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cpu alerts
by billieperez＠gmail.com 10 Aug '06

10 Aug '06

Hello - I have a standby hobbit server running 4.2-alfa-20060423, with alerts configured the same as the primary hobbit server running 4.2.1RC1. I have a duration of 10m set up for the cpu alert and have been noticing cpu alerts coming before the 10 minutes (cpu only panics for 4:59) and only sends the alert doesn't send a recovery. Like I mentioned I have the same alert configured on another hobbit server and don't get alerts from that one, only the standby. Has anyone seen different behavior with alerting for this hobbit version? Any ideas why this might be happening? I have a bunch of other alerts set up that seem to be behaving properly, it just seems to be cpu that is acting different. Here's the alert config - MAIL $UNIX HOST=%(server1|server2|server3) DURATION>10m RECOVERED SERVICE=cpu COLOR=red,purple Thanks in advance for any info

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noconn and Enable/disable CGI
by Dominique.Frise＠unil.ch 09 Aug '06

09 Aug '06

Hi, We have hosts split across multiple pages and for service or OS grouping, same hosts can appear on several pages. Our admins are complaining that if they are viewing a page were there are hosts with the "noconn" tag, these do not appear in the Enable/disable hosts selection. It seems that the "Acknowledege Alert" CGI with the --no-pin flag has the same kind of behaviour. Is there a -hidden- configuration solution for this? Dominique UNIL - University of Lausanne

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Bbgen problems with latest snapshot
by fduranti＠q8.it 08 Aug '06

08 Aug '06

I've a problem with bbgen and pageset... I'm creating a new set of pages with the bbgen pageset feature of hobbit and I've found I've a problem with the default host tag with bbgen. I've a set of pages definition in the bb-hosts file for bbgen: beapage PServers Prod Servers beagroup Physical Servers beagroup Virtual Servers beapage PDomains Prod Domains beagroup WLI Domains beagroup WLS Internal Domains beagroup WLS Internet Domains beapage PDatabase Prod DB Servers before defining the host i want to go to those pageset i define the default and then the host: 0.0.0.0 .default. # BEA:PDomains,3 group-compress WLS Internet Web Sites 0.0.0.0 Q8 # noconn nodisp beastat 0.0.0.0 Q8.Q8Server # noconn beaping BEA:PDomains,3 0.0.0.0 Q8.Q8Server_1 # noconn beaping 0.0.0.0 Q8.Q8Server_2 # noconn beaping 0.0.0.0 Q8Oils # noconn nodisp beastat Now the Q8.Q8Server is going to the pageset in the group number 3 (I've added the definition in the host to see if it work)... all the other ones don't get the .default. tag .... Another problem with pageset is that i cannot create .rss file in the pagesets... someone know if I'm doing something wrong or if it's normal or a bug? To create the pageset i've a script I call from the hobbitlaunch with 2 parameters that will result in this output: BBWEB="/hobbit/BEA"; BBMENUSKIN="$BBWEB/menu"; exec bbgen --pageset=bea --report=bbgen-bea --nopurple --nstab=BEA/nstab.html $BBGENOPTS $BBHOME/www/BEA my BBGENOPTS is BBGENOPTS="--recentgifs --subpagecolumns=2 --nopropred=msgs,vmio --pagetext-headings --timing --docurl=/hobbit/admin/notes.php?host=%s --rssversion=2.0 --eventignore=uptime,event,msgs,vmio,legato --includecolumns=graph --bb2-ignorecolumns=legato --rss" Thanks Francesco

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Shire: update
by gjohnson＠trantor.org 03 Aug '06

03 Aug '06

Just wanted to give everyone a heads up on the new monitor site that is being set up (theshire.sf.net)...Sourceforge accepted it late last night ( around midnight EDT). I want to work with Henrik a bit to make sure that our visions converge on this. I also need to set up the categories (at a minimum) before turning everyone loose...I would prefer there to be some structure in place beforehand. Please be patient...I really appreciate everyone's enthusiasm for this project and I hope to have everything going in the next few days. It's also been a LONG time since I've done anything on SF and need to refresh my memory about things (and become familiar with some of the new tools). =G=

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Host Notes
by jonescr＠cisco.com 03 Aug '06

03 Aug '06

Do you plan on adding a cgi to enable live editing of "notes" (www/notes/hostname) files? I saw in the manpage for bb-gen mention of a script on dead-cat that gives that functionality, but I would like to eventually see something that builds a "nice looking" notes page that has the same background and font color etc as the rest of the Hobbit pages. Currently if you just put something in a notes file you get a big ugly white screen with the raw text. Maybe a header/footer for the notes page would solve that? -Charles

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setting up multiple servers
by stephane.caminade＠ias.u-psud.fr 03 Aug '06

03 Aug '06

Hi, I m a bit unclear as to the syntax used for the BBDISPLAYS variable. If I want to set up 2 servers, for redundancy, I set BBDISP to 0.0.0.0, but what is used for separating the servers in BBDISPLAYS ? Just a blank, a comma, ... ? And on the replicated servers, I guess that I have to modify both server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg and client/etc/hobbitclient.cfg with those same settings ? Thanks, Stephane -- _____________________________________________________________________________ Stephane Caminade Administrateur Systèmes et Réseaux \ <Stephane.Caminade at ias.u-psud.fr> Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale / tel : (33) (1) 69 85 87 03 Batiment 121, Universite Paris XI \ fax : (33) (1) 69 85 86 75 F-91405 ORSAY Cedex / www : http://www.ias.u-psud.fr/ _____________________________________________________________________________

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Availability report
by rsmrcina＠wi.rr.com 03 Aug '06

03 Aug '06

What is the difference between the types of availability reports (critical, non-green, all)? When I run each report, they appear to generate the same data. Thanks. -- Rich Smrcina VM Assist, Inc. Phone: 414-491-6001 Ans Service: 360-715-2467 rich.smrcina at vmassist.com Catch the WAVV! http://www.wavv.org WAVV 2007 - Green Bay, WI - May 18-22, 2007

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[hobbit] Host Notes
by jonescr＠cisco.com 03 Aug '06

03 Aug '06

Henrik, Forgive me, as I am not thinking clearly today (it is Monday afterall). You give a patch for bb-webpage.c, but I am unclear as to whether I am supposed to replace the orig bb-webpage with this new one, or rename patched version to "hostnotes", and craft a "hostnotes.sh" to go in the cgi directory that calls it? I understand that using the header and footer file will give the notes the standard hobbit look, which will be nice. Please tell me again in different terms how I should do this (or maybe I should just read it tommorrow when I'm thinking better haha). Thanks, -Charles On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 07:05:04PM -0700, Charles Jones wrote: > Do you plan on adding a cgi to enable live editing of "notes" > (www/notes/hostname) files? I saw in the manpage for bb-gen mention of a > script on dead-cat that gives that functionality, but I would like to > eventually see something that builds a "nice looking" notes page that > has the same background and font color etc as the rest of the Hobbit > pages. Currently if you just put something in a notes file you get a big > ugly white screen with the raw text. > > Maybe a header/footer for the notes page would solve that? Here's a simple solution for viewing the host notes, using mostly the tools you already have: * a notes_header and notes_footer file, mostly cloned from the existing bb_header and bb_footer files. These go in your ~hobbit/server/web/ directory. * a simple CGI using the bb_webpage utility. This goes in your ~hobbit/cgi-bin/ directory. Testing this revealed a bug in bb_webpage, so there's a patch for it as well. To use this, add "--docurl=$CGIBINURL/hostnotes.sh?HOST=%s" to BBGENOPTS in hobbitserver.c and restart Hobbit. The CGI shell-script currently looks only for files named .../notes/HOSTNAME - you can probably figure out how to change this if you want to look for HOSTNAME.html, HOSTNAME.txt or whatever you like. Regards, Henrik --- web/bb-webpage.c 2006/05/03 21:12:33 1.8 +++ web/bb-webpage.c 2006/07/28 07:12:09 @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ /* */ /*----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/ -static char rcsid[] = "$Id: bb-webpage.c,v 1.8 2006/05/03 21:12:33 henrik Exp $"; +static char rcsid[] = "$Id: bb-webpage.c,v 1.9 2006/07/28 07:12:00 henrik Exp $"; #include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> @@ -63,8 +63,8 @@ headfoot(stdout, hffile, "", "header", bgcolor); do { - n = fread(inbuf, sizeof(inbuf), 1, stdin); - if (n > 0) fwrite(inbuf, n, 1, stdout); + n = fread(inbuf, 1, sizeof(inbuf), stdin); + if (n > 0) fwrite(inbuf, 1, n, stdout); } while (n == sizeof(inbuf)); headfoot(stdout, hffile, "", "footer", bgcolor); <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT="60"> <META HTTP-EQUIV="EXPIRES" CONTENT="Sat, 01 Jan 2001 00:00:00 GMT"> <TITLE>&BBBACKGROUND : Hobbit - Host notes for &HOSTNAME</TITLE>  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="&BBMENUSKIN/menu.css">  <link rel="shortcut icon" href="&BBSKIN/favicon-&BBBACKGROUND.ico"> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="&BBBACKGROUND" BACKGROUND="&BBSKIN/bkg-&BBBACKGROUND.gif" TEXT="#D8D8BF" LINK="#00FFAA" VLINK="#FFFF44"> <TABLE SUMMARY="Topline" WIDTH="100%"> <TR><TD HEIGHT=16> </TD></TR>  <TR> <TD VALIGN=MIDDLE ALIGN=LEFT WIDTH="30%"> <FONT FACE="Arial, Helvetica" SIZE="+1" COLOR="silver"><B>&HOBBITLOGO</B></FONT> </TD> <TD VALIGN=MIDDLE ALIGN=CENTER WIDTH="40%"> <CENTER><FONT FACE="Arial, Helvetica" SIZE="+1" COLOR="silver"><B>Host notes - &HOSTNAME</B></FONT></CENTER> </TD> <TD VALIGN=MIDDLE ALIGN=RIGHT WIDTH="30%"> <FONT FACE="Arial, Helvetica" SIZE="+1" COLOR="silver"><B>&BBDATE</B></FONT> </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD COLSPAN=3> <HR WIDTH="100%"> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <BR> <CENTER> <FONT FACE="Arial, Helvetica" SIZE="+1" COLOR="silver"> </CENTER> </FONT> <BR><BR> <TABLE SUMMARY="Bottomline" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD> <HR WIDTH="100%"> </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD ALIGN=RIGHT><FONT FACE="Arial, Helvetica" SIZE="-2" COLOR="silver"><B><A HREF="http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/" <http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/%22>; style="text-decoration: none">Hobbit Monitor &HOBBITDREL</A></B></FONT></TD> </TR> </TABLE>  <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript" src="&BBMENUSKIN/menu.js"></script>  <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript" src="&BBMENUSKIN/menu_items.js"></script>  <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript" src="&BBMENUSKIN/menu_tpl.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript"> new menu (MENU_ITEMS, MENU_POS); </script> </BODY> </HTML>

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Disk monitoring via free blocks
by JamesHorwath＠glic.com 03 Aug '06

03 Aug '06

I have very large file systems I need to monitor, and the standard hobbit/bb client monitors won't allow monitoring by bytes left, which is what I need. The deadcat site has been down for the past 2 days, and I didn't see anything but wish requests for byte free monitoring. I need this for AIX, does anyone have the bb disk client for bytes free they can send me, or give any quick pointers on how to do this natively in hobbit. My hobbit server is 4.1.2p1. At this point it appears I will have to roll my own byte free monitor. I would appreciate any tips or code anyone could supply. Regards, Jim ----------------------------------------- This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you.

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[hobbit] core in hobbitd_alert, clientupdate
by David.Gore＠verizonbusiness.com 03 Aug '06

03 Aug '06

Backtrace on the core, this is the latest snapshot. I do not have the patience to fully test clientupdate, so I will assume it is broken otherwise and that it may be fixed in the final version. Regardless this is for hobbitd_alert: [hobbit at hobbit server]$ gdb bin/hobbitd_alert tmp/core.29742 GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (6.3.0.0-1.122rh) 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 "i386-redhat-linux-gnu"...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1". warning: exec file is newer than core file. Reading symbols from shared object read from target memory...done. Loaded system supplied DSO at 0x4f2000 Core was generated by `hobbitd_alert --checkpoint-file=/home/hobbit/server/tmp/alert.chk --checkpoint-'. Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted. warning: svr4_current_sos: Can't read pathname for load map: Input/output error Reading symbols from /lib/libpcre.so.0...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libpcre.so.0 Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2 #0 0x004f2402 in __kernel_vsyscall () (gdb) bt #0 0x004f2402 in __kernel_vsyscall () #1 0x00538159 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6 #2 0x005396e3 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6 #3 0x0805a0f3 in sigsegv_handler (signum=11) at sig.c:57 #4 <signal handler called> #5 0x0054dc46 in vfprintf () from /lib/libc.so.6 #6 0x00553282 in fprintf () from /lib/libc.so.6 #7 0x08049dd7 in save_checkpoint (filename=0x9878098 "/home/hobbit/server/tmp/alert.chk") at hobbitd_alert.c:242 #8 0x0804a9ea in main (argc=Cannot access memory at address 0xffffffff ) at hobbitd_alert.c:502 (gdb) q The cores match up with these entries in page.log: 2006-07-23 14:50:45 Worker process died with exit code 134, terminating 2006-07-23 20:02:22 Worker process died with exit code 134, terminating 2006-07-24 11:51:27 Worker process died with exit code 134, terminating And these in hobbitlaunch.log 2006-07-23 14:50:45 Task bbpage terminated, status 1 2006-07-23 20:02:22 Task bbpage terminated, status 1 2006-07-24 11:51:27 Task bbpage terminated, status 1 Server is Fedora Core 5.

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