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Program crashed
by hobbitdoubt＠gmail.com 24 Apr '07

24 Apr '07

Hello, Since I installed the patch all-in-one, in column bbgen appears the following message Program crashed Fatal signal caught! and are appearing core files in "/home/hobbit/server/tmp" that I can't read with gdb How could I uninstall the patch? Besides, I can't remove columns that I don't want to see more and neither shows the new ones I create, but the rest works perfectly. Any suggestion?

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group-only ignoring custom columns?
by haertig＠avaya.com 24 Apr '07

24 Apr '07

Hi - New Hobbit user here. Long-time Big Brother user however. The following directive should display four columns, I would think: group-only conn|custom1|custom2|info But what I get is only the conn and info columns. I have not sent in any data for the custom1 and custom2 columns yet. With Big Brother, I used to be able to add these columns in bb-hosts and have them display (as placeholders, basically) even without sending data. It this operation different under Hobbit? If not, any ideas why my custom columns are not displaying? I am in the habit of starting out with a mock-up layout to determine the look-and-feel of my display. Just by creating a bb-hosts file and populating it with columns that I will eventually write custom tests for. Then I come back and write the custom scripts to fill in those placeholder columns after getting my layout finalized. Thanks!

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Hobbitd constantly yellow
by Brian.Thompson＠detroitdiesel.com 23 Apr '07

23 Apr '07

Hello, I've recently been tasked with restoring functionality to a hobbit server that suffered a corrupted root directory. We had a ghost image of the server (running Ubuntu 6) but it lacked the ability to send alerts. I restored that functionality and now I'm getting a constant hobbitd as yellow, and I'm not even sure what that means. In the past 9 hours the "incoming messages" has grown from 113k to 120k, most of them are status messages. Where are these messages and what are they? I'm still completely oblivious in the realm of hobbit, I checked the man pages and couldn't make much sense of them in this respect. Thanks for any help in advance. Brian Thompson

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hobbitfetch still getting in infinite loop.
by dan.mcdonald＠austinenergy.com 23 Apr '07

23 Apr '07

I reported this a while back, but it has gotten annoying again. I use hobbitfetch to poll four hosts in a DMZ. A couple of times a day it will consume 100% of a CPU core, and the hosts turn purple. After I kill the hobbitfetch process then the hobbitfetch status turns red, but hosts go back to representing real status. Any suggestions? -- Daniel J McDonald, CCIE # 2495, CISSP # 78281, CNX Austin Energy http://www.austinenergy.com

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Frank Jakobsen is out of the office.
by fjakobsen＠csc.com 23 Apr '07

23 Apr '07

I will be out of the office starting 23.04.2007 and will not return until 25.04.2007.

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hobbitdboard arguments
by bb4＠richter-it.net 23 Apr '07

23 Apr '07

Hi fellows, I've a question about the bb option hobbitdboard. I am just converting a few scripts I've written for BB and I want of course incorporate the functionality that Hobbit has instead of digging through the log files. What I'm trying to do is to get a list on which servers a certain test is running. I do this by firing : ./bb 127.0.0.1 "hobbitdboard test=TEST"|awk -F\| '{print $1}' and get a list of all machines running TEST. But not only thes machines but also the ones that are running test or myTEST or TestNEW which I don't want to be displayed. So it seems that Hobbit is doing its search case insensitive. Is there a switch for this and for search only tests that match the whole word instead of a substring? Or do I have to replace the above statement with: ./bb 127.0.0.1 "hobbitdboard test=TEST"|grep -w "TEST|awk -F\| '{print $1}' Regards Torsten

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error detail and solution log
by frank.gruellich＠mapsolute.com 23 Apr '07

23 Apr '07

Hi, we are using hobbit to monitor a couple of servers. We get serveral alarms per day (which is basically okay), but we have to create text based extensive reports about all (well, most) errors. These reports should contain: the system where the error occured, when it started and ended and, finally, a more descriptive text about the problem and how it was resolved. "Event log Report" fulfils first three demands, but it's a HTML page and I would prefer text/plain or something scructured like XML. What I really miss is the possibility to add custom notes about details of each event, how I solved it and to add it to report. Is this possible with hobbit? If not is there some kind of extension or plugin? Where can I get this? Thanks in advance and kind regards, -- Mapsolute GmbH Frank Gruellich Map24 Systems and Networks Duesseldorfer Strasse 40a 65760 Eschborn Germany Phone: +49 6196 77756-414 Fax: +49 6196 77756-100 USt-ID-No.: DE 197947163 Managing Directors: Thomas Golob, Alexander Wiegand http://www.mapsolute.com

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Downtime Alerting
by oliver_grube＠campbellsoup.com 23 Apr '07

23 Apr '07

Hello Hobbits, since several years now, I've played with BigBrother. Added my own enhancements and use it to monitor over 200 Devices in our company. A while ago, I've found hobbit as a very good alternative, specially, because BB was running on a VMWare ESX and needs to much resources. I now have an interesting question for you guys: 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 ********************************************************************** 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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Log monitoring
by Galen.Johnson＠sas.com 22 Apr '07

22 Apr '07

Hey, I'm having a minor issue with the logging functionality of hobbit. I have a log file that is rolled daily and, as such, has a date embedded. I've tried adding the entry like: log:/path/to/file_`date +%Y.%m.%d`.log:10240 I got the impression from the docs and Henrik's site that this should be possible. What am I missing? =G=

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Information on hostsvc pages
by Kosh_Vorlon＠sbcglobal.net 21 Apr '07

21 Apr '07

Hello everyone. I'm a new user to Hobbit, but I have been using BB Pro for years. I'm ready to make the move after seeing their latest updates vs. what I can get out of Hobbit. I'm sure I will have a few questions, but I thought I would start off with this one. It is probably simple, but I could not find anything searching the mail archives on online in general. Could just be a syntax issue. Off the main page when you click on gifs it takes you to the hostsvc information page. Mostly what I see is great, but on the procs and ports page I was wondering if there was an option to not display ( or limit ) all the detailed process information. The reason I ask is due to many of the servers in my cluster have 500 - 1000 concurrent connections and have 5000 - 10000 processes running on them. While it might not add any extra workload to display the information on the page it does add a lot of grief when I'm tring to view the graph which is way, way, way down on the page. I guess another alternative would be the ability to move the graph from the bottom of the page to the top, like you can the history button. Any help is much appreciated

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