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password hobbit administration
by taihiamaitere＠hotmail.com 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

Hi everybody, can someone indicate me where to find the hobbit administration password ? or just to change it ? THANKS _________________________________________________________________ Appelez vos amis de PC à PC -- C'EST GRATUIT http://get.live.com/messenger/overview

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Turn Hostnames into hyperlinks?
by cwilliamson＠mail.fortitudetech.com 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

Please forgive me if I'm not reaching out to the right place.... For each host I have listed on BBDisplay, I want to turn their name into a hyperlink that takes me to a weather page for that customer's location. I was able to insert an html hyperlink into the index.html for that customer- and it worked! Though the index.html refreshes every minute and ends up removing my tag. Can someone shine some light on this for me- or direct me to the right place to ask this question? Very very much appreciated. Chris Chris Williamson Infrastructure Support Specialist Fortitude Technology, Inc. Ph: (858) 571-3614 ext. 107 www.fortitudetechnology.com

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[hobbit] Problem building Hobbit on a Solaris 10 zone
by baugust＠stanford.edu 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

Bear with me, I left Sun 11/2005, haven't touched a Solaris machine since early 06, and my zone mojo is somewhat rusty. But isn't it possible for the local zones to lack packages that exist in the global zone? Are the header packages missing from the local zone? -- --Ben Benjamin P. August System Administrator - VPUE Stanford University

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[hobbit] "Hobbit" name legal stuff; slight name change will h appen
by bewhite＠fellowes.com 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

Here is my $.02. I like the road sign idea. Stop for red, triangle for yellow, circle for green, square for purple, inverted triangle for blue, and rectangle for white. Not sure what to do for status which have changed in the last 24 hours, but please don't drop that feature, I use it all the time, to check what happened which did NOT generate an alert. I like the hobbeat, or heartbeat name or something like that. I installed hobbit last April in my shop and in the past year+ it has become the way to check the heartbeat of the computer network. Above all Hendrik, please let someone else take on the icon thing (I'm not an artist) and be sure to get your health (especially those floaters) addressed. You and your health are far more important than what we all see on screens everyday. ......Bruce -----Original Message----- From: Rob MacGregor [mailto:rob.macgregor at gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 2:48 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] "Hobbit" name legal stuff; slight name change will happen On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 20:24, Josh Luthman <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com> wrote: > By tick I assume you mean a check mark > http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:eY2rDilNoiIJ::www.aperfectworld.or > g/clipart/symbols/check.png > correct? > > If so the check is already used by the acknowledgment icon. I'd forgotten that - doh! A + is probably the simplest other choice then (or maybe a small OK). Thinking about it though, as this is about catering for the colour blind, it's probably worth also considering how to show acknowledged status codes. Maybe by fading the basic symbol (octagon or triangle) and overlaying a tick? That would still allow a plain tick as a "green" code. -- Please keep list traffic on the list. Rob MacGregor Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he doesn't become a monster. Friedrich Nietzsche To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk ---------------------------------------------------- Note: The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. Fellowes, Inc. ----------------------------------------------------

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Hobbit for Macintosh
by htaute＠media24.com 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

Hi I would like to load the Hobbit Client on my Macintosh powerpc with Darwin Kernel Version 7.9.0. Is there a package available for this OS? 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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monitoring of server itself
by johan＠matrix-data.co.uk 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

I've now installed hobbit on the production server, and added the clients. Everything looks ok, but the server (defined by default as localhost in bb-hosts) does not seem to monitor its own cpu, disk, memory, ports and processes. I'm pretty sure my test lab server monitored those by default. Or is there anything specific one should do on the server itself? I may have confused myself... Thanks.

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RRD Graphing configuration
by wrichardson＠llbean.com 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

I now have the graph step at 60 secs and heartbeat is at 120 secs and the graph is working. This one problem remaining... I deleted the rrd and recreated it using the following: rrdtool create testgraph.rrd --step 60 / DS:test1total:GAUGE:120:0:U / DS:test2total:GAUGE:120:0:U / DS:test3total:GAUGE:120:0:U / RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1:576 / RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:6:576 / RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:24:576 / RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:288:576 The problem I still have is the averaging issue. I would like to get the true values not average. The problem is I have data that I want to graph that can range from 0 to 5 "that's 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5" and the graph shows average so my graphs come out with numbers like 200m while the true value is really 2 and so on. The problem is the data will sit a 0 for maybe an hour and then go to 1 or 2 for a sample or two. Any thoughts on how I could recreate the graphs to show true values? thanks Bill

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[hobbit] Hobbit renaming status ?
by bewhite＠fellowes.com 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

Henrik, Glance is a product for HPUX monitoring which is produced (and I assume trademarked by HP). They might find G-Lance a bit to close for comfort. ....Bruce -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2008 4:39 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit renaming status ? In <BAY138-DS135DABA00DDBE77CA0F0E9F740 at phx.gbl> "T.J. Yang" <tj_yang at hotmail.com> writes: >Can't wait until decision made by Henrik. I am betting the new name >will be hobbitmon. Thus I am using hobbitmon in my current development work. >but would it be HobbitMon or hobbitmon ? Don't bet on it. I've been going over the various suggestions this past week, and I've setup a few loose criteria for judging the names. In no particular order: *) No references to Tolkien characters. Although I might be able to get away with "hobbitmon" or Gandalfr (thanks, Anna - didn't know those names came from the Edda), I do not want to push my luck any further. *) Likewise, no names that might infringe on existing characters from movies, books etc. *) Nothing that is trademark'ed. *) The name should be somewhat meaningful. Not necessarily obvious, but enough that it is understandable. Also, somewhat "business- like". (Sorry Vernon - I enjoyed Your ventures into Mesopotamian astronomy and egyptology, since those are also hobby-interests of mine, but very few would know who "Horus" is, or what was the role of Aldebaran). *) The name should be short. Preferably two or three syllables, and fit into the space currently on the webpages where it says "Hobbit" now. This is because the name is frequently used in speech; I often have people at work asking me "what's on Hobbit right now?" if they need to know what issues there are currently. It just wouldn't feel right if that was "what's on smart-and-open-systems-monitor right now" ... *) .com, .net and .org should preferably be available. Of the suggestions I've seen on the list, there are only a few that fit these criteria: savemon, hobmon, Tibboh (not obvious, but I like it), OpenGuardian. Of those, OpenGuardian is my current favourite - enough so that I've registered the openguardian.com and openguardian.eu domains. It does have something against it, though: OpenGuardian is a component of a product called "HostGuardian", which is described on hostguardian.com: "HostGuardian offers a complete set of monitoring tools that verify not only a machine on the internet is responding, but that it is delivering the correct content, replying to processes, and connected without latency or packet loss." This is similar enough to what Hobbit does that using the name for Hobbit could be a problem. It isn't trademarked, according to the USPTO trademark website, but there's a potential for conflict. I have two other names that I've come up with. The first is "G-Lance" meaning "viGiLance", "monitoring at a G-Lance", and the 'G' could also mean GNU, GPL, Gratis etc. g-lance.com is registered to someone doing graphics free-lance work, but I've grabbed .net, .org and .eu. I won't tell you the second one yet. The domain is currently registered by someone else, but appears to be completely inactive. It expires on Friday (Aug. 15th), and if it becomes available I'll take it. So stay tuned ... Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk ---------------------------------------------------- Note: The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. Fellowes, Inc. ----------------------------------------------------

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moving config to new server
by johan＠matrix-data.co.uk 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

Hi all, I'm wondering if any one can tell me how I can move collected statistics and such from my test lab server to a production server? I'd like to keep all the information that has been collected so far, but not sure how to go about it, other than under /var/lib/hobbit I can see some directories that may be what I need to copy over, but does anyone know which ones are needed and which not? Would appreciate advice on this. Thanks.

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RRD Graphing configuration
by wrichardson＠llbean.com 11 Aug '08

11 Aug '08

I see at http://www.trantor.org/theshire/doku.php/tutorials a link for "Develop your own graphing monitor using NCV" but it looks to be a dead link. Looks like that may have my answer? Anyone have the details? Thanks Bill Richardson Sigurður Guðbrandsson<mailto:sigurdur (at) raforninn.is> wrote a pretty detailed tutorial on what he through setting up a custom graph that I put up on The Shire's tutorial page. =G= From: Bill Richardson [mailto:wrichardson (at) llbean.com] Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 9:54 AM To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] RRD Graphing configuration I have looked high and low for a way to change how custom rrd's are created in hobbit. I have created a custom script to graph and have 2 problems that I would like to figure out. 1.) I would like to change the step from 300 secs to 60 secs in the rrd's and run the script ever 60 secs instead of 300 secs. "The default rrd behavior is set to 300 secs" 2.) I would like to get the true values not average. The problem is I have data that I want to graph that can range from 0 to 5 "thats 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5" and the graph shows average so my graphs come out with numbers like 6m "6 milli" for a true value of 2 and so on. The problem is the data will sit a 0 for an hour or more and then go to 1 or 2 for just one sample. Average is not the right choice and I cant get the true figures I 'm looking for. Seems like the way to do this is in the hobbitserver.cfg. I added the following to the hobbitserver.cfg NCV_testgraph="test1total:GAUGE,test2total:GAUGE,test3total:GAUGE" What other values can you pass to rrd other than GAUGE? Can I set a step to say 60 instead or 300 and can I change the default behavior of AVERAGE to something else that may work for my above example? The rrd docs are not clear on this. Early on I was thinking that maybe I could fix the AVERAGE problem with a change to the hobbitgraph.cfg but this is what I found: The hobbitgraph.cfg does not have any effect on how rrd file is created. I deleted the testgraph.rrd made the changes to hobbitgraph.cfg and no go. You cant see the graphs if you use anything but AVERAGE after changing the hobbitgraph.cfg. It looks like the *.rrd's are created by default "AVERAGE" and you just edit the hobbitgraph.cfg to view whats already built. I need to figure out how to change the way the rrd's are built and its not thru the hobbitgraph.cfg. BTW here is the output from rrdtool dump see attached. You will see two areas that need to be changed "the step 300 and AVERAGE" 1: <rrd> <version> 0003 </version> <step> 300 </step>  2:  <rra> <cf> AVERAGE </cf> Thanks for any clues... : ) Bill Richardson

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