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compile problem
by santoshbabu_perumal＠platts.com 21 Mar '08

21 Mar '08

Hi, When I configure hobbit client getting following error ./configure --client Configuration script for Hobbit client This script asks a few questions and builds a Makefile to compile Hobbit Checking your make-utility Hobbit normally keeps all of the client configuration files on the Hobbit server. If you prefer, it is possible to use a local client configuration file instead - if so, answer 'client' to the next question. NB: Local configuration requires the PCRE libs on each host. Server side client configuration, or client side [server] ? Checking for Large File Support ... ERROR: Compiler doesnt recognize the off_t C type. What userid will be running Hobbit [hobbit] ? I cannot complete hobbit client installation.when I execute make after confire getting following error make CC="gcc" CFLAGS="-g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -DSunOS -I. -I`pwd`/include -DCLIENTONLY=1" LDFLAGS="" OSDEF="-DSunOS" RPATHOPT="" PCREINCDIR="" SSLFLAGS="" SSLINCDIR="" SSLLIBS="" NETLIBS="-lresolv -lsocket -lnsl" BBTOPDIR="/home/hobbit" BBLOGDIR="" BBHOSTNAME="" BBHOSTIP="127.0.0.1" BBHOSTOS="" LOCALCLIENT="no" make -C lib client make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/hobbit-4.2.0/lib' gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -DSunOS -I. -I/tmp/hobbit-4.2.0/include -DCLIENTONLY=1 -I. -I../include -o test-endianness test-endianness.c test-endianness.c:15:20: string.h: No such file or directory In file included from test-endianness.c:16: /usr/local/lib/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/3.4.6/include/stdio.h:36:27: iso/stdio_iso.h: No such file or directory In file included from test-endianness.c:16: /usr/local/lib/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/3.4.6/include/stdio.h:194: error: syntax error before '*' token /usr/local/lib/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/3.4.6/include/stdio.h:229: error: syntax error before '*' token /usr/local/lib/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/3.4.6/include/stdio.h:230: error: syntax error before '*' token /usr/local/lib/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/3.4.6/include/stdio.h:236: error: syntax error before '*' token /usr/local/lib/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/3.4.6/include/stdio.h:244: error: syntax error before "size_t" /usr/local/lib/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/3.4.6/include/stdio.h:249: error: syntax error before "size_t" /usr/local/lib/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/3.4.6/include/stdio.h:258: error: syntax error before '*' token /usr/local/lib/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/3.4.6/include/stdio.h:260: error: syntax error before '*' token /usr/local/lib/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/3.4.6/include/stdio.h:269: error: syntax error before '*' token /usr/local/lib/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/3.4.6/include/stdio.h:270: error: syntax error before '*' token /usr/local/lib/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/3.4.6/include/stdio.h:271: error: syntax error before '*' token /usr/local/lib/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/3.4.6/include/stdio.h:272: error: syntax error before '*' token /usr/local/lib/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/3.4.6/include/stdio.h:274: error: syntax error before "FILE" /usr/local/lib/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/3.4.6/include/stdio.h:284: error: syntax error before '*' token /usr/local/lib/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/3.4.6/include/stdio.h:293: error: syntax error before '*' token /usr/local/lib/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/3.4.6/include/stdio.h:294: error: syntax error before "FILE" /usr/local/lib/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/3.4.6/include/stdio.h:295: error: syntax error before '*' token test-endianness.c:17:20: stdlib.h: No such file or directory test-endianness.c:18:20: unistd.h: No such file or directory test-endianness.c: In function `main': test-endianness.c:27: warning: implicit declaration of function `strcmp' test-endianness.c:33: warning: implicit declaration of function `memcpy' test-endianness.c:38: warning: implicit declaration of function `printf' test-endianness.c:50: warning: implicit declaration of function `fprintf' test-endianness.c:50: error: `stderr' undeclared (first use in this function) test-endianness.c:50: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once test-endianness.c:50: error: for each function it appears in.) test-endianness.c:53: warning: implicit declaration of function `fflush' test-endianness.c:53: error: `stdout' undeclared (first use in this function) make[1]: *** [test-endianness] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/hobbit-4.2.0/lib' make: *** [lib-client] Error 2 that would be great if anyone help me on this to resolve this problem Thanks Santhoshbabu Perumal Unix system Administrator System Engineering, GO & I The Mcgraw-Hill companies HTS East Windsor, NJ 609-371-6317 (Desk) 609-385-5016 (work cell) -------------------------------------------------------- The information contained in this message is intended only for the recipient, and may be a confidential attorney-client communication or may otherwise be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. 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[hobbit] Windows version of a fully functional bb command
by bewhite＠fellowes.com 21 Mar '08

21 Mar '08

Etienne, I just tested it and it worked like a champ. Thanks! ......Bruce _____ From: Etienne Grignon [mailto:etienne.grignon at gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 10:39 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Windows version of a fully functional bb command Hi, 2008/3/14, White, Bruce <bewhite at fellowes.com <mailto:bewhite at fellowes.com> >: Hi all, I know I saw a thread earlier about a fully functional bb for windows and that someone had ported the hobbit bb code to windows and got it working. I, for the life of me, can not now find that thread. I'm interested in a windows bb executable so I can write a quick DOS bat file that my windows guys can run to place a windows server into maintenance mode. Anybody have a windows bb executable and/or such a script? You can use the bbwincmd.exe utility which is installed with BBWin. It is a cmd command line utility to send messages to hobbit server almost like the original bb command and your don't need cygwin. Regards, -- Etienne GRIGNON ---------------------------------------------------- Note: The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. Fellowes, Inc. ----------------------------------------------------

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BBWIN Client running on Exchange server issues?
by bewhite＠fellowes.com 21 Mar '08

21 Mar '08

Anyone had problems running the BBWIN client on Windows running MS exchange? We have it installed and running on two different MS exchange servers (both running MS Exchange 2003, one on Win2K, the other Win2003) and for some reason the client hangs. If you try to stop the service, it stays in a "stopping" state and the only way to get it restarted is to cycle the machine. We are running BBWIN 0.9, but my windows guys are afraid to go to 0.11. Has anyone experienced this before? Will upgrading to 0.11 solve the issue? Thanks, Bruce ---------------------------------------------------- Note: The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. Fellowes, Inc. ----------------------------------------------------

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More Newbie questions.. sorry in advance..
by Rafal.Roginela＠AmeriCashLoans.net 21 Mar '08

21 Mar '08

Hi All, Did some of the research on this already and have some ideas but I would like a more concise list of directories to backup when I backup my CentOs 5 box running the Hobbit Moinitor. I do have a "full backup" that I actually made a script for that connects me to a windows box that is being backed up to tape and dumps a nice bz2 file there. What I'm looking for is the incremental or data directories that I should be backing up daily (I figured /etc) but want to know of any other places that I should be backing up my server on a daily basis. Here is the tar command that I run for a full backup once a week: "tar cvpjf "$backup_location/$backup_name" --exclude=/proc --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/sys /" And if someone knows of anything more I should be adding to the excludes that would also help. The server is pretty much a monitoring box running Hobbit monitoring my sites and servers and OpenNMS to monitor my switches and firewalls. I'm doing research now on cron to get these to fire off by themselves not me manually running the scripts Thank you Henrik and contributors for the great software! And thank you all for the great responsiveness and great advice!! Thank you, Rafal Roginela

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Question about host listed in bb-hosts more than once
by waa-hobbitml＠revpol.com 21 Mar '08

21 Mar '08

Hello Hobbit list! I have written some custom scripts that are designed to poll a NUT server (network ups tools - http://www.networkupstools.org/ ) and get the values for battery charge %, battery voltage, AC input voltage, AC output voltage and finally UPS load % for one or more UPSes that the nut server is monitoring. Since I am getting five additional columns (bat-charge, bat-voltage, in-voltage, out-voltage and ups-load), I want the stats of the UPSes to be on a different page than the rest of the stats on the servers page to limit the number of additional columns which apply to only one server. In bb-hosts I have: (please forgive word wraps on some of these lines) page Servers Servers group-except / ntp|bat-charge|bat-voltage|in-voltage|out-voltage|ups-load|hobbitd|bbd|bbgen|bbtest|files Linux Servers ...other servers... 10.1.1.1 dns.domain.tld # CLIENT:dns NAME:dns prefer bbd dns ntp ssh / http://dns.domain.tld Then, for the UPS status page, I have: page UPSes UPSes group-only bat-charge|bat-voltage|in-voltage|out-voltage|ups-load 0.0.0.0 dns.domain.tld # CLIENT:dns NAME:"UPS Monitor" noconn I have noticed that if I list the IP address and name of the dns server twice, hobbit complains in the logs about it and explains that strange things might happen. Fair enough... So I added the "prefer" option to the dns server line with the IP, and set the ip of the second instance to 0.0.0.0 The issue I am seeing is that while all my custom UPS status reports work as do their related rrdtool graphs, the NAME:"UPS Monitor" option does not appear to work and the UPS page has one server line labeled "dns" which is the name of the server that is running the UPS monitoring scripts. I have also tried removing the CLIENT:dns option from the 0.0.0.0 server line to no avail. I realize that this is only a minor cosmetic issue, but it can be confusing or misleading to the end users since even though the dns server is running the scripts, the results it is reporting really pertain to one or more UPSes on one or more OTHER servers. Is there a way to do this? Have I missed something simple? Thanks for Hobbit, and thanks for any help on this... -- Bill Arlofski Reverse Polarity, LLC

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[hobbit] Restarting hobbit server
by bewhite＠fellowes.com 21 Mar '08

21 Mar '08

The web server ( generally apache) which serves out the web pages? _____ From: Manocchia, Robert [mailto:Robert-Manocchia at IDEXX.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 11:39 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Restarting hobbit server The hobbit server hardware was switched from one virtual server to another newer box. The nodename and IP address remained the same. I brought down the hobbit client and hobbit server on the box and halted it. It was then switch to the new hardware. I restarted the hobbit server and hobbit client. Now I cannot get the web page to appear. Am I missing something.? ---------------------------------------------------- Note: The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. Fellowes, Inc. ----------------------------------------------------

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Checking process longevity
by Colin.Coe＠woodside.com.au 20 Mar '08

20 Mar '08

Hi all I'm trying to work out how I can get hobbit to alert me when a process has existed for more than n seconds. This is important as we sometimes have NFS problems that cause processes such as df to hang due to stale mounts and I'd like tp pick these up sooner rather than later. Any ideas on how to implement this? Thanks CC 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 restarts with Fatal error.
by paul.moore＠verizonbusiness.com 20 Mar '08

20 Mar '08

I'm having a problem running the release version of hobbit restarting periodically. The only thing that I can find in any of the logs is the following. Hobbitd.log 2008-03-20 20:00:00 Fatal error in select: Bad file number This is running on a Solaris2.8 server. Thanks for any help Paul Moore

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Hobbit client columns not showing up on hobbit server machine
by Rafal.Roginela＠AmeriCashLoans.net 20 Mar '08

20 Mar '08

Hi, Great software!!! It has launched me into the world of Linux at the office instead of just for play and fun. But I have an issue with the server not showing it's health statuses. It does not report things like disk and memory info, it does provide things like: bbd, bbgen, bbtest, conn, graphs, hobbitd, http, info. Sorry for a question that is truly a newb but I ran out of ways to search for the answer and couldn't find anything that helped. Thank You, Rafal

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Windows version of a fully functional bb command
by bewhite＠fellowes.com 20 Mar '08

20 Mar '08

Hi all, I know I saw a thread earlier about a fully functional bb for windows and that someone had ported the hobbit bb code to windows and got it working. I, for the life of me, can not now find that thread. I'm interested in a windows bb executable so I can write a quick DOS bat file that my windows guys can run to place a windows server into maintenance mode. Anybody have a windows bb executable and/or such a script? Thanks, Bruce ---------------------------------------------------- Note: The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. Fellowes, Inc. ----------------------------------------------------

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