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Shire not responding
by josh＠imaginenetworksllc.com 14 May '08

14 May '08

Does anyone know who is responsible for http://www.trantor.org ? It seems to be down =( -- Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. --- Henry Spencer

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LOG / FILE Hobbit client options : what are you using?
by linuxmasterjedi＠free.fr 13 May '08

13 May '08

Hi, I'm wondering what SHOULD be in the LOG or FILE option on the Hobbit localclient.cfg file. Basically, I'm monitoring around 40 Unix/linux boxes and I wish to detect in "/var/log/messages", "/var/log/syslog", etc... all potential future problem on the box. As far I know, there is some basic rules like if the log file have been updated in the past minutes. I'm thinking to check for regular Syslog keywords suck as "Error" or "Warn". But I would like to know your custom recipe on this one please ;) Thanks by advance, LMJ

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E-mail messages
by forums＠triadbiz.rr.com 12 May '08

12 May '08

We just had devmon stop working while we was out at lunch and had over 1600 e-mail messages come in. So I logged into the server and stopped sendmail, so that the e-mails would stop going out. I have everything up and working but need to know how I can clear out any left over messages so that when I start sendmail back up I won't get another 1600 messages saying recovered. After I get that resolved what is the best way to have hobbit only page out purple for the devmon process itself and not for any device devmon is monitoring? Thanks, -Josh

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SourceForge.net 2008 Community Choice Awards
by jg2727＠gmail.com 12 May '08

12 May '08

You can vote for your favorite open source projects like Hobbit. The nomination period is opened. See links below for more details if you are interested. http://sourceforge.net/projects/hobbitmon/ http://sourceforge.net/community/cca08 Phase One: Nomination The nomination phase is where we learn what projects you like, and see if everybody else feels the same way about them. Any open source project of any kind can be nominated by anyone (yes, that means you!) to be a finalist in any category. Oh, except that we'll throw away all Best New Project nominations for projects that are over a year old. Each user can only nominate a project for each category once, and only registered SourceForge.net users can nominate. Phase Two: Voting The ten projects with the most nominations in each category will be our finalists. This is for the prize, so it's time to jump on IRC, email, Jabber, Twitter, or whatever else you use to get the word out!

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Service Results not updating completely with status changes
by Matthew.Roberts＠nt.gov.au 12 May '08

12 May '08

Hello Again, I have found another problem with monitoring Services using the BBWin client with the Hobbit server. Say for example I am monitoring the DNS service and everything is ok. The svcs page for that host will display something similar to: Mon May 12 10:55:04 2008 - Services OK DNS is automatic started req automatic started Name StartupType Status DisplayName DNS automatic started DNS Server However if the status of the monitored Service changes to stopped, then an alert is generated and the page turns red, however the result of the test displayed on the svcs page does not change it stays as: Mon May 12 10:57:04 2008 - Services NOT ok DNS is automatic started req automatic started Even though the data sent by the BBWin client has changed to Name StartupType Status DisplayName DNS automatic stopped DNS Server When it should reflect this instead: Mon May 12 10:57:04 2008 - Services NOT ok DNS is automatic stopped req automatic started So that we can quickly determine why Services are NOT ok. I indentifed the reason this does not happen is because the string variable which contains this information is set on startup of the Hobbit and the section which generates the result does not get run again until the daemon is restarted due to the the statement on line 2077 and 2078 of hobbitd/client_config.c result = (*walk)->rule->statustext; if (!result) { By commenting the result = (*walk)->rule->statustext; line, I was able to force the result to update when BBDisplay runs at its regular intervals. Before I implement this change within our production environment, is there a specific reason why the result variable does not get updated at every BBDisplay update? Or was this line put in specifically to address some kind of performance issue? I am not a C programmer and relatively new to the workings of Hobbit so any comment would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Matthew Roberts Senior Systems Administrator - Windows

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Build problem on Debian Etch for the may 7th snapshot
by yvan.laverdiere＠cegepat.qc.ca 11 May '08

11 May '08

Hi, There seems to be a problem with the current snapshot ( http://www.hswn.dk/beta/hobbit-snapshot.tar.gz) and I can't get Hobbit to compile. Here's the error : eventlog.c:308: error: too many arguments to function sendmessage make[1]: *** [eventlog.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/temp/snapshot/lib' make: *** [lib-build] Error 2 >From the prototype in sendmsg.c, there is, apparently, a different number of arguments passed to the function. >From lib/eventlog.c : sendmessage("hobbitdboard fields=hostname,testname,color,lastchange", NULL, NULL, &bdata, 1, BBTALK_TIMEOUT) >From lib/sendmsg.c : sendresult_t sendmessage(char *msg, char *recipient, int timeout, sendreturn_t *reponse) I don't mind hacking the functions to make it work but is there something I'm missing here ? Regards, Yvan Laverdiere

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Monitor for a missing file
by Jim_Horwath＠glic.com 09 May '08

09 May '08

What is the best way to monitor for a missing log file? For example, it I want to make sure /var/log/messages exists, what is the best way to accomplish this in hobbit.? I searched the documentation and mail archives and saw examples to example contents, but I only what if the file is missing. Thanks in advance, Jim ----------------------------------------- This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you.

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client-local.cfg ignore regexp
by ricardo＠redix.com.br 08 May '08

08 May '08

Hi, In hobbit-clients.cfg I had a problem with regular expressions above 555 characters, so I tried to put some keywords in the client-local.cfg this way... e.g.: [linux] log:/var/log/messages:10240 ignore %User.*printed\s\d+\spages|name\slookup\sfailed I tried with and without the % sign. None worked. Not even "ignore lookup" worked. And yes, I waited at least 2 poll periods. Searching old e-mails, one said it was needed to install a snapshot newer than may 16 2006. We are running version 4.2.0 downloaded from the official website with the latest all-in-one patch (2007-02-09). So it's not that old. -- Ricardo Alberto Schütz - Consultor -------------------------------------------- Redix - Gestão em T.I. com Software Livre http://www.redix.com.br - contato at redix.com.br Tel. Coml.: +55 (47) 3323-7313 Tel. Cel.: +55 (47) 9186-9868 --------------------------------------------

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bb-prtdiag v4.11 released
by craig＠cookitservices.com 08 May '08

08 May '08

Just been posted to www.deadcat.net. # 4.11 - Removed extra "}" in the check_temp_status section # - Removed low temperature checks # - Rewrote sunfire Active Boards check # - Added Temperature and Fan checks for Ultra 25 # - Added install instructions for Hobbitmon (because of the extra "}" I am not 100% sure temperature checks in 4.10 were working correctly). Craig Cook

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hobbitfetch not reading data
by matthew.epp＠us.army.mil 07 May '08

07 May '08

Ok so I'm attempting to set up hobbitfetch for the first time with a few new clients. I've followed all the steps that should have gotten it working: 1. Enabled the msgcache on the client and verified connectivity on port 1984 from the server to the client. 2. Set the BBDISP to 127.0.0.1 on the client. 3. Added pulldata to the bb-hosts entry on the server and made sure the IP being used is a real and valid one. 4. Enabled the hobbitfetch process on the server. Everything appears to be running on both ends, but no data was coming back. So I enabled debug mode for hobbitfetch and msgcache on each end. hobbitfetch.log: ---------------- 2008-05-07 21:56:02 Queuing request 2 to 10.10.10.10:1984 for host.foo.bar: 'pullclient 1 ' 2008-05-07 21:56:02 Sent 13 bytes to 10.10.10.10:1984 (req 2) 2008-05-07 21:56:02 Done reading data from 10.10.10.10:1984 (req 2) 2008-05-07 21:56:02 Doing cleanup 2008-05-07 21:56:02 Next poll of host.foo.bar in 65 seconds 2008-05-07 21:56:02 Request completed: req 2, peer 10.10.10.10:1984, action was 2, type was 0 ---------------- Looks ok I guess, not sure what exact arguments pullclient is normally supposed to feed to the client though. And the msgcache.log: --------------------- 2008-05-07 21:52:44 New connection 2008-05-07 21:52:44 -> oksender 2008-05-07 21:52:44 <- oksender(1-a) 2008-05-07 21:52:44 Got pullclient request: pullclient 1 2008-05-07 21:52:44 Saved client response: --------------------- However in the hobbitclient.log I get the default version output as if the data being sent to the bb command isn't formatted right: Hobbit version 4.2.0 Usage: /cust/bb/client/bin/bb [--debug] [--proxy=http://ip.of.the.proxy:port/] RECIPIENT DATA RECIPIENT: IP-address, hostname or URL DATA: Message to send, or "-" to read from stdin If I try running the command: ./bb 127.0.0.1 "pullclient" on the client, or the same with the client's IP from the server, I get nothing. Now I found something when searching the mailing list: http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2007/07/msg00513.html So I applied this patch to my client just to see if that would help, but no dice. Are there any other things I can try, debug commands, etc?

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