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Migrating Hobbit from one server to the next
by josh＠imaginenetworksllc.com 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

I am planning on migrating Hobbit to another server (the one it is on now is just a test box). The only thing I should need to do is tar the ~hobbit directory, move it over and start it up, correct? Linux will figure out the modules for hardware and the IP will work on that leg of the network. Currently the destination server is running BB which is why I need to have downtime to a minimum! Thanks for any advice! Josh -- 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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[hobbit] on-going snapshot issue
by david.gore＠verizonbusiness.com 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

> -----Original Message----- > From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] > Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 19:40 > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: Re: [hobbit] on-going snapshot issue > > On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 12:56:01PM +0000, Gore, David W (David) wrote: > > 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 > > Apply this patch, and run bbgen with the "--tooltips=always" option. > The patch will be included in the next snapshot (generated in > a couple of hours). > > > 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. > > These are related, I think. It sounds like your hobbitd > process is crashing from time to time. > > > Henrik > Henrik, Using today's snapshot on a Redhat Enterprise Linux 4, Dell Optiplex 620 machine I still cannot get this to work. This is a new OS install, new hobbit install (latest snapshot) with nothing but a description, DESCR:"This is a description...", added to the only entry in bb-hosts. I also changed the following: hobbitserver.cfg:FQDN="FALSE" hobbitlaunch.cfg: CMD bbgen $BBGENOPTS --report --tooltips=never I also tried 'always' and the default which removes "--tooltips=" The only way I could get hobbit to remove the descriptions on the bb2.html page was to edit line 469 in lib/htmllog.c to "if (1)" from "if (usetooltip)" and recompile. To remind you this is what it looks like on my bb2.html page: Hobbit-server (This is our main hobbit server that has a really long description which pushes all the columns over to the right) conn cpu disk http info msgs oratns-1521 ports traprate trends.... ~David Ps. Sorry it took so long to comment on this. I appreciate the help.

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hobbit not sending on email alerts
by paulehr＠gmail.com 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

Hi everyone, Long time listener, first time caller (or maybe second time ;) ). I seem to be having a weird issue with hobbit not sending out email alerts. I have the following rules set up (emails changed to protect the innocent). I did have macros setup for this and I thought it was part of the problem, but it was not. PAGE=oracle MAIL email1 at test.com SERVICE=conn,oracle,disk COLOR=red REPEAT=15m RECOVERED MAIL email2 at test.com SERVICE=conn,oracle,disk COLOR=red REPEAT=15m RECOVERED I sent out a test alert using bbcmd hobbitd_alerts --test atgtier2app1 oracle which is a host on my oracle page and it shows that the rules match and that it sends on the emails 2007-11-07 15:42:52 Using default environment file /usr/lib/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg 00030883 2007-11-07 15:42:52 send_alert atgtier2app1:oracle state Paging 00030883 2007-11-07 15:42:52 Matching host:service:page 'atgtier2app1:oracle:oracle' against rule line 131 00030883 2007-11-07 15:42:52 *** Match with 'PAGE=oracle' *** 00030883 2007-11-07 15:42:52 Matching host:service:page 'atgtier2app1:oracle:oracle' against rule line 132 00030883 2007-11-07 15:42:52 *** Match with 'MAIL email1 at test.com SERVICE=conn,oracle,disk COLOR=red REPEAT=15m RECOVERED' *** 00030883 2007-11-07 15:42:52 Mail alert with command 'mailx -s "Hobbit [12345] atgtier2app1:oracle CRITICAL (RED)" email1 at test.com' 00030883 2007-11-07 15:42:52 Matching host:service:page 'atgtier2app1:oracle:oracle' against rule line 133 00030883 2007-11-07 15:42:52 *** Match with 'MAIL email2 at test.comSERVICE=conn,oracle,disk COLOR=red REPEAT=15m RECOVERED' *** 00030883 2007-11-07 15:42:52 Mail alert with command 'mailx -s "Hobbit [12345] atgtier2app1:oracle CRITICAL (RED)" email2 at test.com' I verified that my server can send mail out by sending a test message using mailx to myself and I did receive it. I even took my troubleshooting a step further and ran tcpdump on the network interface looking for anything going to the remote mail server and saw SMTP traffic when i sent my test message, but not my hobbitd_alert --test message. At this point I am scratching my head. Is there is anything in hobbit to debug why messages are not being sent out? I tried looking at some of the hobbit and postfix logs, but nothing really indicated any problems. The hobbit server is running Linux (ubuntu 7.04 server) and hobbit 4.2.0 Thanks for the help! -Paul

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play sound
by mjtice＠gmail.com 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

Is it possible to play a sound (through bbdisplay) when an alert it triggered (red, purple, whatever)? This feature is used in Sitescope . . . but Sitescope doesn't hold a flame to hobbit. Matt

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[hobbit] Installing Hobbit on OS/X
by evan＠espphotography.com 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

At 01:33 PM 11/7/2007, Josh Luthman wrote: >One thing I've noticed with netstat is a lot of people don't use the >-n argument, causing things like "http" or "ssh" to show up. Though >it is unlikely bigbrother is there I'd confirm with: > >netstat -an|grep 1984 Nothing.. And as I mentioned, ps aux shows only the one line, not the four or five listed in the documentation: # ps aux | grep hobbit hobbit 6032 0.0 0.0 27412 256 ?? Ss 12:02PM 0:00.16 /Users/hobbit/server/bin/hobbitlaunch --config=/Users/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitlaunch.cfg --env=/Users/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg --log=/var/log/hobbit/hobbitla And hmm.. Here's my hobbitlaunch.log latest entry: 2007-11-07 13:47:48 Loading hostnames 2007-11-07 13:47:48 Loading saved state 2007-11-07 13:47:48 Setting up network listener on 0.0.0.0:1984 2007-11-07 13:47:48 Setting up local listener 2007-11-07 13:47:48 Setting up signal handlers 2007-11-07 13:47:48 Setting up hobbitd channels 2007-11-07 13:47:48 Could not attach shm Too many open files 2007-11-07 13:47:48 Cannot setup user channel 2007-11-07 13:47:48 Task hobbitd terminated, status 1 2007-11-07 13:47:53 Loading hostnames 2007-11-07 13:47:53 Loading saved state 2007-11-07 13:47:53 Setting up network listener on 0.0.0.0:1984 2007-11-07 13:47:53 Setting up local listener 2007-11-07 13:47:53 Setting up signal handlers 2007-11-07 13:47:53 Setting up hobbitd channels 2007-11-07 13:47:53 Could not attach shm Too many open files 2007-11-07 13:47:53 Cannot setup user channel 2007-11-07 13:47:53 Task hobbitd terminated, status 1 Did some googling.. (For the archive). On os/x, editied /etc/rc: sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmmax=4194304 kern.sysv.shmmin=1 kern.sysv.shmmni=32 kern.sysv.shmseg=12 kern.sysv.shmall=1024 I tried manually running that line, no go. Editied from shmseg=8 to 12, and rebooted. Works now! # ps aux | grep hobb hobbit 122 0.0 0.0 27412 236 ?? Ss 2:06PM 0:00.02 /Users/hobbit/server/bin/hobbitlaunch --config=/Users/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitlaunch.cfg --env=/Users/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg --log=/var/log/hobbit/hobbitla hobbit 129 0.0 0.0 30216 704 ?? S 2:06PM 0:00.05 hobbitd --pidfile=/var/log/hobbit/hobbitd.pid --restart=/Users/hobbit/server/tmp/hobbitd.chk --checkpoint-file=/Users/hobbit/server/tmp/hobbitd.chk --checkpoint-interv hobbit 156 0.0 0.0 27696 436 ?? S 2:06PM 0:00.02 hobbitd_channel --channel=stachg --log=/var/log/hobbit/history.log hobbitd_history hobbit 157 0.0 0.0 27952 404 ?? S 2:06PM 0:00.01 hobbitd_channel --channel=clichg --log=/var/log/hobbit/hostdata.log hobbitd_hostdata hobbit 158 0.0 0.0 27696 408 ?? S 2:06PM 0:00.01 hobbitd_channel --channel=page --log=/var/log/hobbit/page.log hobbitd_alert --checkpoint-file=/Users/hobbit/server/tmp/alert.chk --checkpoint-interval=600 hobbit 159 0.0 0.0 27696 436 ?? S 2:06PM 0:00.02 hobbitd_channel --channel=status --log=/var/log/hobbit/rrd-status.log hobbitd_rrd --rrddir=/Users/hobbit/data/rrd hobbit 160 0.0 0.0 27696 404 ?? S 2:06PM 0:00.01 hobbitd_channel --channel=data --log=/var/log/hobbit/rrd-data.log hobbitd_rrd --rrddir=/Users/hobbit/data/rrd hobbit 161 0.0 0.0 27952 404 ?? S 2:06PM 0:00.01 hobbitd_channel --channel=client --log=/var/log/hobbit/clientdata.log hobbitd_client hobbit 189 0.0 0.1 27712 960 ?? S 2:06PM 0:00.06 hobbitd_history hobbit 190 0.0 0.1 27984 1012 ?? S 2:06PM 0:00.03 hobbitd_alert --checkpoint-file=/Users/hobbit/server/tmp/alert.chk --checkpoint-interval=600 hobbit 191 0.0 0.1 32996 1444 ?? S 2:06PM 0:00.09 hobbitd_rrd --rrddir=/Users/hobbit/data/rrd hobbit 329 0.0 0.1 28360 1132 ?? S 2:06PM 0:00.02 hobbitd_client hobbit 341 0.0 0.1 32996 1428 ?? S 2:06PM 0:00.03 hobbitd_rrd --rrddir=/Users/hobbit/data/rrd hobbit 342 0.0 0.1 27948 848 ?? S 2:06PM 0:00.01 hobbitd_hostdata Thanks!

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[hobbit] Hobbit CONN questions
by johan.boye＠latecoere.fr 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

> -----Message d'origine----- > De : Hubbard, Greg L [mailto:greg.hubbard at eds.com] > Envoyé : jeudi 8 novembre 2007 17:20 > À : hobbit at hswn.dk > Objet : RE: [hobbit] RE: [Disarmed] Re: [hobbit] Hobbit CONN questions > > You may have to PURCHASE a tool if you want something to > monitor ping response times, which are notoriously unreliable > as an indicator of anything. > > GLH Thanks for your answer but I don't really want to monitor the response times. I'm just wondering what triggers in the Hobbit code is used to make a RED ping status : - after just one no echo-reply each 5min ? - after a couple of no echo-reply ? How much ? - What is the timeout used to declare the host unreachable ? About smokeping : indeed, it looks very nice, I will check it out anyway ;) > -----Original Message----- > From: johan.boye at latecoere.fr [mailto:johan.boye at latecoere.fr] > Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 10:12 AM > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: [hobbit] RE: [Disarmed] Re: [hobbit] Hobbit CONN questions > > > -----Message d'origine----- > > De : Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com] > > Envoyé : jeudi 8 novembre 2007 16:24 > > À : hobbit at hswn.dk > > Objet : [Disarmed] Re: [hobbit] Hobbit CONN questions > > > > It's very simple. Conn is a ping test - it pings your host > (with one > > of two utilities). > > > > Example: > > > > 192.168.1.1 <http://192.168.1.1> myrouter.domain.tld # > > > > This will ping 192.168.1.1 <http://192.168.1.1> on every > poll cycle > > and report to you via the web pages and email alerts if you've > > configured that in hobbit-alert.cfg > > That means it does just a ping & if the ping doesn't not > reply, it will display an RED alert ? > And if the ping make 200ms or 2000ms or 15000ms to answer ? > > Thanks you > > > On 11/8/07, johan.boye at latecoere.fr > > <mailto:johan.boye at latecoere.fr> <johan.boye at latecoere.fr> wrote: > > > > > > > -----Message d'origine----- > > > De : Morris, Chris (SS-IS) > > [mailto:Chris.Morris at RWEsystemsUK.com] > > > Envoyé : mardi 6 novembre 2007 15:54 > > > À : ' hobbit at hswn.dk' > > > Objet : RE: [hobbit] Hobbit CONN questions > > > > > > Well it depends whether you are using fping or hobbitping - > > > try reading the > > > man pages, which can be accessed from the Help menu > of the web > > page. > > > > > > This tells you how many pings, what happens when the first > > > ping fails, the > > > timeout etc etc and yes it is configurable. > > > > Thanks you for you answer but I still can figure out > what do a "conn" > > exactly. Can you give the direct URL please ? > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > Hello again, > > > > > > > > I'm polishing a Hobbit installation. I would like to know > > > how the Hobbit > > > > server handle the "conn" step. I guess it's a couple of > > > ping, isn't it ? > > > > How it works when a first ping doesn't not respond? How > > > many packet are > > > > sent each time? What is the time-out? Can we configure it? > > > > > > > > Thanks by advance for any informations related > > to this ;) > > > > > > > > Johan > > > > "Les informations contenues dans ce message > électronique peuvent être > > de nature confidentielles et soumises à une obligation de secret. > > Elles sont destinées à l'usage exclusif du réel > destinataire. Si vous > > n'êtes pas le réel destinataire, ou si vous recevez ce message par > > erreur, merci de le détruire immédiatement et de le notifier à son > > émetteur." > > > > "The information contained in this e-mail may be privileged and > > confidential. It is intended for the exclusive use of the > designated > > recipients named above. If you are not the intended recipient or if > > you receive this e-mail in error, please delete it and immediately > > notify the sender." > > > > > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > 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 > > > > 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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monitoring OAS
by lebarber＠gmail.com 08 Nov '07

08 Nov '07

Is anybody out there monitoring an Oracle Application Server? What software/scripts are you using? In particular I've got a request to monitor the cpu and memory usage of each "container" in the app. server and to alert on a runaway process. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Larry Barber

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[hobbit] RE: [Disarmed] Re: [hobbit] Hobbit CONN questions
by michael.nemeth＠lmco.com 08 Nov '07

08 Nov '07

>You may have to PURCHASE a tool if you want something to monitor ping response times, which are notoriously unreliable as an indicator of anything. No! the free smokeping does this AND there a script on the Shire to intergrate this! -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ | _p_ Mike Nemeth | ___| |_____ email(w) michael.nemeth at lmco.com Work: 856 359-1425 |><___________) | Home Page:http://www.geocities.com/mjnemeth/ | Work Page:http://scorpion/~nemethm/ | Work Page:http://phlccase/SWUNIX/mnemeth/ |++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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[Disarmed] Re: [hobbit] Hobbit CONN questions
by johan.boye＠latecoere.fr 08 Nov '07

08 Nov '07

> -----Message d'origine----- > De : Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com] > Envoyé : jeudi 8 novembre 2007 16:24 > À : hobbit at hswn.dk > Objet : [Disarmed] Re: [hobbit] Hobbit CONN questions > > It's very simple. Conn is a ping test - it pings your host > (with one of two utilities). > > Example: > > 192.168.1.1 <http://192.168.1.1> myrouter.domain.tld # > > This will ping 192.168.1.1 <http://192.168.1.1> on every poll > cycle and report to you via the web pages and email alerts if > you've configured that in hobbit-alert.cfg That means it does just a ping & if the ping doesn't not reply, it will display an RED alert ? And if the ping make 200ms or 2000ms or 15000ms to answer ? Thanks you > On 11/8/07, johan.boye at latecoere.fr > <mailto:johan.boye at latecoere.fr> <johan.boye at latecoere.fr> wrote: > > > > -----Message d'origine----- > > De : Morris, Chris (SS-IS) > [mailto:Chris.Morris at RWEsystemsUK.com] > > Envoyé : mardi 6 novembre 2007 15:54 > > À : ' hobbit at hswn.dk' > > Objet : RE: [hobbit] Hobbit CONN questions > > > > Well it depends whether you are using fping or hobbitping - > > try reading the > > man pages, which can be accessed from the Help menu > of the web page. > > > > This tells you how many pings, what happens when the first > > ping fails, the > > timeout etc etc and yes it is configurable. > > Thanks you for you answer but I still can figure out > what do a "conn" exactly. Can you give the direct URL please ? > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > Hello again, > > > > > > I'm polishing a Hobbit installation. I would like to know > > how the Hobbit > > > server handle the "conn" step. I guess it's a couple of > > ping, isn't it ? > > > How it works when a first ping doesn't not respond? How > > many packet are > > > sent each time? What is the time-out? Can we configure it? > > > > > > Thanks by advance for any informations related > to this ;) > > > > > > Johan > > "Les informations contenues dans ce message > électronique peuvent être de nature confidentielles et > soumises à une obligation de secret. Elles sont destinées à > l'usage exclusif du réel destinataire. Si vous n'êtes pas le > réel destinataire, ou si vous recevez ce message par erreur, > merci de le détruire immédiatement et de le notifier à son émetteur." > > "The information contained in this e-mail may be > privileged and confidential. It is intended for the exclusive > use of the designated recipients named above. If you are not > the intended recipient or if you receive this e-mail in > error, please delete it and immediately notify the sender." > > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > > > > > > > > -- > 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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[hobbit] Hobbit CONN questions
by johan.boye＠latecoere.fr 08 Nov '07

08 Nov '07

> -----Message d'origine----- > De : Morris, Chris (SS-IS) [mailto:Chris.Morris at RWEsystemsUK.com] > Envoyé : mardi 6 novembre 2007 15:54 > À : 'hobbit at hswn.dk' > Objet : RE: [hobbit] Hobbit CONN questions > > Well it depends whether you are using fping or hobbitping - > try reading the > man pages, which can be accessed from the Help menu of the web page. > > This tells you how many pings, what happens when the first > ping fails, the > timeout etc etc and yes it is configurable. Thanks you for you answer but I still can figure out what do a "conn" exactly. Can you give the direct URL please ? > > -----Original Message----- > > Hello again, > > > > I'm polishing a Hobbit installation. I would like to know > how the Hobbit > > server handle the "conn" step. I guess it's a couple of > ping, isn't it ? > > How it works when a first ping doesn't not respond? How > many packet are > > sent each time? What is the time-out? Can we configure it? > > > > Thanks by advance for any informations related to this ;) > > > > Johan "Les informations contenues dans ce message électronique peuvent être de nature confidentielles et soumises à une obligation de secret. Elles sont destinées à l'usage exclusif du réel destinataire. Si vous n'êtes pas le réel destinataire, ou si vous recevez ce message par erreur, merci de le détruire immédiatement et de le notifier à son émetteur." "The information contained in this e-mail may be privileged and confidential. It is intended for the exclusive use of the designated recipients named above. If you are not the intended recipient or if you receive this e-mail in error, please delete it and immediately notify the sender."

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