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Test goes purple randomly
by wayne＠flashmedia.co.za 27 Oct '08

27 Oct '08

Hiya I have got a custom script that goes purple randomly for less than 5 seconds. Could this be because hobbit is not getting a response in the interval it is expecting a response (in this case 30 min). I have a few time-consuming custom scripts that run and my suspicion is that they don't all complete in an allotted time so hobbit assumes there is no response. Any input on this? This is what the html log says. Date Status Duration Wed Oct 22 21:28:37 2008 green 11:57:35 Wed Oct 22 21:28:37 2008 purple none -- Regards Wayne

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tests loaded time
by Kevin.Hanrahan＠elavon.com 26 Oct '08

26 Oct '08

Hi all, I just finished adding about 100 hosts and suddenly the category under BBTEST called "Tests loaded shot up dramatically. It used to be hundredths of a second and now it is taking 35 seconds. This has now pushed my time total for all tests to be almost tripled! What exactly "tests" are being loaded? Where can I get a better idea of what is causing this?..logs?, another test? any help appreciated thanks kevin ----------------------------------------- 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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[patch] lib/url.c: monitor urls that contain "/http" in the path
by cb＠df7cb.de 25 Oct '08

25 Oct '08

Hi, hobbit fails to monitor URLs that contain "/http" in the path, thinking it would be a proxy request. The patch below make the match more clever: (written for 4.2.0, but applies to 4.3 as well) --- a/lib/url.c +++ b/lib/url.c @@ -563,7 +563,9 @@ char *decode_url(char *testspec, bburl_t if (poststart) getescapestring(poststart, &bburl->postdata, NULL); if (expstart) getescapestring(expstart, &bburl->expdata, NULL); - p = strstr(urlstart, "/http"); + p = strstr(urlstart, "/http://"); + if (!p) + p = strstr(urlstart, "/https://"); if (p) { proxystart = urlstart; urlstart = (p+1); Christoph -- cb at df7cb.de | http://www.df7cb.de/

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[patch] bbnet/contest.c: Do not crash on long-living SSL certs
by cb＠df7cb.de 25 Oct '08

25 Oct '08

Hi, bbgen_ASN1_UTCTIME in bbnet/contest.c doesn't like SSL certificates that are valid longer than 2050. The passed tm->data string will include the full year then and fail to be parsed. The patch below fixes the issue. --- a/bbnet/contest.c +++ b/bbnet/contest.c @@ -390,20 +390,25 @@ static char *bbgen_ASN1_UTCTIME(ASN1_UTC static char result[256]; char *asn1_string; int gmt=0; - int i; - int year=0,month=0,day=0,hour=0,minute=0,second=0; + int len, i; + int century=0,year=0,month=0,day=0,hour=0,minute=0,second=0; - i=tm->length; + len=tm->length; asn1_string=(char *)tm->data; - if (i < 10) return NULL; - if (asn1_string[i-1] == 'Z') gmt=1; - for (i=0; i<10; i++) { + if (len < 10) return NULL; + if (asn1_string[len-1] == 'Z') gmt=1; + for (i=0; i<len-1; i++) { if ((asn1_string[i] > '9') || (asn1_string[i] < '0')) return NULL; } + if (len >= 15) { /* 20541024111745Z format */ + century = 100 * ((asn1_string[0]-'0')*10+(asn1_string[1]-'0')); + asn1_string += 2; + } + year=(asn1_string[0]-'0')*10+(asn1_string[1]-'0'); - if (year < 50) year+=100; + if (century == 0 && year < 50) year+=100; month=(asn1_string[2]-'0')*10+(asn1_string[3]-'0'); if ((month > 12) || (month < 1)) return NULL; @@ -417,7 +422,7 @@ static char *bbgen_ASN1_UTCTIME(ASN1_UTC } sprintf(result, "%04d-%02d-%02d %02d:%02d:%02d %s", - year+1900, month, day, hour, minute, second, (gmt?"GMT":"")); + year+(century?century:1900), month, day, hour, minute, second, (gmt?"GMT":"")); return result; } Christoph -- cb at df7cb.de | http://www.df7cb.de/

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Keeping configuration files in sync
by Jason.Breitman＠blackrock.com 24 Oct '08

24 Oct '08

We frequently add and modify configuration changes such as cpu / disk thresholds, adding processes to be watched and adding additional external checks. How do you recommend keeping these configurations synchronized? Can hobbit run on a nfs mounted file system? What are the pros and cons? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Right now when I make a change a scp the updates to all hosts which is time consuming and does not provide me with the consistency that I am looking for. Thanks. Jason Breitman jason.breitman at blackrock.com THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS MESSAGE AND ANY ATTACHMENT MAY BE PRIVILEGED, CONFIDENTIAL, PROPRIETARY OR OTHERWISE PROTECTED FROM DISCLOSURE. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying or use of this message and any attachment is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and permanently delete it from your computer and destroy any printout thereof.

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netapp.pl and time-interval for test's
by martin.flemming＠desy.de 24 Oct '08

24 Oct '08

Hi, Francesco et all ! Can i change the time-interval for the checks on "my" netapp filter .... ? .. the default in netapp.pl is e.g. stats show -n 1 -i $time -r $time=290 but 290 seconds are too long, because sometimes the next tests begin to run while the other test are not closed ... 290 seconds are near 5 minutes and in hobbitlaunch.cfg the netapp starts every 5 minutes again .. Unfortunatley my colleagues does additional other ssh-sessions with tests or commands and we reached the limits of max. sessions on the filter .... and we became timeouts or permission-denied .... So what could we do ? my first attempt was to change the interval in hobbitlaunch.cfg, but this dosn't work because the graphs/trends were not correctly anymore .... thanks & cheers Martin

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clamd monitoring
by Kevin.Hanrahan＠elavon.com 23 Oct '08

23 Oct '08

Hi all, I am having trouble monitoring clamAV. As in the docs, I put "clamd" in the bb-hosts file for my monitored host but I get the following result: Service clamd on server.domain.com is not OK : Service unavailable (No route to host) The server is reachable so there really IS a route to the host. any ideas? 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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Service SMTP on xxxxxx is not OK : Unexpected service response
by Craig.Cook＠gpi.com 22 Oct '08

22 Oct '08

I have a smtp server that "randomly" shows this error. Is it possible to capture what the actual response was? Eg. Service SMTP on xxxxxx is not OK : Unexpected service response Response received was:" blah blah" Craig

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iostat
by Vernon.Everett＠woodside.com.au 22 Oct '08

22 Oct '08

Hi all Searched the list, but never really found anything. Has anybody managed to get iostat data and graphs working for RedHat linux? Looking to graph the basics for a system for physical disks. r/s, w/s, avgrq-sz, await All the rest is nice to have. Anybody done this? Regards Vernon NOTICE: This email and any attachments are confidential. They may contain legally privileged information or copyright material. You must not read, copy, use or disclose them without authorisation. If you are not an intended recipient, please contact us at once by return email and then delete both messages and all attachments.

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Wildcards in hobbit-clients.cfg
by jkwade＠futurefrontiers.com 21 Oct '08

21 Oct '08

Hello, We have archive logs that get attached as external storage. These filesystems get filled causing alerts. We would like to disable them. I normally set the thresholds to 101 & 102 in the hobbit-clients.cfg file to ignore alerts on these types of filesystems. However, the problem is that these are mounted with diffrenet names. Example: disk_archive_Sep08, disk_arch_Oct08 Is there a way to use Wildcards in hobbit-clients.cfg? DISK disk_archive_????? 101 102 Thanks.....James

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