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bb query "host.status" not working
by omar＠basis.is 22 Jul '08

22 Jul '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi. It's possible I've stumbled uppon a bug. I'm using a snapshot version, two or three days old. Upgraded from 4.2.0. My problem is that I get no response from running 'bb 127.0.0.1 "query host.conn"'. This was working before and is working on other older instances I'm running elsewhere. Following is what I've done to debug so far, do you have any suggestions? Maybe I'm doing something wrong here? This is the version I'm currently using: pmonitor02 bin # ./bb --help Hobbit version 4.3.0-0.20080403 This is what I get from the command with debuging: pmonitor02 ~ # bb 127.0.0.1 --debug "query huginn.conn" 2008-07-10 11:48:50 Transport setup is: 2008-07-10 11:48:50 bbdportnumber = 1984 2008-07-10 11:48:50 bbdispproxyhost = NONE 2008-07-10 11:48:50 bbdispproxyport = 0 2008-07-10 11:48:50 Recipient listed as '127.0.0.1' 2008-07-10 11:48:50 Hobbit protocol on port 1984 2008-07-10 11:48:50 Will connect to address 127.0.0.1 port 1984 2008-07-10 11:48:50 Connect status is 0 2008-07-10 11:48:50 Closing connection Here is the log for hobbitd running in debug mode at the same time. Notice the "query hug" line: 2008-07-10 11:48:50 -> do_message/1 (169 bytes): status+6 sapp04,skyrr,median,local.id green fim júl 10 11:48:50 GMT 2008 idd test 2008-07-10 11:48:50 -> update_statistics 2008-07-10 11:48:50 <- update_statistics 2008-07-10 11:48:50 -> get_hts 2008-07-10 11:48:50 <- get_hts 2008-07-10 11:48:50 ->handle_status 2008-07-10 11:48:50 posting to stachg channel: host=sapp04.skyrr.median.local, test=id 2008-07-10 11:48:50 -> posttochannel 2008-07-10 11:48:50 Posting message 5 to 1 readers 2008-07-10 11:48:50 <- posttochannel 2008-07-10 11:48:50 posting to status channel 2008-07-10 11:48:50 -> posttochannel 2008-07-10 11:48:50 Posting message 5 to 1 readers 2008-07-10 11:48:50 <- posttochannel 2008-07-10 11:48:50 <-handle_status 2008-07-10 11:48:50 <- do_message/1 2008-07-10 11:48:50 -> do_message/1 (9 bytes): query hug 2008-07-10 11:48:50 -> update_statistics 2008-07-10 11:48:50 <- update_statistics 2008-07-10 11:48:50 -> get_hts 2008-07-10 11:48:50 -> log_ghost 2008-07-10 11:48:50 <- log_ghost 2008-07-10 11:48:50 <- get_hts 2008-07-10 11:48:50 -> oksender 2008-07-10 11:48:50 <- oksender(1-a) 2008-07-10 11:48:50 <- do_message/1 Hobbitdboard successfully returns info for the host: pmonitor02 ~ # bb 127.0.0.1 "hobbitdboard" | grep huginn.conn huginn|conn|green|OrdAstLe|1213505936|1215688713|1215690513|0|0|10.26.2.16|-1|green  Thu Jul 10 11:18:08 2008 conn ok Cheers, Omar -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIdfz9O5lNk+Yy9cgRAtgSAJ9a17KnGiQuIY4ExUUvYYZtptw7jACfZoP9 9DoLP7dBpJzDNmeDjg5aNBs= =asXk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Changing the front page layout
by Russell.Cook＠synetrix.co.uk 22 Jul '08

22 Jul '08

I have been asked to change the way the front page of one of our Hobbit looks. There are 3 page definitions below the title and I would like them to appear in a list instead of appearing two to a line, which bunches everything below the title and looks a bit messy. Are there some supported HTML tags that might achieve this or is there another more elegant way? This is an excerpt of our bb-hosts: # title <h2>Network Monitors</h2> page network Network group-compress <H3>Core Network Devices</H3> xxx.xxx.xxx.40 6590-1 # testip conn xxx.xxx.xxx.10 VPN-rl # testip conn group-compress <H3>Server Rack Switches</H3> xxx.xxx.xxx.10 rack1-switch4 # testip conn xxx.xxx.xxx.10 rack3-switch4 # testip conn group-compress <H3>Service VIPs</H3> xxx.xxx.xxx.24 VIP-P # conn testip smtp xxx.xxx.xxx.44 VIP-E # conn testip smtp page school School title Edge site/AP connection tests group-compress <h3>6500</h3> xxx.xxx.xxx.27 dsl-rad-01 # conn testip ssh xxx.xxx.xxx.26 dsl-rad-02 # conn testip ssh group-compress <h3>London AP</h3> xxx.xxx.xxx.28 u01 # conn testip ssh xxx.xxx.xxx.29 u02 # conn testip ssh page service Service group-compress <H3>Core Network Devices</H3> xxx.xxx.xxx.40 6590-1 # testip conn xxx.xxx.xxx.10 6590-2 # testip conn Regards Russell Cook ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Synetrix Holdings Limited Tel: +44 (0)1252 405 600 www.synetrix.co.uk Synetrix (Holdings) Limited is a limited company registered in England and Wales. Registered number: 0349 1956. VAT number: GB776 1259 07. Registered office: Synetrix House, 49-51 Victoria Road, Farnborough, Hampshire, GU14 7PA. IMPORTANT NOTICE: This message is intended solely for the use of the Individual or organisation to whom it is addressed. It may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please notify the originator immediately. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not use, copy, alter, or disclose the contents of this message. All information or opinions expressed in this message and/or any attachments are those of the author and are not necessarily those of Synetrix Holdings Limited. Synetrix Holdings Limited accepts no responsibility for loss or damage arising from its use, including damage from virus.

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How to write regular expression in client-local.cfg
by Samuel.Cai＠ehealth-china.com 22 Jul '08

22 Jul '08

Hi, We want to monitor important error in a log file, but configuring trigger part in client-local.cfg doesn't work. For example, there are two types of errors we want to catch: OutOfMemoryError and StackOverFlowError, then we configure: [our server] log: /var/log/server.log:10240 trigger Error This doesn't work, Hobbit client still reports last 10240 data, if the error is outside of that range, we just missed it. I think this is due to wrongly write the trigger expression, could any one help on this? Btw, I sent similar question before, this one should be more clearer. Thanks, Samuel Cai

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Windows folder size
by James.Roberts＠hants.gov.uk 21 Jul '08

21 Jul '08

Is it possible to monitor the size of a folder with the windows client?

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Hobbit and VXML
by dcecchino＠gmail.com 21 Jul '08

21 Jul '08

Is there any VXML integration with Hobbit, speaking alerts,etc...?

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Log monitoring feature?
by wrichardson＠llbean.com 21 Jul '08

21 Jul '08

Running Hobbit version 4.2.0 all-in-one patch dated 2007-02-09 10:30 UTC. OS: Redhat AS 5 I have searched thru the Hobbit Archive for ways to best pattern match in log files. What I have is working to the extent of what I believe hobbit will support "out of the box" Has anyone been able to do the following: 1.) In Hobbit today with version 4.2.0 log file alerts happen once in a 30 minute window even if you have more than one occurrence. Has anyone been able to change this behavior to a smaller window? "maybe 4.3.0 has something new?" 2.) Another feature that I am looking for is thresholding. If I throw 10 messages "that match" into a log in X time frame say 15 minutes or 30 minutes and so on I don't want to get notified but if I throw 11 into the log I do. Is there any way to do this? Another script to do the work and then send to another log file and have hobbit alert on that maybe?

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hobbit graph problem
by iwrtech＠iwr.ru.ac.za 21 Jul '08

21 Jul '08

Hiya I installed the Hobbit system just a few months ago and it has worked great..... until I upgraded rrdtool to 1.3.0 rrdtool --version RRDtool 1.3.0 Copyright 1997-2008 by Tobias Oetiker Compiled Jul 11 2008 11:22:35 Immediately all my MRTG and hobbit graphs lost all the text information. I recompiled and reinstalled rrdtool (because I figured that some libraries had been upgraded at the same time but in the wrong order) and the MRTG graphs now display the correct information. However, the Hobbit graphs are still missing the text information (on the same server). For example see here http://iwr.ru.ac.za/hobbit-cgi/bb- hostsvc.sh?HOST=lergy.iwr.ru.ac.za&SERVICE=disk As an aside, I have got Hobbit to speak to me. My alert rules specify an external script which uses 'espeak' to do text to speach processing. Since the main server is right next to me and just happened to have sound hardware, it now speaks out a short message when Hobbit detects a problem. I can get the details from the email. I read somewhere that rrdtool 1.3.0.1 will be out soon to address some issues, but in the meantime I get the feeling that somethingin the interface has changed and maybe Hobbit needs little tweaking. I'm running all this on FreeBSD 7.0 Release, and have loaded all the software via the ports system. -- DA Fo rsyth Network Supervisor Principal Technical Officer -- Institute for Water Research http://www.ru.ac.za/institutes/iwr/

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Lars-Ole G Nielsen/SCA/CSC is out of the office.
by lnielsen4＠csc.com 21 Jul '08

21 Jul '08

I will be out of the office starting 21-07-2008 and will not return until 18-08-2008. I will respond to your message when I return.

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hobbit dbcheck and client patch
by dcecchino＠gmail.com 19 Jul '08

19 Jul '08

I have been running into an issue with the client patch, when applying the patch to the 4.2.0 source. I did end up building successfully and the dbcheck.pl works fine and displays the status, though graphs aren't being displayed even after applying the updates to the hobbitserver and hobbitgraph configurations respectfully. -bash-3.2$ patch -p1 <hobbit_perl_client.patch patching file bbdisplay/bbgen.c patching file hobbitd/do_rrd.c patching file hobbitd/etcfiles/hobbitgraph.cfg patching file hobbitd/etcfiles/hobbitserver.cfg.DIST patching file hobbitd/hobbitd_filestore.c patching file hobbitd/rrd/do_beastat.c patching file hobbitd/rrd/do_dbcheck.c patching file hobbitd/rrd/do_disk.c patching file hobbitd/rrd/do_fd_lib.c patching file hobbitd/rrd/do_la.c patching file hobbitd/rrd/do_netapp.c patching file lib/htmllog.c Hunk #3 FAILED at 355. 1 out of 3 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file lib/htmllog.c.rej patching file web/hobbitgraph.c Hunk #1 succeeded at 276 (offset -5 lines). patching file web/hobbitsvc.c -bash-3.2$ pwd /home/hobbit/build/hobbit-4.2.0 -bash-3.2$ Also, is it normal for dbscript check to just display dbcheck.pl version 1.08 - column ChkConn lifetime 60, tested in ~ 00:00:00 (max 01:00:00)

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[hobbit] can't view the home page in the webbrowser
by taihiamaitere＠hotmail.com 18 Jul '08

18 Jul '08

here is what i change the alias in the apache.conf Alias /hobbit/ '/var/lib/hobbit/www/' <Directory '/var/lib/hobbit/www/'> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes MultiViews Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> ScriptAlias /hobbit-cgi/ '/usr/hobbit/lib/cgi-bin/' <Directory '/usr/hobbit/lib/cgi-bin'> AllowOverride None Options ExecCGI Includes Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> ScriptAlias /hobbit-seccgi/ '/usr/hobbit/lib/cgi-secure/' <Directory '/usr/hobbit/lib/cgi-secure'> AllowOverride None Options ExecCGI Includes Order allow,deny Allow from all# Password file where users with access to these scripts are kept. # Create it with 'htpasswd -c /usr/local/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitpasswd USERNAME' # Add more users / change passwords with 'htpasswd /usr/local/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitpasswd USERNAME' AuthUserFile /usr/local/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitpasswd AuthType Basic AuthName 'Hobbit Administration' Require valid-user </Directory> and you will see what i see in the pictures. Is it better to uninstall and install it again ? How do you unistall hobbit because i wasn't really understand how to configure it? Please help Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:31:27 -0400From: josh at imaginenetworksllc.comTo: hobbit at hswn.dkSubject: Re: [hobbit] can't view the home page in the webbrowser What do you see when you go to http://host/hobbit/Josh LuthmanOffice: 937-552-2340Direct: 937-552-23431100 Wayne StSuite 1337Troy, OH 45373Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.--- Henry Spencer On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Hubbard, Greg L <greg.hubbard at eds.com> wrote: I am not very good with Apache, but I think the Alias and Directory settings need to match... Check what you have for /hobbit/ From: taihia MAITERE [mailto:taihiamaitere at hotmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 1:10 PMTo: Forum hobbitSubject: [hobbit] can't view the home page in the webbrowser Hi ererybody can somebody check my config pleasebecause i can't see hobbit homepage in the webbrowser:svr-supervision2:/etc/apache# ps afx|grep hobbit|grep -v grep 1755 ? Ss 0:00 /home/hobbit/server/bin/hobbitlaunch --config=/home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitlaunch.cfg --env=/home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg --log=/var/log/hobbit/hobbitlaunch.log --pidfile=/var/log/hobbit/hobbitlaunch.pid 1756 ? S 0:00 \_ hobbitd --pidfile=/var/log/hobbit/hobbitd.pid --restart=/home/hobbit/server/tmp/hobbitd.chk --checkpoint-file=/home/hobbit/server/tmp/hobbitd.chk --checkpoint-interval=600 --log=/var/log/hobbit/hobbitd.log --admin-senders=127.0.0.1 172.24.4.20 --store-clientlogs=!msgs 1759 ? S 0:00 \_ hobbitd_channel --channel=stachg --log=/var/log/hobbit/history.log hobbitd_history 1761 ? S 0:00 | \_ hobbitd_history 1760 ? S 0:00 \_ hobbitd_channel --channel=clichg --log=/var/log/hobbit/hostdata.log hobbitd_hostdata 1762 ? S 0:00 | \_ hobbitd_hostdata 1763 ? S 0:00 \_ hobbitd_channel --channel=page --log=/var/log/hobbit/page.log hobbitd_alert --checkpoint-file=/home/hobbit/server/tmp/alert.chk --checkpoint-interval=600 1765 ? S 0:00 | \_ hobbitd_alert --checkpoint-file=/home/hobbit/server/tmp/alert.chk --checkpoint-interval=600 1764 ? S 0:00 \_ hobbitd_channel --channel=status --log=/var/log/hobbit/rrd-status.log hobbitd_rrd --rrddir=/home/hobbit/data/rrd 1766 ? S 0:00 | \_ hobbitd_rrd --rrddir=/home/hobbit/data/rrd 1767 ? S 0:00 \_ hobbitd_channel --channel=data --log=/var/log/hobbit/rrd-data.log hobbitd_rrd --rrddir=/home/hobbit/data/rrd 1770 ? S 0:00 | \_ hobbitd_rrd --rrddir=/home/hobbit/data/rrd 1768 ? S 0:00 \_ hobbitd_channel --channel=client --log=/var/log/hobbit/clientdata.log hobbitd_client 1775 ? S 0:00 \_ hobbitd_client17136 ? S 0:00 sh -c vmstat 300 2 1>/home/hobbit/client/tmp/hobbit_vmstat.svr-supervision2.17119 2>&1; mv /home/hobbit/client/tmp/hobbit_vmstat.svr-supervision2.17119 /home/hobbit/client/tmp/hobbit_vmstat.svr-supervision2apache config .# DocumentRoot: The directory out of which you will serve your# documents. By default, all requests are taken from this directory, but# symbolic links and aliases may be used to point to other locations.##DocumentRoot /home/hobbit/server/wwwAlias /hobbit/ '/home/hobbit/server/www/'<Directory '/usr/local/hobbit/server/www/'> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes MultiViews Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory>ScriptAlias /hobbit-cgi/ '/usr/hobbit/lib/cgi-bin/'<Directory '/usr/hobbit/lib/cgi-bin'> AllowOverride None Options ExecCGI Includes Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory>ScriptAlias /hobbit-seccgi/ '/usr/hobbit/lib/cgi-secure/'<Directory '/usr/hobbit/lib/cgi-secure'> AllowOverride None Options ExecCGI Includes Order allow,deny Allow from all# Password file where users with access to these scripts are kept. # Create it with 'htpasswd -c /usr/local/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitpasswd USERNAME' # Add more users / change passwords with 'htpasswd /usr/local/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitpasswd USERNAME' AuthUserFile /usr/local/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitpasswd AuthType Basic AuthName 'Hobbit Administration' Require valid-user </Directory>#ach directory to which Apache has access, can be configured with respect# to which services and features are allowed and/or disabled in that# directory (and its subdirectories).## First, we configure the 'default' to be a very restrictive set of# permissions.#<Directory /> Options SymLinksIfOwnerMatch AllowOverride None</Directory>## Note that from this point forward you must specifically allow# particular features to be enabled - so if something's not working as# you might expect, make sure that you have specifically enabled it# below.#hobbit config.# NB : Even though it might look like a shell-script, it is NOT.#BBSERVERROOT='/home/hobbit' # Where Hobbit is installed - holds the server and bbvar sub-dirs.BBSERVERLOGS='/var/log/hobbit' # Directory for server logs. The hobbit user must have write-access here.HOBBITCLIENTHOME='/home/hobbit/client' # BBHOME directory for the clientBBSERVERHOSTNAME='svr-supervision2' # The hostname of your serverBBSERVERIP='172.24.4.20' # The IP-address of your server. Use the real one, not 127.0.0.1 .BBSERVEROS='linux' # The operating system of your server. linux,freebsd,solaris,hpux,aix,osfBBSERVERWWWNAME='svr-supervision2' # The name used for this hosts' webserverBBSERVERWWWURL='/supervision-hobbit' # The top URL for the Hobbit webpagesBBSERVERCGIURL='/hobbit-cgi' # The URL for the Hobbit CGI scripts.BBSERVERSECURECGIURL='/hobbit-sccgi' # The URL for the secured Hobbit CGI scripts.# BBLOCATION='foo' # The network location, makes bbtest-net test only hosts with NET:foo # You only need to set this if you have multiple network test servers with # a shared bb-hosts file.# Make sure the path includes the directories where you have fping, mail and (optionally) ntpdate installed,# as well as the BBHOME/bin directory where all of the Hobbit programs reside.PATH='/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/home/hobbit/server/bin'# Some systems need extra settings e.g. to locate run-time libraries.# You can add these extra settings here:Can somebody help , i really hobbit works thank you. 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