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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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Netstat column graph, retrans
by sigurdur＠raforninn.is 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Hi. I am wondering about the netstat column's graph, specifically the retrans. The things I am wondering about are, what does this stand for (e.g. is it the retransmission timeout of packets or amount of packets retransmitted)? Also, what is a high value for this? The reason I ask of this is because I have not found any solid answers using either google or searching the mailing list. With regards, Sigurður Guðbrandsson

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Weird application freeze problem
by rsmrcina＠wi.rr.com 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Posting for a friend.... I've been testing out Hobbit in a SLES 10 virtual machine on z/VM. It is a monitoring application based off of Big Brother. So far, it works great except for one weird thing. We have a cron task that runs once a night that does ntpdate to sync the time with an NTP server. If the time is in sync, no problem. However, if the time is out of sync and is adjusted, Hobbit freezes. The tasks still exist, but they just stop doing anything. Apache continues to display the same web page without an update. Stopping the Hobbit daemon doesn't help, in fact, it does nothing. The tasks never stop. I have to recycle the entire system in order to free it up. Has anyone seen a problem similar to this? Any ideas? -- Rich Smrcina VM Assist, Inc. Phone: 414-491-6001 Ans Service: 360-715-2467 rich.smrcina at vmassist.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/richsmrcina Catch the WAVV! http://www.wavv.org WAVV 2009 - Orlando, FL - May 15-19, 2009

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group-sorted in alternative pageset ?
by martin.flemming＠desy.de 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Hi ! Is there a group-sorted option for alternative pagesets ? desktoppage desktop Desktop Page desktopsubpage epics Epics desktopsubpage atlas Atlas group-sorted atlas atlas 131.169.184.62 atlas12 # noconn nobb2 DESKTOP:atlas 131.169.184.52 atlas02 # noconn nobb2 DESKTOP:atlas 131.169.184.51 atlas01 # noconn nobb2 DESKTOP:atlas but the machines appear on the pageset not sorted, any hints ? thanks, Martin

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