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

20 May '08

The bbroracle.ksh. bb-roracle.def bb-roracle.ids -----Original Message----- From: 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] 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

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

20 May '08

I did try specifying for each I will try to disable them next. Thanks I just thought if someone had come across this that there Was another way to get it done. -----Original Message----- From: hobbit at hswn.dk [mailto:hobbit at hswn.dk] Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 12:36 PM To: Rebecca Henderson; hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] oracle question Importance: Low Can you specify the listener for each SID? I know it's the same, and I know it's the default, but it's worth a shot. Or maybe you can just disable the listener check for those other SIDs, maybe? -- --Ben Benjamin P. August System Administrator - VPUE Stanford University Quoting Rebecca Henderson <rebecca_henderson at link.freedom.com>: >> 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 >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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[hobbit] oracle question
by bewhite＠fellowes.com 20 May '08

20 May '08

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] 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. ----------------------------------------------------

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Request for comment about a resolution for Monitoring ServiceNames with white spaces
by Matthew.Roberts＠nt.gov.au 20 May '08

20 May '08

Hi Again, I didn't get a response to a post made to this mailing list about monitoring Services with names that were multiple words separated by a whitespace character http://www.hobbitmon.com/hobbiton/2008/05/msg00001.htm so I did some searching through the hobbit source code to find out where my problem lay and managed to identify the problem and resolve it. The problem seemed to be in the way that the data containing the list of Services and their status is formatted by the BBWin client when sent to the Hobbit Server. It uses whitespaces to format the Service information into columns so that it can be viewed in a nice way rather then scattered all over the screen. To handle these whitespaces and determine which columns actually contain useful data, the nextcolumn function inside lib/misc.c is used to determine the location of these whitespaces within the string so that the getcolumn function can be used to retrieve the ServiceName, StartupType and Status for each service. This works brilliantly for services that are one word or use an underscore character to separate the words, however fails when the ServiceName contains a whitespace. In case I didn't explain this very well, an example of what was being returned is: If the service name is Alerter namestr = getcolumn(p, namecol) which returns Alerter startupstr = getcolumn(p, startupcol) which returns Disabled statestr = getcolum(p, statecol) which returns Stopped If the service name is multi word such as "VMware NAS Service" namestr = getcolumn(p, namecol) which returns VMware startupstr = getcolumn(p, startupcol) which returns NAS statestr = getcolum(p, statecol) which returns Service I am not a C programmer and the first time I actually looked at source code written in C was to diagnose this problem. However I have managed to resolve the problem by writing my own function within the bbwin.c source which checks the string returned by getcoumn(p, startupcol) and if it doesnt contain either StartupType, automatic, manual or disabled, then to keep looping until one of these strings are located. Due to the fact that I am not a C programmer, and that we rely heavily on Hobbit for our system monitoring, I am posting this to the mailing list so that I can get comment from Henrik or someone else who does have knowledge in C programming on the changes I have made and tell me if they can identify any flaws in it which may jeopardize the Hobbit application. I have tested the changes in our test environment containing a couple of monitored clients and it works great! However I am hesitant to patch our production environment until I can get some reassurance that the Hobbit Monitoring wont crash a week or two later because of my poor coding. For easier reading, I have pasted a copy of the difference file between my modified version of the bbwin.c and the bbwin.patch release version below. --- bbwin.c 2008-09-08 08:51:59.000000000 +0930 +++ ./hobbitd/client/bbwin.c 2008-05-12 09:21:22.000000000 +0930 @@ -283,6 +283,57 @@ freestrbuffer(whomsg); } +/* This function was added to handle spaces in Service Names + it is called by a modified section further below */ + +int handle_bbwin_services(char substring[80]) +{ + int i=0,j=0,k=0,count=0,l=0,k1=0; + char mainstring[80] = "StartupType,automatic,manual,disabled"; /* Main String to be searched */ + int result=0; + l=strlen(substring); + + while (mainstring[i]!=EOF) + { + if (mainstring[i]==substring[j]) + { + i++; + j++; + k1=1; + if (j==l) + { + j=0; + k=1; + count=count+1; + } + } + else + { + if (k1==1) + { + j=0; + k1=0; + } + else + i++; + } + } + + if (k==1) + { + //Match found! Set result to value of 1 + result = 1; + } + else + { + if (k==0) + //Match not found! Set result to value of 0 + result = 0; + } +//Return result, result of 1 will break WHILE loop. +return result; +} + void bbwin_svcs_report(char *hostname, char *clientclass, enum ostype_t os, void *hinfo, char *fromline, char *timestr, int namecol, int startupcol, int statecol, char *svcstr, char *svcauto) @@ -310,6 +361,9 @@ int scount, scolor; char *namestr, *startupstr, *statestr; +/* This section was modified to handle spaces in Service Names + the function handle_bbwin_services is defined above */ + bol = svcstr; while (bol) { char *p; @@ -317,10 +371,31 @@ nl = strchr(bol, '\n'); if (nl) *nl = '\0'; /* Data lines */ + + p = strdup(bol); + namestr = getcolumn(p, namecol); + strcpy(p, bol); + startupstr = getcolumn(p, startupcol); + + int newnamecol = namecol; + int newstartupcol= startupcol; + int newstatecol = statecol; + + int breaktest = handle_bbwin_services(startupstr); + + while(breaktest == 0){ + newstartupcol += 1; newstatecol +=1; newnamecol +=1; + p = strdup(bol); + sprintf(namestr, "%s %s", namestr, getcolumn(p, newnamecol)); + strcpy(p, bol); + startupstr = getcolumn(p, newstartupcol); + breaktest = handle_bbwin_services(startupstr); + } + + strcpy(p, bol); + statestr = getcolumn(p, newstatecol); - p = strdup(bol); namestr = getcolumn(p, namecol); - strcpy(p, bol); startupstr = getcolumn(p, startupcol); - strcpy(p, bol); statestr = getcolumn(p, statecol); +// End of modified Section add_svc_count(namestr, startupstr, statestr); @@ -382,7 +457,7 @@ } /* And the full svc output for those who want it "commented out because I dont care about other services*/ - if (svclistinsvcs) addtostatus(svcstr); + //if (svclistinsvcs) addtostatus(svcstr); if (fromline) addtostatus(fromline); finish_status(); Appologies for the length of the email, I didnt want to attach my modified source as a patch file incase it was blocked by firewalls. Regards, Matthew Roberts Senior Systems Administrator - Windows

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cpu staff from hobbit
by Detlef.Stracke＠mobilcom.de 20 May '08

20 May '08

Hi all, we have some Solaris 10 zones and we don`t want monitor the cpu status for every zone. Can i prevent, that some clients send CPU status? Thanks Detlef

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Monitor individual process's memory utilization of Windows?
by casedj＠21cn.com 20 May '08

20 May '08

Hi all, Is it possible to monitor individual process's memory utilization of Windows? There's BBWin(0.9) installed in Windows 2003 machine, or coding needed? Thanks, Case

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paging for single windows process
by gleonard＠progrexion.com 20 May '08

20 May '08

How would I send paging for just a single windows service to a pager? Say iis goes down on a web box and I want to send it to the web team...so I don't want them to get paged for every service that might fail.. just the one... thanks in advance.. Gavin Leonard [cid:image001.gif at 01C8BA07.F7836520] 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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Compile errors
by Mark_Ellis＠cable.comcast.com 20 May '08

20 May '08

I am trying to compile hobbit snapshot on Solaris 10 and I have run into an issue. Any help would be great. gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -DSunOS -I. -I/export/home/snapshot/include -I/usr/local/include -I. -I../include -DHAVE_OPENSSL=1 -I/usr/local/ssl/include -lresolv -lsocket -lnsl -c -o sendmsg.o sendmsg.c Putting child 0x0007e978 (sendmsg.o) PID 14270 on the chain. Live child 0x0007e978 (sendmsg.o) PID 14270 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) Reaping losing child 0x0007e978 PID 14270 make[1]: *** [sendmsg.o] Error 1 Removing child 0x0007e978 PID 14270 from chain. make[1]: Leaving directory `/export/home/snapshot/lib' Reaping losing child 0x00078690 PID 7283 make: *** [lib-build] Error 2 Removing child 0x00078690 PID 7283 from chain. Mark Ellis NE&TO Office 978-244-4006 Cell 978-490-4332

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help with hobbit-alerts.cfg
by tlewick＠tradebotsystems.com 20 May '08

20 May '08

Hi all, I wanted to set up hobbit alerting, and I wanted to set it up to both email one group and send text messages to another group. I verified the functionality is working completely for email, but the SMS alerts are being sent outside of the service window I set up... Please see below samples of the config file First I tried... PAGE=Location/Hosts MAIL group at company.com SERVICE=cpu,mem,ntp DURATION>1 REPEAT=15 COLOR=red RECOVERED TIME=W:0730:1630 SCRIPT /home/hobbit/server/ext/smsplus.sh number at txt.att.net FORMAT=SMS DURATION>3 REPEAT=30 COLOR=red RECOVERED And in testing, we would receive text pages beyond 4:30pm. So then I tried adding TIME=W:0730:1630 to the SCRIPT line, see below PAGE=Location/Hosts MAIL group at company.com SERVICE=cpu,mem,ntp DURATION>1 REPEAT=15 COLOR=red RECOVERED TIME=W:0730:1630 SCRIPT /home/hobbit/server/ext/smsplus.sh number at txt.att.net FORMAT=SMS DURATION>3 REPEAT=30 COLOR=red RECOVERED TIME=W:0730:1630 But same result, email alerts stop past 4:30pm. But we still get the text pages. Can someone clue me in on what I'm doing wrong with the text pages? Thanks, Taylor

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Bind IP on the Client
by linuxmasterjedi＠free.fr 19 May '08

19 May '08

Hi, I would like to bind the IP of the client. I've seen "--listen" for Hobbitd but nothing about the client. My client is running on a linux server with several IPs in fetch mode. I will like to make it available on just one IP. Any ideas? Thanks by advance, LMJ

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