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Core dump
by lars.ebeling＠leopg9.no-ip.org 09 Apr '07

09 Apr '07

I feel that I am nagging, so I changed the subject today. >From todays (27/1) snapshot $ gdb ../bin/hobbitd core GNU gdb 5.3 Copyright 2002 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 "hppa2.0n-hp-hpux11.00"... Core was generated by `hobbitd'. Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted. warning: The shared libraries were not privately mapped; setting a breakpoint in a shared library will not work until you rerun the program. warning: Can't find file hobbitd referenced in dld_list. Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libpcre.sl...done. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libnsl.1...done. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libxti.2...done. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libc.2...done. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libdld.2...done. #0 0xc020bad0 in kill () from /usr/lib/libc.2 (gdb) bt #0 0xc020bad0 in kill () from /usr/lib/libc.2 #1 0xc01a655c in raise () from /usr/lib/libc.2 #2 0xc01e69a8 in abort_C () from /usr/lib/libc.2 #3 0xc01e6a04 in abort () from /usr/lib/libc.2 #4 0x00018258 in sigsegv_handler (signum=8216) at sig.c:57 #5 <signal handler called> #6 int_compare (a=0x6f3d6, b=0xb19fd) at rbtr.c:406 #7 0x00017ee0 in rbtFind (h=0x6f3d6, key=0x6f3d6) at rbtr.c:381 #8 0x00005a20 in find_cookie (cookie=455638) at hobbitd.c:925 #9 0x000060b8 in handle_status ( msg=0x4001c9d0 "status leopg9.hobbitd yellow\nStatistics for Hobbit daemon\n Up since 27-Jan-2007 09:50:23 (0 days, 00:05:01)\n\nIncoming messages : 156\n- status", ' ' <repeats 15 times>, ": 121\n- combo", ' ' <repeat s 13 times>..., sender=0x1dddc "hobbitd", hostname=0x40018bf0 "leopg9", testname=0x4001c3b8 "hobbitd", grouplist=0x0, log=0x4001c3e8, newcolor=4, downcause=0x0) at hobbitd.c:1135 #10 0x0000e8bc in main (argc=3, argv=0x0) at hobbitd.c:4318 (gdb) quit $ 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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Hobbit presentation at the "Linuxforum 2007" conference (Copenhagen)
by henrik＠hswn.dk 09 Apr '07

09 Apr '07

For those of You who might be near Copenhagen on March 3rd, I'll be speaking about Hobbit in a 1-hour session at the Linuxforum 2007 conference. This is at 10:45 AM in auditorium 6. Linuxforum is the largest IT conference in Scandinavia focusing on Open Source software, and runs on March 2nd and 3rd 2007. More information is available at http://linuxforum.dk/2007/ (Danish) or http://linuxforum.dk/2007/en/ (English). Regards, Henrik

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Downtime
by bill.hart＠burkecorp.com 03 Apr '07

03 Apr '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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Limiting the number of lines on a graph?
by stl19847＠yahoo.com 02 Apr '07

02 Apr '07

Is there a way to limit the number of lines that are displayed on a given graph? For example, if I have 20 partitions, my graph could quickly become meaningless. I want to limit it to say, 3 lines per graph, then have it start another graph. -- 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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custom rrd's and step size?
by stl19847＠yahoo.com 31 Mar '07

31 Mar '07

Is there a way to have hobbit create new rrd's with a step size of 60 seconds instead of 5 minutes? -- 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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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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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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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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