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page.log entry
by Robert-Manocchia＠IDEXX.com 10 Sep '07

10 Sep '07

I am running hobbit server 4.2.0. My email pages are working fine but I cannot get my custom script to parse the BBALPHAMSG file to send a page to our system pager. In the /var/log/hobbit/page.log file I see the following entries: awk: cmd. line:2: fatal: cannot open file `server1.disk' for reading (No such file or directory) I can manually send pages to the system pager but when I try to parse the BBALPHAMSG file I get nada. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Robert Manocchia UNIX System Administrator IDEXX Laboratories 207 556-6860 EMail Robert-Manocchia at idexx.com

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hobbit hierachy
by joshuakrause＠triad.rr.com 10 Sep '07

10 Sep '07

Does hobbit work off of a parent/child relationship with hosts? Say i have a router at a site and 20 or so devices off of that router. If the router goes down will i get a page from all 20 something devices or can i set it up to where if that happens that i only get a page from the router. By the way Henrik, great job on bbgen/bb integration with Hobbit. This is fairly easy to setup and comes with alot of pre- packaged things that is really nice. Great Job!!!!! Josh

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Alerts
by NMaharaj＠tcta.co.za 10 Sep '07

10 Sep '07

Hi all, Im new to Hobbit and am trying to configure the alerts. What must I add for all alerts to be sent to 1 email address ?

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Extra Services
by NMaharaj＠tcta.co.za 10 Sep '07

10 Sep '07

Hi, The current hobbit menu has bbd, bbgen, bbtest, conn, cpu, disk etc etc .. I would like to add 2 more onto this page. I have edited the hobbitserver.config file and added this in like SVCCODES=scmb:15000,merva:7117 etc etc Than I added this to the hosts file to monitor this service on that particular host but this does not appear on the web page. Any ideas as to which other file I need to update ?

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WELCOME to hobbit@hswn.dk
by rajashekar.g＠BIRLASOFT.COM 09 Sep '07

09 Sep '07

Hi All, My new role is to monitor hobbit for alerts. Since two days, red alerts shown by hobbit consistently for 2 to 3 minutes and recovers automatically. In log the following message is displayed, Application URL - server timeout We can ping the servers and there is no problem with servers or bussiness. what does " server timeout " mean? How to minimize it? How critical is it? Thanks in advance Regards -Raj ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************* "This message and any attachments are solely for the intended recipient and may contain Birlasoft confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient,any disclosure,copying, use, or distribution of the information included in this message and any attachments is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us by reply e-mail(administrator at birlasoft.com)and immediately and permanently delete this message and any attachments. Thank you." *********************************************************************************************************************************************************************

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[hobbit] qpage on AIX - a solution!
by alevin＠reveredata.com 09 Sep '07

09 Sep '07

-----Original Message----- From: Smith, Jim <JMSmith at stvincenthealth.com> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 4:30 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk <hobbit at hswn.dk> Subject: [hobbit] qpage on AIX - a solution! Greetings! I'm sure I'm not the only one who has experienced difficulties with "qpage" on the AIX platform. I finally found the solution to the "got byte: \377" problem in an old message on the Big Brother message board. In "qpage" version 3.3, which is the latest version (although it is several years old), a minor change has to be made in the source file "ixo.c". In this file, there is a function named "remote_connect". In its local variable declarations, a variable named "c" is cast as a char. It has to be changed to an int. Execute a "make clean" and then "make". It works perfectly after that. I have been using "qpage" on Solaris for over four years and I love it! But I've been wanting to switch everything to a retired AIX server and this issue has been making me nuts for months! I hope someone out there finds this information as useful as I did! Jim Smith SVHS Little Rock, AR NOTICE: This email contains confidential or proprietary information which may be legally privileged. It is intended only for the named recipient(s). If an addressing error has misdirected the email, please notify the author by replying to this message. If you are not the named recipient, you are not authorized to use, disclose, distribute, copy, print or rely on this email, and should immediately delete it from your computer system.

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[hobbit] Virtual IP's
by htaute＠media24.com 08 Sep '07

08 Sep '07

Veritas Cluster for Solaris V5 -----Original Message----- From: Dean Casey [mailto:dcasey at pathfire.com] Sent: 08 September 2007 01:05 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] Virtual IP's What clustering software are you using? You could make the Hobbit client a cluster resource, that is part of the service group & dependent on the virtual IP. Dean Casey _____ From: Henri Taute [mailto:htaute at media24.com] Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 8:31 AM To: 'hobbit at hswn.dk' Subject: [hobbit] Virtual IP's Hi Can anybody assist me in setting up the hobbitclient for a virtual IP. We have applications that belong to service-groups with a virtual IP for each service-group.. We have three clustered servers that these applications can run on. So does not matter on what server the service-group/application runs it is always the same IP. I would like the hobbitclient to follow the virtual IP to what ever machine it is running on. Thanks Henri Taute Media24 Content Production Tel: +27 21 4062495 Fax: +27 21 4063143 Cell: +28 82 8276124 E-mail: htaute at media24.co.za ____________________________________________________________________________ This email and its contents are subject to an email legal notice that can be viewed at: http://www.naspers.com/email/disclaimer.html. Should you be unable to access the link provided, please email us for a copy at Helpdesk at Media24.com. Hierdie e-pos en sy inhoud is onderhewig aan 'n regskennisgewing oor elektroniese pos wat gelees kan word by http://www.naspers.com/epos/vrywaring.html. 'n Afskrif kan aangevra word by Helpdesk at Media24.com. ____________________________________________________________________________

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Virtual IP's
by htaute＠media24.com 08 Sep '07

08 Sep '07

> Hi > > Can anybody assist me in setting up the hobbitclient for a virtual IP. We > have applications that belong to service-groups with a virtual IP for each > service-group.. We have three clustered servers that these applications > can run on. So does not matter on what server the > service-group/application runs it is always the same IP. I would like the > hobbitclient to follow the virtual IP to what ever machine it is running > on. > > Thanks > > Henri Taute > Media24 Content Production > Tel: +27 21 4062495 > Fax: +27 21 4063143 > Cell: +28 82 8276124 > E-mail: htaute at media24.co.za > ____________________________________________________________________________ This email and its contents are subject to an email legal notice that can be viewed at: http://www.naspers.com/email/disclaimer.html. Should you be unable to access the link provided, please email us for a copy at Helpdesk at Media24.com. Hierdie e-pos en sy inhoud is onderhewig aan 'n regskennisgewing oor elektroniese pos wat gelees kan word by http://www.naspers.com/epos/vrywaring.html. 'n Afskrif kan aangevra word by Helpdesk at Media24.com. ____________________________________________________________________________

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Email alerts question
by q＠tippett.com 07 Sep '07

07 Sep '07

Hello all, I am trying to tie my ticketing system into our monitoring process. I am currently having to do this through email. Ideally I would have any alert that self recovers close the open ticket it created. My problem is as follows: When hobbit sends an alert it has an id number in brackets. When hobbit sends a recovery message no alert id is included, so I have no way to reference a recovery with the original alert. Is there any way to have a recovery message include the original alert id? Or some other way of having a simple link between the original message and the recovery email? Q

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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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