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INCLUDING annfs volume?
by brodie＠mcw.edu 25 Jul '06

25 Jul '06

I have a server with an NFS mount to a network storage array that I'd like to include in the "disk" test(s). From what I see, the default hobbit behavior si to check local disks only. Is there a clean or proper way to modify the behavior for one client to include an NFS (non-local) disk? --------------------------------------------------------- Kent C. Brodie - brodie at phys.mcw.edu Department of Physiology Medical College of Wisconsin (414) 456-8590

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How do you define days with "TIME" in the hobbit-alerts.cfg?
by James.Gearing＠analog.com 25 Jul '06

25 Jul '06

Hi all, I'm trying to setup my pager to alert me Monday - Friday, 7:00 - 24:00. I understand how to set the hours, but how do you set the days? All the examples I have seen with days in them, only list one day or *. To do multiple days, do you use "," between the days? Can you use a range character? I have also seen Wednesday listed as W or 3 in the examples, will either work? TIME=1,2,3,4,5:700:2400 <---is that right? Thanks, James

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[hobbit] process checks and user IDs
by gmbfly98＠gmail.com 25 Jul '06

25 Jul '06

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?

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Hobbitd_rrd status
by tschenk＠pironet-ndh.com 25 Jul '06

25 Jul '06

Hi all, Is it possible to get hobbitd_rrd to generate a status message when operating normally? With 4.2RC it generates a red status when it crashed (I tried some hacks ;), but no green status when it is restarted, so the status gets purple and has to be deleted manually. Regards, Thomas

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exhost question
by billieperez＠gmail.com 25 Jul '06

25 Jul '06

Hello, Could someone let me know how I can use 2 different domain names when excluding hosts in the hobbit-alerts.cfg? Example: exhost=%(server).test.com %(server).abc.intra. I tried to use a comma and space between the 2 domain names but it isn't taking it. Thanks in advance for any info

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[hobbit] core in hobbitd_alert, clientupdate
by David.Gore＠verizonbusiness.com 25 Jul '06

25 Jul '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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Ports problem?
by rsmrcina＠wi.rr.com 25 Jul '06

25 Jul '06

I have the following in hobbit-clients.cfg: HOST=conn2 PORT LOCAL=:2387 STATE=LISTEN "TEXT=VSAM Redirector" Netstat reports the following (from the ports page for the conn2 host): Active Internet connections (servers and established) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:2387 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:21 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:23 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 192.168.201.8:23 192.168.201.4:1987 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 :::22 :::* LISTEN There is a 2387 in the LISTEN state. The status comes back as red and I can not figure out why. Both client and server are running the RC-20060712 code. -- 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] DNS resolution
by brodie＠mcw.edu 24 Jul '06

24 Jul '06

Aha! Ok, thanks. I made the mistake of running that manually, and it kind of short circuited every CONN test out there on the running server. Oops. More pager batteries........................ --------------------------------------------------------- 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: Monday, July 24, 2006 3:56 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] DNS resolution On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 03:35:47PM -0500, Brodie, Kent wrote: > Hi- by the way, my cluster stuff is finally working the way I want. > Thanks for putting up with my ignorance on how the hobbitd and bbproxy > stuff co-exist (or don't)! > > In my bbtests column of my main server, I see: > > DNS statistics: > # hostnames resolved : 141 > # succesful : 136 > # failed : 5 > # calls to dnsresolve : 183 > > .... any idea what's the easiest way for me to discern "which" of my 183 > hosts are failing DNS resolution? The only way currently is to run bbtest-net with the --debug option, and grep the output for "DNS lookup failed". I've been asked before, so I really should add some way of easily finding this information, or at least provide a way of logging it. BTW, you don't have 183 hostnames - you have 141. The 183 is the number of times a hostname lookup was done, so some of them was via the cache that bbtest-net has. This is because the same hostname may be needed for multiple tests, e.g. if you use it in http url's that you test. Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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DNS resolution
by brodie＠mcw.edu 24 Jul '06

24 Jul '06

Hi- by the way, my cluster stuff is finally working the way I want. Thanks for putting up with my ignorance on how the hobbitd and bbproxy stuff co-exist (or don't)! In my bbtests column of my main server, I see: DNS statistics: # hostnames resolved : 141 # succesful : 136 # failed : 5 # calls to dnsresolve : 183 .... any idea what's the easiest way for me to discern "which" of my 183 hosts are failing DNS resolution? So far, very very cool. I'm using hobbit to monitor just boatloads of stuff. --------------------------------------------------------- Kent C. Brodie - brodie at phys.mcw.edu Department of Physiology Medical College of Wisconsin (414) 456-8590

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hobbitd keeps dying, cannot bind...
by brodie＠mcw.edu 24 Jul '06

24 Jul '06

Same cluster setup - the node I'm having all my issues with is my cluster head node- the one that's the server, and also the proxy server. I am having a devil of a time keeping hobbit running. Sometimes I can get it going... but it never seems to stay up for more than 5 minutes, and even after a full clean reboot, I can't get hobbitd to start at all. Here's my relevant log info: Hobbitlaunch.log: 2006-07-24 11:28:27 hobbitlaunch starting 2006-07-24 11:28:27 Loading tasklist configuration from /home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitlaunch.cfg 2006-07-24 11:28:27 Loading hostnames 2006-07-24 11:28:27 Loading saved state 2006-07-24 11:28:27 Setting up network listener on 0.0.0.0:1984 2006-07-24 11:28:27 Cannot bind to listen socket (Address already in use) 2006-07-24 11:28:27 Task hobbitd terminated, status 1 2006-07-24 11:28:32 Loading hostnames 2006-07-24 11:28:32 Loading saved state 2006-07-24 11:28:32 Setting up network listener on 0.0.0.0:1984 2006-07-24 11:28:32 Cannot bind to listen socket (Address already in use) 2006-07-24 11:28:32 Task hobbitd terminated, status 1 2006-07-24 11:28:37 Loading hostnames 2006-07-24 11:28:37 Loading saved state 2006-07-24 11:28:37 Setting up network listener on 0.0.0.0:1984 2006-07-24 11:28:37 Cannot bind to listen socket (Address already in use) 2006-07-24 11:28:37 Task hobbitd terminated, status 1 2006-07-24 11:28:42 Loading hostnames 2006-07-24 11:28:42 Loading saved state 2006-07-24 11:28:42 Setting up network listener on 0.0.0.0:1984 2006-07-24 11:28:42 Cannot bind to listen socket (Address already in use) 2006-07-24 11:28:42 Task hobbitd terminated, status 1 2006-07-24 11:28:47 Loading hostnames 2006-07-24 11:28:47 Loading saved state 2006-07-24 11:28:47 Setting up network listener on 0.0.0.0:1984 2006-07-24 11:28:47 Cannot bind to listen socket (Address already in use) 2006-07-24 11:28:47 Task hobbitd terminated, status 1 2006-07-24 11:28:52 Loading hostnames 2006-07-24 11:28:52 Loading saved state 2006-07-24 11:28:52 Setting up network listener on 0.0.0.0:1984 2006-07-24 11:28:52 Cannot bind to listen socket (Address already in use) 2006-07-24 11:28:52 Task hobbitd terminated, status 1 Bbproxy.log: 2006-07-24 11:28:27 bbproxy version 4.2-RC-20060712 starting 2006-07-24 11:28:27 Listening on 0.0.0.0:1984 2006-07-24 11:28:27 Sending to BBDISPLAY(s) 141.106.224.202:1984 2006-07-24 11:28:27 Sending to BBPAGER(s) 141.106.224.202:1984 Is there some conflict having a hobbit server and proxy going at once?

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