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[hobbit] Disable of http Test
by jkwade＠futurefrontiers.com 05 Oct '07

05 Oct '07

Hi Galen, I tried that but it didn't work. I finally got it to work. I looked at some of the other scripts and did the same thing they were doing: STATUS="disable $machine.http -1 Running Deployment of from $FROM_STREAM to $TO_STREAM" $HOBBIT_HOME/bin/bb 198.168.0.222 "$STATUS" This worked fine. James -----Original Message----- From: Galen Johnson [mailto:Galen.Johnson at sas.com] Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 3:59 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] Disable of http Test I think you just need to remove the outer quotes... $HOBBIT_HOME/bin/bb 198.168.0.222 \"disable $machine.http -1 Running Deployment of from $FROM_STREAM to $TO_STREAM\" =G= -----Original Message----- From: James Wade [mailto:jkwade at futurefrontiers.com] Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 4:45 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] Disable of http Test Hey, I'm having problems scripting the disable. I'm using ksh. Here's what I'm doing: $HOBBIT_HOME/bin/bb 198.168.0.222 "\"disable $machine.http -1 Running Deployment of from $FROM_STREAM to $TO_STREAM\"" Here's the debug output: + machine=server1 + HOBBIT_HOME=/home/hobbit/client + FROM_STREAM=TEST1 + TO_STREAM=TEST2 + /home/hobbit/client/bin/bb 198.168.0.222 "disable tiers_trnprd6.http -1 Running Deployment from TEST1 to TEST2" It doesn't work. Now if I grab the bottom line using cut and paste, and execute it on the line manually, it works just fine. I know it's the way you have to put the disable in double quotes, but I can't seem to get it to work. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks..James -----Original Message----- From: James Wade [mailto:jkwade at futurefrontiers.com] Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 1:05 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] Disable of http Test What about disable until O.K.? I looked at the manpage and didn't see it. Thanks....James -----Original Message----- From: Tom Georgoulias [mailto:tomg at mcclatchyinteractive.com] Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 11:54 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Disable of http Test Josh Luthman wrote: > Just to clarify this, is this command > > /home/shire/server/bin/bbcmd bin/bb 127.0.0.1 "disable foo.conn 60" then? > > Is the 60 in seconds or minutes? Minutes. To run that command from a remote server and not on the hobbit server, you would need to use $BBDISP instead of 127.0.0.1. Tom 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 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] Disable of http Test
by jkwade＠futurefrontiers.com 05 Oct '07

05 Oct '07

Hey, I'm having problems scripting the disable. I'm using ksh. Here's what I'm doing: $HOBBIT_HOME/bin/bb 198.168.0.222 "\"disable $machine.http -1 Running Deployment of from $FROM_STREAM to $TO_STREAM\"" Here's the debug output: + machine=server1 + HOBBIT_HOME=/home/hobbit/client + FROM_STREAM=TEST1 + TO_STREAM=TEST2 + /home/hobbit/client/bin/bb 198.168.0.222 "disable tiers_trnprd6.http -1 Running Deployment from TEST1 to TEST2" It doesn't work. Now if I grab the bottom line using cut and paste, and execute it on the line manually, it works just fine. I know it's the way you have to put the disable in double quotes, but I can't seem to get it to work. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks..James -----Original Message----- From: James Wade [mailto:jkwade at futurefrontiers.com] Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 1:05 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] Disable of http Test What about disable until O.K.? I looked at the manpage and didn't see it. Thanks....James -----Original Message----- From: Tom Georgoulias [mailto:tomg at mcclatchyinteractive.com] Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 11:54 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Disable of http Test Josh Luthman wrote: > Just to clarify this, is this command > > /home/shire/server/bin/bbcmd bin/bb 127.0.0.1 "disable foo.conn 60" then? > > Is the 60 in seconds or minutes? Minutes. To run that command from a remote server and not on the hobbit server, you would need to use $BBDISP instead of 127.0.0.1. Tom 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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Security question
by akincaid＠beckautogroup.com 05 Oct '07

05 Oct '07

I have shored up security for how my users connect to specific areas, but I have found that if they mouse around they can get into specific places such as the cgi-bin areas. Is there a way to shore up one particular file. Specifically the configuration file under reports called the config report. Thanks, Aaron Kincaid

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Apache configuration
by Stephen_Dingwall＠contractor.amat.com 05 Oct '07

05 Oct '07

Hi, I just installed Apache 2.2 on Ubuntu and I'm trying to configure the Apache server so that it sees Hobbit. I've never used Apache before and i'm having a very difficult time figuring out how to get this setup. It seems like it should be easy but I haven't been able to find any documentation that's helped me to do it yet. If you can point me in the right direction I'd be very grateful. Thanks! Regards, Steve Dingwall Applied Tool NeXus (formerly eDiagnostics) eService Solutions, Applied Global Services 512-272-0022 The content of this message is Applied Materials Confidential. If you are not the intended recipient and have received this message in error, any use or distribution is prohibited. Please notify me immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message from your computer system. Thank you.

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/etc/resolv.conf and DNS error (http test)
by Dominique.Frise＠unil.ch 05 Oct '07

05 Oct '07

Hi, We have tried following settings in the Hobbit server's /etc/resolv.conf (Solaris 9) domain example.com nameserver 1.2.3.4 nameserver 1.2.3.5 options timeout:1 options retry:1 While the first and second nameserver are up and running we receive sometimes "DNS error" on http checks like http://www.example.com. Assuming that the first nameserver is not responding within the timeout, the second should be queried by the Hobbit resolver and get the response. Is there something that we are missing? Dominique UNIL - University of Lausanne

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Using enable/disable administration
by josh＠imaginenetworksllc.com 05 Oct '07

05 Oct '07

First off I have never used this feature, so I am not certain what to look for. My first idea was that if I disabled the hosts they would not show up on the bb2.html page, possibly hide on the bb.html page too. I disabled three hosts and disabled all tests performed on them. I waited a good 5m (certain it went through the 1m page rebuild time) and it doesn't appear to look any different - now my assumption is that it will only prevent notifications, is this true? I also tried doing this command and got some odd errors: [shire at frodo bin]$ /home/shire/server/bin/bbcmd 127.0.0.1 "disable host.mydomain.com 15" 2007-10-04 20:42:07 Using default environment file /home/shire/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg 2007-10-04 20:42:07 execvp() failed: No such file or directory [shire at frodo bin]$ /home/shire/server/bin/bbcmd bin/bb 127.0.0.1 "disable Kancharla-nullbox.imaginenetx.com -1" 2007-10-04 20:45:13 Using default environment file /home/shire/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg 2007-10-04 20:45:13 execvp() failed: No such file or directory Which of the two is correct, and what is the purpose of the bin/bb that was mentioned in a previous support issue. Thanks in advance! Josh

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linecount?????
by joshuakrause＠triad.rr.com 05 Oct '07

05 Oct '07

How do you enable it? My client-local.cfg looks like this: [gsonc-spg-dncs] file:/export/home/dncs/mystro/bfs/Compass_OOB/rta.grp.z log:/dvs/dncs/tmp/bootpd.000:10240 trigger recvd log:/var/adm/messages:10240 ignore MARK ignore sendmail [gsonc-spg-mas-1] file:/usr/local/mystro/logs/CallerId.log log:/var/log/messages:10240 ignore MARK linecount:/usr/local/mystro/logs/CallerId.log callerid SIP and my hobbit-client.cfg looks like this: HOST=%gsonc-spg-dncs FILE /export/home/dncs/mystro/bfs/Compass_OOB/rta.grp.z SIZE>1400 TRACK=rta LOG /dvs/dncs/tmp/bootpd.000 recvd COLOR=yellow LOAD 10.0 15.0 HOST=%gsonc-spg-mas-1 FILE /usr/local/mystro/logs/CallerId.log TRACK=callerid LOG /usr/local/mystro/logs/CallerId.log TRACK=sip Am I doing this right or is this not right?

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client data incomplete
by PatelHN＠telkom.co.za 05 Oct '07

05 Oct '07

greetings, i have been getting hobbit alerts about processes not running, having a look at the process list shows an incomplete 'ps' section. nothing searched on the mailing list related to this issue as such. running the following on the hostdata file on the hobbit server showed the following: egrep '^\[.*\]$' 1191352319 [date] [uname] [osversion] [uptime] [who] [df] [mount] [free] [ifconfig] [route] [netstat] [ports] [ifstat] [ps] doing this on other files shows me that more sections after 'ps' should be in the file. the data seems to be cut short. this only happens on occasion, i cant really pin it down to certain times of the day (if/when backups take place on the network causing a lot more traffic) either. there is nothing particularly helpful in hobbitclient logs. on the client side i am getting the following in hobbitclient.log, but not at the time when the issue occurred. 2007-10-01 21:16:46 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - timeout im wondering if it is a problem on the client before it sends the data to the server, or if it is a network congestion issue maybe. any tips on how i should go about diagnosing this would be helpful. thanks. -- Hiren Patel | Ops Specialist | ISS Infrastructure | Telkom E-Mail: patelhn at telkom.co.za Office: +27 12 680 3460 | Fax: +27 12 680 3299 | Cell: +27 73 456 7980 'Still, we'd much rather change the world instead of going along with it.' --http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Overview ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This e-mail is subject to the Telkom SA electronic communication legal notice, available at : http://www.telkom.co.za/TelkomEMailLegalNotice.PDF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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NooB questions - Status not Available
by pmcilrath＠marketron.com 05 Oct '07

05 Oct '07

Hi, Im a NooB to Hobbit. I have some Big Brother background which is why I chose Hobbit for a new monitoring project at my company. Im running CentOS 5, and I installed Apache 2, and rrdtool-1.0.50-3.el5.rf.i386.rpm and Hobbit from hobbit-4.1.2p1-1e14.re.i386. The installations all went smoothly, no error messages, I put some hosts in my bb-hosts file and fired up hobbitd. The main page comes up, but when I click on any of the tests icons, instead of getting the current status for that hosts tests, I get a blank page with "Status not Available". However, if I click on "all Non-Green view" from the view menus and look at the tests historically they are all there and can be viewed normally. I checked the files for the hosts in the hist, hislogs and logs directories and they are growing and receiving data from the clients. A ps -ef | grep hobbitd seems to indicate that hobbitd is up and running. I suspect its a permissions thing, but the structure of Hobbit is different enough from BB Im not sure where to look. I am also seeing a couple of odd behaviors in reports that makes me suspect that as well. If I try to run a snapshot report I get a blank page with "Cannot create output directory", and the config report says it cannot contact the Hobbit server. If this is the wrong place for this post, please let me know and I will go where I should. And if anyone has a little patience to help a NooB along for awhile, I will promise to do my time helping other NooBs along when the shoe is on the other foor and support this forum. Paul pmcilrath at marketron.com </PRE>The information contained in this e-mail message may be confidential and protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying is strictly prohibited. If you think that you have received this e-mail message in error, please e-mail the sender at exadmins at marketron.com

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F5 BigIP monitor
by paul＠moonkhan.org 04 Oct '07

04 Oct '07

Does anyone have Hobbit monitoring F5 BigIP load-balancers by chance? The F5's provide a lot of information via SNMP and I was hoping to leverage Hobbit to record and alert from that data. Thanks! -Paul Paul Barton http://www.moonkhan.org paul at moonkhan.org "Black holes are where God divided by zero."

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