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Confirmation of using hb as bb client procedure
by tj_yang＠hotmail.com 16 Apr '07

16 Apr '07

Can someone verify the following procedure works ? http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Hobbit/Other_Docs/HOWTO… I can see this procedure is good for bb2hb project. we can replace bb client(without much local customization) with hb client anytime we want. T.J. Yang _________________________________________________________________ Need a break? Find your escape route with Live Search Maps. http://maps.live.com/?icid=hmtag3

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DOWNTIME for disk
by vadud3＠gmail.com 15 Apr '07

15 Apr '07

Is it possible to define DOWNTIME just for a service like `disk' instead of the all services of a host For example: 1.2.3.4 oracle.domain.com # DOWNTIME=6:1800:2030 does not mention any service name. Is its still same w/ hobbit 4.2? Would be nice if I could add the service name like this 1.2.3.4 oracle.domain.com # DOWNTIME=disk:6:1800:2030 This host's disk space goes way above threshold for about 2 hrs on Saturdays as a normal behavior I could use the TIME parameter on hobbit-alerts.cfg to define the time outside that timeframe to be alerted only, but that won't stop it being `red' on the web. -- Asif Iqbal PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu

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Feature Request (was Re: [hobbit] DOWNTIME for disk)
by vadud3＠gmail.com 15 Apr '07

15 Apr '07

Well it is almost same as putting the TIME parameter in hobbit-alerts.cfg in the sense that, I cannot say why the service should be ignored. In DOWNTIME=6:1730:2030:"Backup running" I cannot use that "cause" string with TIME either. Plus it could be much simpler to define 2 hrs routine outage with DOWNTIME for a specific service than the other 22 hrs when it should be running using TIME parameters, specially when the outage does not happend at the begin or end of the timerange, but in the middle. Hence requesting a feature DOWNTIME=day:starttime:endtime:TESTname:"cause" On 4/15/07, Rich Smrcina <rsmrcina at wi.rr.com> wrote: > > How about the TIME parameter for that host in hobbit-clients.cfg (before > the 'regular' one for that host)? > > Asif Iqbal wrote: > > Is it possible to define DOWNTIME just for a service like `disk' instead > > of the all services of a host > > > > For example: > > > > 1.2.3.4 <http://1.2.3.4> oracle.domain.com > > <http://oracle.domain.com> # DOWNTIME=6:1800:2030 > > > > does not mention any service name. > > > > Is its still same w/ hobbit 4.2? > > > > Would be nice if I could add the service name like this > > > > 1.2.3.4 <http://1.2.3.4> oracle.domain.com > > <http://oracle.domain.com> # DOWNTIME=disk:6:1800:2030 > > > > This host's disk space goes way above threshold for about 2 hrs on > Saturdays > > as a normal behavior > > > > I could use the TIME parameter on hobbit-alerts.cfg to define the time > > outside that timeframe > > to be alerted only, but that won't stop it being `red' on the web. > > > > -- > > Asif Iqbal > > PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu <http://pgp.mit.edu> > > > > > > -- > Rich Smrcina > VM Assist, Inc. > Phone: 414-491-6001 > Ans Service: 360-715-2467 > rich.smrcina at vmassist.com > > Catch the WAVV! http://www.wavv.org > WAVV 2007 - Green Bay, WI - May 18-22, 2007 > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > > > -- Asif Iqbal PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu

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Tutorial - Wiki
by don.munyak＠gmail.com 15 Apr '07

15 Apr '07

Hello All, In searching the list, I turned up very little in terms of tutorial's. I did see the wikibooks has something http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Hobbit/ Does anyone has a tutorials they'd like to share? Are there any other wiki's available to grow the KB? Don

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Variable lines in graphs
by hobbitdoubt＠gmail.com 13 Apr '07

13 Apr '07

Hello, I have a problem with rrdtool graphs. I have created an external script that reads fan speeds and I want to draw that information. However, not all of the servers have the same number of fans, so Lines in graph are variable and I don't know what I have to write in hobbitgraph.cfg. Could you help me? Thank you!

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data size errors on Solaris 10 T2000 hobbit v4.2.0
by adavis＠ruckus.com 13 Apr '07

13 Apr '07

I'm trying to diagnose an error when using the FILE MTIME feature. I've searched the mail archives and googled but haven't found much relevant. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Error from file service [file:/dbbackup/exp/RPRL1/exp.RPRL1.20070228.dmp] ERROR: Value too large for defined data type The specific error is being generated from the FILE test from hobbit-client.cfg HOST=db05 FILE %^/dbbackup/exp/RPRL1/*.dmp YELLOW "MTIME>86400" client-local.cfg entry is : [sunos] file:`/bin/ls -1 /dbbackup/exp/RPRL1/*.dmp 2>/dev/null` Indications from the mailing list are that this error, when generated by the SIZE checks has been fixed but I didn't find anything relating to MTIME. This system also fails the LFS check - even though as a 64bit system it shouldn't - possibly due to the lfs check not dealing with Solaris 10 64bit Sparc data types properly or (more likely) something I missed setting in the original build. The build/lfs.sh script : >sh -vx build/lfsacd.sh echo "Checking for Large File Support ..." + echo Checking for Large File Support ... Checking for Large File Support ... cd build + cd build OS=`uname -s` $MAKE -f Makefile.test-lfs clean + /usr/local/bin/make -f Makefile.test-lfs clean + uname -s OS=SunOS OS=`uname -s` $MAKE -f Makefile.test-lfs 2>/dev/null + /usr/local/bin/make -f Makefile.test-lfs if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then echo "ERROR: Compiler doesnt recognize the off_t C type." exit 1 fi + [ 0 -ne 0 ] STDRES="`./test-lfs-std 4`" + ./test-lfs-std 4 STDRES=4:1:32 if test "$STDRES" != "4:1:0" -a "$STDRES" != "8:1:0"; then echo "ERROR: LFS support check failed for standard file support" exit 1 fi + test 4:1:32 != 4:1:0 -a 4:1:32 != 8:1:0 + echo ERROR: LFS support check failed for standard file support ERROR: LFS support check failed for standard file support + exit 1 ---- Alan Davis Senior Architect Ruckus Network, Inc. 703.464.6578 (o) 410.365.7175 (m) adavis at ruckus.com alancdavis AIM

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Graphs without text ?
by mark.simon＠verizon.com 13 Apr '07

13 Apr '07

Hello Hobbits, I have been using BB for years but now I am converting to Hobbit (of course). I built a Hobbit server v4.2.0 on HP-UX 11.23 ia64 with HP Apache 2.0.54. It is working for the most part. When I click on a button that has a graph I see the graph data but no text. This is very odd. The axes are not labeled and the legend only has a dot. For example a graph for 4 filesystems has 4 dots where I would expect the filesystem names. I am using RRDTOOL 1.2.15. Mark Simon Verizon VIPS-GMSS 972-729-5674

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swap usage for Solaris (memory)
by Dominique.Frise＠unil.ch 13 Apr '07

13 Apr '07

Hi, The latest -stable- version 3.6 of top has changed the way of reporting the swap usage. It now reports the same output as "swap -l" does, which includes swap area on disk only. In previous versions, top, used the output of "swap -s", which includes swap space from all configured swap areas as listed by the -l option, as well swap space in the form of physical memory. William Lefevre, developer of top, about this problem: <quote> This behavior is intentional. The output was changed in 3.6. As stated in the man page: "free swap" is the amount of swap area on disk that is still available. The swap figures will differ from the summary output of swap(1M) since the latter includes physical memory as well. This change was made for a variety of reasons. One, this brings solaris top in line with the type of output given on other systems top supports. Two, the information is more in line with users expectations (except for those that got used to previous versions of top). Three, swap -s collects its information by using an undocumented system interface, and by changing the output of top it no longer relies on this undocumented interface. I will add some words to the documentation to make it clear that the output has changed from previous versions. </quote> For details see https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=536042&aid=1698978&group_… Until now and under Solaris, Hobbit "memory" column uses "swap -s" to display the swap usage. Don't you think it should use the "swap -l" instead? Dominique UNIL - University of Lausanne

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Issues with hobbitd loading
by don.munyak＠gmail.com 13 Apr '07

13 Apr '07

Running Hobbit-4.2 in Ezjail JAIL, OS FreeBSD-6.2 hobbitd does not seem to want to load. Been fighting this one all day :( Found this thread and applied HOST sysctl.conf http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/support/help/MailArchives/mcidas/msg02324.html %vi /etc/sysctl.conf kern.ipc.shmmax=536870912 Also from /var/log/hobbit/hobbitlauch.log (trimmed) 2007-04-09 19:56:46 Cannot access checkpoint file /home/hobbit/server/tmp/hobbitd.chk for restore 2007-04-09 19:56:46 Setting up network listener on 0.0.0.0:1984 2007-04-09 19:56:46 Could not get shm of size 262144: Function not implemented 2007-04-09 19:56:46 Cannot setup status channel 2007-04-09 19:56:46 Task hobbitd terminated, status 1 -------------------------------------- HOST system reports (192.168.222.90): -------------------------------------- %sysctl -a |grep shm kern.ipc.shmmax: 536870912 kern.ipc.shmmin: 1 kern.ipc.shmmni: 192 kern.ipc.shmseg: 128 kern.ipc.shmall: 8192 kern.ipc.shm_use_phys: 0 kern.ipc.shm_allow_removed: 0 shm 1 12K - 1 %sysctl -A|grep semm kern.ipc.semmap: 30 kern.ipc.semmni: 40 kern.ipc.semmns: 100 kern.ipc.semmnu: 30 kern.ipc.semmsl: 60 %netstat -na | grep tcp ; netstat -na |grep udp tcp4 0 0 192.168.222.91.22 192.168.222.61.4319 ESTABLISHED tcp4 0 0 192.168.222.91.22 192.168.222.61.4015 ESTABLISHED tcp4 0 52 192.168.222.90.22 192.168.222.61.4005 ESTABLISHED tcp4 0 0 127.0.0.1.25 *.* LISTEN tcp4 0 0 192.168.222.92.25 *.* LISTEN tcp4 0 0 192.168.222.91.25 *.* LISTEN tcp4 0 0 192.168.222.91.22 *.* LISTEN tcp4 0 0 192.168.222.91.3306 *.* LISTEN tcp4 0 0 192.168.222.91.80 *.* LISTEN tcp4 0 0 192.168.222.90.22 *.* LISTEN udp4 0 0 192.168.222.92.514 *.* -------------------------------------- JAILed Hobbit reports(192.168.222.91): -------------------------------------- $ ps -aux|more USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND hobbit 1272 0.0 1.3 6252 3300 ?? SJ 7:56PM 0:00.07 sshd: hobbit at ttyp1 (sshd) hobbit 1282 0.0 0.4 1372 1008 ?? SsJ 7:56PM 0:00.01 /home/hobbit/server/bin/hobbitlaunch --config=/home/hobbit/ser $ sysctl -A |grep shm kern.ipc.shmmax: 536870912 kern.ipc.shmmin: 1 kern.ipc.shmmni: 192 kern.ipc.shmseg: 128 kern.ipc.shmall: 8192 kern.ipc.shm_use_phys: 0 kern.ipc.shm_allow_removed: 0 kern.ipc.shmsegs: Format: Length:9984 Dump:0x00000000000000000002000000000000... shm 1 12K - 1 $ less /var/log/hobbit/hobbitlaunch.log 2007-04-09 19:56:46 Loading hostnames 2007-04-09 19:56:46 Loading saved state 2007-04-09 19:56:46 Cannot access checkpoint file /home/hobbit/server/tmp/hobbitd.chk for restore 2007-04-09 19:56:46 Setting up network listener on 0.0.0.0:1984 2007-04-09 19:56:46 Setting up signal handlers 2007-04-09 19:56:46 Setting up hobbitd channels 2007-04-09 19:56:46 Could not get shm of size 262144: Function not implemented 2007-04-09 19:56:46 Cannot setup status channel 2007-04-09 19:56:46 Task hobbitd terminated, status 1 -------------------------------------- Thanks Don

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ZFS Monitoring Script
by Mike.Rowell＠Rightmove.co.uk 12 Apr '07

12 Apr '07

Okay here it is, it's small but does the following. File system HEALTH. ONLINE = green DEGRADED = yellow FAULTED = red File system sizes are set to alert yellow at 80% capacity and red at 90%, the variables to alter this are at the top of the file. It doesn't check scrub status as yet as I'm not to sure what the scrub will report back, so once I've got some scrubbing underway I'll adjust the script to take into account scrubbing. This was something I threw together in 15minutes as we just realized that UFS would not suit the requirements of a project and therefore we had to move to ZFS. Enhancements I'm working on are to display all the storage devices in the pools and their health and also read / write and checksum errors, but they will have to wait for a bit. Mike Rowell Systems Team Leader * Email: Mike.Rowell at rightmove.co.uk <mailto:Mike.Rowell at rightmove.co.uk> * Tel: 020 7514 9837 * Fax: 0845 330 2311 www.rightmove.co.uk <http://www.rightmove.co.uk/> - the UK's number 1 property website This message (including any attachments) is confidential and may be legally privileged. The content and views expressed are those of the sender and not necessarily Rightmove plc. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not disclose, copy or use any part of it. Please delete all copies immediately and notify the sender. Rightmove plc is registered in England and Wales, No. 03997679. Registered Office: Rightmove plc, Grafton Court, Snowdon Drive, Milton Keynes, MK6 1AJ. ________________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs service. ________________________________________________________________________

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