACT 90 97 FILE /var/log/messages yellow MODE=644 TRACK LOG %/var/log/messages %(I/O|read).error COLOR=red Everything is working fine for the cc-1 host, and the msgs tab shows everything ok.. ..however ! the msgs tab for jabber-1 complains that it cant find the bull.log.. but I am not monitoring that file for that host !?.. So how do I make this host stop.. watching file that is not supposed to watch ?:. Regards vvega

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[hobbit] msgs
by CHRIS.MORRIS＠RWEnpower.com 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

If you want to watch the /var/log/bull/bull.log file only on cc-1, then put an entry in client-local.cfg for cc-1 like : [cc-1] log:/var/log/messages:10240 log:/var/log/bull/bull.log:10240 file:/var/log/messages:md5 as the text in client-local.cfg says :" When clients contact the Hobbit server, they get the section from this file which matches their hostname or operating system." Regards, Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: Sigurður Bjarnason [SMTP:lechef71 at gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 2:19 PM > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: [hobbit] msgs > > Hi all > > I have two clients monitoring files, in the client-local.cfg file I have > > > [linux] > log:/var/log/messages:10240 > log:/var/log/bull/bull.log:10240 > file:/var/log/messages:md5 > > > > in the hobbit-clients.cfg I have > > # > # CC > # > HOST=cc-1 > UP 1h > LOAD 5.0 10.0 > DISK * 90 95 > MEMPHYS 100 101 > MEMSWAP 50 80 > MEMACT 90 97 > FILE /var/log/messages yellow SIZE>0 MTIME<600 TRACK > FILE /var/log/bull/bull.log yellow SIZE>0 MTIME<600 TRACK > LOG %/var/log/messages %(I/O|read).error COLOR=red > > # > # Jabber > # > HOST=jabber-1 > UP 1h > LOAD 5.0 10.0 > DISK * 90 95 > MEMPHYS 100 101 > MEMSWAP 50 80 > MEMACT 90 97 > FILE /var/log/messages yellow MODE=644 TRACK > LOG %/var/log/messages %(I/O|read).error COLOR=red > > > Everything is working fine for the cc-1 host, and the msgs tab shows > everything ok.. ..however ! the msgs tab for jabber-1 complains that it > cant find the bull.log.. but I am not monitoring that file for that host > !?.. > > So how do I make this host stop.. watching file that is not supposed to > watch ?:. > > Regards > vvega **************************************************************************** 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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Conn History showing RED
by michael_frey＠glic.com 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

Linux server, Hobbit version 4.1.2p1. Conn history page is showing all red, since morning of 6-21-06; even though current status is green, an every client. All alerting, and bb2 page functions are normal. All other tests are normal on the history page. Michael Frey Intel Senior Systems Engineer The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America 3900 Burgess Place, 2-West Bethlehem, PA 18017 E-Mail: Michael_frey at glic.com Phone: 610-807-7889 Fax: 610-807-6003 ----------------------------------------- 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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