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[hobbit] Wrong URL with new version?
by hj.beckers＠kreis-steinfurt.de 16 Jan '09

16 Jan '09

No ideas? "Andrew Clarke" <andrew at bccit.co.uk> schrieb am 09.01.2009 11:08:49: > "Andrew Clarke" <andrew at bccit.co.uk> > 09.01.2009 11:13 > > Bitte antworten an > hobbit at hswn.dk > > An > > <hobbit at hswn.dk> > > Kopie > > Thema > > RE: [hobbit] Wrong URL with new version? > > I?ve also been trialling Xymon 4.2.2 (on Debian) and get the same > problem. I have tried configuring it as ?xymon? and ?hobbit? and get > the same symptoms with both. > > Andrew > ... > > From: Hermann-Josef Beckers [mailto:hj.beckers at kreis-steinfurt.de] > Sent: 07 January 2009 15:30 > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: [hobbit] Wrong URL with new version? > > Hi, > > for testing I installed the new version on a new server. I choose to > use the old structure /home/hobbit and > not /home/xymon, copied the old conf files with appropriate changes > (BBDISPLAY). The generated > hobbit-apache.conf contains only 3 chances (xymon instead of hobbit) > > Xymon works, but when I try to access the web pages, only the start > page is accessible > (http://my.new.host/hobbit/bb.html) The gif images are not shown. > When I try to access a > subpage, a 404 occurs. That is correct, because it tries to call > http://my.new.host/hobbit/hobbit/subpage/subpage.html. > > Note the second "hobbit" in the URL. Any hints where it does come > from? Difference between the servers: > the old one is Mandrake with DocumentRoot /var/www/html and the new > one is OpenSUSE 11.0 > with DocumentRoot /srv/www/htdocs. > A little further ... Removing the trailing slash in 'Alias /hobbit "/home/hobbit/server/www/" ' the first level of subpages are shown correct. But access to the cgi scripts returns still a 404. Removing the trailing slash from the script aliases makes no difference. Callled URL is: http://my.new.host/hobbit/AIuniXen/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?HOST=lscopy02.k… Yours hjb

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[hobbit] testing remote hosts with different source address
by lchiavacci＠netartis.com 16 Jan '09

16 Jan '09

Hello Johan thanks for your reply. That's another possibility as the problem I have is due to remote VPNs I have to use. The only doubt that remains is how to use the option --source in hobbitping and why it is only available with hobbitping and not in bbtest-net. Lorenzo -----Original Message----- From: Johan Sjöberg [mailto:johan.sjoberg at deltamanagement.se] Sent: Thu 1/15/2009 1:41 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] testing remote hosts with different source address You could also use iptables to do source address translation. We do that in some cases where the hobbit server's default source address is not member of a VPN, but another interface's IP is. /Johan -----Original Message----- From: Lorenzo Chiavacci [mailto:lchiavacci at netartis.com] Sent: den 15 januari 2009 13:27 To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] testing remote hosts with different source address Hello Geoff, Thanks for the idea but I have multiple IP addresses on the same network interface and I would like to send packets from the Hobbitmon server with a different source address for different servers in the bb-hosts file. Maybe what I am trying to do is not possible with the current version. Lorenzo -----Original Message----- From: Geoff Hallford [mailto:geoff.hallford at gmail.com] Sent: Thu 1/15/2009 1:07 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] testing remote hosts with different source address Not the same but couldn't you just use different routes on the Hobbit box to get it to go out different interfaces? i.e. 192.168.1.1 to gw of interface1 IP, and 192.168.2.1 to gw of interface2 IP 'Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.' --Yogi Berra On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Lorenzo Chiavacci <lchiavacci at netartis.com>wrote: > Hello everyone, > I am using Hobbitmon 4.2 and I would like to set up a system with > multiple IP addresses on network interface so that I can perform test > to some hosts through an IP address and other tests through another IP > address, and so on with multiple address aliases. > > The hobbitping has a --source option but bbtest-net does not. > > I have thought of using the LOCATION tag in bb-hosts and have > multiple instances of bbtest-net in hobbitlaunch.cfg but I do not find > a way to have packets exit from the system with a different source > address for all TCP tests as well as ping. > > Has anyone ever done such a setup? > > thank you. > Lorenzo Chiavacci > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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ESX Hosts
by Vernon.Everett＠woodside.com.au 16 Jan '09

16 Jan '09

Hi all Has anybody had any success monitoring ESX hosts yet? In particular, I am looking for HBA and disk stats, CPU, memory, etc. The usual suspects. I know there was some mutterings about SNMP monitoring on the list. Has this progressed any further yet? Regards V 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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Netware client
by bb4＠richter-it.net 16 Jan '09

16 Jan '09

Hi all, I just downloaded the "Netware client" from http://www.hswn.dk/beta/snapshot/contrib/netware and installed XYmon 4.3.0 from the repository. I followed the instructions in the README and everything went fine except the "snmpget -v 1 -c public IP.OF.NETWARE.SERVER HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSystemDate.0" command. Yes, I substituted the community with the right name and the "IP.OF.NETWARE.SERVER" with the right ip. I got the message: Error in packet Reason: (noSuchName) There is no such variable name in this MIB. Failed object: HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSystemDate.0 But all other commands were executing ok. So I moved the scripts and binaries to ext/ and added the appropriate entry in hobbitlaunch.cfg. I see the files are created in tmp/ named msg.SERVER.tmp and these files are updated frequently. But I don't see the tests showing up on the XYmon webpage. I also executed the command bin/bb $BBDISP "@" < tmp/msg.SERVER.tmp by hand and no errors were shown. A strace showed that the data was read and written. Any ideas? TIA Torsten

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Disk volume not showing
by lbjensen＠consit.dk 15 Jan '09

15 Jan '09

Hello My host is run hobbit 4.2 on Linux RH On some of my machines, the DISK check, will not show all the volumes. ie. /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 98747 19643 74005 21% /boot What could be the reason for this? Regards Lars Jensen Denmark

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[hobbit] testing remote hosts with different source address
by lchiavacci＠netartis.com 15 Jan '09

15 Jan '09

Hello Geoff, Thanks for the idea but I have multiple IP addresses on the same network interface and I would like to send packets from the Hobbitmon server with a different source address for different servers in the bb-hosts file. Maybe what I am trying to do is not possible with the current version. Lorenzo -----Original Message----- From: Geoff Hallford [mailto:geoff.hallford at gmail.com] Sent: Thu 1/15/2009 1:07 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] testing remote hosts with different source address Not the same but couldn't you just use different routes on the Hobbit box to get it to go out different interfaces? i.e. 192.168.1.1 to gw of interface1 IP, and 192.168.2.1 to gw of interface2 IP 'Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.' --Yogi Berra On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Lorenzo Chiavacci <lchiavacci at netartis.com>wrote: > Hello everyone, > I am using Hobbitmon 4.2 and I would like to set up a system with > multiple IP addresses on network interface so that I can perform test to > some hosts through an IP address and other tests through another IP > address, and so on with multiple address aliases. > > The hobbitping has a --source option but bbtest-net does not. > > I have thought of using the LOCATION tag in bb-hosts and have multiple > instances of bbtest-net in hobbitlaunch.cfg but I do not find a way to > have packets exit from the system with a different source address for > all TCP tests as well as ping. > > Has anyone ever done such a setup? > > thank you. > Lorenzo Chiavacci > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > > >

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File and dir size's wrong
by pnward＠googlemail.com 14 Jan '09

14 Jan '09

Hi, I have installed xymon on centos5 from source. For some reason the files and dirs are incorrect. My /home/xymon folder is 40MB but is only reported as 40k I put DU="du -k" into the hobbitserver.cfg hoping to report the folder in the same measurements but it is not working. Any ideas? Thanks -- email: pnward at googlemail.com website: http://www.pward.co.uk MSN: pob2000is at hotmail.com Skype: paul.n.ward -- email: pnward at googlemail.com website: http://www.pward.co.uk MSN: pob2000is at hotmail.com Skype: paul.n.ward

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files graph does not show in trends column
by peter.welter＠gmail.com 14 Jan '09

14 Jan '09

Currently a weird problem: I monitor some directories and they show up just fine in Hobbit under the files-column including the graphs, but... not in the trends column? It's standard Hobbit so I'd expect it to show up there too!? I tried to add the trends-keywords: file or files or filesizes in the bb-hosts-file like you would normally do for a home made script or extra graphs (f.e. a performance script for Host_A: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Host_A # "TRENDS:*,vmstat:vmstat|vmstat1|vmstat3|vmstat4" so xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Host_A # "TRENDS:*,files:filesizes,vmstat:vmstat|vmstat1|vmstat3|vmstat4" but somehow I could not get this to work?! Any suggestions perhaps? Yes, files is included in /etc/hobbit/hobbitserver.cfg:TEST2RRD="cpu=la,disk,inode,qtree,memory,$PINGCOLUMN=tcp,http=tcp,dns=tcp,dig=tcp,time=ntpstat,vmstat,iostat,netstat,temperature,apache,bind,sendmail,mailq,nmailq=mailq,socks,bea,iishealth,citrix,bbgen,bbtest,bbproxy,hobbitd,files,procs=processes,ports,clock,lines,performance=ncv,mysql=ncv,diskio=ncv,ds4800_perf=ncv,zonestat,nfsstat=ncv,io_avg_latency=ncv,io_other_latency=ncv,io_other_ops=ncv,io_read_data=ncv,io_read_latency=ncv,io_read_ops=ncv,io_total_ops=ncv,io_write_data=ncv,io_write_latency=ncv,io_write_ops=ncv,mail=ncv" /etc/hobbit/hobbitserver.cfg:GRAPHS="la,disk,inode,qtree,files,processes,memory,users,vmstat,iostat,tcp.http,tcp,ncv,netstat,ifstat,mrtg::1,ports,temperature,ntpstat,apache,bind,sendmail,mailq,socks,bea,iishealth,citrix,bbgen,bbtest,bbproxy,hobbitd,clock,lines,performance,mysql,diskio,ds4800_perf,zonestat,nfsstat,io_avg_latency,io_other_latency,io_other_ops,io_read_data,io_read_latency,io_read_ops,io_total_ops,io_write_data,io_write_latency,io_write_ops" Peter -- 24 Beers in a crate, 24 hours in a day. Coincidence?

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[hobbit] file monitoring permission problems
by ralphmitchell＠gmail.com 14 Jan '09

14 Jan '09

You would have oracle's cron to execute something like this regularly: #!/bin/sh md5sum /some/secure/oracle/path/filename > /var/tmp/filename.md5 Then have hobbit's cron run something like: #!/bin/sh $HOME/server/bin/bbcmd $HOME/server/ext/oracle-md5-checker.sh You could use Hobbit's launcher, but I always found it easier to use cron to spread scheduled jobs over time. The oracle-md5-checker.sh script would start up with all the Hobbit environment, grab the md5 checksum from the file, check it against the proper value, then report red/green. I think I would then have it delete the md5 file - that might require parking the file somewhere other than /var/tmp, which would be a good idea anyway... Deleting the file means that next time the hobbit script runs, it can validate that the oracle cron job ran, rather than just blindly re-reading the same file. That's probably simpler than comparing the file-last-changed timestamp to realtime. Ralph Mitchell On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 1:45 PM, chris <chris at spw.info> wrote: > Thanks for your suggestions. > > > > Adding the hobbit user to the oracle group is unfortunately not an option, > as the permissions do not even give the group permission to the directory, > but only the owner itself. > > > > When you suggest running a script as oracle from cron, I presume that we > are talking outside of the hobbit environment, or is there still a way to > keep server side configuration, etc? > > > ------------------------------ > > *From:* Ralph Mitchell [mailto:ralphmitchell at gmail.com] > *Sent:* Sonntag, 11. Jänner 2009 20:27 > *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk > *Subject:* Re: [hobbit] file monitoring permission problems > > > > On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 1:05 PM, L.M.J <linuxmasterjedi at free.fr> wrote: > > Le Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:12:20 +0100, > "Chris" <chris at spw.info> a écrit : > > > > This is confirmed when looking into the client data sent to the server: > > > > [file:/opt/oracle/product/j2ee/applications/appl.ear] > > ERROR: Permission denied > > > > Is there an easy workaround without having to change file permissions, > eg. > > running the file tests with sudo? > > You can add the user "hobbit" to the oracle unix group. I think it's the > fastest and simplest way > to fix your issue. > > > That also reduces your database security, and I'll bet your DBAs wouldn't > allow it. Better to have the oracle account run the script from cron and > pick up the output from a neutral location. > > Ralph Mitchell >

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[hobbit] file monitoring permission problems
by linuxmasterjedi＠free.fr 13 Jan '09

13 Jan '09

Le Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:12:20 +0100, "Chris" <chris at spw.info> a écrit : > This is confirmed when looking into the client data sent to the server: > > [file:/opt/oracle/product/j2ee/applications/appl.ear] > ERROR: Permission denied > > Is there an easy workaround without having to change file permissions, eg. > running the file tests with sudo? You can add the user "hobbit" to the oracle unix group. I think it's the fastest and simplest way to fix your issue.

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