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[hobbit] CPU (la) RRD graphs gone on all hosts
by gumby3203＠gmail.com 08 Jan '07

08 Jan '07

I've run into a very peculiar problem where the CPU (la) graphs are gone on ALL of my hosts. The strange thing is, ALL of the other graphs for ALL of the hosts are still showing. Just the CPU graph is gone. This is for both the CPU column, and the trend page. The only thing I did was add a new server-side script, and two entries in hobbitgraph.cfg (and the graphs for this script are working fine too). There were a few bugs in the script which I have since fixed. None of the hobbit logs I have looked in so far have given me any indication what is going on (though I may just not know exactly what it is I'm looking for). I checked the rrd files for all the hosts, and the cpu/la rrd file looks normal. Any ideas what log files/etc I could use to troubleshoot this?

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Disk not showing
by PNIXON＠ci.somerville.ma.us 08 Jan '07

08 Jan '07

Hey all, I just noticed that one of my systems disks isn't showing up in the graph for the disk utilization. Are there any steps to troubleshoot this? -- Text from disk status page-- Mon Jan 8 10:04:04 EST 2007 - Filesystems OK Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/sda1 6040288 1035648 4697804 19% / /dev/sda6 69804244 6892104 62912140 10% /home /dev/sdb1 720870988 406581792 277671040 60% /snapshot Status unchanged in 20 days,18 hours, 9 minutes -- Text from disk status page--

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V0.2.0 of adminscripts
by michael.nemeth＠lmco.com 08 Jan '07

08 Jan '07

DATE="/usr/xpg4/bin/date" does not work on solaris . The %s format is NOT supported. As I thought I said before, gnu date must be used . -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ | _p_ Mike Nemeth | ___| |_____ email(w) michael.nemeth at lmco.com Work: 856 359-1425 |><___________) | Home Page:http://www.geocities.com/mjnemeth/ | Work Page:http://scorpion/~nemethm/ | Work Page:http://ortfsb/~mnemeth/ |++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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Alternate alerting
by khanrahan＠charter.net 08 Jan '07

08 Jan '07

Hello all I have read the section that describes "If e-mail is not enough" that talks about sending an SMS message or something else but there is no explanation of what generates the actual connection. There is a reference to "/usr/local/bin/smsalert" but this does not exist. Do I have to first find, install, and configure some sort of SMS alert program? If so, can someone suggest one? Also, can Hobbit send a page to a traditional paging carrier? If so, how is that done? Thanks kevin

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clients-local.cfg question
by cdanger2k＠yahoo.com 06 Jan '07

06 Jan '07

I seem to be having a problem understanding clients-local.cfg. Is it not possible for a host to match multiple entries in clients-local.cfg? I have this currently: bb-hosts: .... 192.168.1.2 test # class=app clients-local.cfg: [sunos] log: /var/adm/message:10240 [app] file:/home/test/app/app.log hobbit-clients.cfg: DEFAULT .... CLASS=app FILE /home/test/app/app.log RED size<150000 I would think that this would result in the client checking the logfile size at /home/test/app/app.log. However, looking at the logfetch results on the client, I can see that it is not picking up the file config from clients-local. If I move the "file" statement to [sunos], it works fine. What am I doing wrong here? Thanks- Jay __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Two Hobbit Servers -- Works, but having a Minor Problem
by jkwade＠futurefrontiers.com 05 Jan '07

05 Jan '07

Thanks for the Assistance, I now have Two Hobbit Servers going with paging disabled on one, but the clients reporting to both servers. I do have one problem, and I can't figure out why it's doing this. I wrote a test to execute on the server only, and placed it in hobbitlaunch.cfg. It works great on the primary server. However, when it runs on the second server, it does not come up, instead the test is reported on the other server. I did a check of the script and it is sending it to the second server: $BB $BBDISP "$LINE" I did an echo statement of $BBDISP in the script and stored it to a file, when it runs on the second server, $BBDISP is the IP address of the second server, but the output ends up going to the Primary Server. (If I got to the main view, I see the test, and the data directory has it in there. However, the second server has no data for the test in it) Any ideas? Thanks...James

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hobbit-clients.cfg LOG problem
by mcgrievy＠email.unc.edu 05 Jan '07

05 Jan '07

Hi All, I'm trying to configure log file monitoring in hobbit-clients.cfg and am having trouble with the ignore syntax. This line (in the DEFAULT section) works for me: LOG %.* %NOTICE|ERROR|OFFLINE|failed COLOR=yellow IGNORE=%compression Status goes yellow on the matching strings and ignores "compression." If I try to add multiple strings to the IGNORE statement, it breaks -- it still turns yellow correctly, but nothing is ignored. I've tried the following to no avail: LOG %.* %NOTICE|ERROR|OFFLINE|failed COLOR=yellow IGNORE=%compression|nis_bind_broadcast LOG %.* %NOTICE|ERROR|OFFLINE|failed COLOR=yellow IGNORE=%(compression|nis_bind_broadcast) LOG %.* %NOTICE|ERROR|OFFLINE|failed COLOR=yellow IGNORE=%"compression|nis_bind_broadcast" LOG %.* %NOTICE|ERROR|OFFLINE|failed COLOR=yellow IGNORE="%compression|nis_bind_broadcast" Version is 4.2.0. I'm sure it's something simple, but anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Thanks! Matt

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[hobbit] out of inodes
by brodie＠mcw.edu 05 Jan '07

05 Jan '07

I think solaris (by default) doesn't allocate nearly enough inodes as (for example) ext3 inder linux. I recall dealing with inode issues under solaris 6 and 7 for an email server. I agree- a royal pain...... On my system, a redhat box monitoring 122 servers and with nearly 150,000 history files, looks like this: Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/sda5 2562240 22092 2540148 1% / /dev/sda1 127744 86 127658 1% /boot none 129323 1 129322 1% /dev/shm /dev/sdb1 3842720 159572 3683148 5% /home /dev/sda6 895840 48 895792 1% /tmp /dev/sda3 2562240 151660 2410580 6% /usr /dev/sda2 2562240 23386 2538854 1% /var --------------------------------------------------------- Kent C. Brodie - brodie at phys.mcw.edu Department of Physiology Medical College of Wisconsin (414) 456-8590 -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 10:42 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] out of inodes On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 01:26:52PM +0100, Longina Przybyszewska wrote: > Hobbit (4.2 Solaris9) made the whole disk partition out of game because of > "out of inodes" fail. > Disk partition is 3.8Gb , used 1.7 Gb, available 2.1Gb. > The directory /opt/hobbit/data/histlogs/ keeps huge amount of > historical data about each hobbit client. > In my configuration I keep to the default values for history events. > What shall I look after, and which variables should be tuned to avoid > that fail in the future? Hobbit never deletes history-logs by itself. You can use the "trimhistory" utility to remove old logfiles, or you can just setup a simple "find /home/hobbit/data/histlogs -mtime +90 | xargs rm" cronjob to wipe all history-logs older than 90 days (or whatever you prefer). Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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[hobbit] Having debugged the hobbit client., I'm now fighting the logs
by PNIXON＠ci.somerville.ma.us 05 Jan '07

05 Jan '07

Tom, According to the man page for client-local.cfg You should be able to add a line like: Ignore "tsm: 3004-035" --Pat -----Original Message----- From: Kauffman, Tom [mailto:KauffmanT at nibco.com] Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 12:25 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Having debugged the hobbit client., I'm now fighting the logs What do I need to have in my client-local.cfg to ignore syslog lines like this: Jan 5 12:14:56 columbia auth|security:notice tsm: 3004-035 TSM: write to /dev/pts/14 failed. These are generated by the hobbit network testing and I don't need to see them at the server. I'd like to key on the " tsm: 3004-035" string. TIA Tom Kauffman 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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Having debugged the hobbit client., I'm now fighting the logs
by KauffmanT＠nibco.com 05 Jan '07

05 Jan '07

What do I need to have in my client-local.cfg to ignore syslog lines like this: Jan 5 12:14:56 columbia auth|security:notice tsm: 3004-035 TSM: write to /dev/pts/14 failed. These are generated by the hobbit network testing and I don't need to see them at the server. I'd like to key on the " tsm: 3004-035" string. TIA Tom Kauffman 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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