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Monitoring of MS Exchange
by Johann.Eggers＠teleatlas.com 19 Apr '07

19 Apr '07

Hello Hobbits and friends, is there anybody out there who is monitoring MS Exchange servers with Hobbit? Unfortunately I have no skills in VB-scripting, nor knowledge of MS-Exchange in what is worth to monitor and how to do it. Any help/hint is very much appreciated! Regards Johann

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BBWin Centralization mode and laptops
by Hilton＠quarkit.com.au 19 Apr '07

19 Apr '07

Hi All, Here's a thought for the Centralization server and laptops... If a laptop is on a LAN (directly or via VPN) then it will successfully report to the BBWin client running in Centralization mode, however if it is remote (home, on the road, whatever) then it will be unable to see the Centralization server, so it will not have its status reported to Hobbit. This is an issue. Sure, this *could* be addresses by the laptop sending data to both the Centralization server and the Hobbit server, but this negates the benefits of the Centralization server - lowering Internet bandwidth. What would be better is to be able to configure the BBWin client on the laptop to be able to connect directly to the Hobbit server ONLY if the connection to the Centralization server fails. Thoughts? -- Regards, Hilton Travis Phone: +61 (0)7 3344 3889 (Brisbane, Australia) Phone: +61 (0)419 792 394 Manager, Quark IT http://www.quarkit.com.au Quark AudioVisual http://www.quarkav.net War doesn't determine who is right. War determines who is left. This document and any attachments are for the intended recipient only. It may contain confidential, privileged or copyright material which must not be disclosed or distributed. Quark Group Pty. Ltd. T/A Quark Automation, Quark AudioVisual, Quark IT

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BBWIN
by tlp-hobbit＠holme-pedersen.dk 19 Apr '07

19 Apr '07

Hi all, How can I use BBWIN to monitor a application logfile which is not the EVENT log ? I found the bb-logchecker.pl script on deadcat but the windows machine does not have perl installed. BR Thomas

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Depends tag for files
by Mike.Rowell＠Rightmove.co.uk 18 Apr '07

18 Apr '07

Hobbities.... I'm trying to setup a depend tag for files so that the files check would depend on another server being up, this is useful to us as we need in the first instance to make sure a directory exists on a set of servers, but don't want it in the second instance to alert if the server is down, rather go white as it's a depend. Any ideas. Regards, Mike Rowell ________________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs service. ________________________________________________________________________

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PCRE expression question
by Galen.Johnson＠sas.com 18 Apr '07

18 Apr '07

Hey, I know I'm just missing something simple and it's probably something I've overlooked but I'm having an issue with a regex in one of my port tests... This works: PORT "LOCAL=%[\.:](8611|8621|8631)$" state=LISTEN But this doesn't... PORT "LOCAL=%[\.:]86?1$" state=LISTEN I'm hoping fresh eyes will see what stupid thing I've missed... =G=

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Hobbit client cosmetic bug
by peter.welter＠gmail.com 18 Apr '07

18 Apr '07

Hello Henrik, In Hobbit 4.2 there is a comestic bug in ~hobbit/client/bin/hobbitclient- linux.sh. This script parses on what Linux-release Hobbit is running. echo "[osversion]" ...[snip]... elif [ -f /etc/SuSE-release ]; then grep ^SuSE /etc/SuSE-release ...[snip]... This produces the right output on Suse 9.1: SuSE Linux 9.1 (i586) VERSION = 9.1 But on SLES9, the file contains SUSE in uppercase. # cat /etc/SuSE-release SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 (i586) VERSION = 9 PATCHLEVEL = 3 Of course this can easily be solved with a grep -i. Regards, Peter

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new hb Developer FAQ Questions entries
by tj_yang＠hotmail.com 17 Apr '07

17 Apr '07

Following Questions are just a few then preparing hobbit server for Solaris 10. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Hobbit/Other_Docs/FAQ#D… T.J. Yang _________________________________________________________________ Need a break? Find your escape route with Live Search Maps. http://maps.live.com/?icid=hmtag3

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hobbitdxboard - Should xboard honor the fields= definition ?
by s_aiello＠comcast.net 17 Apr '07

17 Apr '07

All, I am playing with hobbitdboard & hobbitdxboard. Should the hobbitdxboard honor the fields= definition like hobbitdboard does ? In my testing I have found that it does not. Most desireable would be to choose to have the full log msg listed. thank you, ~Steve

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Graph FAQ on hobbit wikibook site
by tj_yang＠hotmail.com 17 Apr '07

17 Apr '07

I started Graph FAQ section to document some weird trending graph. I could not figure out why http response time diverse some much(See R1). Please submit yours if you have some interesting graph to share with. R1: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Hobbit/Other_Docs/FAQ#Q… T.J. Yang _________________________________________________________________ The average US Credit Score is 675. The cost to see yours: $0 by Experian. http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=660600&bcd=EMAILFOOTERAV…

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order of BB2 columns
by asparks＠doublesparks.net 16 Apr '07

16 Apr '07

Is it possible to assign a preferred order to the BB2's grid of non-green columns? Specifically, I have a column I'd really like to always be at the left-hand side of the grid, next to the host name. Thanks in advance. -Alan -- Alan Sparks, UNIX/Linux Systems Integration and Administration <asparks at doublesparks.net>

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