August 2006 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

[hobbit] ack'ing with --no-pin
by brodie＠mcw.edu 04 Aug '06

04 Aug '06

OK, that's how I thought it worked. One cool thing we ought to think about- email-based acks? Could that be possible? The hobbit server would have to be smtp-aware, and would have to forward hobbit-addressed emails to a script. I'm thinking along the lines that I have an alphanumeric pager with respond/send capability. Just dreamin'.... --------------------------------------------------------- Kent C. Brodie - brodie at phys.mcw.edu Department of Physiology Medical College of Wisconsin (414) 456-8590 ________________________________ From: Jerry Yu [mailto:jjj863 at gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 10:31 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] ack'ing with --no-pin I'll take a stab. >From the bb.html page you can access the administration->acknowlege event page. The access is restricted by htaccess, so create your htpasswd secrete file first. Therein, you can ack an event, specify how long the alert should be ignored, and why. The color of the check would change to a yellow check mark. click on it will say the information you entered when acknolwged (who/how long/why). So your teamates can go back to their picnic, assured that Mr. Smart is working on it. As for the no-pin option discussed in the thread, it affects how you pick an event to ack * with no-pin in effect, you get a list of event to pick * w/o no-pin in effect, you enter a PIN number embeded in the SUBJECT of the email alerts. On 8/4/06, Brodie, Kent <brodie at mcw.edu> wrote: Can someone briefly explain how ACK-ing works? --------------------------------------------------------- Kent C. Brodie - brodie at phys.mcw.edu Department of Physiology Medical College of Wisconsin (414) 456-8590 ________________________________ From: Jerry Yu [mailto:jjj863 at gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 9:28 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] ack'ing with --no-pin Question, Craig, where do you use this '--no-pin' to enable ack w/o PIN # from email ? I am using 4.2-RC-20060712 w/o patch on CentOS4/RHL9. On 8/4/06, Whilding, Craig <Craig_Whilding at mentor.com > wrote: Like the new ack'ing system, works well for some of the IT team who don't keep the email with the ack code. One thing I want to query is about the ack's in last 240 minutes section on the bb2 page. Should the acks still appear in this section? Currently they don't. Thanks, Craig Whilding IT Systems Administrator Edward Court Altrincham Business Park Altrincham WA14 5GL Tel: + 44 (0)161 926 1643 email: craig_whilding at mentor.com www.mentor.com

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ack'ing with --no-pin
by Craig_Whilding＠mentor.com 04 Aug '06

04 Aug '06

Like the new ack'ing system, works well for some of the IT team who don't keep the email with the ack code. One thing I want to query is about the ack's in last 240 minutes section on the bb2 page. Should the acks still appear in this section? Currently they don't. Thanks, Craig Whilding IT Systems Administrator Edward Court Altrincham Business Park Altrincham WA14 5GL Tel: + 44 (0)161 926 1643 email: craig_whilding at mentor.com www.mentor.com <file:///C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\cwhildin\Application%20Data\Micro soft\Signatures\www.mentor.com>

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[hobbit] make install error, latest snapshot
by David.Gore＠VerizonBusiness.com 04 Aug '06

04 Aug '06

Build/install error (make install) with the latest snapshot: chown hobbit /home/hobbit/server/logs /home/hobbit/server /home/hobbit/server/* /home/hobbit/server/bin/* /home/hobbit/server/etc/* /home/hobbit/server/ext/* /home/hobbit/server/web/* /home/hobbit/server/www/gifs /home/hobbit/server/www/gifs/* /home/hobbit/server/www/menu /home/hobbit/server/www/menu/* /home/hobbit/server/www/help /home/hobbit/server/www/notes /home/hobbit/server/www/html /home/hobbit/server/www/wml /home/hobbit/data /home/hobbit/data/* chown: changing ownership of `/home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbit': No such file or directory chown: changing ownership of `/home/hobbit/server/web/web': No such file or directory make[1]: *** [install-cfg] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/snapshot/hobbitd' make: *** [install-hobbitd] Error 2 -- David Gore (v965-3670) Enhanced Technology Support (ETS) Network Management Systems (NMS) IMPACT Transport Team Lead - SCSA, SCNA Page: 1-800-PAG-eMCI pin 1406090 Vnet: 965-3676

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[hobbit] ack'ing with --no-pin
by brodie＠mcw.edu 04 Aug '06

04 Aug '06

Can someone briefly explain how ACK-ing works? --------------------------------------------------------- Kent C. Brodie - brodie at phys.mcw.edu Department of Physiology Medical College of Wisconsin (414) 456-8590 ________________________________ From: Jerry Yu [mailto:jjj863 at gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 9:28 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] ack'ing with --no-pin Question, Craig, where do you use this '--no-pin' to enable ack w/o PIN # from email ? I am using 4.2-RC-20060712 w/o patch on CentOS4/RHL9. On 8/4/06, Whilding, Craig <Craig_Whilding at mentor.com > wrote: Like the new ack'ing system, works well for some of the IT team who don't keep the email with the ack code. One thing I want to query is about the ack's in last 240 minutes section on the bb2 page. Should the acks still appear in this section? Currently they don't. Thanks, Craig Whilding IT Systems Administrator Edward Court Altrincham Business Park Altrincham WA14 5GL Tel: + 44 (0)161 926 1643 email: craig_whilding at mentor.com www.mentor.com

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enabling disabled alerts
by michael_frey＠glic.com 04 Aug '06

04 Aug '06

After applying the latest patch, disabled alerts no longer re-enable after their scheduled time. Manually enabling from the Admin page, generates a "page cannot be found" error, with the below URL: /hobbit-cgi/(null)/hobbit-enadis.sh Enabling it manually from the test page directly, works. Michael Frey ----------------------------------------- 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] Madness
by Vernon.Everett＠dpi.wa.gov.au 04 Aug '06

04 Aug '06

Brilliant!!! Henrik, you think of everything :-) -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Friday, 4 August 2006 1:57 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Madness On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 10:52:05AM +0800, Everett, Vernon wrote: > Will Hobbit be OK monitoring 2 separate clients with the same host name? > > I know this is madness, but right now, I have to live with it. You must configure the client on each of them, so they use different hostnames when reporting to the Hobbit server. Otherwise, Hobbit cannot tell what server the data is from. The script you use to start the client - ~hobbit/client/runclient.sh - has a --hostname=NAME option that lets you set the name it uses to report data. So you'd setup two host entries in bb-hosts on the server, e.g. "pluto" and "oldpluto", and on the old server you'd start the client with "--hostname=oldpluto". Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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[hobbit] clientupdate and RC and version 4.2?
by David.Gore＠verizonbusiness.com 04 Aug '06

04 Aug '06

Client update still fails to work for us. What does it do? It downloads a clientupdate binary to the ~client/tmp directory. It can run manually: clientupdate --update=sunos8v14 So it fails somewhere between getting the clientupdate binary and running the clientupdate binary. Is there anything I can try to further troubleshoot this? Found update in progress or failed update (started 10 minutes ago) 2006-08-03 16:34:49 connect to bbd failed - Connection refused 2006-08-03 16:34:49 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - Connection failed Cannot fetch new client tarfile tar: blocksize = 0 2006-08-03 16:40:17 connect to bbd failed - Connection refused 2006-08-03 16:40:17 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - Connection failed Cannot fetch new client tarfile tar: blocksize = 0 Found update in progress or failed update (started 4 minutes ago) Is this going to be fixed for 4.2. There seem to be quite a number of bugs. How about a second release candidate? -- David Gore (v965-3670) Enhanced Technology Support (ETS) Network Management Systems (NMS) IMPACT Transport Team Lead - SCSA, SCNA Page: 1-800-PAG-eMCI pin 1406090 Vnet: 965-3676

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Madness
by Vernon.Everett＠dpi.wa.gov.au 04 Aug '06

04 Aug '06

Hi all Will Hobbit be OK monitoring 2 separate clients with the same host name? I know this is madness, but right now, I have to live with it. We have 2 servers on our network with the same hostname. (Different IP address, of course, but if I use the hostname or uname command, I get the same name. For the sake of discussion, let's call it pluto. It ended up like this because there are services running on old_pluto, that are being migrated to the new_pluto, but only half the services are migrated, and due to planning inadequacies, the migration is stalled - at least for the time being. I still want to minitor the services on both though. I know I can create an alias on the Hobbit display, but will there be problems with the data sent from the Hobbit client, or will the Hobbit server be happy with this? Cheers Vernon

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[hobbit] Madness
by JMSmith＠stvincenthealth.com 04 Aug '06

04 Aug '06

I will touch this after all...if you are using Big Brother clients on those servers, you can create a file named "bbaliasname" in $BBHOME/etc and put a different "DNS" name in it. -----Original Message----- From: ZanDAhaR [mailto:allan at zandahar.net] Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 10:07 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Madness Everett, Vernon wrote: > Hi all > > Will Hobbit be OK monitoring 2 separate clients with the same host name? > > I know this is madness, but right now, I have to live with it. > > We have 2 servers on our network with the same hostname. > (Different IP address, of course, but if I use the hostname or uname > command, I get the same name. > For the sake of discussion, let's call it pluto. > > It ended up like this because there are services running on old_pluto, > that are being migrated to the new_pluto, but only half the services are > migrated, and due to planning inadequacies, the migration is stalled - > at least for the time being. > > I still want to minitor the services on both though. > > I know I can create an alias on the Hobbit display, but will there be > problems with the data sent from the Hobbit client, or will the Hobbit > server be happy with this? > > Cheers > Vernon > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > > > Define a new and old DNS entry and change the hobbitclient.sh to hardcode the machine name instead of doing a uname ? Otherwise yeah I would imagine they will both update the same data set but dont quote me on that one Allan To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk 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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[hobbit] Madness
by brodie＠mcw.edu 04 Aug '06

04 Aug '06

I think it's ok, so long as the hobbit server differentiates between the two, AND the second host has its hobbit client modified to NOT use "uname", but rather a hardcoded name to match the entry on the hobbit server. Ugly, but manageable. Whatever server is the "new" one, that should have the "Pluto" name retained, so RRD data can be kept long term. -----Original Message----- From: ZanDAhaR [mailto:allan at zandahar.net] Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 10:07 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Madness Everett, Vernon wrote: > Hi all > > Will Hobbit be OK monitoring 2 separate clients with the same host name? > > I know this is madness, but right now, I have to live with it. > > We have 2 servers on our network with the same hostname. > (Different IP address, of course, but if I use the hostname or uname > command, I get the same name. > For the sake of discussion, let's call it pluto. > > It ended up like this because there are services running on old_pluto, > that are being migrated to the new_pluto, but only half the services are > migrated, and due to planning inadequacies, the migration is stalled - > at least for the time being. > > I still want to minitor the services on both though. > > I know I can create an alias on the Hobbit display, but will there be > problems with the data sent from the Hobbit client, or will the Hobbit > server be happy with this? > > Cheers > Vernon > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > > > Define a new and old DNS entry and change the hobbitclient.sh to hardcode the machine name instead of doing a uname ? Otherwise yeah I would imagine they will both update the same data set but dont quote me on that one Allan To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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