September 2006 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

variable to change into clientlauch.cfg sample
by ndo＠unikservice.com 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

"LOGFILE" should go to $BBCLIENTLOGS/babla instead of $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/logs/blabla Nico

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hobbitclient-sunos.sh / cachefs
by ndo＠unikservice.com 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

As for nfs, cachefs should be ignored in hobbitclient-sunos.sh Nicolas

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[hobbit] Informal survey about commercial support for Hobbit
by Johann.Eggers＠teleatlas.com 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

> -----Original Message----- > From: T.J. Yang [mailto:tj_yang at hotmail.com] > Sent: Freitag, 22. September 2006 12:25 > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: Re: [hobbit] Informal survey about commercial support for Hobbit > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Johann Eggers" <Johann.Eggers at teleatlas.com> > >To: <hobbit at hswn.dk> > >Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 6:19 AM > >Subject: [hobbit] Informal survey about commercial support for Hobbit > > > > > > > >Hi Henrik > > > <snip> > > > >Sorry again for bothering the other... > > To me, this is informational message. > > <snip> > > >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 > >:) > > > So looks like you guys came to conclusion of selecting Hobbit by > discussions, correct ? Not only by discussion... We started by documenting the current AS-IS state of all the different monitoring systems/tools in use within our company. Every location/group had her "own" way of monitoring. But because we are in a growing phase our IT has been put on a Global basis. Therefor we need a common monitoring environment to be able to report the same KPI's, watch the same SLA's and very important, to give remote support 24 x 7 by "Following-the-sun" It was a really hard piece of work to get all the pieces together. What is currently monitored? What has to be monitored in the future? How works the alarm escalation ... ? Even harder was to get the quotes from the "big" vendors (HP, IBM, CA...) After compiling all together it became clear, that we really have no desire to spend 150k€ on a piece of software that does 20% of what you want, with a 30k€/year maintenance fee..Ouch So we looked closer to the open source products. Our decision to implement Hobbit, at least as an interim solution, was based on the fact that we already have bigbrother systems running at two locations. Why shouldn't we use the exisitng knowledge? (and by the way they are working very well!) If we can get commercial support for hobbit we will probably go with it. Johann > Is there a requirement analysis document that can be shared ? > > I really like to see how Hobbit compare to Tivoli,CA .. enterprise class > systems. > Management would like to see unbiased review of monitoring systems. > > I made an attempt to do some comparison but turn out I don't have enough > time and knowledge > to do a fair comparsion. > > http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Hobbit/User_Guide#Syst > em_Monitoring_Software_Comparison > > Is there a third-party that can spent time on doing this task ? > > Regards

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How to configure Clients
by c.rehberger＠oclcpica.org 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

Hello, I'm using hobbit since mondy this week and now I run in problems how to configure various checks on various clients. Ok, I built a hobit server sucsessfully. The network tests works all fine. But now I have to check disk space and procs on two other machines. I've installed the client on each machine but I cannot configure the warnlevel or paniclevel of these clients or procs at all. It seems, that only entries in the server located file "hobbit-clients.cfg" takes care? My problem is, that I have to use different levels on each client machine! Whats wrong with my configuration? Thankx Chris -- Christian Rehberger System Consultant · OCLC PICA GmbH Grünwalder Weg 28g · 82041 Oberhaching · Germany t +49-(0)89-61308 333 · f +49-(0)89-61308 399 e c.rehberger at oclcpica.org · w http://www.oclcpica.org

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data directory and installation
by ndo＠unikservice.com 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

$ ls -l total 12 drwxr-xr-x 2 bigb bigb 512 Sep 11 15:35 cgi-bin drwxr-xr-x 2 bigb bigb 512 Jun 20 16:31 cgi-secure drwxr-xr-x 8 bigb other 512 Sep 11 16:16 client lrwxrwxrwx 1 bigb bigb 16 Jun 23 15:12 data -> /var/ hobbit/data drwxr-xr-x 4 bigb bigb 512 Jun 22 12:17 dist drwxr-xr-x 10 bigb bigb 512 Sep 11 15:36 server # make install mkdir -p /opt/hobbit/server /opt/hobbit/server/download /opt/hobbit/data mkdir: "/opt/hobbit/data": Exists but is not a directory make: *** [install-dirs] Error 2 data directory should be a customisable variable. Nico

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CPU load & use
by fcarmona＠cfe.gob.mx 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

How can I get the charts CPU USE & CPU LOAD from a windows client. This is becase in trends from a linux client I can see CPU USE and CPU LOAD separately. thanks

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External Paging Script
by PNIXON＠ci.somerville.ma.us 21 Sep '06

21 Sep '06

Hey all, Attached is a paging script I'm using to limit the amount of pages within a 15 minute window to one page per window. Script comes with no warranty or support, use at your own will. I know, it's kludgey as well. --Pat #!/usr/bin/perl $INTERAL = 900; ## # Of Seconds between Pages $RCPT = $ENV{'RCPT'}; $RCPTN = "/bb/hms/server/tmp/np-".$RCPT; $ACKCODE = $ENV{'ACKCODE'}; $BBHOSTSVC = $ENV{'BBHOSTSVC'}; $NOW = `date +%s`; chomp $NOW; $mstat = (stat $RCPTN)[9]; $fileage = $NOW-$mstat; if ( $fileage >= $INTERVAL ) { open (PAGER,">$RCPTN"); system('echo $BBHOSTSVC [$ACKCODE] | mail $RCPT'); print PAGER " "; close (PAGER); };

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Remote display
by rower.master＠gmail.com 21 Sep '06

21 Sep '06

Hi friends, I want to setup another hobbitserver and show the status on my principal hobbitserver. I do not want to set a bbproxy, I would like to show as appears on http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/ where henrik have *Remote Status Display* *tyge*<http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit-cgi/hobbitcolumn.sh?tyge> *www* <http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit-cgi/hobbitcolumn.sh?www> ------------------------------ SSLUG [image: tyge:yellow:] <http://tyge.sslug.dk/hobbit/> [image: www:yellow:] <http://www.sslug.dk/hobbit/> To show this status on the prinicpal page , what I have to do? On the second server set bbdisplay as both, the principal and the secondary? Thanks in advance, Mario.

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[hobbit] Gmake issue on solaris 10
by holly.lund＠hq.doe.gov 21 Sep '06

21 Sep '06

Henrik Just thought I'd let you know, I did gmake clean and then it worked Who knows? :-) -----Original Message----- From: henrik at hswn.dk [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 5:08 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Gmake issue on solaris 10 On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 04:31:37PM -0400, Lund, Holly wrote: > It works fine In that case I'd just consider this an odd fluke and remove that command from the hobbitd/Makefile file (it's around line 154 of that file). Could it be your PATH setting when running make that picks up a different "ln" utility ? Would be most odd but it's the only explanation I can think of. Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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[hobbit] BBWin configuration gui
by fduranti＠q8.it 21 Sep '06

21 Sep '06

>From what I know the new version (hoping it's in the next one) will have the possibility to centralize the configuration like normal hobbit client so you can define all the warning and checks in one point. At that point it would be nice to have a gui/web interface to edit the hobbit central configuration if it's all in one server. A gui is nice but when you've to deploy/configure more then 100 server it's a bit time consuming to work with. I don't know if a gui is planned but I've not read of one being developed. ________________________________ From: pmalenfa at videotron.ca [mailto:pmalenfa at videotron.ca] Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 5:04 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] BBWin configuration gui 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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