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Disk I/O check for Linux
by RaAL＠sm-shoemart.com 29 Oct '08

29 Oct '08

Hi Henrik, Thanks, it works .. maybe it will be more comprehensive and impressive if it will give graphical I/O stat per filesystem ? <<..>> Raymund A. Layoso Jr. System Administrator Technical Support Group - Information Technology Services SM Retail Inc. SM Corporate Office, Bldg D 1000 Bay Boulevard, SM Central Business Park Bay City, Pasay City 1300 CORPORATE DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message, including any attached file, is confidential and legally privileged. It is solely for the intended recipient and if you received this e-mail by mistake, you should notify the sender immediately and delete this message from your system. You are further prohibited from disseminating, distributing or copying this e-mail. This e-mail cannot be guaranteed to be secure and error-free as it could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late, or incomplete, or contain viruses or other malicious programs. The company does not accept any liability for such improper, erroneous or delayed receipt of the e-mail or for the presence of such viruses and malicious programs. Any views, opinions or factual assertions contained are those of the author and not necessarily of the company. The company prihibits unofficial use of its e-mail and consequently disclaims and accepts no liability for any damage caused by any libelous and defamatory statements transmitted via this e-mail. Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> 10/14/2008 04:34 AM To RaAL at sm-shoemart.com cc Subject Re: Disk I/O check for Linux Hi, the Hobbit mailing list - hobbit at hswn.dk - really is the best place for support questions. The only I/O measurement built into Hobbit is the data collected from "vmstat", which gives you an overall measure of the amount of time spent waiting for disk I/O. This graph is not displayed by default; you can make them appear on the "trends" page by adding TRENDS:*,vmstat:vmstat1|vmstat5 to each of the host entries in bb-hosts. That will give you a "CPU utilisation" graph that includes the I/O wait time, and a "Block I/O" graph showing the number of blocks read from/written to a disk device. Regards, Henrik On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 04:01:29AM +0800, RaAL at sm-shoemart.com wrote: > Is there any scripts in hobbit that monitors disk I/O performance in linux > box ? and with graphical presentation ? > Can you help me on this since we are now having an issue with disk I/O > performance in our Oracle servers ?

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Weird disk alert with bad data
by URMM＠VM.MARIST.EDU 29 Oct '08

29 Oct '08

We recently got the AIX client working with our Hobbit server. I then had to apply a patch to rrd/do_vmstat.c to fix a problem with rrd crashing due to an uninitialized variable coming from the AIX client. Despite that, I'm still seeing a weird problem. One of the other non-AIX clients will have their disk check to to red alert. When, I take a look at it, the disks are fine. However, the data being processed by rrd is off by a few characters which seems to be what is causing the red alert to be generated. It will last for an hour or so, then will go green again and the problem will move to a different non-AIX client. When I remove the three AIX clients from bb-hosts, the problem disappears. So, it seems to be pretty clearly related to the AIX client, though is affecting other alerts. Any thoughts on what to do? Have we stumbled onto another bug? Martha

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client data wont report to 2nd server
by Kevin.Hanrahan＠elavon.com 29 Oct '08

29 Oct '08

Hi all, I am trying to add a 2nd server to have the clients report to. I edited hobbitclient.cfg to be as such: BBDISP="0.0.0.0" # IP address of the Hobbit server BBDISPLAYS="192.168.1.1 192.168.1.2" # IP of multiple Hobbit servers. BBDISP must be "0.0.0.0". the first server gets all the client data but the 2nd server only gets the data from the tests in the "ext" directory....the stuff called out in clientlaunch.cfg. Things like disk, memory, cpu, etc never get to the 2nd server. What did I miss? thanks in advance. kh ----------------------------------------- Note: The information contained in this e-mail and in any attachments is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. The recipient should check this e-mail and any attachments for the presence of viruses. Sender accepts no liability for any damages caused by any virus transmitted by this e-mail. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and delete the e-mail from your computer. Elavon (formerly NOVA Information Systems)

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hobbit on trac
by tj_yang＠hotmail.com 29 Oct '08

29 Oct '08

Like I said in my previous email, I like to see some sort of integration of hobbit with Trac. please see R1 for a screenshot example and source code for the HobbitmonTracPlugin. R1: http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/HobbitmonPlugin Cheers tj yang

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dns question
by gleonard＠progrexion.com 28 Oct '08

28 Oct '08

My hobbit server is pounding our dns servers with thousands of requests even though every host in bb-hosts is also in the /etc/hosts file. Anyone seen this? I have removed any dns entries from the /etc/resolv.cof file and edited the /etc/nsswitch.conf file to only look at the hosts file for lookups. I am still seeing hundreds of lookup per minuet.. Gavin Leonard [cid:image001.gif at 01C93919.B6805880] Director, Systems-Network Engineering T 801-828-1735 F 801-828-1704 E gleonard at progrexion.com<mailto:gleonard at progrexion.com> Research | Marketing | Sales Generation www.progrexion.com<http://www.progrexion.com/> This email and its contents are confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, delete this email and do not use or disclose the information within this email or its attachments. Thank you.

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[hobbit] Custom URL in header
by captkras＠gmail.com 28 Oct '08

28 Oct '08

*Dkim-signature*: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender :to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references :x-google-sender-auth; bh=GP4zmiOXk2G/EoOiboet5zkmbQsxbvh9VFS3rrEw7ZQ=; b=qtEmRyW99J7qt9jKYFy3XzlvAHcxtdyevT2L61gloRKXSveGyGbcLHHk3zmOYqbTWd DNA363P5f1Zw9jdV3ILUd/l6AbnP5SiRJe525TlT+zg/cQZxpERKawsT04NYjYx8vCMr UDNYxkqZBcJLqauHWKstz0jaWZQhZKjB4EajE= *Domainkey-signature*: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=ffIlEDTDXUNuxoQBwz4D8t3XuogRvTY8ACKpM7EhPcoPgWcmBRxFr58T2RjQZC1zNp 0sp3ndHmHaMyGvTkrHWMUm9Y/GZ8EXk/Zh0kNBKy9NhgUo8kR73GhVV7N5qIlOS9J2HV gTub1lixg+KH0OV7Zx6otvSLDfB2cp0BVDSZA= *References*: <205395ec0810280718p12f2d967s548fa344ae67de12 (at) mail.gmail.com> Just tried using the <a stuff mentioned> and I get a java error. Any other thoughts? > If you add the flag " target=_blank " to the href you will get the > effect you are looking for > *no new window* <a href="http://www.computerstuff.org/" <http://www.computerstuff.org/%22>;> Computer stuff </a> > *new window* <a href="http://www.computerstuff.org/" <http://www.computerstuff.org/%22>; target=_blank > Computer stuff </a> >>On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Dave Morgan <captkras (at) gmail.com> >>wrote: >> This is almost what I am looking for. >> >> I was able to add in a line to this file under reports....(code snip) >> >> ... >> >> ['Reports', null, null, >> >> ... >> >> ['Mgmt Server', 'https://url here'] >> >> ], >> >> ... >> >> And clicking on this link takes me to the new URL. Does anyone know >>if I can have it pop up into a new window, as opposed to using the >>hobbit window? >> >> Dave >> -- David S. Morgan CISSP, CCNP aka: captkras at gmail.com "When the Winds of Change Blow Hard Enough, the Most trivial of things can turn into deadly projectiles"

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excludes for hobbitperl-graph.pl ?!
by martin.flemming＠desy.de 28 Oct '08

28 Oct '08

Hi ! Does anybody else use hobbitperl-graph.pl ? http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=173266&package_id=208… rather the hole package ? http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=173266 I've found not really a lot about that in the archive exept the announcement by Francesco and my onwn request and one or two more ..... Anyway, i look for a solution to define some excludes of trends which shouldn't display for every host or maybe also for special hosts on the trend2-page .. Maybe something is wrong in my configuration, but i've got every possible and not possible graph in the trend2-page for each host .... and that's not looking good for me .. Thanks & Cheers Martin

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Dell Openmanage RAID check for windows ?
by stella＠rider.edu 28 Oct '08

28 Oct '08

There's a very good extension in deadcat for *nix systems, however the windows counterpart (openmanage.cmd) is old and doesn't work with newer revisions of OMSA (at least 5x). I recently discovered a system that had a disk fail however the old script did not detect the condition. It used to be that a check on the controller would detect problems with the array, however today you need to do separate checks. Trying to rewrite it, I'd figure I ask if anyone has made a new one and/or ported the *nix version (bb-omsa-raid.sh). TIA. -- °(((=((===°°°(((===========================================

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[hobbit] Custom URL in header
by captkras＠gmail.com 28 Oct '08

28 Oct '08

This is almost what I am looking for. I was able to add in a line to this file under reports....(code snip) ... ['Reports', null, null, ... ['Mgmt Server', 'https://url here'] ], ... And clicking on this link takes me to the new URL. Does anyone know if I can have it pop up into a new window, as opposed to using the hobbit window? Dave >On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 08:57 -0400, Dave Morgan wrote: >> I would like to add a link to another monitoring system on our hobbit >> front page. One would think that this is possible, but the >> documentation doesn't really make it clear to me as to where/how this >> can be done. Can someone point me in the right direction? >> > >On my system, /usr/lib/hobbit/server/www/menu appears to be the salient >directory -- David S. Morgan CISSP, CCNP aka: captkras at gmail.com "When the Winds of Change Blow Hard Enough, the Most trivial of things can turn into deadly projectiles"

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Custom URL in header
by captkras＠gmail.com 28 Oct '08

28 Oct '08

I would like to add a link to another monitoring system on our hobbit front page. One would think that this is possible, but the documentation doesn't really make it clear to me as to where/how this can be done. Can someone point me in the right direction? Dave -- David S. Morgan CISSP, CCNP aka: captkras at gmail.com "When the Winds of Change Blow Hard Enough, the Most trivial of things can turn into deadly projectiles"

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