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PROC test question
by marco.pizzoli＠gmail.com 21 Aug '09

21 Aug '09

Hi all, I am a hobbit newby. I have a question about the PROC test: is there a way to define a test about the presence of a particular proc executed by a particular user? I'm in a situation where I have some daemons that could be started by a lot of (machine)users and so I would like to check the user the proc run as. Thanks in advance Marco

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perl script
by gjohnson＠trantor.org 13 May '09

13 May '09

I've added the perl script example that Henrik provided late January to the tutorials page on The Shire. http://www.trantor.org/theshire/doku.php/tutorials:ssmodule Hopefully, Henrik won't mind. (I may be "borrowing" some of Henrik's content for the other tutorials yet to be written...of course, if someone would like to volunteer the tutorials I'd be happy to consider them for addition). If you have other ideas about tutorials or FAQs, please let me know. I'm trying to make more time for the site (interestingly, I showed a manager from one of our other groups Hobbit in passing one day...he just happened to have been looking for an easy to setup/configure monitoring solution...he's been singing the praises of Hobbit since) =G=

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cupsd
by stoner-lists＠comcast.net 04 Jun '08

04 Jun '08

For those who want to monitor a cups print server, here's a definition you can put in your bb-services file: [cupsd] send "GET /printers\r\n" expect "HTTP/1.1 200 OK" port 631 Alternatively, you could just use http://host:631/printers in your bb-hosts file. The cupsd is, for monitoring purposes, a web server. -Jeff "Fun with Users #1: ln -s /dev/random /etc/motd"

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zonestat : where are graphs ?
by ndorfsman＠gmail.com 02 Apr '08

02 Apr '08

Hi, I've read the question on the list...but can't find the answer. zonestat seems to work on client....but there's nothing on server ? I've followed the doc for installation...is there something to add in bbhosts ?

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ntpdate question
by Dirk.Kastens＠uni-osnabrueck.de 09 Mar '08

09 Mar '08

Hi, before updating our hobbit server to version 4.2.0, I tested the ntp configuration with the bb-ntp-1_4.sh script on the client nodes. When I now configure the server to use the ntp network test instead, I realize that this doesn't work with most of our RedHat clients. I get the response ntpdate -u -q -p 2 a.b.c.d server a.b.c.d, stratum 0, offset 0.000000, delay 0.00000 29 Aug 10:53:26 ntpdate[3509]: no server suitable for synchronization found The network test works with all AIX clients and with older RedHat clients. The manual page of ntpdate on a RedHat machine says, that "the ntpdate program is to be retired from this distribution". Is there another way of testing the ntp synchronisation from the server side or do I still have to use the bb-ntp.sh script? Best wishes, Dirk Kastens

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Client for NetApp storage and Weblogic Server
by fduranti＠q8.it 28 Sep '07

28 Sep '07

Hi all, I'm currently developing 3 perl client to use with Network appliance Storage, Weblogic Servers and Database (SQL/Oracle/Informix and Mysql). At this moment only the weblogic and netapp scripts are available, the database check for Oracle/Informix and with connection check to sqlserver will be probably available the next week. I uploaded the scripts to deadcat but i got some problems downloading them so I've also created a project on sourceforge and I'm uploading the scripts there (and I will also try to create a mailing list so that if users have the need to contact me they can do that there). The homepage on sourceforge is http://sourceforge.net/projects/hobbit-perl-cl/ <BLOCKED::http://sourceforge.net/projects/hobbit-perl-cl/> Thanks and sorry for the advertise but this seems the better place to let users know about hobbit clients available :D Regards Francesco Duranti

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Hobbit, BBwin-0.9 and the ports column...
by rgordonjr＠gmail.com 19 Sep '07

19 Sep '07

Hello all - In looking at the client data generated by BBWin-0.9 I see that the port usage information is sent to the Hobbit server. Is there anyway to get this data displayed in the current ports column (populated by the hobbit client)? As its coming over the client channels I can create a custom server script to push the data into a new column but I'd kinda like to not have to do that... BBWin generated ports info.. --------------------------------------------- [ports] Active Connections Proto Local Address Foreign Address State TCP 0.0.0.0:7 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING TCP 0.0.0.0:9 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING TCP 0.0.0.0:13 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING TCP 0.0.0.0:17 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING TCP 0.0.0.0:19 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING TCP 0.0.0.0:111 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING TCP 0.0.0.0:135 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING TCP 0.0.0.0:382 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING Hobbit Client (Unix) generated port info ------------------------------------------------------------ [ports] Local Address Remote Address Swind Send-Q Rwind Recv-Q State -------------------- -------------------- ----- ------ ----- ------ ------- *.* *.* 0 0 49152 0 IDLE *.22 *.* 0 0 49152 0 LISTEN *.22 *.* 0 0 49152 0 LISTEN 10.9.12.102.17374 10.9.12.102.1352 49152 0 49152 0 ESTABLISHED 10.9.12.102.1352 10.9.12.102.17374 49152 0 49152 0 ESTABLISHED *.* *.* 0 0 49152 0 IDLE *.1352 *.* 0 0 49152 0 LISTEN *.27401 *.* 0 0 49152 0 LISTEN *.8635 *.* 0 0 49152 0 BOUND *.8640 *.* 0 0 49152 0 BOUND Thanks for the help here! -- --==[ Bob Gordon ]==--

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Multiple yellow to red
by Galen.Johnson＠sas.com 07 Sep '07

07 Sep '07

Hey, I'll admit I haven't put a lot of legwork into this but...is it possible to configure hobbit to go red on a test after a certain number of cycles at yellow? I have some tests that I don't mind if they are yellow for small period but if they are there too long I need to know. I could probably handle this with a script but it'd be nice if hobbit could handle it out of the box...maybe extend COLOR or DURATION... HOST=* COLOR=3*yellow blah blah blah MAIL admin at foo.com That would alert after it was yellow for 3 cycles...or would a DURATION alert work...hurmmmmmm... =G=

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[patch] split-ncv and maximum value tracking
by cgoyard＠cvf.fr 21 Jul '07

21 Jul '07

Hi all, here is a patch that provides two new features to the NCV graph backend. It answers to a request I did on August 2nd (subject: "Dynamic or Split NCV"). - split-ncv : Lets you store an ever-changing set of data on a status column basis. Say, you want to keep track of who is accessing a database. It works by creating a rrd file per ncv line instead of packing a lot of DS in a single rrd file. I use it to keep track of tomcat session number per context, harddrive temperature, database connexions, and a whole bunch of other things, such a the repartition of loaded classes on a jvm (useful to find memory leaks). - trackmax : it lets you keep track of the maximum value of a dataset, along with the average. It's useful when the maximum is somehow as significant than the average over time. (say, to track a hard-limited ressource, such as telephone lines). I use it to keep track of the maximum number of busy X25 lines on a specific application. It only works for NCV at the time, but I may add it to other tests. The patch includes the documentation for all this. It applies on today's snapshot and on october' all-in-one. It does not work with the plain release because of a nasty bug in do_ncv.c. Well, here's the patch. Consider it beta, but yet it works on my production server. I strongly hope it will be included in the mainstream hobbit (I don't like maintaining local patches :)). Regards, -- Charles Goyard - cgoyard at cvf.fr - (+33) 1 45 38 01 31

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msgs file with html code
by vadud3＠gmail.com 05 Jul '07

05 Jul '07

Hi When I receive alerts related to messages file it comes with html code in my mail box like this. &red Critical entries in <a href="/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?CLIENT=hobbit.client.com&SECTION=msgs:/var/adm/mess +ages">/var/adm/messages</a> &red Aug 17 15:39:55 hobbit.client.com WARNING: [ID 702911 user.error] this is a test message Full log <a href="/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?CLIENT=hobbit.client.com&SECTION=msgs:/var/adm/messages">/var/adm/m +essages</a> Aug 17 15:39:55 hobbit.client.com WARNING: [ID 702911 user.error] this is a test message I am using hobbit client 4.2.0 and hobbit server 4.2.0. I sure did not play with any html code to make the output like this. Also I saw an email about keeping the full log link in the web gui for easy troubleshooting. But is that also apply to email. In otherwords can I just receive alert related lines and not the full log underneath. OR do I need to define SMS in hobbit-alerts.cfg page to achieve that? Thanks -- Asif Iqbal PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu

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