October 2008 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Monitoring Solaris 10 virtual machines
by annaj＠hi.is 07 Oct '08

07 Oct '08

Solaris 10 has a virtualization capability which is the ability to create so called zones, that effectively act like independent machines. What is the best way to monitor those virtual machines? -- Kindest Regards, Anna Jonna Ármannsdóttir, %& A: Because people read from top to bottom. Unix System Aministration, Computing Services, %& Q: Why is top posting bad? University of Iceland.

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Running scripts in hobbit-alert.cfg
by James.Roberts＠hants.gov.uk 07 Oct '08

07 Oct '08

I am trying to run this from the hobbit-alert.cfg HOST=nim01 SERVICE=disk SCRIPT /home/hobbit/server/ext/emails/emailscript itdcrj at hants.gov.uk COLOR=red REPEAT=1 RECOVERED But it never runs....Any ideas?? James Roberts IT Consultant - IT Services Hampshire County Council Room 415,Elizabeth II Court, The Castle, Winchester, Hants SO23 8US Internal HPSN: (200) 5037 Tel: +44 (0)1962 845037 Fax: +44 (0)1962 847434 james.roberts at hants.gov.uk Web: WWW.Hants.Gov.UK

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BB environment variables
by jon＠shadowsoft.com 07 Oct '08

07 Oct '08

What's a good way to get all the BB environment variables set up when I want to use them in a script that's not launched from hobbitd? For example, if I have a script that receives an email and reports a status because of it? I know that I could hard-code everything, but that's tacky. :-) Thanks, Jon

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no graphs from mpstat
by klomph＠nlr.nl 06 Oct '08

06 Oct '08

I'm trying to setup mpstat to monitor systems with multiple cpu's, but the graphs are not created. Can someone help me with this ? The information is send from the client to the server and in the rrd data directory I have a file called mpstat.CPU2.rrd but there are no values in the last ds (see example) <ds> <name> CPU </name> <type> GAUGE </type> <minimal_heartbeat> 600 </minimal_heartbeat> <min> 0.0000000000e+00 </min> <max> 3.2000000000e+01 </max>  <last_ds> </last_ds> <value> NaN </value> <unknown_sec> 241 </unknown_sec> </ds> the contents of the hobbit_mpstat.hostname.send file is CPUs: 2 CPU0usr: 17.18 CPU0sys: 1.34 CPU0wt: 0.06 CPU0idl: 81.31 CPU1usr: 26.16 CPU1sys: 1.40 CPU1wt: 0.06 CPU1idl: 72.29 And I have copied the rrd_data.pl from the shire and can't find a typo in it. Any suggestions would be appriciated. Regards, Bert Klomp

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Sendmail
by Gregg.Whitehouse＠nshealth.ca 06 Oct '08

06 Oct '08

"mailq" reports similar to the following: /var/spool/mqueue (4 requests) ----Q-ID---- --Size-- -Priority- ---Q-Time--- ---------Sender/Recipient-------- m96FCWbg1265826*50803133 50863152 Oct 6 12:12 daemon daemon hobbit m96FCXO21208398*51132855 51192874 Oct 6 12:12 daemon daemon hobbit m96FCXVZ1232956*51653127 51713146 Oct 6 12:12 daemon daemon hobbit m96FCXHX1794226*52479702 52539721 Oct 6 12:12 daemon daemon hobbit Total requests: 4 Because the message IDs keep changing, I can only look at one at any one time. Seems to contain an ongoing log of everything happening via the mailer: Received: (from daemon at localhost) by DC-SV-NIM01.hitsns.nshealth.ca (AIX5.3/8.13.4/8.11.0) id m96FEiM09668 94; Mon, 6 Oct 2008 12:14:44 -0300 Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 12:14:44 -0300 From: daemon Message-Id: <200810061514.m96FEiM0966894 at DC-SV-NIM01.hitsns.nshealth.ca> To: daemon, hobbit Received: (from daemon at localhost) by DC-SV-NIM01.hitsns.nshealth.ca (AIX5.3/8.13.4/8.11.0) id m96FEVWU1794 244; Mon, 6 Oct 2008 12:14:31 -0300 Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 12:14:31 -0300 From: daemon Message-Id: <200810061514.m96FEVWU1794244 at DC-SV-NIM01.hitsns.nshealth.ca> To: daemon, hobbit .... Etc ...since sendmail was last restarted. A look at ps shows the following: daemon 598142 913620 88 12:21:55 - 0:00 mail -F daemon daemon hobbit root 892982 1 0 Aug 12 - 1:41 sendmail: accepting connections daemon 913620 1 120 12:21:55 - 0:00 sendmail: ./m96FLlNk1265874 from queue daemon 1069096 1 120 12:21:55 - 0:00 sendmail: ./m96FLkY41310964 from queue daemon 1130658 1 120 12:21:55 - 0:00 sendmail: ./m96FLkuV475246 from queue daemon 1208468 1069096 85 12:21:55 - 0:00 mail -F daemon daemon hobbit daemon 1265876 1405068 89 12:21:55 - 0:00 mail -F daemon daemon hobbit daemon 1405068 1 120 12:21:55 - 0:00 sendmail: ./m96FLkJ01876174 from queue daemon 1511644 1130658 87 12:21:55 - 0:00 mail -F daemon daemon hobbit Any help would be appreciated. Thanks GREGORY D. WHITEHOUSE Unix Administrator Health Information Technology Services (HITS-NS) 6176 Young Street Halifax, NS B3K 2A6 (902) 454-1179 Office (902) 454-1165 Fax Gregory.Whitehouse at nshealth.ca<mailto:Gregory.Whitehouse at nshealth.ca>

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Sendmail
by Gregg.Whitehouse＠nshealth.ca 06 Oct '08

06 Oct '08

I am having difficulty understanding the relationship between hobbit and the sendmail messages in /var/spool/mqueue - they are large, dynamic and are taking significant CPU time as well as keeping my disk drive fairly busy. Can this be controlled/eliminated? Thanks Gregg GREGORY D. WHITEHOUSE Unix Administrator Health Information Technology Services (HITS-NS) 6176 Young Street Halifax, NS B3K 2A6 (902) 454-1179 Office (902) 454-1165 Fax Gregory.Whitehouse at nshealth.ca<mailto:Gregory.Whitehouse at nshealth.ca>

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No Msg
by NMaharaj＠tcta.co.za 06 Oct '08

06 Oct '08

Hi All, I would like to comment out the MSG field on Hobbit as we don't really look at this and this keepsmy hobbit page on red all thetime. Can I turn that function off for all clients ? and if so , how can I? is it the same like : 0.0.0.0 server1.test.com # smtp dns NO MSG Please advise Thanks

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alternate page set and custom menu
by marco.avvisano＠regione.toscana.it 06 Oct '08

06 Oct '08

Hi all, i try to resend this question .. i have created different users view, and i would like to make it separate (from the top page to the botton page), so the different users could see only specific hosts using the different cgi There is a easy way to make it in 4.2.0? It's possible in 4.3.0? thanks for help Marco

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Help with setting up BBD to work with BB client or BBWin
by jason＠hands4christ.org 04 Oct '08

04 Oct '08

Hey Hobbit users! I am an old BB4 user from many years ago and discovered Hobbit and was excited to see the new features. I am however having no luck getting either the old BB client nor the BBWin client on a windows xp box to talk to Hobbit. Hobbit is running on Ubuntu 8.04 server and the BBD service check returns red on this host I have BB Client and BBWin installed on (yes I make sure only one is running at one time, but I put both on to test). It reports that the BBD service is unavailable: connection refused. I have turned off the windows firewall on this machine and don't have any other firewall running on this machine. In order to make sure that Hobbit is set up to talk to either BB client or BBWin what is the basics of the set up to the .cfg files? Thanks for any help! -Jason

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polling period in hobbit
by forums＠triadbiz.rr.com 03 Oct '08

03 Oct '08

I am experiencing problems with the paging not sending out alerts in time. In looking at the "conn" column, I would assume that if the device has missed 3 poll periods than the seconds that would have elapsed would be 180sec. Being that my poll period I thought was 60 seconds for conn. Here is a host that had an issue lastnight: Service conn on gsoncit-jws-nsc-1 is not OK : Host does not respond to ping System unreachable for 3 poll periods (348 seconds) I looked at the "bbtest" column and here are my stats: Fri Oct 3 07:32:41 2008 bbtest-net version 4.2.0 SSL library : OpenSSL 0.9.8b 04 May 2006 LDAP library: OpenLDAP 20327 Statistics: Hosts total : 1290 Hosts with no tests : 2 Total test count : 1341 Status messages : 1342 Alert status msgs : 0 Transmissions : 14 DNS statistics: # hostnames resolved : 1289 # succesful : 1272 # failed : 17 # calls to dnsresolve : 1341 TCP test statistics: # TCP tests total : 46 # HTTP tests : 1 # Simple TCP tests : 45 # Connection attempts : 46 # bytes written : 386 # bytes read : 6449 TIME SPENT Event Starttime Duration bbtest-net startup 1223033561.966478 - Service definitions loaded 1223033561.971409 0.004931 Tests loaded 1223033577.163407 15.191998 DNS lookups completed 1223033582.170201 5.006794 Test engine setup completed 1223033582.184175 0.013974 TCP tests completed 1223033582.193734 0.009559 PING test completed (1316 hosts) 1223033647.588782 65.395048 PING test results sent 1223033647.598961 0.010179 Test result collection completed 1223033647.599010 0.000049 LDAP test engine setup completed 1223033647.599012 0.000002 LDAP tests executed 1223033647.599014 0.000002 LDAP tests result collection completed 1223033647.599016 0.000002 DNS tests executed 1223033647.600062 0.001046 RPC tests executed 1223033647.713111 0.113049 Test results transmitted 1223033647.770369 0.057258 bbtest-net completed 1223033647.772611 0.002242 TIME TOTAL 85.806133 Anyone know what my be the issue? Thanks, Josh

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