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[hobbit] Alternate to msgcache/hobbitfetch?
by craig＠cookitservices.com 05 Jun '07

05 Jun '07

>I guess what I'm looking for is a hobbitfetch variant that uses ssh/scp >rather than connecting to a msgcache listener. And along with that, a >way to configure the client to collect data normally, but skip starting >a listening service. A slightly different way would be if hobbit client did "sending validation"... Client sends it's data as usual to the server but if the connection fails it stores information locally until it can. Could be used if your WAN link goes down. Or in your case, intentionally use it like hobbitfetch without using msgcache (and make hobbitfetch use ssh to get the logs). Craig Cook -- Systems Monitoring Consulting and Support Services http://www.cookitservices.com

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HobbitFetch won't stop dying
by jonescr＠cisco.com 05 Jun '07

05 Jun '07

- Program crashed Fatal signal caught! ---- I keep getting this in my hobbitfetch column. I have added the -debug option to the hobbitfetch section of hobbitlaunch.cfg, and I don't see any errors or indications that it died. I have seen some other people on the list indicating they are having Hobbitfetch issues as well. I would be glad to help debug by sharing logs or core dumps if it would help. -Charles

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CLOCK checks not working
by dbourque＠weatherdata.com 05 Jun '07

05 Jun '07

Hi, I'm running 4.1.2 clients and a 4.2.0 server, all linux. I'm trying to monitor the system time on the client systems. I've added "CLOCK 300" in the DEFAULT section of the hobbit-clients.cfg file. Unfortunately, no matter how big the time difference between the client and server is ( hours, day, etc ), the cpu status never goes yellow or red. Am I missing something here ? Thanks -- Daniel Bourque Systems/Network Administrator Weather Data Inc Office (316) 266-8013 Office (316) 265-9127 ext. 3013 Mobile (316) 640-1024

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tomcat monitoring
by sabeer.mz＠gmail.com 05 Jun '07

05 Jun '07

Dear all, I downloaded "bb-tomcat.sh" from www.deadcat.net and its working fine on the server. I would like to monitor my clients also. this is NOT happening ... Added on hobbitlaunch.cfg [tomcat] ENVFILE /home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg NEEDS hobbitd CMD hobbitd_channel --channel=client --log=$BBSERVERLOGS/tomcat.log $BBHOME/ext/bb-tomcat.sh Added entry on the bb-hosts too. what could be the issue ? -- Thanks Sabeer MZ

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lm_sensors
by tlabelsd＠telkom.co.za 05 Jun '07

05 Jun '07

Hi All, I know this is off topic but I just thought perhaps one of you can help me, I would like to setup temperature monitoring and it seems as if I must configure lm_sensors to work, I have instatlled it and now when running sensors -s it says no sensors found any ideas, is there anything I forgot to do. Thanks in advance -- Sello Tlabela <tlabelsd at telkom.co.za> Telkom SA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This e-mail and its contents are subject to the Telkom SA Limited e-mail legal notice available at http://www.telkom.co.za/TelkomEMailLegalNotice.PDF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Hobbit proxy
by fensterb＠ccri.net 04 Jun '07

04 Jun '07

I need to monitor the compute nodes of a cluster from my newly installed hobbit server. All of the compute nodes live on their own private network and the head node is the only node with an interface available to my hobbit server. I remember when I was first looking at hobbit, reading that you could setup a ³hobbit proxy² that could forward the the info from a private network back to your hobbit server. I cant find this info anywhere in the docs so if someone could point me in the correct direction I would appreciate it. -- Ben Fenstermaker MCSE, MCSA, ACTC, Security+ UNIX/Macintosh Systems Administrator Research Information Services Phone: 614.355.2730 Email: Fensterb at ccri.net

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bb-hosts:group, hobbit-alerts:GROUP, bb-hosts:CLASS questions
by jonescr＠cisco.com 04 Jun '07

04 Jun '07

I've been using HTML in the group titles in my bb-hosts, to spruce up the look of the hobbit page. Example: group-except files Internal Servers Now I've come to a situation where I may want to create a paging alias that is tied to a particular group. My first question is, will I have to use the same HTML-ized name in hobbit-alerts.cfg as I did in bb-hosts? In other words: GROUP=Internal Servers MAIL someone at somwhwhere.com My second question is, why is there no option to define alerts by CLASS (bb-hosts has a CLASS:Classname option)? This would allow more granular alert definitions as you could have a class of clients that are in multiple groups that you would want to have a specific alert for. Thanks, -Charles

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Hobbit mailinglist/server has ISP problems
by henrik＠hswn.dk 04 Jun '07

04 Jun '07

A switch to a different Internet provider is not working quite the way it should. This means that access to the Hobbit demo-site as well as the mailing list is currently somewhat unstable, and definitely slower than usual. It might be a day or two before this gets worked out. You can find an updated status on http://www.hobbitmon.com/hobbit/ Regards, Henrik

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Bogus hobbitfetch reds and purples
by hobbit＠epperson.homelinux.net 04 Jun '07

04 Jun '07

I have hobbitfetch working nicely for data fetching, but it continually goes red, then purple, with a detail of "-Program crashed" and "Fatal signal caught!". When this happens, it's still fetching the client data without a hitch as far as I can see. When I came in this morning, I had the purple, with "Status unchanged in 0 hours 22 minutes", since I started writing this, it's gone to red with "Status unchanged in 0 hours 3 minutes", all the while happily updating the client data. hobbitfetch.log has 0 length and was last touched about four hours ago. hobbitlaunch.log says "hobbitlaunch.log:2007-06-04 08:34:22 Task hobbitfetch terminated by signal 6". The client data display available through the hobbitfetch status page is stamped 8:32:35 and clearly shows the hobbitfetch process running. Clues?

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Howto get Hobbit to send email
by klj＠Beredskabsstyrelsen.dk 04 Jun '07

04 Jun '07

Hey, I have being using Hobbit for a while. But now I want it to be able to send email notifications, but I can't get it to work. I have installet postfix on my server (Ubuntu) and set it up to relay to our main mailserver. I kan send mail from it with mutt. I have tryed to set at alert up in hobbit-alerts.cfg. And I can see that it is "sending a email.." in the /var/log/hobbit/notifications.log. But I can also se in /var/log/syslog that it is not sending anything to my main email server. As it do if I send with Mutt. Please help me... Best regards, Kim Johansen Beredskabsstyrelsen

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