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Hobbit Login Credentials
by gellison＠gochorus.com 19 Mar '07

19 Mar '07

Hello, I had a consulting firm setup Hobbit monitoring for my company and they literally closed down business over night without giving me the login id and password. Is there any way you may be able to help me regain administration access? Thank you.

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Process monitoring per user
by arisyrup＠gmail.com 19 Mar '07

19 Mar '07

Hello, I would like to know how to monitor a process is running and it is ran by a particular user . ex) For the following process I would like to check a) java is running and b) it is being ran by irsaprd user . irsaprd 8349 8314 0 07:22 ? 00:00:11 /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_08/jre/bin/java -Dprocess=indexEngine It can be checked with the following set up with bigb . # grep indexEngine ~bigb/bb/etc/bb-proctab localhost : :"irsaprd .*java -Dprocess=indexEngine;=1" # Does anyone know how to do this with hobbit ?

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Grouping pages
by torben.aagaard＠gmail.com 18 Mar '07

18 Mar '07

Hi hobbits! This might be trivial - but I cannot figure out how to group pages on my display server. I have 9 1st level pages that I'd like to divide into groups ( Internal systems, Customers, Test, sct. ). Is that possible ? BR /Torben

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Funny bbtest-net error on ping test
by olivier.beau＠telecomitalia.fr 17 Mar '07

17 Mar '07

Hi all, Bbtest-net went red today, and all my ping tests went clear for 3 minutes (my testing interval). Here's my bb-network.log: 2007-03-17 11:18:08 Cannot create file /data/hobbit/server/tmp/ping-stdout.7488 : Permission denied 2007-03-17 11:18:08 Cannot create file /data/hobbit/server/tmp/ping-stderr.7488 : Permission denied 2007-03-17 11:18:12 xgetenv: Cannot find value for variable $BBTMP 2007-03-17 11:18:12 hobbitping child could not create outputfiles in (null) 2007-03-17 11:18:12 Cannot open ping output file /data/hobbit/server/tmp/ping-stdout.7488 Any idea what could have caused this ? (those ping-std* files do not exist, and the tmp directory is own by hobbit) olivier

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clientupdate problems
by sveinn＠sveinng.com 17 Mar '07

17 Mar '07

Hi all. I am a long time user and fan of Hobbit :-) So thank you all for your hard work on the project! I am having trouble with the clientupdate part, and I belive I might have found a bug, or just misunderstood the whole thing :) Here is my scenario: I am installing hobbit client on our ESX3 servers, and I decided to assign a special class (esx3) to those machines in the bb-hosts file: 192.168.xxx.xxx VMWARE01 # CLASS:esx3 In client-local.cfg I have a section for the class: [esx3] clientversion:hobbit-esx3-v01 When I want to push out a new version, I place a new tarball in $BBHOME/download, in my case hobbit-esx3-v02.tar, and bump the clientversion reference in client-local.cfg to: [esx3] clientversion:hobbit-esx3-v02 But, what happens, is that only one client will update it self. If I bump the clientversion again, another one client will update and so on. I am running the latest Hobbit server, with latest all-in-one patch on AIX 5300-05-03. On the clientside, I am also running latest and greatest, on ESX 3.0.1. Best regards, Svenni

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Updated URLs in docs
by matthew＠familycampground.org 17 Mar '07

17 Mar '07

Looking at the help files, I noticed the URLs for the rrd documentation has been changed. from www/html/howtograph.html http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/doc/rrdcreate.en.html is now http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc/rrdcreate.en.html http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/doc/rrdgraph.en.html is now http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc/rrdgraph.en.html And from www/html/install.html http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/ is now http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/ -- Matthew Davis http://familycampground.org/matthew/

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Netapp Devmon templates
by asparks＠doublesparks.net 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

Posted also to the devmon list... Sorry if I've missed it, but I see mention of devmon NetApp templates, but cannot find if there is one downloadable somewhere. Is one available somewhere? Thanks in advance. -Alan -- Alan Sparks, UNIX/Linux Systems Integration and Administration <asparks at doublesparks.net>

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hobbit-alerts.cfg - DURATION
by cits.bogajewski＠daimlerchrysler.com 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

Dear Hobbits, is DURATION keyword within hobbit-alerts.cfg relates to the time period one test is in a special state, yellow or red, or more general the time period since non-green state occurs. In example, i want to get exact one notification at yellow state and one at red, but the following configuration does not work. I get notified on initial yellow alert, but not on red one occurring 4 min later. HOST=myhost SERVICE=disk COLOR=yellow DURATION<3 SCRIPT $SSMSS $ABSMS REPEAT=5 RECOVERED HOST=myhost SERVICE=disk COLOR=red DURATION<3 SCRIPT $SSMSS $ABSMS REPEAT=5 RECOVERED Any ideas? Thanks :-) Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Yours sincerely Anatoli Bogajewski

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[hobbit] Pinging Question
by craig＠cookitservices.com 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

I had problems with ping tests using BB so I wrote fping.pl, it is on deadcat.net. It pings your hosts, takes note of any that failed, and pings them at the end again. So if it reports a host down it has actually failed 2 pings during one test cycle. If a host fails the first ping but works on the second it is marked yellow. I had some devices randomly not respond to pings. (I was pinging 1000+ devices in <5 mins though. I had issues overloading the TCP stack but that is another story). It shouldn't be too hard to convert to use with hobbit. (Maybe this idea could be included in the hobbit ping util) Craig Cook -- Systems Monitoring Consulting and Support Services http://www.cookitservices.com

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500 Internal Server Error on detail view
by matthias.zepf＠junidas.de 15 Mar '07

15 Mar '07

In the Main View of Hobbit I click on "ssh" of host "blackadder". I get a page with a "History" button, the lastest message and a graphic. I click the "History" button. I get a page with several "text mode" charts and a list of the "Last 50 log entries" below. The red and green icons in the column "Status" can be clicked. The linked URLs look like this: http://XXX.XXX.de/hobbit/cgi/bb-histlog.sh? HOST=blackadder&SERVICE=ssh&TIMEBUF=Thu_Mar_15_10:09:43_2007 But most of these links result in a "500 Internal Server Error" when clicked. I guess the green ones with a short duration (only a few minutes) fail. The red ones always fail. This also happens with other server side services like "http" and "conn". I do not have this problem with any client side service. Is this normal? Do others have this problem too? What is wrong with my configuration? Thanks for your help Matthias

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