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Dual Hobbit servers and acknowledgements.
by david.peters＠dpi.nsw.gov.au 28 May '08

28 May '08

Hi, I have two hobbit servers that each recieve updates from all our client machines. This is working fine with two entries in the client configuration file. What I am struggling with however, is how do I get acknowledgements submitted on one server to also show up on the other server. (Is this possible with the current code?) This message is intended for the addressee named and may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it and notify the sender. Views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, and are not necessarily the views of their organisation.

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mangled and/or assumed data in rrds with 4.3.0-0.20080327 snapshot
by tomg＠mcclatchyinteractive.com 28 May '08

28 May '08

I think I'm seeing some rrd bugs in our Hobbit snapshot, v4.3.0-0.20080327, or something in our config is really out of whack. 1. When a new host is added to bb-hosts, the first data that goes into the rrd for the conn test is mangled and wildly inaccurate. The trend charts have an Y axis with a scale like 10 ?, 20 ?, etc., and the rrd file is filled to the 576th day with data, most of which looks like this:  <row><v> 8.5485381823e-72 </v></row> 2. When a host goes offline and stops reporting, sometimes the rrds associated with the disk trend charts simply fill in the missing data with 0s instead of NaN. Any ideas? I didn't find anything useful in the rrd-status.log. Thanks, Tom

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BBWin : DMZ mode fetch
by mailinglist.benoit＠gmail.com 28 May '08

28 May '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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Background color
by waa-hobbitml＠revpol.com 28 May '08

28 May '08

Is it possible to have the background color on EVERY page be the color of the worst issue? That is, if any service is yellow, shouldn't all pages have a yellow background so that no matter what system or service you are looking at you know that something is yellow somewhere. (same goes for purple or red) I thought I read with the all-in-one patch that the background color now mimics the way Big Brother worked. Perhaps I misread. Is this a switch I missed somewhere? Thanks -- Bill Arlofski Reverse Polarity, LLC

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Python and hobbit variables
by wayne＠flashmedia.co.za 28 May '08

28 May '08

Hi all I'm re-writing my custom scripts in python. Is there any way to access the $BBDISP, $MACHINE , $BBHOME , etc variables from Python? -- Regards Wayne

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XML from Hobbit via url
by agmweb＠ilovemaths.co.uk 28 May '08

28 May '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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Mailing list problems - hopefully resolved now
by henrik＠hswn.dk 28 May '08

28 May '08

my server hosting the Hobbit mailing list had developed a disk/filesystem problem affecting the list of subscribers to the mailing list. This held up processing of mails sent to the list, which is why you haven't received any mails from the list the past couple of days. It should be fixed now, although I had to re-create the subscriber list from the log of subscribe/unsubscribe events over the past 3 years. I believe I got that right, but if You find yourself suddenly getting mails from the list after you have unsubscribed, please accept my apologies in advance - and unsubscribe either by mailing me, or by mailing the automatic list manager at hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk Regards, Henrik

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ghostlist
by philwild＠gmail.com 28 May '08

28 May '08

Hi Henrik Sorry to ask this directly, hopefully you can help me. I have asked this of the group a couple of times but have not had a suitable answer back. I am trying to use the output received from hobbitd when issuing the bb ghostlist command. The command reports correctly, but after modifying the bb-hosts file, ghostlist continues to report ghosts. I need to do a full restart of hobbit to get hobbitd reporting correctly. I started digging through the source tonight but I have to admit that I just can't understand C well enough. hobbitd knows the bb-hosts file has been updated because the host appears on the webpage, but ghostlist still reports it incorrectly. Is a restart the only way to resolve this? Could I HUP a process to fix it? Many thanks Phil -- Tel: 0400 466 952 Fax: 0433 123 226 email: philwild AT gmail.com

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hobbitmon.com page down?
by jonescr＠cisco.com 27 May '08

27 May '08

FYI I can't get to either hobbitmon.com or hswn.dk. -Charles

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Duplicate messages in list digest
by robert.herron＠gmail.com 27 May '08

27 May '08

I'm subscribed in digest mode. Duplicate messages are being sent in the digest. This started on Friday. Anyone else seeing this? I included a truncated copy of the last digest I received. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <hobbit-digest-help at hswn.dk> Date: Tue, May 27, 2008 at 9:08 AM Subject: hobbit Digest 27 May 2008 13:08:02 -0000 Issue 1079 To: hobbit at hswn.dk hobbit Digest 27 May 2008 13:08:02 -0000 Issue 1079 Topics (messages 19420 through 19443): Error compiling todays snapshot (27/5) 19420 by: Lars Ebeling 19429 by: Lars Ebeling monitor of Lustre-Filesystem 19421 by: Martin Flemming 19426 by: Martin Flemming 19430 by: Martin Flemming <SNIP> Re: Random hobbit newbie questions 19425 by: Johan Björklund 19434 by: Johan Björklund <SNIP> Administrivia: To subscribe to the digest, e-mail: <hobbit-digest-subscribe at hswn.dk> To unsubscribe from the digest, e-mail: <hobbit-digest-unsubscribe at hswn.dk> To post to the list, e-mail: <hobbit at hswn.dk> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Lars Ebeling" <lars.ebeling at leopg9.no-ip.org> To: "hobbit" <hobbit at hswn.dk> Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 06:35:55 +0200 Subject: Error compiling todays snapshot (27/5) Probably known problems 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 -c -o loaddata.o loaddata.c loaddata.c: In function `load_state': loaddata.c:418: warning: passing arg 4 of `sendmessage' from incompatible pointe r type loaddata.c:418: error: too many arguments to function `sendmessage' loaddata.c:422: warning: passing arg 4 of `sendmessage' from incompatible pointe r type loaddata.c:422: error: too many arguments to function `sendmessage' make[1]: *** [loaddata.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/hobbit/snapshot/bbdisplay' make: *** [bbdisplay-build] Error 2 -- Regards Lars Ebeling http://leopg9.no-ip.org Hobbithobbyist "I am not young enough to know everything." -- Oscar Wilde ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Lars Ebeling" <lars.ebeling at leopg9.no-ip.org> To: "hobbit" <hobbit at hswn.dk> Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 06:35:55 +0200 Subject: Error compiling todays snapshot (27/5) Probably known problems 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 -c -o loaddata.o loaddata.c loaddata.c: In function `load_state': loaddata.c:418: warning: passing arg 4 of `sendmessage' from incompatible pointe r type loaddata.c:418: error: too many arguments to function `sendmessage' loaddata.c:422: warning: passing arg 4 of `sendmessage' from incompatible pointe r type loaddata.c:422: error: too many arguments to function `sendmessage' make[1]: *** [loaddata.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/hobbit/snapshot/bbdisplay' make: *** [bbdisplay-build] Error 2 -- Regards Lars Ebeling http://leopg9.no-ip.org Hobbithobbyist "I am not young enough to know everything." -- Oscar Wilde ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Martin Flemming <martin.flemming at desy.de> To: hobbit at hswn.dk Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 11:19:45 +0200 (CEST) Subject: monitor of Lustre-Filesystem Hi ! Got somebody a client or server-monitor-script for the Lustre-Filesystem or give me hint what can i do ? Thanks & Cheers Martin ______________________________________________________ Martin Flemming DESY / IT office : Building 2b / 008a Notkestr. 85 phone : 040 - 8998 - 4667 22603 Hamburg mail : martin.flemming at desy.de ______________________________________________________ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Martin Flemming <martin.flemming at desy.de> To: hobbit at hswn.dk Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 11:19:45 +0200 (CEST) Subject: monitor of Lustre-Filesystem Hi ! Got somebody a client or server-monitor-script for the Lustre-Filesystem or give me hint what can i do ? Thanks & Cheers Martin ______________________________________________________ Martin Flemming DESY / IT office : Building 2b / 008a Notkestr. 85 phone : 040 - 8998 - 4667 22603 Hamburg mail : martin.flemming at desy.de ______________________________________________________ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Martin Flemming <martin.flemming at desy.de> To: hobbit at hswn.dk Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 11:19:45 +0200 (CEST) Subject: monitor of Lustre-Filesystem Hi ! Got somebody a client or server-monitor-script for the Lustre-Filesystem or give me hint what can i do ? Thanks & Cheers Martin ______________________________________________________ Martin Flemming DESY / IT office : Building 2b / 008a Notkestr. 85 phone : 040 - 8998 - 4667 22603 Hamburg mail : martin.flemming at desy.de ______________________________________________________ <SNIP> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Johan Björklund <the at whero.net> To: hobbit at hswn.dk Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 10:09:19 +0200 Subject: Re: [hobbit] Random hobbit newbie questions On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 18:49 CEST, "Linder, Doug (SABIC Innovative Plastics, consultant)" < Doug.Linder at sabic-ip.com> wrote: > Is there a difference between MEMSWAP and SWAP? If not, why is it > listed twice in the defaults? If so, what is the difference? As far as I have read the documentation you can use either keyword. SWAP is just three letters shorter than MEMSWAP (according to documentation you can use either MEMPHYS, PHYS, MEMACT, ACT, MEMSWAP and SWAP). > Unfortunately I can't find any details about what the default names of > the "classes named by the operating system" are, so I don't know which > strings to put after "CLASS=" in my hobbit-clients.cfg file. Is there a > list somewhere? CLASS is up to you to define. You could use it to classify and group togehter simlar systems in i.e. hobbit-clients.cfg (the most practical place to use this flag). On the clients define CLASS=webfront and in your hobbit-clients.cfg write this: CLASS=webfront PROC java PROC httpd 10 You could achive the same thing using regexp, like: HOST=%web(1-9).mydomain.com PROC java PROC httpd 10 Which soultion you use depends more on what you feels are the most practiacal solution. > 3) There are a couple columns in the default configuration that I don't > want, like "files". On the page in question, the status icon for every > system is "clear" (white). I want to use the "drop" option to the bb > command to do this. I issued this command for every host on the page in > question: You've got many suggestions already, but I have one more solution: update your clientdata channel, this is what my channel looks like: [clientdata] ENVFILE /home/hobbitd/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg NEEDS hobbitd CMD hobbitd_channel --channel=client --log=$BBSERVERLOGS/clientdata.log hobbitd_client --no-clear-msgs --no-clear-files --no-clear-ports This tells hobbitd_client to not generate CLEAR status if no test data is defined for MSGS, FILES or PORTS. All of the above implies that you use central configuration. -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Johan Björklund <the at whero.net> http://whero.net/ | +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | I AM DEATH, NOT TAXES. I TURN UP ONLY ONCE. | (Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchet) +-------------------------------- ------ ----- ---- --- -- - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Johan Björklund <the at whero.net> To: hobbit at hswn.dk Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 10:09:19 +0200 Subject: Re: [hobbit] Random hobbit newbie questions On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 18:49 CEST, "Linder, Doug (SABIC Innovative Plastics, consultant)" < Doug.Linder at sabic-ip.com> wrote: > Is there a difference between MEMSWAP and SWAP? If not, why is it > listed twice in the defaults? If so, what is the difference? As far as I have read the documentation you can use either keyword. SWAP is just three letters shorter than MEMSWAP (according to documentation you can use either MEMPHYS, PHYS, MEMACT, ACT, MEMSWAP and SWAP). > Unfortunately I can't find any details about what the default names of > the "classes named by the operating system" are, so I don't know which > strings to put after "CLASS=" in my hobbit-clients.cfg file. Is there a > list somewhere? CLASS is up to you to define. You could use it to classify and group togehter simlar systems in i.e. hobbit-clients.cfg (the most practical place to use this flag). On the clients define CLASS=webfront and in your hobbit-clients.cfg write this: CLASS=webfront PROC java PROC httpd 10 You could achive the same thing using regexp, like: HOST=%web(1-9).mydomain.com PROC java PROC httpd 10 Which soultion you use depends more on what you feels are the most practiacal solution. > 3) There are a couple columns in the default configuration that I don't > want, like "files". On the page in question, the status icon for every > system is "clear" (white). I want to use the "drop" option to the bb > command to do this. I issued this command for every host on the page in > question: You've got many suggestions already, but I have one more solution: update your clientdata channel, this is what my channel looks like: [clientdata] ENVFILE /home/hobbitd/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg NEEDS hobbitd CMD hobbitd_channel --channel=client --log=$BBSERVERLOGS/clientdata.log hobbitd_client --no-clear-msgs --no-clear-files --no-clear-ports This tells hobbitd_client to not generate CLEAR status if no test data is defined for MSGS, FILES or PORTS. All of the above implies that you use central configuration. -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Johan Björklund <the at whero.net> http://whero.net/ | +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | I AM DEATH, NOT TAXES. I TURN UP ONLY ONCE. | (Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchet) +-------------------------------- ------ ----- ---- --- -- -

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