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Today's snapshot (29/1)
by lars.ebeling＠leopg9.no-ip.org 29 Jan '07

29 Jan '07

Hi, I don't know if I should write about the daily snapshots. But today's snapshot is not updating any statuspages. The only statuspage I get is a non-updated current statuspage. All other show: Status not available This is the only hobbit-process: hobbit 15221 1 0 14:42:12 ? 0:00 /home/hobbit/server/bin/hobbitlaunch --config=/home/hobbit/serv These are the files in /var/log/hobbit: # cd /var/log/hobbit # ls hobbitlaunch.log hobbitlaunch.pid I attach a copy of the logfile. $ bb --debug 127.0.0.1 hobbitdboard 2007-01-29 15:31:41 Transport setup is: 2007-01-29 15:31:41 bbdportnumber = 1984 2007-01-29 15:31:41 bbdispproxyhost = NONE 2007-01-29 15:31:41 bbdispproxyport = 0 2007-01-29 15:31:41 Recipient listed as '127.0.0.1' 2007-01-29 15:31:41 Unix domain protocol 2007-01-29 15:31:41 Will connect to address local/unix port 0 2007-01-29 15:31:41 connect to bbd failed - Connection refused 2007-01-29 15:31:41 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - Connection failed 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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[hobbit] VMWare ESX
by jdustin＠usm.maine.edu 29 Jan '07

29 Jan '07

>>> On 1/26/2007 at 3:37 PM, Shifter <the.shifter at gmail.com> wrote: > Note: this is regarding ESX 3.x > > I was running into a similar issue with trying to get the usage data from > the ESX host. The problem I was seeing though was that a system I *knew* to > be extremely heavily utilized as evidenced by MUI/VC usage data, was > reporting back only ~5% utilization. The problem was that the console OS is > almost like a VM itself and the tools were only showing usage data as used > by the console OS. > > Here's how I was able to get around it, with mad props to those who have > helped me in the past to get the custom graphing working: <snip> This looks VERY nice! Thanks for sharing...

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bbaliasname and include directive
by tlp-hobbit＠holme-pedersen.dk 29 Jan '07

29 Jan '07

Hi all, I have problems getting the FQDN from some AIX servers using the uname -n, so I am looking for a way to solve this. Will the hobbit client read the hostname from a bbaliasname file in ~hobbit/etc/ ? It seems that I can not do a include direcive in the hobbit-clients.cfg file, will this be supported in 2.3 ? Br Thomas

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[hobbit] VMWare ESX
by tmelcher＠saionline.com 28 Jan '07

28 Jan '07

One thing I did forget to mention is you will need to run the esxcfg-firewall command to open up TCP port 1984 in and out on each of your ESX servers. Trent -----Original Message----- From: Trent Melcher [mailto:tmelcher at saionline.com] Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 3:47 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] VMWare ESX Compile a copy of hobbit on a RedHat ES3 or ES4 server and just copy it over to your ESX servers, VMWare is a RedHat Linux Kernel. I have it running on 12 of my ESX servers and it works great. You will just need to modify a few of the commands like the df command and there are a few other I cant remember off the top of my head. Trent -----Original Message----- From: Jon Dustin [mailto:jdustin at usm.maine.edu] Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 10:21 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] VMWare ESX Greetings - I have been using Hobbit since summer 2006 (and Big Brother for about 10 years prior). GREAT system, my appreciation to Henrik and the community. I am evaluating how to monitor our VMWare ESX boxes with Hobbit. I would like to have ESX report the "standard" set of data (cpu, disk, memory, msgs, procs, trends) and have Hobbit graph the data appropriately. As some of you may know, ESX is its "own" OS, with slightly different management tools for reporting on the VM GUEST sessions. There are appropriate analogies for top, ps, df, etc. It seems this might best be handled by sending a "client data" report to Hobbit, and masquerading ESX to "look" similar to a Linux box. Is this feasible? Any potential problems? I have looked for some documentation on the client report, to no avail. Or should I just look at the Hobbit CLIENT source? Thanks for any tips/tricks/traps. 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

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[hobbit] VMWare ESX
by tmelcher＠saionline.com 28 Jan '07

28 Jan '07

Compile a copy of hobbit on a RedHat ES3 or ES4 server and just copy it over to your ESX servers, VMWare is a RedHat Linux Kernel. I have it running on 12 of my ESX servers and it works great. You will just need to modify a few of the commands like the df command and there are a few other I cant remember off the top of my head. Trent -----Original Message----- From: Jon Dustin [mailto:jdustin at usm.maine.edu] Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 10:21 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] VMWare ESX Greetings - I have been using Hobbit since summer 2006 (and Big Brother for about 10 years prior). GREAT system, my appreciation to Henrik and the community. I am evaluating how to monitor our VMWare ESX boxes with Hobbit. I would like to have ESX report the "standard" set of data (cpu, disk, memory, msgs, procs, trends) and have Hobbit graph the data appropriately. As some of you may know, ESX is its "own" OS, with slightly different management tools for reporting on the VM GUEST sessions. There are appropriate analogies for top, ps, df, etc. It seems this might best be handled by sending a "client data" report to Hobbit, and masquerading ESX to "look" similar to a Linux box. Is this feasible? Any potential problems? I have looked for some documentation on the client report, to no avail. Or should I just look at the Hobbit CLIENT source? Thanks for any tips/tricks/traps. To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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hobbit not adding negative values to rrd database
by hansi.tesarz＠gmail.com 28 Jan '07

28 Jan '07

Hi I have a temperature monitor for outside temperature. i cant get it to work when the temperature is negative. the rrdtool reports this <rrd> <version> 0003 </version> <step> 300 </step>  <lastupdate> 1170011401 </lastupdate>  <ds> <name> Utetemp </name> <type> GAUGE </type> <minimal_heartbeat> 600 </minimal_heartbeat> <min> -4.0000000000e+01 </min> <max> NaN </max>  <last_ds> UNKN </last_ds> <value> 4.0000000000e+00 </value> <unknown_sec> 0 </unknown_sec> </ds> if i send positive values it gets updated but when it is negative nothing happens. any ideas? Regards - Hansi -- Hansi Tesarz Tjäderstigen 7 142 63 Trångsund Tel: +46 708611103 Mail: hansi at htk.se Web: www.htk.se ICQ: 202-468-855 Light Can Twist as Well as Spin

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Hobbit client and large networks
by asparks＠doublesparks.net 28 Jan '07

28 Jan '07

Have used Hobbit with BB clients at a previous gig, but now looking to set one up with Hobbit clients at a new gig. This will be an installation of close to 1000 nodes. Having started testing using the clients, have some concerns and questions: 1) I am concerned that the server performs all the proc and disk tests... I'm concerned that several hundred servers will overwhelm the Hobbit server. I see the client can be configured to run the checks locally, provided the configuration is copied to the clients. Has anyone any practical experience with this many clients, and whether local checks are better in this case? 2) Most of the servers are Web and database servers... meaning that port, proc, and netstat reports are very large. I've seen so far that the Hobbit client data sent to the server is almost 500k or larger, causing truncation problems and problems with the server-side checks (proc tests did not work until I used either client-local tests, or disabled the ports client data). Can client data be disabled without affecting the ability to run checks? Is there a way to streamline the data so that effective monitoring is possible, without sending 1/2 MB data for each client every 5 minutes? Thanks in advance for any advice. -Alan -- Alan Sparks, UNIX/Linux Systems Integration and Administration <asparks at doublesparks.net>

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client agents - *nix
by don.munyak＠gmail.com 27 Jan '07

27 Jan '07

Hello and sorry for any unnecessary noise. I have read from the docs about a hobbit-client to install on client machines, but I can't find a "how-to" or even where it is located. So,... 1. Can someone tell me where the client is located. 2. How to install on a Linux machine. I am asking for a little more than "grab this file and untar...bang your done" I am somewhat new to hobbit and need a little more detail. Thanks ~ Don

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latset and greatest
by Stewart_Larsen＠doh.state.fl.us 26 Jan '07

26 Jan '07

I know there have been a number of patches since 4.2.0. Where would one go to get the latest and greatest version? Will there be a 4.2.1. release any time soon? Stewart

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VMWare ESX
by jdustin＠usm.maine.edu 26 Jan '07

26 Jan '07

Greetings - I have been using Hobbit since summer 2006 (and Big Brother for about 10 years prior). GREAT system, my appreciation to Henrik and the community. I am evaluating how to monitor our VMWare ESX boxes with Hobbit. I would like to have ESX report the "standard" set of data (cpu, disk, memory, msgs, procs, trends) and have Hobbit graph the data appropriately. As some of you may know, ESX is its "own" OS, with slightly different management tools for reporting on the VM GUEST sessions. There are appropriate analogies for top, ps, df, etc. It seems this might best be handled by sending a "client data" report to Hobbit, and masquerading ESX to "look" similar to a Linux box. Is this feasible? Any potential problems? I have looked for some documentation on the client report, to no avail. Or should I just look at the Hobbit CLIENT source? Thanks for any tips/tricks/traps.

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