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FW: gaps in hobbit graphs
by Mike.Wood＠kci1.com 13 Nov '08

13 Nov '08

I'm using whatever Hobbit 4.2.0 uses to make the graphs. Thanks! Mike Wood UNIX System Administrator Kinetic Concepts Inc. 5751 NW Parkway San Antonio, TX, 78249 -----Original Message----- From: Nelis, W.J.M. [mailto:nelis at nlr.nl] Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 3:11 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] RE: gaps in hobbit graphs Hello, > Any idea what would / could cause gaps in graphing like in the attached picture? > It happens periodically on various systems, but only on a few particular graphs (like CPU utilization). Are you using MRTG and bbmrtg.pl to create these graphs? As those processes run independently and as bbmrtg.pl ignores changes in the MRTG datafiles once bbmrtg.pl is started, some gaps may occur. Regards, Wim Nelis. ******************************************************************************************************* The NLR disclaimer (http://www.nlr.nl/emaildisclaimer) is valid for NLR e-mail messages. ******************************************************************************************************* To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk ***************************************************************************** "CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This transmission (including any accompanying attachments) is confidential, is intended only for the individual or entity named above, and is likely to contain privileged, proprietary and confidential information that is exempt from disclosure requests under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, use of or reliance upon any of the information contained in this transmission is strictly prohibited. Any inadvertent or unauthorized disclosure shall not compromise or waive the confidentiality of this transmission or any applicable attorney-client privilege. If you have received this transmission in error, please immediately notify us at postmaster at kci1.com." Kinetic Concepts, Inc. ******************************************************************************

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FW: [hobbit] gaps in hobbit graphs
by Mike.Wood＠kci1.com 13 Nov '08

13 Nov '08

> We have seen these in situations where the hobbit server is overloaded > (processing too many things at once). We have also seen it where a program > we were launching from hobbitlaunch > was crashing (core). > Have you looked through the hobbit log files? I don't have any pertinent errors in my client log files, and I can't imagine the Hobbit server being too busy. It's load average is basically a flat line. Robert On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 7:32 AM, Wood, Mike <Mike.Wood at kci1.com<mailto:Mike.Wood at kci1.com>> wrote: Hi All, Any idea what would / could cause gaps in graphing like in the attached picture? It happens periodically on various systems, but only on a few particular graphs (like CPU utilization). Thanks for looking! Mike Wood UNIX System Administrator Kinetic Concepts Inc. 5751 NW Parkway San Antonio, TX, 78249 E-mail: mike.wood at kci1.com<mailto:mike.wood at kci1.com> Office: (210) 255-6382 Mobile: (210) 825-5134 ***************************************************************************** "CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This transmission (including any accompanying attachments) is confidential, is intended only for the individual or entity named above, and is likely to contain privileged, proprietary and confidential information that is exempt from disclosure requests under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, use of or reliance upon any of the information contained in this transmission is strictly prohibited. Any inadvertent or unauthorized disclosure shall not compromise or waive the confidentiality of this transmission or any applicable attorney-client privilege. If you have received this transmission in error, please immediately notify us at postmaster at kci1.com<mailto:postmaster at kci1.com>." Kinetic Concepts, Inc. ****************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk<mailto:hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk> ***************************************************************************** "CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This transmission (including any accompanying attachments) is confidential, is intended only for the individual or entity named above, and is likely to contain privileged, proprietary and confidential information that is exempt from disclosure requests under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, use of or reliance upon any of the information contained in this transmission is strictly prohibited. Any inadvertent or unauthorized disclosure shall not compromise or waive the confidentiality of this transmission or any applicable attorney-client privilege. If you have received this transmission in error, please immediately notify us at postmaster at kci1.com." Kinetic Concepts, Inc. ******************************************************************************

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[hobbit] Variable / continuous ping / network test (intervals)
by Dan.McDonald＠austinenergy.com 13 Nov '08

13 Nov '08

On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 18:14 +0000, SebA wrote: > Additionally (ideally): I would like to know results of continuous > pings. Rather than just sending a few pings every x minutes and > seeing the performance of those, it would be nice to have continuous, > or at least pings that are continuous for the duration specifed in the > new bb-hosts flag I have suggested above, e.g. at 5 or 10 second > intervals (so as not to overload routers or links), and to report the > results of these tests every x minutes (again, ideally, defined by the > new tag I have suggested above). I solve that particular problem by dumping all of my syslogs from all routers into a common syslog server, then watch for routing protocol state changes (EIGRP up or down). When I see a change down, I send a red message, and when I see an up, I send a green message. It's a little more complicated than that, since I have to maintain state for all of these tests over several years. The module I wrote is bb-eigrp, and it's on deadcat, but works fine with xymon -- Daniel J McDonald, CCIE #2495, CISSP #78281, CNX Austin Energy http://www.austinenergy.com

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FW: [hobbit] FW: RRD data points - need help with graph distortion
by Mike.Wood＠kci1.com 13 Nov '08

13 Nov '08

Hi All, I've used rrdtool resize to change the datapoints / rrd to 5760, but now some, but not all of my graphs only go back 7 weeks. For example, my 60 day, 90 day, and 1 year graphs all only go back 7 weeks, but my 2 year graph goes back to when I installed / configured hobbit originally - June / July of this year. Any idea what gives? - BTW - I have modified hobbitgraph.c to force it to show more than the 4 default graphs. Thanks in advance! Mike Wood UNIX System Administrator Kinetic Concepts Inc. 5751 NW Parkway San Antonio, TX, 78249 -----Original Message----- From: Stef Coene [mailto:stef.coene at docum.org] Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 4:15 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] FW: RRD data points - need help with graph distortion On Monday 10 November 2008, Wood, Mike wrote: > Looks like my graphs didn't come through on the E-mail. Trying different > attachment type... > > > From: Wood, Mike [mailto:Mike.Wood at kci1.com] > Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 9:06 AM > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: [hobbit] FW: RRD data points - need help with graph distortion > > Hi All, > > I asked this question last week, but maybe I wasn't clear enough as to what > I was asking... - > Management wants to avoid graph distortion on my 60 day CPU Util graph if > possible. I think that more datapoints would address the problem. The > first graph looks good (30 day graph). The 2nd one distorts what is really > going on (60 day graph - same server). Is there any way to make the 2nd > graph more granular? Thanks for looking! - I have a perl script to update all the rrd files: - it uses rrdtool resize <rrd file> GROW to add extra datapoints so the rrd has 5760 data points / rra (per default it has 756 data points) - it adds also MAX and MIN rra's, this is more tricky because I export the rrd to xml, change the xml info and revert back to an rrd file. Unfortunatly, I can not share this script. But with use RRDs ; use File::Find (); you can get info about the file and find them ;) Stef To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk ***************************************************************************** "CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This transmission (including any accompanying attachments) is confidential, is intended only for the individual or entity named above, and is likely to contain privileged, proprietary and confidential information that is exempt from disclosure requests under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, use of or reliance upon any of the information contained in this transmission is strictly prohibited. Any inadvertent or unauthorized disclosure shall not compromise or waive the confidentiality of this transmission or any applicable attorney-client privilege. If you have received this transmission in error, please immediately notify us at postmaster at kci1.com." Kinetic Concepts, Inc. ******************************************************************************

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hobbitlaunch segfault / timewarp happend again
by hobbit＠alexkeller.de 13 Nov '08

13 Nov '08

Hi Henrik, in january I reported a segfault with hobbitlaunch/timefunc.c. You quickly provided a patch... Now I'm having a new error - see core dump: /opt/hobbit/client# gdb bin/hobbitlaunch core GNU gdb 6.4-debian Copyright 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so.1". Core was generated by `./bin/hobbitlaunch --config=./etc/clientlaunch.cfg --log=./logs/clientlaunch.lo'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. warning: Can't read pathname for load map: Input/output error. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libz.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libz.so.1 Reading symbols from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2 #0 errprintf (fmt=0x6b <Address 0x6b out of bounds>) at errormsg.c:42 42 time_t now = getcurrenttime(NULL); (gdb) bt #0 errprintf (fmt=0x6b <Address 0x6b out of bounds>) at errormsg.c:42 #1 0x0804f125 in getcurrenttime (retparm=0x0) at timefunc.c:73 #2 0x0804b9e0 in errprintf (fmt=0x6b <Address 0x6b out of bounds>) at errormsg.c:42 #3 0x0804f125 in getcurrenttime (retparm=0x0) at timefunc.c:73 #4 0x0804b9e0 in errprintf (fmt=0x6b <Address 0x6b out of bounds>) at errormsg.c:42 #5 0x0804f125 in getcurrenttime (retparm=0x0) at timefunc.c:73 #6 0x0804b9e0 in errprintf (fmt=0x6b <Address 0x6b out of bounds>) at errormsg.c:42 #7 0x0804f125 in getcurrenttime (retparm=0x0) at timefunc.c:73 #8 0x0804b9e0 in errprintf (fmt=0x6b <Address 0x6b out of bounds>) at errormsg.c:42 #9 0x0804f125 in getcurrenttime (retparm=0x0) at timefunc.c:73 #10 0x0804b9e0 in errprintf (fmt=0x6b <Address 0x6b out of bounds>) at errormsg.c:42 [...] I can reproduce the error with "ntpdate" using a misconfigured ntp server (2 min in the past): 1. start hobbit client "runclient.sh start" 2. sync time with "ntpdate <misconfigured-time-server>" 3. get a core dump :-( Regards, Alexander

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[hobbit] setting up multiple servers
by bobby.lopez＠gmail.com 13 Nov '08

13 Nov '08

I guess with Hobbit 4.2.0, there is no 'etc/hobbitclient.cfg', as it has been replaced by 'hobbit-clients.cfg' ? When I configure my two Hobbit servers as discussed below, I see that there is only one server which lists the 'hobbitd' service. The other one ishows ' - '. Is this normal? Is the general idea that if both Hobbit servers are in-sync, that 'hobbitd' on a per-system basis is irrelevant, and so it only shows one? (screenshot attached) On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 10:40:06AM +0200, Stephane Caminade wrote: > I m a bit unclear as to the syntax used for the BBDISPLAYS variable. > If I want to set up 2 servers, for redundancy, I set BBDISP to 0.0.0.0, > but what is used for separating the servers in BBDISPLAYS ? Just a > blank, a comma, ... ? A blank. > And on the replicated servers, I guess that I have to modify both > server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg and client/etc/hobbitclient.cfg with those > same settings ? Correct. Especially, make sure your clients are configured to send data to both servers. Regards, Henrik -- J. Bobby Lopez Web: http://jbldata.com/ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/jbobbylopez

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Thomas Seglard's pdf report uploaded to sandbox
by tj_yang＠hotmail.com 13 Nov '08

13 Nov '08

It is here http://hobbitmon.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/hobbitmon/sandbox/modules/xymon… I did a quick confirmation and add two pdf files under examples directory. Cheers tj

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ping intervals
by gleonard＠progrexion.com 13 Nov '08

13 Nov '08

I have some servers that it is critical that I know they are down within at the most a minute to two minutes... hobbit polls every 5min if I remember right? How do I decrease the polling intervals so I can catch these connection problems quicker? Thanks in advance... Gavin Leonard [cid:image001.gif at 01C8B6EA.EB59EA00] 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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by taihiamaitere＠hotmail.com 13 Nov '08

13 Nov '08

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overflow in netbsd-meminfo.c
by gendalia＠iastate.edu 13 Nov '08

13 Nov '08

Hobbit client 4.2.0 shows things like this on machines I have with 4GB of RAM: Memory Used Total Percentage Physical 4294963639M 4294966523M 0% Swap 0M 4098M 0% With this patch it's better: --- client/netbsd-meminfo.c.orig 2008-11-12 19:25:30.000000000 -0600 +++ client/netbsd-meminfo.c @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ static char rcsid[] = "$Id: netbsd-memin int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { int hw_physmem[] = { CTL_HW, HW_PHYSMEM }; - int physmem; + unsigned long physmem; int hw_pagesize[] = { CTL_HW, HW_PAGESIZE }; int pagesize; Tracy J. Di Marco White Information Technology Services Iowa State University

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