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[hobbit] semi-OT -- anyone using hobbit-mailack with ms-exchange 2003 as the MTA?
by KauffmanT＠nibco.com 26 Sep '06

26 Sep '06

Yup -- I am indeed trying to use a subdomain, and it doesn't seem to be working. We have tried following the example you pointed us to, and we're getting delivery failures with a ststus of 5.4.6 (too many hops). It *looks* like the exchange system is looping internally; there seems to be a step missing somewhere. (It doesn't help that the article indicates this should work for subdomain mail, but shows examples only for cross-domain adressing). We've got a couple more ideas to thrash out; I'll let you know if we ever get it working. Tom -----Original Message----- From: David Gilmore [mailto:david at stenhouseconsulting.com] Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 4:04 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] semi-OT -- anyone using hobbit-mailack with ms-exchange 2003 as the MTA? Tom, It sounds like you are attempting to use a subdomain for your hobbit server, while your Exchange server is handling your domain mail. I found this article which might help you out. In fact I may give it a try as well since I have the same scenario. http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Forwarding_Mail_to_an_External_Recip ient _Part_II.html Dave > -----Original Message----- > From: > hobbit-return-9749-david=stenhouseconsulting.com at hswn.dk > [mailto:hobbit-return-9749-david=stenhouseconsulting.com at hswn. > dk] On Behalf Of Kauffman, Tom > Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 3:38 PM > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: [hobbit] semi-OT -- anyone using hobbit-mailack with > ms-exchange 2003 as the MTA? > > My exchange guys are having trouble with this. > > I'm trying to send mail to a cell phone from > hobbit@<server.domain>, return address hobbit@<domain> -- and > need to get the result forwarded to hobbit@<server.domain> > (our hobbit server is not accessable from the outside world, > so I'm specifying a return address on our exchange email > server). The email is getting back to exchange, we just can't > seem to figure out how to get it back to the hobbit server. > > The alternative would be to build a box to sit in the dmz and > set it up to receive the email and forward it -- I thought it > would be easier to just get exchange to handle the forwarding. > > MS-Exchange 2003 on MS Advanced Server 2003. > > Everything I find via google seems to be Exchange 5.0/5.5, or > involve two different domains. > > TIA > > Tom Kauffman > NIBCO, Inc. > 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. > > > > 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 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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Is there a way to "quietly" disable hosts that have NOTICE set?
by jonescr＠cisco.com 26 Sep '06

26 Sep '06

I have the NOTICE flag set for all of my production hosts - I want pages to go out if someone disables or enables any of them. However, when backups are done, the oracle databases are brought down, which triggers an alert. If they are manually disabled, the NOTICE message goes out which also wakes people up for no reason. If I use DOWNTIME in bb-hosts, then I have to specify a window which is guaranteed to be longer than the possible time it could take to backup the databases (which is a dynamic thing which will surely be wrong from time to time). So what ends up happening is for example, I would specify an hour of DOWNTIME, but the backups sometimes only take 30 minutes. That means there is a 30 minute window where a real alert would be masked, which is unacceptable in a production environment. I guess what I'm looking for, is a way that I can send a commands to Hobbit via a shellscript (called from the db backup script), that would put a host/services in maint mode (disabled - blue dot), and NOT send a NOTICE page. -Charles

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[hobbit] [dbcheck] feature request: regexp-based config
by fduranti＠q8.it 26 Sep '06

26 Sep '06

Hi Gildas, at this moment it's not possible to do, I'll think on how to do it for a future release (I'm currently working on a custom query check engine and some more informix check). For now I was thinking of making the [default] section work also for mysql as it does for oracle and informix databases without defining a sid. You will be able to use the "default" behaviour of dbcheck.pl: If dbcheck find a hosts flagged with dbcheck in the bb-hosts file it will try to get the information for it from the dbcheck.ini file. If no section are defined for it it will get the default parameters from the [default] section. This work quite well for oracle because if no sid is defined it will assume the sid is equal to the hostname and it will check with default parameters the database. For mysql database it will not work because it will need to use a hostname and port to connect. At this moment (if you want to try) you can change line 696-697 from: /mysql/ && do { if ($port) { To /mysql/ && do { $dbhost=$hostname if (!$dbhost); if ($port) { And it should let you check mysql servers without defining any parameters if they have: 1) same port 2) same username/password You just have to add dbtype, port, username and password to the default section just like: [default] dbtype = mysql Port = 3306 username = usertest password = pw1234 This will work if all the database have a common user/pw to connect and if you have most of the database that are mysql databases. Let me know if this solved your problem. Francesco > > (even though this is related to dbcheck and not to hobbit > per-se I send > this email here, as I guess it may be of interest for other > agent-writers-to-be) > > Hi, > > I have an important number of mysql server to monitor using > dbcheck. On > some of them, I have created a monitoring account, on others I use an > already existing account. > > Interestingly enough, servers with a similar configuration have a > similar name, so I would be interested in using regexp-based > configuration but as far as I know, dbcheck.ini must have an > entry for > each database to monitor. > > Francesco, would it be feasible? > > Cheers, > Gildas > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > > >

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Monitoring old hardware
by robert.herron＠gmail.com 25 Sep '06

25 Sep '06

I don't have one but this may help: Per info in this doc ( http://www.hp.com/products1/evolution/e3000/download/mpeix70.pd) a C compiler should be available. How can you run Apache, Samba, BIND, etc without a C compiler. Other potential useful sites: MPE/iX and HP e3000 Technical Documentation http://docs.hp.com/en/mpeixall.html HP MPE/iX software http://www.hp.com/products1/evolution/e3000/mpeix/index.html Perl for HP e3000 MPE http://www.bixby.org/mark/perlix.html On 21 Sep 2006 21:16:36 -0500, "Ralph Mitchell" <ralphmitchell at gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 > > > -- Robert Herron robert.herron at gmail.com

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semi-OT -- anyone using hobbit-mailack with ms-exchange 2003 as the MTA?
by KauffmanT＠nibco.com 25 Sep '06

25 Sep '06

My exchange guys are having trouble with this. I'm trying to send mail to a cell phone from hobbit@<server.domain>, return address hobbit@<domain> -- and need to get the result forwarded to hobbit@<server.domain> (our hobbit server is not accessable from the outside world, so I'm specifying a return address on our exchange email server). The email is getting back to exchange, we just can't seem to figure out how to get it back to the hobbit server. The alternative would be to build a box to sit in the dmz and set it up to receive the email and forward it -- I thought it would be easier to just get exchange to handle the forwarding. MS-Exchange 2003 on MS Advanced Server 2003. Everything I find via google seems to be Exchange 5.0/5.5, or involve two different domains. TIA Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc. 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] semi-OT -- anyone using hobbit-mailack with ms-exchange 2003 as the MTA?
by bill.hart＠burkecorp.com 25 Sep '06

25 Sep '06

The simple work around would be to setup whatever account is getting the email now to just forward to hobbit at server since, presumably, your exchange server can see hobbit pretty easily. Bill -----Original Message----- From: Kauffman, Tom [mailto:KauffmanT at nibco.com] Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 2:38 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] semi-OT -- anyone using hobbit-mailack with ms-exchange 2003 as the MTA? My exchange guys are having trouble with this. I'm trying to send mail to a cell phone from hobbit@<server.domain>, return address hobbit@<domain> -- and need to get the result forwarded to hobbit@<server.domain> (our hobbit server is not accessable from the outside world, so I'm specifying a return address on our exchange email server). The email is getting back to exchange, we just can't seem to figure out how to get it back to the hobbit server. The alternative would be to build a box to sit in the dmz and set it up to receive the email and forward it -- I thought it would be easier to just get exchange to handle the forwarding. MS-Exchange 2003 on MS Advanced Server 2003. Everything I find via google seems to be Exchange 5.0/5.5, or involve two different domains. TIA Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc. 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. To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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Hobbit vs. Bigbrother graphing
by cgayde＠isugw.indstate.edu 25 Sep '06

25 Sep '06

I was using bigbrother and larrd to graph my trends. I used to be able to see all my cpu graphs on one web page but all the hosts were on different graphs. I like the option to have all on one graph, but I would also still like all hosts on one page with individual graphs. Is this possible?

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[hobbit] Is there a way to "quietly" disable hosts that have NOTICE set?
by KauffmanT＠nibco.com 25 Sep '06

25 Sep '06

Does your oracle test run on the same box? We're running a hacked version of the 'roracle' script from deadcat; one of the hacks is to report 'blue' if the backup is running. And our backup script sets a specific lockfile at the start, removing it at the end. And we monitor the lockfile existence, to alert on a backup running too long. Maybe this would be a better approach? Possible send 'clear' instead of 'blue', if the 'blue' triggers the notice? Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -----Original Message----- From: Charles Jones [mailto:jonescr at cisco.com] Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 1:56 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Is there a way to "quietly" disable hosts that have NOTICE set? I have the NOTICE flag set for all of my production hosts - I want pages to go out if someone disables or enables any of them. However, when backups are done, the oracle databases are brought down, which triggers an alert. If they are manually disabled, the NOTICE message goes out which also wakes people up for no reason. If I use DOWNTIME in bb-hosts, then I have to specify a window which is guaranteed to be longer than the possible time it could take to backup the databases (which is a dynamic thing which will surely be wrong from time to time). So what ends up happening is for example, I would specify an hour of DOWNTIME, but the backups sometimes only take 30 minutes. That means there is a 30 minute window where a real alert would be masked, which is unacceptable in a production environment. I guess what I'm looking for, is a way that I can send a commands to Hobbit via a shellscript (called from the db backup script), that would put a host/services in maint mode (disabled - blue dot), and NOT send a NOTICE page. -Charles 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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Feature request : Go back link... Or history links... and hobbitgraph list of available graphs...
by fduranti＠q8.it 25 Sep '06

25 Sep '06

Hi Henrik... Just some feature I would like to see in a future (not so distant :P) version of hobbit.... 1)The first one was about navigation in hobbit Page/subpages/tests... At least at my site we have a good amount of page with subpages and moving with the "back" or returning to the first page is not always a really nice things because you've to navigate another time to the page when you was. It could be nice to have a series of link at the top header showing the entire path to the page with link to move directly to that page For example if I'm in the page Unix, subpage Database, subpage Oracle, subpage Production, into the info column of host called prod1 it could be nice if hobbit can display something like this at the top (or bottom) of the page: Main > Unix > Database > Oracle > Production > prod1:info With Main (the hobbit main page), Unix, Database, Oracle, Production as link to the respective pages and prod1:info just showing as text to see on what page the user is. It will simplify the navigation a lot. 2)Another nice thing to have in my opinion is a "dynamic" bb2 page that called from the menu (like the bb2.html) will generate a status report of all the yellow/red/purple status for all host in that page and all of the subpages under it. 3) Something about hobbit-hostgraphs and graph-multi definition... It could be nice to have something like the general enable/disable page where it's possible to choose hosts and graphs from a list generated automatically instead of having the graphs hardcoded into the template. It could show all column that also have a definition in the hobbitgraph.cfg file with some standard. For example selecting hosts that have a column called jvm and that have definition called jvm1-multi jvm2-multi jvmN-multi, it could show those "n" column to select from. It could simplify the write of graphs definition so that it's possible to create one graphN-multi definition for each value in a rrd to have them compared by hosts into the graphs... 4) Finally something about the linecount for multigraph in the column view... currently one of the problem with graphs that have a big number of value to be reported (for example some of the bea graphs regarding jms and jdbc connections) is that those graphs are unreadable if displayed will all the value in a single graph and will display a not so good page if defined as multigraph because the linecount will go to a really high number (more then 10 times the number of graphs to be displayed) and that will leave a many wrong links on the page. It could be good if developer of custom check could send a " to know about how many rrdfile are there to be graphed and a  value to tell him how many of those rrd file have to be graphed in the same graph. This will also remove the need to have to define the column as multigraph. It could also be nice if it will be possible to set linecount=0 to view all the data in a single graphs (if someone want to do it). This will let rrd file with many dataset inside to display a single host per graphs and dataset with just one or 2 dataset to display one graph each 4-5 rrd file. Francesco

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[hobbit] Is there a way to "quietly" disable hosts that have NOTICE set?
by PNIXON＠ci.somerville.ma.us 25 Sep '06

25 Sep '06

Here's another solution.... Write a script to handle the paging for this server and service (oracle). It checks to see if the backup is running, if so, don't page, if not, page. --Pat _____ From: Charles Jones [mailto:jonescr at cisco.com] Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 1:22 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Is there a way to "quietly" disable hosts that have NOTICE set? If you are oncall, do you want to get woken up by the DISABLE notice alerts every 5 mins at 3am (or even one of them)? :-) Before you say "don't use NOTICE in hobbit-alerts.cfg then", consider that when things are purposefully disabled for reasons other than scheduled downtime, folks want to know about it. -Charles PNIXON at ci.somerville.ma.us <mailto:PNIXON at ci.somerville.ma.us> wrote: Have your script disable it every five minutes or so until the backup is done? -----Original Message----- From: Charles Jones [mailto:jonescr at cisco.com <mailto:jonescr at cisco.com> ] Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 1:03 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk <mailto:hobbit at hswn.dk> Subject: Re: [hobbit] Is there a way to "quietly" disable hosts that have NOTICE set? Yep...I tried doing a disable for -1 (until OK), but if you do that while the service is still green, it immediately recovers. Ralph Mitchell wrote: On 9/25/06, Charles Jones <mailto:jonescr at cisco.com> <jonescr at cisco.com> wrote: The DOWNTIME option in bb-hosts has the ability to set the status of services blue without sending NOTICE alerts. I would like this same ability on an interactive basis (via a message to hobbit using the bb command). So, essentially you need DOWNTIME to have something like the "until green again" option that was added to the enable/disable page in 4.2, right?? Unless I've completely missed your point, for which I apologise in advance...:) Ralph Mitchell To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk <mailto:hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk> To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk <mailto:hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk> To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk <mailto:hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk>

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