July 2007 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

vote for Hobbit
by gjohnson＠trantor.org 22 Jul '07

22 Jul '07

Hey gang, If you haven't already, go vote for hobbit in the Sourceforge Community Choice Awards: http://sourceforge.net/projects/hobbitmon/ click the vote link...you can vote for it in multiple categories but you have to go back and vote multiple times...note, this requires an SF account. Let's help get Henrik the kudos he deserves. =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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hobbit alerts
by rlapuz＠fcpp.fujitsu.com 21 Jul '07

21 Jul '07

Good day! Is this possible? I want to see the log messages in red in the hobbit display if there is a critical alert, but i don't want to receive them in my email. thanks! ----------------------------------------------- RYAN JAY B. LAPUZ Client-Server Group Information System Support Management Information System Fujitsu Comp. Prod. Corp. of the Phil. Email: rlapuz at fcpp.fujitsu.com +63 2 843 2002 / +63 49 549 1501 Local No.: 2724/2723 -----------------------------------------------

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[hobbit] Disk Monitoring
by bewhite＠fellowes.com 21 Jul '07

21 Jul '07

James, There is a script available that will check that files systems on an HPUX that are in the /etc/fstab file are mounted. However, this will not help you in a cluster situation. I have not seen a hobbit script for doing a check of a VCS cluster. At my last job we used BMC Patrol and we wrote custom scripts to check the health of both our VCS and Service Guard clusters. I am about to start a project where I will be creating 2 Service Guard clusters in Production. If I don't find a hobbit/BB script to monitor their health, I will be creating one. ......Bruce -----Original Message----- From: James Wade [mailto:jkwade at futurefrontiers.com] Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 11:17 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Disk Monitoring Hello All, I had a recent problem with monitoring filesystems, and I wanted some assistance. We have a couple database servers using Veritas clustering. Can anyone recommend a method for monitoring the Veritas clustering and filesystems? When the clustering went down, several partitions were unmounted. Hobbit didn't alert us that the partitions were not available. I'm curious, let's say hobbit is monitoring the filesystem (disk), and someone unmounts a partition that is in vfstab or the filesystem is no longer accessible, disk goes down, but the mount still shows. Does Hobbit alert to these? (The cluster mounts are not in the vfstab, but I just wondering about other filesystems) Thanks....James ---------------------------------------------------- Note: The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. Fellowes, Inc. ----------------------------------------------------

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3Ware Management
by deger＠cobercafe.net 21 Jul '07

21 Jul '07

Hello Hobbit Group, Has anyone had any luck with 3ware cli shell scripts on dead cat ?, I can seem to find one that will work with the latest version of hobbit. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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BBWIN
by jkwade＠futurefrontiers.com 20 Jul '07

20 Jul '07

Hi All, So, I'm looking at putting on Windows clients in the Infrastructure. I've looked a BBWIN which appears to be the better. Problem is that it doesn't seem to have the nice GUI to change configuration. I won't be able to roll it out into the windows Infrastructure, the windows folks will install it. They will definitely want a GUI. I'm just wondering what other folks have done. Has anyone out there improved on bbwin to make it more configurable from a gui? Thanks.James

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New nickname for Hobbit
by haertig＠avaya.com 20 Jul '07

20 Jul '07

Since I've written all manner of custom scripts that snoop into application logfiles, databases, etc., trying to dig up dirt on misbehaving apps, the user community has nicknamed my Hobbit installation "The Eye of Sauron". It kind of fits! In the second volume, The Two Towers, Tolkien writes: "The Eye: that horrible growing sense of a hostile will that strove with great power to pierce all shadows of cloud, and earth, and flesh, and to see you: to pin you under its deadly gaze, naked, immovable."

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alert MAIL FORMAT=SMS generates large message
by D.Mostardi＠mdl.com 20 Jul '07

20 Jul '07

I have the following alert in hobbit-alerts.cfg MAIL FORMAT=SMS phonenumber at domain.com COLOR=red REPEAT=20 RECOVERED The alert action happens when it's supposed to, but the admin does not receive the special tiny-size SMS. Instead he receives the large-size email that MAIL FORMAT=TEXT would generate, which his phone service splits up into four separate messages. Has anyone else seen this? Is there something subtle I'm 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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Alerting & IGNORE
by jkwade＠futurefrontiers.com 20 Jul '07

20 Jul '07

I can't get the ignore working. Is this syntax wrong: HOST=sau102 LOG /var/adm/messages %(?-i)NOTICE|WARNING|Error IGNORE="%setuid execution not allowed" COLOR=yellow Thie above is in the hobbit-clients.cfg file. Thanks.James

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[devmon] Problem with thresholds - Use of uninitialized value in numeric gt
by martijn＠mmoret.com 20 Jul '07

20 Jul '07

Hi, I'm trying to write a template for the Brocade silkworm 3900/4100. All is going well, except for the thresholds. Here is my config: Example for the fans: oids FanDescr : .1.3.6.1.4.1.1588.2.1.1.1.10.3.1.4.2 : branch FanState : .1.3.6.1.4.1.1588.2.1.1.1.10.3.1.5.2 : branch message TABLE: Fan location|Fan state {FanDescr}|{FanState.color}{FanState} threshold FanState : red : 3200 : High rpm When running devmon in the forground, the following message appears when activating this threshold: Use of uninitialized value in numeric gt (>) at /home/hobbit/devmon-0.3.0-beta2/modules/dm_tests.pm line 2314, <$__ANONIO__> line 21894. Use of uninitialized value in numeric gt (>) at /home/hobbit/devmon-0.3.0-beta2/modules/dm_tests.pm line 2314, <$__ANONIO__> line 21894. Use of uninitialized value in numeric gt (>) at /home/hobbit/devmon-0.3.0-beta2/modules/dm_tests.pm line 2314, <$__ANONIO__> line 21894. Use of uninitialized value in numeric gt (>) at /home/hobbit/devmon-0.3.0-beta2/modules/dm_tests.pm line 2314, <$__ANONIO__> line 21894. Use of uninitialized value in numeric gt (>) at /home/hobbit/devmon-0.3.0-beta2/modules/dm_tests.pm line 2314, <$__ANONIO__> line 21894. Use of uninitialized value in numeric gt (>) at /home/hobbit/devmon-0.3.0-beta2/modules/dm_tests.pm line 2314, <$__ANONIO__> line 21894. There are six fans, this line appears one time for each fan. Any help? Regards Martijn

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