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Alerting on matching group tags in bb-hosts
by dortsen＠gmail.com 04 May '07

04 May '07

Hi All, I'm busy setting up alerting (first timer). We have several departments doing specialized work. One dept. Handles the network, the other linux servers, again another for windows servers and finally one that handles all the webservers. The departments are also spread over two locations. I've created a few pages (no subpages) in bb-hosts which contain group items as well. For instance: ************************************** page windows Windows group Domain controllers 1.2.3.4 dcroot # COMMENT:"main DC" 1.2.3.5 dclocation1 # COMMENT:"DC for location1" 1.2.3.6 dclocation2 # COMMENT:"DC for location2" group Windows servers in location1 1.2.4.1 server1-location1 1.2.4.2 server2-location1 group Windows servers in location2 1.2.4.3 server3-location2 1.2.4.4 server4-location2 ************************************** All servers have a hobbit-compatible client (Bbwin) installed. >From what I have read in the documentation, it is not possible to send alert emails to a defined mail group in hobbit-alerts.cfg based on the group tag in bb-hosts. It is possible for (sub)page tags and hosts matching a regexp. But what if I want all problems to any host under group "Windows servers in location2" to be directed to a list of email addresses for that specific location? How can I accomplish this? Thnx in advance Regards, Dennis

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[hobbit] JMX Monitoring with Hobbit
by craig＠cookitservices.com 04 May '07

04 May '07

Rather than a command line tool you could write a java app to display your results. ie. go to a web page that runs a java program that tests the key parts of your app and it displays results. Hobbit reads the web page of results and then alarms/graphs/etc. Craig Cook -- Systems Monitoring Consulting and Support Services http://www.cookitservices.com

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JMX Monitoring with Hobbit
by ben_blazke＠yahoo.com 04 May '07

04 May '07

Hi, We have a J2EE application deployed on a Tomcat server that is exposing some of its internal statistics as custom MBeans. We need a command line tool that will query the MBeans and write the results on the standard output so that we can integrate it with Hobbit and hopefully see some pretty charts. Has anybody done that before? I could not find anything relevant on deadcat or Shire. Any kind of feedback would be greatly appreciated! Thanks! Ben __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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[hobbit] UDP Ports
by hobbit＠razorsedge.org 03 May '07

03 May '07

Morsiani, Massimo wrote: > Hi, > > take a look at http://www.trantor.org/theshire/doku.php/monitors:dhcp. > It's a custom script based on dhcping. > Also see Hobbit Monitor Client DHCP Server Test here: http://www.razorsedge.org/~mike/software/#hobbit Allows the Hobbit client to test DHCP servers. Useful when the Hobbit server is not on the correct network and DHCP_RELAYs cannot be installed. -- -m ... so long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrranize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men. -- Voltarine de Cleyre

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UDP Ports
by tony.barrett＠roke.co.uk 03 May '07

03 May '07

Is there any way I can monitor UDP ports within bb-services? Hobbit seems to assume all ports are TCP, and I'd like to run a port test against our DHCP servers here to make sure they're responding ok. Thanks -- Roke Manor Research Ltd, Romsey, Hampshire, SO51 0ZN, United Kingdom A Siemens company Registered in England & Wales at: Siemens House, Oldbury, Bracknell Berks RG12 8FZ. Number 267550 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Visit our website at www.roke.co.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The information contained in this e-mail and any attachments is proprietary to Roke Manor Research Ltd and must not be passed to any third party without permission. This communication is for information only and shall not create or change any contractual relationship. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Please consider the environment before printing this email

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[hobbit] Extra formatting
by tony.barrett＠roke.co.uk 03 May '07

03 May '07

s_aiello at comcast.net wrote: > using, "title cool servers", in etc/bb-hosts will do the title "Cool > servers" w/ a HR under it. You can also break up servers into groups > using, "group Linux Servers", (multiple types of group commands). > Check out > the bb-hosts man page for more details. > > On Thursday 03 May 2007 09:16, Barrett, Tony wrote: >> Hi >> >> I've a new Hobbit user, currently playing with the latest (patched) >> 4.2.0. >> >> I was wondering, is there any way to add extra HTML formatting to >> control the output format (maybe in bb-hosts for example). I'm only >> really thinking about simple horizontal lines or line breaks to break >> up the display into easier to view sections. Is there any way to >> encapsulate these tags to Hobbit will recognize and process them? >> >> Thanks for a great product > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk Thanks, I've now worked out how the 'title' tag works at different points in the bb-hosts file, and got the results I needed. -- Roke Manor Research Ltd, Romsey, Hampshire, SO51 0ZN, United Kingdom A Siemens company Registered in England & Wales at: Siemens House, Oldbury, Bracknell Berks RG12 8FZ. Number 267550 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Visit our website at www.roke.co.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The information contained in this e-mail and any attachments is proprietary to Roke Manor Research Ltd and must not be passed to any third party without permission. This communication is for information only and shall not create or change any contractual relationship. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Please consider the environment before printing this email

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What are the advantages of Hobbit over Big Sister
by JCianflo＠unicel.com 03 May '07

03 May '07

The company I work for wants to centralize network monitoring without spending much. What are the advantages of Hobbit over Big Sister? JJC

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[hobbit] What are the advantages of Hobbit over Big Sister
by bewhite＠fellowes.com 03 May '07

03 May '07

The biggest is that active development and bug fixing are occurring for hobbit. Big sister has pretty much died from that point of view. -----Original Message----- From: Joe Cianflone [mailto:JCianflo at unicel.com] Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 9:07 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] What are the advantages of Hobbit over Big Sister The company I work for wants to centralize network monitoring without spending much. What are the advantages of Hobbit over Big Sister? JJC ---------------------------------------------------- Note: The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. Fellowes, Inc. ----------------------------------------------------

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Extra formatting
by tony.barrett＠roke.co.uk 03 May '07

03 May '07

Hi I've a new Hobbit user, currently playing with the latest (patched) 4.2.0. I was wondering, is there any way to add extra HTML formatting to control the output format (maybe in bb-hosts for example). I'm only really thinking about simple horizontal lines or line breaks to break up the display into easier to view sections. Is there any way to encapsulate these tags to Hobbit will recognize and process them? Thanks for a great product -- Roke Manor Research Ltd, Romsey, Hampshire, SO51 0ZN, United Kingdom A Siemens company Registered in England & Wales at: Siemens House, Oldbury, Bracknell Berks RG12 8FZ. Number 267550 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Visit our website at www.roke.co.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The information contained in this e-mail and any attachments is proprietary to Roke Manor Research Ltd and must not be passed to any third party without permission. This communication is for information only and shall not create or change any contractual relationship. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Please consider the environment before printing this email

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FW: [hobbit] FW: Two issues - new user
by brian.omahony＠curamsoftware.com 03 May '07

03 May '07

-----Original Message----- From: Brian O'Mahony Sent: 03 May 2007 13:13 To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] FW: Two issues - new user Just caught one: (as you can see the freemem section is empty) Thu May 3 13:14:34 BST 2007 - Memory CRITICAL Memory Used Total Percentage red Physical 4294965248M 4096M 4294967246% green Swap 87M 8704M 0% ---- client morticia,curamsoftware,com.aix aix [date] Thu May 3 13:14:34 BST 2007 [uname] AIX morticia 3 5 005CFACA4C00 [uptime] 01:14PM up 2 days, 1:23, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.05, 0.08 [who] qaconfig pts/1 May 2 09:54 (eschowe.curamsoftware.com) [df] Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Free %Used Mounted on /dev/hd4 1048576 302576 746000 29% / /dev/hd2 10485760 4227072 6258688 41% /usr /dev/hd9var 2097152 398628 1698524 20% /var /dev/hd3 3670016 543628 3126388 15% /tmp /dev/hd1 10485760 6087340 4398420 59% /home /proc - - - - /proc /dev/hd10opt 6029312 108368 5920944 2% /opt /dev/fslv00 10485760 7875996 2609764 76% /oracle9 /dev/fslv01 10485760 5945936 4539824 57% /oracle10 [realmem] realmem 4194304 Amount of usable physical memory in Kbytes False [freemem] [swap] Total Paging Space Percent Used 8704MB 1% [ifconfig] en0: flags=5e080863,c0<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,GROU PRT,64BIT,CHECKSUM_OFFLOAD,PSEG,CHAIN> inet 172.16.165.143 netmask 0xfffff000 broadcast 172.16.175.255 tcp_sendspace 65536 lo0: flags=e08084b<UP,BROADCAST,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,GROUPRT,64 BIT> inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 127.255.255.255 inet6 ::1/0 tcp_sendspace 131072 tcp_recvspace 131072 rfc1323 1 [route] (I had to snip the rest cos the mail server wouldn't allow it - if there is anything else you need to see let me know) -----Original Message----- From: Brian O'Mahony [mailto:brian.omahony at curamsoftware.com] Sent: 03 May 2007 10:21 To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] FW: Two issues - new user Im not sure what you are asking here : I click on the mem section, go to history, and then go down to "Last 50 entries" click on the red flashing icon, and it takes me to the event. However there is no client data link there. It happened again (duration 50 mins) so next time it happens I can just grab it when it occurs (there is a link to client data available when I click on the memory section of the server) B The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended addressee please contact the sender and dispose of this e-mail. Thank you.

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