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

05 Oct '07

Hi Dave, Sorry for the delay, I've been pretty busy those days.... I know that the ARES resolver can be by-passed. I just wanted to point out a possible bug in the Hobit code. Thanks. Dominique UNIL - University of Lausanne Haertig, David F (Dave) wrote: > Did you try modifying ...../server/etc/hobbitlaunch.cfg? > > Change the line: > > CMD bbtest-net --report --ping --checkresponse > > to: > > CMD bbtest-net --report --ping --checkresponse --no-ares > > I don't know if you need to restart Hobbit server after this for it to > take effect. Wouldn't hurt. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dominique Frise [mailto:Dominique.Frise at unil.ch] > Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 9:44 AM > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: Re: [hobbit] /etc/resolv.conf and DNS error (http test) > > > > Haertig, David F (Dave) wrote: >> Try adding a "search" line to resolv.conf. e.g., "search > example.com". >> Your existing domain line should set this as your default search, but >> maybe it's not? Try explicitly setting it by adding a search line. >> But you imply your problem is intermitant, so it's probably not >> default search that's getting you. Do you get the same intermittant >> failures when you run "nslookup www.example.com" repeatedly from the >> command line? I believe when you have multiple nameservers listed >> they are all queried, and the first to respond wins. I don't think >> Solaris waits for the first to fail before moving on to the second >> like you say. I'm not 100% sure about this though. >> >> Note: I believe Solaris only uses the first six entries that are >> listed on a resolv.conf "search" line, ignoring the rest. Something >> to keep in mind if you use this. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Dominique Frise [mailto:Dominique.Frise at unil.ch] >> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 12:43 AM >> To: hobbit at hswn.dk >> Subject: [hobbit] /etc/resolv.conf and DNS error (http test) >> >> 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 >> >> 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 >> >> > > There are no intermittent problem while using nslookup or any other tool > relying on the default resolver under Solaris. > I think the problem comes from the ARES resolver that Hobbit uses > internally. > Maybe the timeouts and retry setting are not interpreted the same way as > the default resolver does. > I have no time to look at the code but perhaps Henrik has an answer... > > Thanks. > > Dominique > > 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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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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[hobbit] NooB questions - Status not Available
by pmcilrath＠marketron.com 05 Oct '07

05 Oct '07

Ok, I got rid of the rpm install and started over. I downloaded the latest hobbit binary and freetyp2, libart, libpng and rrdtool binaries and started from scratch. Everything is installed and I used the hobbit-apache.conf example created by the install to configure apache. Fired it all up, and hobbit seemed to be running fine...but when I click on any link, I get a strange error that says Internet Explorer (or Firefox) cannot download the file....instead of following the link to the details page for that test. I get the same thing with reports, trends, etc, etc. Only non-green seems to be working. Im pretty sure that it has to be something to do with cgi-bin or seccgi, so Im poring over my httpd.conf file line by line to see if something somewhere is conflicting with the example setup from the hobbit install (pasted into the bottom of my httpd.conf). Has anyone seen this before? Paul -----Original Message----- From: Galen Johnson [mailto:Galen.Johnson at sas.com] Sent: Tue 9/25/2007 3:47 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Cc: Subject: RE: [hobbit] NooB questions - Status not Available Most likely. There are some permission changes that have to happen in the hobbit www area and maybe a couple of other areas to allow the user apache runs as to write there...it has been a while since I set up hobbit but you might be able to glean the info from the hobbit help/man pages. =G= -----Original Message----- From: McIlrath, Paul [mailto:pmcilrath at marketron.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 5:06 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] NooB questions - Status not Available Galen, When I first set it up, it was using the include statement to point to the \etc\httpd\conf.d\hobbit-apache.conf file. That wasnt working however, so I commented out where apache point to conf.d and pasted the following in at the end of my \etc\httpd\conf\httpd.conf file: Alias /hobbit/ "/var/lib/hobbit/www/" <Directory "/var/lib/hobbit/www"> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes MultiViews Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> <VirtualHost *> DocumentRoot "/var/lib/hobbit/www" ServerName hobbit <Directory "/var/lib/hobbit/www"> allow from all Options +Indexes </Directory> </VirtualHost> ScriptAlias /hobbit-cgi/ "/usr/libexec/hobbit/cgi-bin/" <Directory "/usr/libexec/hobbit/cgi-bin"> AllowOverride None Options ExecCGI Includes Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> ScriptAlias /hobbit-seccgi/ "/usr/libexec/hobbit/cgi-secure/" <Directory "/usr/libexec/hobbit/cgi-secure"> AllowOverride None Options ExecCGI Includes Order allow,deny Allow from all # Password file where users with access to these scripts are kept. # Create it with "htpasswd -c /etc/hobbit/hobbitpasswd USERNAME" # Add more users / change passwords with "htpasswd /etc/hobbit/hobbitpasswd USERNAME" AuthUserFile /etc/hobbit/hobbitpasswd AuthType Basic AuthName "Hobbit Administration" Require valid-user </Directory> Then I restarted httpd and hobbitd and everything started working, with the exception of the pages showing Status not Available and the 2 reports, as stated below. Now that you mention it though, its not requiring any kind of login right now....so maybe its a rights thing because it doesnt know who is trying to create/view the pages. Is that a possibility? Paul -----Original Message----- From: Galen Johnson [mailto:Galen.Johnson at sas.com] Sent: Tue 9/25/2007 2:41 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Cc: Subject: RE: [hobbit] NooB questions - Status not Available I don't use the packages but I'm wondering if your apache httpd.conf file has the hobbit include info...either via an Include directive or pasted in directly. Look in there and see if there is anything hobbit related. =G= -----Original Message----- From: McIlrath, Paul [mailto:pmcilrath at marketron.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 3:57 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk; hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] NooB questions - Status not Available Thanks for your response Thomas, unfortunately, I get it on every test, all the time, regardless of how many times I refresh. Im sure I have over looked something simple, I just dont know what it is yet! Paul -----Original Message----- From: Kern, Thomas [mailto:Thomas.Kern at hq.doe.gov] Sent: Tue 9/25/2007 1:36 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Cc: Subject: RE: [hobbit] NooB questions - Status not Available I get the blank 'Status Not Available' screen occasionally. I think it is just the hobbit server being busy or the network slow. When I 'refresh' the page, I get a regular screen of data. /Thomas Kern /301-903-2211 > -----Original Message----- > From: McIlrath, Paul [mailto:pmcilrath at marketron.com] > Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 15:29 > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: [hobbit] NooB questions - Status not Available > > 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. 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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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[hobbit] Disable of http Test
by jkwade＠futurefrontiers.com 04 Oct '07

04 Oct '07

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

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Disable of http Test
by jkwade＠futurefrontiers.com 04 Oct '07

04 Oct '07

Hello All, We do a lot of application deploys here which brings down the http server. Of course users don't call-in to disable the hobbit server. I was wondering is there a way to disable a test via the command line from another server, so that I can add the hobbit disable of http test during a deploy of applications. I then want to script re-enabling it at the end of the deploy script. Thanks..James James Wade

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line count
by joshuakrause＠triad.rr.com 04 Oct '07

04 Oct '07

how do you use the linecount method and how to implement it. I am trying to get alarmed when a word doesn't show up in a file. I was hoping that i could use the line count method and then alarm when the line count is 0. Thanks Josh

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