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Critical Systems view loading problem
by gendalia＠gmail.com 28 Dec '07

28 Dec '07

I'm running Hobbit 4.2.0 with the allinone patch on NetBSD 3.x. I've started making use of the critical systems setup at work, but after encouraging all my co-workers to start using it, I've run into a problem. I'm getting an "Internal Server Error" and the error log shows "Premature end of script headers: hobbit-nkview.sh". My problem seems to be related to a test being yellow right now, and right now being outside of the parameters of when the machine/test combo is critical. If I change the critical time for the event from "|W:0800:1700|" to "||", the critical systems page comes up fine. If I put the time constraints back, the page fails to come up again. It started failing after 1700, although I didn't notice it for about 15 minutes. Is anyone else seeing this problem? -Tracy

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Plans for BBWin support?
by peter.smith＠utsouthwestern.edu 28 Nov '07

28 Nov '07

Any plans for hobbit to support the "bbwin" client? It obviously currently doesn't support it, at least not in the "central" mode. P

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Use hobbit in operation center with critcal systems view
by roland.graeub＠rtc.ch 15 Nov '07

15 Nov '07

Hi all We are planing a full change from our "production" Systemmanagment Tool to Hobbit. Now on most Systems are both clients installed and the plan is to use only hobbit. In our environment the Operation Center always call when a alerts shows up on their Event Console and acknowledge the alert. With this action the alert is no longer visible for the operators. At the moment the Operation Center didnt care about hobbit, but of course lots of other people in our organization use hobbit and are happy with this great tool. With the critical systems view i think hobbit offers an ideal view for our Operation Center. Now following questions/toughts came up when we look closer; Acknowledge; If an alert is acknowledge from the operators in critical systems this is a fix acknowledge for the given time, also when there is a status change. When a problem is fixed and goes red/yellow again it will not shown up in critical view until the acked time is expired. This sould be an option to ack a alert until a status change (like in disable until ok). The option Host-ack seems to be broken, on my system only one Test is acknowledged although the Host-ack Checkbox is selected. Log; Missing a Log/Report from Critical view. A Report with information about the alerts and acknowledgeds information that were made in Critical systems would be helpful. Definition (Edit Critical Systems); Easiest way for us; made standard definitions and add host to this templates. Works fine. But i miss a connection between alerts and critical view definition. Something like a option in hobbit-alerts.cfg to define that this rule is also valid for critical view. Send a email when a alert shows up in critical view with all the possibiltys form hobbit-alerts.cfg. Special Case missed or belated Messages by Operation Center; Now some application/scripts sends Alerts to the Console View and the Operation Center make an alert call for each event. A problem in Hobbit/BB is when changes happen in red messages, the Operation Center didnt realize that until the acknowledge time runs out and they make the alert call again. This can happen for example in the disk status test (a second filesystem goes red) or with nested Tests/Logfiles. With the Event Console they get two messages (each for one Filesystem). Is this anyway a topic ? How is that handled in your organisation ? Regards, Roland

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[hobbit] on-going snapshot issue
by david.gore＠verizonbusiness.com 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

Since my other issues with 4.2.0/allinone did not get any respones, please let me know if there is going to be a way to turn OFF descriptions in bb2.html in the snapshot? Time is short and it is very tedious to compile a new snapshot daily hoping it is changed. I did look through the documentation, the first time it appeared, and I couldn't find anything Again here is what it looks like: Host1 (My host type:This host is a standalone server for the xyz group) conn cpu disk files info memory msgs oradb orasys procs prtdiag trends vxvm Host2 conn cpu disk files info memory ... trends Host3 conn cpu disk files info memory ... trends Host4 (Part of the cluster foo, contact support for help 123-5555) conn cpu disk files info memory msgs oradb orasys procs ... trends We use our descriptions in the info column and they are needed, so I cannot just remove all descriptions and comments from bb-hosts. Any help would be appreciated. Do people like the descriptions on bb2.html or is just my config that has done this with the snapshot? If it wasn't for 'Whoops ! bb failed to send message - timeout', stale alerts, and hung memory segments and semaphores I would just wait until the first pre-release or full release. Pease help. Dell Optiplex Fedora Core 5 Dual Core 3.2 GHz 4G memory David Gore (v965-3670) Network Management Systems (NMS) IMPACT Transport Team Lead - SCSA, SCNA Page: 1-800-PAG-eMCI pin 1406090 Vnet: 965-3676

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problem with CLASS definition
by jonescr＠cisco.com 07 Nov '07

07 Nov '07

I have a host whose client was started via: "./runclient.sh --class=APP_PRIMARY start" In the hobbit servers hobbit-clients.cfg, I have something similar to: CLASS=APP_PRIMARY PROC "someproc" PROC "/some/other/proc" .... DEFAULT PROC sshd The problem is that only the default proc "sshd" is being checked on the host. The expected behavior is that the CLASS would be used and other other procs checked instead. I know this has nothing to do with the DEFAULT setting, as using HOST=hostname works fine. I just cant get it to check the procs by CLASS. Is there any way to debug this? Shouldn't the CLASS show up in the "info" section? Do I need to put the class name in quotes on the command line? Thanks, -Charles

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New to Hobbit --- file monitoring
by mohnkern＠gmail.com 02 Nov '07

02 Nov '07

I'm relatively new to Hobbit, but I'm learning quickly. I'm in a mixed OS environment, with one Linux server, one linux notebook, 2 windows machines, a network printer and a VOIP box. I've managed to get the bb-hosts file so it monitors all the equipment, and I've got the ports set so it's checking ports on the server. What I'd like to do is do file checking, starting with just to see if a file exists. I added the following to /etc/hobbit/hobbit-clients.cfg FILE "/etc/passwd" GREEN NOEXIST TRACK Just to have it check to see if /etc/passwd existed. (I may have this reversed, but more on that later). Restarting hobbit, and it still showed "no files being checked" So I added the following to /etc/hobbit//client-local.cfg file:/etc/passwd Restarted Hobbit, still nothing. I'm clearly missing a piece to the puzzle. There's also a directory /usr/lib/hobbit but I can't imagine any configure files go there. If it helps, I'm running Ubuntu 7.10. So if I want to monitor for file existence, on the server, where (and what) do I plug in?

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Issue with bbproxy
by akincaid＠beckautogroup.com 01 Nov '07

01 Nov '07

The bb-hosts file on .4 (the remote server) has these entries: 192.168.213.4 apollo.tfc.com #bbd http://apollo.tfc.com 192.168.213.6 bomgar # ping http://192.168.213.6 I added these entries into the bb-hosts file on .5 (the main server) this morning 192.168.213.4 apollo.tfc.com #noconn 192.168.213.6 bomgar #noconn After doing this the messages in hobbitd went away Hostname 'apollo.tfc.com' in tree, but no host-info Hostname 'bomgar' in tree, but no host-info Now my /hobbit/bb.html page shows both "remote" items but has no data on them other then bbproxy, info and trends on .4. The bbproxy icon on the main servers /hobbit page shows this: bbproxy for Hobbit version 4.2.0 Proxy statistics Incoming messages : 43 (0 msgs/second) Outbound messages : 292 Incoming message distribution - Combo messages : 12 - Status messages : 253 Messages merged : 10 Resulting combos : 2 - Page messages : 0 - Other messages : 31 Proxy ressources - Connection table size : 1 - Buffer space : 8 kByte Timeout/failure details - reading from client : 0 - connecting to server : 275 - sending to server : 0 - recovered : 0 - reading from server : 0 - sending to client : 0 Average queue time : 30.618 On .4 hobbitlaunch.cfg I changed all the other services that had NEEDS hobbitd to say NEEDS bbproxy as mentioned in http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2006/08/msg00833.html, but this did not help. What am I missing? From: Aaron Kincaid Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 1:55 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Issue with bbproxy Having an issue with bbproxy. I have a main hobbit box 192.168.213.5 and a secondary box that currently has 192.168.213.4 (it will be moved offsite after testing and setup is completed) I want .4 to forward all info to .5, but 4 does not need to display anything locally. On .4 I have tried various things with no apparent progress. In hobbitlaunch.cfg I disabled hobbitd as instructed and set [bbproxy] up as follows [bbproxy] ENVFILE /usr/lib/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg CMD $BBHOME/bin/bbproxy --hobbitd --bbdisplay=192.168.213.5 --report=$MACHINE.bbproxy --pidfile=$BBSERVERLOGS/bbproxy.pid On the main server .5, I get the following messages under hobbit process Hostname 'apollo.tfc.com' in tree, but no host-info Hostname 'bomgar' in tree, but no host-info Hostname 'apollo.tfc.com' in tree, but no host-info Hostname 'bomgar' in tree, but no host-info Hostname 'apollo.tfc.com' in tree, but no host-info Hostname 'bomgar' in tree, but no host-info Hostname 'apollo.tfc.com' in tree, but no host-info Hostname 'bomgar' in tree, but no host-info Hostname 'apollo.tfc.com' in tree, but no host-info Hostname 'bomgar' in tree, but no host-info Hostname 'apollo.tfc.com' in tree, but no host-info Hostname 'bomgar' in tree, but no host-info Do I need to do something on .5? I tried adding 'apollo.tfc.com' and 'bomgar' to the bbhosts file on .5 but that appears to have produced resulted in .5 simply checking the hosts out for itself instead of using .4's results. So, several questions: 1) How to I display the result from .4 on .5? 2) Where will the info appear? On the bb.html page or can I make it appear in one of my existing PAGE groups? 3) In the future can I use --bbdisplay=192.168.213.5 to use the FQDN for when I finally deploy it? Thanks in advance, Aaron Kincaid

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Keeping menus viewable
by josh＠imaginenetworksllc.com 01 Nov '07

01 Nov '07

Before diving into this task and asking for help I'm willing to bet that someone on this mailing list has already accomplished this task. Let me know so I don't have to research all this stuff, if you would =) I am interested in making is so that as I scroll down on the page the menus in the top left corner keep their position anywhere on the page. I've been suggested the best way to do this was with CSS. To begin with, where would the best place to be adding the CSS code to do this? -- Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. --- Henry Spencer

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config report (critical)
by rlapuz＠fcpp.fujitsu.com 31 Oct '07

31 Oct '07

Hi all! I added some hosts and services as critical systems and its working as expected. However, when I click Config report (critical), it says "0 hosts included". What seems to be the problem? I have Hobbit 4.2.0 w/ all-in-one patch installed in Fedora core 6 (1.60 GHzX2, 1 GB of RAM, 80 GB of HDD) Thanks and regards, Ryan

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hobbit-clients.cfg LOG configuration
by hugeng＠gmail.com 31 Oct '07

31 Oct '07

Hi, In hobbit-clients.cfg LOG configuration, I want to catch critical event lines, which have the keyword "EventID" and either keyword of failed, failure or error. Looks this line doesn't work, any idea please? LOG /var/log/messages %EventID.*(failed|failure|error) thanks, ------ Geng

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