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After Server Restart get an error and all tests are purple
by stefan.freisler＠aspect-online.de 18 Jan '07

18 Jan '07

Hi, After Server Restart i get an error and all tests are purple. (except conn, http) i get the following error: 2007-01-18 08:28:37 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - Connection failed 2007-01-18 08:28:39 Could not connect to bbd at xxx.de:1984 - Connection refused what can i do? thx Stefan

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Custom graphs
by Thomas.Kern＠hq.doe.gov 18 Jan '07

18 Jan '07

I have two non-linux systems that I have a specialized client on. On one of these systems, I have a special test for the CPU utilization of logical partitions. I used the NCV method of getting the data (LPARname:CPUvalue) into the RRD files supported by Hobbit. I have been able to add a graph to the status page for the LPAR column with a graph definition that lists each of the known LPARs in this system and the total value that is also sent. This has been working for several weeks. Now I am trying to add the second system. It has a different set of LPAR names. These LPAR names must be unique across our organization. I asked our Hobbit admin to update the hobbitgraph.cfg with a modified [lpar] definition that included the second system's LPAR names in the hope that RRD would simply say that those entries from the other system were 'Not Available' or simply not display anything for them. I had hoped that I could use ONE graph definition for the [lpar] column no matter which system was supplying the data. Both graphs had an error about one of the OTHER's DS entries not being present. Is it possible to have two graph definitions for the same column, such as [vm1.lpar] and [vmhost.lpar] versus a single definition [lpar]? Here are copies of the two status pages: Thu Jan 18 10:05:06 EST 2007 General Processor LPAR utilization within thresholds LEGACY:1.0 ZOSEPROD:26.7 ZOSPROD:2.4 Total:30.1 Thu Jan 18 10:05:13 EST 2007 IFL Processor LPAR utilization within thresholds IFLPROD:1.3 Total:1.3 Here is the combined graph definition: [lpar] TITLE z890 LPAR CPU Utilization YAXIS Percent FNPATTERN lpar.rrd -u 100 -l 0 DEF:LEGACY=lpar.rrd:LEGACY:AVERAGE DEF:IFLPROD=lpar.rrd:IFLPROD:AVERAGE DEF:ZOSPROD=lpar.rrd:ZOSPROD:AVERAGE DEF:IFLTEST=lpar.rrd:IFLTEST:AVERAGE DEF:ZOSEPROD=lpar.rrd:ZOSEPROD:AVERAGE DEF:Total=lpar.rrd:Total:AVERAGE LINE2:LEGACY#00cc00:Legacy LINE2:IFLPROD#00cc00:IFL-Production LINE2:ZOSPROD#ff0000:ZOSProd LINE2:IFLTEST#00cc00:IFL-Test LINE2:ZOSEPROD#0000ff:ZOSEProd LINE2:Total#ff00ff:Total COMMENT: \n GPRINT:LEGACY:LAST:LEGACY \: %5.1lf (cur) GPRINT:LEGACY:MAX: \: %5.1lf (max) GPRINT:LEGACY:MIN: \: %5.1lf (min) GPRINT:IFLPROD:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf (avg) \n GPRINT:IFLPROD:LAST:LEGACY \: %5.1lf (cur) GPRINT:IFLPROD:MAX: \: %5.1lf (max) GPRINT:IFLPROD:MIN: \: %5.1lf (min) GPRINT:IFLPROD:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf (avg) \n GPRINT:ZOSPROD:LAST:ZOSPROD \: %5.1lf (cur) GPRINT:ZOSPROD:MAX: \: %5.1lf (max) GPRINT:ZOSPROD:MIN: \: %5.1lf (min) GPRINT:ZOSPROD:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf (avg) \n GPRINT:IFLTEST:LAST:LEGACY \: %5.1lf (cur) GPRINT:IFLTEST:MAX: \: %5.1lf (max) GPRINT:IFLTEST:MIN: \: %5.1lf (min) GPRINT:IFLTEST:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf (avg) \n GPRINT:ZOSEPROD:LAST:ZOSEPROD \: %5.1lf (cur) GPRINT:ZOSEPROD:MAX: \: %5.1lf (max) GPRINT:ZOSEPROD:MIN: \: %5.1lf (min) GPRINT:ZOSEPROD:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf (avg) \n GPRINT:Total:LAST:Total \: %5.1lf (cur) GPRINT:Total:MAX: \: %5.1lf (max) GPRINT:Total:MIN: \: %5.1lf (min) GPRINT:Total:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf (avg) \n /Thomas Kern /301-903-2211

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Hobbit newbie
by axg＠syntec.co.uk 18 Jan '07

18 Jan '07

Hi All, I'm new to hobbit (after the lad that was running it on our network upped and went) and am having a couple of problems. I have successfully loaded a couple of windoze clients, although I can't get a 'conn' icon to appear (although the existing machines all return conn icons). I've also added a client to a linux machine, but I can't get that to return a thing! (the host name is correct) I'm new to the linux/unix environment, but I'm learning a lot as the days pass! Thanks for any help! Andy G -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.16.14/636 - Release Date: 18/01/2007 04:00

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Linux Client
by mprice＠hst.nasa.gov 18 Jan '07

18 Jan '07

Hello, I tried reading through all the documentation, but I just got a ltitle confused.. I installed hobbit on a linux server as a client. Works great. But i would like to customize the LOG filters... Do I do that in the hobbit-client.cfg on the server or do I do it in the localclient.cfg on the client??? Or both?? thanks, 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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relation between GRAPHS and TRENDS
by gn1＠sanger.ac.uk 18 Jan '07

18 Jan '07

Hi, I'm utterly confused by the GRAPHS and TRENDS variable behaviours. I would thought that GRAPHS define the default graphs to add to the trends columns while TRENDS provides a mean to override the default value for a specified host. It seems that only TRENDS support the "test:test1|test2" syntax so it is not possible to specify such tests in the global GRAPHS variables. Am I right there or am I missing something? I'd like to globally define "vmstat:vmstat1|vmstat5,netstat:netstat|netstat1|netstat2|netstat3" without having to modify 2000 hosts entries... If this is a missing feature it is heavily missed here ;) Cheers, Gildas

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Snapshot does not compile
by lars.ebeling＠leopg9.no-ip.org 18 Jan '07

18 Jan '07

gcc -g -O -D_REENTRANT -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DHPUX -I. -I /home/hobbit/snapshot/include -I/usr/local/include -I. -I../include -c -o sha 2.o sha2.c sha2.c:57:20: stdint.h: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [sha2.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/hobbit/snapshot/lib' make: *** [lib-build] Error 2 Regards Lars Ebeling http://leopg9.no-ip.org Hobbithobbyist "It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt." -- Mark Twain

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LOG monitoring with hobbit
by mprice＠hst.nasa.gov 17 Jan '07

17 Jan '07

Hello, I figured out my LOG monitoring configuration issues and I have it working!!!! Now, What patterns are a good start for matching in /var/log/messages ??? CRITICAL ?? WARNING ?? NOTICE ?? thanks, 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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[hobbit] hobbit monitoring
by Thomas.Kern＠hq.doe.gov 17 Jan '07

17 Jan '07

Okay. Thanks. I will discuss with my Oracle guru what he wants to monitor and how HE will be getting the numbers out of Oracle. /Thomas Kern /301-903-2211 > -----Original Message----- > From: Stef Coene [mailto:stef.coene at docum.org] > Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 10:56 AM > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: Re: [hobbit] hobbit monitoring > > On Wednesday 17 January 2007 16:31, Kern, Thomas wrote: > > We are beginning to run Oracle under SLES9 on an IBM > mainframe and I use > > hobbit to monitor some of these linux systems. I will be > including the > > Oracle server soon. I would be interested in what Oracle > values you are > > going to monitor and how you got them out of Oracle. > That's the job of my collega, the oracle guru ;) > > For the data getting out of oracle, we wrote our own perl > library to do fancy > stuff. This is primarly for backup, but can also be used to > query oracle. > The problem is I can not publish these libraries :( > > > Stef > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > > > >

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why rrd/do_disk.c couldn't store/extract correct CUR value to RRD?
by jjj863＠gmail.com 17 Jan '07

17 Jan '07

In order to piggy-back some database disk usage monitor onto Hobbit's default 'disk' check, I modifed hobbitclients-linux.sh to call a script under [df] section, so the following is appended to the regular df output. The rrd graph shows and alerts get generated when a threshold is overstepped. However, for some reason MAX/MIN/CUR data is decimal, while the CUR is not closer to the AVERAGE than to the real data as reported. rrd/do_disk.c shows each line of the df output is tokenized using space character. I can't figure out what caused the CUR (as stored in disk,db_12_web_DATA.rrd as well) is not the real integer, nor even close to the real integer reported. /db_12_web_DATA_dat 100 70 30 70% /db_12_web_DATA /db_12_web_LOG_dat 100 97 3 97% /db_12_web_LOG Since the alert is generated, so I'd think Hobbit server does extract the correct 'pused' at some point /db_12_web_LOG (97% used) has reached the PANIC level (95%)

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[hobbit] hobbit monitoring
by Thomas.Kern＠hq.doe.gov 17 Jan '07

17 Jan '07

We are beginning to run Oracle under SLES9 on an IBM mainframe and I use hobbit to monitor some of these linux systems. I will be including the Oracle server soon. I would be interested in what Oracle values you are going to monitor and how you got them out of Oracle. /Thomas Kern /301-903-2211 > -----Original Message----- > From: Stef Coene > The "problem" with the ncv module is that I want to use > hobbit to create > graphs. Lots of graphs (you would be surprised how many > usefull counters an > oracle database has). > This is too complex to handly it with the ncv worker module. > > Stef

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