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Duplicate Alerting issue.
by Stewart_Larsen＠doh.state.fl.us 09 Mar '07

09 Mar '07

I have a bit of a problem with my alert config. Suppose I have two macros defined for host groups $databases=%(sdb.*) $unix=%(sdb.*|www.*) Then I create some records like... HOST=$databases MAIL managers at foo.com MAIL dba at foo.com HOST=$unix MAIL managers at foo.com MAIL unix at foo.com The problem is then, that the managers group will get two alerts when there is a problem with an sdb* box. This was not the behavior under BB. Is there a way to keep the duplicate alerts out? -- Stewart

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Pinging Question
by kev14380＠aol.com 08 Mar '07

08 Mar '07

Hello, I work for an organization that has about 100 firewalls deployed. We currently use hobbit to ping all the interfaces to see if they are up. Out of about 500 interfaces we are pinging there are about 10 that will show up as being down on the hobbit web pages but when you ping from the hobbit server manually you get a response that they are up. Any ideas as to why they would show up as down on the web pages but you get responses from manual pings. Is there somethign different about the pings used for the webpages? ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com.

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Distributed bb-hosts
by torben.aagaard＠gmail.com 08 Mar '07

08 Mar '07

Hello ! I'm currently running a 2-server hobbit system, host A is doing both BBDISP and BBNET, while host B is only running network tests. ON both hosts, the BBLOCATION is set to either A or B. My bb-hosts file is broken down to these : bb-hosts.A -------------------------------------------------------------------- # Default : Test IP Addr 0.0.0.0 .default. # testip NET:A 1.2.3.4 foobar # ssh -------------------------------------------------------------------- bb-hosts.B -------------------------------------------------------------------- # Default : Test IP Addr 0.0.0.0 .default. # testip NET:B 5.6.7.8 arg # ssh -------------------------------------------------------------------- On host A - my bb-hosts file looks something like this : -------------------------------------------------------------------- include bb-hosts.A include bb-hosts.B -------------------------------------------------------------------- On host B is says : -------------------------------------------------------------------- include bb-hosts.B -------------------------------------------------------------------- I'd like to maintain all the bb-hosts files on host A - so the question is how to distribute the bb-hosts.B from host A to host B. I could use SSH/SCP - but perhaps it's easier to utilize the BB "config" command and pull the bb-hosts.B file from host B ? What are you guys doing ? Any recommendations ? Thanks BR /Torben

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Zoom on Metrics Reports
by James.Wade＠txaccess.com 08 Mar '07

08 Mar '07

Hello, Is there anyway to have a zoom on the metrics report so I can zoom into a specific time-range? James James Wade Accenture Texas Access Alliance Office: 512-533-5325 james.wade at txaccess.com AIM: jameskipwade

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SMS paging
by tmelcher＠saionline.com 08 Mar '07

08 Mar '07

Is there a way or has anyone been able to hack something together to send more detail using the SMS tag. Im using qpage to send out my SMS's to our pagers but it would be nice if it would send along the Error that actually triggered the alert. server1.somedomain.com.disk red 123456 This is nice but it would be better if it could give you the details, server1.somedomain.com.disk red "/opt 99%" 123456 or something similar. Thanks Trent 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 The text of this communication is confidential, and use by any person who is not the intended recipient is prohibited. Any person who receives this communication in error is requested to immediately destroy the text of this communication without copying or further dissemination. Your cooperation is appreciated.

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Raw number reports
by Stewart_Larsen＠doh.state.fl.us 08 Mar '07

08 Mar '07

Can I get a report of 1) How many hosts I have with a particular test 2) What number of them (or percentage) are green, yellow, red, etc. -- Stewart

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Feature Request - LINK tag?
by Stewart_Larsen＠doh.state.fl.us 08 Mar '07

08 Mar '07

I'd like to have a tag that I can specify for a host that will make the hostname become a link to something. For example, 10.1.1.1 host1.localdomain # ntp LINK:http://10.1.1.1 When displayed in the browser, the host name would then become a link the web server running on that host. Or it could be a FTP://, mailto, or whatever protocols you wanted to put there. Click on the host name and off you go. I can do the coding, but I am unsure hereto look in the code. If someone can give me a little direction (or code this up faster than I), it would be greatly appreciated. I'd be happy to submit back a patch for this. Stew

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Tried to down BOARDBUSY on custom listener startup
by gn1＠sanger.ac.uk 08 Mar '07

08 Mar '07

Hi I've written a custom perl listener for the client channel. It seems to work quite fine when it starts properly, but most of the time it just sits there receiving no data and there's the message "Tried to down BOARDBUSY" in the listener logs. I suspect this is related to the channel registration :) Henrik, any clue how to debug this? May it be something wrong in my client? Cheers, Gildas

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Critical systems view
by rower.master＠gmail.com 08 Mar '07

08 Mar '07

Hi, Is there a way to view on critical systems page Red+purple? Thanks in advance.

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is Hobbit ready for 2007 DST?
by jjj863＠gmail.com 08 Mar '07

08 Mar '07

I didn't find any question asked about 2007 DST readiness for Hobbit on the list. Should it be assumed it won't be problem at all? For one thing, the scheduled downtime and such would be specific to local time. Assume the underlying operating system has been patched and is ready to accomodate 2007 DST changes in North America.

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