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History not working any more
by hobbit＠fl1ger.de 07 Aug '08

07 Aug '08

Moin! On my server that suffere a disk overflow the hobbit history is not working any more. While I do see the events in the event log and in the hobbit data directory, I can not see the events when using the history button of the test page. The latest events there always show the date when the file system overflow happened. Any ideas how to fix this or how to look further into it? TIA and so long -Ralf --- Ralf Weber e: hobbit at fl1ger.de

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Migrate hobbit data
by James.Roberts＠hants.gov.uk 07 Aug '08

07 Aug '08

I am planning to move my hobbit server install to a new server... If it possible to migrate all the data from the old install to the new one? James Roberts IT Consultant - IT Services Hampshire County Council Room 415,Elizabeth II Court, The Castle, Winchester, Hants SO23 8US Internal HPSN: (200) 5037 Tel: +44 (0)1962 845037 Fax: +44 (0)1962 847434 james.roberts at hants.gov.uk Web: WWW.Hants.Gov.UK

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diference betwen hobbit and bb
by mosimodo＠gmail.com 07 Aug '08

07 Aug '08

Hi Im working with hobbit and bb at the same time!!! but now im thinking of change. I ´d like to use only hobbit clients . My question is .. what is the diference betwen bb and hobbit? i think that using hobbit I will be able to configure many monitors using only the server part , insted the ext scripts. for example scripts in the server part like oracle, cpu, memory, disk, tomcat,.... On the other hand, my server is a BB one, I´ll need to change it? regards

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Script limits
by forums＠triadbiz.rr.com 05 Aug '08

05 Aug '08

What are the limits of data that is sent to hobbit via a script? I have thrown together a perl script that grabs data from a file and then sends to hobbit in a table format. At first I was trying to send the table with a kinda of pretty html format so that when you goto a view source it was easily readable. Well that wasn't working cause the file wasn't getting updated in hobbit. I piped the output of the script to a text file and and did a line count on it. It had about 4000 lines in the file that was being sent to hobbit. So I took all the lines returns away and made it all one line and it gets to hobbit now. But I am wanting to get a little bit more in there with graphing and didn't know if I was needing to look at a line limit that hobbit is able to accept. -Josh

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

05 Aug '08

Hi Henrik Is there a Hobbit Client available for Apple Max OS X? Thanks Henri Taute -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: 10 March 2008 10:07 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit Database On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 09:57:47AM +0200, Henri Taute wrote: > 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? Just copy the ~hobbit/data/ directory over to the new server (the data/hist, data/rrd are the most important ones; data/histlogs and data/hostdata hold the detailed historical logs). These are all plain files, so they are easily backed up. Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk ____________________________________________________________________________ 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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help wth alarms
by mosimodo＠gmail.com 05 Aug '08

05 Aug '08

HI evereyone, Im using hobbit since 4 months , i did some little ext . But now im working with the alerts , they dont do what i want. this is one line . HOST=burgos.cmt.es SERVICE=conn,cpu,cpu2,disk,memory MAIL salvarez at cmt.es DURATION>30m COLOR=red MAIL salvarez at cmt.es REPEAT=60 RECOVERED the theme is that hobbit is sending us yellow alerts to and i only have configure red alerts. And some times is sending an alert that is recovered at the same minute. some help? regards, and have a good time!

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Hobbit code available through Subversion
by henrik＠hswn.dk 05 Aug '08

05 Aug '08

As I wrote last week, the Hobbit sourcecode has now been moved into the SourceForge code archive. It is available through Subversion. The repository uses this URL: https://hobbitmon.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/hobbitmon So to checkout the current code, you would do svn co https://hobbitmon.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/hobbitmon hobbitmon where the latter "hobbitmon" is the target directory on your local machine. There's also a browser for the source code archive, at http://hobbitmon.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/hobbitmon/ Regards, Henrik

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"bad" checks in default line?
by eric.jacobs＠thomastechsolutions.com 04 Aug '08

04 Aug '08

Every morning around 3:45 something happens on hobbit or our network that causes many very brief connection and http checks to fail. We haven't figured out why yet. So, to keep people from being paged needlessly, I tried to put time-limited badconn and badhttp checks in default line (ie. badhttp-*-0340-0400:1:2:3). But it doesn't seem to be working. Do I need to do that for every entry? Eric Jacobs

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[hobbit] "Hobbit" name legal stuff; slight name change will happen
by Larry.Sherman＠rbsgc.com 04 Aug '08

04 Aug '08

Since "Big Brother" is from 1984, how about some link back to the Orwellian origins? "Oceania"? "The Monitor"? Just a thought. Many thanks for all you have given us & take care, Larry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Brother_(1984) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceania_%281984%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldstein%27s_book#Summation Larry Sherman RBS Global Banking & Markets Office: +1 203 618 2515 -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 12:30 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] "Hobbit" name legal stuff; slight name change will happen Hi everyone, some lawyers behind the movie company that produced the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy have contacted me about using the name "Hobbit" for the Hobbit monitor project. Fortunately, it seems that these people are actually quite sensible. They just want to make sure that there is no risk of anyone assuming that the "Hobbit monitor" has anything to do with the books, movies, merchandise etc. that they produce. So they've suggested that beginning with the next release, "Hobbit monitor" is renamed to either "Hobbi monitor" (without the 't'), or "H.O.B.B.I.T. Monitor" . Or something else, but they want to know if I pick something else. The full correspondance can be seen at http://www.hobbitmon.com/hobbitdocs/legal/ My current preference is to use the "H.O.B.B.I.T." version; this is most like the current name, and it would also fit with all of the current URL's used for various Hobbit functions (e.g. the "hobbitmon.sf.net" project page). I'm going to write the lawyers and get a definite OK that I can use "hobbitmon" in URL's and such; I doubt that I can get Sourceforge to accept a project named "h.o.b.b.i.t." since that would probably cause havoc with the DNS entries ... But I'd like to hear if there are other suggestions or opinions. Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk ******************************************************************** This e-mail is intended only for the addressee named above. As this e-mail may contain confidential or privileged information, if you are not the named addressee, you are not authorized to retain, read, copy or disseminate this message or any part of it. ********************************************************************

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[hobbit] Why the next Hobbit release hasn't happened yet
by lars.ebeling＠leopg9.no-ip.org 04 Aug '08

04 Aug '08

----- Original Message ----- From: "Henrik Stoerner" <henrik at hswn.dk> To: <hobbit at hswn.dk> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 6:02 PM Subject: [hobbit] Why the next Hobbit release hasn't happened yet > I guess I am just experiencing a mild degree of burnout(1) > regarding Hobbit programming. Several factors at my for-pay work > (I work for CSC in Copenhagen) have probably contributed to this; > there's been some downsizing and organizational upheavals, and > I've had to step in and support one of my colleagues who was > very close to collapsing with severe stress. Some people just > cannot say "no"; I can, and so I had to do some "no-saying" on > her befalf while helping her get the projects finished. > Take it easy. I have been there and know what it means. I stopped working and and have been on unemployment for almost 3 years. The company moved and I was offred the same job. But I said no. I got help to quit the job. But 1st of September i will retire. Again take it easy all. Don't be on duty 24x7. Lars

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