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DURATION in alerts
by jon＠shadowsoft.com 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

I have an alerts file where hobbit sends out an alert to a ever-widening group of people based on DURATION... the longer the un-ack'd duration, the more excited it gets. The problem comes in when something goes YELLOW for a while and then goes RED. All the time it spent at YELLOW is included in the DURATION even through I have a COLOR=red explicitly given in the config file. Is there a way to specify the duration as the time something has been RED as opposed to NOT-GREEN? Thanks, Jon

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History File Management
by david.ritch＠gmail.com 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

I recently installed hobbit to monitor nodes in a cluster. It's a very good product - thanks to all who have worked on it! I noticed after a while, that the hobbit home directory was growing in an apparently boundless fashion. On further investigation, I discovered that on one server, my history files had grown to several gigabytes. After a while, this growth becomes unsustainable. Am I doing something wrong? How do others manage the growth of hobbit history and log files? I'm not referring to those in /var/log/hobbit - that's easy to handle with logrotate. I'm concerned about the directories associated with each client under the server data directory. Thanks! David

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bbwin patches
by johan＠matrix-data.co.uk 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

I'm trying to get Hobbit 4.2.0 (installed using hobbit-4.2.0-9.el5.re.i386.rpm) to monitor Windows servers. I had a look at http://bbwin.sourceforge.net/ and installed the bbwin client on a test lab machine. However, I've noticed that I need to apply the "all-in-one" and bbwin patches, and this is slightly confusing: Does that apply to my installed version of Hobbit? Was I supposed to apply the patches before installing Hobbit, and necessarily build Hobbit as opposed to using the existing rpm? Is there a way of modifying my existing installation to add support for monitoring Windows? Also, the link to the all-in-one patch is dead on the site mentioned above... I have googled this but haven't really come across anything very useful - if anyone knows of a good source of info apart from the bbwin .chm file I'd appreciate the pointer. Thanks.

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Secondary ping?
by michael.nemeth＠lmco.com 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Heres the problem my hobbit server can ping HostA and HostB but SOMETIMES HostA and HostB cannot ping each other . Besides a client side script, anyone think of a way to do this and take advantage of hobbit functionality. BBNET? route ? something else?

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Latest stable snapshot?
by david＠basis.is 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Hi all, We manage several systems and use hobbit for monitoring all of them. I was hoping someone might be able to tell me what is the current recommended version to be running? 4.2.0 is getting very old and does not include a large number of features we like. One of our systems was updated to a snapshot at some point, which is generally working okay but still has some problems (history viewer crashes occasionally, but can always be resolved by simply refreshing the page). I'd now like to find a stable 4.3 release that we can deploy instead of that. From what I've gathered the snapshots are not generated anymore. The SVN seems to be generally very unstable from what I've seen (I've tested two checkouts in the last few days and both have kind-of worked but had more severe crashing issues with the viewers than the current snapshot). I'm also a bit confused by the fact that the SVN does not seem to match the snapshots. One of our systems (which is working very well) has a snapshot which identifies itself as 4.3.0-0.20080327. The source for that snapshot is lost at our end. Looking through the SVN the versions which have that string in include/version.h are versions 5614 through 5626. None of these revisions compile as the file hobbitd/client/hmdc.c does not exist but is referenced in the build! Was there an out-of-tree patch made for the snapshot release? Anyway, any pointers or advice from others running 4.3 snapshots would be greatly appreciated. :) Kind regards, Davíð Steinn Geirsson Basis ehf.

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connection alert on a quorum
by tj_yang＠hotmail.com 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Is it possible to configure hobbit server to send out alert only when 2/3 machines failed during the night time ? "route:router1,router2,...." is close but it is not a quorum. tj

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Integrate rrd files into hobbit
by icicimov＠gmail.com 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Hi all, I was reading some posts about integrating external custom scripts into hobbit and was wondering is it possible to link existing rrd database files created by some other application and use hobbit for charting? If possible, what files do I need to eddit to make this work? The rrd file is created using rrdtool so another question would be about compatibility of the rrd file with the way the rrd files are being created in hobbit. Thanks in advance for any help. Igor

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Disabled tests report
by Vernon.Everett＠woodside.com.au 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Hi all Is there a way (or has a report been written) to show what was disabled over the last period (a month say). Ideally, I would like a list of disabled test, by whom, from, to, reason. Does this report exist? Regards Vernon NOTICE: This email and any attachments are confidential. They may contain legally privileged information or copyright material. You must not read, copy, use or disclose them without authorisation. If you are not an intended recipient, please contact us at once by return email and then delete both messages and all attachments.

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I'm back
by henrik＠hswn.dk 29 Sep '08

29 Sep '08

Hi everyone, just a note that I am back following the eye surgery I had. Everything went fine, and I'll end up having just as good vision as before all of this trouble started. Thanks for all of the "get well soon" e-mail. One of you even sent me a postcard - I really appreciate your concern. In case anyone else ends up in this situation, I'd advise you to make sure you have plenty of stuff to listen to, and also try to plan ahead for things to do that doesn't involve using your eyes much. 4 weeks without books and computers takes a lot of patience. Now, off to catch up on events since I last had a look at the mailing list... Regards, Henrik

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Define hobbit alerts on a page level
by Jelle.Smet＠teleatlas.com 29 Sep '08

29 Sep '08

Hi all, I've been experimenting with defining alerts on a page level. The goal I want to reach is having the ability to exclusively alert for the checks which are displayed on a certain page. The goal in this example is to send alerts only for test1 and test 2 and not test3 using only the pages. However if I look at the info bullet for host1 and host2 I don't see any alerts defined for them. This is most likely because of the 0.0.0.0 hostname # noconn definition. Is there a way to reach the goal to alert only on a page level when server will be a member of multiple pages? Thanks, J.S bb-hosts: Page all_hosts 10.9.8.1 host1 # test1 test2 test3 10.9.8.2 host2 # test1 test2 test3 Group-only test1|test2 Page alert_level_1 0.0.0.0 host1 # noconn 0.0.0.0 host2 # noconn Hobbit-alerts: PAGE=alert_level_1 MAIL someone at somewhere.com DURATION>6 REPEAT=5

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