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bbtest-net crashing 8-(
by crlangfo＠ugs.com 21 Jun '06

21 Jun '06

Hi all, I am running version 4.1.2p1 of Hobbit on SuSE Enterprise Linux 9 SP2 X86_64. It is unpredictable on when it is going to crash. It runs for days with no problem then crashes every five minutes for an hour then may for days again before it crashes. Is there a fix for this and I just missed it when looking through the archives?? The gdb output is below: cila6s07:/etc/local/hobbit/server/tmp # gdb ../bin/bbtest-net -c core GNU gdb 6.3 Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "x86_64-suse-linux"...Using host libthread_db library "/lib64/tls/libthre ad_db.so.1". Core was generated by `/etc/local/hobbit/server/bin/bbtest-net "--ping" "--checkresponse" "--no-ares "'. Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted. Reading symbols from /usr/lib64/libssl.so.0.9.7...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib64/libssl.so.0.9.7 Reading symbols from /usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.0.9.7...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.0.9.7 Reading symbols from /lib64/tls/libc.so.6...done. Loaded symbols for /lib64/tls/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib64/libdl.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib64/libdl.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib64/libnss_files.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib64/libnss_files.so.2 #0 0x0000002a95a182fd in raise () from /lib64/tls/libc.so.6 (gdb) bt #0 0x0000002a95a182fd in raise () from /lib64/tls/libc.so.6 #1 0x0000002a95a198ae in abort () from /lib64/tls/libc.so.6 #2 0x0000000000416363 in sigsegv_handler (signum=<value optimized out>) at sig.c:57 #3 <signal handler called> #4 0x0000000000418aa9 in end_query (channel=0x554be0, query=0x555930, status=12, abuf=0x0, alen=0) at ares_process.c:627 #5 0x0000000000419541 in ares_process (channel=0x554be0, read_fds=0x7fbfffcc60, write_fds=0x7fbfffcbe0) at ares_process.c:288 #6 0x000000000040da88 in dns_queue_run (channel=0x554be0) at dns.c:202 #7 0x000000000040de4f in flush_dnsqueue () at dns.c:231 #8 0x00000000004082a9 in main (argc=6, argv=0x7fbfffe128) at bbtest-net.c:2200 Kenneth W. Langford

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

21 Jun '06

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? Thanks, Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: henrik at hswn.dk [SMTP:henrik at hswn.dk] > Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 1:18 PM > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: Re: [hobbit] building bbproxy > > On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 12:26:20PM +0100, Morris, Chris (Shared Services) > wrote: > > As bbproxy appears to be a message routing program to accept data from > > clients and pass them on to a hobbit server, I assume it doesn't require > all > > the server components like rrdtool, SSL, LDAP etc. > > Right. > > > If the above is true, how can you build a bbproxy install without all > the > > unneccessay clutter? > > Hmm - good question. If it's for the same OS as your main Hobbit server, > you could just copy the ~hobbit/server/bin/bbproxy binary across. It > doesn't need any of the config-files or other "stuff" that the other > Hobbit tools use; you can control all of it through commandline options. > > > 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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building bbproxy
by CHRIS.MORRIS＠RWEnpower.com 21 Jun '06

21 Jun '06

Hi, As bbproxy appears to be a message routing program to accept data from clients and pass them on to a hobbit server, I assume it doesn't require all the server components like rrdtool, SSL, LDAP etc. If the above is true, how can you build a bbproxy install without all the unneccessay clutter? 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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Hobbit tracking of data from ORCA
by henrik＠hswn.dk 21 Jun '06

21 Jun '06

Our Solaris group here is using ORCA to collect various performance metrics about their servers. However, the ORCA data collection is somewhat fickle, and it is annoying to have two systems tracking data. So the question was: Can Hobbit be used to collect these data instead ? I've had a look at ORCA, and it does seem like it would be possible to just use the ORCA data collector (orcallator.se) and feed those data into Hobbit. A special back-end module could then process these into RRD files, and graph them with hobbitgraph. This would be rather trivial to do - most of the work would be to setup the hobbitgraph definitions to match those graphs currently available in ORCA. But before I do that - how many people are actually using ORCA? Their website appears to be on-line, but no updates have appeared for a couple of years. Regards, Henrik

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[hobbit] New install - Which version to get ?
by KauffmanT＠nibco.com 21 Jun '06

21 Jun '06

For what it's worth, I've got the bb-sar module collecting data and have just managed to hack the sar-grapher.cgi to kinda generate graphs. My thanks to Alon Ofek for his detailed message on 24 Nov 2005 on getting the collection to work -- but he left the graphing side just a bit less well covered. Having said the above -- this is fugly! If I get some time, I'll be converting the collecting side to the hobbit philosophy of os-neutral data in one sar rrd and move the graphing into hobbitgraph. I needed this because we've had a critical system crash 4 times since last November on an error 23 -- too many files open in system. As near as IBM can tell, the real problem was inode cache depletion, so I'm graphing the inode data. Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 8:16 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] New install - Which version to get ? On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 10:39:06AM +0200, Nicolas Dorfsman wrote: > I'm starting a new hobbit install session. > > I'll need to graph some sar I/O stats. There's no built-in module to collect sar data in any Hobbit version. > Which version of hobbit would be the best ? 4.0 ? 4.1.2rc ? The current production release is 4.1.2p1. The current beta-release is 4.2-beta-20060605, with patches available at http://www.hswn.dk/hobbitsw/betapatches/. > I'd like to have some autonomous system, including messages files > scanning without getting some BB executables. For logfile monitoring you will need to use the current beta-release. The 4.1.x version does not support log monitoring. Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email and any attachments are for the exclusive and confidential use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, distribute or take action in reliance upon this message. If you have received this in error, please notify us immediately by return email and promptly delete this message and its attachments from your computer system. We do not waive attorney-client or work product privilege by the transmission of this message.

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Solaris: top to be replaced by prstat
by ndo＠unikservice.com 21 Jun '06

21 Jun '06

Hi, I want to replace top in hobbitclient by prstat (/usr/bin/prstat - can 20 1 1). I can't find where is used the top result to generate the cpu page. Help....

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Problems starting hobbit
by skasperowicz＠c-cor.com 21 Jun '06

21 Jun '06

Well after battling numerous other problems, I finally have what (I think) is a working version of the Hobbit server. Although I think I have everything configured properly, I'm unable to start it. I get the following in hobbitlaunch.log: 2006-06-15 16:05:11 hobbitlaunch starting 2006-06-15 16:05:11 Loading tasklist configuration from /usr/local/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitlaunch.cfg 2006-06-15 16:05:11 Loading hostnames 2006-06-15 16:05:11 Loading saved state 2006-06-15 16:05:11 Setting up network listener on 0.0.0.0:1984 2006-06-15 16:05:11 Setting up signal handlers 2006-06-15 16:05:11 Setting up hobbitd channels 2006-06-15 16:05:11 Could not attach shm Permission denied 2006-06-15 16:05:11 Cannot setup status channel 2006-06-15 16:05:11 Task hobbitd terminated, status 1 I've tweaked the shmseg setting in /etc/system (7 didn't work, I ended up at 10), but from reading the list archives it seems that I may need to tune shmmni and shmmax as well. Any truth to this, or am I barking up the wrong tree? Thanks, -Shaun

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bbproxy to hobbit server
by vadud3＠gmail.com 21 Jun '06

21 Jun '06

Hi Our network setup in a way that ecery client needs to be in the Firewall ACL to be allowed to talk to hobbit server on port 1984. Now if I use a bbproxy which IP the hobbit server sees? The hobbit clients' IPs or just the bbproxy server's IP? clients --> bbproxy server --> hobbit server The hobbit server and bbproxy server are separate servers on separate networks Thanks -- Asif Iqbal PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu

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Odd problem with hobbit
by jeff＠myinternetservices.com 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

I am in the process of automating adding new hosts to our hobbit system. I've got a bb-hosts that looks like this: subpage myis My InternetServices Servers subparent myis myis-loc1 Location 1 Servers group-except bbd|bbgen|bbtest|hobbitd|rsync|http MyIS Location 1 Servers include myis-loc1-hosts Now my script inadvertantly left the myis-loc1-hosts file owned by root with perms of 600. Therefore hobbit had a problem reading the hosts file temporarily. However, NOW whenever I try to view a history item for the servers I get the error "No such host". The URL is this: http://hobbit.myinternetservices.com/cgi-bin/bb-hostsvc.sh?HOSTSVC=127,0,0,… (IP's changed to protect the innocent. :P) Yet other locations are perfectly fine. What causes this error? More importantly how do I fix this? This is on hobbit 4.1.2p1 on a Fedora Core 3 box. I've verified that things like the conn file in the hist folder exist, etc. I've also restarted hobbit. -- Jeff Stuart Network Admin MyInternetServices.com 1-800-300-HOST

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[hobbit] Hobbit tracking of data from ORCA
by Larry.Sherman＠rbsgc.com 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

We use it. We use orcallator for the BB server, we wrote our agent to collect files for a "tempallator." We wrote another one for a "ticallator" to track TIC statistics (a Cache Server for Real Time data). We use the procollator for Linux. To be frank, the tempallator is the most valuable, and we rarely look at the others. We wrote a web front-end to the data called heatmap, which looks up the location of the server name in a db, and puts it in the correct cab location in the DC. The map shows the rows of cabs, the color of the cab is set by the hottest machine (hard-coded thresholds). Click on the cab to see the machines. Kind of off tangent I know, but I think you could do the same in hobbit: Page dc Prod DC 0.0.0.0 Row_1 # noconn 0.0.0.0 Row_2 # noconn 0.0.0.0 Row_3 # noconn Etc Then have a script that sent the data in the form of row_1.cab1, etc. Larry -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 9:27 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Hobbit tracking of data from ORCA Our Solaris group here is using ORCA to collect various performance metrics about their servers. However, the ORCA data collection is somewhat fickle, and it is annoying to have two systems tracking data. So the question was: Can Hobbit be used to collect these data instead ? I've had a look at ORCA, and it does seem like it would be possible to just use the ORCA data collector (orcallator.se) and feed those data into Hobbit. A special back-end module could then process these into RRD files, and graph them with hobbitgraph. This would be rather trivial to do - most of the work would be to setup the hobbitgraph definitions to match those graphs currently available in ORCA. But before I do that - how many people are actually using ORCA? Their website appears to be on-line, but no updates have appeared for a couple of years. Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk ----------------------------------------- ******************************************************************* * This e-mail is intended only for the addressee named above. As this e-mail may contain confidential or privileged information, if you are not the named addressee, you are not authorized to retain, read, copy or disseminate this message or any part of it. ******************************************************************* *

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