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Hobbit Database
by htaute＠media24.com 05 Aug '08

05 Aug '08

Hi We want to reinstall Hobbit on a new server but would like to keep the existing database as we have a long period of information that we would like to keep(backup) and extend on to. Were are the database/information stored on the current server and can we migrate it to a new server. Is there also a way to backup the data periodicly? Thanks Henri Taute Media24 Content Production Tel: +27 21 4062495 Fax: +27 21 4063143 Cell: +28 82 8276124 E-mail: htaute at media24.co.za ____________________________________________________________________________ This email and its contents are subject to an email legal notice that can be viewed at: http://www.naspers.com/email/disclaimer.html. Should you be unable to access the link provided, please email us for a copy at Helpdesk at Media24.com. Hierdie e-pos en sy inhoud is onderhewig aan 'n regskennisgewing oor elektroniese pos wat gelees kan word by http://www.naspers.com/epos/vrywaring.html. 'n Afskrif kan aangevra word by Helpdesk at Media24.com. ____________________________________________________________________________

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Debugging help: bbtest-net gets http test timing wrong
by asparks＠doublesparks.net 23 Jul '08

23 Jul '08

Have a new install of Hobbit (4.2, tried 4.3 snap as well) on a fresh install of CentOS 4.6 x86_64, up to date on patches. I have a problem with HTTP tests on "random" web servers that I just can't figure out. I have about 64 of my hosts in the bb-hosts on this server, and have http tests defined for these servers. On most of these servers, Hobbit is reporting the "Seconds:" for the response at 3 seconds. It seems that it is inconsistent -- one cycle to the next, the 3-second response may move to a different set of servers. The http: tests are defined using the IP address of the server - no server name (so no DNS lookup). I've run a loop of tests on the same URL using wget and with curl, and used my browser and Telnet to connect to the same URL. I consistently get a response time of about 0.2 seconds maximum from the servers. The bbnet entry in hobbitlaunch.cfg looks like: CMD bbtest-net --report --ping --checkresponse --debug With the debugging turned on, I see the following entries periodically in the network test log: Address=10.1.5.17:80, open=1, res=0, err=0, connecttime=0.002965, totaltime=3.006810, Address=10.1.5.18:80, open=1, res=0, err=0, connecttime=0.002956, totaltime=3.007413, Address=10.1.24.67:80, open=1, res=0, err=0, connecttime=0.002860, totaltime=3.007120, The problem does not affect the same hosts each time. The problem will show a different number of hosts usually each cycle, sometimes on same servers, but often on different ones. I've tried the following to see if anything will help: * Reducing the number of hosts. If I only have a couple or three in the bb-hosts, the problem doesn't manifest. * Recompiling. Doesn't help. * Changing the test URL. Doesn't help. * Adding a --concurrency= option to the launch. If I use a concurrency of 1, the problem does not manifest. Setting the concurrency to 1 to fix the problem isn't an option, but makes me think something is getting really mixed up in the select() processing in bbnet. Does anyone have any ideas how to diagnose where Hobbit is coming up with a 3-second latency, when none of my test tools running off the same server can duplicate the same timing? Thanks for any ideas, this is really baffling me. -Alan

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[hobbit] "Info" column slow on latest snapshot (20080422)
by gumby3203＠gmail.com 23 Jul '08

23 Jul '08

Is anyone else experiencing a slow "info" page load with the 2008-04-22 snapshot? It takes about a minute to load. Also, I get this: Alerting: Alert configuration unavailable Admittedly, I just did an in-line install over the 4.2.0 release, so I don't know if it's just a matter of some configuration file weirdness.

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some RRD graphs not drawn
by bb4＠richter-it.net 22 Jul '08

22 Jul '08

Hi there, I'm experiencing a problem with the rrd graphs of the disk space. I'm running Hobbit 4.2.0 with the allinone patch on Debian Etch as server and the clients are BB 1.9c. I have 2 Linux servers running with Veritas Cluster and reporting to the Hobbit server. When I click on the disk icon of the first client everything is displayed correctly. I have all the mount points on top of the page and below them all mount points are displayed as graphs. On the second machine some of these graphs are missing although they are displayed in the list on top and the RRD files are generated correctly. Regards Torsten

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Monitoring FLEXnet License Manager
by annaj＠hi.is 14 Jul '08

14 Jul '08

Would anybody be willing to share their experience in monitoring LEXnet License Manager with Hobbit? I have been doing that, by simply monitoring the network port of the service, and users complain that it is not enough. Allegedly, it seems to continue to listen to the assigned ports, but stops handing out Matlab (...) licenses to the users. For those that have absolutely no idea of what I am talking about, this is a license manager, that among other things, is used for Matlab, Abacus, Maple and other engineering software. It runs as a network daemon, usually on port 27000 or close to that. So before I start rummaging in the shire, and reviving the dead cat, I would like to know if anybody would share their experience on the subject? -- 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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CPU % load on Windows XP
by waa-hobbitml＠revpol.com 11 Jul '08

11 Jul '08

We have approximately 20 virtual XP workstations on a VMWare ESX 3.02 server where the bbwin clients on the XP workstations are reporting back to hobbit CPU loads of between 1% and up to 15% or a little more. This seems appropriate for the tiny amount of work they are performing. However, when the CPU load for one of these virtual XP workstations reaches 7% CPU load (as reported on the CPU page), Hobbit sets the color to Yellow. When the CPU load gets to just around 10%-11% CPU load Hobbit sets the color to red. The hobbit-clients.cfg man page explains the default load as follows: Defaults: warnlevel=5.0, paniclevel=10.0 Which I understand to be *NIX load levels, not %loads as indicated by Windows systems. But in the Reports --> Config Reports page, under the CPU for each host I see: UNIX - Yellow: Load average > 1.5, Red: Load average > 3.0 Windows - Yellow: CPU utilisation > 80%, Red: CPU utilisation > 95% So based on that information, I am assuming that the defaults for CPU load on Windows clients is 80% = yellow and 95% = red. Have I done misunderstood? Do I need to add an explicit HOST entry in hobbit-clients.cfg for Windows machines like so: HOST=%^win.* LOAD 80 95 Thanks for any help - especially help that points me to a document that I missed in my searching. :) -- Bill Arlofski Reverse Polarity, LLC http://www.revpol.com/

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mailack question
by allan＠zandahar.net 10 Jul '08

10 Jul '08

HI all A LONG time ago I asked about ack'ing an alert via email (or via sms-to-email) and to be able to do so without a subject. A patch was written at the time and it was included into the main codebase but unfortunately I did not get a chance to imeplement what I wanted to and never ended up testing it. Thats has just changed recently and now I am having issues acking an alert via text in the body. If i reply to an email and maintain the subject it works fine, if I try cut the subject and paste it as the body nothing happens. I havent gone as far as testing it via the sms-to-email app yet as I cant get it working from a normal email. I still have one other potential problem of me converting the [] in the alerts to () but thats more outbound sms and I can deal with it coming back inwards. Any suggestions appreciated Allan

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Windows Cluster Monitoring Advice
by Padraig.Lennon＠pioneerinvestments.com 08 Jul '08

08 Jul '08

Hi everyone, I have a requirement to monitor some 2 node Windows 2003 File Clusters . I would like to monitor them with BBWin but I have the following questions: * Should I install the bbwin client on both nodes and activate only one of the nodes for monitoring? With this setup I miss monitoring the local C/D drives on each node. * Is it possible to make bbwin a clustered application? (i.e. one that would failover using the MS clustering mechanism) * The cluster.exe supplied with the bbwin package only shows the cluster groups, not the individual items within the groups. Has anyone written any extended cluster checks that they would possibly share with me? If not I can write my own. I'm sure I can get this information with WMI. At the moment I setup the bbwin client on one of the nodes and then change the registry entry to use the cluster name (i.e I install on a node fileclus1n1 and change the registry key to fileclus1). Is this the correct way to setup the monitoring? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I realise the question should probably be on the BBWIN mailing list, but I thought I would have more chance of getting a reply on this list. Thanks in advance Padraig Lennon Senior Systems Engineer Production Services Pioneer Global Investments (Dublin) 5th Floor Georges Quay Plaza, Dublin 2 ext: 2081 Direct dial: 00353 1 480 2081

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Application monitoring
by James.Roberts＠hants.gov.uk 01 Jul '08

01 Jul '08

I am looking to monitor the following applications. I wonder if anyone has written any ext scripts I can use.. The applications are:- Mysql Db2 And websphere. Thanks in advance.

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NFS and shared clientlaunch.cfg files
by dunne＠accuweather.com 30 Jun '08

30 Jun '08

Greetings fellow Hobbit-ers, I was recently tasked with monitoring 100+ solaris systems. Feeling undaunted I reached into my trusty IT toolbox and pulled out one of my favorite tools, Hobbit. What I encountered is as followed. The systems utilize NFS mounted directories. I installed the client files into /usr/local/ hobbit/client and voila! they were available to all of my systems. The issue that I encountered was that I wished to run different external scripts per client, but with a "shared" clientlaunch file I could not see how to do this. (This is where I cringe as I suspect that my solution is rather naive) What I would up doing is modifying the runclient.sh file as reflected below: ~/client hobbit$ diff runclient.sh runclient.ren 79c79 < $0 --hostname="$MACHINEDOTS" stop --- > $0 stop 83c83 < $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/bin/hobbitlaunch --config=$HOBBITCLIENTHOME/etc/ clientlaunch.cfg --log=$HOBBITCLIENTHOME/logs/clientlaunch.log --pidfile= $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/logs/clientlaunch.$MACHINEDOTS.pid --- > $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/bin/hobbitlaunch --config=$HOBBITCLIENTHOME/etc/ $MACHINEDOTS.clientlaunch.cfg --log=$HOBBITCLIENTHOME/logs/ $MACHINEDOTS.clientlaunch.log --pidfile=$HOBBITCLIENTHOME/logs/clientlaunch. $MACHINEDOTS.pid 102c102 < $0 --hostname="$MACHINEDOTS" stop --- > $0 stop 107c107 < $0 --hostname="$MACHINEDOTS" --os="$BBOSTYPE" start --- > $0 start My questions are as followed. Has anyone encountered this specific issue before, and if so how did you address it? Does my, admittedly inelegant, solution pose any issues in relation to long term use? I searched the list and was unable to find anything specific to my issue. Thanks in advance for reading this missive. Best regards, Mike

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