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[hobbit] RRD errors- where to look?>
by JMSmith＠stvincenthealth.com 27 Jul '06

27 Jul '06

I had a similar experience when I first set up Hobbit after running Big Brother for four years on a different server. I had set up Big Brother to forward status messages to Hobbit, but Hobbit was pinging servers, too, so it was getting a double-shot of data. ________________________________ From: Brodie, Kent [mailto:brodie at mcw.edu] Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 9:37 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] RRD errors- where to look?> Hi- can anyone help me figure out where to hunt for the cause of these? Rrd-data.log: (every 5 minutes) 2006-07-26 22:01:56 Internal error: Duplicate match ignored 2006-07-26 22:02:34 Internal error: Duplicate match ignored 2006-07-26 22:02:34 Internal error: Duplicate match ignored 2006-07-26 22:06:59 Internal error: Duplicate match ignored 2006-07-26 22:06:59 Internal error: Duplicate match ignored 2006-07-26 22:07:01 Internal error: Duplicate match ignored 2006-07-26 22:07:01 Internal error: Duplicate match ignored 2006-07-26 22:07:37 Internal error: Duplicate match ignored 2006-07-26 22:07:37 Internal error: Duplicate match ignored 2006-07-26 22:11:46 Internal error: Duplicate match ignored 2006-07-26 22:11:46 Internal error: Duplicate match ignored 2006-07-26 22:12:01 Internal error: Duplicate match ignored 2006-07-26 22:12:01 Internal error: Duplicate match ignored 2006-07-26 22:12:40 Internal error: Duplicate match ignored Rrd-status.log (weird- only and always from ONE host.... I have tried deleting all RRD data, still happens) 2006-07-26 17:04:02 RRD error updating /home/hobbit/data/rrd/taylor.brc.mcw.edu/disk,root.rrd from 141.106.224.178: illegal attempt to up date using time 1153951442 when last update time is 1153951442 (minimum one second step) 2006-07-26 17:09:04 RRD error updating /home/hobbit/data/rrd/taylor.brc.mcw.edu/disk,root.rrd from 141.106.224.178: illegal attempt to up date using time 1153951744 when last update time is 1153951744 (minimum one second step) 2006-07-26 17:14:07 RRD error updating /home/hobbit/data/rrd/taylor.brc.mcw.edu/disk,root.rrd from 141.106.224.178: illegal attempt to up date using time 1153952047 when last update time is 1153952047 (minimum one second step) 2006-07-26 17:19:09 RRD error updating /home/hobbit/data/rrd/taylor.brc.mcw.edu/disk,root.rrd from 141.106.224.178: illegal attempt to up date using time 1153952349 when last update time is 1153952349 (minimum one second step) 2006-07-26 17:24:12 RRD error updating /home/hobbit/data/rrd/taylor.brc.mcw.edu/disk,root.rrd from 141.106.224.178: illegal attempt to up date using time 1153952652 when last update time is 1153952652 (minimum one second step) 2006-07-26 17:29:15 RRD error updating /home/hobbit/data/rrd/taylor.brc.mcw.edu/disk,root.rrd from 141.106.224.178: illegal attempt to up date using time 1153952955 when last update time is 1153952955 (minimum one second step) 2006-07-26 17:34:17 RRD error updating /home/hobbit/data/rrd/taylor.brc.mcw.edu/disk,root.rrd from 141.106.224.178: illegal attempt to up date using time 1153953257 when last update time is 1153953257 (minimum one second step) 2006-07-26 17:39:20 RRD error updating /home/hobbit/data/rrd/taylor.brc.mcw.edu/disk,root.rrd from 141.106.224.178: illegal attempt to up date using time 1153953560 when last update time is 1153953560 (minimum one second step) --------------------------------------------------------- Kent C. Brodie - brodie at phys.mcw.edu Department of Physiology Medical College of Wisconsin (414) 456-8590 NOTICE: This email contains confidential or proprietary information which may be legally privileged. It is intended only for the named recipient(s). If an addressing error has misdirected the email, please notify the author by replying to this message. If you are not the named recipient, you are not authorized to use, disclose, distribute, copy, print or rely on this email, and should immediately delete it from your computer system.

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RRD errors- where to look?>
by brodie＠mcw.edu 27 Jul '06

27 Jul '06

Hi- can anyone help me figure out where to hunt for the cause of these? Rrd-data.log: (every 5 minutes) 2006-07-26 22:01:56 Internal error: Duplicate match ignored 2006-07-26 22:02:34 Internal error: Duplicate match ignored 2006-07-26 22:02:34 Internal error: Duplicate match ignored 2006-07-26 22:06:59 Internal error: Duplicate match ignored 2006-07-26 22:06:59 Internal error: Duplicate match ignored 2006-07-26 22:07:01 Internal error: Duplicate match ignored 2006-07-26 22:07:01 Internal error: Duplicate match ignored 2006-07-26 22:07:37 Internal error: Duplicate match ignored 2006-07-26 22:07:37 Internal error: Duplicate match ignored 2006-07-26 22:11:46 Internal error: Duplicate match ignored 2006-07-26 22:11:46 Internal error: Duplicate match ignored 2006-07-26 22:12:01 Internal error: Duplicate match ignored 2006-07-26 22:12:01 Internal error: Duplicate match ignored 2006-07-26 22:12:40 Internal error: Duplicate match ignored Rrd-status.log (weird- only and always from ONE host.... I have tried deleting all RRD data, still happens) 2006-07-26 17:04:02 RRD error updating /home/hobbit/data/rrd/taylor.brc.mcw.edu/disk,root.rrd from 141.106.224.178: illegal attempt to up date using time 1153951442 when last update time is 1153951442 (minimum one second step) 2006-07-26 17:09:04 RRD error updating /home/hobbit/data/rrd/taylor.brc.mcw.edu/disk,root.rrd from 141.106.224.178: illegal attempt to up date using time 1153951744 when last update time is 1153951744 (minimum one second step) 2006-07-26 17:14:07 RRD error updating /home/hobbit/data/rrd/taylor.brc.mcw.edu/disk,root.rrd from 141.106.224.178: illegal attempt to up date using time 1153952047 when last update time is 1153952047 (minimum one second step) 2006-07-26 17:19:09 RRD error updating /home/hobbit/data/rrd/taylor.brc.mcw.edu/disk,root.rrd from 141.106.224.178: illegal attempt to up date using time 1153952349 when last update time is 1153952349 (minimum one second step) 2006-07-26 17:24:12 RRD error updating /home/hobbit/data/rrd/taylor.brc.mcw.edu/disk,root.rrd from 141.106.224.178: illegal attempt to up date using time 1153952652 when last update time is 1153952652 (minimum one second step) 2006-07-26 17:29:15 RRD error updating /home/hobbit/data/rrd/taylor.brc.mcw.edu/disk,root.rrd from 141.106.224.178: illegal attempt to up date using time 1153952955 when last update time is 1153952955 (minimum one second step) 2006-07-26 17:34:17 RRD error updating /home/hobbit/data/rrd/taylor.brc.mcw.edu/disk,root.rrd from 141.106.224.178: illegal attempt to up date using time 1153953257 when last update time is 1153953257 (minimum one second step) 2006-07-26 17:39:20 RRD error updating /home/hobbit/data/rrd/taylor.brc.mcw.edu/disk,root.rrd from 141.106.224.178: illegal attempt to up date using time 1153953560 when last update time is 1153953560 (minimum one second step) --------------------------------------------------------- Kent C. Brodie - brodie at phys.mcw.edu Department of Physiology Medical College of Wisconsin (414) 456-8590

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hobbitlaunch.cfg question
by kolbjorn.barmen＠uninett.no 27 Jul '06

27 Jul '06

I'm wondering... the hobbitlaunch.cfg man page says.. "The key is enclosed in angle brackets, and must be unique for each task. You can choose your key-names as you like, they are only used internally in hobbitlaunch to identify each task." But what if I do have 2 keys with identical names, which one will be used? I get the impression that it's the last one, but I'm not sure. My idea is that I can leave the "original" hobbitlaunch.cfg untouched except for a "directory hobbitlaunch.d" at the end, and then override keys with files in that directory. -- Kolbjørn Barmen UNINETT Driftsenter

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Feature request : Wildcards in BB command
by plardinois＠be.tiauto.com 27 Jul '06

27 Jul '06

Hello, Should it be possible to change the bb command so it accepts wilcards ? example : bb --debug 127.0.0.1 "hobbitdlog *.ip" Thanks. Regards, Pierre Lardinois _____________________________ 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.

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[hobbit] include directives in hobbitlaunch.cfg, hobbitgraph.cfg
by bgmilne＠staff.telkomsa.net 27 Jul '06

27 Jul '06

On Tuesday 30 May 2006 11:38, Henrik Stoerner wrote: > On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 06:10:23PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote: > > Since we're looking to package some of our (server and client) extension > > scripts for hobbits in RPMs (to work nicely with the rest of our server > > deployment setup for Linux boxen), it would be really convenient if we > > could dump the entry for hobbitlaunch.cfg/clientlaunch.cfg and > > hobbitgraph.cfg in separate files, and use include directives (with > > support for globs) in the relevant config files. ie, supporting something > > like: > > > > include /etc/hobbit/hobbitlaunch.d/*.cfg > > This is in 4.2. In your main hobbitlaunch.cfg, put a line with > > directory /etc/hobbit/hobbitlaunch.d/ > > and it will include all files in this directory as if they were part of > the main file. Argh, I missed this mail. Using globbing would prevent tricky problems with backup files, temporary files. For example, one of our developers did an include for the contents of a directory in a web application. While trying to troubleshoot, another member of our team had the file open in vim, and had very weird results do to the application trying to interpret the swap file ... For people packaging extensions (specifically RPMs, maybe other packaging systems), .rpmsave/.rpmnew files may also produce weird effects. But, even if it stays as is it will help, thanks! Regards, Buchan -- Buchan Milne ISP Systems Specialist B.Eng,RHCE(803004789010797),LPIC-2(LPI000074592)

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bb2 problem with pageset ?
by olivier.beau＠telecomitalia.fr 27 Jul '06

27 Jul '06

Hi, 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 ? Olivier

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wrong vmstat graph on centos 4.3 (RHAS 4.3 )
by jjj863＠gmail.com 27 Jul '06

27 Jul '06

I have 4.2-RC-20060712 server & client running on two CentOS servers. The local client on the server has it ok for its vmstat graph (user/sys/idle is reasable and sum up to 100%). The remote client's vmstat obviously was reading some bogus data. I left CLIENTOS= commented out in /etc/default/hobbit-client. read some old posts regarding RHL 9, whose vmstat has 'r b w' instead of 'r b' as seen on RHEL4. any idea what CLIENTOS= I should set it to? I tried to purge the vmstat rrd for that client and it came back still bad.

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[hobbit] NKedit and Instructions
by matthew.epp＠us.army.mil 26 Jul '06

26 Jul '06

> -----Original Message----- > From: henrik at hswn.dk [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] > Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 5:24 AM > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: Re: [hobbit] NKedit and Instructions > > You're welcome to look at the source code, but this particular bit of > Hobbit is not one of the prettier in terms of how it's implemented :-) > Eventually you will end up in lib/htmllog.c and try to tweak that. Just completed my modification to htmllog.c and the code is working perfectly so far. I'm not a very skilled C coder though, so there may be some potential bugs in the code. I can post the code if anyone wants to try it out. It isn't a very drastic change to the file, just the function and an additional #include. > However, I think you could do this without changing a single line of > code in Hobbit. The ~hobbit/server/web/hostsvc_footer is already > inserted at the bottom of all the status pages (in the default setup, > it's just a link to bb_footer, but copy that and make your own file). I tried that at first, and it sort of worked, however I noticed that only Firefox even showed the object at all. Internet Explorer just acts as if the <object> tag isn't even there. I didn't like how it was within a frame with a scrollbar either, and wasn't sure if there was a way to easily change that. > One nice aspect of this is that you have completely de-coupled the > maintenance of the instructions from Hobbit. If you have a content > management system for uploading the instructions, you can use that to > maintain the data. Or any other tool which is appropriate. I don't have a content management system yet, so I guess the next step is to look at how you control the editing of the hobbit-nkview.cfg and emulate that for my comments.conf and other content files.

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custom event log
by kolbjorn.barmen＠uninett.no 26 Jul '06

26 Jul '06

I've set up an irc-bot to tail the allevents log, do some simple reformatting before puting it out on our "sysadm" channel. First, what are all the columns in that log.. I dont grasp 5th and 8th :) Secondly, is there a way to generate a similar log with a summary of the event attached at the end? -- Kolbjørn Barmen UNINETT Driftsenter

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[hobbit] process checks and user IDs
by shea_greg＠emc.com 26 Jul '06

26 Jul '06

The stock 'ps' from Solaris can use the -o option for format So a command like, ps -eo user,pid,args would give you: raditz#66 <Grs> ps -eo user,pid,args USER PID COMMAND root 0 sched root 1 /etc/init - root 2 pageout root 3 fsflush root 1076 /usr/lib/saf/sac -t 300 root 342 /usr/apache/bin/httpd root 221 /usr/sbin/cron ... HTH -Grs- -----Original Message----- From: Charles Jones -X (charljon - Cisco Learning Institute at Cisco) [mailto:charljon at cisco.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 3:22 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] process checks and user IDs I don't know if it helps, but on Solaris you can usually use /usr/ucb/ps instead of the normal ps, which has similar options to the linux ps, including the -w (wide output) flags which will show full process names. -Charles ________________________________ From: Gary B. [mailto:gmbfly98 at gmail.com] Sent: Tue 7/25/2006 12:18 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] process checks and user IDs I've looked through all the documentation, and can't find any information on how Hobbit processes the process check rules. I ask because we have some BB process check rules that check for user IDs in the ps output, rather than an actual process, and there's no real way of converting that into Hobbit. Also, the Solaris ps output doesn't include the full process name, so I can't check for the process that way either. Any suggestions? To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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