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MSG and client-local.cfg question
by rmcgraw＠purdue.edu 14 Feb '08

14 Feb '08

I am reading the documentation correctly. If I set the client-local.cfg file to monitor log files for a certain OS then all hosts with that OS will monitor the same log file? Is there any way to disable per client or have certain clients monitor different log files? Thanks Robert _____________________________________________________________________ Robert P. McGraw, Jr. Manager, Computer System EMAIL: rmcgraw at purdue.edu Purdue University ROOM: MATH-807 Department of Mathematics PHONE: (765) 494-6055 150 N. University Street West Lafayette, IN 47907-2067

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Multiple Graphs, Hobbit
by jkwade＠futurefrontiers.com 14 Feb '08

14 Feb '08

Hello All, I've asked this question before, but I've never gotten an answer, so I thought I'd ask again. I've written a hobbit test and the data goes to rrd. I'm using ncv. When you look at the test in Hobbit, you can see the graph. However, I'd like to have different types of graphs on the test page. ie.. more than one graph. I have four values I'm tracking with the test, but I'd like to have two graphs, one with two values, the other graph with the other two values. Is this possible? Thanks.James

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sunos clients missing la & user graphs
by s_aiello＠comcast.net 14 Feb '08

14 Feb '08

Hi all, I was working on updating my solaris clients from the bbclient to the hobbit client. When do this, I noticed the LA & user (procs/user) are missing. The clock graph is there though. I mentioned the clock graph since I think the same function creates all 3 graphs. It looks like every Sun box's uptime is missbehaving, I am actually missing the uptime piece: [uptime] 11:27am 0 users, load average: 0.03, 0.04, 0.05 per the man page the output should be: example% uptime 10:47am up 27 day(s), 50 mins, 1 user, load average: 0.18, 0.26, .20 So I am guessing that since my uptime doesn't have the right number of fields, this is the reason for the missing trend data ? Has anyone see this issue on a sun server before ? ~Steve

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[hobbit] Custom Graphs not appearing
by jruffer＠hss.com 14 Feb '08

14 Feb '08

I finally found it. I had Min instead of MIN. Is it possible to specify a maximum that the Y-Axis can go up to? Jeremy This message, and any associated files, are intended only for the use of the message recipient and may contain information that is confidential, subject to copyright or constitute a trade secret. If you are not the message recipient you are hereby notified that any dissemination, copying or distribution of this message, or files associated with this message, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by replying to the message and then deleting it from your computer. HSS Hire Service Group Limited may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security and staff training. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of jruffer at hss.com and do not necessarily represent those of the company. HSS Hire Service Group is a limited company registered in England and Wales. Registered number: 2103564. Registered office: 25 Willow Lane, Mitcham, Surrey, CR4 4TS, United Kingdom. -----Original Message----- From: Jeremy Ruffer [mailto:jruffer at hss.com] Sent: 13 February 2008 17:09 To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Custom Graphs not appearing Hi everyone, I thought that I had this one sussed and managed to produce a couple of graphs on the Trends page from a data send. I wanted to produce another graph with 3 lines on it. My rrd file is being produced OK rrdtool dump looks good.  <rrd> <version> 0003 </version> <step> 300 </step>  <lastupdate> 1202921859 </lastupdate>  <ds> <name> Spudcount </name> <type> GAUGE </type> <minimal_heartbeat> 600 </minimal_heartbeat> <min> 0.0000000000e+00 </min> <max> NaN </max>  <last_ds> UNKN </last_ds> <value> 8.5860000000e+03 </value> <unknown_sec> 0 </unknown_sec> </ds> <ds> <name> Spudavg </name> <type> GAUGE </type> <minimal_heartbeat> 600 </minimal_heartbeat> <min> 0.0000000000e+00 </min> <max> NaN </max>  <last_ds> UNKN </last_ds> <value> 2.6553000000e+01 </value> <unknown_sec> 0 </unknown_sec> </ds> <ds> <name> Spudmax </name> <type> GAUGE </type> <minimal_heartbeat> 600 </minimal_heartbeat> <min> 0.0000000000e+00 </min> <max> NaN </max>  <last_ds> UNKN </last_ds> <value> 1.5900000000e+02 </value> <unknown_sec> 0 </unknown_sec> </ds> rrdtool fetch looks sensible to me: # rrdtool fetch Spudgraph.rrd AVERAGE -r 900 -s -60m Spudcount Spudavg Spudmax 1202918700: 6.4000000000e+01 5.6341000000e-01 4.6500000000e+00 1202919000: 6.1650000000e+01 3.7451000000e-01 2.0000000000e+00 1202919300: 6.1333333333e+01 3.7026666667e-01 1.5333333333e+00 1202919600: 7.1520000000e+01 4.1493000000e-01 1.4700000000e+00 1202919900: 7.8120000000e+01 5.2840000000e-01 2.0000000000e+00 1202920200: 6.8950000000e+01 5.3455000000e-01 1.5300000000e+00 1202920500: 6.6170000000e+01 5.1105000000e-01 1.0000000000e+00 1202920800: 6.5000000000e+01 4.6446666667e-01 1.0000000000e+00 1202921100: 5.1360000000e+01 3.1625000000e-01 1.0000000000e+00 1202921400: 4.8760000000e+01 3.3062000000e-01 1.0000000000e+00 1202921700: 5.3470000000e+01 2.3855000000e-01 1.0000000000e+00 1202922000: 4.9770000000e+01 1.8251000000e-01 1.0000000000e+00 1202922300: nan nan nan There is an empty box for the graph on the Trends page. I have obviously made a mistake in my hobbitgraph.cfg but I just can't see it. [Spudgraph] TITLE Spud Results YAXIS Spud DEF:Count=Spudgraph.rrd:Spudcount:AVERAGE DEF:Avg=Spudgraph.rrd:Spudavg:AVERAGE DEF:Max=Spudgraph.rrd:Spudmax:AVERAGE LINE2:Count#FF0000:Count LINE2:Avg#00FF00:Avg LINE2:Max#0000FF:Max COMMENT:\n GPRINT:Count:LAST: %6.0lf%s (cur) GPRINT:Count:MAX: %6.0lf%s (max) GPRINT:Count:Min: %6.0lf%s (min) GPRINT:Count:AVERAGE: %6.1lf%s (avg) \n GPRINT:Avg:LAST: %6.3lf%s (cur) GPRINT:Avg:MAX: %6.3lf%s (max) GPRINT:Avg:Min: %6.3lf%s (min) GPRINT:Avg:AVERAGE: %6.3lf%s (avg) \n GPRINT:Max:LAST: %6.0lf%s (cur) GPRINT:Max:MAX: %6.0lf%s (max) GPRINT:Max:Min: %6.0lf%s (min) GPRINT:SpudMax:AVERAGE: %6.1lf%s (avg) \n Can anyone help? Jeremy Ruffer This message, and any associated files, are intended only for the use of the message recipient and may contain information that is confidential, subject to copyright or constitute a trade secret. If you are not the message recipient you are hereby notified that any dissemination, copying or distribution of this message, or files associated with this message, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by replying to the message and then deleting it from your computer. HSS Hire Service Group Limited may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security and staff training. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of jruffer at hss.com and do not necessarily represent those of the company. HSS Hire Service Group is a limited company registered in England and Wales. Registered number: 2103564. Registered office: 25 Willow Lane, Mitcham, Surrey, CR4 4TS, United Kingdom.

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Best way to monitor server in a DMZ ? or remote LAN ?
by linuxmasterjedi＠free.fr 13 Feb '08

13 Feb '08

Hi, I would like to monitor servers inside a DMZ. Since the Hobbit-Clients push the information to the server, they are not able reach the LAN Hobbit server : communication from the DMZ to the LAN is forbidden... What is your experience in that area guys ? I'm thinking to setup a DMZ Hobbit server. The LAN Hobbit server will pull the information from the DMZ Hobbit server. I remember something related using bbproxy or NET. Am I right ? What is your experience in that domain again ? (bis) Finally, I would like to setup a Hobbit Server in "LAN2", "LAN3" and "LAN4" . Those LAN* Hobbit server will monitor servers around them. Will they send information to LAN Hobbit server or the LAN Hobbit server will pull the information from LAN* Hobbit servers ? Thanks by advance for any answers or point of view of my ideas. I'm looking for a global view of my issues + tutorial links to setup the right things. Thanks by advance.

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[hobbit] History PIXELS setting
by bbenedetto＠goodyear.com 13 Feb '08

13 Feb '08

>>> Ger Maguire writes: Ger> Its the colourbar that i am trying to resize as opposed to Ger> the graphs. If you look at Ger> http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/docs/man1/bb-hist.cgi.1.html Ger> there is a PIXELS parameter for this. Ger> Ger> I have set PIXELS="360" in the hobbitserver.cfg file but Ger> it doesn't seem to make any difference, does anyone know Ger> if this needs to go somewhere else or different sytax ? That webpage says that PIXELS is parameter passed to the cgi script. So to make it narrower, you'd have to pass PIXELS like this: http://HOBBITHOST/hobbit-cgi/bb-hist.sh?HISTFILE=SOME_HOST.disk&ENTRIES=50&… which looks pretty good on my screen. Does this help at all? Or did you already know that? -- - Bill +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Bill Benedetto <bbenedetto at goodyear.com> The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. I don't speak for Goodyear and they don't speak for me. We're both happy.

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Custom Graphs not appearing
by jruffer＠hss.com 13 Feb '08

13 Feb '08

Hi everyone, I thought that I had this one sussed and managed to produce a couple of graphs on the Trends page from a data send. I wanted to produce another graph with 3 lines on it. My rrd file is being produced OK rrdtool dump looks good.  <rrd> <version> 0003 </version> <step> 300 </step>  <lastupdate> 1202921859 </lastupdate>  <ds> <name> Spudcount </name> <type> GAUGE </type> <minimal_heartbeat> 600 </minimal_heartbeat> <min> 0.0000000000e+00 </min> <max> NaN </max>  <last_ds> UNKN </last_ds> <value> 8.5860000000e+03 </value> <unknown_sec> 0 </unknown_sec> </ds> <ds> <name> Spudavg </name> <type> GAUGE </type> <minimal_heartbeat> 600 </minimal_heartbeat> <min> 0.0000000000e+00 </min> <max> NaN </max>  <last_ds> UNKN </last_ds> <value> 2.6553000000e+01 </value> <unknown_sec> 0 </unknown_sec> </ds> <ds> <name> Spudmax </name> <type> GAUGE </type> <minimal_heartbeat> 600 </minimal_heartbeat> <min> 0.0000000000e+00 </min> <max> NaN </max>  <last_ds> UNKN </last_ds> <value> 1.5900000000e+02 </value> <unknown_sec> 0 </unknown_sec> </ds> rrdtool fetch looks sensible to me: # rrdtool fetch Spudgraph.rrd AVERAGE -r 900 -s -60m Spudcount Spudavg Spudmax 1202918700: 6.4000000000e+01 5.6341000000e-01 4.6500000000e+00 1202919000: 6.1650000000e+01 3.7451000000e-01 2.0000000000e+00 1202919300: 6.1333333333e+01 3.7026666667e-01 1.5333333333e+00 1202919600: 7.1520000000e+01 4.1493000000e-01 1.4700000000e+00 1202919900: 7.8120000000e+01 5.2840000000e-01 2.0000000000e+00 1202920200: 6.8950000000e+01 5.3455000000e-01 1.5300000000e+00 1202920500: 6.6170000000e+01 5.1105000000e-01 1.0000000000e+00 1202920800: 6.5000000000e+01 4.6446666667e-01 1.0000000000e+00 1202921100: 5.1360000000e+01 3.1625000000e-01 1.0000000000e+00 1202921400: 4.8760000000e+01 3.3062000000e-01 1.0000000000e+00 1202921700: 5.3470000000e+01 2.3855000000e-01 1.0000000000e+00 1202922000: 4.9770000000e+01 1.8251000000e-01 1.0000000000e+00 1202922300: nan nan nan There is an empty box for the graph on the Trends page. I have obviously made a mistake in my hobbitgraph.cfg but I just can't see it. [Spudgraph] TITLE Spud Results YAXIS Spud DEF:Count=Spudgraph.rrd:Spudcount:AVERAGE DEF:Avg=Spudgraph.rrd:Spudavg:AVERAGE DEF:Max=Spudgraph.rrd:Spudmax:AVERAGE LINE2:Count#FF0000:Count LINE2:Avg#00FF00:Avg LINE2:Max#0000FF:Max COMMENT:\n GPRINT:Count:LAST: %6.0lf%s (cur) GPRINT:Count:MAX: %6.0lf%s (max) GPRINT:Count:Min: %6.0lf%s (min) GPRINT:Count:AVERAGE: %6.1lf%s (avg) \n GPRINT:Avg:LAST: %6.3lf%s (cur) GPRINT:Avg:MAX: %6.3lf%s (max) GPRINT:Avg:Min: %6.3lf%s (min) GPRINT:Avg:AVERAGE: %6.3lf%s (avg) \n GPRINT:Max:LAST: %6.0lf%s (cur) GPRINT:Max:MAX: %6.0lf%s (max) GPRINT:Max:Min: %6.0lf%s (min) GPRINT:SpudMax:AVERAGE: %6.1lf%s (avg) \n Can anyone help? Jeremy Ruffer This message, and any associated files, are intended only for the use of the message recipient and may contain information that is confidential, subject to copyright or constitute a trade secret. If you are not the message recipient you are hereby notified that any dissemination, copying or distribution of this message, or files associated with this message, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by replying to the message and then deleting it from your computer. HSS Hire Service Group Limited may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security and staff training. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of jruffer at hss.com and do not necessarily represent those of the company. HSS Hire Service Group is a limited company registered in England and Wales. Registered number: 2103564. Registered office: 25 Willow Lane, Mitcham, Surrey, CR4 4TS, United Kingdom.

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how to specify the same log for different servers [client-local.cfg and LOG in hobbit-clients.cfg]
by szymon＠bakowski.net 13 Feb '08

13 Feb '08

Hello to all, A quick question: I do have to servers, load balanced, generating two logs comming from the same application. My goal is to be able to log error messages from these two machines, having different log names but logs holding the same content. Log on the firs machine is in format: host1.log and log on the other machine is host2.log What I did is in client-local.cfg file I have defined new class as following: log:/var/lib/app/host*.log:10240 and tried to use it within hobbit-clients.cfg by doing (I do remember that we can not uses classes within this file, just bb-hosts): HOST=%host..\.domain\.com ... LOG %/var/lib/app/host* "ERROR" yellow But unfortunatelly it doesnt work :( Is there any viable exit from this situation? Am I missing something here or it is simply not possible to do it that way? Kind regards Szymon

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BBwin client columns don't show up
by bol＠bth.se 13 Feb '08

13 Feb '08

Hello I can't get the hobbit server to show default columns for BBwin client, such as cpu load and disk space. I'm running hobbit 4.2.0 on the server and BBWin_0.11 on the client. I get data from the client so i suppose i get the client config right. On the client: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\BBWin\hostname > kopp On the server: /etc/hobbit/bb-hosts: 194.47.130.33 kopp # COMMENT:"Test PC" I have no group-except in the bb-hosts file. /etc/hobbit/hobbit-clients.cfg: HOST=kopp UP 1h LOAD 5.0 10.0 DISK c 90 95 MEMPHYS 70 97 MEMSWAP 50 80 MEMACT 90 97 But i don't need the hobbit-clients.cfg config for the klient.....i suppose...... The data on the server for the client: client kopp.bbwin win32 [date] Wed Feb 13 11:31:39 2008 [clock] epoch: 1202898699 local: Wed Feb 13 11:31:39 2008 UTC: Wed Feb 13 10:31:39 2008 [osversion] Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (build 2600) [cpu] up: 0 days, 1 users, 61 procs, load=3% CPU states: total 03% cpu00 2.6% . . . Regards Bengt

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APOLOGY - When is the next hobbit going to be released GRIPE
by rmcgraw＠purdue.edu 13 Feb '08

13 Feb '08

I apologize for vetting my frustration to the group. This was not very professional and basically I was doing what I was protesting. My comment on the wiki FAQ was in no way meant to degrade the effort and quality work that went into this. Again I apologize. I have to learn to count to 10 before typing. Robert _____________________________________________________________________ Robert P. McGraw, Jr. Manager, Computer System EMAIL: rmcgraw at purdue.edu Purdue University ROOM: MATH-807 Department of Mathematics PHONE: (765) 494-6055 150 N. University Street West Lafayette, IN 47907-2067

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