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[hobbit] client side test frequency tuning
by emarganne＠be.tiauto.com 25 Jan '07

25 Jan '07

First the CPU test was chosen as an example it sure does not make much sense to accelerate the frequency of the data collection for that ;-). About the main topic, I think I have been confusing people a lot with term misuses. What I would like to do is to accelerate or slow down the frequency of data collection, not the tests that are held, as you said, on the server side. The idea is to try to tune the data collection frequencies the most accurately possible. You said that I can change the frequency of the execution of the full Hobbit client... That is what I do not want to do. But you also said that it would break up the log file ... only because rising the data collection flow would be really flood like (thing that I strongly believe possible) or is there another reason? Regards, Etienne Marganne, TI Automotive. -----Original Message----- From: henrik at hswn.dk [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: jeudi 25 janvier 2007 16:04 To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] client side test frequency tuning On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 03:03:20PM +0100, Marganne, Etienne wrote: > > The CPU, disks, procs kind of tests are held on the client side right? No. That's Big Brother thinking, and you're running Hobbit. There is no one-to-one correspondance between the client-side script and the cpu/disk/memory etc. tests that shows up on the Hobbit display, since the latter is generated on the Hobbit server from several of the data items that the client-side script collects. > What I want to do is to change the frequency of the CPU survey without > changing anything for the other tests. You can modify the clientlaunch.cfg to run the full Hobbit client script every minute, but that would probably break your log-monitoring (log events would expire in 6 minutes instead of 30), and the vmstat data would probably be affected as well. Besides which, it doesn't really make much sense. The CPU load reported is the 5-minute average from your OS anyway. And do you really want a sudden spike to trigger full alerts? Just because someone happened to run "find" in the wrong directory? Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk The information contained in this transmission may contain privileged and confidential information. It is intended only for the use of the person(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution or duplication of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message.

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number of cpu on the client
by gn1＠sanger.ac.uk 25 Jan '07

25 Jan '07

Hi, Would it be possible to have the hobbit client reporting the number and type of CPU (creating a new [cpu] section)? A "cat /proc/cpuinfo" on a linux machine will do the trick, but I don't know if this would be easy for the other OSes. Cheers, Gildas

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client side test frequency tuning
by emarganne＠be.tiauto.com 25 Jan '07

25 Jan '07

Hello all, Once again a little question about frequency changes in the hobbit tests: The CPU, disks, procs kind of tests are held on the client side right? What I want to do is to change the frequency of the CPU survey without changing anything for the other tests. Since the client side tests are launched all together by hobbitclient.sh which is programmed to launch them at the frequency defined in clientlaunch.cfg, there is no "easy" way to set different frequencies. To me it could be possible to set them up by modifying clientlaunch.cfg to put new entries specifying the new frequencies. The entries would launch modified hobbitclient.sh scripts so that they would launched the good OS and command line specific scripts. But what are exactly the consequences on the data fetching? I have read somewhere that it could have consequences and my question is: Is there a workaround? Etienne Marganne, TI Automotive. The information contained in this transmission may contain privileged and confidential information. It is intended only for the use of the person(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution or duplication of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message.

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network test scheduling
by emarganne＠be.tiauto.com 25 Jan '07

25 Jan '07

Hi all, I have a question about the operations of bbtest-net. It said in the man pages that it reads first the bb-services file which describes a list of TCP based protocols and how to test them. What I would like to do is to schedule differently all those tests. Since I have noticed that the bbtest module launch frequency is configured in the hobbitlaunch.cfg without any parameters about bb-services. I would like to know if it was possible to schedule launches of the bbtest module at different frequencies with different "bb-services" files with of course different contents. Thank you, Regars, Etienne Marganne, TI Automotive. The information contained in this transmission may contain privileged and confidential information. It is intended only for the use of the person(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution or duplication of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message.

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Slightly off topic - The Shire
by david＠stenhouseconsulting.com 25 Jan '07

25 Jan '07

Where has the Shire gone to? Tried accessing it today at http://www.trantor.org/theshire, but nothing is there. David Gilmore Consultant sc_logo 4 Traverse Street Providence, RI 02906 401-453-6900 Voice 401-454-7581 Fax Cert_Partner_rgb

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V0.2.0 of adminscripts
by stefan.freisler＠aspect-online.de 25 Jan '07

25 Jan '07

Hi, Version 0.2.0 of admin script is out. you can download it from: http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~henk/hobbit/ I hope problems with ^M are history. I have renamed the name of footer, header and my scripts. Please delete them because they will not automatically overwritten! Please change your menu too if you have changed it. (New one is in readmy) I hope i have all wishes included, but if you have some more please give me an hint. (Same for any trouble) Changelog 2007-01-08 v0.2.0 +header and footer renamed (please delete the old one) +new method to get http query +functions excluded in an separate file +use faster method to get Services by Host +renamted all files for better deleteing. (not calendar eventually henrik will include it too ;-) ) +Script Time now ok $DATE was not known at this time it used (Solaris Users should change var to DATE="/usr/xpg4/bin/date") +Logs show if file exist or not writeabel +Change Configs try to make an backup (if it has permissions) +Logs if you rename an Host or delete Host/Services

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FW: [hobbit] TOP & Memory Test
by jkwade＠futurefrontiers.com 24 Jan '07

24 Jan '07

Henrik, Is this possible now or is this additional functionality? Thanks.James _____ From: James Wade [mailto:jkwade at futurefrontiers.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 2:10 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] TOP & Memory Test When you look at the cpu test, it shows top output for the processes taking up the most cpu. Can the same be done for the Memory Test, but showing top information of the processes taking up the most memory? Thanks..James

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a trends style view for the individual tests.
by eric＠iconla.com 24 Jan '07

24 Jan '07

Greetings, I was wondering if any of you have found a way to list graphs of specific tests for all the hobbit clients in a group. I'll explain this another way, just in case. The trends view is extremely useful in showing all the graphs for all of the tests for a specific server. In my current setup, I have 2 main groups, each with about 10 hobbit clients. It would be nice to be able to view the disk or cpu test graphs for a group all on a single page. Are there any suggestions? Thanks, -Eric

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[hobbit] Confused with test settings!
by CHRIS.MORRIS＠RWEnpower.com 24 Jan '07

24 Jan '07

can you ping the client from the server? can you ping the server from the client? bb-hosts entry needs : - <dotted quad ip address> hostname The hostname must be the same as the client reports, unless you use testip in which case it will ping using the ip-address. > -----Original Message----- > From: Andy [SMTP:axg at syntec.co.uk] > Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 12:27 PM > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: RE: [hobbit] Confused with test settings! > > Ok then, why doesn't it show?????? > > Andy Greening > Syntec Uk > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Johann Eggers [mailto:Johann.Eggers at teleatlas.com] > Sent: 24 January 2007 12:24 > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: RE: [hobbit] Confused with test settings! > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Andy [mailto:axg at syntec.co.uk] > > Sent: Mittwoch, 24. Januar 2007 13:23 > > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > > Subject: RE: [hobbit] Confused with test settings! > > > > The existing servers have a mixture of nothing after the host name, > some > > have testip. > > > > To get the basic ping result do I need anything beyond the hostname? > Other > > info is returned from the hosts ok. > > > NO... > > Just look at the man-pages... > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.8/649 - Release Date: 23/01/2007 > 20:40 > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.8/649 - Release Date: 23/01/2007 > 20:40 > > > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > **************************************************************************** Make a New Year's resolution to get your heating equipment checked. If you don't you could be adding as much as 10% to your heating bill without knowing it. Source: Carbon Trust (2006) **************************************************************************** This e-mail is provided for general information purposes only and does not constitute investment or transactional advice. For the avoidance of doubt the contents of this email are subject to contract and will not constitute a legally binding contract. The information contained in this email is intended only for the use of the intended recipient at the email address to which it has been addressed. If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this document in error and that any review, dissemination or copying of the message or associated attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify postmaster at npower.com (UK 01384 275454) and delete it immediately from your system. Neither Npower nor any of the other companies in the RWE Npower group from whom this e-mail originates accept any responsibility for losses or damage as a result of any viruses and it is your responsibility to check attachments (if any) for viruses. RWE Npower plc Registered office: Windmill Hill Business Park, Whitehill Way, Swindon SN5 6PB. Registered in England and Wales: number 3892782. This e-mail may be sent on behalf of a member of the RWE Npower group of companies. *****************************************************************************

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bbwin 0.9 memory.exe missing
by don.munyak＠gmail.com 24 Jan '07

24 Jan '07

bbwin 0.9 memory.exe missing Hello, I just installed bbwin 0.9 from sourceforge. The windows client is reporting to hobbit, but I was getting this error in the application log. ---------------------------------------------- Event Type: Warning Event Source: BigBrotherHobbitClient Event Category: Agent Event ID: 17 Description: The agent externals generated this event message : Failed to launch memory.exe: The system cannot find the file specified. ---------------------------------------------- So I commented out the memory.exe line in the bbwin.cfg <externals> <setting name="timer" value="3m" /> <setting name="logstimer" value="60s" /> <! externals launch examples <load value="cscript mybbscript.vbs" />  </externals> Now I am getting this error reported. ---------------------------------------------- Event Type: Warning Event Source: BigBrotherHobbitClient Event Category: Agent Event ID: 17 Description: The agent externals generated this event message : No externals have been specified ---------------------------------------------- Also from c:\Program Files\BBWin\Ext There is only fsmon.vbs Any thoughts or comments ?? Don

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