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Memory graph display of MB instead of % ?
by jonescr＠cisco.com 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

Is there a way I can optionally create a memory graph that shows the MB used, instead of the percentage?

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[hobbit] Hobbit client on VMWare ESX 3
by eingram＠pchl.com 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

Found it. You have to open a port in the built in firewall to allow outbound to 1984. Unless you set the security to LOW (basically no firewall) when you install, you have to run this command in the console to open up the port: esxcfg-firewall --openPort 1984,tcp,out That did it. Ed Edward Ingram Sr. Systems Engineer - MCSE, CCNA People's Choice Home Loan, Inc. eingram at pchl.com 949.341.2041 949.341.2201 FAX ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ This e-mail is intended solely for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged information. Any review, dissemination, copying, printing or other use of this e-mail by persons or entities other than the addressee is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please contact the sender immediately and delete the material from any computer. ________________________________ From: Dan Vande More [mailto:bigdan at gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 11:51 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit client on VMWare ESX 3 It's port 1984 (Big brother (now hobbit), get it?) Anyway, I will appreciate any notes you can give for getting it on ESX3. I just put a production instance up last week, and have several more going in over the next few months. Thanks On 7/21/06, Jason Chambers <Jason.Chambers at geosoft.com> wrote: Try telnetting from the client to the server. I think it's port 1720? Jason Chambers IT Helpdesk Support <http://www.geosoft.com/20> eosoft Inc. 85 Richmond St. West - 8th Floor Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5H 2C9 Tel: 416-369-0111 x344 Fax: 416-369-9599 www.geosoft.com From: Ed Ingram [mailto:eingram at pchl.com] Sent: July-21-06 2:16 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Hobbit client on VMWare ESX 3 Has anyone tested this configuration? I'm running hobbitserver and client version 4.2-RC-20060712. The server is working fine with a large number of other windows and linux clients, but this one client running vmware esx 3 does not seem to work. I know ESX 3 comes with firewall rules built in, but I'm able to ping the hobbit server from the esx server and vice versa. Anyways...this is what I keep getting in the log file: 2006-07-20 17:05:42 Could not connect to bbd at 1.2.3.4:1984 - Connection refused 2006-07-20 17:05:42 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - Connection failed Ed Edward Ingram Sr. Systems Engineer - MCSE, CCNA People's Choice Home Loan, Inc. eingram at pchl.com <mailto:eingram at pchl.com> 949.341.2041 949.341.2201 FAX ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ This e-mail is intended solely for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged information. Any review, dissemination, copying, printing or other use of this e-mail by persons or entities other than the addressee is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please contact the sender immediately and delete the material from any computer.

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Proxy server doesn't run local client tests
by brodie＠mcw.edu 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

Hi- on my proxy server, it seems like the local client tests aren't running at all. Do I have to separately fire up the client, even though I *do* have the client enabled in hobbitlaunch.cfg? --------------------------------------------------------- Kent C. Brodie - brodie at phys.mcw.edu Department of Physiology Medical College of Wisconsin (414) 456-8590

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Hobbit client on VMWare ESX 3
by eingram＠pchl.com 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

Has anyone tested this configuration? I'm running hobbitserver and client version 4.2-RC-20060712. The server is working fine with a large number of other windows and linux clients, but this one client running vmware esx 3 does not seem to work. I know ESX 3 comes with firewall rules built in, but I'm able to ping the hobbit server from the esx server and vice versa. Anyways...this is what I keep getting in the log file: 2006-07-20 17:05:42 Could not connect to bbd at 1.2.3.4:1984 - Connection refused 2006-07-20 17:05:42 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - Connection failed Ed Edward Ingram Sr. Systems Engineer - MCSE, CCNA People's Choice Home Loan, Inc. eingram at pchl.com <mailto:eingram at pchl.com> 949.341.2041 949.341.2201 FAX ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ This e-mail is intended solely for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged information. Any review, dissemination, copying, printing or other use of this e-mail by persons or entities other than the addressee is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please contact the sender immediately and delete the material from any computer.

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[hobbit] bbfix functionality in hobbit
by KauffmanT＠nibco.com 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

Yup. There's always the case that the process died for a good reason and it's going to die again as soon as it restarts. If you don't set up the restart/recovery routine with a bit of logic to quit after a while you can end up with a box that's spending all its cycles just restarting, dumping, and dying. I learned that one the hard way :-) Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -----Original Message----- From: Aiello, Steve (GE, Corporate, consultant) [mailto:steve.aiello at ge.com] Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 12:11 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] bbfix functionality in hobbit I agree completely with Henrik. Adding 'intelligence' into a script is rather difficult. But I do have a rather 'painful' IIS ASP application. And frequently IIS will die, hang, stop processing ASP. So I wrote a script that runs on each IIS server, that queries the HTTP status from the monitoring server and if the status is red all dllhost & inetinfo processes are killed & the IIS is started. My fear was that this restart script could be stuck in a loop, i.e. possibility that IIS can not be started. So I added the intelligence into my script that logs the date & time of each time the script restarts IIS. It will only restart, if it has not done it more than 3 times in the last hour. Lately I have been thinking of adding in more logic to check if a restart occured in the last 5 minutes (poling period). Becuase I have seen the restart script do it's job and fix IIS, but the monitoring server has not checked yet. Thus the restart script bounces IIS again... > -----Original Message----- > From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] > Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 11:07 AM > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: Re: [hobbit] bbfix functionality in hobbit > > > On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 10:21:40AM -0400, Gary B. wrote: > > Is there any method with hobbit to have the client automatically > > restart services, like bbfix does for BB? We would like to > be able to > > restart services that tend to fail often (such as SSH tunnels) > > automatically through Hobbit. Without writing a custom external > > script, I can't seem to find any information about doing this. > > You will need to do some scripting, no doubt about that. > > Whether it's a good idea or not ... it depends. From the > Hobbit "design" perspective (whoa - that sounds expensive) I > have a very firm belief that Hobbit should *monitor* things, > not *fix* them. I have seen far too many "intelligent" > systems get in the way of real problem-fixing because > "intelligent" systems are usually pretty dumb, and cannot > handle anything out of the ordinary. When they try, they > often fail in spectacular ways. > > And having things happen behind your back - because you > forgot about that little automatic script someone else setup > 2 years ago - is just plain frustrating. > > With that little sermon as introduction, here's what you can > do. On the host(s) where you want to restart these services, > write a script to query the Hobbit server for the status of > the service. If it's red, do the restart. You can use the > Hobbit "query" command to tell what status the service has. > E.g. if you want to reset the SSH tunnels when the "tunnels" > status goes red, then this little script run from the Hobbit > client's clientlaunch.cfg would do it: > > #!/bin/sh > > TUNNELSTATUS=`$BB $BBDISP "query $MACHINE.tunnels"|awk > '{print $1}'` > if test "$TUNNELSTATUS" = "red"; then > sudo /etc/init.d/sshtunnels stop > sleep 5 > sudo /etc/init.d/sshtunnels start > echo "`date`: SSH tunnels restarted" > fi > > exit 0 > > > 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 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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[hobbit] bbfix functionality in hobbit
by gmbfly98＠gmail.com 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

Is there any method with hobbit to have the client automatically restart services, like bbfix does for BB? We would like to be able to restart services that tend to fail often (such as SSH tunnels) automatically through Hobbit. Without writing a custom external script, I can't seem to find any information about doing this. Thanks

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[hobbit] Sigsegv in Bbtest-net
by tschenk＠pironet-ndh.com 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

Thanks ;) Regards, Thomas > > This is a bug which gets triggered if you do a traceroute when the > ping test fails. Patch attached. > > > Regards, > Henrik > >

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Clientupdate minimum version
by jeffrey.chandler＠gmail.com 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

Hello, I couldn't find any documentation regarding this, but is there a minimum version for the clientupdate to work properly? I have just upgraded my server to the RC for 4.2, but I am still using the BigBrother client and deploying the client to my servers step by step, and would prefer not to have to deploy clients again once a "stable" version is released. Thanks, Jeffrey Chandler

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Suppressing tests?
by James.Gearing＠analog.com 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

Does anyone know of a simple way, maybe in the bb-hosts file to suppress tests? I'd like to suppress the "info" and "conn" and a few other custom test column names, for some, but not all clients. Im using hobbit server 4.2 with BB 1.9i clients.

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[hobbit] clientupdate?
by David.Gore＠verizonbusiness.com 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

Henrik, What is the status (this release? next release?) of clientupdate to automatically update the client? We read the man page and configured it, hoping it would work. Obviously, it would save us a lot of time. Here is what we get on the client: tail -f hobbitclient.log 2006-07-19 13:30:59 connect to bbd failed - Connection refused 2006-07-19 13:30:59 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - Connection failed Cannot fetch new client tarfile tar: blocksize = 0 ls -al ../tmp -rw-r--r-- 1 nmsbb staff 0 Jul 19 13:36 .inprogress.update -r-xr-x--- 1 nmsbb staff 165540 Jul 19 13:30 .update.omzimp01.1153315859.tmp Anything we can do to help, or hack this to get it to work? ~David

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