June 2007 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

[hobbit] Serious hobbit problem, client data truncated by server
by david.gore＠verizonbusiness.com 06 Jun '07

06 Jun '07

I have a very serious hobbit problem. Our hobbit has been working very well for more than a year. I have rolled back some config files, bb-hosts, client-local.cfg, and hobbit-clients.cfg, on the hopes one of them may have a typo causing hobbit to act erratically. Unfortunately, no luck. So what is the problem? The client sends, msg.<host>.txt, as some of you may know, and you can see this file on the server or web page via the 'Client data' link. Unfortunately, the hobbit server is truncating the '[ps]' listing which means you lose all the other entries after '[ps]' and now you are also going to start alarming on missing processes. Alarming and paging out the on-call on missing processes in the middle of the night and creating bogus tickets is very bad. There isn't too much in the logs, but we do have something. Starting on June 02 we got this in bb-display.log: 2007-06-04 12:21:07 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - timeout 2007-06-04 12:21:07 hobbitd status-board not available 2007-06-04 14:21:47 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - timeout 2007-06-04 14:21:47 hobbitd status-board not available 2007-06-04 15:02:02 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - timeout 2007-06-04 15:02:02 hobbitd status-board not available Any ideas? Henrik? Oh and of course the message size is more than adequate to handle the data. We have many hosts that send 2-3 times more data on average and nothing has changed on the client. David

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[hobbit] Ability to follow 302 redirects
by charles.goyard＠orange-ftgroup.com 06 Jun '07

06 Jun '07

Charles Jones wrote : > I'm trying to do a content check of a URL that 302's (because an auth > token is being passed in the URL). The problem I am having is Hobbit > reports "No output received from server". Hi, it is planned to add scenario-style support for all network checks. But not for soon. In the old days, bbgen/bbtest-net (addon to bigbrother) used to link to libcurl. As of 3.x, libcurl has been dropped, and redirect-follow disapeared. So I use a stripped-down version of the legacy bbtest-net, and a patched version of hobbit's bbtest-net that add a --nohttp option, so I can put my http/cont into the standard bb-hosts. My setup goes like this: - standard hobbit bbtest-net that does every network test except http - http-only network tester You can fine the patch and the old bbnet tool at my site : http://charles.goyard.free.fr/hobbit/ Regards, -- Charles Goyard - charles.goyard at orange-ftgroup.com - (+33) 1 45 38 01 31

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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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