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[hobbit] paging for single process
by bewhite＠fellowes.com 22 May '08

22 May '08

OOOOOPPPS! Never mind. I didn't look far enough down the man page. You learn something new every day! -----Original Message----- From: White, Bruce Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 11:49 AM To: 'hobbit at hswn.dk' Subject: RE: [hobbit] paging for single process How does the group parameter on the "files" test allow you to page one group if one process is down and another if a different process is down. This is a function of how the status is set for the "procs" column. From your link: "You can have multiple "PROC" entries for the same host, all of the checks are merged into the "procs" status and the most severe check defines the color of the status." If any monitored process is down, then the status changes to the color you set and then your paging rules kick in. There is no way to subdivide the processes within the "procs" test for paging purposes. If you wrote a special test which looks for a specific process, then the paging rules could be written to page when that new test alarms. .....Bruce -----Original Message----- From: Stef Coene [mailto:stef.coene at docum.org] Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 4:40 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] paging for single process On Wednesday 21 May 2008, Gavin Leonard wrote: > Can you set up and alert to page a certain group on a single failed > process? Right now I only know how to page all processes to a group.. I > have a server that runs the door swipes on the campus.. I would like the > facilities dept to get pages when a proc called card goes down.. but not > other processes.. thanks in advance.. You can use the GROUP parameter: http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/help/manpages/man5/hobbit-clients.cfg.5.html#lbAO Stef To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk ---------------------------------------------------- Note: The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. Fellowes, Inc. ---------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk ---------------------------------------------------- Note: The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. Fellowes, Inc. ----------------------------------------------------

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[hobbit] Random hobbit newbie questions
by bewhite＠fellowes.com 22 May '08

22 May '08

Or use the NOCOLUMNS option in the bb-hosts file: "NOCOLUMNS:column[,column] Used to drop certain of the status columns generated by the Hobbit client. column is one of cpu, disk, files, memory, msgs, ports, procs. This setting stops these columns from being updated for the host. Note: If the columns already exist, you must use the bb(1) utility to drop them, or they will go purple." ....Bruce -----Original Message----- From: Benjamin P. August [mailto:baugust at stanford.edu] Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 12:08 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Random hobbit newbie questions 3) Try a "group-except files <group-name>" in your bb-hosts file. That's what I did for my files test anyway. -- --Ben Benjamin P. August System Administrator - VPUE Stanford University Quoting "Linder, Doug (SABIC Innovative Plastics, consultant)" <Doug.Linder at sabic-ip.com>: > Hi Everyone, I'm relatively new to Hobbit. I like it a lot, but I do > have a few random questions. I've been reading the documentation a lot > and haven't found the answers, so I hope the answers don't turn out to > be "see the man page". :) > > I have to say I really like the documentation to Hobbit. At first > glance it seems a bit short, but on reading it I find that it manages to > be packed with information which is written in a nice concise, > efficient, jargon-free, and human-readable way. The comments in the > config files are also excellent, although sometimes the information in > there is slightly different from what's in the documentation page for > that file - sometimes there's info in one place that isn't in the other. > I wish more documentation in the IT field were written like this. My > only suggestion is that it would be helpful for us new folks to have > some kind of general overview that describes (or better yet, shows in a > flowchart) how data flows between client, server, the various tests, the > web server, how the various config files fit in, and so on. The > information is currently in there but it takes a good bit of reading and > experimenting before you really start to "get it". > > Questions: > > 1) In the hobbit-clients.cfg file, I this is in the comments: > > > # Defaults: MEMPHYS warnlevel=100 paniclevel=101 (i.e. it > will never go red) > # MEMSWAP warnlevel=50 paniclevel=80 > # MEMACT warnlevel=90 paniclevel=97 > # Note: The words "PHYS", "ACT" and "SWAP" are also recognized. > > And then later on, there is this bit: > > # These are the built-in defaults. > # SWAP 20 40 > # MEMSWAP 50 80 > > Is there a difference between MEMSWAP and SWAP? If not, why is it > listed twice in the defaults? If so, what is the difference? > > > 2) In the documentation page for hobbit-clients.cfg, there is this > statement: > > "CLASS=classname - Rule match by the client class-name. You specify the > class-name for a host when starting the client through the > "--class=NAME" option to the runclient.sh script. If no class is > specified, the host by default goes into a class named by the operating > system." > > 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? > > > 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: > > bb localhost "drop <hostname> files" > > That works for a minute or two. On the next page refresh, almost all of > the hosts have the column empty (just a dash), but a few of them are > back to "clear" already. After one or two refreshes, all the systems > are back at clear status. How can I get hobbit to drop the column > forever, permanently, completely, without leaving old history files > around and stuff? > > Thanks for any tips! > > > --- > Doug Linder > UNIX Systems Administrator > CompuCom Systems, Inc. > > SABIC Innovative Plastics > T: 413 448 7563 > D: *838 7563 > E: doug.linder at sabic-ip.com > <mailto:doug.linderrdoug.linder at sabic-ip.com> > > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk ---------------------------------------------------- Note: The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. Fellowes, Inc. ----------------------------------------------------

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[hobbit] paging for single process
by bewhite＠fellowes.com 22 May '08

22 May '08

How does the group parameter on the "files" test allow you to page one group if one process is down and another if a different process is down. This is a function of how the status is set for the "procs" column. From your link: "You can have multiple "PROC" entries for the same host, all of the checks are merged into the "procs" status and the most severe check defines the color of the status." If any monitored process is down, then the status changes to the color you set and then your paging rules kick in. There is no way to subdivide the processes within the "procs" test for paging purposes. If you wrote a special test which looks for a specific process, then the paging rules could be written to page when that new test alarms. .....Bruce -----Original Message----- From: Stef Coene [mailto:stef.coene at docum.org] Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 4:40 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] paging for single process On Wednesday 21 May 2008, Gavin Leonard wrote: > Can you set up and alert to page a certain group on a single failed > process? Right now I only know how to page all processes to a group.. I > have a server that runs the door swipes on the campus.. I would like the > facilities dept to get pages when a proc called card goes down.. but not > other processes.. thanks in advance.. You can use the GROUP parameter: http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/help/manpages/man5/hobbit-clients.cfg.5.html#lbAO Stef To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk ---------------------------------------------------- Note: The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. Fellowes, Inc. ----------------------------------------------------

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server fails to receive all of client message
by mailinglists＠websitemanagers.com.au 22 May '08

22 May '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I have a hobbit server which has been running for a long time quite nicely. Recently, I noticed it was consuming approx 8G worth of data per month (from all the remote clients reporting their data). This was costing quite a bit of money (we pay per MB), so I modified all the client to report using a different IP (and hence provider which has much cheaper rates). Anyway, the problem is that approximately since then, a number of client reports are not completely received. Sometimes some of the ps output is truncated, sometimes the ports sections is truncated, etc. This leads to false positive alerts (ie, procs goes red because some monitored procs are not running since they were after the truncated section). I've increased the timeout on the hobbitd (--timeout=60) but this doesn't seem to have helped. The only common factor between the clients which have this problem are: 1) Most of them are running bbproxy and passing status messages from a number of clients. 2) The rest of them are on very slow connections, or frequently very busy connections. Around the same time I actually 'fixed' bbproxy to on the remote sites, prior to this the clients were reporting directly to both hobbit servers. I've looked for an option to stop bbproxy from 'cacheing and combining' multiple clients into a single connection, but this doesn't seem to be possible. I don't seem to get any logs/alerts from hobbit when this happens. Can anyone suggest where I should look, what I can do to try and resolve this? (My main problem is that I've started ignoring the late night SMS notifications, and I'm sure I will end up missing something important because of that). Running hobbit version 4.2.0 from package 4.2.0-1 on the server. Thanks, Adam - -- Adam Goryachev Website Managers www.websitemanagers.com.au -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIHn+dGyoxogrTyiURAg/tAJ9Lgz930wMxCssZwOKQI6Tb05bncACfcRxJ Z6ofUwHrkxKvfJ9aSEVg4Nc= =pxM2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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paging for single process
by gleonard＠progrexion.com 22 May '08

22 May '08

Can you set up and alert to page a certain group on a single failed process? Right now I only know how to page all processes to a group.. I have a server that runs the door swipes on the campus.. I would like the facilities dept to get pages when a proc called card goes down.. but not other processes.. thanks in advance.. Gavin Leonard [cid:image001.gif at 01C8BB2B.8F4DD650] 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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wake up call
by gleonard＠progrexion.com 22 May '08

22 May '08

Every morning at 7am I get pages from every host I monitor including the display server, that its connection recovered.. the it runs great for the next 23hrs. looking at hobbit web page I see no down time nor do the servers show any down time. But when I click on the historical web link to see the info.. I get this.. I really love hobbit.. but I am not a Web guy at all and I think it might be apache related... Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, root at localhost and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error. More information about this error may be available in the server error log. ________________________________ Apache/2.0.54 (Yellowdog) Server at misery.pgx.local Port 80 Gavin Leonard [cid:image001.gif at 01C8B9B2.A49DC760] 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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[hobbit] paging for single process
by bewhite＠fellowes.com 21 May '08

21 May '08

Gavin, I think would need to create a custom test for that and have it named something other than procs. ....Bruce _____ From: Gavin Leonard [mailto:gleonard at progrexion.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 11:15 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] paging for single process Can you set up and alert to page a certain group on a single failed process? Right now I only know how to page all processes to a group.. I have a server that runs the door swipes on the campus.. I would like the facilities dept to get pages when a proc called card goes down.. but not other processes.. thanks in advance.. Gavin Leonard Director, Systems-Network Engineering T 801-828-1735 F 801-828-1704 E <mailto:gleonard at progrexion.com> gleonard at progrexion.com Research | Marketing | Sales Generation <http://www.progrexion.com/> 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. ---------------------------------------------------- Note: The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. Fellowes, Inc. ----------------------------------------------------

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kerberos check script
by martin.flemming＠desy.de 21 May '08

21 May '08

Hi ! Got anyone a kerberos-server (heimdal) check-script to share ? .. preferably a server-side one ... :-) cheers & thanks Martin ______________________________________________________ Martin Flemming DESY / IT office : Building 2b / 008a Notkestr. 85 phone : 040 - 8998 - 4667 22603 Hamburg mail : martin.flemming at desy.de ______________________________________________________

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vmstat graphs for solaris 10
by Detlef.Stracke＠mobilcom.de 21 May '08

21 May '08

Hi all, the hobbit-client sends some informations form a solaris 10 box, but in TRENDS are only links to the graphs of vmstat1, vmstat4 and vmstat5. The other graphs of vmstat are ok. Any ideas?

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[hobbit] oracle question
by rebecca_henderson＠link.freedom.com 20 May '08

20 May '08

Yes, I have checked. This one AIX server is running 2 9i databases and 1 10G. I have no problem with the 10G. The 9i databases use the 10G LISTENER I'm going to try a couple more things, Thanks! -----Original Message----- From: hobbit at hswn.dk [mailto:hobbit at hswn.dk] Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 1:01 PM To: Rebecca Henderson; hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] oracle question Importance: Low Bb-roracle reads our /etc/oratab if I remember correctly, to determine the active/available SID's on your machine. If you are running RAC, then the instance's are not named RMAN... By your example they would be RMAN1 and RMAN2 depending on the physical node. OEM1 would be OEM running on that physical node, but I assume you now are using Grid Control instead. OEM hails from pre-10g. Check your /etc/oratab and make sure it reflects what you are currently running. Make sure your bb-roracle.ids file contains the correct SID to be testing for that physical node. You also need to point bb-roracle at the correct ORACLE_HOME and TNS_ADMIN values if I remember correctly. On 5/20/08 3:50 PM, "Rebecca Henderson" <rebecca_henderson at link.freedom.com> wrote: The bbroracle.ksh. bb-roracle.def bb-roracle.ids -----Original Message----- From: hobbit at hswn.dk [[ mailto:hobbit at hswn.dk] ]mailto:hobbit at hswn.dk] Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 12:22 PM To: Rebecca Henderson; 'hobbit at hswn.dk' Subject: RE: [hobbit] oracle question Importance: Low How are you doing the oracle listener test? This does not look like the standard output from the oratns test you add to the bb-hosts file. .....Bruce ======================================================================== === From: Rebecca Henderson [[ mailto:rebecca_henderson at link.freedom.com] ]mailto:rebecca_henderson at link.freedom.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 1:33 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] oracle question I have a server that has multiple SIDs, They all use 1 listener, I have a - in the bb-roracle.ids file because they all use the same one. I get this: The SID RMAN1 is ok but the RMAN and OEM1 show as down How can I stop the Two red statuses. Any help would be appreciated! Thank you in advance, Becki Oracle Listener Check (rman1) ======================================================================== === Listener LISTENER_RMAN1 UP Listener LISTENER DOWN Listener LISTENER DOWN ---------------------------------------------------- Note: The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. Fellowes, Inc. ---------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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