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Question about CLASS= & classname
by steve.aiello＠ge.com 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

Was just curious if anyone had any information, or docs I missed that details CLASS= more. Thanks, > -----Original Message----- > From: Aiello, Steve (GE, Corporate, consultant) > Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 9:52 AM > To: 'hobbit at hswn.dk' > Subject: Question about CLASS= & classname > > > Per the hobbit-clients.cfg documentation I read the following: > CLASS=classname Rule match by the client class-name. You specify > the class-name for a host when starting the client through the > "--class=NAME" option to the runclient.sh script. If no class is > specified, the host by default goes into a class named by the > operating system. > > My questions: > The default classname setting of the operating system, which > value is it ? When I look at the client data of a host I see > the following: > [uname] > Linux serverName 2.6.16-gentoo-r7 i686 > [osversion] > Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 > > Is the default value of classname set to [uname] or > [osversion]. Also is it the full name ? If so do I define my > CLASS="Linux serverName 2.6.16-gentoo-r7 i686" ? Can regular > expresion be used, CLASS=%Linux.* ? > > Can a host be defined to more than one class, i.e. > 1.2.3.4 serverName # ssh CLASS:Linux CLASS:webServer > > If a host can have more than one class definition, what > happens when you get CLASS configuration parameter collision ? > > Also, it may bee helpful to have the Info report show which > class the device falls under. > > Thank you, > Steve >

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Client build fails on Debian 2.1/slink (i386)
by cgoyard＠cvf.fr 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

Hi, I got a conflict with dprintf() when compiling the hobbit client on Debian 2.1. It runs : GNU C Library production release version 2.0.7, by Roland McGrath et al. gcc 2.7.2.3 The error is : gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DLINUX -I. -I/tmp/cvf/include -DCLIENTONLY=1 -I. -I../include -c cgiurls.c -o cgiurls.o In file included from /tmp/cvf/include/libbbgen.h:55, from cgiurls.c:24: /tmp/cvf/include/../lib/errormsg.h:21: conflicting types for `dprintf' /usr/include/stdio.h:159: previous declaration of `dprintf' I guess this is a problem with former releases of gcc that fails to have multiple prototypes. If I add -D__STRICT_ANSI__ or -ansi to CFLAGS (stdio.h' dprintf is conditionnal to this), it builds a little more and fails later : gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DLINUX -I. -I/tmp/cvf/include -ansi -DCLIENTONLY=1 -I. -I../include -c sig.c -o sig.o sig.c: In function `setup_signalhandler': sig.c:77: storage size of `sa' isn't known sig.c:107: warning: implicit declaration of function `sigaction' Any ideas ? (by the way debian 2.1 needs sco's PATH_MAX... patch too) -- Charles Goyard - cgoyard at cvf.fr - (+33) 1 45 38 01 31

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NKedit and Instructions
by matthew.epp＠us.army.mil 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

Greetings! We've been using Big Brother in our datacenter here for over 5 years now, and I've been testing out Hobbit for a few weeks now, planning to eventually migrate to it. One of the things I'm trying to accomplish before moving fully to Hobbit is to integrate some of the customizations I've made to BB. The one feature I'm focusing on right now is similar to the "Instructions" section handled by NKedit. In my custom BB, I edited a section of dohostsvc.c to read in files containing plain text or html. This content gets placed at the bottom of any page generated from bb-dohostsvc.sh. Basically, a file called comments.conf resides in $BBHOME/www/comments/ and looks like this: ----[cut]---- # This is the configuration file for the Special Instructions section on # all Big Brother alert pages. To create a new alert message, put whatever # text you want into a new file, call it anything you like, but try to # stick to the convention of group.service. Wildcards also work, but place # them at the bottom of the file, so that absolute matches can override # the wildcard entries. # NOTE: Make sure there are no trailing spaces at the end of the line. # I'll be adding in error checking code for that asap. # Portal Application Servers rules group hostname*.int.*.us.army.mil.disk appservers.disk Army_Home_Page.http Army_Home_Page.http mail*.http mail_servers # # Place all wildcard matches below here # *.cpu ALL.cpu *.disk ALL.disk *.msgs ALL.msgs *.procs ALL.procs *.http ALL.http *.conn ALL.conn ----[cut]---- Then, in the same directory, you just create the files like appservers.disk, or mail_servers, whatever you've called them, and the content loads whenever anyone goes to a bb-dohostsvc.sh page that matches. It works really well, and the only downside is having to ssh in and manually edit the conf file and content files. But you can use any html code you want, and don't have to worry about extra spaces, line feeds/carriage returns, etc. What I need to do now is decide how best to proceed with setting this up in Hobbit. I'd like to be able to edit the content from the web interface somehow. The "Instruction" field in the existing nkedit is good for short comments, but we've been using long descriptive html output with web links and such. With some experimentation, I found that you can do the same thing in nkedit, but you have to remove any special tags like nbsp; and all newline characters or it makes the hobbit-nkview.cfg file unreadable. I'm going to start looking at the source for bb-hostsvc.sh tomorrow to see where I'd need to make changes, but I wanted to throw this out there to see if anyone had any thoughts. If anyone else would also like my existing code for BB, I can post that. :) --- Matthew Epp Sr Unix Engineer Army Knowledge Online (PEO/EIS) / CherryRoad Technologies Sitesupport Engineering (SEO)

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R: [hobbit] RE : [hobbit] bb2 problem with pageset ?
by fduranti＠q8.it 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

Same here now that I'm checking. The bb2.html page for pageset is correct but the events in the bottom is reporting all events and not only those of the pageset. Francesco -----Messaggio originale----- Da: Beau Olivier [mailto:olivier.beau at telecomitalia.fr] Inviato: giovedì 20 luglio 2006 12.54 A: hobbit at hswn.dk Oggetto: [hobbit] RE : [hobbit] bb2 problem with pageset ? Has that changed ? it wasnt like this before (4.1.2p2) let me re-explain, i have a global bb2.html and unix pageset and a nt pageset that i use for bb2.html only. on my unix pageset bb2.html page, i have alerts of unix servers and eventlog of unix AND nt servers i pretty confused.. olivier -------- Message d'origine-------- De: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Date: jeu. 20/07/2006 12:41 À: hobbit at hswn.dk Objet : Re: [hobbit] bb2 problem with pageset ? On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 12:18:57PM +0200, Beau Olivier wrote: > > i'm running RC, and have noticed on the bb2 page of my UNIX pageset, that i have history event of all, not just of my unix servers... > > Is this a bug ? No, the bb2 page shows all hosts defined in Hobbit that are non-green, and the eventlog does the same. Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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[hobbit] Proxy
by Craig_Whilding＠mentor.com 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

I also put in the correct ip on my main server but use NET:location tags as I test other services other than ping from the proxy server. Thanks, Craig -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: 21 July 2006 07:53 To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Proxy On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 05:38:37PM -0500, Brodie, Kent wrote: > One question I didn't get answered (or, if I did, I missed it!) > > What IP address do I list in the bb-hosts file for the servers (the ones > it can't really see, but the proxy can)? > > Since I can't ping those hosts from my main BB server, but I still want > those hosts listed- I'm a bit confused.. :-) I'd put in the real IP-address, even though you cannot talk to it from your Hobbit server, and then a "noconn" so that Hobbit doesn't try to ping it from the normal server. The reason I put in the real IP is because this shows up in various places, e.g. the "info" column. And it's nice to have at hand when you need to do something with the system. Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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[hobbit] Web server or hobbit?
by Vernon.Everett＠dpi.wa.gov.au 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

Hi Henrik (and others that helped) I found the solution on this rather strange and obscure web site. :-) http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2006/01/msg00015.html It's all fixed now. Regards Vernon -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Friday, 21 July 2006 2:59 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Web server or hobbit? On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 01:09:59PM +0800, Everett, Vernon wrote: > Hi all > > I am installing a new Hobbit server, running 4.1.2p1 on Solaris 10 > with Apache 2.2.0 It's starting to look good. I get the main hobbit > page come up, and many green faces smiling at me. > However, whenever I click on a face, or any menu option that runs a > script, my browser opens a dialogue box and wants to start a download. > :-( If you do download it, then what's in the file - a shell script, or an HTML document ? If it's a shell script, then your cgi directories are not seen as such, and you're just getting the shell script sent back to you as a plain file. If it's an HTML document, then the CGI program runs and generates the correct response - in that case, I suspect that your webserver doesn't provide the right Content-type header, although the Hobbit CGI programs all try their best to set this correctly. If you've got something like "curl" installed then running curl -i http://hobbit-cgi/..... |more will show you the headers sent by the webserver. If you dont have that, then you can just telnet to the webserver on port 80, and send it GET http://hobbit-cgi/..... <hit enter twice> Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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Web server or hobbit?
by Vernon.Everett＠dpi.wa.gov.au 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

Hi all I am installing a new Hobbit server, running 4.1.2p1 on Solaris 10 with Apache 2.2.0 It's starting to look good. I get the main hobbit page come up, and many green faces smiling at me. However, whenever I click on a face, or any menu option that runs a script, my browser opens a dialogue box and wants to start a download. :-( When I go to the Hobbit home page with the same browser, it all works OK, so I am certain it's either a stuff-up with my Hobbit install, or an Apache server config problem. Everything in the ~hobbit/cgi-* is readable and executable by all. What's happening here? Have I missed something? Regards Vernon

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[hobbit] Proxy
by brodie＠mcw.edu 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

One question I didn't get answered (or, if I did, I missed it!) What IP address do I list in the bb-hosts file for the servers (the ones it can't really see, but the proxy can)? Since I can't ping those hosts from my main BB server, but I still want those hosts listed- I'm a bit confused.. :-) -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 4:24 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Proxy bbproxy is written so it can run as a stand-alone application. So unless you want to run network tests against the cluster nodes (your next question), then you can just copy the bbproxy executable over to the head node and run it by itself. However, since you probably also want to do a ping test of the cluster nodes, it would make the most sense to do a Hobbit server installation on the head node. The you would disable everything in hobbitlaunch.cfg, except the bbproxy and the network test tasks. Regards, Henrik On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 03:47:03PM -0500, Brodie, Kent wrote: > Followup: > > What is the typical or preferred way of "running bbproxy" ? Do I > simply fire up the bbproxy executable, feeding it the few options it > needs, or do I set up a "hobbit server" on that node with > specially-configured files found in ../server/etc? > > > --------------------------------------------------------- > Kent C. Brodie - brodie at phys.mcw.edu > Department of Physiology > Medical College of Wisconsin > (414) 456-8590 > -----Original Message----- > From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] > Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 3:34 PM > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: Re: [hobbit] Proxy > > On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 02:18:58PM -0500, Brodie, Kent wrote: > > Hi- can someone briefly explain how the bbproxy stuff works? We > > have a cluster whose "head node" is accessible, but the cluster nodes > > are hidden behind that server. > > > > If someone can explain how something like this is set up, that'd be > > super.. > > > > ============================================================= > (network) > > [hobbit server] [most of my nodes] [head node] > > || > > || > > [cluster nodes] > > Since your cluster nodes can talk to the head node, and the head node > can talk to the hobbit server, the most simple solution would be to run > bbproxy on the head node of the cluster. > > Your cluster nodes would then use the head node's bbproxy as their > BBDISPLAY server. bbproxy on the head node would be configured to > forward messages to the real hobbit server. To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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[hobbit] Web server or hobbit?
by Vernon.Everett＠dpi.wa.gov.au 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

Some extra info When I right-click on a face icon, I get the Address as http://10.1.14.84/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?HOSTSVC=shire.bbgen&IP=127.0.0.1… Doing the same on the column descriptions gives me an Address of http://10.1.14.84/hobbit-cgi/hobbitcolumn.sh?hobbitd Anybody see anything odd in that? Regards Vernon -----Original Message----- From: Everett, Vernon [mailto:Vernon.Everett at dpi.wa.gov.au] Sent: Friday, 21 July 2006 1:46 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] Web server or hobbit? Yep, I got that. Took what what generated in the ~hobbit/server/etc/hobbit-apache.conf and tacked it on the end of the httpd.conf. (This has always worked for me in the past) See below for settings. Regards Vernon --- from httpd.conf --- # NB: The "Alias" line below must NOT be used if you have # the Hobbit webfiles as the root URL. In that case, # you should instead set this: # # DocumentRoot /export/home/hobbit//server/www Alias /hobbit/ "/export/home/hobbit/server/www/" <Directory "/export/home/hobbit/server/www"> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes MultiViews Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> ScriptAlias /hobbit-cgi/ "/export/home/hobbit/cgi-bin/" <Directory "/export/home/hobbit/cgi-bin"> AllowOverride None Options ExecCGI Includes Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> ScriptAlias /hobbit-seccgi/ "/export/home/hobbit/cgi-secure/" <Directory "/export/home/hobbit/cgi-secure"> AllowOverride None Options ExecCGI Includes Order allow,deny Allow from all # Password file where users with access to these scripts are kept. # Create it with "htpasswd -c /export/home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitpasswd USERNAME" # Add more users / change passwords with "htpasswd /export/home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitpasswd USERNAME" AuthUserFile /export/home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitpasswd AuthType Basic AuthName "Hobbit Administration" Require valid-user </Directory --- End --- -----Original Message----- From: kolbjorn.barmen at uninett.no [mailto:kolbjorn.barmen at uninett.no] Sent: Friday, 21 July 2006 1:32 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Web server or hobbit? On Fri, 21 Jul 2006, Everett, Vernon wrote: > Hi all > > I am installing a new Hobbit server, running 4.1.2p1 on Solaris 10 > with Apache 2.2.0 It's starting to look good. I get the main hobbit > page come up, and many green faces smiling at me. > However, whenever I click on a face, or any menu option that runs a > script, my browser opens a dialogue box and wants to start a download. > :-( > > When I go to the Hobbit home page with the same browser, it all works > OK, so I am certain it's either a stuff-up with my Hobbit install, or > an Apache server config problem. > Everything in the ~hobbit/cgi-* is readable and executable by all. > > What's happening here? Have I missed something? You need to configure apache so that it knows that the cgi directories are indeed just that :) Something like this ScriptAlias /hobbit-cgi/ "/usr/lib/hobbit/cgi-bin/" <Directory "/usr/lib/hobbit/cgi-bin"> AllowOverride None Options ExecCGI Includes </Directory> ScriptAlias /hobbit-seccgi/ "/usr/lib/hobbit/cgi-secure/" <Directory "/usr/lib/hobbit/cgi-secure"> AllowOverride None Options ExecCGI Includes </Directory> -- Kolbjørn Barmen UNINETT Driftsenter 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

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[hobbit] Web server or hobbit?
by Vernon.Everett＠dpi.wa.gov.au 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

Yep, I got that. Took what what generated in the ~hobbit/server/etc/hobbit-apache.conf and tacked it on the end of the httpd.conf. (This has always worked for me in the past) See below for settings. Regards Vernon --- from httpd.conf --- # NB: The "Alias" line below must NOT be used if you have # the Hobbit webfiles as the root URL. In that case, # you should instead set this: # # DocumentRoot /export/home/hobbit//server/www Alias /hobbit/ "/export/home/hobbit/server/www/" <Directory "/export/home/hobbit/server/www"> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes MultiViews Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> ScriptAlias /hobbit-cgi/ "/export/home/hobbit/cgi-bin/" <Directory "/export/home/hobbit/cgi-bin"> AllowOverride None Options ExecCGI Includes Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> ScriptAlias /hobbit-seccgi/ "/export/home/hobbit/cgi-secure/" <Directory "/export/home/hobbit/cgi-secure"> AllowOverride None Options ExecCGI Includes Order allow,deny Allow from all # Password file where users with access to these scripts are kept. # Create it with "htpasswd -c /export/home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitpasswd USERNAME" # Add more users / change passwords with "htpasswd /export/home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitpasswd USERNAME" AuthUserFile /export/home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitpasswd AuthType Basic AuthName "Hobbit Administration" Require valid-user </Directory --- End --- -----Original Message----- From: kolbjorn.barmen at uninett.no [mailto:kolbjorn.barmen at uninett.no] Sent: Friday, 21 July 2006 1:32 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Web server or hobbit? On Fri, 21 Jul 2006, Everett, Vernon wrote: > Hi all > > I am installing a new Hobbit server, running 4.1.2p1 on Solaris 10 > with Apache 2.2.0 It's starting to look good. I get the main hobbit > page come up, and many green faces smiling at me. > However, whenever I click on a face, or any menu option that runs a > script, my browser opens a dialogue box and wants to start a download. > :-( > > When I go to the Hobbit home page with the same browser, it all works > OK, so I am certain it's either a stuff-up with my Hobbit install, or > an Apache server config problem. > Everything in the ~hobbit/cgi-* is readable and executable by all. > > What's happening here? Have I missed something? You need to configure apache so that it knows that the cgi directories are indeed just that :) Something like this ScriptAlias /hobbit-cgi/ "/usr/lib/hobbit/cgi-bin/" <Directory "/usr/lib/hobbit/cgi-bin"> AllowOverride None Options ExecCGI Includes </Directory> ScriptAlias /hobbit-seccgi/ "/usr/lib/hobbit/cgi-secure/" <Directory "/usr/lib/hobbit/cgi-secure"> AllowOverride None Options ExecCGI Includes </Directory> -- Kolbjørn Barmen UNINETT Driftsenter To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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