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message to Henrik
by asparks＠doublesparks.net 20 Sep '06

20 Sep '06

Henrik Stoerner wrote: > Hi Alan, > On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 04:17:11PM -0600, Alan Sparks wrote: >> Trying to find out if you got your Amazon gift. Have sent several >> private queries but no response. Can you contact me and let me know? I >> cannot track it through Amazon without information from you. > > I haven't received anything from Amazon in the past week or two, I > think. Sometimes they are a bit slow at shipping things. What did you > order ? Hi again. I have received no reply to my private messages to you (some sort of filter?), so apologies to the list. If you have not received your Amazon gift, please contact me directly, Amazon claims they will send a replacement but they need to verify your address. -Alan =========== Alan Sparks, UNIX/Linux Systems Administrator <asparks at doublesparks.net>

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Hobbit & NetApp: can client check DISK look at NFS mounts?
by D.Mostardi＠mdl.com 20 Sep '06

20 Sep '06

I have several Network Appliance filers, and am trying to get Hobbit to monitor them. Since I can't run Hobbit client directly on the filer, my next approach was to run Hobbit client on the NetApp admin host, and list all the NetApp volumes which are NFS-mounted. But the DISK check seems to be ignoring NFS mounts. Questions: 1. Is there a way to have DISK un-ignore selected NFS mounts? 2. Are there some other clever ways to have Hobbit monitor a NetApp filer? Thank you, David David Mostardi Advisory Systems Manager Elsevier MDL 2440 Camino Ramon, Suite 300 San Ramon CA 94583 925.543.7350 www.mdl.com <www.mdl.com>

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Desktop Client
by matthew.epp＠us.army.mil 20 Sep '06

20 Sep '06

I have created an application using wxpython that reports Hobbit/Big Brother events directly to your desktop, for either Unix or Windows platforms. There are three main components: 1> You configure your hobbit-alerts.cfg to send all events to a small perl script, which formats the data and sends it to a local UNIX socket. 2> Another perl script runs daemonizede and reads in the data from the UNIX socket. It then sends the events to any clients connected to it. 3> The client recieves all events, and does any filtering and further formatting for the end-user. It's still very alpha, but fully functional. Mainly I created this for our NOC which is sometimes very busy and occasionally alerts get missed if someone isn't eyeballing the web page constantly. The client can create pop-up windows, play sound files, etc that some are already familiar with from the old "bbtray" application. Although it still needs a lot of work, I'd like to start distributing it for people to try out and maybe offer suggestions or even assistance with. Is "The Shire" ready for user distribution of projects yet?

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Multiple graphs on one page
by Dominic.Young＠blackspider.com 20 Sep '06

20 Sep '06

Does anyone have the answer to the following question that was posted at: http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2005/11/msg00377.html - Multiple graphs on one page I have looked around and not found anything. Regards Dominic Young Infrastructure Operations Engineer BlackSpider Technologies 400 Thames Valley Park Drive, Reading, Berkshire. RG6 1PT UK Email : support at blackspider.com Web site : http://www.blackspider.com Helpline : +44 (0)118 965 3800 Sales : +44 (0)118 965 3700 This message has been scanned for viruses by BlackSpider MailControl.

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[hobbit] OpenVMS, Hobbit client, precompiled?
by David.Gore＠verizonbusiness.com 20 Sep '06

20 Sep '06

Anyone have a compiled hobbit client for OpenVMS they would like to share? ~David

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Monitoring old hardware
by ralphmitchell＠gmail.com 20 Sep '06

20 Sep '06

Does anyone have one of these?? HP 989 running MPE/ix version 7 If so, how are you monitoring it, if at all?? I guess it's an HP box running some kind of *nix. That's all I know. Don't even know if there's a C compiler or other tools on it. Blasted thing crashed a couple of times recently and irritated a customer, so I have to get *something* working for it... Thanks, Ralph Mitchell

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[hobbit] Problem with ncv
by fduranti＠q8.it 20 Sep '06

20 Sep '06

The problem related to graphs with 20 minutes interval is in the creation of the rrd file >From the rrdcreate help page http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc/rrdcreate.en.html DS:ds-name:GAUGE | COUNTER | DERIVE | ABSOLUTE:heartbeat:min:max The ``heartbeat'' defines the maximum acceptable interval between samples. If the interval between samples is less than ``heartbeat'', then an average rate is calculated and applied for that interval. If the interval between samples is longer than ``heartbeat'', then that entire interval is considered ``unknown''. Note that there are other things that can make a sample interval ``unknown'', such as the rate exceeding limits, or even an ``unknown'' input sample. The heartbeat used by hobbit for ncv (and other graphs) is 600 (10 min) and cannot be changed with parameters so you need to change the source code (but it will change heartbeat for all the NCV graphs you do and you've to remember to change it when installing a new version) or we have to wait for Henrik to do a new rrd extendible interface for all our special graphs cases :D If you need to change you've to change it in the hobbitd/rrd/do_ncv.c, search for "DS:", you'll find 2 of them they are for the default and not default cases of ncv file creation. I don't know if there's something else that need to be changed but this should at least get your data inside the rrd file. Francesco > -----Original Message----- > From: Marco Avvisano [mailto:marco.avvisano at regione.toscana.it] > Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 3:11 PM > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: Re: [hobbit] Problem with ncv > > Thanks Henrick, now it work > > I have another problem .... sometimes the rrd graphs lost > values I send data to hobbit server every 20 minutes ... i > must change or add something in hobbitgraph definitions? > > DEF:seconds=inps.rrd:Seconds:AVERAGE > > regards, > > Marco > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Henrik Stoerner" <henrik at hswn.dk> > To: <hobbit at hswn.dk> > Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 10:53 PM > Subject: Re: [hobbit] Problem with ncv > > > > On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 06:10:50PM +0200, Francesco Duranti wrote: > >> I've a problem with data reporting in > >> rrd files via ncv, I've one script that report data in this way > >> > >> MySQL Connection statistics > >> > >> Threads = 7 > >> Questions = 153015 > >> Slow queries = 0</PRE> > >> <DIV align=left><PRE>Opens = 0 > >> Flush tables = 1 > >> Open tables = 32 > >> Queries per second avg = 0.135 > >> > >> The rrd will get MySQLConnectionstat as the name of the > first data to > >> save in > >> the rrd instead of getting Threads. > > > > This patch should fix it. > > > > > > Regards, > > Henrik > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------ > > > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > > > > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > > >

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BBWin configuration gui
by pmalenfa＠videotron.ca 20 Sep '06

20 Sep '06

Hello, Is there any plan to have a configuration GUI for the BBWin? Something similar to the BB client for Windows. Not that I care about editing the XML config file manually (the file is quite simple and the documentation is clear). But the Windows administrators where I installed Hobbit would love to have a fancy GUI because their "other" tools have a GUI (BB, MOM, ipsentry, NetIQ, name it...). Is there somebody that already created one or is working on one? (I might be late in the news) Thanks Pierre

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Hobbit loop
by rsmrcina＠wi.rr.com 20 Sep '06

20 Sep '06

Every 2 or 3 days we have situation where Hobbit (or something on the machine that it's running on) appears to go in to a loop. I have top running in batch mode, piping the output to a file. It is in a 'forever' loop executing every minute. Is there anything else I should be running to try to track this down? 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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[hobbit] Desktop Client
by matthew.epp＠us.army.mil 19 Sep '06

19 Sep '06

> -----Original Message----- > From: Scheblein, Adam [mailto:adam.scheblein at marquette.edu] > Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 5:48 PM > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: Re: [hobbit] Desktop Client > > Do you know if it is compatible with Mac?? I believe there is a distribution of wxPython for Mac, so I would imagine so. As soon as I can find the best way to disseminate the package, we shall see. :)

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