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Services timeout
by chris4136＠gmail.com 26 Oct '07

26 Oct '07

Good morning everyone, I have been looking around the newsgroups and have not found a way to set individual timeout intervals for all the different services. I know I can set them all in the [bbnet] section of hobbitlaunch. Is there a clever way to do this that I am missing? Thanks for your response, -- Chris Strzelczyk GCS Real Estate Real Estate Investment and Management www.gcsrealestate.com

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Keeping menus viewable
by josh＠imaginenetworksllc.com 26 Oct '07

26 Oct '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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Getting a list of all tests
by trent.melcher＠sitel.com 25 Oct '07

25 Oct '07

Ok, Im re-writing a Bigbrother script for Hobbit. I need a little help. The current script gets a list of all currents tests performed by doing an ls on the %BBVAR/log directory and using sed to pull the test from each file. Example: ls -1 $BB_LOGS_DIR | awk -F. '{print $2}' | sort -u results in conn cpu disk dns errpt ftp http memory msgs procs ssh svcs telnet Is there a way to do this in hobbit using hobbitd_channel or some other prog? Thanks Trent

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FILE check says "No files checked", but things appear configured correctly
by haertig＠avaya.com 25 Oct '07

25 Oct '07

I have a FILE test that is not working ... the webpage displays "No files checked" on one of two identicallly monitored servers. The second server works just fine. The two servers are configured like this in client-local.cfg on the Hobbit host: [spiexp1] file:/tmp/dfh.test log:/var/adm/messages:10240 [wcscbe5] file:/tmp/dfh.test log:/var/adm/messages:10240 And like this in hobbit-clients.cfg: HOST=spiexp1,wcscbe5 FILE /tmp/dfh.test size>1K LOAD 40.0 70.0 DISK /expsys 95 98 DISK /expert 95 98 DISK /inadsb 90 95 DISK * IGNORE I can see the meta-data for my test file, /tmp/dfh.test, in the "client data" display for each server, so both of them apparently got the message and are uploading the required data: [file:/tmp/dfh.test] type:100000 (file) mode:644 (-rw-r--r--) linkcount:1 owner:12319 (haertig) group:906 (tsc) size:0 clock:1193264890 (2007/10/24-16:28:10) atime:1193257900 (2007/10/24-14:31:40) ctime:1193257900 (2007/10/24-14:31:40) mtime:1193257900 (2007/10/24-14:31:40) But spiexp1 is saying "No files checked" whereas wcscbe5 is working just as I'd expect. Both servers were given two hours to settle out all the upload/download handshaking stuff before I checked the results. Is there something I'm missing in my setup? Both servers are configured very similarly, but they're not identical twins. They run Solaris 7 (yeah, don't tell me - I know it's old!). Possibly related, wcscbe5 shows the output of the 'top' command on it's 'cpu' column on the webpage, but spiexp1 does not (the graph is there for spiexp1, but not the 'top' data, however spiexp1's 'top' data IS in the "client data" ... just not on the displayed webpage). Thanks !

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Warnings
by NMaharaj＠tcta.co.za 25 Oct '07

25 Oct '07

Hi Can anyone please tell me which file to edit to configure the following alert ? All I want in the email/sms is the line marked in RED and not the rest of the message : -----Original Message----- From: hobbit at fedora.metsi.com [mailto:hobbit at fedora.metsi.com] Sent: 25 October 2007 02:00 PM To: Nikesh Maharaj Subject: Hobbit [618919] itlab02.metsi.com:disk warning (YELLOW) yellow Thu Oct 25 13:56:23 SAST 2007 [itlab02.metsi.com] &yellow /FIXED/C/ (49%) has reached the WARNING level (20%) Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted C 20972824 10372160 10600664 49% /FIXED/C () D 57135140 39304600 17830540 68% /FIXED/D (New Volume) E 624984704 359860416 265124288 57% /FIXED/E (New Volume) See http://fedora.metsi.com/var/www/cgi-bin/bb-hostsvc.sh?HOST=itlab02.metsi .com&SERVICE=disk

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Extra bb2
by peter08＠gmail.com 24 Oct '07

24 Oct '07

Hi, I want to create an extra bb2-page which contains Only red, and maybe purple. I use the 'All non-green view' but i need one page with only critical alarms, and one with yellow also so I can be proactive when things are About to happen but not yet critical. So, is there an easy way to create two of those bb2-pages with different settings? Regards /Peter

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[hobbit] Weird BBCmd Issue
by deger＠cobercafe.net 24 Oct '07

24 Oct '07

Same issue with bb, we used 1.9btf as well. In hobbit it just my 3ware script that doing this, if I use my perl wrappers it dosnt fail. It actually pulls data for 20 minutes then goes purple. It did at one time turn purple after 4 hours. I try to run the script from the console it errors out, but when I do bbcmd bash it works fine for another 20minutes or the four hours as I explained. Very odd :-), since it works on so many other boxes. ________________________________ From: Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 7:12 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Weird BBCmd Issue Does it return after a while or does it stay purple after turning purple? I think the default setting would be to go purple (no report) after 20 minutes - 5 minute polls, 4 polls. When I was using Big Brother 1.9btf I was having a lot of purples come up when the ISP was having issues. I really can't explain why as the detailed page was able to do the tests and report, but it likely was that it wasn't in a timely fashion. Josh On 10/24/07, Domnick Eger <deger at cobercafe.net> wrote: I am having this weird issue with bbcmd and environment variable not staying loaded on certain machines. I have a total of 90 centos boxes and 8 of them are starting to turn purple after four test cycles, I run bbcmd bash and it works fine, but after awhile it causes my external script to error out. Any idea what may be causing 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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Weird BBCmd Issue
by deger＠cobercafe.net 24 Oct '07

24 Oct '07

I am having this weird issue with bbcmd and environment variable not staying loaded on certain machines. I have a total of 90 centos boxes and 8 of them are starting to turn purple after four test cycles, I run bbcmd bash and it works fine, but after awhile it causes my external script to error out. Any idea what may be causing this ?

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[hobbit] hobbit-clients.cfg not working?
by Chris.Morris＠RWEsystemsUK.com 24 Oct '07

24 Oct '07

I would try adding the MEMSWAP line to the HOST=cypher stanza and removing cypher from the list with brown and crusher so you don;t have duplicate host entries. > -----Original Message----- > From: Stefan van der Walt [SMTP:skjoldar at gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 1:53 PM > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: Re: [hobbit] hobbit-clients.cfg not working? > > The host for the disk usage is "cypher", and it is not in the ghost > report. > All the other checks are normal and are working fine. > > > On 24/10/2007, Rich Smrcina <rsmrcina at wi.rr.com> wrote: > > What is the hostname of the client machine? Is there anything related > > to this machine on the Ghost report? > > > > Stefan van der Walt wrote: > > > Hi guys, first post here. > > > I have been searching archives and google all day, but so far have > > > come across nothing. > > > > > > Scenario: > > > Server has disk with oracle data store, is always on 99% > > > and swap (this is normal for these hosts is always between 50 and 60 > > > > > > modified hobbit-clients.cfg to say > > > > > > HOST=cypher > > > DISK /data2 IGNORE > > > DISK /data3 IGNORE > > > DISK /data4 IGNORE > > > > > > HOST=brown,crusher,cypher > > > MEMSWAP 60 80 > > > > > > DEFAULT > > > # These are the built-in defaults. > > > UP 1h > > > LOAD 5.0 10.0 > > > DISK * 90 95 > > > MEMPHYS 100 101 > > > MEMSWAP 50 80 > > > MEMACT 90 97 > > > > > > Yet nothing on the display changes. > > > Disk is still red (i had it on 100 101 as well before ignore) > > > and swap still shows yellow. > > > > > > /data2 (94% used) has reached the WARNING level (90%) > > > red /data3 (99% used) has reached the PANIC level (95%) > > > yellow /data4 (92% used) has reached the WARNING level (90%) > > > > > > The is being read, because when I make an error it shows up in the log > > > file, but these changes have no effect. > > > What am I missing? > > > > > > Thanks > > > Stef > > > > > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > > > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Rich Smrcina > > VM Assist, Inc. > > Phone: 414-491-6001 > > Ans Service: 360-715-2467 > > rich.smrcina at vmassist.com > > http://www.linkedin.com/in/richsmrcina > > > > Catch the WAVV! http://www.wavv.org > > WAVV 2008 - Chattanooga - April 18-22, 2008 > > > > 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 > ********************************************************************** This e-mail including any attachments is provided for general information purposes only and does not constitute advice except to the addressee if expressly stated in this email. For the avoidance of doubt the contents of this email and any attachments are subject to contract and are not intended to and will not constitute a legally binding contract or any part of a legally binding contract. The information contained in this email and any attachments is confidential. It 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, distribution or copying of the message or associated attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify postmaster at RWEsystemsUK.com and permanently delete the email and any attachments immediately from your system. You should not retain, copy or use this email or any attachment for any purpose, nor disclose all or any part of the contents to any other person. Thank you for your co-operation. Neither RWE Systems UK Ltd nor any of the other companies in the RWE 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 Systems UK Ltd Registered office: Mistral, Westlea Campus, Chelmsford Road, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN5 7EZ. Registered in England and Wales: company number 6052966. *******************************************

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Multiple NCV graphs for the same test
by siggi＠betware.com 23 Oct '07

23 Oct '07

Hi All Does anyone know if it is possible to create multiple graphs pr/test page from NCV module in hobbit ?.. And if so.. how :-) Regards Siggi

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