November 2008 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

IPv6
by david.bandel＠gmail.com 28 Nov '08

28 Nov '08

Folks, Searched the archives and found a few IPv6 inquiries, but only that there are no plans to support it. While I'm not a programmer, I suspect it would actually be fairly simple to implement (please correct me if I'm wrong). This is starting to become a priority for me. I need to monitor my ssh servers, but they all only respond now to ipv6, so I can't :-(. For those of you who care, after monitoring my ipv6 only ssh logs, the automated attacks against my servers has dropped from over 10,000 attacks per day to 0. Have not had a single attack in months. Haven't seen that in over 10 years now. I'm sure this is only a temporary thing, but it sure is nice. I have only one other piece of software I can't replace (besides hobbit) that needs to support ipv6 and I will be ready. Those of you watching the bogon list might know how close we are to complete ipv4 exhaustion, and in some areas of the world ipv4 addresses are no longer available. If there is anything I can do to expedite a move to support ipv6, let me know. Thanx, David A. Bandel -- Focus on the dream, not the competition. - Nemesis Air Racing Team motto

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Programs for monitoring JBOSS
by k.rakeshnair＠gmail.com 28 Nov '08

28 Nov '08

HI all I am in a pethetic condition. I was working on bash-scripting in which I was using twiddle to monitor JBOSS and wrote a bash script which uses data from twiddle to send it to Hobbit usiing the BB tool. But now I am asked to use Java/JMX Programming for monitoring JBOSS. I am not exposed to java programming so can anyone help me by sharing some java programs which can be used for monitoring jboss. Its really an emergency... plse reply ASAP. Thanks Rakz

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Question about pageset
by tsg＠bluekiwi-software.com 28 Nov '08

28 Nov '08

Hi, I'm just asking if it possible to assign only one test to one server within a page. I will explain a bit my situation and why I want to achieve this. I'm monitoring webservers with a lot a vhosts on each. I want to give customers access to a specific page including the servers that are hosting their websites. For example, I created a page called Orange (customer's name) containing two webservers and used group-only to display only 'http|content|ssh' tests. These servers are also on the main page with all tests. Now I want to execute the 'content' test only for Orange in the dedicated page and only in this page. Thus, when people come to their page they will click the content and http tests and see the output for their vhost only. I want to activate a test only in a page. Does it sound clear for you ? Best regards, ThomaS

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Footer/header issue on html generated by CGI
by nico＠crysto.org 27 Nov '08

27 Nov '08

Hi, To sum up, i want to change header/footer for a special view in hobbit. But I got an issue on the html pages generated by cgi *only*. It works well for static html page. For this, i created a new view which is using other footer/header: [bbdisplay-newstyle] ENVFILE /opt/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver-newstyle.cfg ENVAREA COLTONLINE NEEDS hobbitd GROUP generators CMD bbgen $BBGENOPTS \ --pageset=newstyle \ $BBHOME/www/newstyle-set/ \ --template=newstyle \ --report \ --report=NEWSTYLE \ --ignorecolumns=mem,fw,fwcons,netstat,insight,ssh,ftp,timediff,vmstat,msgs,update \ --subpagecolumns=1 LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/bb-newstyle.log INTERVAL 1m So, i modified ~hobbit/server/web/newstyle_header and newstyle_footer. -> that works fine. For the BODY, I modified hobbitserver-newstyle.cfg (MKBBACKFONT / MKBBCOLFONT / MKBBROWFONT / MKBBTITLE ). --> that works fine. My problem is when i m clicking on the ping check for instance: /hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?HOST=test-device&SERVICE=ping The footer/header used are differents, hobbit is using : ~hobbit/server/web/hostsvc_footer and header. So, i tried to see if in the shell script which call the cgi, there is some variables for footer/header /cgi-bin/bb-hostsvc.sh ------- . /opt/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitcgi-newstyle.cfg exec /opt/hobbit/server/bin/hobbitsvc.cgi $CGI_SVC_OPTS ------- I checked /opt/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitcgi.cfg default file, but there is nothing about footer/header. So, my question is : is there some hidden variables that i could add anywhere for linking differenty the footer/header of each CGI. Any trick is welcome. thanks !!! Regards, nicolas liénard

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services just marked with "-" on some monitored hosts
by lists＠nanl.de 27 Nov '08

27 Nov '08

Hey, I installed a new hobbit-system to monitor some hosts. Most hosts and its services are monitored fine, but for 2 hosts all services are marked with a "-" for days now. I sniffed the traffic with tcpdump and all tests for these hosts are running (e.g. ssh, http) - even in /var/lib/hobbit/rrd there are directories named as the hostnames I specified in bb-hosts. But for these 2 hosts I just get "-" for all services; no smilies :/ Any ideas? What might i do wrong? Thanks a lot mirko

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Make a custom rrd file without NCV module
by eloew＠eloew.org 27 Nov '08

27 Nov '08

Hi, I want to create a custom rrd file to display a graph on a column in hobbit. The column (named test2) is Ok in hobbit and write datas send from a client hobbit on an another server. I can't use NCV module because I want to match a specific number in a specific line. The column display datas like this --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thu Nov 27 11:12:13 2008 &green DR jour : 3145 &green DR periode : 54 &yellow Liste de DR à problème --------------------- |Col1 | Col2 | Col3 | +-----+------+------+ |Val1 | Val2 | Val3 | |Val1 | Val2 | Val3 | --------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I want to make a rrd file with one value : "DR periode :" (=54). I do a script for making rrd : #!/bin/sh # Input parameters : Hostname, testname (column), and messagefile HOSTNAME="$1" TESTNAME="$2" FNAME="$3" date >> /tmp/rrd_ext.log if [ "$TESTNAME"="test2" ] then DR=`grep "DR periode :" $FNAME | sed "s/.*: //` echo "DS:DR:GAUGE:600:0:600" echo "test2.rrd" echo "$DR" fi exit 0 I modified hobbitlaunch.cfg : rrdstatus] ENVFILE /usr/local/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg NEEDS hobbitd CMD hobbitd_channel --channel=status --log=$BBSERVERLOGS/rrd-status.log \ hobbitd_rrd --rrddir=$BBVAR/rrd --debug \ --extra-script=/usr/local/hobbit/server/ext/rrd-ext.sh \ --extra-tests=test2 Finaly, i restart hobbit. But the rrd file are not created and the script is never running. Can someone help me or give me a link to a doc ? Eric -- (°- http://www.eloew.org -°) //\ Page sur les canaris : http://canaris.eloew.org /\\ v_/_ Gestion de budget : http://lebufin.eloew.org _\_v

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check log
by flyzone＠technologist.com 26 Nov '08

26 Nov '08

I wrote the checklog external for the old bb, where the bbout was the log file...yes..maybe is time to make a version 2 of my checklog. So, if you are using hobbit, the real error log is in /opt/hobbit/client/logs/hobbitlaunch.log or the logfile specified in clientlaunch.cfg in the external section where you launch check_log.py. Look there, but I think that at 60% is a misconfiguration in the check_log.cfg file where you need to specify the line "/path/file [TAB] file_of.rules" Check also the permission of hobbit to read that file, if you can access with vi logged as hobbit it's ok. Bye Alle 16:31, mercoledì 26 novembre 2008, hai scritto: > check log gives me this error > > ERROR: problem while reading the log, check BBOUT for other info > some idea? -- Be Yourself @ mail.com! Choose From 200+ Email Addresses Get a Free Account at www.mail.com

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All in one patch
by James.Roberts＠hants.gov.uk 26 Nov '08

26 Nov '08

I am trying to patch my hobbit with the all in one patch but....I am receiving and error saying Processing... I cannot find a patch in there anywhere. 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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vmio or iostat help
by shailesh.paudyal＠gmail.com 26 Nov '08

26 Nov '08

Greetings Hobbit Gurus! I am a new user of hobbit, I want to capture iostat and put it on graph for historic data like hobbit has it for memory/cpu, etc. I downloaded bb-iostat from deadcat, but I could not follow the instruction how do I add it, and it will not create graph for you. I am sure one you gurus has done this, would you please help. Thank you, -- Shailesh K. Paudyal shailesh.paudyal at gmail.com

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check log
by mosimodo＠gmail.com 26 Nov '08

26 Nov '08

check log gives me this error ERROR: problem while reading the log, check BBOUT for other info some idea?

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