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clientupdate problems
by sveinn＠sveinng.com 17 Mar '07

17 Mar '07

Hi all. I am a long time user and fan of Hobbit :-) So thank you all for your hard work on the project! I am having trouble with the clientupdate part, and I belive I might have found a bug, or just misunderstood the whole thing :) Here is my scenario: I am installing hobbit client on our ESX3 servers, and I decided to assign a special class (esx3) to those machines in the bb-hosts file: 192.168.xxx.xxx VMWARE01 # CLASS:esx3 In client-local.cfg I have a section for the class: [esx3] clientversion:hobbit-esx3-v01 When I want to push out a new version, I place a new tarball in $BBHOME/download, in my case hobbit-esx3-v02.tar, and bump the clientversion reference in client-local.cfg to: [esx3] clientversion:hobbit-esx3-v02 But, what happens, is that only one client will update it self. If I bump the clientversion again, another one client will update and so on. I am running the latest Hobbit server, with latest all-in-one patch on AIX 5300-05-03. On the clientside, I am also running latest and greatest, on ESX 3.0.1. Best regards, Svenni

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Netapp Devmon templates
by asparks＠doublesparks.net 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

Posted also to the devmon list... Sorry if I've missed it, but I see mention of devmon NetApp templates, but cannot find if there is one downloadable somewhere. Is one available somewhere? Thanks in advance. -Alan -- Alan Sparks, UNIX/Linux Systems Integration and Administration <asparks at doublesparks.net>

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TRACK feature or PROC
by stef.coene＠docum.org 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

Hi, I want to track how many frmweb processes are running. Some remarks: - I have to restart the hobbit server before it picks up any changes in the file hobbit-clients.cfg (a reload is also not working) - the rrd file is created, but there is no graph on the procs page Stef

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Status to Green on msgs column ?
by ndorfsman＠gmail.com 13 Mar '07

13 Mar '07

Hi, Is anything change in 4.2.0 final version on side of msgs status ? My msgs columns seem to wait for a re-cycle of my messages file (so for a delete of the matched line) before re-coming to green. What's the matter ?

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Solaris ps
by gjohnson＠trantor.org 06 Mar '07

06 Mar '07

Hey, Is there any reason NOT to use '/usr/ucb/ps auxwww' in place of the ps that hobbit-sunos.sh is using?...in other words, will it break anything if I use it (yes, I know I need to run it as root to get everything)? I prefer the output of what Henrik provides but the solaris ps is braindead (truncates at 80 characters). =G=

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DESCR Info in Alerts
by geoff.hallford＠gmail.com 06 Mar '07

06 Mar '07

Hi, I was wondering if there is anyway to change the default email alert contents to include the DESCR tag information for a host (without creating a custom alert script)? We have many support people who don't know what all of the hosts are for or if it goes down, what that means and I want to make it easier for them to know what is affected. Thanks.

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Monitoring memory on AIX
by stef.coene＠docum.org 03 Mar '07

03 Mar '07

Hi, I changed hobbitgraph.cfg so it created to extra graphs: one for Access Virtual Memory and one for the free list. See http://www.docum.org/twiki/bin/view/Hobbit/AixTips Henrik, can you add these graph definitions ? I also patched the hobbit server so it monitors the Access Virtual Memory on AIX: diff hobbit-4.2.0/hobbitd/client/aix.c hobbit-4.2.0.ori/hobbitd/client/aix.c 73c73 < long memphystotal, memphysused, memphysfree, memactused, memswaptotal, memswappct; --- > long memphystotal, memphysused, memphysfree, memswaptotal, memswappct; 80d79 < if (sscanf(freememstr, "%*d %*d %ld", &memactused) == 1) memactused /= 256; 88c87 < memphystotal, (memphystotal - memphysfree), memactused, --- > memphystotal, (memphystotal - memphysfree), -1, Henrik : The only problem is that Total for the line Actual is always the amount of Physical Memory. But this should be Physical Memory + Swap Memory. At least, this is for AIX, but I think this is for other os'es as well. I think this is a bug. The problem is that Actual can be > 100%. So, I had to change ./hobbitd/rrd/do_memory.c and remove the > 100% to get some graphs: //if ((actval >= 0) && (actval <= 100)) { if (actval >= 0 ) { sprintf(rrdfn, "memory.actual.rrd"); Stef

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Termination error in Hobbit 4.2.0 (with all in one patch as of 10/03/06)
by grsamy＠yahoo.com 02 Mar '07

02 Mar '07

Please help as I am not getting data from two of my hobbit clients. External scripts are reporting but not the hobbitclient-linux.sh. Error message in server log : Worker process died with exit code 134, terminating # gdb bin/hobbitd_client tmp/core.10222 GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (6.3.0.0-1.132.EL4rh) Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu"...Using host libthread_db l ibrary "/lib64/tls/libthread_db.so.1". Core was generated by `hobbitd_client'. Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted. Reading symbols from /lib64/libpcre.so.0...done. Loaded symbols for /lib64/libpcre.so.0 Reading symbols from /lib64/tls/libc.so.6...done. Loaded symbols for /lib64/tls/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 #0 0x00000035e8e2e21d in raise () from /lib64/tls/libc.so.6 (gdb) bt #0 0x00000035e8e2e21d in raise () from /lib64/tls/libc.so.6 #1 0x00000035e8e2fa1e in abort () from /lib64/tls/libc.so.6 #2 0x0000000000417033 in sigsegv_handler (signum=Variable "signum" is not avail able. ) at sig.c:57 #3 <signal handler called> #4 0x000000000040e959 in scan_log (hinfo=Variable "hinfo" is not available. ) at client_config.c:1350 #5 0x00000000004043fe in msgs_report ( hostname=0x2a955a2dfc "rt003.domainname.com", clientclass=0x2a955a2e1a "linux", os=Variable "os" is not available. ) at hobbitd_client.c:872 #6 0x0000000000405c57 in handle_linux_client ( hostname=0x2a955a2dfc "rt003.domainname.com", clienttype=0x2a955a2e1a "linux", os=OS_LINUX, hinfo=0x5380e0, sender=Variabl e "sender" is not available. ) at client/linux.c:60 #7 0x000000000040a79f in main (argc=Variable "argc" is not available. ) at hobbitd_client.c:1788 (gdb) --- Please help. Thanks Ram --------------------------------- Need Mail bonding? Go to the Yahoo! Mail Q&A for great tips from Yahoo! Answers users.

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[hobbit] multiple RRD graphs for a single column
by gumby3203＠gmail.com 01 Mar '07

01 Mar '07

How can I get Hobbit to display multiple physical RRD graphs for a single column of data? Specifically, I'd like to have two distinct graphs (each with their own Y-scale) for a single data column that is being generated from an external script. This would be similar to how Hobbit sometimes shows multiple graphs under the "disk" column. I can't seem to find this anywhere in the documentation.

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still crashing
by rmunsch＠solutionsforprogress.com 28 Feb '07

28 Feb '07

I still have a constantly red-then-purple hobbitd_client on my hobbit server. It's gotten to the point where i have a cron job dropping the test continuously. I would appreciate any insight as to why this started happening and what is causing it. Core was generated by `hobbitd_client'. Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted. #0 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall () Full output follows. TIA. hobbit at randomaccess ~/server $ gdb bin/hobbitd_client tmp/core GNU gdb 6.6 Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-linux-gnu"... Really redefine built-in command "frame"? (y or n) [answered Y; input not from terminal] Really redefine built-in command "thread"? (y or n) [answered Y; input not from terminal] Really redefine built-in command "start"? (y or n) [answered Y; input not from terminal] Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1". warning: Can't read pathname for load map: Input/output error. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libpcre.so.0...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libpcre.so.0 Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2 Core was generated by `hobbitd_client'. Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted. #0 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall () gdb>

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