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[hobbit] Memory usage BBWIn 0.8
by ivan.verbeeck＠vmma.be 30 Aug '06

30 Aug '06

Etienne, After i changed the time to 10min, the memory used by BBWin is still growing, but not as fast as before. The event logs contains both information events and warning events. The stats for the 10m: Events Analyzed: 303 (1123 for 30m) Events Matched: 101 (404 fof 30m) Events Ignored: 0 The description fields of most of the events are about 200 chars long. Regards, Ivan -----Original Message----- From: Etienne Grignon [mailto:etienne.grignon at gmail.com] Sent: maandag 28 augustus 2006 16:53 To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Memory usage BBWIn 0.8 Hello again, 2006/8/28, Ivan Verbeeck <ivan.verbeeck at vmma.be>: > Etienne, > > The server is a Windows 2003 server with SP1(Standard Edition - > english). It's used as an application server with specific software(no > webserver,no database) and there is no other monitoring tool or > antivirus installed. > I figured out the module that is the cause the problem and its the > msgs.dll. If i remove that line from the the config the memory usages > seems normal. > The size of the event log is 58Mb (5days), with quite a lot of > activity in the application log. > Thank you for the mail, It is a nice information. Now, you can try to reduce the time of the events matched. Default is 30 minutes. You may try to reduce to 10 minutes by adding this to the msgs section : <setting name="delay" value="10m" /> Also could you give me the summary of your msgs column ? Summary: Events Analyzed: Events Matched: Events Ignored: Is it just information events or is it error or warning events ? Are the description fields long or not ? Regards, -- Etienne GRIGNON To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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compile-error
by thoughtprocess＠mac.com 30 Aug '06

30 Aug '06

Hello, there :) got an error while compiling hobbit - explored the net without results. maybe one of the list-member could help me? Checking for RRDtool ... test-rrd.c:3:17: error: rrd.h: No such file or directory gmake: *** [test-compile] Error 1 Not RRDtool 1.0.x, checking for 1.2.x test-rrd.c:3:17: error: rrd.h: No such file or directory gmake: *** [test-compile] Error 1 ERROR: RRDtool include files found in DIR=/tmp/hobbit_tar/rrdtool-1.2.15/src/, but compile fails. If you need more infos, please let me know. Thanks Karina

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cannot access man 1 pages on hobbitmon website
by gn1＠sanger.ac.uk 30 Aug '06

30 Aug '06

The files at url http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/docs/manpages/man1/ probably have the wrong permissions as they don't seem to be accessible. Cheers, Gildas

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empty pages/sections
by plardinois＠be.tiauto.com 30 Aug '06

30 Aug '06

Hello, In our bb-host file, we have a lot of subparent sections that are empty. Example : Page SiteA subpage WinServers Windows Servers subparent WinServers W2K Win2000 ... ... subparent WinServers W2K03 Win2003 ... ... ... subpage UnixServers Unix Servers Page SiteB subpage WinServers Windows Servers subparent WinServers W2K Win2000 ... ... subarent WinServers W2K03 Win2003 ... ... ... subpage UnixServers Unix Servers In that example the section "Unix Servers" is empty, but it appears in the Hobbit display anyway. Here comes my request about a new feature. Is it possible to : - either mark this section by another icon than the green diamond one in order to indicate that the section it is empty ? - either not show this empty section ? In the example, that means that the ~/server/www/UnixServers directory would not be generated by bbgen. 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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Windows Extension Scripts for HP Server?
by christian.maxeiner＠usd.de 30 Aug '06

30 Aug '06

Is there anyone who has set up ext Scipts for HP/Compaq Servers on Windows for Hobbit or BB? I am looking for a way to test Server Hardware, Disk Array Status etc. I have already looked at deadcat.net but didn't find something like that. Kind regards, Chris

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can't get rid of old status with "*" in its name
by cgoyard＠cvf.fr 30 Aug '06

30 Aug '06

Hi, Someday, I made a mistake and sent a status column whose name is "tomcat_*". I then dropped the status with "bb drop". But each time I restart the hobbit server, the status pops up in purple state, again and again... I tried to manually delete most files that refer to this (history, rrd), either with the daemon running or not, but without any luck. Where does the hobbitd keeps its status when shutting down ? -- Charles Goyard - cgoyard at cvf.fr - (+33) 1 45 38 01 31

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Renaming a host and keeping the history - lessons learned
by jonescr＠cisco.com 30 Aug '06

30 Aug '06

I started to type this email to describe a problem I was having, and in the process I figured it out. I thought I would share it for amusement and learning purposes :) I have several hosts that I had to rename. Their DNS and hostname names changed but IPs remained the same. Example: myhost-web-1 -> myhost-demoweb-1 myhost-app-3 -> myhost-demoapp-1 myhost-db-2 -> myhost-demodb-1 I wanted to keep the historical trending info, so I proceded as follows: 1. Stopped the Hobbit server 2. Made the changes to bb-hosts, simply replacing the hostnames 3. renamed data/*hist*/myhost-web-1.* to data/*hist*/myhost-demoweb-1 (did the same for the other hosts) 4. renamed data/*histlogs*/myhost-web-1 to data/*histlogs*/myhost-demoweb-1 (did the same for the other hosts) 5. renamed data/*hostdata*/myhost-web-1 to data/*hostdata*/myhost-demoweb-1 (did the same for the other hosts) 6. renamed data/*rrd*/myhost-web-1 to data/*rrd*/myhost-demoweb-1 (did the same for the other hosts) 7. Restarted Hobbit After the restart, the new hostnames appeared, but the only status I had was conn and ssh. After double-checking that I renamed the files properly and then wondering why I was getting no status updates it hit me. The hobbit *clients* had not been restarted! So Hobbit was polling them (I use /pulldata/), and they were reporting their old hostnames. :-) I restarted the clients on the hosts, and viola! They restarted with their proper hostnames and Hobbit could now recognize them. I am pleased to report that now everything is now as it should be, and the trending data is intact. Ways I could have figured this out quicker: 1. Thinking it all the way through from the beginning. I was smart enough to stop Hobbit before I began so that it would not create or overwrite the rrd and other files that I was renaming, but I didn't think to restart the clients. 2. I could have checked the ghosts report (hobbitd status) and noticed that the clients were reporting with their old names (I didn't notice this until after I fixed it) Hopefully this "problem" and resolution will prove helpful to someone ... even if it's only to help them chuckle at my newbie mistake :) -Charles

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AW: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit 4.2.0 hobbitcgi.cfg
by bb4＠richter-it.net 30 Aug '06

30 Aug '06

Hi Henrik, >On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 02:19:16PM +0200, Torsten Richter wrote: > >> first of all I have to agree with all the others. >> This IS a really outstanding piece of software you've written. Thanks for >that. > >My pleasure. I am really happy that this version has turned out to be >fairly solid. > >> I found a small typo in the above mentioned config file. >> In hobbit-ghosts.sh you use "...hobbit-ghosts.cgi $CGI_GHOSTS_OPTS" but >> in hobbitcgi.cfg the last S is missing so it reads "CGI_GHOSTS_OPT=...". > >You've probably upgraded from a beta- or RC-version. This was fixed in >the final 4.2.0 release version, but upgrading won't replace an existing >configuration. No, I had version 4.1.2p1 up and running and fetched the archive from a Sourcforge mirror. Then I did a fresh install in a new directory. -rwxr-xr-x 1 hobbit users 190 Aug 22 12:18 hobbit-ghosts.sh ./bb 127.0.0.1 ping hobbitd 4.2.0 The mirror I chose was MESH solutions in Duesseldorf. Best regards Torsten

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case sensitive bb-hosts?
by gjohnson＠trantor.org 29 Aug '06

29 Aug '06

Not sure if this has come up before but I ran into an issue that I would consider a bug...others may not as it's more of an annoyance. After setting up 4.2 and a BBWin machine I kept getting a ghost machine listed under the hobbitd montor. I had entered abc1.fqdn.test.com into the bbhosts file...I got my connection and http info...I checked the hobbitd monitor and saw a "ghost" ABC1...then I changed the entry to abc1...same output...once I changed the entry in bb-hosts to ABC1 (an exact match of the ghost in hobbitd), hobbit displayed the monitors as I would expect it to. The fact that bb-hosts is case sensitive came as a bit of a surprise. I would think you would want to run it through tolower...is there a reason it was set to be case sensitive? I can't think of a good reason for it to do so. =G=

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[bbwin-users] CPU graphs in hobbit (not)
by gjohnson＠trantor.org 29 Aug '06

29 Aug '06

Etienne Grignon wrote: > Hello, > > 2006/8/29, Galen Johnson <gjohnson at trantor.org>: > >> Has anyone else run into any issues with the output from BBWin that is >> being fed to Hobbit not graphing? I installed BBWin .80 onto a Win2K3 >> box today and the cpu graphing on hobbit isn't working...I'm not where I >> can send any output but if needed I can try to give more feedback >> tomorrow... >> >> =G= >> > > What hobbit version are you using ? > > BBWin cpu report has the same format than the bbnt client so graphs > should not be broken with BBWin. Could you post your cpu report ? > > Do you have any image graph or is the image present with "nan" values ? > > Did you check your hobbit log for rrd errors ? > > Regards, > > Actually, sometime during the night it started graphing...so it looks like I spoke too soon. It would be kind of nice if the graph showed all processors and the totals as a combined or separate graph (the average on the front page but when you click to drill in the next page look something like a disk graph) but I think that would fall more onto the Hobbit side... =G=

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