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IronPort
by Jason.Chambers＠geosoft.com 24 Jun '08

24 Jun '08

Anyone have an ironport antispam solution they are monitoring? Jason Chambers IT Help Desk Associate GEOSOFT INC. freedom to explore T +1 416.369.0111 #344 F +1 416.369.9599 Visit our site at www.geosoft.com

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[hobbit] alternate page graphs custom menu
by jokketan＠hotmail.com 18 Jun '08

18 Jun '08

I had already tried the same thing but i don't succeed in getting hobbit to show the alternate templates for the current graphs. Even when i add the --templates=/wherever/you/want directive to this line in hobbitcgi.cnf ( i know this would change the main site also, it's just a test )# hobbitsvc.cgi options for a normal (current) status displayCGI_SVC_OPTS="--env=/usr/lib/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg --no-svcid --history=top"I also tried adding another variable ($ALT_OPTS) that i created myself in the .sh script that generates the page and then adding it to the bb-hostsvc.sh like this: . /usr/local/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitcgi.cfg exec /usr/local/hobbit/server/bin/hobbitsvc.cgi $CGI_SVC_OPTS $ALT_OPTSWhich basically also does nothing...Can anyone shed some light on this??? Seems like i am missing something obvious...Thanks,Jonathan Van Liefde References: alternate page graphs custom menu From: Jonathan van liefde Prev by Date: Testing Hobbit Client Log "IGNORE" filters Next by Date: RE: [hobbit] Question Previous by thread: alternate page graphs custom menu Next by thread: Question about hobbit alert acknowledgement, delay of next alert time Index(es): DateThread To: <hobbit (at) hswn.dk>Subject: RE: [hobbit] alternate page graphs custom menuFrom: "Tom Moore" <Tom.Moore (at) sas.com>Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:42:04 -0400References: <BAY139-W17B66F209315AF69B9FFAAD4EE0 (at) phx.gbl>Thread-index: AcfS6INBn1czzAgURTOpkFRYPh5mBAAAJ72QThread-topic: [hobbit] alternate page graphs custom menu That's exactly the problem I am having and posted to the list a few weeks ago. It seems that the actual cgi scripts that run when you click on an item use the default header sets, rather than the ones specified by your --templates or --pageset settings with bbgen. The first page on the pageset does use the custom_header and custom_footer files, but if you click on an item like "cpu", it runs a cgi script which generates a new page using the default templates instead of your custom ones. For example, most of the items call "bb-hostsvc.sh". which is just a wrapper that takes arguments and runs . /usr/local/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitcgi.cfg exec /usr/local/hobbit/server/bin/hobbitsvc.cgi $CGI_SVC_OPTS Now, optimally you should be able to put a custom $CGI_SVC_OPTS definition in whatever script generates your alternate pages, such that CGI_SVC_OPTS=--templates=/whatever/directory/with/your/new/templatefiles Unfortunately, even this doesn't seem to work. The key is to get your custom sub-pages to use custom templates for the graph pages and such that are dynamically generated by the CGI files. From: Jonathan van liefde [mailto:jokketan (at) hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 1:40 PMTo: hobbit (at) hswn.dkSubject: [hobbit] alternate page graphs custom menu Hi,My problem is the following:We are using the monitoring tool for a helpdesk, every member of the helpdesk has full access to every hobbit page.Local guys should have access to a limited area of the hobbit page.So i have build an alternate page set with all different sections and restricted access with a .htaccess file. This alternate page set uses a different set of headers and footers (without the menu) to prevent local guys from wandering off.But when they look at for example the conn graph for a given host, hobbit uses the bb_header and bb_footer which still has the menu in it.Is there any way to tell hobbit to use the alternate page set header and footer for the graphs of a host when they are accessed through the alternate page set?Thanks for your help,Jonathan Van Liefde.________________________________het ultieme online mailprogramma! Ontdek Windows Live Hotmail, <http://get.live.com/mail/overview> References: alternate page graphs custom menu From: Jonathan van liefde Prev by Date: Testing Hobbit Client Log "IGNORE" filters Next by Date: RE: [hobbit] Question Previous by thread: alternate page graphs custom menu Next by thread: Question about hobbit alert acknowledgement, delay of next alert time Index(es): DateThread _________________________________________________________________ Ontdek Windows Live Hotmail, het ultieme online mailprogramma! http://get.live.com/mail/overview

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MSGS from BBWin client goes purple
by ricardo＠redix.com.br 11 Jun '08

11 Jun '08

Can someone help on this? We are having some trouble with BBWin. Our linux clients are configured in central mode, so all the configuration is made on the server. Now we have to watch some Windows clients, which are configured in local mode. The problem is with the "msgs". One specific client goes purple sometimes. But not the entire host, only msgs column. Procs, disk, memory, svcs and etc are all green, only msgs column goes purple. My BBWin.cfg is as follows <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <configuration> <bbwin> <setting name="bbdisplay" value="ourbbdisplay:1984" /> ... <setting name="mode" value="local" /> <setting name="configclass" value="win32" /> ... <load name="msgs" value="msgs.dll"/> <load name="procs" value="procs.dll"/> <load name="stats" value="stats.dll"/> <load many others...> ... </bbwin> <cpu> ... </cpu> <disk> ... </disk> <externals> ... </externals> <memory> ... </memory> <msgs> <setting name="alwaysgreen" value="false" /> <setting name="delay" value="30m" /> <match logfile="System" type="error" alarmcolor="red" /> <match logfile="System" type="warning" alarmcolor="yellow" /> <match logfile="Application" type="error" alarmcolor="red" /> <match logfile="Application" type="warning" alarmcolor="yellow" /> <match logfile="Security" type="fail" /> <ignore logfile="Security" eventid="537" /> <ignore logfile="Application" eventid="17" /> </msgs> <procs> ... </procs> <svcs> ... </svcs> <uptime> ... </uptime> </configuration> Is there something wrong with the configuration? How can I find out why is it going purple? There's no "Client data" avaliable, maybe because it's running in "local mode"? Thanks. -- 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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Failed to get a message, terminating
by rmcgraw＠purdue.edu 06 Jun '08

06 Jun '08

RUNNING: Linux host.math.purdue.edu 2.6.9-67.0.1.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Nov 30 11:57:43 EST 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Hobbit V4.2.0 with patches. In the hobbitclient.log file I am getting the following: 2008-04-01 13:49:26 Failed to get a message, terminating 2008-04-01 13:54:27 Failed to get a message, terminating 2008-04-01 13:59:28 Failed to get a message, terminating 2008-04-01 14:04:28 Failed to get a message, terminating I am trying to figure out what is causing this message. My display server has the entry for host in the list and seems to be giving the correct information. This is the first time I have installed hobbit on a linux machine so I could be missing something. I have searched the archives but nothing popped up that seemed to be relivant. 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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bbmrtg.pl
by gwege＠infomanage.net 04 Jun '08

04 Jun '08

Hey guys, I'm trying to setup bbmrtg.pl on my server, using the latest version of mrtg and rrdtool. I've read the perdoc and configured everything accordingly but whenever I run the script from the command line I get the following error: bbmrtg.pl: MRTG file -> </opt/hobbit/data/rrd/hostname/hostname_1.rrd> is invalid Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

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cupsd
by stoner-lists＠comcast.net 04 Jun '08

04 Jun '08

For those who want to monitor a cups print server, here's a definition you can put in your bb-services file: [cupsd] send "GET /printers\r\n" expect "HTTP/1.1 200 OK" port 631 Alternatively, you could just use http://host:631/printers in your bb-hosts file. The cupsd is, for monitoring purposes, a web server. -Jeff "Fun with Users #1: ln -s /dev/random /etc/motd"

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BBWin : DMZ mode fetch
by mailinglist.benoit＠gmail.com 03 Jun '08

03 Jun '08

Hello guys, I have a problem with BBWin! I have some servers (Windows UNIX) in DMZ and I would monitored in fetch mode. BBWin can work with 2 modes : - the local mode : used by default. Status are sent to the Hobbit/BigBrother server - the centralized mode : to be used with the Hobbit server. a report is send to the hobbit server via the clientdata channel Client Server Windows <-------- Hobbit Server I want the server retrieves the configuration on the client. C:\Program Files\BBWin\etc\BBWin.cfg : <bbwin> <setting name="bbdisplay" value="127.0.0.1:1984" />  <setting name="mode" value="local" /> <setting name="configclass" value="win32" /> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - </bbwin> I taste too with central but no succes. The port is open : PORT STATE SERVICE 1984/tcp filtered bigbrother hobbit at server:~/application/server$ telnet 8.8.8.8 <http://10.86.1.11/> 1984 Trying 10.86.1.11... I've add to bb-hosts : 8.8.8.8 fqdn # conn hobbitfetch pulldata The file is genered in : C:\Program Files\BBWin\tmp\config.txt No error : C:\Program Files\BBWin\logs\logs.txt I don't understand because on linux it work very well, but not on windows. Can you help me please ? -- <mailinglist.benoit - at - gmail!com>

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Alert problems
by leobozi＠yahoo.com 02 Jun '08

02 Jun '08

Hi, I upgraded Hobbit version 4.1.2p1 to 4.2.0 (CentOS 4 x86_64) with allinone.patch but I'm having problems to set alerts with clusters which have nodes with similar names. For exemple: servername -> head node name; servername001 - batch node name; servername002 - batch node name; ... Before the upgrade, the alerts was working well and th hobbit-alerts.cfg is configured like this: HOST=%^servernameSERVICE=conn COLOR=red RECOVERED MAIL id at email.com.br FORMAT=sms REPEAT=1h The alerts of the nodes are working after the upgrade, but the alert of the head node are appearing multiplied by the number of the nodes of the cluster. I attached a picture that show the problem. Did anybody see a problem like that? Thanks in advance. Leonardo Abra sua conta no Yahoo! Mail, o único sem limite de espaço para armazenamento! http://br.mail.yahoo.com/

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Custom script, rrd file, GAUGE datatype , UNKN
by annaj＠hi.is 02 Jun '08

02 Jun '08

I have created a GPL Hobbit module to monitor Flex License Manager. It seems to be working and delivering data in Hobbit under the column flexlm . On the server, the hobbitserver.cfg file has been changed like so: TEST2RRD="cpu=... ... flexlm=ncv" Data is delivered in the RRD file flexlm.rrd The data arrives OK into the rrd file, with the correct number of used licenses in last_ds field with the default data type DERIVE. SO far so good, but for the graphs, the datatype should be GAUGE. So I added the following line to hobbitserver.cfg : NCV_flexlm="MATLAB:GAUGE" I have tested this a few times, being extra careful to do: ~/server/bin/bb 127.0.0.1 "drop jotunn.rhi.hi.is flexlm" as hobbit user then after stopping the server: rm /var/lib/hobbit/rrd/jotunn.rhi.hi.is/flexlm.rrd Start the server a minute later. Then the last_ds field is set to UNKN like in the following example. <rrd> <version> 0003 </version> <step> 300 </step>  <lastupdate> 1211985894 </lastupdate>  <ds> <name> MATLAB </name> <type> GAUGE </type> <minimal_heartbeat> 600 </minimal_heartbeat> <min> 0.0000000000e+00 </min> <max> NaN </max>  <last_ds> UNKN </last_ds> <value> 5.8800000000e+02 </value> <unknown_sec> 0 </unknown_sec> </ds> I wonder if this has something to do with the fact that the output format from my flexlm module to Hobbit is: $AWK '{printf "%.19s : %d\n", $3, $11 }' Resulting in lines like this: MATLAB : 1 Maybe it is the \n in the format string or maybe there should be a space after the number. I am stuck here. Can anybody help me out. :) BTW: I am using Hobbit 4.2.0 with the allinone patch. -- Kindest Regards, Anna Jonna Ármannsdóttir, %& A: Because people read from top to bottom. Unix System Aministration, Computing Services, %& Q: Why is top posting bad? University of Iceland.

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XML from Hobbit via url
by agmweb＠ilovemaths.co.uk 01 Jun '08

01 Jun '08

Hi, This is my first post. I have searched the archives and the web as much as possible but cant find anything so please point me in the right direction if this has been covered before. I'm trying to obtain xml from Hobbit so I can integrate the results into other web based projects. I can use the command bb 127.0.0.1 "hobbitdxboard host=AServer" within terminal to obtain the xml output below. This is suitable for the purposes I require. <?xml version='1.0' encoding='ISO-8859-1'?> <StatusBoard> <ServerStatus> <ServerName>AServer</ServerName> <Type>perf</Type> <Status>green</Status> <TestFlags></TestFlags> <LastChange>Wed May 21 08:41:07 2008</LastChange> <LogTime>Sat May 24 11:06:11 2008</LogTime> <ValidTime>Sat May 24 11:36:11 2008</ValidTime> <AckTime>N/A</AckTime> <DisableTime>N/A</DisableTime> <Sender>xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx</Sender> <Cookie>N/A</Cookie> <MessageSummary><![CDATA[status AServer.perf green Sat 24/05/2008 10:50:07]]></MessageSummary> </ServerStatus> </StatusBoard> However, I'd like to obtain this output via a url. For example, http://<<hobbitserver>>/hobbit-cgi/bb-xmlreport.sh?HOST=AServer would return the above xml. The host variable would of course need to be passed appropriately to hobbitdxboard. I'm not sure of how to correctly write my bb-xmlreport.sh file, or if im going about this the correct way or not. Any help much appreciated. Andrew

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