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Cisco interface descriptions
by Seymour.Brown＠WJMC.ORG 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

Greetings, all. We had been using Big Brother until our server hardware died a few months back, and we decided to upgrade to Hobbit. We monitor over 100 servers and about 90 network devices with it. Is there any way to get Cisco interface descriptions to show up on the graphs in the Trend column? We managed to get the interface name to appear, but we'd really like more control over how things are labeled. i.e. we'd like the interface name AND its description to appear. Where they appear on the graph is not that important. Thanks, =Seymour= Seymour J. Brown Network Analyst West Jefferson Medical Center 1101 Medical Center Blvd. Marrero, LA 70072 504-349-2396 This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard-copy version. West Jefferson Medical Center, 1101 Medical Center Blvd., Marrero, USA, www.wjmc.org.

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some progress on AIX clientupdate problem
by brislin＠bc.edu 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

I replaced the AIX tar executable with a version of GNU tar and the clientupdate was successful. Since I can't really do that on our other AIX systems I just added the PATH to the GNU tar first in the hobbit .profile but unfortunately that doesn't work. If we could redefine where clientupdate gets the "tar" executable from I think this problem would be solved. -- Jay

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check messages logfile
by bol＠bth.se 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

Hello Do i have to use a externel script to check a logfile like /var/log/messages on hobbit server/client, just like BB do? Regards Bengt

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[feature request] Conditional testing in hobbit-clients.cfg
by charles.goyard＠orange-ftgroup.com 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

Hi all, hi Henrik, at my company we have some HA (say, LVS or web proxies manager with heartbeat, active/standby setup) clusters, and wish to monitor resources only on the active node. In a setup such as : hosts = vs1 and vs2 procs = squid running on master only a custom test named "clustermaster" that gets green when master, and clear otherwise. There are several ways to do so : - add a resource in heartbeat so it starts a "abstracted" hobbit client (with hostname "vsmaster" instead of vs1 or vs2). Configure the hobbit-clients.cfg to monitor heartbeat-managed resources for this virtual host. Simple, straightforward. - add a server-side extension that checks the "clustermaster" color and reconfigures the hobbit-clients.cfg accordingly. - add a server-side extension that checks the "clustermaster" color and mimics the behaviour of a local client. - add a "IF" keyword to hobbit-clients.cfg syntax to condition every check possible. (something like PROC squid 1 1 red IF vs1.clustermaster=green). As usual, the most elegant solution (the last) in the harder. Henrik, could you imagine putting it in hobbit ? If not, I'll do it at some point. Regards, -- Charles Goyard - charles.goyard at orange-ftgroup.com - (+33) 1 45 38 01 31 Orange Business Services - online multimedia // ingénierie

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BBWin 64 bit?
by Jason.Chambers＠geosoft.com 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

Does BBWIN work in Windows 2003 x64? Anyone have it working? Jason Chambers IT Helpdesk Support <http://www.geosoft.com/> eosoft Inc. 85 Richmond St. West - 8th Floor Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5H 2C9 Tel: 416-369-0111 x344 Fax: 416-369-9599 www.geosoft.com <http://www.geosoft.com>

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Downtime Alerting #2
by oliver_grube＠campbellsoup.com 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

Hello Hobbits, my last post was perhaps simply overseen, because I can't believe, that nobody knows something about my question. Or did I miss a chapter in the Manual? By using the "info" Column you can easily disable a System for a planned downtime. However, I would like to inform a group a people about this automatically by sending an eMail directly, when the Downtime is scheduled. Is there a way to do so? And is there a general way, to change the Look & Text of an Alert eMail? mit freundlichen Grüßen - Best regards Met vriendelijke groeten - Sincères salutations, Oliver Grube EU Security&Controls Manager Campbell's Germany Geninerstr. 88-100 23560 Luebeck Tel.: +49 451/ 5306-226 Fax: +49 451/ 5306-356 ********************************************************************** This e-mail and any files transmitted with it may contain confidential information and is intended solely for use by the individual to whom it is addressed. If you received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender, do not disclose its contents to others and delete it from your system. **********************************************************************

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Patch installation
by holly.lund＠hq.doe.gov 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

I am looking for the patch for split-NCV Where do I download the patch and how do I install it? Holly Lund 301-903-1174 202-586-4431

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Patches and new version?
by rgordonjr＠gmail.com 25 Apr '07

25 Apr '07

Hello - I noticed that the last all-in-one patch was from 2/9 .. Are all the patches noted on the patch page part of that patch or are there other patches that would need to be applied? Any idea when the next version will be out? Thanks! -- --==[ Bob Gordon ]==--

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Cisco devices with many interfaces
by Seymour.Brown＠WJMC.ORG 25 Apr '07

25 Apr '07

Hi, again. We have a Cisco 6513 with 6 blades with 48 ports each in our datacenter. The Hobbit trend page is excruciatingly long as a result. Is there any way to break a device into sub-devices to make this more manageable? Thanks again, =Seymour= Seymour J. Brown Network Analyst West Jefferson Medical Center 1101 Medical Center Blvd. Marrero, LA 70072 504-349-2396 This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard-copy version. West Jefferson Medical Center, 1101 Medical Center Blvd., Marrero, USA, www.wjmc.org.

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AIX clientupdate problem
by brislin＠bc.edu 24 Apr '07

24 Apr '07

I keep getting these error messages from clientupdate failing on AIX 5.2 tar: tape read error: unexpected EOF 2007-04-23 14:01:09 Upgrade failed, tar exited with status 256 tar: tape read error: unexpected EOF 2007-04-23 14:06:10 Upgrade failed, tar exited with status 256 tar: tape read error: unexpected EOF 2007-04-23 14:11:12 Upgrade failed, tar exited with status 256 I can't really tell what clientupdate is doing and I haven't been successful tracking down the problem. Has anyone seen this? I do have clientupdate working on a couple of pilot Linux systems and it looks great over there. Jay

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