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

27 Jul '06

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 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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conn test fails / comes back
by stephane.caminade＠ias.u-psud.fr 26 Jul '06

26 Jul '06

Hi, I just upgraded to RC, and noticed a very strange thing. When I use fping OR hobbitping, the connection test goes red, then green, and cycles like that for all hosts. I made sure I had no phantom process on the machine by killing everything owned by the hobbit user, then starting the server from scratch, and all tests are fine, except for the connection test. Any idea where that might come from ? 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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Critical systems summary?
by brodie＠mcw.edu 26 Jul '06

26 Jul '06

Is there some way to show "critical systems" that are defined? The editor only seems to handle one at a time, which I understand... it would be nifty if you could see the "list" of critical systems and the names of the tests that were picked to be critical. Could that perhaps be a choice in the critical systems VIEW? I..e, instead of seeing "red", or "red+yellow", could we add "red+yellow+green" ?? Phrased differently, while it's cool and nice to see critical systems that need attention, I think it's also handy to "see a lit of what we defined to be critical" ??? Just a thought- thanks! -kcb

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