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[hobbit] drop test not sticking...
by benjamin.gagnon＠yahoo.ca 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

Thanks. group-only and group-except works like a charm. NOCOLUMNS + bb drop does not work for me (the column disappears for a couple of minutes only). I don't get this at all because it's documented and people keep telling me this is supposed to work. bb-hosts page CLIENTS Hobbit Clients 142.78.43.171 opsappsl.lac-bac.gc.ca # NOCOLUMNS:files ctmoratst then # bb 127.0.0.1 "drop opsappsl.lac-bac.gc.ca files" then wait 1-2 minutes for columns to disappear then wait 1-2 minutes for columns to re-appear. Benjamin ----- Original Message ---- From: "Hubbard, Greg L" <greg.hubbard at eds.com> To: hobbit at hswn.dk Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 9:28:45 AM Subject: RE: [hobbit] drop test not sticking... DIV { MARGIN:0px;} Look at these options for the bb-hosts file: group-only COLUMN1|COLUMN2|COLUMN3 [group-title] Same as the "group" and "group-compress" lines, but includes only the columns explicitly listed in the group. Any columns not listed will be ignored for these hosts. group-except COLUMN1|COLUMN2|COLUMN3 [group-title] Same as the "group-only" lines, but includes all columns EXCEPT those explicitly listed in the group. Any columns listed will be ignored for these hosts - all other columns are shown. NOCOLUMNS:column[,column] Used to drop certain of the status columns generated by the Hobbit client. column is one of cpu, disk, files, memory, msgs, ports, procs. This setting stops these columns from being updated for the host. Note: If the columns already exist, you must use the bb(1) utility to drop them, or they will go purple. Which one to use depends on whether you have a group of hosts that you don't want to show all values for, or if you need to do this on a host-by-host basis. Use "NOCOLUMNS" for controlling the display of individual hosts, and the "group" commands for groups. GLH From: Benjamin Gagnon [mailto:benjamin.gagnon at yahoo.ca] Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 8:13 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] drop test not sticking... How would you go about it? First, check out my last 2-3 posts on this topic. I really don't know what else to try except maybe a clean installation (which shouldn't make any difference). Benjamin ----- Original Message ---- From: "Hubbard, Greg L" <greg.hubbard at eds.com> To: hobbit at hswn.dk Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 8:56:00 AM Subject: RE: [hobbit] drop test not sticking... DIV { MARGIN:0px;} I think you are better off to hide these columns than to try to get rid of the standard tests. They are harmless with default settings. GLH From: Benjamin Gagnon [mailto:benjamin.gagnon at yahoo.ca] Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 4:15 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] drop test not sticking... That didn't work. Here is my bb-hosts entry... 142.78.43.171 opsappsl.lac-bac.gc.ca # NOCOLUMNS:msgs,ports,files,procs ctmoratst I made the change in bb-hosts, restarted the bb server (although not required I think) and then dropped the tests using the following commands. bb 127.0.0.1 "drop opsappsl.lac-bac.gc.ca msgs" bb 127.0.0.1 "drop opsappsl.lac-bac.gc.ca ports" bb 127.0.0.1 "drop opsappsl.lac-bac.gc.ca files" bb 127.0.0.1 "drop opsappsl.lac-bac.gc.ca procs" They keep coming back and I'm getting scared ;-) Benjamin P.S. The ctmoratst works fine. ----- Original Message ---- From: Joost van den Broek <joost at seat-ibiza.nl> To: hobbit at hswn.dk Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 4:23:12 AM Subject: Re: [hobbit] drop test not sticking... Try adding NOCOLUMNS:ports to the host in bb-hosts. - Joost Benjamin Gagnon wrote: > Hi, I'm having a problem with dropping a host's test. > > I perform the following command from the server (there are no output > errors or errors in the error log)... > > bb 127.0.0.1 "drop opsappsl.lac-bac.gc.ca ports" > > Within a couple of minutes the ports column gets dropped and then a > couple of minutes later the column reappears. So the drop command works > ok but the settings do not stick. > > I've RTFM'd and searched the web for answers to no avail. Anyone have > any ideas? > > thanks > Benjamin > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Ask a question on any topic and get answers from real people. *Go to > Yahoo! Answers.* <http://ca.answers.yahoo.com> To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk Share your photos with the people who matter at Yahoo! Canada Photos All new Yahoo! Mail Get news delivered. Enjoy RSS feeds right on your Mail page. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Sorry
by gjohnson＠trantor.org 20 Mar '07

20 Mar '07

Sorry to do this but my mail server has been unavailable for 3 weeks (since I changed providers and they block port 25) and most mailing lists ill tend to drop users with lots of bounces. =G=

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Frank Jakobsen is out of the office.
by fjakobsen＠csc.com 20 Mar '07

20 Mar '07

I will be out of the office starting 20.03.2007 and will not return until 10.04.2007.

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Next Hobbit Version
by geoff.hallford＠gmail.com 19 Mar '07

19 Mar '07

Hi Henrik, I have been part of this list for quite a while now and have seen many features discussed and suggested in that time. Some of them are great features but since I run this at work to monitor about 6 organizations, I cannot take advantage of these new features until a new stable version is released. Do you know approx. when the next stable version will be released? Thanks again for the great product! Geoff

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Info Page
by Robert.Taylor＠HendrickAuto.com 19 Mar '07

19 Mar '07

All, On the info page there is a section labled "status summary" and when I try to toggle any of the non-green tests it simply reports that there is an error on the page. I have tried to search for some information on what this does or how to correct the "error" but can't seem to find much. Any ideas on where to start? Thanks, Robert

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BB compatibility problem.
by mattias＠ahnberg.pp.se 19 Mar '07

19 Mar '07

> On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 06:03:36PM +0100, ralph.goeckel (at) accenture.com wrote: >> I am testing the actual (4.2.0) hobbit client together with a BigBrother >> professional monitoring server. > > Won't work. The Hobbit client architecture is not compatible with a BB > server. Are you merely talking about the BB professional server? We're running an old version of the BB server (bb1.9c) and I seem to get the same errors as Ralph, is it impossible to make it work there too? Thank you in advance. -- /ahnberg.

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Suggested housekeeping - trimhistory
by andrew＠bccit.co.uk 19 Mar '07

19 Mar '07

Does anyone have Hobbit housekeeping routines they'd care to share with the list? I'm assuming it will involve the trimhistory command and am interested in other people's ideas. Thanks, Andrew

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[hobbit] drop test not sticking...
by benjamin.gagnon＠yahoo.ca 19 Mar '07

19 Mar '07

Thank you very much for your solution. I have dropped both procs and ports so far. I hacked the hobbit-client-<OS>.sh script on the client, restarted the client then dropped the tests once again from the server. Those 2 tests are now gone. I'm not sure how to get rid of msgs and files though. Doesn't appear to be any entry for these in the hobbit-client-<OS>.sh script. Anyone? There are no uncommented FILE or LOG entries in the client's localclient.cfg or in the server's hobbit-clients.cfg files. I'm confused as to why it is so difficult to remove standard client-side tests that I do not wish to perform at this point in time. Benjamin ----- Original Message ---- From: Buchan Milne <bgmilne at staff.telkomsa.net> To: hobbit at hswn.dk Cc: Benjamin Gagnon <benjamin.gagnon at yahoo.ca> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 4:23:55 AM Subject: Re: [hobbit] drop test not sticking... On Monday 19 March 2007, Benjamin Gagnon wrote: > Hi, I'm having a problem with dropping a host's test. > > I perform the following command from the server (there are no output errors > or errors in the error log)... > > bb 127.0.0.1 "drop opsappsl.lac-bac.gc.ca ports" > > Within a couple of minutes the ports column gets dropped and then a couple > of minutes later the column reappears. So the drop command works ok but > the settings do not stick. > > I've RTFM'd and searched the web for answers to no avail. Anyone have any > ideas? To remove a test: 1)Remove the test from the configuration file for the server that is running the test (so that no new data is generated) 2)Drop the test (to prevent the test from going purple now that it receives no data) However, note that the ports test is not run from the Hobbit server, the ports data is supplied by the client ... If you were dropping the entire host, this would make sense, but I can't see why you would want to drop the ports test for one host (and ... this is a bit tricky). Maybe you can explain? You could accomplish this by hacking up the hobbit-client-<OS>.sh script on the client. Regards, Buchan -- Buchan Milne ISP Systems Specialist - Monitoring/Authentication Team Leader B.Eng,RHCE(803004789010797),LPIC-2(LPI000074592) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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[hobbit] drop test not sticking...
by benjamin.gagnon＠yahoo.ca 19 Mar '07

19 Mar '07

How would you go about it? First, check out my last 2-3 posts on this topic. I really don't know what else to try except maybe a clean installation (which shouldn't make any difference). Benjamin ----- Original Message ---- From: "Hubbard, Greg L" <greg.hubbard at eds.com> To: hobbit at hswn.dk Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 8:56:00 AM Subject: RE: [hobbit] drop test not sticking... DIV { MARGIN:0px;} I think you are better off to hide these columns than to try to get rid of the standard tests. They are harmless with default settings. GLH From: Benjamin Gagnon [mailto:benjamin.gagnon at yahoo.ca] Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 4:15 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] drop test not sticking... That didn't work. Here is my bb-hosts entry... 142.78.43.171 opsappsl.lac-bac.gc.ca # NOCOLUMNS:msgs,ports,files,procs ctmoratst I made the change in bb-hosts, restarted the bb server (although not required I think) and then dropped the tests using the following commands. bb 127.0.0.1 "drop opsappsl.lac-bac.gc.ca msgs" bb 127.0.0.1 "drop opsappsl.lac-bac.gc.ca ports" bb 127.0.0.1 "drop opsappsl.lac-bac.gc.ca files" bb 127.0.0.1 "drop opsappsl.lac-bac.gc.ca procs" They keep coming back and I'm getting scared ;-) Benjamin P.S. The ctmoratst works fine. ----- Original Message ---- From: Joost van den Broek <joost at seat-ibiza.nl> To: hobbit at hswn.dk Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 4:23:12 AM Subject: Re: [hobbit] drop test not sticking... Try adding NOCOLUMNS:ports to the host in bb-hosts. - Joost Benjamin Gagnon wrote: > Hi, I'm having a problem with dropping a host's test. > > I perform the following command from the server (there are no output > errors or errors in the error log)... > > bb 127.0.0.1 "drop opsappsl.lac-bac.gc.ca ports" > > Within a couple of minutes the ports column gets dropped and then a > couple of minutes later the column reappears. So the drop command works > ok but the settings do not stick. > > I've RTFM'd and searched the web for answers to no avail. Anyone have > any ideas? > > thanks > Benjamin > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Ask a question on any topic and get answers from real people. *Go to > Yahoo! Answers.* <http://ca.answers.yahoo.com> To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk Share your photos with the people who matter at Yahoo! Canada Photos __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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[hobbit] drop test not sticking...
by benjamin.gagnon＠yahoo.ca 19 Mar '07

19 Mar '07

That didn't work. Here is my bb-hosts entry... 142.78.43.171 opsappsl.lac-bac.gc.ca # NOCOLUMNS:msgs,ports,files,procs ctmoratst I made the change in bb-hosts, restarted the bb server (although not required I think) and then dropped the tests using the following commands. bb 127.0.0.1 "drop opsappsl.lac-bac.gc.ca msgs" bb 127.0.0.1 "drop opsappsl.lac-bac.gc.ca ports" bb 127.0.0.1 "drop opsappsl.lac-bac.gc.ca files" bb 127.0.0.1 "drop opsappsl.lac-bac.gc.ca procs" They keep coming back and I'm getting scared ;-) Benjamin P.S. The ctmoratst works fine. ----- Original Message ---- From: Joost van den Broek <joost at seat-ibiza.nl> To: hobbit at hswn.dk Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 4:23:12 AM Subject: Re: [hobbit] drop test not sticking... Try adding NOCOLUMNS:ports to the host in bb-hosts. - Joost Benjamin Gagnon wrote: > Hi, I'm having a problem with dropping a host's test. > > I perform the following command from the server (there are no output > errors or errors in the error log)... > > bb 127.0.0.1 "drop opsappsl.lac-bac.gc.ca ports" > > Within a couple of minutes the ports column gets dropped and then a > couple of minutes later the column reappears. So the drop command works > ok but the settings do not stick. > > I've RTFM'd and searched the web for answers to no avail. Anyone have > any ideas? > > thanks > Benjamin > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Ask a question on any topic and get answers from real people. *Go to > Yahoo! Answers.* <http://ca.answers.yahoo.com> To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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