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[hobbit] New version of beastat.pl netapp.pl and dbcheck.pl
by fduranti＠q8.it 28 Aug '06

28 Aug '06

> > > There's an error in the README ... > > If you're using hobbit 4.2 and NetApp with Ontap version > 6.5+ just do > > this: > > I've got it working now, and made a few tweaks so that the > nfs ops (the only thing we use) were tracked on their own > graph, instead of as a part of a group. Makes the graph > scaling easier on the eyes. ;) > I'll create some more definition for the next version so the user can just choose what to use... I'm also using only NFS on some filers and NFS/CIFS on some others or just ISCSI on another one... > > For snapshot there's not a simple way, you've to edit the > source code > > of hobbit and some will get wrong. At this moment I'm finishing to > > work to module for rrd implementation inside the hobbit_rrd > for them > > and I've something done but I'm waiting for some nice feature > > regarding custom rrd implementation from Henrik so you can have > > something in the next few days (snapshot, quotas, qtree, > and something > > more in the next future like full nfsstatistics and > interface/network statistics)... > > I was going to just hack up the do_disk.c file and see what I > could do, but sounds like waiting is the better option. > filerstats2bb used to put the .snapshots filesystem alongside > those in the disk column, which worked out pretty well except > for segregating the snapshot alerts to separate users. I've preferred to put the snapshot out of disk space report to have a clean situation ... A warning on the snapshot can be a problem related to an oracle snapshot/backup that didn't worked so I've to send alert to db admin to check them... If you want to give it a try I can send a patch working with 4.2.0 (it should work from 4.2.0 to the last snapshot) but this will include also the graphs rrd function for dbcheck.pl and beastat.pl script and is a work in progress so it could work but it could also do bad thing :P (well it's running now by one week on my test and production system without problems). > > > If you want data to be reported silently without having a > column just > > to create a graph in the trend you can also do: > > bbopscolumn = ops:data > > bbstatscolumn = stats:data > > Again, very cool. I now have an ops column on my front page, > displaying NFS data, and it is a welcome site. :) > > I was going to try and get a way to collect the disk > %utilization values for my volumes (those are displayed when > you collect data with statit for a period of time). That > would also be a extremely useful data point. I'm trying to define what data to get next... The ifinfo also seems interesting (it also seems the only method to get byte counter related to network interface). I think the next think I'll get will be: cluster status, nfsstat, graphs for snapmirrored volumes and data related to snapvaulted volumes. I've saw the statit command and it's nice the only thing not so good is the fact that it work in background and there can be some problem getting good data out of it because running wrong command could get wrong data on that. I was also checking the "stats show" command that seems to report the same kind of data and can be run like the sysstat so with a 300 seconds interval that will let me get the data at the next run of the script. I should try to understand what of all those data will really be usefull to monitor and how to graph them .... Francesco

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[hobbit] Memory usage BBWIn 0.8
by ivan.verbeeck＠vmma.be 28 Aug '06

28 Aug '06

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. Regards, Ivan -----Original Message----- From: Etienne Grignon [mailto:etienne.grignon at gmail.com] Sent: maandag 28 augustus 2006 12:02 To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Memory usage BBWIn 0.8 Hello, 2006/8/28, Ivan Verbeeck <ivan.verbeeck at vmma.be>: > Hello, > > I just checked the memory use of BBwin after appr. 60hours without any > external tests and its now > 14Mb. I also checked all the .ddl > versions and there all 0.8.0 or 0.8.1. (seems normal because it was > the first release on that machine). > Now i'm gone stop the service, remove all files and reinstall the > package, maybe there was something with the installation. > I'm not sure it will help to reinstall but you can try. Could you tell me what Windows are you using ? its language, its Service Pack level. What type of servers is it ? web ? database ? Is there some antivirus or others monitoring software installed ? What you can try if you have some times : 1) turn timer to 5s in BBWin.cfg 2) remove all load directives from BBWin.cfg 3) start the BBWin service, check the bbwin memory growth 4) add each bbwin load directive one by one and wait some times between each add so you will be able to detect which agent is taking memory I know it's not very elegant but it is the easiest way to determine where is the problem. Regards, -- Etienne GRIGNON To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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cont or http
by jjj863＠gmail.com 28 Aug '06

28 Aug '06

I have a few cont= test for a few hosts. It is now time for me to specify these CONT tests depend on some other tests. Should I say depends=(http:server2/test2) or should I say depends=(cont:server2/test2) ?

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Non-Green View display abnormalities - 4.2.0
by rgordonjr＠gmail.com 28 Aug '06

28 Aug '06

Hello all - I am noticing that in the "All Non-Green View" the section headers don't necessarily go with systems that are under them... for example... In the hosts file i have groupings like the following: group 1 system 1 system 2 system 3 group 2 system 4 system 5 system 6 group 3 systsm 7 system 8 system 9 .... In the "All-Non Green view" i see something like this.... group 1 system 7 system 4 group 3 systesm 1 systesm 5 ... Any ideas what would cause this mismatch? Thanks! -- --==[ Bob Gordon ]==--

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[hobbit] Memory usage BBWIn 0.8
by ivan.verbeeck＠vmma.be 28 Aug '06

28 Aug '06

Hello, I just checked the memory use of BBwin after appr. 60hours without any external tests and its now > 14Mb. I also checked all the .ddl versions and there all 0.8.0 or 0.8.1. (seems normal because it was the first release on that machine). Now i'm gone stop the service, remove all files and reinstall the package, maybe there was something with the installation. Regards, Ivan -----Original Message----- From: Etienne Grignon [mailto:etienne.grignon at gmail.com] Sent: vrijdag 25 augustus 2006 17:34 To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Memory usage BBWIn 0.8 Hello Ivan, 2006/8/25, Ivan Verbeeck <ivan.verbeeck at vmma.be>: > > Hello, > > Since the release of BBwin 0.8 i installed it on a couple of our > Windows > 2003 servers as a replacement for the BB Client. > On one of the machines i noticed that the memory usage of the > BBWin.exe process keeps growing. After appr. 2 weeks it was over the > 60Mb. I restarted the service, but after a few days it's back over the 20Mb. > The client checks a few svcs and runs 5 external tests (compiled perl > scripts). Any idea what can cause the problem? > Your mail worry me a little bit ... Could you check that this server is well installed with BBWin 0.8 ? there were a memory leak on the older BBWin releases but BBWin 0.8 should be ok. Could you post your BBWin.cfg file and tell me what Windows version are you using ? Sometimes BBWin may need more memory when a lot of events logs are send to the hobbit server. On my test servers, I run BBWin with a timer of 5 seconds (so it simulates many weeks of monitoring with a few days) for each agent so I can check if memory is growing. It never goes over 7 Mb. As Rich said, me be try some times to run without the perl externals even if it should never take memory in the BBWin process itselft. Regards, -- Etienne GRIGNON To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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how/where to set/check thresholds for custom test
by jjj863＠gmail.com 28 Aug '06

28 Aug '06

I am successful following the 'slab' example to get it show up in RRD graph as well as reported under 'slab' column. However, I am albeit at loss on how to set up thresholds just like those in the built-in tests. I used to write BB extension scripts, which calculate status based on hard-coded thresholds set locally on the client and report status to BBSERVER accordingly using $BB "status" command. In an ideal world, I'd, of course prefer, the extension script working the same way as the built-in tests, in that a custom data section came in from client, while the server sets the threshold centrally to trigger alerts (plus plot them into a RRD graph). Is this possible with Hobbit? Short of which, is there a better Hobbit approach other than the BB extension approach I described above?

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[BUG] new line does not always break DS name concatenation
by cgoyard＠cvf.fr 28 Aug '06

28 Aug '06

Hi, here's something that breaks NCV : with a message like this : status farm1.tld.something green Fri Aug 25 10:21:44 CEST 2006 things ok &green All ok pigs: 32 carrots: 221 guinea pigs: 4 this is a boring message blobs: 3 water: 4 % and NCV declaration like this (or no declaration at all) : NCV_something="*:GAUGE" I get this : $ rrdtool dump something.rrd | grep name <name> greenAllokpigs </name> <name> carrots </name> <name> guineapigs </name> <name> thisisaboringmessag </name> <name> water </name> One workaround is to explicitly declare DS names, but ncv should reset on building DS names on newlines. (running 4.2.0 + patches) Regards, -- Charles Goyard - cgoyard at cvf.fr - (+33) 1 45 38 01 31

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[hobbit] ping storm
by KauffmanT＠nibco.com 28 Aug '06

28 Aug '06

Check the bb-hosts man page for the "depends" tag. Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -----Original Message----- From: T.J. Yang [mailto:tj_yang at hotmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 9:19 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] ping storm Can hobbit work with malfunction of switch/router ? ie, if a switich is dead ant it has 200 nodes behind it. there is no need to issue conn outage alerts for those 200 nodes. T.J. Yang To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email and any attachments are for the exclusive and confidential use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, distribute or take action in reliance upon this message. If you have received this in error, please notify us immediately by return email and promptly delete this message and its attachments from your computer system. We do not waive attorney-client or work product privilege by the transmission of this message.

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[hobbit] rrd update error after 4.2 install
by fduranti＠q8.it 27 Aug '06

27 Aug '06

I moved some times ago from a rhel3-32bit to rhel4-64 bit and I had to export the data on the 32 bit machine and reimport on the 64 bit to have working rrd files for hobbit and mrtg... It's just a bit long but you only need to do a dump/restore of them. Francesco > -----Original Message----- > From: Rich Smrcina [mailto:rsmrcina at wi.rr.com] > Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2006 4:51 AM > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: [hobbit] rrd update error after 4.2 install > > I installed a new 4.2 system today and copied all of the old > history and rrd files from a 4.1.2 system. > > All of the history seems just fine, but updating the rrd > files seems problematic. For each host and test that causes > an rrd update of a copied file, I get the following in > /var/log/hobbit/rrd-status.log: > > 2006-08-26 21:46:02 RRD error updating > /home/hobbit/data/rrd/vtpsrv/memory.actual.rrd from 172.17.0.12: > rrd->ds_def malloc > > The old system was architecture s390 (which is 32-bit) the > new system is > architecture s390x (which is 64-bit). Is that the difference, or are > there other reasons that rrd files not transportable? > > Thanks. > -- > 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 > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > > >

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rrd update error after 4.2 install
by rsmrcina＠wi.rr.com 27 Aug '06

27 Aug '06

I installed a new 4.2 system today and copied all of the old history and rrd files from a 4.1.2 system. All of the history seems just fine, but updating the rrd files seems problematic. For each host and test that causes an rrd update of a copied file, I get the following in /var/log/hobbit/rrd-status.log: 2006-08-26 21:46:02 RRD error updating /home/hobbit/data/rrd/vtpsrv/memory.actual.rrd from 172.17.0.12: rrd->ds_def malloc The old system was architecture s390 (which is 32-bit) the new system is architecture s390x (which is 64-bit). Is that the difference, or are there other reasons that rrd files not transportable? Thanks. -- 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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