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Client for HPUX
by Quinton.Jansen＠ec.gc.ca 23 Jun '06

23 Jun '06

Can someone who as the client compiled for HPUX 10.20 or 11.11 and is willing to share, please contact me off list? Thanks, -- Quinton Jansen Environment Canada #201 - 401 Burrard Street Vancouver BC V3M 5S8 t: (604) 664 9196 e: Quinton.Jansen @ ec.gc.ca BOFH excuse #188: ..disk or the processor is on fire.

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pop3 test question
by rower.master＠gmail.com 22 Jun '06

22 Jun '06

Hi friends, In pop 3 test sometimes we get the yellow status and the message in hobbit page is "Unexpected service response", my question is if it's possible to hobbit print the real error? Service pop3 on panther.foo.com is not OK : Unexpected service response Seconds: 3.00 thanks in advance, Mario.

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Using post to test user login
by Shawn.Maschino＠ge.com 22 Jun '06

22 Jun '06

Hi all - I ran into a challenge and was wondering if anyone else had seen it and found a workaround. I'd like to use the "post" function of the HTTP test to verify a web page that does user authentication for an application. The way the login works is: - User enters login details on a web form - The user is sent to a "middle" page while authentication is done - If authentication is successful they are redirected into the web application, otherwise they redirect to an error page When using the post check I can only get to that middle page, which doesn't tell me if authentication was correct or not. The reason for the middle page is that this web site is using SSO authentication against an external LDAP system. We'd need to be able to get to the page that the redirect pushes to. Does anyone know if there is a way around this? My first impressions would be no, but I thought it wouldn't hurt (too much!) to ask. Thanks! Shawn

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vmstat graph
by ndo＠unikservice.com 22 Jun '06

22 Jun '06

Hi, I'd want to have vmstat4 and vmstat9 definitions in hobbitgraph.cfg being used to put their graphs in trend column. I've put them in the GRAPHS variable...without success. Where's my mistake ? TIA Nicolas

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iostat cpu infos
by ndo＠unikservice.com 22 Jun '06

22 Jun '06

Hi, Hey ! You've got wait-io infos and don't use it : [vmstat] kthr memory page disk faults cpu r b w swap free re mf pi po fr de sr m1 m1 m1 m2 in sy cs us sy id 0 0 0 1446640 537688 13 27 57 3 2 0 0 2 2 2 9 637 763 370 12 4 84 0 0 0 1446392 555136 115 75 605 5 5 0 0 2 2 2 8 489 775 155 6 3 91 [iostatcpu] cpu us sy wt id 12 4 1 83 6 3 2 90 I'm terribly new to hobbit...could you tell me where I could modify the way "CPU utilization" is made ? Another thing...I'd like for my user to have LA + CPU utilization graph on "cpu" column....???

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RRD graphing not showing up
by pmalenfa＠videotron.ca 22 Jun '06

22 Jun '06

The graphs do not show up on one Hobbit server I installed on AIX. All the other hobbit servers I installed on AIX 5.2 and 5.3 do work fine. I used the same procedure for installing Hobbit (same pre-reqs). All the pages shows up properly but the graphs images are not produced. The server is on AIX 5.3, running 64 bits kernel. I tried many things following what I found in the list but without success. Here is what I tried already: - Tested manually hobbitgraph.sh, with the Apache user (REQUEST_METHOD, REQUEST_URI, etc). It return data. - Recompiled a few times using different options - I saw the list thread about problems on HPUX and 64 bits compilations. So I tried recompiling with my server in 32 bits and same problem - rrd files gets populated and rrdtool dump is working In my apache error log, I have the following: Premature end of script headers: /home/hobbit/cgi-bin/hobbitgraph.sh In my rrd-data.log, I have (I don't think it matters) Internal error: Duplicate match ignored Any ideas? Pierre

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PAGE not sending alerts
by jeffrey.williams＠newport.com 21 Jun '06

21 Jun '06

Hobbit 4.1.2p1 on Fedora4 I have tried everything and can't get this to work. The PAGE=/ works but non of the PAGE tags for anything below that do. Bb-hosts title Newport Corporation page usirv USIRV title USIRV subpage usirvpivotal Pivotal Servers title USIRV - Pivotal Servers 10.25.1.35 usirv-piv01 # sql rdp DESCR:server:"Pivotal main" 10.25.1.14 usirv-piv02 # rdp DESCR:server:"Pivotal Irvine satellite" 10.25.1.9 usirv-piv03 # sql rdp DESCR:server:"Pivotal HTTP sync, web store" 10.25.1.59 usirv-pivdev01 # sql rdp DESCR:server:"Pivotal development" Hobbit-alert.cfg PAGE=/ MAIL $jw REPEAT=24h RECOVERED NOTICE MAIL $dh RECOVERED COLOR=red PAGE=usirv MAIL $td RECOVERED PAGE=usirv/usirvpivotal MAIL $st RECOVERED [root at usirv-bb01 hobbit]# /usr/lib/hobbit/server/bin/bbcmd hobbitd_alert --test usirv-piv01 conn 2006-06-21 12:02:24 Using default environment file /usr/lib/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg 00013345 2006-06-21 12:02:24 send_alert usirv-piv01:conn state Paging 00013345 2006-06-21 12:02:24 Matching host:service:page 'usirv-piv01:conn:' against rule line 144 00013345 2006-06-21 12:02:24 *** Match with 'PAGE=/' *** 00013345 2006-06-21 12:02:24 Matching host:service:page 'usirv-piv01:conn:' against rule line 145 00013345 2006-06-21 12:02:24 *** Match with 'MAIL $jw REPEAT=24h RECOVERED NOTICE' *** 00013345 2006-06-21 12:02:24 Mail alert with command 'mail -s "Hobbit [12345] usirv-piv01:conn CRITICAL (RED)" jeffrey.williams at newport.com' 00013345 2006-06-21 12:02:24 Matching host:service:page 'usirv-piv01:conn:' against rule line 146 00013345 2006-06-21 12:02:24 *** Match with 'MAIL $dh RECOVERED COLOR=red' *** 00013345 2006-06-21 12:02:24 Mail alert with command 'mail -s "Hobbit [12345] usirv-piv01:conn CRITICAL (RED)" daniel.hedstrom at newport.com' 00013345 2006-06-21 12:02:24 Matching host:service:page 'usirv-piv01:conn:' against rule line 147 00013345 2006-06-21 12:02:24 Failed 'PAGE=usirv' (pagename not in include list) 00013345 2006-06-21 12:02:24 Matching host:service:page 'usirv-piv01:conn:' against rule line 149 00013345 2006-06-21 12:02:24 Failed 'PAGE=usirv/usirvpivotal' (pagename not in include list) I have searched the docs and the archive for this mailing list without success. Any help would be appreciated.

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[hobbit] Hobbit vs Nagios
by jmoore＠ugs.com 21 Jun '06

21 Jun '06

The "mconnect" command might also work. It's been around on solaris since v2.4... it's delivered with Sendmail apparently. echo "status host.service green `date` all ok" | mconnect $BBHOST 1984 --Joe ________________________________ From: Charles Jones [mailto:jonescr at cisco.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 1:57 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit vs Nagios That's a good idea, I forgot about that Perl version of bb. Hmm I wonder if there is anything special that the bb binary does to send it's data, such that you could just use "netcat" and pipe the client data to it. Only problem then is his server might not have netcat either :) -Charles Larry Barber wrote: The only binary you _really_ need is bb and I think I saw a Perl version of the BigBrother bb program on deadcat. If you were to install that you could use cron (assuming these are Unix-like machines) to run the hobbitclient.sh script every 5 minutes. Thanks, Larry Barber On 6/21/06, Hubbard, Greg L <greg.hubbard at eds.com > wrote: Henrik: I heard a rumor that Nagios has an optional client that does not have to be compiled. Don't know if this is true, but it would sure help me out if there was a "Perl-only" or "Perl+shell" client that I could use on the one or two systems where I cannot install all the junk needed to compile a Hobbit client binary. Binary Perl distributions that just drop in are usually available... I know there would be a performance hit, but I would rather have a more expensive-to-run client than no client. Thoughts? GLH -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 9:33 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit vs Nagios 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.

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[hobbit] building bbproxy
by CHRIS.MORRIS＠RWEnpower.com 21 Jun '06

21 Jun '06

That is exactly what I did. The C compiler is gcc version 3.3.2. When the bbproxy binary is ftp'd to the Solaris 10 machine is says "cannot execute" and the file command on bbproxy returns data. Regards, Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: henrik at hswn.dk [SMTP:henrik at hswn.dk] > Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 4:24 PM > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: Re: [hobbit] building bbproxy > > On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 04:06:05PM +0100, Morris, Chris (Shared Services) > wrote: > > Hi Henrik, > > > > Tried that and got :- > > > > bbproxy.c: In function `main': > > bbproxy.c:1055: warning: passing arg 5 of `getsockopt' from incompatible > > pointer type > > bbproxy.c:1138: warning: passing arg 3 of `naccept' from incompatible > > pointer type > > > > However, the binary is not executable on Solaris 10 as needs to be ELF > > 32-bit LSB executable 80386 Version 1, dynamically linked, not stripped > but > > is executable (RISC System/6000) or object module not stripped. > > You should build both the client *and* bbproxy (using the command I wrote) > > on your AIX box. > > So you need an AIX 5.2 with a C compiler. But that should be enough. > > > 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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[hobbit] building bbproxy
by CHRIS.MORRIS＠RWEnpower.com 21 Jun '06

21 Jun '06

Hi Henrik, Tried that and got :- bbproxy.c: In function `main': bbproxy.c:1055: warning: passing arg 5 of `getsockopt' from incompatible pointer type bbproxy.c:1138: warning: passing arg 3 of `naccept' from incompatible pointer type However, the binary is not executable on Solaris 10 as needs to be ELF 32-bit LSB executable 80386 Version 1, dynamically linked, not stripped but is executable (RISC System/6000) or object module not stripped. Regards, Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: henrik at hswn.dk [SMTP:henrik at hswn.dk] > Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 2:23 PM > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: Re: [hobbit] building bbproxy > > On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 01:26:58PM +0100, Morris, Chris (Shared Services) > wrote: > > Hi Henrik, > > > > Thanks for the reply. > > > > I'd already thought about "copying" the binary but unfortunately it is > for a > > Solaris 5.10 system and my server is AIX 5.2. > > > > Does anyone have a bbproxy binary built on Solaris 5.10 that they could > send > > me? > > It's a bit of a hack, but it should be possible like this: > > * Build the client on your AIX box > * cd bbproxy; gcc -I../include -o bbproxy bbproxy.c ../lib/hobbitclient.a > > > 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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