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disk IGNORE rule in DEFAULT section
by gumby3203＠gmail.com 30 Mar '07

30 Mar '07

Maybe I'm just a little sleep deprived, but I thought that if a machine had a disk slice that didn't have an explicit DISK <blah> line defined for it, it would use the rule as defined in the DEFAULT section. However, I have a bunch of machines that apparently are _not_ using the rule as defined in the DEFAULT section. Below is a copy of the relevant parts of the DEFAULT section (at the very bottom of the hobbit-clients.cfg file) DEFAULT <other non-related DISK IGNORE rules> DISK %^/archive[0-9]* IGNORE DISK * 90 95 I know technically the "DISK *" should probably be "DISK .*", but I thought that's how it was by default. Am I just wrong with my PCRE?

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hobbitd_alert: Servers on multiple pages & PAGE= rules
by s_aiello＠comcast.net 30 Mar '07

30 Mar '07

Lets say I have the following bb-hosts file: page servers subpage Web Web Servers 1.2.3.4 Web01.domain.com # 1.2.3.5 Web02.domain.com # Subpage Other Other Web Servers 0.0.0.0 Web02.domain.com # And now I have the following hobbit-alerts.cfg: PAGE=servers/Other SERVICE=conn MAIL coolguy at domain.com COLOR=red,yellow Now I run the command, "bin/bbcmd hobbitd_alert --test Web02.domain.com conn", I see: 2007-03-30 15:09:38 Using default environment file ..../server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg 00000897 2007-03-30 15:09:38 send_alert Web02.domain.com:conn state Paging 00000897 2007-03-30 15:09:38 Matching host:service:page 'Web02.domain.com:conn:server/Web' against rule line 119 00000897 2007-03-30 15:09:38 Failed 'PAGE=servers/Other SERVICE=conn' (pagename not in include list) So it seems when using PAGE= alert rules only honor the first page a device is listed on. Is this by design ?

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Custom graphs again
by stl19847＠yahoo.com 30 Mar '07

30 Mar '07

So, I have a bit of a situation. I have a number of firewalls of various models that I am querying via SNMP for their interface statistics. Some have 6 ports on them, some have 8. Some are named port1,port2,port3, etc. Some are named inertnal,external,wan1, etc. I'd like to get around having to do a custom rrd setup for each model of firewall. in that vein, it would be nice if I can get the data stored in a separate RRD file for each interface (the same way that there is a separate RRD file for each partition on a disk test) so that I can use the file @RRDFN@ and @RRDPARAM@ stuff to work, but I'm unsure how to do that. little help? -- Stewart Larsen -- This sig intentionally left blank, other than this text explaining that if not for this text, this sig would be blank.

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Downtime
by bill.hart＠burkecorp.com 30 Mar '07

30 Mar '07

I've dug through the documentation and searched the archives, but I'm still having an issue with the downtime option. I've only got one device that needs it and I added it as such : ip name #http://ip DOWNTIME=*:*:0230:0630:Scheduled_Downtime The info page displays it properly as : Planned downtime: All days:*:0230:0630:Scheduled_Downtime Yet when I have this in the bb-hosts file, bbtest stops running sometime in the night. Last night it was midnight. A couple of nights before it was 2am. Checking the history.log I see it says "Cannot open status historyfile '/home/hobbit/data/hist/machine.test for several machines, but not all of them. The hobbitd.log shows that I had the DOWNTIME configuration set slightly wrong previously, however it is clean since I removed the line and then updated it with the line you see above (something I gleaned from the archives about needing 2 *s). It's a Fedora Core 6 box running the latest and greatest of everything. Hobbit is all it does, it's got mrtg and bb-xsnmp running as well. Does anyone have any pointers on where to go from here ? Bill Hart Computer Support Supervisor Always make it your best(r)

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Hobbit and Apache
by FRamaekers＠ailife.com 29 Mar '07

29 Mar '07

I've added the apache monitoring information to bb-hosts, but am only getting data for the 2nd trend (apache1-Apache Workers). When I issue http://server/server-status?auto, all I get is: BusyWorkers: 1 IdleWorkers: 7 Scoreboard: _W______................................................................ ........................................................................ ........................................................................ ........................................ Did I miss something? Frank M. Ramaekers Jr. Systems Programmer; MCP, MCP+I, MCSE & RHCE American Income Life Insurance Company Phone: (254) 761-6649 Fax: (254) 741-5777

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port monitoring in 4.1.2
by gjohnson＠trantor.org 29 Mar '07

29 Mar '07

Hey, Was port monitoring available in 4.1.2? I have an older server/client setup that doesn't show port info. =G=

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Problem of value in the graph
by sebastien.sans＠procapital.fr 29 Mar '07

29 Mar '07

Hello I'm using hobbit 4.2.0. I did a custom graph. the problem is that the value in the graph is different that the one given by the script ! The value "current" is above or below the good value. Here is the configuration: hobbitgraph.cfg [httpd] TITLE Httpd YAXIS Connexions Httpd DEF:avg=3D3Dhttpd.rrd:httpd:AVERAGE CDEF:httpd=3D3Davg,1,/ -l 0 LINE2:httpd#@COLOR@:Connexions GPRINT:httpd:LAST: \: %5.1lf (cur) GPRINT:httpd:MAX: \: %5.1lf (max) GPRINT:httpd:MIN: \: %5.1lf (min) GPRINT:httpd:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf (avg)\n rrd.sh: if [ "$TESTNAME" =3D3D "httpd" ] then HTTPD=3D3D`/bin/ps -eaf|grep httpd|wc -l` # The RRD dataset definitions echo "DS:httpd:GAUGE:600:0:10000" # The filename echo "httpd.rrd" # The data echo "$HTTPD" fi Thanks for your help. Sébastien SANS

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Todays snapshot 07-03-29 (work in progress?)
by lars.ebeling＠leopg9.no-ip.org 29 Mar '07

29 Mar '07

Hi, FYI: gcc -g -O -D_REENTRANT -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DHPUX -I. -I /home/hobbit/snapshot/include -I/usr/local/include -I. -I../include -I/usr/loca l/include -c -o loadalerts.o loadalerts.c loadalerts.c: In function `criteriamatch': loadalerts.c:924: error: too few arguments to function `timematch' make[1]: *** [loadalerts.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/hobbit/snapshot/lib' make: *** [lib-build] Error 2 -- Regards Lars Ebeling http://leopg9.no-ip.org Hobbithobbyist "It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt." -- Mark Twain

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Color of conn test
by c.rehberger＠oclcpica.org 29 Mar '07

29 Mar '07

Hi, I want to check our printer also as our server, but I don't want to get a red page if the conn test of one of the printers fails. Is there a possibility to change the configuration of the alert color for one ore more hosts in bb-hosts from red to yellow in cause of a failed conn test? Thanx in advance and regards Chris -- Christian Rehberger System Consultant · OCLC PICA GmbH Grünwalder Weg 28g · 82041 Oberhaching · Germany t +49-(0)89-61308 333 · f +49-(0)89-61308 399 e c.rehberger at oclcpica.org · w http://www.oclcpica.org OCLC PICA GmbH Geschäftsführer: Christine Magin-Weeger, Norbert Weinberger Sitz der Gesellschaft: Oberhaching HRB München: 113261

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rrd-status.log [error messages]
by sabeer.mz＠gmail.com 29 Mar '07

29 Mar '07

hello all, I see below error lines on my hobbit server under rrd-status.log. what are this messages ? how can i find out which client sending me bad data ? is it critical error or shall i ignore it ? 2007-03-22 01:55:10 Bad data in channel, skipping it 2007-03-22 01:55:10 Dropping (more) garbled data 2007-03-22 02:00:11 Bad data in channel, skipping it 2007-03-22 02:00:11 Dropping (more) garbled data 2007-03-22 02:05:12 Bad data in channel, skipping it 2007-03-22 02:05:12 Dropping (more) garbled data 2007-03-22 02:10:13 Bad data in channel, skipping it 2007-03-22 02:10:13 Dropping (more) garbled data -- Thanks Sabeer MZ

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