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Centralize a few bb message from a group of hobbit servers
by tj_yang＠hotmail.com 26 Jul '07

26 Jul '07

What is the good way to centralize some bb messages/columns from a group of standalone hb servers ? I looked at bbproxy but it doesn't work for my case because remote sites are running hb servers in full scale. I read about summary, my understanding is that is only reporting the summary status of a remote server. Is there a way to configure remote hb servers to send only "conn" message to a centralize hb server ? T.J. Yang _________________________________________________________________ http://liveearth.msn.com

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utility for hobbit-client.cfg
by s_aiello＠comcast.net 26 Jul '07

26 Jul '07

When writing custom server side scripts to feed off client data, is there a tool/utility like bbhostgrep for the hobbit-client.cfg file ? I would like to try to move toward all my custom script thresholds into hobbit-client.cfg. To do this, some tool where given the hostname will return all thresholds for whatever that hostname matches (host=, class=, time=, page=). ~Steve

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[feature request] Client-side connectivity check
by charles.goyard＠orange-ftgroup.com 26 Jul '07

26 Jul '07

Hi, my company has an heavily firewalled network. A rule that says "host1 can reach host2 on port 670" somehow vanish (ie human error), and your service stops working. Most of the time, you'll be aware of it, because you check at the service level, or the customers phones you. However, for some applications, such as backups, you'll know some hours, or days later. So I come up with a suggestion: be able to check if a specific port is reachable for the client standpoint. Socket connection can be done via the bb utility. [picky servers like mysql would be handled differently]. This is kind of easy to do, but the important thing is to have it standard into hobbit. Henrik, does this appeal to you ? -- Charles Goyard - charles.goyard at orange-ftgroup.com - (+33) 1 45 38 01 31 Orange Business Services - online multimedia // ingénierie

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How do I run a hobbit ext script at 1st day of every month ?
by tj_yang＠hotmail.com 26 Jul '07

26 Jul '07

Is there a way to configure a scrip to be run at specific day of the moth/year ? like cronjob or at command. I have a metric script that need to be run at first day of each month.Following example is not really what I need. [metrics] ENVFILE /etc/opt/hobbitserver42/hobbitserver.cfg CMD $BBHOME/ext/metrics/avail.ksh LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/avail.ksh.log INTERVAL 4320m bash-3.00$ T.J. Yang _________________________________________________________________ http://liveearth.msn.com

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Enable hobbit to alert about idle systems
by John.Browning＠sas.com 26 Jul '07

26 Jul '07

Hello All, I am searching for a way to enable hobbit to alert me if a host machine has not been in use by a user for a long period of time (eg, 2 weeks). Example: I have a system that is on loan to a testing group, the system is idle because they have not used it for 2 weeks. Hobbit alerts me about the idle machine, so I can ask the users if they are done with it, and can take the machine back. Thanks for any help, -John B

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'msgs' test log content not being sent to Hobbit server
by D.Mostardi＠mdl.com 25 Jul '07

25 Jul '07

I have been unable to get the msgs test to work. I have configured client-local.cfg [sunos] log:/var/adm/messages:10240 and hobbit-clients.cfg HOST=cicero LOG %/var/adm/messages %fatal COLOR=red The Hobbit server sends Cicero the client-local.cfg directives, because Cicero's ~hobbit/client/tmp/logfetch.cicero.cfg shows log:/var/adm/messages:10240 but if I look in ~hobbit/client/tmp/msgs.cicero.txt it says: [msgs:/var/adm/messages] [logfile:/var/adm/messages] type:100000 (file) mode:644 (-rw-r--r--) ... ... The messages file has been stocked exclusively with messages containing the word 'fatal'. The stanza 'logfile:/var/adm/messages' knows the file is large and visible, but the stanza 'msgs:/var/adm/messages' says the file is null, and that's evidently what gets reported back to the Hobbit server. So my msgs test never goes from green to red. What am I doing wrong? Thanks, David David Mostardi Advisory Systems Manager Elsevier MDL 2440 Camino Ramon, Suite 300 San Ramon CA 94583 925.543.7350 www.mdl.com

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Anyone using the CHECKPOWER script from deadcat.net?
by david＠stenhouseconsulting.com 25 Jul '07

25 Jul '07

I have been using it to check the status of two APC3000 since January. I just discovered today that it is not running correctly and that its status is still reported as GREEN on Hobbit. I know most of you probably use DEVMON, but that is not an option for this situation, since I have to run the test client side and report its status from the client. Thank you, David Gilmore Consultant 401.453.6900 x12 [cid:image001.jpg at 01C7CEAC.89625C50]

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Feature requests
by michael.nemeth＠lmco.com 25 Jul '07

25 Jul '07

Since there a new version come soon I thought I mention a couple thing I request in the past. 1. toggle between % and size on disk graphs. right now you can change the url to do this That is: http://scorpion/hobbit-cgi/hobbitgraph.sh?host=dwvob13k&service=disk&graph_… to : http://scorpion/hobbit-cgi/hobbitgraph.sh?host=dwvob13k&service=disk1&graph… Nice to have a button to do this. 2. Alert/show on either/or specified change in file size and/or % change. That is: DISK /home01 size=+50% size=-10G DISK /home02 size=+-50% DISK / size=+-100M Or some thing like that. How many time have you seen an FS drop to near zero because someone did a rm -Rf * !! Henrik see http://www.i-pi.com/watcher.html 3. Remove hosts/tests via the enable/disable cgi (I think that a logical place) . True you still might have to edit the bb-hosts but lots of time I decide to no longer run tests (mostly not running client any more but still want to know if its pingable). -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ | _p_ Mike Nemeth | ___| |_____ email(w) michael.nemeth at lmco.com Work: 856 359-1425 |><___________) | Home Page:http://www.geocities.com/mjnemeth/ | Work Page:http://scorpion/~nemethm/ | Work Page:http://phlccase/SWUNIX/mnemeth/ |++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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hobbitfetch testers needed
by henrik＠hswn.dk 25 Jul '07

25 Jul '07

I've been going over the hobbitfetch code looking for the cause of the cpu-spinning lockups that have been reported. I *think* I've found it, but this needs confirmation from someone who sees the problem in a real setup, as opposed to my testing scenario. So I'd be interested to have my bugfix tested by someone who has this problem. If you can, grab the current snapshot http://www.hswn.dk/beta/ Rebuild Hobbit, copy for snapshot/hobbitd/hobbitfetch utility into your ~hobbit/server/bin/ directory and restart Hobbit. Hopefull the problem should be gone. Regards, Henrik

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Hobbit Alerts
by rlapuz＠fcpp.fujitsu.com 25 Jul '07

25 Jul '07

Good day! HOST=* COLOR=yellow,red SERVICE=* EXSERVICE=msgs,cpu,memory REPEAT=5h RECOVERED MAIL myemail at domain.com Referring to the above syntax, it means that i'll be receiving alerts for color red and yellow right? What if the service is already in yellow alert for an hour then I received the email notification, and then it becomes a red alert sooner than the specified REPEAT time, Is it normal that I will no longer receive an email notification for the red alert? Co'z I didn't receive one for the red alert. Thanks! Ryan

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