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[hobbit] Hobbit newbie from BB: differences and what may I lose from migrating?
by brodie＠mcw.edu 01 Aug '06

01 Aug '06

Most of the comments have addressed specific concerns. I will however, add my two cents worth, having just upgraded from a pure BB situation. First off, I was never aware of Hobbit. I got introduced to it when I was playing with my BB setup at Usenix, and someone basically said "cool, but have you seen THIS?". As soon as I got home, I fired up Hobbit on a test server, and began to play. Here's my observations, all of which I hope you can appreciate: * Building, installation: Much better, and cleaner than BB. In fact, the BB clients insisted you configured the local (client) bb-hosts file with "itself". Not necessary with Hobbit. Cool part: Once you get a particular client built (say, for Solaris 2.8/2.9), you can tar it up and untar it on the remote clients. Set up a hobbit user id, set up the init.d script, and voila. I had to deploy this across 140 servers. I got to the point where I could set up a new client in about a minute and 30 seconds. * Configuration: As said, most of the stuff is configured ON THE SERVER. This is just *so* much better than BB. All of my tests, alarms, etc, are on the server. Only exception are client-based EXT scripts. I grabbed one for Oracle monitoring (bb-moracle) and it worked with hobbit just great. * Performance: I am monitoring 140 servers from a single-processor P4 server. Barely uses any resources. The network tests work much faster than how BB handled it. My average system load is 0.2. Woooof. * RRD: This is what sold me. The built-in trend graphs are well.... just far too cool for words. Trend graphs for cpu use.. disk... memory, etc. We had a huge ORCA installation that I trashed when I saw this. * Remote enable, disable: Very very cool. Yes, there's a bit of a learning curve for things like the hobbit-alerts.cfg file, or hobbit-clients.cfg file, but these come with time after playing, and we'll help you out. Overall, since I fired this up in lieu of BB, I haven't looked back and am *VERY* impressed with what I have seen. And I used BB a lot. And, development is active and the community is growing. The "old" BB is basically dead from what I can see. -----Original Message----- From: Gary B. [mailto:gmbfly98 at gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 3:55 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit newbie from BB: differences and what may I lose from migrating? > First, after reading through whatever I could find on the website I am > still a little bit confused about configuration and setup........................

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BBWin Preview 0.8 available
by etienne.grignon＠gmail.com 01 Aug '06

01 Aug '06

Hello everyone, I publish today BBWin 0.8 (a free Big Brother Hobbit Windows client). You can download the MSI installer of this preview from http://sourceforge.net/projects/bbwin This preview contains the following stuffs: + New Features * svcs agent has now a delay setting which tell the agent to do not monitor the Windows services for a short time after the startup of the computer * Msgs agent have priority and count options * You may use environment variables for hostname and paths settings (registry and BBWin.cfg) * Cpu agent can monitor uptime like the original Big Brother client. It is off by default. * Cpu agent reports usage for each cpu * ext directory is now created at the installation so the tree really looks like hobbit tree. * hostname, logpath, binpath, etcpath, tmppath registry settings can be environment variables (e.g.: %VARNAME%) * default hostname is %COMPUTERNAME% + Updates * cpu agent on multi processor computers is now sending the correct cpu usage * disk is now reporting correctly disk which had a size smaller than 1 mb * autoreload is now on by default * BBWin doesn't exits any more on configuration errors * Msgs default delay for matchs rules may be overridden by a generic setting * Msgs now reports date with 24h time format + Important note : * A memory leak has been discovered in BBWin 0.7 due to a bug in the CRT library shipped with Visual C++ 2005. I'm forced to use the Visual ToolKit 2003 since not update is available yet for this bug. (SP1 public download not yet available) Here the page that explain the bug : http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=129031&SiteID=1&PageI… http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?Feedba… Important Upgrade note : If you are upgrading from an older BBWin version, the disk, procs, and externals agents may not be upgraded because of a version error in the old package. So, the easiest way to upgrade BBWin to 0.8 is to delete disk.dll, procs.dll and externals.dll before the upgrade or by doing a repair by the MSI package after the upgrade. There are not too many new features in BBWin 0.8 in appearance but, deeply, it was an important upgrade because I changed a lot of thing so BBWin can have the centralized mode hobbit mode to follow the steps of the Unix side. Because it wasn't enough terminated and because the hobbitd backend part is not yet started, I didn't include it in BBWin 0.8. However, this version corrects many stuffs. To finish, as you can see, I'm a bit slower than Henrik to implement features... I'm still an hobbit padawan :) Have a nice day, -- Etienne

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Windows Client
by Vernon.Everett＠dpi.wa.gov.au 01 Aug '06

01 Aug '06

Hi all I have been asleep for a while, and not monitoring what's been going on, but can anybody tell me the status of the Windows client? When I last paid close attention to the list, the client was in beta, and if I recall, did a pretty OK job. (I installed it on a test system) But that was at the old job. New job, new Hobbit installation, and the Windoze crowd want to see the client. What's news? Regards Vernon

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[hobbit] Shire: update
by brodie＠mcw.edu 01 Aug '06

01 Aug '06

Agreed- "OS" would include disk ,cpu ,etc. "Environment" is for external monitors for things like, temp, water, fire, etc. Some sites use these things heavily. --------------------------------------------------------- Kent C. Brodie - brodie at phys.mcw.edu Department of Physiology Medical College of Wisconsin (414) 456-8590 -----Original Message----- From: Ralph Mitchell [mailto:ralphmitchell at gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 9:16 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Shire: update On 8/1/06, Brodie, Kent <brodie at mcw.edu> wrote: > One category I'd like to see is a place for user-created config files to > go as examples. For example, sample bb-hosts files, hobbit-clients.cfg, > hobbit-alerts.cfg, etc. I had a wee bit of struggling to get the > behavior of some of the alerting rules right, for example. > > As far as categories in general, I agree deadcat has too many..... > > My $0.02: > > Network > Disk > Email > Databases > HTTP > Config Examples > Environment > Security > > At least to start with- perhaps a few more. I think most items can be > lumped in here somewhere. How about "OS" - or System Health?? Your Disk category could be a subset of that. It would include stuff like the Sparc/Solaris temperature monitor from Deadcat. Or would that be part of Environment? Ralph Mitchell To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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Scheduled maintenances
by plardinois＠be.tiauto.com 01 Aug '06

01 Aug '06

Hello, Are the "Scheduled actions" stored somewhere in a file or in a list on the Hobbit server ? Or is there an other way to list them than via the enable/disable interface ? Thanks. Regards, Pierre _____________________________ 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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Build error todays snapshot (31/7)
by lars.ebeling＠leopg9.no-ip.org 01 Aug '06

01 Aug '06

gcc -g -O -D_REENTRANT -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DHPUX -I. -I /home/hobbit/snapshot/include -I/usr/local/include -c -o hobbit-notesedit.o hobb it-notesedit.c hobbit-notesedit.c: In function `main': hobbit-notesedit.c:157: error: `PATH_MAX' undeclared (first use in this function ) hobbit-notesedit.c:157: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once hobbit-notesedit.c:157: error: for each function it appears in.) make[1]: *** [hobbit-notesedit.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/hobbit/snapshot/web' make: *** [web-build] Error 2 Regards Lars Ebeling Hobbithobbyist http://leopg9.no-ip.org ¤ "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." --Bertrand Russell

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Source code commit-messages now available
by henrik＠hswn.dk 01 Aug '06

01 Aug '06

Someone asked a while back if I would make the revision control commit-messages available, so it would be possible to track more closely what I'd changed. I've added this to the daily snapshot build, so that it extracts the changelogs for stuff that has been checked in during the past week, and during the past 24 hours. You'll find them from the "Hobbit project" menu on http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/, or if you'd rather link to them directly then they are at http://www.hswn.dk/beta/snapshot/changelog-yesterday.txt and http://www.hswn.dk/beta/snapshot/changelog-lastweek.txt They are updated daily at approximately 22:30 UTC when the daily snapshot is generated Regards, Henrik

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Display issues with SMTP and FTP status pages - 4.2RC20060712
by rgordonjr＠gmail.com 01 Aug '06

01 Aug '06

Hello - I installed the 4.2RC20060712 system today and I am noticing some formatting issues with the status noted above the graph on the SMTP and FTP pages.. Not sure if it affects other pages as well. Mon Jul 31 22:52:14 2006 smtp ok Service smtp on monitor is OK (up) 220 ESMTP..250-monitor Hello monitor [10.5.142.16], pleased to meet you..250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES..250-PIPELINING..250-8BITMIME..250-SIZE 83886080..250-DELIVERBY..250 HELP..250 2.1.0 monitor at monitor... Sender ok..221 2.0.0 monitor closing connection.. Seconds: 0.03 In version 4.1.2, each response was on its own line... 220 ESMTP 250-monitor Hello monitor [10.5.142.16], pleased to meet you 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250-PIPELINING 250-8BITMIME 250-SIZE 83886080 250-DELIVERBY 250 HELP 250 2.1.0 monitor at monitor... Sender ok 221 2.0.0 monitor closing connection Any ideas on how I can fix the output in the 4.2RC version? Thanks! -- --==[ Bob Gordon ]==--

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[hobbit] "disk1" graphs
by jonescr＠cisco.com 01 Aug '06

01 Aug '06

Re-visiting this topic again, as I seem to be unable to turn on the disk1 graphs, either in the trends column, or in the normal disk display. The latest hobbit now has the disk1 entry already in hobbitgraph.cfg, so what change do I need to make in order to have the graph displayed in addition to the normal disk graph? -Charles On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 02:03:27PM -0700, Charles Jones wrote: > BB (by default?) displays 2 disks graphs, the first one (disk) shows the > percentage used, and the other (disk1) shows the actual total used in > megabytes of each partition. How do I activate the disk1 graph? [snip] > > I assume that part of the answer is adding a disk1 entry to > hobbitgraph.cfg Right, and this is the part that would make the graphs work with the URL you tried. This definition should do it: [disk1] FNPATTERN disk(.*).rrd TITLE Disk Utilization YAXIS Used DEF:p (at) RRDIDX@= (at) RRDFN@:used:AVERAGE LINE2:p (at) RRDIDX@# (at) COLOR@:@RRDPARAM@ -u 100 -l 0 GPRINT:p (at) RRDIDX@:LAST: \: %5.1lf (cur) GPRINT:p (at) RRDIDX@:MAX: \: %5.1lf (max) GPRINT:p (at) RRDIDX@:MIN: \: %5.1lf (min) GPRINT:p (at) RRDIDX@:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf (avg)\n > 1. How do I add the disk1 graph so it is shown in addition to the normal > disk graph when you click a disk service? Right now you cannot do that. The status-report webpage only shows one graph, and you cannot configure which one. Sorry ... > 2. How do I add the disk1 graph so that it is displayed in the trends > section? LARRDS is used to figure out how a status report is parsed to extract the RRD data; GRAPHS is used to decide which graphs show up on the "trends" page. So you'll want to add it to the GRAPHS setting. Henrik

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New all-in-one patch coming?
by cleaver＠redwire.net 01 Aug '06

01 Aug '06

Question: Is another AIO patch planned to be put out prior to the final release of 4.2? - Japheth Cleaver cleaver at redwire.net

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