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bbcombotest Links
by me2unix＠gmail.com 22 Oct '10

22 Oct '10

Hi, Could not find anyone answering this request yet.. Here's a fix to add links to the bbcomtest reports page : Just change line 455 of hobbitd/bbcombotest.c >From : sprintf(msgline, "&%s %s\n", colorname(vwalk->color), vwalk->symbol); To: sprintf(msgline, "<a href=\"/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?HOST=%s&SERVICE=%s\">&%s</a> %s\n", gethname(vwalk->symbol), gettname(vwalk->symbol) , colorname(vwalk->color), vwalk->symbol); recompile and have links on the color dots of the tested items within combotests. --Hezki ** - *To*: <hobbit (at) hswn.dk> - *Subject*: bbcombotest Links - *From*: "Aiello, Steve \(GE, Corporate, consultant\)" <steve.aiello(at) ge.com> - *Date*: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:43:21 -0500 - *Thread-index*: AcdbTzrE4X3/UsIMTSiBvQJbJOnunQ== - *Thread-topic*: bbcombotest Links ------------------------------ Hi all, I thought I saw this question asked before, but did see it in the mailling list. When using bbcombotests, is it possible to have the combotest report with hyperlinks to the actual tests ? If I see one of the statuses are red or yellow, my nature instict is to wonder why, and be able to drill down for details. thanks, Steve

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bb-services: regexes in expect string?
by AaronZink＠eharmony.com 21 Sep '10

21 Sep '10

I have this defined in bb-services: [smtp-transaction] send "helo hobbit.domain.com\r\nmail from: <test at domain.com>\r\nrcpt to: <test at anotherdomain.com>\r\nquit\r\n" expect "220-mx01.domain.com ESMTP\r\n220 ESMTP READY\r\n250 mx01.domain.com\r\n250 sender <test at domain.com> ok\r\n" port 25 and a host that uses it in bb-hosts. This works great, except that it's tied to the host mx01.domain.com in the expect string. Is it possible to use regexes in the expect string, such as expect "220-mx0[0|1].domain.com"? So far my attempts have been unsuccessful and the man pages don't seem to indicate if this is possible. Aaron Zink Manager, Corporate IT eHarmony.com 626.795.4814

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ipv6 support
by vadud3＠gmail.com 09 Jun '10

09 Jun '10

Does hobbit support ipv6 addressing? -- Asif Iqbal PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu

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HP PA-RISC Hardware monitoring ?
by tj_yang＠hotmail.com 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

Anyone know is there a module (bb or hb) to monitor HP hardware ? May be better question is what is the similar command for ipmitool or prtdiage in HP-UX ? T.J. Yang _________________________________________________________________ Capture your memories in an online journal! http://www.reallivemoms.com?ocid=TXT_TAGHM&loc=us

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Devmon causing core dumps
by Vernon.Everett＠woodside.com.au 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

Hi all Devmon was causing the hobbitd_rrd module to crash and burn. Now this could be a bug, but it could also be a PEBKAC. I am hoping somebody can assist either way. I added a Cisco 2851 to Hobbit, using devmon. Now here is the possible PEBKAC Since Devmon doesn't have templates for the 2851, I used the template for the Cisco 2811. (Network guru told me they are pretty much the same, except for a few extra bells and whistles on the 2851.) The data for the device started appearing in Hobbit, and all looked good. Devmon even created the rrd files for the new Cisco device. However, the hobbitd_rrd module started core dumping, and the Hobbit server page started displaying red for hobbitd_rrd with the crash detected message. See core data below. Took the new Cisco device out of Hobbit, and cores stopped, and life was good again. Is there a significant enough difference between the 2851 and the 2811 to cause this, or are we looking at a genuine bug? I am leaning towards a bug, because even if the collected data was complete rubbish, should it cause the module to core? Regards Vernon My Linux guy reckons this is the important stuff from the core. uname -a Linux las006 2.6.18-92.1.1.el5 #1 SMP Thu May 22 09:01:47 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client release 5.2 (Tikanga) gdb -c core.8550 /usr/lib/hobbit/server/bin/hobbitd_rrd GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (6.5-37.el5_2.1rh) Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu"...Using host libthread_db library "/lib64/libthread_db.so.1". Reading symbols from /usr/lib64/librrd.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib64/librrd.so.2 Reading symbols from /usr/lib64/libpng12.so.0...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib64/libpng12.so.0 Reading symbols from /lib64/libpcre.so.0...done. Loaded symbols for /lib64/libpcre.so.0 Reading symbols from /lib64/libc.so.6...done. Loaded symbols for /lib64/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /usr/lib64/libfreetype.so.6...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib64/libfreetype.so.6 Reading symbols from /usr/lib64/libz.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib64/libz.so.1 Reading symbols from /usr/lib64/libart_lgpl_2.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib64/libart_lgpl_2.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib64/libm.so.6...done. Loaded symbols for /lib64/libm.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 Core was generated by `hobbitd_rrd --rrddir=/var/lib/hobbit/rrd --debug'. Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted. #0 0x0000003db7a30155 in raise () from /lib64/libc.so.6 (gdb) bt #0 0x0000003db7a30155 in raise () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #1 0x0000003db7a31bf0 in abort () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #2 0x00000000004119f3 in sigsegv_handler (signum=<value optimized out>) at sig.c:57 #3 <signal handler called> #4 0x0000003db7a77ac0 in strcat () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #5 0x000000000040462a in do_devmon_rrd (hostname=0x2ada311e2806 "PERIR205", testname=0x2ada311e280f "if_load", msg=<value optimized out>, tstamp=<value optimized out>) at rrd/do_devmon.c:87 #6 0x000000000040b656 in update_rrd (hostname=0x2ada311e2806 "PERIR205", testname=0x2ada311e280f "if_load", msg=0x2ada311e2842 "status PERIR205.if_load green Fri Oct 31 10:31:39 2008", tstamp=1225416699, sender=<value optimized out>, ldef=0xfeffffffffffff00) at do_rrd.c:372 #7 0x000000000040261d in main (argc=<value optimized out>, argv=0x7fff7a088318) at hobbitd_rrd.c:153 (gdb) 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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IPv6
by david.bandel＠gmail.com 30 Oct '09

30 Oct '09

Folks, Searched the archives and found a few IPv6 inquiries, but only that there are no plans to support it. While I'm not a programmer, I suspect it would actually be fairly simple to implement (please correct me if I'm wrong). This is starting to become a priority for me. I need to monitor my ssh servers, but they all only respond now to ipv6, so I can't :-(. For those of you who care, after monitoring my ipv6 only ssh logs, the automated attacks against my servers has dropped from over 10,000 attacks per day to 0. Have not had a single attack in months. Haven't seen that in over 10 years now. I'm sure this is only a temporary thing, but it sure is nice. I have only one other piece of software I can't replace (besides hobbit) that needs to support ipv6 and I will be ready. Those of you watching the bogon list might know how close we are to complete ipv4 exhaustion, and in some areas of the world ipv4 addresses are no longer available. If there is anything I can do to expedite a move to support ipv6, let me know. Thanx, David A. Bandel -- Focus on the dream, not the competition. - Nemesis Air Racing Team motto

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Xymon version 4.2.2 RC1 available
by henrik＠hswn.dk 02 Sep '09

02 Sep '09

I've just made the release-candidate of version 4.2.2 available for download on Sourceforge. https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=128058&package_id=14… This is how I would expect the interim 4.2.2 release to be. It includes the following changes from 4.2.0: *) Due to the Hobbit project being renamed to Xymon (for legal reasons), the documentation has been updated to refer to this as the name of the project. *) All patches from the "all-in-one" patch have been applied *) Patches from Debian and Mandriva source archives and elsewhere have been merged, fixing: - The "Critical Systems" configuration report would crash when hosts were in NKview.cfg, but no NK tags were in bb-hosts (from Mandriva) - SSL certificates with 4-digit expiration years would crash the network tester (from Debian) - Newer OpenLDAP versions have a different API, so the LDAP test code would not build correctly (from Debian) - Old Big Brother clients report disk output with no header line (from Debian) - The bb-hosts syntax for HTTP testing via a proxy could not support https target-URL's (from Debian) - Certain SuSE versions would not be identified by the Linux client as such (only affected OS name displayed in the "info" status). *) Support for sending custom graph data in a "trends" data message (from http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2007/01/msg00236.html) *) Split-NCV and TRACKMAX support for custom graphs (from http://www.hobbitmon.com/hobbiton/2007/03/msg00368.htm) *) Support for the "BBWin" client http://bbwin.sf.net/ in centralized (server-side) configuration mode. Based on BBWin v. 0.12. *) Support for the "hobbit-perl-client" add-on http://hobbit-perl-client.sf.net/ . Based on perl-http-client v1.15 *) Support for the "Devmon" SNMP data collector http://devmon.sf.net/ based on Devmon 0.3.0. A last-minute update for Devmon was missed in the RC1 source file, so Devmon users should grab the latest hobbitd/rrd/do_devmon.c source from http://hobbitmon.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/hobbitmon/branches/4.2.2/hobbit… and copy to hobbitd/rrd/do_devmon.c . This will be included in the final 4.2.2 release. Please test this if you can, and report problems to the mailing list. Since all of this code has been in use for quite some time, I would not expect a lot of problems. So the target date for the 4.2.2 release is Dec. 10. Regards, Henrik

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PROC test question
by marco.pizzoli＠gmail.com 21 Aug '09

21 Aug '09

Hi all, I am a hobbit newby. I have a question about the PROC test: is there a way to define a test about the presence of a particular proc executed by a particular user? I'm in a situation where I have some daemons that could be started by a lot of (machine)users and so I would like to check the user the proc run as. Thanks in advance Marco

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[hobbit] hobbit client on esx server?
by jdustin＠usm.maine.edu 13 Aug '09

13 Aug '09

>>> On 1/15/2008 at 4:30 PM, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 02:02:02PM -0500, Jason Chambers wrote: >> Is it possible to do? It looks like a linux fork to me. > > Possible, but as I understand from our ESX guys you cannot install any > kind of 3rd-party software on the ESX host without voiding your support > agreement. > > In fact, ESX servers is one of the targets for my SNMP-based monitoring > tool right now. > This is an interesting "warning"... If I am ever on the phone to VMWare Support, I will make sure to "forget" the Hobbit client is running! I am currently running the Hobbit client on 7 ESX 3.01 boxes, without any problems. I compiled the client on another server, then merely unzipped it on ESX, and adjusted the startup script. I also made a custom test that runs esxtop and parses the output to determine the "real" CPU load. -- -- Jon Dustin - Network Specialist University of Southern Maine Portland, ME 207-780-4152

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URLplus
by tlp＠mach.com 25 Jun '09

25 Jun '09

Can this new extension do the post like the builtin http test can do ? Regards, Thomas

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