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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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Acknowledgements & History
by s_aiello＠comcast.net 06 Sep '07

06 Sep '07

All, I was curious if there was a reason why when an alert is acknowledged, why that acknowledgement is not displayed in History. In my mind an acknowledgement is a state change, i.e. Red -> to Red-acked. This would also help when performing audits on help-desk responsiveness to alerts in Hobbit. It would also help, when an alert acknowledgement expires. presently my team treats the alert as a new incident. It would be very helpful if they could check the history and see that the alert was previously acknowledged and what the ack-blurb was. Or are acks more of a BB legacy thing, and I should really be using disabled/maint of tests ? Thoughts ? ~Steve

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hobbitd_client is crashing
by hobbit＠richwachter.com 31 Jul '07

31 Jul '07

Hello all, I am looking for a little help with this problem. Hobbit has been installed and working fine for several weeks. I added a few things this morning and now I am getting this error in the /var/log/hobbit/hobbitlaunch.log log file. 2007-07-31 11:48:33 hobbitlaunch starting 2007-07-31 11:48:33 Loading tasklist configuration from /users/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitlaunch.cfg 2007-07-31 11:48:33 Loading hostnames 2007-07-31 11:48:33 Loading saved state 2007-07-31 11:48:33 Cannot access checkpoint file /users/hobbit/server/tmp/hobbitd.chk for restore 2007-07-31 11:48:33 Setting up network listener on 0.0.0.0:1984 2007-07-31 11:48:33 Setting up signal handlers 2007-07-31 11:48:33 Setting up hobbitd channels 2007-07-31 11:48:33 Setting up logfiles 2007-07-31 11:48:48 Task clientdata terminated, status 1 and this in the /var/log/hobbit/clientdata.log 2007-07-31 11:48:48 Worker process died with exit code 134, terminating 2007-07-31 11:48:49 Worker process died with exit code 134, terminating 2007-07-31 11:49:43 Worker process died with exit code 134, terminating 2007-07-31 11:53:51 Worker process died with exit code 134, terminating I have tried removing all of the changes I made today but still I get this problem and I am not sure what is wrong. I have searched the mail archive and found several people with similar problems, however no solution that fixes my problem. GDB output $ gdb bin/hobbitd_client tmp/core GNU gdb 6.6 Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "sparc-sun-solaris2.10"... Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libpcre.so.0...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libpcre.so.0 Reading symbols from /lib/libresolv.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libresolv.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/libsocket.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libsocket.so.1 Reading symbols from /lib/libnsl.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libnsl.so.1 Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.1 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libgcc_s.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 Reading symbols from /platform/SUNW,UltraAX-i2/lib/libc_psr.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /platform/SUNW,UltraAX-i2/lib/libc_psr.so.1 Reading symbols from /lib/ld.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/ld.so.1 Core was generated by `hobbitd_client'. Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted. #0 0xff1c1a58 in _lwp_kill () from /lib/libc.so.1 (gdb) bt #0 0xff1c1a58 in _lwp_kill () from /lib/libc.so.1 #1 0xff15ffd8 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.1 #2 0xff140200 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.1 #3 0x00028038 in sigsegv_handler (signum=11) at sig.c:57 #4 <signal handler called> #5 rbtFind (h=0x0, key=0xc8a78) at rbtr.c:379 #6 0x0001eb94 in getrule (hostname=0xc8a78 "krupa.capgroup.com", pagename=0xc3410 "", classname=0x42432 "sunos", ruletype=C_LOAD) at client_config.c:237 #7 0x0001eddc in get_cpu_thresholds (hinfo=0xc9258, classname=0x42432 "sunos", loadyellow=0xffbfd4a8, loadred=0xffbfd4a4, recentlimit=0xffbfd4a0, ancientlimit=0xffbfd49c, maxclockdiff=0xffbfd4ac) at client_config.c:1209 #8 0x00013c2c in unix_cpu_report (hostname=0x42419 "krupa.capgroup.com", clientclass=0x42432 "sunos", os=823896, hinfo=0xc9258, fromline=0xffbfe660 "\nStatus message received from 10.16.65.58\n", timestr=0x42465 "Tue Jul 31 11:54:38 PDT 2007", uptimestr=0x424d2 " 11:54am up 3 day(s), 21:57, 0 users, load average: 0.07, 0.07, 0.07", clockstr=0x490eb "epoch: 1185908085.643752\nlocal: 2007-07-31 11:54:45 PDT\nUTC: 2007-07-31 18:54:45 PST\n", msgcachestr=0x0, whostr=0x4251f "", psstr=0x4716a " PID PPID USER STIME S PRI %CPU TIME %MEM RSS VSZ COMMAND\n 0 0 root Jul_27 T 96 0.0 00:20 0.0 0 0 sched\n 1 0 root Jul_27 R 49 0.1 00:"..., topstr=0x0) at hobbitd_client.c:263 #9 0x00017fb0 in handle_solaris_client (hostname=0x42419 " krupa.capgroup.com", clienttype=0x42432 "sunos", os=OS_SOLARIS, hinfo=0xc9258, sender=0x439d4 "\nRAWIP\trawipInDatagrams = 0\trawipInErrors = 0\n\trawipInCksumErrs = 0\trawipOutDatagrams = 0\n\trawipOutErrors = 0\n\nUDP\tudpInDatagrams = 7559\tudpInErrors "..., timestamp=271461, clientdata=0x42438 "client krupa,capgroup,com.sunos sunos\n[date") at client/solaris.c:59 #10 0x0001b244 in main (argc=271404, argv=0xffbfebcc) at hobbitd_client.c:1787 Any help is welcome - point me in a direction and I can dig on my own. However at this point I am at a loss. Thanks =================================== Richard Wachter <>< Precariously perched on the precipice of another day . . .

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