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error in hobbitsvc.c?
by Dirk.Kastens＠uni-osnabrueck.de 27 Mar '08

27 Mar '08

Hi, I just looked through the code of the latest snapshot. I'm not a C-programmer, but aren't there some brackets missing on line 342: modifiers = (items[19] && *(items[19])) ? items[19] : NULL; Shouldn't this be: modifiers = ((items[19] && *(items[19])) ? items[19] : NULL); Just an idea -- Regards, Dirk Kastens Universitaet Osnabrueck, Rechenzentrum (Computer Center) Albrechtstr. 28, 49069 Osnabrueck, Germany Tel.: +49-541-969-2347, FAX: -2470

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SMS over analog modem
by Rafal.Roginela＠AmeriCashLoans.net 27 Mar '08

27 Mar '08

Hi all, I'm very ignorant in terms of (well... everything ;) SMS so I have some questions: 1. Is it possible to send SMS over analog modem? 2. What software I would use to do this? (Howto, samples?) 3. Does anyone else use this type of setup with Hobbit? 4. Maybe I'm just totally off base and there is a better solution for getting alerts when my Internet access is down? As always Thank you ahead of time for your consideration. And great job, this software gets better and better as I learn more about it. Thank You, Rafal Roginela

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Snapshot 4.3.0-0.20080103
by lars.ebeling＠leopg9.no-ip.org 27 Mar '08

27 Mar '08

Every snapshot since that date have that date ie 4.3.0-0.20080103 -- Regards Lars Ebeling http://leopg9.no-ip.org Hobbithobbyist "I am not young enough to know everything." -- Oscar Wilde

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Patch for static holidays with year
by dddugan＠iastate.edu 27 Mar '08

27 Mar '08

Attached is a rudimentary patch to lib/holidays.h and lib/holidays.c which allows you to optionally specify a year on static holiday entries. (Anything not in the current year is simply ignored.) We needed this type of functionality for organization-chosen floating holidays. For example we get two days for Christmas, but which days vary. (This year 12/25, 12/26...next year 12/24, 12/25...then 12/23, 12/24...12/23, 12/26, etc.) I'm certainly open to better solutions, but this appears to work-sample holidays for this year show up on info screens...samples for other years are ignored. Cheers. Darin Dugan dddugan at iastate.edu

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Alert Script page.log contains many: Argument list too long
by s_aiello＠comcast.net 26 Mar '08

26 Mar '08

Hello All, I was implementing a new alert script. After doing so I was checking my logs to make sure all was well. I noticed the server/logs/page.log had many: "Could not launch paging script /hobbit/script.sh: Argument list too long". So I thought there was something wrong with my script. So I changed my script to something very simple to debug and came up with nothing. So I started to dig into the code and found in hobbitd/do_alert.c: /* The child starts the script */ execlp(recip->scriptname, recip->scriptname, NULL); errprintf("Could not launch paging script %s: %s\n", recip->scriptname, strerror(errno)); exit(0); Searched for the execlp function and found it nowhere in the Hobbit code.. so it must be system level. Once I started to google for execlp + "Argument list too long", this seem to be quite a common problem. A snippet from one posting I found was: and the explanation: in the linux kernel is the function execve(), which is how all of the other exec() functions (execl, execlp, execle, etc.) are actually implemented. the way it works is by creating a 128K buffer at the top end of the memory space and copying the command line and environment for the new process into this space. it then loads the new program into memory, sets its argv and envp pointers, and jumps to its entry point. there's a lot more to it than that, but the point is that there is a 128K buffer which is the only thing "held" from the parent process to the child. the "Argument list too long" error message is actually the kernel's E2BIG error code, returned when the execve() is not able to fit the supplied argument list and environment into the 128K buffer. Hobbit server is 4.2.0 + allinone on a RHEL 4 update 4. So this is over my head, I know it isn't my script. My the status message is too big for the execlp buffer ? not sure if there is a way for me to increase that buffer, yet. Thanks, ~Steve

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hobbit_snmpcollect configuration question
by sberkley＠mcclatchyinteractive.com 26 Mar '08

26 Mar '08

I'm trying to test out hobbit_snmpcollect and I'm not seeing new columns for the host in question or new rrd's in the data directory. I am seeing the full debug output in the logfile specified in hobbitlaunch.cfg, just nothing in hobbit. Do I need to make changes to bb-hosts as well? Here's what I've added to my configs: ---------------------------------------------------------- hobbitlaunch.cfg: [hobbit_snmpcollect] ENVFILE /home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg NEEDS hobbitd CMD hobbit_snmpcollect --debug LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/hobbit_snmpcollect.log INTERVAL 5m ---------------------------------------------------------- hobbit-snmpmibs.cfg: stock version (copied from the build directory) ---------------------------------------------------------- hobbit-snmphosts.cfg: [hostname.example.com] version=2 community=public systemmib ifmib ---------------------------------------------------------- Log message looks typically like this: ...(lots of successful-looking parsing messages for hobbit_snmpmibs.cfg)... 2008-03-26 12:41:54 Opening file /home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbit-snmphosts.cfg 2008-03-26 12:41:54 No more oids left 2008-03-26 12:41:54 Finished host hostname.example.com 2008-03-26 12:41:54 Transport setup is: 2008-03-26 12:41:54 bbdportnumber = 1984 2008-03-26 12:41:54 bbdispproxyhost = NONE 2008-03-26 12:41:54 bbdispproxyport = 0 2008-03-26 12:41:54 Recipient listed as '10.0.0.1' 2008-03-26 12:41:54 Standard BB protocol on port 1984 2008-03-26 12:41:54 Will connect to address 10.0.0.1 port 1984 2008-03-26 12:41:54 Connect status is 0 2008-03-26 12:41:54 Sent 2951 bytes 2008-03-26 12:41:54 Closing connection ---------------------------------------------------------- Nothing is coming in on the status channel. Should systemmib and ifmib be showing up as new columns for that host? -- S i m e o n B e r k l e y Systems Engineer Mcclatchy Interactive

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Class designation Problem
by Robert-Manocchia＠IDEXX.com 26 Mar '08

26 Mar '08

I have the following alerts set up in hobbit-alerts.cfg: $DEVHOSTS=%(host1|host2) HOST=$DEVHOSTS SERVICE=disk MAIL me at there.com I have the following in hobbit-clients.cfg: CLASS=hpuxdev DISK * 96 98 On the hobbit page I'm still seeing a yellow alert for a filesystem on host1 at 92% stating that it has reached the warning level of 90%. I also started the hobbit client on host1 as follows ./runclient.sh -class=hpuxdev restart My question is with the above scenario and config why is host1 still sending yellow alerts with the default threshold of 90% instead of 96% as configured in the hobbit-clients.cfg file.. Thanks in advance.

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Customizing the Alerts mails sent my hobbit
by arun.thangappandi＠ge.com 26 Mar '08

26 Mar '08

Hi, Can any body help me; how to customize the hobbit alert mails so that it shows the IP of the server which we monitor instead of showing the hostname in it. Thanks & Regards, Arunkumar

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hobbit on freebsd
by daniel.rapp＠incabus.com 26 Mar '08

26 Mar '08

Hi i have a server with freebsd (FreeBSD xxx.xxx.xxx 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Mon Jun 11 15:09:22 UTC 2007 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP amd64) I have two problems, if anybody have any pointers that would be great.. Problem nr1) [root at xxx /usr/local/bb/client/logs]# tail hobbitclient.log Abort trap (core dumped) 2008-03-25 10:36:26 Unknown token 'r' ignored at line 219 2008-03-25 10:36:26 xstrdup: Cannot dup NULL string [root at xxx /usr/local/bb/client/bin]# tail /var/log/messages Mar 25 10:36:26 xxx kernel: pid 6496 (hobbitd_client), uid 1002: exited on signal 6 (core dumped) Mar 25 10:41:26 xxx kernel: pid 6535 (hobbitd_client), uid 1002: exited on signal 6 (core dumped) Mar 25 10:46:26 xxx kernel: pid 6593 (hobbitd_client), uid 1002: exited on signal 6 (core dumped) Problem nr2) from the bb server webpage: " purple Tue Mar 25 01:22:59 CET 2008 - Memory CRITICAL Memory Used Total Percentage red Physical 18446713700627775617M 1013M18446741075379662574% green Swap 0M 2048M 0% " That dosent seem correct.. [root at xxx /usr/local/bb/client/bin]# ./freebsd-meminfo Total:1013 Free:1924086628408 [root at xxx /usr/local/bb/client/bin]# vmstat procs memory page disks faults cpu r b w avm fre flt re pi po fr sr ad0 ad4 in sy cs us sy id 0 1 0 1530420 57368 40 1 0 0 194 70 0 0 659 1558 2068 1 2 97 It seems like there is something thats wrong when it comes to the mem info parsing.. Mvh Daniel Rapp

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problem with dbcheck.pl
by bertrand.orcibal＠gpn.fr 26 Mar '08

26 Mar '08

Hello I want to install dbcheck.pl and there are lots of dependencies witch another PERL modules. How can i install all in one more time ? Bests regards.

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