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Hobbit/BBWin bug? hobbit_client dumping core.
by Vernon.Everett＠woodside.com.au 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Hi all I was mistaken. Even with the 3 hosts defined seperately, I still get the cores. I also get this in clientdata.log 2008-09-08 13:25:28 Worker process died with exit code 134, terminating This is easily reproduced, and goes away if I comment out the 3 hosts. I will uncomment them one at a time, and let you know if it is confined to only one. Regards Vernon ________________________________ From: Everett, Vernon Sent: Monday, 8 September 2008 10:43 AM To: 'hobbit at hswn.dk' Subject: Hobbit/BBWin bug? hobbit_client dumping core. Hi all Had a problem with Hobbit over the weekend, which may be a bug. The dev guys might want to have a look at it. We are monitoring a number of Windoze servers, all running BBWin - Latest edition. Server1 Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition Service Pack 1 (build 3790) Server2 Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Service Pack 4 (build 2195) Server3 Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Service Pack 4 (build 2195) Hobbit server is running 4.2.0 with all-in-one patch applied on Red Hat Linux 2.6.18-92.1.1.el5 We also have the required BBWin patch applied. In hobbit-client.cfg I had the servers configured as HOST=server1,server2,server3 SVC "AppStart" startup=automatic status=started color=red SVC "AppServer" status=started color=red PROC AppStart.exe 1 -1 red PROC Appserver.exe 1 -1 red PROC AppHelper.exe 1 -1 red Hobbit started core dumping, and many tests went purple. Under the hobbit server, a new column "hobbitd_client" appeared as red. Changed the entries to HOST=server1 SVC "AppStart" startup=automatic status=started color=red SVC "AppServer" status=started color=red PROC AppStart.exe 1 -1 red PROC Appserver.exe 1 -1 red PROC AppHelper.exe 1 -1 red HOST=server2 SVC "AppStart" startup=automatic status=started color=red SVC "AppServer" status=started color=red PROC AppStart.exe 1 -1 red PROC Appserver.exe 1 -1 red PROC AppHelper.exe 1 -1 red HOST=server3 SVC "AppStart" startup=automatic status=started color=red SVC "AppServer" status=started color=red PROC AppStart.exe 1 -1 red PROC Appserver.exe 1 -1 red PROC AppHelper.exe 1 -1 red Ran ~/server/bin/bb 127.0.0.1 "drop hobbit hobbitd_client" And all was well. I have saved a few of the cores if anybody is interested in investigating this one. 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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http timeout (yellow)
by jon＠shadowsoft.com 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Is there a way to make the http test go yellow at a certain number of seconds? It just seems to be binary... < 10 sec = green, > 10 sec = red Thanks, Jon

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Annoying
by lars.ebeling＠leopg9.no-ip.org 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

I used to download snapshots almost every day and test them. But when they were moved I stopped, since I was uncertain how to do. Today I tried for the first time. Besides the earlier sent mail, I have the following. 1. Why have a test that produce errors on the screen and ends up with: clock_gettime() not present, but this should be OK I have librt: # find /usr -name librt* /usr/lib/pa20_64/librt.2 /usr/lib/pa20_64/librt.sl /usr/lib/librt.2 /usr/lib/librt.sl 2. Why are needed executable files not executable (eg) ./configure.server[167]: ./build/lfs.sh: Execute permission denied. Checking for clock_gettime() requiring librt ... test-clockgettime-librt.c: In function `main': test-clockgettime-librt.c:9: error: `CLOCK_MONOTONIC' undeclared (first use in t his function) test-clockgettime-librt.c:9: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once test-clockgettime-librt.c:9: error: for each function it appears in.) make: *** [test-clockgettime-librt.o] Error 1 test-clockgettime-librt.c: In function `main': test-clockgettime-librt.c:9: error: `CLOCK_MONOTONIC' undeclared (first use in t his function) test-clockgettime-librt.c:9: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once test-clockgettime-librt.c:9: error: for each function it appears in.) make: *** [test-clockgettime-librt.o] Error 1 clock_gettime() not present, but this should be OK -- Regards Lars Ebeling http://leopg9.no-ip.org Hobbithobbyist "I am not young enough to know everything." -- Oscar Wilde

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Hobbit 4.2 - bb2 ack list has strange date
by asparks＠doublesparks.net 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Trying to get a Hobbit 4.2.0+allinone server on CentOS 4.6 x86_64 running. I am sometimes, when acknowledging an alert getting a very wrong date string showing in the ack log at the bottom of the bb2 page. For instance: Fri May 24 00:07:50 9630 den1log43 disk uiadmin (10.1.10.112) asparks: blown datafile Where in the world can "year 9630" be coming from? The acknowledge.log has the following line: 1220503494 525808 60 525808 np_filename_not_used den1log43.disk yellow asparks: blown datafile, needs rebuild \nAcked by: uiadmin (10.1.10.112) Is this corrupt data somewhere? I've also tried removing the content of acknowledge.log, but the problem returns as soon as I ack a new alert. Thanks for any advice. -Alan

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Ping only when another machine is not pingable
by eric.jacobs＠thomastechsolutions.com 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Monitoring a couple of Infoblox devices, each with a "LAN" port and a "HA" port. I'm supposed to monitor all 4 ports but, as it turns out, on active device in this High-availability pair, the HA port is not pingable. So, I would like to have the "conn" column go clear instead of red. Been looking at "depends" but can't figure out how to make that work for this scenario. Eric Jacobs

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linecount
by michael.nemeth＠lmco.com 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Had this working yesterday, did not know it was until I look in the trends column but by then I broke it! I cannot seam to get it right today! File is /etc/backup/passwd (back up of passwd) ALL I want to do is get a linecount of ALL line. What goes in client-local.cfg What goes (if anything) in hobbit-clients.cfg

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cont check regex problems
by kmckinnis＠tivo.com 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

I'm not clear what I'm doing wrong in my cont check in bb-hosts, and I was hoping someone could help me out. My regular expression works fine in perl: perl -e '$text = join "", <>; if ($text =~ /assetID="[0-9A-Fa-f]{8}"/) { print "OK\n"; } else { print "NotOK\n"; }' < /tmp/vodbrowser.php However, bb-hosts line fails on the regex check: 10.100.104.53 seachange-vod # testip cont=vod;http://mrteeny/vod/vodbrowser.php;assetID="[0-9A-Fa-f]{8}" It *is* a webpage I'm trying to match... so the page starts with: <html> <head> <title>VOD Interface</title> </head> <body bgcolor=white> <h3 align=center>Vod Interface</h3> <pre> ----------------------------------- assetID="00080002" However, I really only care if the assetID is being displayed. Any suggestions?

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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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