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[hobbit] Xymon version 4.2.2 RC1 available
by henrik＠hswn.dk 09 Dec '08

09 Dec '08

In <1228757124 at mknews.sslug.dk> "SebA" <spa at syntec.co.uk> writes: >Trunk also has this symlink issue:- >[web]# ls *footer -l >-rwxr--r-- 1 hobbit hobbit 14 Dec 8 16:30 acknowledge_footer [snip] >All the 14 byte files (with the 'make install' timestamp) contain the = >text >"link bb_footer" and that's it. Please port the fix over. Are you sure about that ? I just made a checkout of https://hobbitmon.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/hobbitmon/trunk/hobbitd/webfi… which has the "trunk" header+footer files, and it gave me a fine set of symlinks pointing at the bb_footer file. What SVN client are you using ? If it's a Windows-based client then I suspect it may not be able to handle symlinks correctly, since there's really no equivalent to symlinks on Windows. Regards, Henrik

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Suitability for bb replacement in large enterprise
by joe＠tmsusa.com 09 Dec '08

09 Dec '08

Hello list, I learned about hobbit a couple years back, and I've been using it in some small shops, but I'm hoping to be able to deploy it for my main employer. At my day job, we've been using the old big brother 1.9e plus bbgen-3.5 to monitor hundreds of unix and windows servers spread across 2 data centers. Id like to move to hobbit, but it is important that it be able to do what bb does. For the most part it is better than bb, but I have 2 specific areas of concern: 1. snmp traps: Our netcool ticketing system relies on snmp traps from big brother whenever there is a significant event. Are any xymon users currently using snmp traps in a similar sort of way? 2. alerting failover: We currently have active-active monitoring of all our systems. That is, the bb servers in both data centers redundantly monitor all the servers, but it would be a nuisance to get 2 pages for every event, so we use the bb failover setup so that normally only the bb server in data center "A" sends alerts, but if the bb server in data center "B" can't reach the bb server in data center "A", then it goes into failover mode and sends the alerts on behalf of the unreachable bb server in data center "A". The worst case would be some sort of split brain where we get 2 alerts, but we have not seen that scenario arise, and it works well. Is xymon 4.2.2 capable of this sort of failover behavior? I'm hoping to replace bb with xymon, but these 2 items are deal breakers. Thanks in advance for your words of wisdom, Joe

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[hobbit] bbwin 0.12 available
by rower.master＠gmail.com 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

Hi Etienne, I want to monitor a Directory, for example, Inetpub. Wha I have to do? Config in clientlocal.cfg -->[win32] dir:c:\Inetpub ? this will cause to all my bbwin send to server data from Inetpub? In hobbit-clients.cfg? DISK Inetpub 40 45 If the directory have a lot of files , the /tmp/msg.server.txt file will have a MB size, is this correct? In my case I test with C:\windows Is there a way to show the size of the directory in hobbit? Thanks in advance, Mario. On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 1:26 PM, T.J. Yang <tj_yang at hotmail.com> wrote: > > > T.J. Yang > > <snip> > > Hi Etienne, > > > > Is the current version of BBWin (0.12) still in the Beta state? What are > > your plans in releasing a "production" version. > > > > We really want to use the new BBWin features but with installing a beta > > on production systems I don't feel very comfortable. > <snip> > > I am concern but from the perspective of "not able to repeat the msi > package building". > > > http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Hobbit/Developer_Guide#… > > the above procedure is for VS C++ 2005 which is not available from MS > site. > > tj > > ------------------------------ > Need to know now? Get instant answers with Windows Live Messenger. IM on > your terms.<http://www.windowslive.com/messenger/connect_your_way.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_W…> >

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[hobbit] bbtest yellow - PING test results sent unacceptably high
by john＠sackheads.org 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

On Dec 2, 2008, at 1:57 PM, "SebA" <spa at syntec.co.uk> wrote: > John Payne <mailto:john at sackheads.org> wrote: >> On Dec 1, 2008, at 4:44 PM, Henrik Størner wrote: >>> load on the main Hobbit server causing it to take very long to >>> accept >>> incoming connections. Try correlating the time of your problem with >>> the load on the Hobbit server (e.g. look at the "vmstat" graphs from >>> that time). >> >> >> Hrm, I don't seem to be graphing vmstat. However, looking at all of >> the graphs under trends for this host, they all look relatively flat >> _except_ bbtest runtime which cliffs from ~70ms to over 150ms. > > You're not graphing 'CPU Load' or 'CPU Utilization'? They are both > graphed > by default (assuming you have hobbit-client running of course: might > want to > check hobbitlaunch.cfg (hobbitclient)). I am... And those are flat.

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Issue with port checks and default section
by Craig.Cook＠gpi.com 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

At the very end of hobbit-clients.cfg I have this configured DEFAULT # These are the built-in defaults. UP 1h LOAD 5.0 10.0 DISK * 90 95 MEMPHYS 100 101 MEMSWAP 50 80 MEMACT 90 97 DISK %^/cdrom.* IGNORE CLOCK 30 PORT STATE=TIME_WAIT MIN=0 MAX=200 COLOR=red On two hosts defined above it I have this: HOST=host1.example.com PORT STATE=TIME_WAIT MIN=0 MAX=2000 COLOR=red HOST=host2.example.com PORT STATE=TIME_WAIT MIN=0 MAX=2000 COLOR=red My intention is to override the default PORT count setting, but it does not work as I expect. Wed Dec 3 09:13:54 EST 2008 - Ports NOT ok green state=TIME_WAIT : (found 1529, req. at most 2000) red state=TIME_WAIT : (found 1529, req. at most 100) I am using Hobbit Monitor 4.3.0-0.20080403. Craig

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remove RRD images from test
by bb4＠richter-it.net 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

Dear all, is it possible to remove the RRD graphics for certain tests on some machines in XYmon? As you all know for some tests RRD graphics are displayed below the test output. I was asked if it is possible to remove these graphics for the cpu tests on Windows machines but not on UNIX servers. TIA Torsten

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Purple Status
by tanveers＠yahoo.com 07 Dec '08

07 Dec '08

Hello all, I'm still in the process of setting up hobbit Server. I have hobbit server running on a Ubuntu Linux machine. I have purple status for (the server) cpu, disk, files, memory, msgs, ports, and procs. It's a square with waves. How can I get rid of the purple status. I null'ed the files in ~/data/hist but the status won't turn to green. What do I do to fix it? Thanks! -TS

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[hobbit] "Stop after" not shown in the Info-Page
by henrik＠hswn.dk 04 Dec '08

04 Dec '08

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:36:07PM +0100, Alexander Bech wrote: > Alexander Bech schrieb: >> Hi, >> >> i have configured alerts in hobbit-alerts.cfg: >> >> HOST=%.* >> MAIL recipient (at) company.examle DURATION>3 DURATION<10 REPEAT=1 >> >> This works fine. >> Hobbit sent me 7 mails after 3 minutes each minute and after that no >> more. >> >> But i can't see anything in the "Stop after" column in the info-page. >> >> > I have found the bug (?) in loadalerts.c in the line 1081 (-less > than/+greater than): > - if (recip->criteria && recip->criteria->maxduration && > (recip->criteria->maxduration < maxdur)) ... > + if (recip->criteria && recip->criteria->maxduration && > (recip->criteria->maxduration > maxdur)) ... I'm afraid that was not the correct solution. This fails if you have DURATION settings on the HOST entry as well as the MAIL entry. The correct solution is quite different - patch attached, this is also going into the 4.2.2 version. Regards, Henrik

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[hobbit] Hobbit bbtest-net crashing
by Vernon.Everett＠woodside.com.au 04 Dec '08

04 Dec '08

Hi Henrik Does 4.2.2 RC? use C-ARES 1.2.1, 1.4.0 or 1.5.3? Or have you not made any changes that drastic? We got a test server up and running 4.2 with patches and C-ARES 1.4.0, and we will see if it also crashes. Cheers V -----Original Message----- From: Henrik StÃ¸rner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Tuesday, 18 November 2008 11:06 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit bbtest-net crashing In <A3D12FAD74FC8B46991703F40C182BABA20D5B4F at permls102.wde.woodside.com.au> "Everett, Vernon" <Vernon.Everett at woodside.com.au> writes: >--_000_A3D12FAD74FC8B46991703F40C182BABA20D5B4Fpermls102wdewoo_ >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >Below are our 5 most recent cores. >And the corresponding entry in the bb-network.log file where available. >(No= t all generate the entry in the log file) It seems the problems occur in the C-ARES library which is used for hostname lookups (via DNS). Hobbit 4.2.0 uses version 1.2.1 of C-ARES; the current version is 1.5.3. Unfortunately there's been a small change of the C-ARES API, so we cannot just drop version 1.5.3 of the library into Hobbit 4.2.0. But it would be nice to know if the problem is still there in the latest version. If you want to try that, you can grab version 1.4.0 from http://c-ares.haxx.se/c-ares-1.4.0.tar.gz and then change Hobbit's build/Makefile.rules: The "ARESVER" setting should be "1.4.0". Then "make clean; rm -rf bbnet/c-ares/* bbnet/libcares.*; make" and copy bbnet/bbtest-net to ~hobbit/server/bin/ If you want to try out the 1.5.3 version, drop me a mail and I'll send you the patches needed for this to compile with Hobbit 4.2.0. 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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[hobbit] bbnet-test https bug
by henrik＠hswn.dk 04 Dec '08

04 Dec '08

In <18b05330811191559g2713c930r11e8334fc395ef35 at mail.gmail.com> "Brian Majeska" <brian at majeska.net> writes: >environment: Hobbit 4.2 with allinone patch on RHEL5.1 >It appears that using the https tag and defining a port introduces >50-200ms of latency to the results of all bbnet-tests. >I had the following tag working fine for months in bb-hosts: >cont=kvm;https://server.domain.com/dsview/protected/login.do;Avocent >The need came up to move this particular webserver to a non-standard ssl port: >cont=kvm;https://server.domain.com:9443/dsview/protected/login.do;Avocent >As soon as I did this 'all' TCP graphs, http, ldap, smtp, etc... had a >new plateau 50-200ms higher. I ran bbnet-test with the --debug and >--timing options but didn't see anything out of the ordinary, then >again I don't know what I should be looking for that would help to >resolve it. Let me know what you want and I'll provide it. >I was able to duplicate the problem on a separate dev hobbit server as well. I have no idea what could cause this, but I dont see anything in the Hobbit code that could account for it. The port number for each test is determined in advance, before the tests begin. So the codepath used to perform a network connection does not depend on the test using a default or non-default portnumber. Is there any kind of firewall between your Hobbit server and the system(s) you're testing ? Regards, Henrik

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