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Hobbit vs Nagios
by allan＠zandahar.net 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

Hey guys, As much as I dont want to move away from Hobbit/Big Brother I have been asked to compare Hobbit to Nagios. I would imagine quite a number of people on this list have experienced many of the offerings out theere before changing to hobbit or using a combination of products. I've done a quick google and there is a bit of stuff out there but obviously the more the merrier. So yeah pros cons from all aspects would be quite welcome and perhaps the results could be stuck up on the Wiki somewhere Cheers Allan

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[hobbit] Packages for Solaris OS
by James.Gearing＠analog.com 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

I compiled the client on one Solaris 9 system. Then zipped up the client dir and have used it on Solaris 6,7,8,9,10 with out issue. You just have to copy gcc and make to one system, download and compile. Not sure if it will work on 5. Good luck! -----Original Message----- From: Camp.external at qimonda.com [mailto:Camp.external at qimonda.com] Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 8:46 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] Packages for Solaris OS Have tried getting gcc from www.sunfreeware.com ? -----Original Message----- From: Lardinois, Pierre [mailto:plardinois at be.tiauto.com] Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 7:47 AM To: 'hobbit at hswn.dk' Subject: [hobbit] Packages for Solaris OS Hello, We plan to install Hobbit Client on several unix servers & workstations, but we do not have any compiler installed on these machines. Are there any pre-installed packages of Hobbit Client for these OS : - Solaris 2.5.1 - Solaris 2.6 - Solaris 2.7 - Solaris 2.8 Thanks for your help. Regards, ___________________________________________________ Network Monitoring hobbit at support.tiauto.com Pierre Lardinois TI Automotive - Belgium/Liege 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. 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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Question/feature request
by lists-eric＠softlution.com 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

Hello, I have a question on Hobbit: how can I find out what the exact "Unexpected service response" is on a network test? I have an FTP test that fails momentarily for (to me) mysterious reasons... Would it be possible to put the actual value of the unexpected service response in the error message? Regards, Eric van de Meerakker.

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[hobbit] rrd question
by olivier.beau＠telecomitalia.fr 03 Jul '06

03 Jul '06

Concerning this new cgi, could we have access to a similar cgi just for the specific graph, having a second zoom gif underning the actual zoom gif ? -----Message d'origine----- De : Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Envoyé : lundi 3 juillet 2006 15:51 À : hobbit at hswn.dk Objet : Re: [hobbit] rrd question On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 02:54:56PM +0200, Beau Olivier wrote: > > Is it possible set change the default storage history in hobbit's rrd files ? > -> i'ld like to be able to zoom in a graph and have a precise view on the last 30 days, not just the last 48 hours.. It's possible with the new hobbit-hostgraphs tool available in the snapshots. It lets you select one or more hosts/graphs and a time period, and then it shows the graph for just that period of time. You can try it on http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/ - go to the "Systems" page and pick the "Report" -> "Metrics report" menu-item. Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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[hobbit] rrd question
by Craig_Whilding＠mentor.com 03 Jul '06

03 Jul '06

Just had a look and that really is an excellent utility I can see a lot of use for, hopefully convince the network guys to integrate with hobbit more readily too! Thanks, Craig -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: 03 July 2006 14:51 To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] rrd question On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 02:54:56PM +0200, Beau Olivier wrote: > > Is it possible set change the default storage history in hobbit's rrd files ? > -> i'ld like to be able to zoom in a graph and have a precise view on the last 30 days, not just the last 48 hours.. It's possible with the new hobbit-hostgraphs tool available in the snapshots. It lets you select one or more hosts/graphs and a time period, and then it shows the graph for just that period of time. You can try it on http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/ - go to the "Systems" page and pick the "Report" -> "Metrics report" menu-item. Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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Alternate to sendmail daemon on hobbit server
by vadud3＠gmail.com 01 Jul '06

01 Jul '06

Hi All Currently all alerts from hobbit server comes from the server and a reply back to server access the server on smtpd daemon. Then it process thru dot-forward and procmailrc. Then calls hobbit-mailack to ack. Current setup: 1. hobbitd alert ----> relay server ----> pager 2. pager ----> smtpd on hobbit server I want to set it up like this. Steps: 1. hobbitd alert ----> relay server ----> pager 2. pager ----> relay server ----> hobbitd What would be the hobbit way I can send the ack from relay server to hobbitd server without open smtpd on hobbitd? -- Asif Iqbal PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu

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[hobbit] Problems starting hobbit
by skasperowicz＠c-cor.com 01 Jul '06

01 Jul '06

Thanks Charles, I actually did run ipcs and ipcrm, which got me to my current problem ;). I have also edited /etc/system (Solaris machine) to add more shared memory segments, but I think this is another problem now. Maybe I should just recompile on a different machine and see if it works. Thanks, -Shaun ________________________________________ From: Charles Jones [mailto:jonescr at cisco.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 4:11 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Problems starting hobbit Don't know if it will help, but the last time I had this problem, the fix was completely stop hobbit, make sure all of the processes are gone, and run /usr/bin/ipcs. I had a bunch of shared memory segments that were hung, that I was able to remove using /usr/bin/ipcrm. Note the user in the ipcs output - do not remove segments belong to other users or you may break some other application you have running (I did that too) :-) If this does not help, you may need to edit your /etc/sysctl.conf and increase your shared memory. -Charles Kasperowicz, Shaun wrote: Henrik, In the other logfiles I have nothing. Hobbitlaunch.log is the only one getting any data. Hobbit user is owner of both /var/log/hobbit and everything under /usr/local/hobbit/. And when I run the bbcmd command you suggested, I get this: bash-2.03$ /usr/local/hobbit/server/bin/bbcmd hobbitd_channel --channel=stachg hobbitd_history 2006-06-28 15:15:16 Using default environment file /usr/local/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg 2006-06-28 15:15:16 Could not get shm of size 262144: No such file or directory 2006-06-28 15:15:16 Channel not available Looks like still more shared memory problems? Regards, -Shaun -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 5:38 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Problems starting hobbit On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 11:17:12AM -0700, Kasperowicz, Shaun wrote: Thanks Henrik, I was able to delete the stale shared memory segments and start hobbit. Still getting some errors in hobbitlaunch.log though: 2006-06-21 10:10:21 Setting up hobbitd channels 2006-06-21 10:10:21 Setting up logfiles 2006-06-21 10:10:26 Task bbhistory terminated, status 1 2006-06-21 10:10:26 Task bbpage terminated, status 1 2006-06-21 10:10:26 Task rrdstatus terminated, status 1 2006-06-21 10:10:26 Task rrddata terminated, status 1 2006-06-21 10:10:27 Task bbdisplay terminated by signal 9 2006-06-21 10:10:27 Task clientdata terminated, status 1 2006-06-21 10:10:27 Task bbcombotest terminated by signal 9 2006-06-21 10:10:32 Task clientdata terminated, status 1 2006-06-21 10:10:32 Task rrddata terminated, status 1 2006-06-21 10:10:32 Task rrdstatus terminated, status 1 2006-06-21 10:10:32 Task bbhistory terminated, status 1 I assume these are not normal? Hobbitd is running, but no web pages are being generated. It's definitely not normal. What's in the other logfiles besides hobbitlaunch.log ? Does you "hobbit" user have write access to the logfile directory and the ~hobbit/server/www/ directory ? What happens if you login as the hobbit user, then run ./server/bin/bbcmd hobbitd_channel --channel=stachg hobbitd_history

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