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Central configuration hobbitd_client and extended testing
by philwild＠gmail.com 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

Hi Hobbit users, Up until recently, we have been using the bigbrother client on all our hosts reporting through to hobbit (legacy configuration post migration to hobbit). This is now changing and I really like the central processing that happens with hobbitd_client. I have just been looking through the man pages and have also been scouring the mailing list but have not found what I am looking for. If I want to convert some of my existing tests (which do all the processing on the client and then send the green,yellow,red messages to hobbit) over to the way hobbitd_client seems to work with collecting just the required data and processing centrally, how do I go about doing this? What I want to achieve is a central configuration for all of the custom tests? Can the hobbit-clients.cfg file be extended for further tests or would this break the configuration? Many thanks Phil

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System clock
by lars.ebeling＠leopg9.no-ip.org 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

>From where does this come? Tue Apr 8 09:49:40 METDST 2008 up: 94 days, 1 users, 122 procs, load=0.75 System clock is 15 seconds offNtptrace gives:$ /usr/sbin/ntptrace localhost: stratum 2, offset 0.000038, synch distance 0.10115 time.symmetricom.com: stratum 1, offset -0.001663, synch distance 0.00040, refid 'GPS' -- Regards Lars Ebeling http://leopg9.no-ip.org Hobbithobbyist "I am not young enough to know everything." -- Oscar Wilde

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same host multiple time in bb-hosts.
by rmcgraw＠purdue.edu 07 Apr '08

07 Apr '08

I a trying to put the same host name in several locations in my bb-hosts file. I went to the archives and found the following: Put all of your host definitions on one host entry, and let the others just be with "noconn". 1.2.3.4 host1 # noconn ssh http smtp name:emailRelay 0.0.0.0 host1 # noconn Oh, and the "http" stuff really should be a full URL. Regards, Henrik I have the following: 128.110.103.183 mailrelay.math.purdue.edu # noconn prefer \ ssh smtp \ TRENDS:vmstat:vmstat2|vmstat3|vmstat6|vmstat7|vmstat8|vmstat9|vmstat0,\ netstat:netstat0|netstat1|netstat2|netstat3,\ !clock,!bbgen,!bbtest,!hobbitd,!temperature,!who,!uptime,!timediff And in another location I have 000.000.000.000 mailrelay.math.purdue.edu # noconn With noconn in both entries all things are green but the "conn" column is not updated. If I remove noconn from the first entry then bbtest goes yellow with duplicate entries. Is there a way to have my cake and eat it to? How can I get a "conn" test and still have multiple host entries. What am I missing here. 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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[hobbit] strange graph behavior - random machines & graphs
by gumby3203＠gmail.com 07 Apr '08

07 Apr '08

I have recently noticed a strange thing happening with some of the rrd graphs generated by Hobbit. When you look at the graph, it looks as though the rrd data is one one format (gauge), but the graph is generating it in a different format (derive). I can't seem to find any pattern to the hosts or tests that are exhibiting this strange behavior, and it is only happening on a handful of graphs. I have attached a picture of one of these graphs, since I'm not really sure how to describe it. Note the huge numbers displayed on the curr/min/avg/max line. Any idea what's going on here? When I dump the RRD file manually, everything looks okay. I'm running Hobbit 4.2.0 with the 2007-02-09 allinone patch (I believe the latest). This has only happened in the past few weeks, though when exactly it started, I don't know. Any ideas?

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Todays snapshot 20080406
by lars.ebeling＠leopg9.no-ip.org 07 Apr '08

07 Apr '08

2008-04-06 11:17:41 hobbitlaunch starting 2008-04-06 11:17:41 Loading tasklist configuration from /home/hobbit/server/etc/ hobbitlaunch.cfg 2008-04-06 11:17:41 Loading hostnames 2008-04-06 11:17:41 Loading saved state 2008-04-06 11:17:42 Setting up network listener on 0.0.0.0:1984 2008-04-06 11:17:42 Setting up local listener 2008-04-06 11:17:43 Cannot load SSL certificate 18193:error:02001002:system library:fopen:No such file or directory:bss_file.c:3 49:fopen('/home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cert','r') 18193:error:20074002:BIO routines:FILE_CTRL:system lib:bss_file.c:351: 18193:error:140DC002:SSL routines:SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file:system lib: ssl_rsa.c:720: -- Regards Lars Ebeling http://leopg9.no-ip.org Hobbithobbyist "I am not young enough to know everything." -- Oscar Wilde

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Exchange mail queue
by dns1407＠yahoo.com 07 Apr '08

07 Apr '08

Hi All, Do any of you have a script (external vbs csript) to monitor Exchange mailqueue? If so i like to try it... thanks.... DNS ____________________________________________________________________________________ You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost. http://tc.deals.yahoo.com/tc/blockbuster/text5.com

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Todays snapshot 20080407.....
by lars.ebeling＠leopg9.no-ip.org 07 Apr '08

07 Apr '08

produces empty main pages -- Regards Lars Ebeling http://leopg9.no-ip.org Hobbithobbyist "I am not young enough to know everything." -- Oscar Wilde

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BBALPHAMSG for service 'proc', 'disk', etc no line feeds
by waa-hobbit＠revpol.com 04 Apr '08

04 Apr '08

Is there a way to get hobbit to send the BBALPHAMSG variable formatted with line feeds so it appears in an email the way it does on the web page? I guess what I am trying to say is that would be much easier to read this in an email report: --[snip]-- server.domain.tld:procs yellow [584104] yellow Sun Mar 30 10:53:38 EDT 2008 - Processes NOT ok green arkeiad (found 1, req. between 1 and 1) green ntpd (found 1, req. between 1 and 1) green apache2 (found 8, req. 1 or more) green cron (found 1, req. 1 or more) red syslog-ng (found 1, req. 1 or more) green sshd (found 3, req. 1 or more) green slapd (found 1, req. 1 or more) PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND 1 ? S 0:01 init [3] 2 ? S 0:00 [migration/0] 3 ? SN 0:00 [ksoftirqd/0] 4 ? S 0:00 [migration/1] --[snip]-- as opposed to what I am seeing for a proc report in an email: --[snip]-- server.domain.tld:procs yellow [584104] yellow Sun Mar 30 10:53:38 EDT 2008 - Processes NOT ok &green arkeiad (found 1, req. between 1 and 1) &yellow ntpd (found 0, req. between 1 and 1) &green apache2 (found 8, req. 1 or more) &green cron (found 1, req. 1 or more) &green syslog-ng (found 1, req. 1 or more) &green sshd (found 3, req. 1 or more) &green slapd (found 1, req. 1 or more) PID PPID USER STARTED S PRI %CPU TIME %MEM RSZ VSZ CMD 1 0 root Feb 13 S 23 0.0 00:00:01 0.0 552 1600 init [3] 2 1 root Feb 13 S 139 0.0 00:00:00 0.0 0 0 [migration/0] 3 1 root Feb 13 S 5 0.0 00:00:00 0.0 0 0 [ksoftirqd/0] 4 1 root Feb 13 S 139 0.0 00:00:00 0.0 0 0 [migration/1] --[snip]-- I see similarly unformatted reports for disk partitions. Since there is nothing really to queue off of in the globbed together BBALPHAMSG variable, it is also impossible for me to use sed/awk to manipulate it and format it before emailing.. Any thoughts or comments? Did I miss something obvious? Thanks! -- Bill Arlofski Reverse Polarity, LLC

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Disabling Alerts -- Two Hobbit Servers
by jkwade＠futurefrontiers.com 04 Apr '08

04 Apr '08

Hello All, So I have two hobbit servers for redudancy, and I have set alerting on one hobbit server for development, and the other alerts for production. I use bbtray to look at "all non-green" for both hobbit servers. Has anyone come up with a way that if someone disables an alert on one hobbit server, that it's propogated to the other Hobbit Server? Users will deisable the alert in development, but not production. They don't want to login to two boxes and disable alerts. So, can they disable on one system and it carries to the other? Thanks...James

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How to monitor this Internet public IP of internal FTP server
by casedj＠21cn.com 04 Apr '08

04 Apr '08

Hi all, We have an internal FTP server that's NATed via Cisco's PIX firewall, so it has a Internet public IP and offers public access. But some people complain that FTP server is not stable. Depending on internal access (to its internal IP of FTP server), it seems ok. But we can't access its Internet public IP from internal network. There maybe several possible causes, e.g. carrier's line quality, DNS resolution, etc. We want to monitor its Internet public IP of FTP server to check what the root cause is, how? Thanks, Case

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