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Hobbit constantly coring
by kevin.walsh＠criticalpath.net 18 Feb '09

18 Feb '09

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http network test
by ralphmitchell＠gmail.com 06 Feb '09

06 Feb '09

I've got a few instances of a.b.c.d www.server.com # http://www.server.com/ and the http column shows up just fine, including the time the test took and a nice graph. The question I was just asked is, is it possible to specify "max response time", so that if the time shown is greater than N seconds I get a red flag?? I don't see a way to set that in the man pages for either bb-hosts or hobbit-client.cfg. Thanks, Ralph Mitchell

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RRD log errors
by rmcgraw＠purdue.edu 12 Jan '09

12 Jan '09

Every five minutes and I am getting the following in the rrd-status.log. Host peano is: Hostname: peano.math.purdue.edu OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 6) Linux peano.math.purdue.edu 2.6.9-67.0.1.ELsmp x86_64 I searched the archive and did not find any information about this. My graphs look ok. Any ideas? Robert 2008-06-04 13:20:59 RRD error updating /local/hobbit420/data/rrd/peano.math.purdue.edu/la.rrd from 128.210.3.244: illegal attempt to update using time 1212600059 when last update time is 1212600059 (minimum one second step) 2008-06-04 13:20:59 RRD error updating /local/hobbit420/data/rrd/peano.math.purdue.edu/procs.rrd from 128.210.3.244: illegal attempt to update using time 1212600059 when last update time is 1212600059 (minimum one second step) 2008-06-04 13:20:59 RRD error updating /local/hobbit420/data/rrd/peano.math.purdue.edu/users.rrd from 128.210.3.244: illegal attempt to update using time 1212600059 when last update time is 1212600059 (minimum one second step) 2008-06-04 13:20:59 RRD error updating /local/hobbit420/data/rrd/peano.math.purdue.edu/clock.rrd from 128.210.3.244: illegal attempt to update using time 1212600059 when last update time is 1212600059 (minimum one second step) 2008-06-04 13:20:59 RRD error updating /local/hobbit420/data/rrd/peano.math.purdue.edu/disk,root.rrd from 128.210.3.244: illegal attempt to update using time 1212600059 when last update time is 1212600059 (minimum one second step) 2008-06-04 13:20:59 RRD error updating /local/hobbit420/data/rrd/peano.math.purdue.edu/disk,boot.rrd from 128.210.3.244: illegal attempt to update using time 1212600059 when last update time is 1212600059 (minimum one second step) 2008-06-04 13:20:59 RRD error updating /local/hobbit420/data/rrd/peano.math.purdue.edu/disk,var.rrd from 128.210.3.244: illegal attempt to update using time 1212600059 when last update time is 1212600059 (minimum one second step) 2008-06-04 13:20:59 RRD error updating /local/hobbit420/data/rrd/peano.math.purdue.edu/memory.real.rrd from 128.210.3.244: illegal attempt to update using time 1212600059 when last update time is 1212600059 (minimum one second step) 2008-06-04 13:20:59 RRD error updating /local/hobbit420/data/rrd/peano.math.purdue.edu/memory.swap.rrd from 128.210.3.244: illegal attempt to update using time 1212600059 when last update time is 1212600059 (minimum one second step) 2008-06-04 13:20:59 RRD error updating /local/hobbit420/data/rrd/peano.math.purdue.edu/memory.actual.rrd from 128.210.3.244: illegal attempt to update using time 1212600059 when last update time is 1212600059 (minimum one second step) -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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server fails to receive all of client message
by mailinglists＠websitemanagers.com.au 16 Dec '08

16 Dec '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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bbwin 0.12 available
by etienne.grignon＠gmail.com 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

Hello, I publish today BBWin 0.12. BBWin 0.12 Beta version - May 21th 2008 ------------------- * Fix multiple bbdisplay with centralized mode * Send BBWin version (clientversion.cfg from etc folder) * Fix service names with spaces with centralized mode (replace spaces by underscore) Here the link for the download : http://sourceforge.net/projects/bbwin As usual, let me know if you get troubles with this new version. Regards, -- Etienne GRIGNON

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Memory and CPU usage by a process
by vadud3＠gmail.com 01 Dec '08

01 Dec '08

Anyone worked on collecting data and generating rrd and graph for a particular process? I am trying to collect it for all the java processes on one system, which is easy for solaris, and then generate rrd and create graph. With little perl scripts, as provided in rrdtool website, I can generate the rrds as well using the data but how do I tell hobbit server to do the graph? I want to do it all in the server may be by modifying the `ps' script on the client to show the `RSS' column Thanks -- Asif Iqbal PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu

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hobbitlaunch segfault / timewarp happend again
by hobbit＠alexkeller.de 13 Nov '08

13 Nov '08

Hi Henrik, in january I reported a segfault with hobbitlaunch/timefunc.c. You quickly provided a patch... Now I'm having a new error - see core dump: /opt/hobbit/client# gdb bin/hobbitlaunch core GNU gdb 6.4-debian Copyright 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so.1". Core was generated by `./bin/hobbitlaunch --config=./etc/clientlaunch.cfg --log=./logs/clientlaunch.lo'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. warning: Can't read pathname for load map: Input/output error. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libz.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libz.so.1 Reading symbols from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2 #0 errprintf (fmt=0x6b <Address 0x6b out of bounds>) at errormsg.c:42 42 time_t now = getcurrenttime(NULL); (gdb) bt #0 errprintf (fmt=0x6b <Address 0x6b out of bounds>) at errormsg.c:42 #1 0x0804f125 in getcurrenttime (retparm=0x0) at timefunc.c:73 #2 0x0804b9e0 in errprintf (fmt=0x6b <Address 0x6b out of bounds>) at errormsg.c:42 #3 0x0804f125 in getcurrenttime (retparm=0x0) at timefunc.c:73 #4 0x0804b9e0 in errprintf (fmt=0x6b <Address 0x6b out of bounds>) at errormsg.c:42 #5 0x0804f125 in getcurrenttime (retparm=0x0) at timefunc.c:73 #6 0x0804b9e0 in errprintf (fmt=0x6b <Address 0x6b out of bounds>) at errormsg.c:42 #7 0x0804f125 in getcurrenttime (retparm=0x0) at timefunc.c:73 #8 0x0804b9e0 in errprintf (fmt=0x6b <Address 0x6b out of bounds>) at errormsg.c:42 #9 0x0804f125 in getcurrenttime (retparm=0x0) at timefunc.c:73 #10 0x0804b9e0 in errprintf (fmt=0x6b <Address 0x6b out of bounds>) at errormsg.c:42 [...] I can reproduce the error with "ntpdate" using a misconfigured ntp server (2 min in the past): 1. start hobbit client "runclient.sh start" 2. sync time with "ntpdate <misconfigured-time-server>" 3. get a core dump :-( Regards, Alexander

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ping intervals
by gleonard＠progrexion.com 13 Nov '08

13 Nov '08

I have some servers that it is critical that I know they are down within at the most a minute to two minutes... hobbit polls every 5min if I remember right? How do I decrease the polling intervals so I can catch these connection problems quicker? Thanks in advance... Gavin Leonard [cid:image001.gif at 01C8B6EA.EB59EA00] 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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no graphs from mpstat
by klomph＠nlr.nl 06 Oct '08

06 Oct '08

I'm trying to setup mpstat to monitor systems with multiple cpu's, but the graphs are not created. Can someone help me with this ? The information is send from the client to the server and in the rrd data directory I have a file called mpstat.CPU2.rrd but there are no values in the last ds (see example) <ds> <name> CPU </name> <type> GAUGE </type> <minimal_heartbeat> 600 </minimal_heartbeat> <min> 0.0000000000e+00 </min> <max> 3.2000000000e+01 </max>  <last_ds> </last_ds> <value> NaN </value> <unknown_sec> 241 </unknown_sec> </ds> the contents of the hobbit_mpstat.hostname.send file is CPUs: 2 CPU0usr: 17.18 CPU0sys: 1.34 CPU0wt: 0.06 CPU0idl: 81.31 CPU1usr: 26.16 CPU1sys: 1.40 CPU1wt: 0.06 CPU1idl: 72.29 And I have copied the rrd_data.pl from the shire and can't find a typo in it. Any suggestions would be appriciated. Regards, Bert Klomp

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Tracking file sizes
by michael.nemeth＠lmco.com 28 Aug '08

28 Aug '08

First: Sol9 sparc 4.2 with latest allinone patch in hobbit-client.cfg FILE /etc/ypfiles/passwd TRACK=passwd in client-local.cfg file:/etc/ypfiles/passwd size of file is 66758 But the graph show way out sizes!: cur:286723427454063.0 Search thought the archive I found someone with the same problem but they never got answer. Any Ideas whats wrong?

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