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[dbcheck] feature request: regexp-based config
by gn1＠sanger.ac.uk 25 Sep '06

25 Sep '06

(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

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Feature request: rss support in pageset
by fduranti＠q8.it 23 Sep '06

23 Sep '06

Hi Henrik, I think I've already asked for it ... Checking the source of bbgen.c it seems that the rss is disabled when creating pageset by default so it will not create rss file. It's possible (if it will not broke other thing) to change the line 569 of bbgen.c to change this? if (pageset || embedded || snapshot) enable_wmlgen = wantrss = 0; It will change nothing special because if someone don't want rss file they can leave out the rss options but I could use rss files in pageset (mostly the bb2.rss) but they'll not get created :D I know I can change on my copy but it's just to not have to remember to patch it every time and I think it could be useful to others too.. Francesco

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[hobbit] Informal survey about commercial support for Hobbit
by Johann.Eggers＠teleatlas.com 23 Sep '06

23 Sep '06

Hi Henrik I have received no reply to my private messages to you sent out on 19.09.2006 (some sort of filter?), so apologies to the list. Therefor I've attached it to this mail and send it through the list. Sorry again for bothering the other... Thanks Johann -----Original Message----- From: Johann Eggers Sent: Dienstag, 19. September 2006 16:25 To: 'henrik at hswn.dk' Subject: RE: [hobbit] Informal survey about commercial support for Hobbit Hi Henrik, It's a couple of days ago that you started the "Informal survey about commercial support for Hobbit". We are currently busy to set up a "Global Monitoring" project in which we are now in the phase to decide which way to go: 1. use Open source tools (Hobbit, bigbrother (not really open source), Nagios 2. Outsourcing the whole monitoring/alarming to an external provider 3. Use Enterprise class systems (Tivoli, MicroMuse, CA, HP Openview...) After our last discussion it's getting clear that we will recommend using an Open source tool, preferably Hobbit, as the 1. option to the management. There are a couple of reasons for that, I guess you should best know it :) One concern from the team members was the lack of commercial support for Hobbit, because the management often prefers solutions providing commercial support. We would most likely be interested an a reasonably priced annual fee for the opportunity to get either custom modifications to hobbit or consultation and assistance in implementing custom tests. I guess this would be best done by direct email support with a fixed response time (to be discussed). What are your thoughts/plans to offer this kind of commercial support? Looking forward to hear from you Best Regards Johann -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Donnerstag, 24. August 2006 17:19 To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Informal survey about commercial support for Hobbit I've had a couple of enquiries about providing commercial support for Hobbit. In essence they need a guaranteed response to e-mail support queries, as a supplement to the mailing list where mails do get answered, but not always within a day or two. Making money off Hobbit never was my intention, but being paid for doing what is really a hobby for me does seem attractive. So this is just an informal survey: * Would you be interested in paying for Hobbit support? * What kind of support do you need? E-mail for solving problems, custom feature developments, or ... ? * What response-time requirements do you have? Since I'm in Europe and a lot of the Hobbit users are in the US or Australia, I have a problem with same-day response guarantees. * How much are you willing to spend on it ? Feel free to respond here on the list, or to me directly. Just to avoid raising any panic, let me emphasize that this will NOT in any way stop or detract from the support I offer here on the mailing list. I think the mailing list will always be the primary support channel, and a place for discussing Hobbit developments, beta versions and all the other related issues. It's just that some companies feel more comfortable using software when there is a "normal" support contract. Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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Desktop Client is now available!
by matthew.epp＠us.army.mil 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

Announcing my first public release of the Big Brother Watcher desktop client! I went and created a project page at Sourceforge, and just now finished writing up some initial README files for it. Keep in mind, this is my first time at maintaining any kind of open-source project, so be nice with any criticism. :) There are bound to be bugs, and I'll welcome reports on those. I've never used the bug reporting tool on Sourceforge, but go ahead and use that if you have an account on there. All of the installation instructions (such as they are) are in the README files. Enjoy, and I'll check my email on Monday to see if anyone has had any luck! http://sourceforge.net/projects/bbwatcher/

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hobbitd/bbd server move
by matthew＠familycampground.org 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

My hobbit install is fairly simple. One main server, and all clients reporting to that server. Recently I moved the main hobbit server. Thought it was going to be an easy move, and it turned out to be alot easier than I expected. Just a change to the HOBBITSERVERS in /etc/defualt/hobbit-client was all I realy needed to do to clients. But during the process I ran into 2 issues on the serverside. One was my fault.. 1 - In hobbitserver.cfg I changed BBSERVERHOSTNAME to reflect the new host, but forgot about the IP address (BBSERVERIP). The bbd/bbgen/bbtest/hobbitd tests kept showing up under the old host (the host was still active and a client). I was expecting the tests just to disappear or appear under the new system host since the hostname was correct. 2 - trimhistory didn't quite work as expected. I kept getting this error: # ./trimhistory --cutoff=`date +%s --date="1 Sep 2006"` 2006-09-22 17:05:15 Cannot cd to history directory: No such file or directory But running it from bbcmd worked. -- Matthew Davis http://familycampground.org/matthew/

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Bbtest-net hanging on Solaris, too
by greg.hubbard＠eds.com 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

Hobbit-folk, Well, I was able to work around this problem by pointing at another DNS server. It turns out that I had a few hosts that would not resolve. At least they don't resolve on the DNS server that I changed over to. What made me suspicious was that the last entry in the log file was something about "Got DNS...." which ceased after the last good host. So, Henrik, the timeout on the ARES code is not working any more? Or is not reliable? GLH

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Problem with cgi
by MWatkins＠tiaa-cref.org 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

Everything is up and running but when I tryied to put up anything that is requiring cgi file it will now work. It puts this error below in the apache error logs. I wrote a test cgi script and it works so apache config is correct. Also the libpcre**** files are all there. I am running on Solaris 10. [Fri Sep 22 15:10:15 2006] [error] [client 10.xxx.x.xx] ld.so.1: hobbit-enadis.cgi: fatal: libpcre.so.0: open failed: No such file or directory, referer: http://xxxxxx/hobbit/bb2.html [Fri Sep 22 15:10:15 2006] [error] [client 10.xxx.x.xx] Premature end of script headers: hobbit-enadis.sh, referer: http://xxxxxxx/hobbit/bb2.html Mike Watkins Distributed Systems-UNIX Services SSC 704-988-3222 ************************************************************** This message, including any attachments, contains 'confidential' information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact sender immediately by reply e-mail and destroy all copies. You are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this message, or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. TIAA-CREF **************************************************************

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Bbtest-net hanging on Solaris, too
by greg.hubbard＠EDS.COM 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

Hobbit-folk -- did anyone get to the bottom of the "bbtest-net" hang problem? I saw that someone reported this under Linux a couple of weeks ago. I am using Solaris 8, and I am getting about the same problem -- and out of the blue, too. I am using 4.2.0 with some (not all) of the patches applied. Henrik, let me know what you need -- I have debug log files and a core dump. According to the debug file, it runs a bunch DNS queries and then stops. The prstat commands says that it is sleeping -- no CPU. I restarted the entire Hobbit server and it worked for about 15 minutes and then died again. Sure would like to have some ideas about what to do...meanwhile I will keep banging on it. GLH

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Monitoring Solaris 10 zones
by Mike.Rowell＠Rightmove.co.uk 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

All, We're just putting some zones into a production environment and as yet we don't have a way to monitor them, we could stick the client inside the zone but I feel that is a waste of resources, so, I have come up with a solution. I have an ext script that queries zoneadm list to get the list of currently running zones (except global) then run zlogin with various commands to pull out pretty much what the hobbitclient-sunos.sh script would do, then send it off to the hobbit server. It requires the hobbit user be put in /etc/user_attr so hobbit can login as zone admin on any zone, but works well. I havn't put some of the stuff into it though, mainly because the way we run zones here they will only ever be mounting local filesystems and as such the disk checks will be managed under the global zone. So if anyone would like a copy of the quick and dirty hack, drop me a mail. Regards, Mike Rowell ________________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs service. ________________________________________________________________________

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Problem with LOG test
by oboyaval＠ch-bethune.fr 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

Hello, I have a problem to test many log file on a linux client. I test a log file with word cirtical and major but hobbit doesn't send any alarm when this log file contains message with this key words. My client doesn't use the local config and use the server config. -------> My log file (for test) : ------------------------------------------ Major : test alarme Critical : test alarme fin Nota : If I don't add the first line (-------) then the begin of line is cut after 5 characters. -------> My hobbit server's hobbit-clients.cfg extract : HOST=agecanonix PROC /usr/sbin/ntpd 1 PROC tina_daemon 1 LOG /var/log/messages WARNING COLOR=yellow LOG /var/log/messages ERROR COLOR=red LOG /home/sirt/log/alarm_tina.log major COLOR=yellow LOG /home/sirt/log/alarm_tina.log critical COLOR=red DISK /media/dvd IGNORE -------> My hobbit server's client-local.cfg extract : [agecanonix] log:/var/log/messages:10240 trigger %WARNING|ERROR log:/home/sirt/log/alarm_tina.log:10240 trigger %major|critical -------> The hobbit page : System logs at Fri Sep 22 10:30:17 CEST 2006 No entries in /var/log/messages <http://alambix.ch-bethune.fr/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?CLIENT=agecanonix&SEC…> No entries in /home/sirt/log/alarm_tina.log <http://alambix.ch-bethune.fr/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?CLIENT=agecanonix&SEC…> Full log /var/log/messages <http://alambix.ch-bethune.fr/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?CLIENT=agecanonix&SEC…> Sep 22 08:05:21 agecanonix vsftpd: Fri Sep 22 10:05:21 2006 [pid 23276] CONNECT: Client "xxxxx" Sep 22 10:07:58 agecanonix su: (to hobbit) root on /dev/pts/2 Sep 22 10:07:58 agecanonix su: pam_unix2: session started for user hobbit, service su Sep 22 08:10:22 agecanonix vsftpd: Fri Sep 22 10:10:22 2006 [pid 23415] CONNECT: Client "xxxxx" Sep 22 10:11:46 agecanonix su: pam_unix2: session finished for user hobbit, service su Sep 22 10:12:17 agecanonix su: pam_unix2: session finished for user sirt, service su Sep 22 08:12:22 agecanonix vsftpd: Fri Sep 22 10:12:22 2006 [pid 23418] CONNECT: Client "xxxxx" Sep 22 10:12:28 agecanonix su: (to sirt) root on /dev/pts/2 Sep 22 10:12:28 agecanonix su: pam_unix2: session started for user sirt, service su Sep 22 10:15:01 agecanonix /USR/SBIN/CRON[23502]: (sirt) CMD (/home/sirt/bin/alarm_tina.sh) Sep 22 10:15:03 agecanonix su: (to hobbit) root on /dev/pts/2 Sep 22 10:15:03 agecanonix su: pam_unix2: session started for user hobbit, service su Sep 22 08:17:23 agecanonix vsftpd: Fri Sep 22 10:17:23 2006 [pid 23640] CONNECT: Client "xxxxx" Sep 22 08:22:25 agecanonix vsftpd: Fri Sep 22 10:22:25 2006 [pid 23686] CONNECT: Client "xxxxx" Sep 22 08:27:26 agecanonix vsftpd: Fri Sep 22 10:27:26 2006 [pid 23729] CONNECT: Client "xxxxx" Sep 22 10:30:01 agecanonix /USR/SBIN/CRON[23737]: (sirt) CMD (/home/sirt/bin/alarm_tina.sh) Full log /home/sirt/log/alarm_tina.log <http://alambix.ch-bethune.fr/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?CLIENT=agecanonix&SEC…> ------------------------- Major : test alarme Critical : test alarme fin Any idea ? Cdl Olivier

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