June 2006 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

New install - Which version to get ?
by ndo＠unikservice.com 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

Hi, I'm starting a new hobbit install session. I'll need to graph some sar I/O stats. Which version of hobbit would be the best ? 4.0 ? 4.1.2rc ? I'd like to have some autonomous system, including messages files scanning without getting some BB executables. TIA Nicolas

2 1

[hobbit] matching hosts and noconn
by plardinois＠be.tiauto.com 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

Hello Frederic, That's it ! Thank you very much Regards, Pierre Lardinois -----Original Message----- From: Frédéric Mangeant [mailto:frederic.mangeant at steria.com] Sent: lundi 19 juin 2006 15:58 To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] matching hosts and noconn Lardinois, Pierre a écrit : > Hello, > > In my bb-hosts, I have a section filled with servers where the test is > noconn > > page serversNOCONN > 123.123.123.110 server1 # noconn > 123.123.123.112 server2 # noconn > 123.123.123.113 server3 # noconn > > and another section where the servers have "real" tests > > page serversTESTS > 123.123.123.110 server1 # testip !ftp !telnet > > If I try to make an alert rule with the following parameter, to > retrieve all red alerts on the page serversNOCONN : > > PAGE=serversNOCONN .... > MAIL .... > > I received no alerts. If I check with the test command : > > bbcmd hobbitd_alert --test server3 red conn > > I get this message : > > Failed 'PAGE=serversNOCONN [...] (pagename not in include list) > > My questions are : > - Is it because hosts with noconn test only are not matched ? > - What is the "include list"? > - did I made something wrong somewhere ? > Hi Pierre maybe you can use the "prefer" tag in bb-hosts : prefer When a single host is defined multiple time in the bb-hosts file, bbgen tries to guess which definition is the best to use for the information used on the "info" column, or for the NOPROPRED and other bbgen-specific settings. Host definitions that have a "noconn" tag or an IP of 0.0.0.0 get lower priority. By using the "prefer" tag you tell bbgen that this host definition should be used. Note: This only applies to hosts that are defined multiple times in the bb-hosts file, although it will not hurt to add it on other hosts as well. -- Frédéric Mangeant Steria EDC Sophia-Antipolis To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk The information contained in this transmission may contain privileged and confidential information. It is intended only for the use of the person(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution or duplication of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message.

1 0

TIME alert problems (still)
by Mike.Rowell＠Rightmove.co.uk 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

Fellow Hobbitiers... Some may remember an issue I raised a few weeks back with regard to the TIME option in the hobbit-alerts config in that TIME was not being honoured and so we were getting alerted during blackout time periods that were set. This still looks like it's an issue in the snapshot I downloaded 3days after the beta release. Has anyone got any other ideas, is TIME only honoured on built in checks or something along those lines as it's the ext scripts that are causing the alerting (they are sending results to hobbit and hobbit does the actual alerting). Some information... notifications.log Sun Jun 18 21:19:37 2006 xxxxx.aq (10.6.2.2) support [139] 1150661977 0 Sun Jun 18 21:24:21 2006 xxxxx.aq (10.7.2.2) sysalert [137] 1150662261 0 Sun Jun 18 21:24:21 2006 xxxxx.aq (10.7.2.2) support [139] 1150662261 0 Sun Jun 18 21:25:21 2006 xxxxx.aq (10.8.2.2) sysalert [137] 1150662321 0 Sun Jun 18 21:25:21 2006 xxxxx.aq (10.8.2.2) support [139] 1150662321 0 Sun Jun 18 22:20:01 2006 xxxxx.aq (10.6.2.2) sysalert [137] 1150665601 0 Sun Jun 18 22:20:01 2006 xxxxx.aq (10.6.2.2) support [139] 1150665601 0 hobbit-alerts.cfg HOST=* MAIL=sysalert SERVICE=aq FORMAT=PLAIN REPEAT=1h COLOR=yellow MAIL=support SERVICE=aq COLOR=RED FORMAT=SMS DURATION>5 REPEAT=1h TIME=W:0900:1700 STOP (these are lines 135 and 136 so it looks like it's ignoring them totally, although in bb-hostsvc.sh it shows them laid out properly with the correct blackout times listed against the services). As you can see from the information above even though the aq service is set to only alert W(eekdays) between 0900 and 1700 we were still getting alerts over the weekend. I also have the same problem with another service, this one was just easiest to get the information for. Regards, Mike Rowell ________________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs service. ________________________________________________________________________

2 7

matching hosts and noconn
by plardinois＠be.tiauto.com 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

Hello, In my bb-hosts, I have a section filled with servers where the test is noconn page serversNOCONN 123.123.123.110 server1 # noconn 123.123.123.112 server2 # noconn 123.123.123.113 server3 # noconn and another section where the servers have "real" tests page serversTESTS 123.123.123.110 server1 # testip !ftp !telnet If I try to make an alert rule with the following parameter, to retrieve all red alerts on the page serversNOCONN : PAGE=serversNOCONN .... MAIL .... I received no alerts. If I check with the test command : bbcmd hobbitd_alert --test server3 red conn I get this message : Failed 'PAGE=serversNOCONN [...] (pagename not in include list) My questions are : - Is it because hosts with noconn test only are not matched ? - What is the "include list"? - did I made something wrong somewhere ? Thanks. Regards, _____________________________ Pierre Lardinois Int. ICT Infrastructure Team TI Automotive The information contained in this transmission may contain privileged and confidential information. It is intended only for the use of the person(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution or duplication of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message.

2 1

[hobbit] hobbitd_client crashing
by michael.nemeth＠lmco.com 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

<>>Could you mail me a copy of the ~hobbit/client/tmp/msg.*.txt file from one of those Solaris 5.6 systems ? > Or is it one of the secret servers? Yes it is! I can see about getting it sanitized . But the good/bad news is that it seam to be JUST this one client. My other 5.6 is ok. And I DID speak to soon ; using the same client from the one that working (snapshot from June 8) it still crashes the hobbitd_client. >> Also is there a way that clients can id themselves on the web page? > Not sure what you mean with this. Ah! I don't always update clients right away. I m still running bb clients but they are easy to spot. But currently IM running hobbit client on hpux 11 (hpux 10.20 WAS test awhile ago and worked but I went back to bb because of client side ext scripts that needed to be converted) , Sol 2.6 , 2.8, 2.9 (Ive a 2.10 not tried yet) and linux . I could and hopeful will be running AIX 5.x , maybe VAX , SGI and NT . So if I could click on say the info coulumn and it would say: client dwvob13k.sunos Hobbit Client 4.2-beta-20060605 date June 6 2006 Or maybe in the Client data thats sent. -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ | _p_ Mike Nemeth | ___| |_____ email(w) michael.nemeth at lmco.com Work: 856 359-1425 |><___________) | Home Page:http://www.geocities.com/mjnemeth/ | Work Page:http://faraday.motown.lmco.com:3000/~nemethm/ | Work Page:http://ortfsb/~mnemeth/ |++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

1 0

core files
by siggi＠betware.com 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

Hi all After a Installed 4.2 beta, I am getting core dump file in the /home/hobbit folder every time the server reloads. Any idea of how I can see what is causing this ? Regards Siggi

2 1

hobbitdlog does not work anymore with latest snapshot
by frederic.mangeant＠steria.com 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

Hi Henrik with the latest snapshot, "hobbitdlog" does not seem to work anymore. I'm using this : $ ~/client/bin/bb hades "hobbitdlog hades.bbgen" and I get an empty string. It was working with the previous snapshots. Regards, -- Frédéric Mangeant Steria EDC Sophia-Antipolis

2 2

[hobbit] hobbitd_client crashing
by michael.nemeth＠lmco.com 16 Jun '06

16 Jun '06

Ok the --debug help me locate the problem. A sol 5.6 client was causing it . After shutting this client on and off a couple of time to verify it, I rolled back to a june 8 build and its fine! Since Ive just two 5.6 host no problem. I have not updated any other client thats I can tell but my severs 5.9 so I guess that ok. Question can I just tar up the client on the server and use it on other sol 5.9 systems and any changes need to be made after untarring? Also is there a way that clients can id themselves on the web page? Lastly, a requested , be nice if at least "drop host test" could be added to disable/enable page! "drop host" understand would be more complicated. -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ | _p_ Mike Nemeth | ___| |_____ email(w) michael.nemeth at lmco.com Work: 856 359-1425 |><___________) | Home Page:http://www.geocities.com/mjnemeth/ | Work Page:http://faraday.motown.lmco.com:3000/~nemethm/ | Work Page:http://ortfsb/~mnemeth/ |++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

2 1

Page layouts
by jeffnewman75＠gmail.com 16 Jun '06

16 Jun '06

All, First off, I don't exactly know where Im going with this message, Im just hoping a bunch of people out there go "Ya, I know exactly what you mean!" haha. Ok, so there are tons of different ways people out there layout their hobbit "presentation" to themselves, clients, etc... Just from reading the mailing list for the past 6 months, I've seen so many different ways: * Normal hobbit * No prop pred stuff * Alternate pagesets * Multiple bbdisplays * Multiple instances * Password protected stuff * Different ways of labeling thing via NET etc... I often wonder "Am I doing this right? Is there a better way to present all this stuff? I don't even use NKview (or critical view in the new version) Should I be" Most importantly "When I convert all of operations to hobbit, I will have a hobbit server in NY, and one where I am, and im sure they will want different views/pages etc... and I will want to look at their stuff, but not get paged on it etc. etc. etc., what am I going to do then?" Right now, Im saving all the hobbit mails that deal specifically with page layout in the hopes that in the future, I will be able to look at them all and try and extract from all the emails the different ways of doing things. The man pages are very good, if you know what your looking for. There are things you can do though that are more what you want, you just don't see them because your not looking for them. To that end, (and Im not sure exactly how this could be accomplished) Im wondering if there is some way to show everyone the different options. Almost like a web page that has something like: Scenerio #1: You are the admin, and want to see every host on one page, and you have users that need to only see the first 10 hosts, and users that need to see the second 10 hosts, and users that need to see the first 20. Here are the different ways this could be setup. Link 1 to a view of the page with the various config options you would need Link 2 to a view of the page done differently with the various config options etc... Scenerio #2 <next scenerio> etc... Thats just one idea. I just think there are so many ways of doing things with this, and I may not even know of one, but when I saw it I would say "YA! Thats exactly what I want mine to look like" and I could make it happen. Maybe I'm the only one that feels this way though :-D Anyway, just thought I would throw this out to the list and see what people thought. Sometimes you just need to push a ball down a hill to get it rolling :-) Thanks, jeff

2 1

Server side tests stopped
by jeffrey.chandler＠gmail.com 16 Jun '06

16 Jun '06

Hello, This morning when I got into work, I noticed that last night at around 6:15 pm local time, the server side tests on Hobbit (conn, ssh, smtp, dns, etc.) stopped on all of the machines that my Hobbit server polls. When I restarted the Hobbit Daemon, the tests returned from Purple to green, but I do not know exactly what the problem was. On Monday of this week, I incrementally upgraded from 4.1.1 to 4.1.2 and then 4.1.2p1 and followed the Upgrade instructions along the way. Is there anything that I can do after the fact to find out what might have caused this to happen? I searched through the log files, and did not find anything that would indicate what might have been the problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Jeff

1 0