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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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Would like to tell me how to show history line in picture for Hobbit ?
by tangyongtangyong＠gmail.com 03 Jun '08

03 Jun '08

Hello! Hobbit is a good tool software for monitoring servers, applications and networks, very much! Would like to tell me how to show history line in picture? Thank You very much! Tang Yong 2008-06-03

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Check for hosts without alerts
by stewartl42＠gmail.com 03 Jun '08

03 Jun '08

Is there an easy way to check for hosts without alerts defined? I have about 4000 hosts being monitored and some do not have alerts defined. I would hate to have to check the info test for each of those manually. -- Stewart You only lose what you cling to.

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Testing for RDP service on Windows Systems
by rgordonjr＠gmail.com 02 Jun '08

02 Jun '08

Hello - Does anyone know how to test for the RDP service on a windows system that is not running the BBWin (Or Big Brother) client on it? I've been looking through the hobbit docs (and it is possible i missed it). In googleing for the info I found several hobbit configs out there with an RDP keyword in the bb-hosts file however it doesnt work with my setup (i think I am missing something somewhere..).. I am running 4.2 with the all-in-one and bbwin central config patches. Thanks! -- --==[ Bob Gordon ]==--

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hobbit ghost reports
by vpolyakov＠vmsinfo.com 02 Jun '08

02 Jun '08

where does hobbit store ghost reports, if anywhere? my goal is to have a shell/perl script scan the file (if there's one) daily for the presence of ghost reports and modify bb-hosts to insert these machines into an "uncategorized", or some such, section of hobbit is there such a file to scan for this in?

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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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