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Number of hosts being monitored
by philwild＠gmail.com 18 May '08

18 May '08

Hi people, What would be the best method of getting a list of all unique systems being monitored by hobbit? I first thought bbhostgrep might be useful but that will only return hosts for a specific test type of which there is none that applies to all systems. bbhostshow gives me the entire combined list, I could process this to extract all known hosts The other option would be to process the output of bb server hobbitdboard (e.g. | cut -f1 -d"|" | sort -u) Would anyone have a better solution? Many thanks Phil -- Tel: 0400 466 952 Fax: 0433 123 226 email: philwild AT gmail.com

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can`t make install
by vladimir＠micovic.com 15 May '08

15 May '08

Hello, I have problem with installing, here is the error: chgrp `id -g hobit` y/data/rrd BBHOME="y/server" MANROOT="y" INSTALLROOT="" INSTALLBINDIR="y/server/bin" INSTALLETCDIR="y/server/etc" INSTALLEXTDIR="y/server/ext" INSTALLTMPDIR="y/server/tmp" INSTALLWEBDIR="y/server/web" INSTALLWWWDIR="y/server/www" make -C common install make[1]: Entering directory `/root/hobbit-4.2.0/common' cp -fp bbhostgrep bbhostshow bbdigest bb bbcmd hobbitlaunch y/server/bin/ cp: target `y/server/bin/' is not a directory make[1]: *** [install-bin] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/hobbit-4.2.0/common' make: *** [install-common] Error 2 Best regards.

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Greetings and a question...
by baugust＠stanford.edu 15 May '08

15 May '08

First off, I love Hobbit. A lot. I've been running it as a test in our department for almost 9 months now and I have convinced the boss to not renew the contract for our proprietary monitoring package (from a certain other Scandinavian country) in favor of using Hobbit. I just need to see if I can put donations on my corporate card. :) But I do have one last question after all of that effusion. Is anyone out there running dbcheck.pl and had this error: "Wed Jan 23 10:21:40 2008:ERROR on sid_name: Timeout connecting to DBI:Oracle:sid_name!" I know it isn't a network problem because the hobbit user can connect using sqlplus just fine and the oratns check is OK. The required Perl modules installed OK... I think. (no, sid_name is not our SID, name has been changed to protect the innocent) Thanks! -- --Ben Benjamin P. August System Administrator - VPUE Stanford University

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Please make it stop!
by gleonard＠progrexion.com 15 May '08

15 May '08

I have been using hobbit for over 3 years now and I LOVE IT... I have always just configured and ran it myself but now I am out of my realm on a couple questions.. I will just ask the first one for now... every time I reboot a server the hobbit server tells me for what seems like 10 times in an hour that the machine has been rebooted...ahhh! I only need one notification that the server had rebooted.. where do I find the config for that? Gavin Leonard [cid:image001.gif at 01C8B5CE.D2739620] Director, Systems-Network Engineering T 801-828-1735 F 801-828-1704 E gleonard at progrexion.com<mailto:gleonard at progrexion.com> Research | Marketing | Sales Generation www.progrexion.com<http://www.progrexion.com/> This email and its contents are confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, delete this email and do not use or disclose the information within this email or its attachments. Thank you.

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IPv6 Support
by Mark_Ellis＠cable.comcast.com 15 May '08

15 May '08

I am wondering about getting IPv6 support in Hobbit, our networks already have IPv6 configured and we are looking to support devices with and IPv6 interface. Also do you have a release date for the next version of Hobbit? thanks Mark Ellis NE&TO Office 978-244-4006 Cell 978-490-4332

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Hobbit snapshot doesn't compile
by grossman＠progtech.net 15 May '08

15 May '08

Hi, I've grabbed the current snapshot of hobbit from http://www.hswn.dk/beta/. It won't compile, however, since apparently the signature of the sendmessage function has changed, but none of the calls to sendmessage have been adjusted. Does anybody have a recent snapshot that works (or at least compiles) or is there an ETA for a fix? Thanks, Rolf.

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Todays (2008-05-15) snapshot doesn't compile
by lars.ebeling＠leopg9.no-ip.org 15 May '08

15 May '08

Henrik probably knows this, but gcc -g -O -D_REENTRANT -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DHPUX -I. -I /home/hobbit/snapshot/include -I/usr/local/include -I. -I../include -DHAVE_OPENS SL=1 -I/usr/local/include -c -o sendmsg.o sendmsg.c sendmsg.c: In function `process_receive': sendmsg.c:243: error: `outp' undeclared (first use in this function) sendmsg.c:243: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once sendmsg.c:243: error: for each function it appears in.) sendmsg.c:254: error: `respfd' undeclared (first use in this function) sendmsg.c:284: error: `respstr' undeclared (first use in this function) sendmsg.c:287: error: `respstrsz' undeclared (first use in this function) sendmsg.c:291: error: `respstrlen' undeclared (first use in this function) sendmsg.c:300: error: `fullresponse' undeclared (first use in this function) sendmsg.c:301: error: `rdone' undeclared (first use in this function) sendmsg.c: In function `sendtobbd': sendmsg.c:613: warning: passing arg 5 of `getsockopt' from incompatible pointer type make[1]: *** [sendmsg.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/hobbit/snapshot/lib' make: *** [lib-build] Error 2 $ -- Regards Lars Ebeling http://leopg9.no-ip.org Hobbithobbyist "I am not young enough to know everything." -- Oscar Wilde

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Hobbit Emails empty
by kdoyle＠peak5.com 14 May '08

14 May '08

I have a test Hobbit server running on CentOS 5.0 I am running Hobbit 4.1.2p2 and everything appears to be fuinctioning correct except alerting. When I trigger an alert, I get an email with only a subject and no body. I expected to get some information about the alert and the link to the monitored device. I am sure I am missing something fairly simple but I am new to Linux and Hobbit. Any Ideas? Kevin P. Doyle Sr. Systems Administrator Peak5

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BBcombotest questions
by ben_blazke＠yahoo.com 14 May '08

14 May '08

Hi, I would like to use bbcombotest.cfg to define dependencies between services. I have done some testing and came up with a couple of questions: 1. The format of a combotest is basically name=value. Are there any known limitations to this scheme (e.g. max. length of "value")? 2. I tried to define a "combo of combos" but kept on getting errors. Is this something that is not supported? If it is not, I can still work around it by explicitly "expanding" the combos but then my "values" would be very long and hard to maintain. I was also wondering if I'd be hitting any limits (see 1.) 3. I would like to automatically disable application monitors during a software update and enable when the update is done. I was thinking of creating a "rollout" test and have all services depend on it using bbcombos. Then I could have the upgrade script disable this "rollout" only. For example: serviceCluster.serviceA_combo = (host1.serviceA + host2.serviceA) >= 1 || (host1.rollout + host2.rollout == 0) Has anybody implemented anything similar or have any other suggestions? Thanks! Ben ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ

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[hobbit] Dear hobbit@hswn.dk May 84% 0FF
by ralphmitchell＠gmail.com 14 May '08

14 May '08

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Josh Luthman <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com> wrote: > Quick, someone click that Unsubscribe link =P > I got the same thing in the curl mailing list. I just hit the "Report Spam" button in Gmail, on the assumption that if enough people do that, it will eventually get filtered out... Ralph Mitchell

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