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Removing interfaces from trends graph
by Vernon.Everett＠woodside.com.au 05 Nov '07

05 Nov '07

Hi all I haven't found it in the docs, but how do you limit the interfaces being monitored/graphed in the trends column? I have a server, with many interfaces, most of them virtual, that I do not care about, and that change from time to time. Graphing them, is cluttering the graphs of the interfaces I do care about. So, how do I limit the trends to specific interfaces only? (Alternatively, how do I exclude specific interfaces?) Regards Vernon NOTICE: This email and any attachments are confidential. They may contain legally privileged information or copyright material. You must not read, copy, use or disclose them without authorisation. If you are not an intended recipient, please contact us at once by return email and then delete both messages and all attachments.

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Installing Hobbit on OS/X
by evan＠espphotography.com 03 Nov '07

03 Nov '07

Read throgh the documentation.. If I'm missing something obvious, let me know. But I can't even do a configure on my OS/X 10.4 box: (Fat fingers). This was a fresh download of 4.2.0 from today, source tar. Running as root. # ./configure.server Configuration script for Hobbit This script asks a few questions and builds a Makefile to compile Hobbit Checking your make-utility Unknown option: n Usage: head [-options] <url>... -m <method> use method for the request (default is 'HEAD') -f make request even if head believes method is illegal -b <base> Use the specified URL as base -t <timeout> Set timeout value -i <time> Set the If-Modified-Since header on the request -c <conttype> use this content-type for POST, PUT, CHECKIN -a Use text mode for content I/O -p <proxyurl> use this as a proxy -P don't load proxy settings from environment -H <header> send this HTTP header (you can specify several) -u Display method and URL before any response -U Display request headers (implies -u) -s Display response status code -S Display response status chain -e Display response headers -d Do not display content -o <format> Process HTML content in various ways -v Show program version -h Print this message -x Extra debugging output GNU make is required to build Hobbit. If it is available as "gmake", run configure as: 'MAKE=gmake ./configure.server' Any suggestions? Thanks. Evan

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[hobbit] Installing Hobbit on OS/X
by evan＠espphotography.com 02 Nov '07

02 Nov '07

This is installing the server. :) I don't have the install CD - this is a second hand computer to me :( From what it looks like, whatever command the configure is passing to head isn't liked. but that's my guess... At 12:56 PM 11/2/2007, David Gilmore wrote: >Evan, > >I ran into this problem when we configured the client on several OS >X servers. You need to get the second install CD for OS X and >install the BSD utilities. I do not recall what they are as I do >not have a system CD in front of me, but it should be fairly clear >when you mount the CD. > >David

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Installing Hobbit on OS/X
by evan＠espphotography.com 02 Nov '07

02 Nov '07

Read throgh the documentation.. If I'm missing something obvious, let me know. But I can't even do a configure on my OS/X 10.4 box: # ./configure.server Configuration script for Hobbit This script asks a few questions and builds a Makefile to compile Hobbit Checking your make-utility Unknown option: n Usage: head [-options] <url>... -m <method> use method for the request (default is 'HEAD') -f make request even if head believes method is illegal -b <base> Use the specified URL as base -t <timeout> Set timeout value -i <time> Set the If-Modified-Since header on the request -c <conttype> use this content-type for POST, PUT, CHECKIN -a Use text mode for content I/O -p <proxyurl> use this as a proxy -P don't load proxy settings from environment -H <header> send this HTTP header (you can specify several) -u Display method and URL before any response -U Display request headers (implies -u) -s Display response status code -S Display response status chain -e Display response headers -d Do not display content -o <format> Process HTML content in various ways -v Show program version -h Print this message -x Extra debugging output GNU make is required to build Hobbit. If it is available as "gmake", run configure as: 'MAKE=gmake ./configure.server' Any suggestions? Thanks. Evan

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Issue with bbproxy
by akincaid＠beckautogroup.com 02 Nov '07

02 Nov '07

Henrick, the bbproxy.log was last updated on the 10/30/07, and hobbit itself does not appear to even be working anymore. Below are the portions for hobbitlaunch.cfg and hobbitserver.cfg for both servers. The only way I can get anything to work is to enable hobbitd and disable bbproxy on .4's hobbitlaunch.cfg. If I do anything else no data is collected. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .4 server ---------bbproxy.log has not worked in days. The last entries are: 2007-10-30 13:21:06 Caught TERM signal, terminating 2007-10-30 13:21:08 bbproxy version 4.2.0 starting 2007-10-30 13:21:08 Listening on 192.168.213.4:1984 2007-10-30 13:21:08 Sending to BBDISPLAY(s) 127.0.0.1:1984 192.168.213.5:1984 2007-10-30 13:21:08 Sending to BBPAGER(s) 127.0.0.1:1984 192.168.213.5:1984 2007-10-30 13:35:04 Caught TERM signal, terminating ---------hobbitlaunch.cfg [hobbitd] DISABLED ENVFILE /usr/lib/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg CMD hobbitd --pidfile=$BBSERVERLOGS/hobbitd.pid --restart=$BBTMP/hobbitd.chk --checkpoint-file=$BBTMP/hobbitd.chk --checkpoint-interval=600 --log=$BBSERVERLOGS/hobbitd.log --admin-senders=$BBSERVERIP --store-clientlogs=!msgs [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 LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/bbproxy.log ---------hobbitserver.cfg BBSERVERHOSTNAME="apollo.tfc.com" # The hostname of your server BBSERVERIP="127.0.0.1" # General settings BBPORT="1984" # Portnumber where hobbitd/bbd listens BBDISP="192.168.213.4" # IP of a single hobbit/bbd server BBDISPLAYS="" # IP of multiple hobbit/bbd servers. If used, BBDISP must be 0.0.0.0 FQDN="TRUE" ---------hobbitlaunch.log 2007-11-02 14:24:07 Cannot bind to listen socket (Address already in use) 2007-11-02 14:24:07 Task bbproxy terminated, status 1 2007-11-02 14:24:12 Cannot bind to listen socket (Address already in use) 2007-11-02 14:24:12 Task bbproxy terminated, status 1 2007-11-02 14:24:17 Cannot bind to listen socket (Address already in use) 2007-11-02 14:24:17 Task bbproxy terminated, status 1 2007-11-02 14:24:22 Cannot bind to listen socket (Address already in use) 2007-11-02 14:24:22 Task bbproxy terminated, status 1 2007-11-02 14:24:27 Cannot bind to listen socket (Address already in use) 2007-11-02 14:24:27 Task bbproxy terminated, status 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .5 server: ---------hobbitlaunch.cfg [hobbitd] HEARTBEAT ENVFILE /usr/lib/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg CMD hobbitd --pidfile=$BBSERVERLOGS/hobbitd.pid --restart=$BBTMP/hobbitd.chk --checkpoint-file=$BBTMP/hobbitd.chk --checkpoint-interval=600 --log=$BBSERVERLOGS/hobbitd.log --admin-senders=127.0.0.1,$BBSERVERIP [bbproxy] DISABLED ENVFILE /usr/lib/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg CMD $BBHOME/bin/bbproxy --hobbitd --bbdisplay=YOUR.HOBBIT.SERVER.IP --report=$MACHINE.bbproxy --no-daemon --pidfile=$BBSERVERLOGS/bbproxy.pid LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/bbproxy.log ---------hobbitserver.cfg BBSERVERHOSTNAME="zeus.tfc.com" # The hostname of your server # BBSERVERIP="192.168.213.5" # The IP-address of your server. Use the real one, not 127.0.0.1 . BBSERVERIP="127.0.0.1" # General settings BBPORT="1984" # Portnumber where hobbitd/bbd listens BBDISP="$BBSERVERIP" # IP of a single hobbit/bbd server BBDISPLAYS="" # IP of multiple hobbit/bbd servers. If used, BBDISP must be 0.0.0.0 BBPAGE="$BBSERVERIP" # IP of a single bbd BBPAGE server. Not used by Hobbit. BBPAGERS="" Again, I want .4 to relay all its data to .5, but .4 does not need to display anything locally. Thanks for your patience with this.

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Monitoring client with Multple server...??
by redwan＠beatone.co.jp 02 Nov '07

02 Nov '07

Hello, Im Redwan.. working as a system engineer an japanese company. I have been configured a hobbit server and monitoring some linux host. But now Im trying to monitoring a Linux Server which was already been monitoting by other hobbit server (From a differnet network ). I already several times changed the value of BBDISPLAY at hobbitclient.cfg file. but yet i dont able get the data cpu, disk, memory, .. please help and show me away to how can I exactly monitor a hobbit client from multiple hobbit server...? its a matter of urgent.... Redwan Beatone Inc.

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Daniel Hartwig ist außer Haus.
by Daniel.Hartwig＠telefonica.de 02 Nov '07

02 Nov '07

Ich werde ab 02.11.2007 nicht im Büro sein. Ich kehre zurück am 05.11.2007. Ich werde Ihre Nachricht nach meiner Rückkehr beantworten.

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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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How do I generate bb2.html on demand ?
by tj_yang＠hotmail.com 01 Nov '07

01 Nov '07

Looks like bb2.html is updated every 5 minutes, what is the command to generate bb2.html by command line ? T.J. Yang _________________________________________________________________ Peek-a-boo FREE Tricks & Treats for You! http://www.reallivemoms.com?ocid=TXT_TAGHM&loc=us

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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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