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[hobbit] curves went to zero but didn't have a report?
by pkrash＠exegy.com 24 Jun '08

24 Jun '08

How many OS are you monitoring? OS = operating system Paul Krash, system administrator, Exegy, Inc.; 314-218-3602 x 666 This e-mail and any documents accompanying it may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information belonging to Exegy, Inc. Such information may be protected from disclosure by law. The information is intended for use by only the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure or use of the information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately contact the sender by e-mail or phone regarding instructions for return or destruction and do not use or disclose the content to others.

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[hobbit] curves went to zero but didn't have a report?
by pkrash＠exegy.com 24 Jun '08

24 Jun '08

do you monitor services/procs on the unit in question? Ping or snmp reads? When I have a machine go flatline, There are usually other warnings that get sent out (service down, process in uninterruptible sleep, or host unreachable).... I don't have an answer for you about the load = 0 , though it might be interesting to only monitor cpu and mem usage. It would make my world so much simpler. :-) Thanks to all on this list, and all that contribute/write code for hobbit. Hobbit Rocks! Paul Krash, system administrator, Exegy, Inc.; 314-218-3602 x 666 This e-mail and any documents accompanying it may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information belonging to Exegy, Inc. Such information may be protected from disclosure by law. The information is intended for use by only the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure or use of the information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately contact the sender by e-mail or phone regarding instructions for return or destruction and do not use or disclose the content to others.

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[hobbit] RE: ver 4.3 and socket server
by pkrash＠exegy.com 24 Jun '08

24 Jun '08

What protocol is the device using to send its data to hobbit? I have (crude) code that pulls data from a hobbit fed mysql dbase then client flash makes graph. Not embedded into hobbit server pages but seperate web server. Paul Krash, system administrator, Exegy, Inc.; 314-218-3602 x 666 This e-mail and any documents accompanying it may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information belonging to Exegy, Inc. Such information may be protected from disclosure by law. The information is intended for use by only the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure or use of the information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately contact the sender by e-mail or phone regarding instructions for return or destruction and do not use or disclose the content to others.

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Joern Klinckmann/PLZ/CSC is out of the office.
by jklinckmann＠csc.com 24 Jun '08

24 Jun '08

I will be out of the office starting 24.06.2008 and will not return until 25.06.2008. For Motorola account specific issues, please contact Simon Ball (sball7 at csc.com) For Motorola account UNIX escallations, call my mobil. For Berlin related problems, please get in touch with Ronald Pawlik. In very urgent cases, please call my mobil. Many thanks.

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how to get CVS connection to Hobbit?
by john.fisher＠znyx.com 24 Jun '08

24 Jun '08

I can't see how to get a CVS connection to get the latest code for Hobbit. Maybe the instruction is in plain sight, but I can't see it. Where's the repository and whats the login? thanks John

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Hobbit Monitor 4.2.0 : rules in hobbit-clients.cfg not working.
by natark00＠dcor.state.ga.us 23 Jun '08

23 Jun '08

Hey, I have the server ip and hostnamein bb-hosts and i have configured sme rules in hobbit-clients.cfg .. but its not working ... even its not taking the default values .. why ??..any suggestions Thanks and Regards Kumaresh Unix Adminstrator Department of Corrections

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ver 4.3 and socket server
by john.fisher＠znyx.com 23 Jun '08

23 Jun '08

******Sorry for being unclear. Yes, Buchan the eventual product would monitor data on the embedded device, and use Hobbit or some equivalent, as a platform for display. It looks to me like Hobbit is powerful/easily customizable for the display part, but the connection-to-data-source part uses polling, which may be fine for some data, but other data in our world should be pushed down to the humans. For this task I don't care what the data is, I am just making a proof-of-concept. No I don't need the embedded device to act as a server. I am content with a separate Hobbit server. So on the Hobbit server I need to get incoming data from a socket and put it into the Hobbit display, then send it down to the browser. I think I can use a Flash-based model to push data to the browser. This means including a small flash app in the web page that Hobbit assembles, like several chat servers do. So I want to piggyback on the standard Hobbit server by adding to the Hobbit web page with a flash applet that can push data down to the browser. This means I am asking about adding html/flash and data to the Hobbit server web page. What I am asking for is, advice, suggestions, 'I did it already this way' and so forth. I am also asking if there is a socket system in version 4.3 of Hobbit that would be useful. Hoping this makes more sense than the first time... John On Friday 20 June 2008 20:24:29 John P. Fisher wrote: > Hi folks, I want to make a simple demo that shows a proof-of-concept, > and I need some advice and news of possible hobbit 4.3 ver socket > connections. > > I have an embedded linux device and a linux server. I have installed > both hobbit server and client ver 4.2 successfully. > > Now what I want to show is a socket server running on the client ( the > embedded device) pushing data to the hobbit server, and thence to my > browser on a third machine. I have built a crude socket server for the > hobbit client that will do for the demo. So I need to listen on a > socket at the server, and write the data to the web page. Maybe you want to tell us more about what you are trying to achieve. Are you trying to monitor the embedded device? Or, are you trying to use it to monitor specific hosts and report to the hobbit server? There may be other solutions to your problem, but I can't understand from the description of your proposed solution what your original problem was. Regards, Buchan

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BBWin [file:] and epoch time
by rmcgraw＠purdue.edu 23 Jun '08

23 Jun '08

I have the [file:] set up in central mode on our BBWin V.12 client and it returns the following client data to the Hobbit server. [file:c:\Alligate\AAATEST] type:0x00020 (file) mode:777 (not implemented) linkcount:1 owner:0 (not implemented) group:0 (not implemented) size:0 atime:1214222069 (2008/06/23-11:54:29) ctime:1213796626 (2008/06/18-13:43:46) mtime:1214222069 (2008/06/23-11:54:29) On my hobbit server hobbit-clients.cfg I have FILE c:\Alligate\AAATEST red MTIME<88200 The YYYY/MM/DD-HH:MM:SS atime, ctime and mtime are local time. During testomg I noticed that the red icon would come on before I had expected. I decided to do a little checking and using the epoch time calculator at http://www.esqsoft.com/javascript_examples/date-to-epoch.htm. If I enter 2008/06/23-11:54:29 it returns the epoch time of 1214236469, which does not match mtime epoch time above. If I enter the epoch mtime 1214222069 I get Mon Jun 23 2008 07:54:29 GMT-0400 (EDT) which does not match the date. If I enter epoch time 1214236469 I get Mon Jun 23 2008 11:54:29 GMT-0400 (EDT) Things seem to be off 4 hours. It seems that the YYYY/MM/DD-HH:MM:SS time is local but the epoch time is GMT. Do other seem this or am I looking at this wrong. Thanks Robert -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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badconn
by forums＠triadbiz.rr.com 23 Jun '08

23 Jun '08

Running into an issue with the badconn parameter. I have my settings set at "badconn:1:1:5" Which should make the test go read after 5 minutes and it worked all the way up until a week or two ago. I am trying to find out why hobbit is not following the "badconn:1:1:5" in the bb-hosts file. -Josh

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

23 Jun '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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