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Hobbit 4.2.0 + FreeBSD 6.2 & shm problems
by simon＠unixinside.com 23 Mar '07

23 Mar '07

Hi, I'm running the latest stable release of FreeBSD, 6.2, with a freshly built version 4.2.0 of Hobbit. After using most of the defaults for the configure.server script (I just changed the URLs settings a little) I'm getting the following error in /var/log/hobbit/hobbitlaunch.log: 007-03-22 22:25:50 hobbitlaunch starting 2007-03-22 22:25:50 Loading tasklist configuration from /home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitlaunch.cfg 2007-03-22 22:25:50 Loading hostnames 2007-03-22 22:25:50 Loading saved state 2007-03-22 22:25:50 Cannot access checkpoint file /home/hobbit/server/tmp/hobbitd.chk for restore 2007-03-22 22:25:50 Setting up network listener on 0.0.0.0:1984 2007-03-22 22:25:50 Setting up signal handlers 2007-03-22 22:25:50 Setting up hobbitd channels 2007-03-22 22:25:50 Could not get shm of size 262144: Cannot allocate memory 2007-03-22 22:25:50 Cannot setup data channel 2007-03-22 22:25:50 Task hobbitd terminated, status 1 I'm not sure exactly what the "Cannot access checkpoint file" error is but I think the more serious error here is the shm "Cannot allocate memory" error which is preventing hobbit from starting. I've got the following configuration in /boot/loader.conf: kern.maxusers=256 kern.ipc.nmbclusters=6000 kern.ipc.maxsockets=8000 kern.ipc.semmni="40" kern.ipc.semmns="100" In the kernel configuration the SYSVSHM, SYSVMSG, SYSVSEM options are enabled. The scheduler option is currently set to SCHED_ULE (as opposed to the older SCHED_4BSD). I can't seem to find much info on the web that relates to my environment. Can anyone help me out please? I'm happy to provide more information about my setup if you need it. Thanks in advance, Simon.

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Editing Critical Systems doesn't save the new hosts?
by dortsen＠gmail.com 23 Mar '07

23 Mar '07

Hi All, I'd like to set up a few Critical Systems. I'm using the "Edit critical systems" (hobbit-nkedit.sh) on the hobbit servers webpage. After logging in, I fill in all the fields (except for the cloning part) and click the "Update record" button. The page quickly refreshes, but the host I've just added, isn't saved in the Critical Systems view. I've searched the hobbit log files and the apache logfiles, but I can't find an error anywhere. This is a new install (v4.2.0). According to the manuals, I should use this new way of editing Critical Systems (instead of the NK tags) cause in a future release of Hobbit the old style isn't supported anymore. Can anyone tell where I haven't looked yet? Thanks in advance! Dennis

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Hobbit Security Issue?
by david.gore＠verizonbusiness.com 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

Perhaps someone more familiar with security can help me with this? Or perhaps it's a false positive? We scan or hosts for security and my score just went up more than three fold. This was the worst offender: wpoison (nasl version) Long Desc: The following URLs seem to be vulnerable to BLIND SQL injection techniques : /hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?-='+AND+'b'>'a&HOST=myhost&SERVICE=info Obviously Hobbit doesn't use SQL, but we do have a running mysql instance running on the host. Our mysql instance is not used by hobbit. Any suggestions? Our mysql instance: mysql Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.27, for redhat-linux-gnu (i686) using readline 5.0 ~David

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hobbit on Solaris 10 non-global Zone
by ndorfsman＠gmail.com 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

Hi, I have to monitor a Sol10 non-global Zone. Any hint ? TIA Nicolas

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hobbit on nokia IPSO
by pkc_mls＠yahoo.fr 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

Hi all, If some are still interested, there is a way to compile things like hobbit client on Nokia IPSO. you can use the freebsd 2.2.6 iso on a virtual machine (badfully, vmware doesn't support the network with this bsd release, but there is another tool called parallels workstation that works quite fine), then recompile a static client and copy it to IPSO. then you need to modify a little bit the scripts, as there is no hobbitclient config for ipso. the best is to modify the cfg to replace the uname command with freebsd, so the hobbitclient will act as on a standard freebsd. I'm sorry I didn't have time at the moment to create a correct IPSO package, but I can help if someone have more time than me to create one. ___________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Mail réinvente le mail ! Découvrez le nouveau Yahoo! Mail et son interface révolutionnaire. http://fr.mail.yahoo.com

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bbtest crash & core dumping
by Allan.Marillier＠dana.com 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

I have a problem on a Fedora Core 5 server that comes up at random intervals with Henrik's rpm version of hobbit 4.2.0-1 where my bbtest-net causes core dumps every 5 minutes and all tests turn purple. If I leave it alone, after some time between half an hour to 2 hours it goes back to normal. Is there a known problem that I can correct? This happens at irregular intervals from 6 to 20 days, and rebooting has not helped. The only clue I have found so far is to check bb-services, but I have not modified that, it is exactly as it installed: # $Id: bb-services,v 1.14 2006/07/10 14:41:39 henrik Rel $ Any suggestions please? (I do have some core dumps saved but I'm not too familiar with gdb debugging) The message I get on my hobbit display is: - Program crashed Fatal signal caught! root at hobbit tmp# uname -a Linux hobbit.dana.com 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 #1 Tue Mar 14 15:48:33 EST 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux root at hobbit tmp# cat /etc/issue Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux) root at hobbit tmp# rpm -qa | grep -i hobbit hobbit-4.2.0-1 root at hobbit tmp# rpm -qa | grep fping fping-2.4b2-4.fc4 root at hobbit tmp# file /var/lib/hobbit/tmp/core* core.13989: ELF 32-bit LSB core file Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), SVR4-style, from 'bbtest-net' </PRE> <div style="font-family:arial;font-size:8pt;"> <hr> <p>This e-mail, and any attachments, is intended solely for use by the addressee(s) named above. It may contain the confidential or proprietary information of Dana Corporation, its subsidiaries, affiliates or business partners. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail or are an unauthorized recipient of the information, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail or any attachments, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender by reply e-mail and permanently delete the original and any copies or printouts.</p> <p>Computer viruses can be transmitted via email. The recipient should check this e-mail and any attachments for the presence of viruses. Dana Corporation accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this e-mail.</p> English, Francais, Espanol, Deutsch, Italiano, Portugues:<br> <a href="http://www.dana.com/overview/EmailDisclaimer.shtm">http://www.dana.com/overview/EmailDisclaimer.shtm</a> <hr> </div>

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BBMAP
by b-kennedy1＠raytheon.com 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

Hi. I have been trying to get the BBMAP plug-in to work with Hobbit. I have read the docs and the other mail archives regarding this, but I am having issues getting it to work properly. When I select a map for display and select example map, nothing shows up. I have tried setting the DEBUG mode, but I am still having trouble. The hobbit server is Linux RH. Does anyone have this working? Is there some other map type feature I should use instead? Thank you for your time and help. Bryan

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Conn=best|worst and single tcp graph
by shea_greg＠emc.com 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

Hi all, I've gone through the archives but nothing really jumped out at me so now I pose the question I have a number of hosts with multiple interfaces on each that I use either the conn=best or conn=worst option in bb-hosts. What I don't like is the tcp graph for conn which only shows one tcp connection. In the trends column there is a network traffic graph that shows inbound and outbound for each interface in one graph. Is it possible to do this with the tcp conn graph? Thanks -Grs- Gregory R Shea EMC Corporation

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recent.gif propagation
by Dominique.Frise＠unil.ch 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

Hi, The *-recent-gif propagation does not seem to consider the "group-only" directive (bb-hosts). In following example, the top page displays a green-recent.gif for the "Backup" page but conn and nsr services are solid green (green.gif) on the status page for host1 and host2. On another view showing all local checks, it appears that the "memory" check on host1 displays a green-recent.gif. Example: page adminBackServ Backup title Administrative Services group-only conn|nsr Backup 1.2.3.4 host1 # 1.2.3.5 host2 # Is there a way to tell Hobbit to reflect the recent status changes on upper pages for the displayed checks only? Thanks. Dominique UNIL - University of Lausanne

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disk graph strangeness
by rmunsch＠solutionsforprogress.com 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

Hello, I've a host that's picking up all kinds of oddness on its disk graph. The data seems correct, this is from client data: [df] Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/sda2 1951832 659176 1292656 34% / /dev/mapper/root_vg-var 5242716 4405508 837208 85% /var /dev/mapper/root_vg-usr 2097084 1328888 768196 64% /usr /dev/mapper/root_vg-home 12582524 8865656 3716868 71% /home /dev/mapper/root_vg-varlocal 131067996 117865944 13202052 90% /var/local but the graph looks like this: I've never seen such bizarreness on one of my graphs. The last two lines are particularly creative. Any ideas how i can track this down?

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