September 2006 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

hobbit-nkview.cfg question
by jonescr＠cisco.com 18 Sep '06

18 Sep '06

I want to add ALL services for all the hosts in my prod layer, doing this via the GUI seems like it will take a long time. I notice the format of the hobbit-nkview.cfg seems pretty simple: prod-app-19|disk||||2|Systems|Critical processes run from /apps partition|cjones 2006-09-17 15:39:16 I'm wondering if I can use wildcards for the service, to quickly and easily have all services show up in the Critical Systems view if they turn red. Something like: prod-app-19|*||||2|Systems|Contact Systems Group for Resolution and Updates|cjones 2006-09-17 15:39:16 Is this possible? -Charles

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conn testing name not ip
by jhittner＠vmsinfo.com 18 Sep '06

18 Sep '06

I'm running hobbit 4.2 and noticed that the conn tests are not using the ip address listed in the bb-hosts files but instead seem to be doing an dns lookup on the name and attempting to ping the address in dns. Is there any way to change this behavior? I would like the address listed in the first field of the bb-hosts file to be the one fpinged for the conn test. Jon

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Client data available & bb-hostsvc.sh
by jonescr＠cisco.com 18 Sep '06

18 Sep '06

Whenever I click the "client data available" link, instead of seeing the client data, I am prompted to download a file called "bb-hostsvc.sh". I searched the archive and saw someone else mention this, but no resolution? -Charles

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pb with hobbit-perl-client and dbcheck
by oboyaval＠ch-bethune.fr 18 Sep '06

18 Sep '06

Hello, I have installed the dbcheck.pl to test a Oracle base on my hobbitmon server and I have the error : ERROR OCIEnvNlsCreate. Check ORACLE_HOME env var, NLS settings, permissions, etc. My server is a SLES 9 SP3 x86_64 and I use Oracle InstantClient 10R2 any idea ? Cheers -- Olivier Boyaval

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Hobbit and bb-central
by mprice＠hst.nasa.gov 17 Sep '06

17 Sep '06

Hello, I would first like to say thanx for the awesome documentation and FAQ's that enabled me to install/configure hobbit so quickly. I have question now that I am new to hobbit. I have some systems that i would like to install the hobbit client on, but they are running an older version of glibc-2.2.4 . I cant upgrade glib because of conflicts with the vendors software and support contract issues. So I was wondering if I could use bb-central with hobbit. Its sounded perfect for what I need. All it does is SSH into the remote host and pull back the data it needs to monitor. Is there a hobbit-central ??? Or does bb-central work well with hobbit ??? thanx, michael -- Michael A. Price Performance Network Engineering NASA/GSFC Code 440.8/LMB Greenbelt, Maryland 20770 Phone: 240-684-1356 Cell: 410-507-7476 e-mail: mprice at hst.nasa.gov ----------------------------------------------

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Sporadic "Status not available"
by Robert.Cummings＠nordstrom.com 16 Sep '06

16 Sep '06

I'm testing Hobbit 4.2.0 on Solaris 10, running on a new Sun Fire v240. Everything seems to be working, but I'm getting sporadic Status not available messages when viewing individual monitors. Immediately refreshing the page brings up the normal status screen. You could get the error again after 5 refreshes or maybe 20 refreshes. You will also get the error if you just leave the monitor page up for a period of time, after it auto-refreshes enough times. One quirk I noticed is that refreshes work great when the server is under some kind of load, such as running make. This could just be a coincidence, but I have yet to get a "Status not found" when the server was under a moderate load. There are no messages in the logs except for normal startup messages when hobbit is first started. Hobbitd seems stable and is not failing or restarting. This is our first Hobbit installation (except for my hobbit running at home, on Linux, without a problem). Big Brother 1.9e, which we are trying to replace, is up and running, but that is on separate hardware running Solaris 9. Any ideas? Thanks, -Rob

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Linecount for Multigraph
by fduranti＠q8.it 16 Sep '06

16 Sep '06

Hi Henrik, Regarding the line count for Multigraph it works good only for disk or some checks.... It's possible to check if the status/data message already have a  in it and use that as linecount? Just something like (well could be done better I know :P) : char *lcountid = strstr(restofmsg, "<!-- linecount="); if (lcountid) linecount=atoi(lcountid+15); Around line 359 of htmllog.c so that if we want to add a multigraph we can put the <!-- linecount into the page and it will got read from the hobbit server generating a nice to see host page instead of getting many line of not available graphs at the end of the page? The rest of the test will continue to work as usual but if extention developer want to graph something it will be simpler to put a linecount for them inside the test instead of trying to count how many line of unknown format data are into the page... Francesco

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Hobbit upgrade process question
by Shawn.Maschino＠ge.com 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

Hi all. I was running Hobbit 4.1.2 on a Red Hat Linux server, and tried to upgrade to 4.2.0. Since I didn't see any documentation on doing the upgrade, I stopped Hobbit and Apache, backed up my current configs and files, and ran the install process for 4.2.0 to be placed in the same location 4.1.2 was running. Everything seemed to work, at the bottom of the screen I now see "Hobbit Monitor 4.2.0 <http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/> " as the version, but none of the new menus or options are appearing. For instance under "Views" I still have "NK View", not critical systems view. NK View still goes to the bbnk.html page, not the new cgi scripts. The cgi files are in the cgi-bin directory, just no menu items or links to them. If I directly go to them they seem to work fine. Does anyone know where I may have gone wrong on this? Thanks. Shawn

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[hobbit] Hobbit upgrade process question
by fduranti＠q8.it 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

Check the RELEASENOTES file in the hobbit source tree. There are some manual modification to config file to do to upgrade from 4.1.2 and are all explained in that file. Francesco ________________________________ From: Maschino, Shawn (GE Indust, Plastics) [mailto:Shawn.Maschino at ge.com] Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 7:27 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Hobbit upgrade process question Hi all. I was running Hobbit 4.1.2 on a Red Hat Linux server, and tried to upgrade to 4.2.0. Since I didn't see any documentation on doing the upgrade, I stopped Hobbit and Apache, backed up my current configs and files, and ran the install process for 4.2.0 to be placed in the same location 4.1.2 was running. Everything seemed to work, at the bottom of the screen I now see "Hobbit Monitor 4.2.0 <http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/> " as the version, but none of the new menus or options are appearing. For instance under "Views" I still have "NK View", not critical systems view. NK View still goes to the bbnk.html page, not the new cgi scripts. The cgi files are in the cgi-bin directory, just no menu items or links to them. If I directly go to them they seem to work fine. Does anyone know where I may have gone wrong on this? Thanks. Shawn

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[hobbit] devmon help
by fduranti＠q8.it 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

I'm interested in devmon templates too it's possible to make them available on theshire or devmon sourceforge page or in some other places? I'm a bit lazy about snmp but I think that if everyone who create some template for devmon will share them we will have some more to play with :D Francesco > -----Original Message----- > From: Johann Eggers [mailto:Johann.Eggers at teleatlas.com] > Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 5:23 PM > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: RE: [hobbit] devmon help > > Yup, > > I can send you the templates we are currently using... > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jones, Jason (Altrincham) [mailto:JasonAS_Jones at mentor.com] > Sent: Freitag, 15. September 2006 17:18 > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: RE: [hobbit] devmon help > > Related to this would anyone be willing to send me any cisco, hp/dell > (printer) oids they know work? > > But as for helping as Johann said you add a DEVMON tag to the > bb-hosts for the switch etc you want tested (you can force using > DEVMON:model(<vendor>;<model>) ) after you have done this you > run devmon --readbbhosts and it will search through for > usable tests it can run and report any entries that do not > have matching templates, you can also look in > /var/logs/devmon.log for useful output messages > > Any templates you create must follow this structure > > DIR:name (best to use vendor-model) > | > |--specs (must contain vendor, model, snmpver and sysDesc) > |--DIR:test (this will be the name reported to hobbit) > | > |-- oids (contains oids and handles you assign > |-- message (message format reported to hobbit) > |-- thresholds(when to generate status changes and > messages to > use) > |-- transforms (data manipulation) > |-- exceptions (what is sounds like) > > Thanks, > Jason > > -----Original Message----- > From: Johann Eggers [mailto:Johann.Eggers at teleatlas.com] > Sent: 15 September 2006 16:07 > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: RE: [hobbit] devmon help > > A little correction: > > Which device to query is determined by entries in the bb-hosts file. > > You need the templates to specify what OID's to query, how to > calculate/handle the output, define thresholds, generating > the message... > > -----Original Message----- > From: Johann Eggers [mailto:Johann.Eggers at teleatlas.com] > Sent: Freitag, 15. September 2006 16:27 > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: RE: [hobbit] devmon help > > We are currently monitor Cisco 6506, Cisco 4003, Cisco 1700 > and Netapp boxes with devmon. > > You have to create a template for the devices named by the > model in the System Description of the snmp output. By this > way the devmon daemon is able to determine what devices to > query. You can use existing templates as a basis and change > them to fit to your needs > > -----Original Message----- > From: Trent Melcher [mailto:tmelcher at saionline.com] > Sent: Freitag, 15. September 2006 16:05 > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: RE: [hobbit] devmon help > > Craig > > Run strings against the hosts.db and you will see better > output. I too have been trying to setup devmon and cant get > it working either, having same problems as you. Run devmon > with the --readbbhosts option, I even used the -vv to see > some info, it identifies the switch correctly and looks like > its using the right template, but no output or anything in > the log file. > > Anyone else have this working? > > Trent Melcher > Unix/Linux Systems Administrator > Securities America Financial Corporation > (402) 399-9111 x2774 > tmelcher at saionline.com > Securities America, Inc., a Registered Broker/Dealer, Member > NASD/SIPC. > Advisory services offered through Securities America > Advisors, Inc., an SEC Registered Investment Advisory > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Craig Cook [mailto:craig at cookitservices.com] > > Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 10:25 PM > > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > > Subject: [hobbit] devmon help > > > > I have a cisco 3550 switch I am trying to use devmon with. > > SNMP is enabled in the switch, but devmon does not seem to > do anything > > with it. > > > > The templates dir has cisco-3500 listed as a device it > knows about... > > > > Single devmon server. > > > > solaris1:/usr/local/devmon# /usr/local/devmon/devmon --readbbhosts > > [06-09-14 at 13:01:46] Saw 5 vendors, 19 models, > > 19 sysdescs & 57 templates [06-09-14 at 13:01:46] SNMP > querying all hosts > > in bb-hosts file, please wait... > > [06-09-14 at 13:01:46] Querying new hosts using cid 'public' > and snmp v2 > > [06-09-14 at 13:01:47] DEBUG SNMP: Dethawing data for > switch1.example.com > > [06-09-14 at 13:01:47] switch1.example.com sysdesc = ::: Cisco > > Internetwork Operating System Software IOS (tm) C3550 Software > > (C3550-I5Q3L2-M), Version 12.1(22)EA1a, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1) > > Copyright (c) 1986-2004 by cisco Systems, Inc. > > Compiled Fri 20-Aug-04 00:44 by yenanh ::: > > [06-09-14 at 13:01:47] switch1.example.com did not match > powerware : 9170 > > : BestLink [06-09-14 at 13:01:47] switch1.example.com did not > match apc : > > 9609 : MN: AP9606 [06-09-14 at 13:01:47] switch1.example.com did not > > match apc : > > 9205 : Mod: AP9205 [06-09-14 at 13:01:47] switch1.example.com did not > > match apc : 9619 : MN:AP9619 [06-09-14 at 13:01:47] > switch1.example.com > > did not match cisco : 1700 : C1700 [06-09-14 at 13:01:47] > > switch1.example.com did not match cisco : > > 2970 : C2970 [06-09-14 at 13:01:47] switch1.example.com did not match > > cisco : 3725 : C3725 [06-09-14 at 13:01:47] > switch1.example.com did not > > match cisco : 2900 : C2900 [06-09-14 at 13:01:47] Discovered > > switch1.example.com as a cisco 3550 solaris1:/usr/local/devmon# > > /usr/local/devmon/devmon --readbbhosts [06-09-14 at 13:02:11] Saw 5 > > vendors, 19 models, > > 19 sysdescs & 57 templates [06-09-14 at 13:02:11] SNMP > querying all hosts > > in bb-hosts file, please wait... > > [06-09-14 at 13:02:11] Querying pre-existing hosts [06-09-14 at 13:02:12] > > DEBUG SNMP: Dethawing data for switch1.example.com > [06-09-14 at 13:02:12] > > switch1.example.com sysdesc = ::: Cisco Internetwork > Operating System > > Software IOS (tm) C3550 Software (C3550-I5Q3L2-M), Version > > 12.1(22)EA1a, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1) Copyright (c) > 1986-2004 by cisco > > Systems, Inc. > > Compiled Fri 20-Aug-04 00:44 by yenanh ::: > > [06-09-14 at 13:02:12] switch1.example.com did not match > powerware : 9170 > > : BestLink [06-09-14 at 13:02:12] switch1.example.com did not > match apc : > > 9609 : MN: AP9606 [06-09-14 at 13:02:12] switch1.example.com did not > > match apc : > > 9205 : Mod: AP9205 [06-09-14 at 13:02:12] switch1.example.com did not > > match apc : 9619 : MN:AP9619 [06-09-14 at 13:02:12] > switch1.example.com > > did not match cisco : 1700 : C1700 [06-09-14 at 13:02:12] > > switch1.example.com did not match cisco : > > 2970 : C2970 [06-09-14 at 13:02:12] switch1.example.com did not match > > cisco : 3725 : C3725 [06-09-14 at 13:02:12] > switch1.example.com did not > > match cisco : 2900 : C2900 > > > > I changed this in dm_config.pm > > > > 'verbose' => 1, > > 'debug' => 1, > > 'print_msg' => 1, > > > > > > # vi hosts.db > > switch1.example.com^[192.168.1.2^[cisco^[3550^[all^[public^[^[ > > > > Are the "^["'s messing this up? > > > > Nothing in the devmon log file... > > > > > > Thanks > > > > Craig Cook > > -- > > Systems Monitoring Consulting and Support Services > > http://www.cookitservices.com > > > > 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 > > > > 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 > > > > 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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