September 2008 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

problems with hobbit-clients.cfg
by mosimodo＠gmail.com 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

hi I got this in hobbit-clients.cfg #HOST=%*.cmt.es,%*.cmt_dom.es HOST=radiasrv.cmt_dom.es DISK /FIXED/C 60 65 HOST=cadiz.cmt.es DISK /orarecovery 96 100 DEFAULT # These are the built-in defaults. UP 1h LOAD 5.0 10.0 DISK * 90 95 MEMPHYS 100 101 MEMSWAP 50 80 MEMACT 90 97 but the alarm in radiasrv.cmt_dom.es is : red Wed Sep 17 20:35:20 RDT 2008 [radiasrv.cmt_dom.es] &red /FIXED/C/ (99%) has reached the PANIC level (95%) Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted C 10240780 10236676 4104 99% /FIXED/C () may be a problem with the sintaxis? thanks!

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hobbitd_rrd not starting an extra script
by sebastien.munch＠dexia-securities.fr 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Hello I'm trying to create an extra script for hobbit_rrd. I've followed tutorials found on the net, especially http://www.trantor.org/theshire/doku.php/tutorials:customgraph I'm getting the information in the status page. Data is correctly sent to the hobbit server. Everything seems to be configured correctly, but I'm not getting any rrd data. In the configurations, I've double-checked paths, execution rights, etc. To simplify the tests, I've changed my extra-script so that it writes everything in a temporary file. The script isn't started : it doesn't write in this temporary file. In the rrd-status log, I don't see anything about executing the extra script. hobbitlaunch.cfg : ---------------------------------------------------------- [rrdstatus] ENVFILE /usr/lib/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg NEEDS hobbitd CMD hobbitd_channel --channel=status --log=BBSERVERLOGS/rrd-status.log hobbitd_rrd --rrddir=$BBVAR/rrd --extra-script /usr/lib/hobbit/server/ext/rrd_openvz.sh --extra-tests openvz --debug ---------------------------------------------------------- /usr/lib/hobbit/server/ext/rrd_openvz.sh : ---------------------------------------------------------- #!/bin/sh echo "Pop !" > /tmp/plouf hostname=$1 testname=$2 messagefile=$3 echo "Host $hostname" >> /tmp/plouf echo "Test $testname" >> /tmp/plouf echo "Message file $messagefile" >> /tmp/plouf cat $messagefile >> /tmp/plouf exit 0 ---------------------------------------------------------- /var/log/hobbit/rrd-status.log : ---------------------------------------------------------- [...] 2008-09-25 18:01:41 RRD update param 01: '/var/lib/hobbit/rrd/<some other host 1>/memory.actual.rrd' 2008-09-25 18:01:41 RRD update param 02: '-t' 2008-09-25 18:01:41 RRD update param 03: 'realmempct' 2008-09-25 18:01:41 RRD update param 04: '1222358501:22' 2008-09-25 18:01:41 Want msg 7363, startpos 128053, fillpos 128053, endpos -1, usedbytes=0, bufleft=400330 2008-09-25 18:01:42 hobbitd_rrd: Got message 7363 @@status#7363| 1222358502.509616|10.1.60.214||<the host I want to check>|openvz| 1222360302|green||green|1222249676|0||0||1222358207 2008-09-25 18:01:42 startpos 128527, fillpos 128527, endpos -1 2008-09-25 18:01:42 Want msg 7364, startpos 128527, fillpos 128527, endpos -1, usedbytes=0, bufleft=399856 2008-09-25 18:01:44 hobbitd_rrd: Got message 7364 @@status#7364| 1222358504.541929|10.1.0.52||<some other host 2>|cpu|1222360304|green|| green|1222302537|0||0||0 2008-09-25 18:01:44 startpos 130305, fillpos 130305, endpos -1 2008-09-25 18:01:44 RRD update param 00: 'rrdupdate' 2008-09-25 18:01:44 RRD update param 01: '/var/lib/hobbit/rrd/<some other host 2>/la.rrd' [...] ---------------------------------------------------------- Could anyone see something that would be wrong there ? Thanks in advance :) Regards Sebastien

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Solaris 10
by captkras＠gmail.com 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

We have discovered that when the Solaris 10 Hobbit client sends its data to the server the file size of the client data/host data is fairly large. Is there a way to chuck the data into pieces, or to compress the data on the client side, prior to sending, and uncompress on the server side, to parse it in? Dave -- David S. Morgan CISSP, CCNP aka: captkras at gmail.com "When the Winds of Change Blow Hard Enough, the Most trivial of things can turn into deadly projectiles"

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MIPS Compilation Errors
by pnixon＠gmail.com 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Hey all, Has anyone gotten hobbit to compile on a MIPS Platform? I'm running Debian 4.0 on a Qube2, which is a MIPS Processor. During the ./configure.server script, I'm getting the following errors, but I installed requisite libraries from apt-get. Am I missing something? Did I do something wrong? Thanks! --Pat hobbit at qube:~/hobbit-4.2.0$ ./configure.server Configuration script for Hobbit This script asks a few questions and builds a Makefile to compile Hobbit Checking your make-utility Checking pre-requisites for building Hobbit Checking for fping ... Hobbit has a built-in ping utility (hobbitping) However, it is not yet fully stable and therefore it may be best to use the external fping utility instead. I could not find fping on your system Do you want to use hobbitping [Y/n] ? y OK, I will use hobbitping. Checking for RRDtool ... test-rrd.c: In function `main': test-rrd.c:30: error: too few arguments to function `rrd_graph' make: *** [test-compile] Error 1 Not RRDtool 1.0.x, checking for 1.2.x Found RRDtool include files in /usr/include ERROR: RRDtool library files found in /usr/lib, but link fails.

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sql
by NMaharaj＠tcta.co.za 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Hi, Are there hobbit man pages available for installing temperature.tar.gz ? im a newbie and i got hobbit working finally and woulik like to impress myself even more if i can get the temperature working Thanks

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FreeBSD 7.0-Release hobbit server gmake install
by ljimber＠gmail.com 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Hi, FBSD 7.0-release hobbit-4.2.0 Just downloaded from sourceforge Tried building a new server last night and during the gmake install script it failed here : chgrp `id -g hobbit` /var/log/hobbit /home/hobbit/server /home/hobbit/ server/* /home/hobbit/server/bin/* /home/hobbit/server/etc/* /home/ hobbit/server/ext/* /home/hobbit/server/web/* /home/hobbit/server/www/ gifs /home/hobbit/server/www/gifs/* /home/hobbit/server/www/menu /home/ hobbit/server/www/menu/* /home/hobbit/server/www/help /home/hobbit/ server/www/notes /home/hobbit/server/www/html /home/hobbit/server/www/ wml /home/hobbit/data /home/hobbit/data/* chgrp /home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbit-nkview.cfg /home/hobbit/server/ etc/hobbit-nkview.cfg.bak chgrp: /home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbit-nkview.cfg: Invalid argument gmake[1]: *** [install-cfg] Error 1 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/home/hobbit/hobbit-4.2.0/hobbitd' gmake: *** [install-hobbitd] Error 2 Looks like the chgrp flags are missing. Can I manually edit the script? If so, which one? Thanks, Lee

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bbtest shows long DNS runtime, why
by thorsten.erdmann＠daimler.com 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Hi I am running hobbit against 40 clients. Two of these clients are our DNS servers. Only on these two clients I have enabled the DNS test by adding the DNS keyword to their bb-hosts line. I wanted to check the function of the DNS servers If I look at the statistics of bbtest it looks like this: Fri Sep 12 15:26:08 2008 bbtest-net version 4.2.0 SSL library : OpenSSL 0.9.7a Feb 19 2003 LDAP library: OpenLDAP 20213 Statistics: Hosts total : 41 Hosts with no tests : 1 Total test count : 44 Status messages : 45 Alert status msgs : 0 Transmissions : 2 DNS statistics: # hostnames resolved : 40 # succesful : 40 # failed : 0 # calls to dnsresolve : 44 TCP test statistics: # TCP tests total : 2 # HTTP tests : 1 # Simple TCP tests : 1 # Connection attempts : 2 # bytes written : 126 # bytes read : 871 TIME SPENT Event Starttime Duration bbtest-net startup 1221225968.275331 - Service definitions loaded 1221225968.276931 0.001600 Tests loaded 1221225968.281365 0.004434 DNS lookups completed 1221225973.283037 5.001672 Test engine setup completed 1221225973.285332 0.002295 TCP tests completed 1221225973.286398 0.001066 PING test completed (40 hosts) 1221225974.166549 0.880151 PING test results sent 1221225974.177932 0.011383 Test result collection completed 1221225974.177943 0.000011 LDAP test engine setup completed 1221225974.177944 0.000001 LDAP tests executed 1221225974.177945 0.000001 LDAP tests result collection completed 1221225974.177946 0.000001 NSLOOKUP tests executed 1221225974.179452 0.001506 Test results transmitted 1221225974.181039 0.001587 bbtest-net completed 1221225974.182936 0.001897 TIME TOTAL 5.907605 What you see are two mystic things: It seems that hobbit resolves all clients via DNS: # hostnames resolved : 40 Why that, I gave all names and it's corresponding IPs at the bb-hosts file? The DNS test runs about 5 seconds for only these 40 clients, maybe that is because of the first issue: DNS lookups completed 1221225973.283037 5.001672 If you look at the graph, it gives very scary "triagle curves". I've put a screenshot here: http://www.trektech.de/test/hobbitgraph.png The thing seems to have started when I put the DNS keyword to my two DNS servers. Before it gave a nearly zero line. I want to add about 400 network switches which should only do a ping test and I fear that this would extremely increase the runtime of the bbtest. What can I do to decrease the runtime? Thorsten Erdmann ITI/EP68 Mercedes Benz Werk Hamburg Tel.: +49-40-7920-2593 If you are not the intended addressee, please inform us immediately that you have received this e-mail in error, and delete it. We thank you for your cooperation.

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Asterisk Phone System Monitoring
by Rafal.Roginela＠AmeriCashLoans.net 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Hi All, Have a Asterisk box running on CentOS (FreePBX is the GUI). Just asking to see if anyone is using Hobbit to monitor their Asterisk server and if so if you could pass along any helpful tid bits to get the most out of Hobbit monitoring of this box (procs , logs , files to watch?). Already have Hobbit monitoring the Win boxes and a ESX box and all is well. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you, Rafal Roginela Network Engineer AmeriCash Loans, LLC 880 Lee Street, Suite 302 Des Plaines, IL 60016 Office (847) 827-9740 x109 Fax (847) 493-8031 rroginela at americashloans.net <mailto:rroginela at americashloans.net> This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorized copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden.

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Bug? CLASS in hobbit-clients.cfg, CLASS: assigned in bb-hosts
by asparks＠doublesparks.net 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Hobbit 4.2.0 + allinone on CentOS 4.6. I have created hosts in bb-hosts similar to the following: 10.1.24.172 den1log15 # CLASS:dblogRx conn ssh I have added rules to hobbit-clients.cfg as follows: HOST=%den[123]log[0-9] PROC logRcvr CLASS=dblogRx EXHOST=den1log09 This does not work -- the process is not monitored. If I use a HOST= clause, regex or explicit, it does work. Why are CLASS directives, set in the bb-hosts file, not honored? Thanks. -Alan

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Bandwidth monitoring
by dns1407＠yahoo.com 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Hi All, Do anyone know (have server-side scripts) how to centraly monitor Bandwidth usage of switches/servers/router etc.? If so how do I configure this step-by-step in Hobbit? Thanks... Kind Regards, DNS

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