February 2007 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

problem checking directory oid / gid
by joost＠seat-ibiza.nl 18 Feb '07

18 Feb '07

Hi, I get the following status message: /tmp File is owned by user root - should be d=root File is owned by group root - should be d=root The config files contain: hobbit-clients.cfg FILE /tmp yellow type=dir ownerid=root groupid=root mode=1777 client-local.cfg file:/tmp Removing ownerid and groupid will give back a green status - what is going wrong? Thanks, Joost

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hobbitd error?
by mikee＠mikee.ath.cx 17 Feb '07

17 Feb '07

In my hobbitd.log file every few minutes I get the message: Cannot open checkpoint file /opt/hobbitd/4.2.0/server/tmp/hobbitd.chk.1171722034 : No space left on device The web page 'bb2.html' is not updating at all. Any gueses what's going on? My filesystems have plenty of space. Fedora Core 5 Hobbit 4.2.0 Mike

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[hobbit] Changing the Test interval
by tmelcher＠saionline.com 17 Feb '07

17 Feb '07

> -----Original Message----- > From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] > Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 3:14 AM > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: Re: [hobbit] Changing the Test interval > > On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 02:49:51PM -0600, Trent Melcher wrote: > > Is there a way to change the interval for either the > content or http > > tests to 1 minute instead of the default 5 as everything else? > > Change the INTERVAL setting for the [bbnet] task in hobbitlaunch.cfg I was hoping I didn't have to do this Could it be possible in the next release to have the option of testing different network tests at different intervals based on test or server? I would still like to test pings and most other net tests at 5 minute intervals but content or http I would like to be able to specify the interval per server. Trent > > Note that you should not do this if you have lots of systems > that you poll, since it's possible that it just won't be able > to run all of the network tests once a minute. In that case, > you should pick out the important ones that you do want to > run every minute, flag them with a "NET:1minutepoll" and > setup an additional [bbnet2] task that runs a script like this: > > #!/bin/sh > > BBLOCATION="1minutepoll" > export BBLOCATION > bbtest-net --ping --checkresponse > > exit 0 > > > Regards, > Henrik > > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > >

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[hobbit] Hobbit versus Unicenter/TNG
by KauffmanT＠nibco.com 16 Feb '07

16 Feb '07

Back when we had an IBM mainframe, CA was desperately trying to find ways to "give" us Unicenter, until our VP told them that he'd drop them as an accepted vendor if he saw another proposal in the next six months. So -- we never did Unicenter. We did BMC Patrol on AIX -- and never could get viable alerting from the product. I have yet to see ANY of the vendor-provided tools that work with a lightweight client for viewing the current status. Hobbit lets me check things with any browser, on any OS -- and when you've only got dial-up access to work with, this is *critical*. I don't have the time to load a big honkin' java application (tivoli) or an ugly X-windows app (BMC) over dialup to see what's down. Big Brother and Hobbit and a handfull of home-brew scripts dropped BMC out of our shop and saved us over $40,000 per YEAR in licensing. Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 4:15 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Hobbit versus Unicenter/TNG I'm currently arguing with some PHB's who insist that Unicenter/TNG is the "standard" monitoring tool and we're supposed to use that exclusively. Since I have the users on my side I do expect to win that struggle, but if any of you have compared Hobbit with Unicenter/TNG I would be interested to hear about it. Especially features you've found that Hobbit has, but TNG doesn't. I know of quite a few, but any ammunition is welcome. If you prefer, contact me directly instead of through the list. Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email and any attachments are for the exclusive and confidential use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, distribute or take action in reliance upon this message. If you have received this in error, please notify us immediately by return email and promptly delete this message and its attachments from your computer system. We do not waive attorney-client or work product privilege by the transmission of this message.

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CPU Utilization, Less Averaging
by jkwade＠futurefrontiers.com 16 Feb '07

16 Feb '07

Can I set the vmstat collection to average less and collect more data points? The users here don't agree with the CPU Utilization Graph, they don't like the way the Average doesn't fluctuate much. Basically, they are comparing the Load graph with the Utilization Graph and want to see the graph correlate more with the Load Graph. My understanding is that the Utilization Graph is using a 5 minute cpu idle average from vmstat. Can I change vmstat to take a 15 second average as an example, and do more counts so more datapoints are graphed? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.James

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Occasional disk oddity
by rmunsch＠solutionsforprogress.com 16 Feb '07

16 Feb '07

Hello, On one of my systems today, disk went yellow for a single poll period for no apparent reason. Next poll, it was green again. The only message I saw in clientdata.log was: 2007-02-16 14:32:33 Host kiwi.tbb (linux) sent incomprehensible disk report - missing columnheaders 'Capacity' and 'Mounted' root 10378 2007-02-16 14:32:33 Adding to combo msg: status kiwi,tbb.disk yellow Fri Feb 16 14:32:27 EST 2007 - Filesystems NOT ok for that single period. The machine is linux on a 2.6.14 kernel. Commandline df output gives me rmunsch at kiwi:~$ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 995992 88244 907748 9% / /dev/mapper/root_vg-home 10485436 313516 10171920 3% /local /dev/mapper/root_vg-tmp 5242716 444380 4798336 9% /tmp /dev/mapper/root_vg-usr 2097084 983360 1113724 47% /usr /dev/mapper/root_vg-var 10485436 6633796 3851640 64% /var date.tbb:/home 136310720 78900608 57410112 58% /home date.tbb:/shared 2097088 661296 1435792 32% /shared rmunsch at kiwi:~$ and, as i said, it's now (and usually) green. What causes this anomalous poll?

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[hobbit] Hobbit versus Unicenter/TNG
by pwilliamson＠mandtbank.com 16 Feb '07

16 Feb '07

>>> tomg at mcclatchyinteractive.com 02/15/07 8:39 AM >>> > Anyway, one of the useless stats that is being thrown about by > a third party is the number of different data points they will > monitor, and I was asked to provide a similar number of my > own. I have about 9 custom scripts mixed up on the server > and client sides, each of which gather anywhere from 4 to > 40 data points per script. What is meant by "different data points" ? When we got into that discussion here, I just did a sort unique on the test column. That alone was over 300 items. After that, the vendor hung their head and left.

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AIX Client ?
by bill.hart＠burkecorp.com 16 Feb '07

16 Feb '07

I know this isn't really in the spirit of things, but I've got an older AIX box (4.3) that I would really love to put the Hobbit client on. Unfortunately it's a full production box that they don't want to put anything like gmake or gcc on, so I can't compile the client there, and we have no other AIX boxes running around. Does anyone have an AIX 4.3 client they could share with me ? I'm pretty sure I can adjust the config files as needed, just need the core stuff. Feel free to email me directly if you have such a thing bill.hart at burkecorp.com Thanks, Bill Hart Computer Support Supervisor

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Changing the Test interval
by tmelcher＠saionline.com 16 Feb '07

16 Feb '07

Is there a way to change the interval for either the content or http tests to 1 minute instead of the default 5 as everything else? Trent Melcher Unix/Linux Systems Administrator Securities America Financial Corporation (402) 399-9111 x2774 tmelcher at saionline.com Securities America, Inc., a Registered Broker/Dealer, Member NASD/SIPC. Advisory services offered through Securities America Advisors, Inc., an SEC Registered Investment Advisory

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Hobbit Mon 4.2 on RHEL
by Gary.Ciampa＠sas.com 16 Feb '07

16 Feb '07

Henrik, I'm running hobbit on a linux system along with 8 clients, two linux andn 6 windows. The problem is that somehow I've deleted my "uptime" and "netstat" columns from the two linux systems and can't seem to get the columns back? I have page defined which contains two groups, linux and windows, here are column headers...I've played around with bb and bbgen w/out success.... I believe at some point I did a "bb drop" for the netstat and uptime to clear up errors....but, can't seem to get the columns back. Thanks, Gary Linux Servers bbd </hobbit-cgi/hobbitcolumn.sh?bbd> bbgen </hobbit-cgi/hobbitcolumn.sh?bbgen> bbtest </hobbit-cgi/hobbitcolumn.sh?bbtest> conn </hobbit-cgi/hobbitcolumn.sh?conn> cpu </hobbit-cgi/hobbitcolumn.sh?cpu> disk </hobbit-cgi/hobbitcolumn.sh?disk> files </hobbit-cgi/hobbitcolumn.sh?files> hobbitd </hobbit-cgi/hobbitcolumn.sh?hobbitd> http </hobbit-cgi/hobbitcolumn.sh?http> info </hobbit-cgi/hobbitcolumn.sh?info> memory </hobbit-cgi/hobbitcolumn.sh?memory> msgs </hobbit-cgi/hobbitcolumn.sh?msgs> ports </hobbit-cgi/hobbitcolumn.sh?ports> procs </hobbit-cgi/hobbitcolumn.sh?procs> trends </hobbit-cgi/hobbitcolumn.sh?trends> Windows Servers conn </hobbit-cgi/hobbitcolumn.sh?conn> cpu </hobbit-cgi/hobbitcolumn.sh?cpu> disk </hobbit-cgi/hobbitcolumn.sh?disk> info </hobbit-cgi/hobbitcolumn.sh?info> memory </hobbit-cgi/hobbitcolumn.sh?memory> msgs </hobbit-cgi/hobbitcolumn.sh?msgs> netstat </hobbit-cgi/hobbitcolumn.sh?netstat> procs </hobbit-cgi/hobbitcolumn.sh?procs> svcs </hobbit-cgi/hobbitcolumn.sh?svcs> trends </hobbit-cgi/hobbitcolumn.sh?trends> uptime </hobbit-cgi/hobbitcolumn.sh?uptime> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EMIX64S01 EMIX64S02 EMIX64S05 EMIX64S06 RDCEWLMV2 - HPOVO Console EMIX64S08 - HPOVO Meta Windows Servers conn cpu disk info memory msgs netstat procs svcs trends uptime -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EMIX64S01 EMIX64S02 EMIX64S05 EMIX64S06 RDCEWLMV2 - HPOVO Console EMIX64S08 - HPOVO Meta Gary T. Ciampa Enterprise Management Integration Phone: (919) 531-6140 Fax: (919) 677-4444 SAS/C and SAS/C++ Compiler <http://www.sas.com/sasc> SAS... The Power to Know

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