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AUTO: Norbert Kriegenburg is out of the office (returning 14.10.2009)
by norbert.kriegenburg＠de.ibm.com 02 Oct '09

02 Oct '09

I am out of the office until 14.10.2009. Note: This is an automated response to your message "?Re: [hobbit] devmon stops working on non reachable device" sent on 2/10/09 0:18:13. This is the only notification you will receive while this person is away.

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[hobbit] Graphing with broken numbers
by bgmilne＠staff.telkomsa.net 01 Oct '09

01 Oct '09

----- "thorsten erdmann" <thorsten.erdmann at daimler.com> wrote: > Hi > > I try to get some temperature graphs of my UPS. The UPS test produces > broken numbers like this: What do you mean by "broken"? Do you mean non-integers? > > Temperature status: > > Warning level: 35 C > Alarm level : 40 C > > Device Temp(C) Temp(F) > ------------------------------------------- > Ambient 20.7 69 > > > Devmon version 0.3.1-beta1 running on s068a300 > > > I manged to get the numbers into a graph if I alter the output to not > showing 20.7, instead showing 21. > The graph show up several lines like > > Ambient_______20. > Ambient_______21. I am not sure what you are trying to depict here, are you meaning that the DS names are Ambient______20 ? The output of 'rrdtool info /path/to/temp.rrd |grep ^ds' or similar may help to illustrate more accurately. Which collector are you using? Regards, Buchan

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Load threasholds when bbwin in 'central' mode
by Craig_Whilding＠mentor.com 01 Oct '09

01 Oct '09

I decided to try out 4.3 beta 2 along with the central mode for 'bbwin' clients. Unfortunately when doing this I discovered many of the windows boxes were alerting red because the load was higher than my defaults of 4 and 8... Now I've upped these to 95 and 100 to represent the percentage the windows boxes are using but this means the unix boxes could be broken and I wont know without setting individual alert thresholds. Is there a way to change the windows 'load' to be 'load percentage' or something so each type of box is using a different monitoring type? I know there were discussions about having UNIX boxes sending in a load percentage but that this was a difficult thing to achieve correctly. Our hostnames are normally dictated by service rather than platform unfortunately so I can't always just put so8/w2k etc pcre expressions in the thresholds to differentiate OS type. Regards, Craig Whilding

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core dump
by vadud3＠gmail.com 01 Oct '09

01 Oct '09

I had a core dump with bb on non-global solaris 10 zone on T1000 bash-3.00# gdb ~hobbit/client/bin/bb core GNU gdb 6.6 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 "sparc-sun-solaris2.8"... Reading symbols from /lib/libresolv.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libresolv.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/libsocket.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libsocket.so.1 Reading symbols from /lib/libnsl.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libnsl.so.1 Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.1 Reading symbols from /platform/sun4v/lib/libc_psr.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-T1000/lib/libc_psr.so.1 Reading symbols from /lib/ld.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/ld.so.1 Core was generated by `/home/hobbit/client/bin/bb 0.0.0.0 @'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. #0 0xff109644 in doformat () from /lib/libc.so.1 (gdb) bt #0 0xff109644 in doformat () from /lib/libc.so.1 #1 0xff10ac90 in strftime () from /lib/libc.so.1 #2 0x00013594 in errprintf (fmt=0x1da28 "xmalloc: Out of memory!\n") at errormsg.c:47 #3 0x00013a28 in xmalloc (size=121384) at memory.c:121 #4 0x0001362c in errprintf (fmt=0x1da28 "xmalloc: Out of memory!\n") at errormsg.c:61 #5 0x00013a28 in xmalloc (size=121384) at memory.c:121 #6 0x0001362c in errprintf (fmt=0x1da28 "xmalloc: Out of memory!\n") at errormsg.c:61 #7 0x00013a28 in xmalloc (size=121384) at memory.c:121 #8 0x0001362c in errprintf (fmt=0x1da28 "xmalloc: Out of memory!\n") at errormsg.c:61 #9 0x00013a28 in xmalloc (size=121384) at memory.c:121 #10 0x0001362c in errprintf (fmt=0x1da28 "xmalloc: Out of memory!\n") at errormsg.c:61 #11 0x00013a28 in xmalloc (size=121384) at memory.c:121 #12 0x0001362c in errprintf (fmt=0x1da28 "xmalloc: Out of memory!\n") at errormsg.c:61 #13 0x00013a28 in xmalloc (size=121384) at memory.c:121 #14 0x0001362c in errprintf (fmt=0x1da28 "xmalloc: Out of memory!\n") at errormsg.c:61 #15 0x00013a28 in xmalloc (size=121384) at memory.c:121 ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- #16 0x0001362c in errprintf (fmt=0x1da28 "xmalloc: Out of memory!\n") at errormsg.c:61 #17 0x00013a28 in xmalloc (size=121384) at memory.c:121 #18 0x0001362c in errprintf (fmt=0x1da28 "xmalloc: Out of memory!\n") at errormsg.c:61 #19 0x00013a28 in xmalloc (size=121384) at memory.c:121 #20 0x0001362c in errprintf (fmt=0x1da28 "xmalloc: Out of memory!\n") at errormsg.c:61 #21 0x00013a28 in xmalloc (size=121384) at memory.c:121 #22 0x0001362c in errprintf (fmt=0x1da28 "xmalloc: Out of memory!\n") at errormsg.c:61 #23 0x00013a28 in xmalloc (size=121384) at memory.c:121 #24 0x0001362c in errprintf (fmt=0x1da28 "xmalloc: Out of memory!\n") at errormsg.c:61 #25 0x00013a28 in xmalloc (size=121384) at memory.c:121 #26 0x0001362c in errprintf (fmt=0x1da28 "xmalloc: Out of memory!\n") at errormsg.c:61 #27 0x00013a28 in xmalloc (size=121384) at memory.c:121 #28 0x0001362c in errprintf (fmt=0x1da48 "xrealloc: Out of memory!\n") at errormsg.c:61 #29 0x00013a68 in xrealloc (ptr=0x0, size=195584) at memory.c:151 #30 0x00017d80 in strbuf_addtobuffer (buf=0x302a0, newtext=0x51cc0 ' ' <repeats 34 times>, "(sparc) 2.6.0,REV=10.0.3.2004.12.15---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- .20.59\n", newlen=76) at strfunc.c:109 #31 0x00012b44 in main (argc=3, argv=0xffbff51c) at bb.c:118 (gdb) Let me know if I should have sent the backtrace directly to Henrik instead. -- Asif Iqbal PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

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[hobbit] Graphs stop update 24 hours after client reboot; start again 24 hours later.
by patrik＠jalbum.net 01 Oct '09

01 Oct '09

Returning to this old thread as I ran into this issue today. Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:23:17 +0000 (UTC), Henrik wrote: >"Brand, Thomas R." <TRBrand (at) cvs.com> writes: >>I need some help/suggestions to figure out why my "cpu load" and "users >>& processes" graphs stop updating about 24 hours after the systems >>reboot. The updates stop for anywhere from 12 to 24 hours, then simply >>start back up again. >>Only the "CPU load" and the "Users and Processes" graphs are having the >>problem; disk, memory, cpu utilization, network traffic don't miss a >>beat. >The only explanation I can come up with is that the format of >some of the "cpu" status message is different for the first 24 hours >after a reboot. >Could you send me an example of the cpu status shortly after a reboot, >and one when the graphs are working ? >What OS are these boxes ? Running openSUSE 11.1 (x86_64). Client output that does not update the rrd: [top] top - 14:39:44 up 1 day, 4:40, 3 users, load average: 2.42, 2.88, 2.89 Client output that does update the rrd: [top] top - 14:42:51 up 40 days, 2:41, 3 users, load average: 4.19, 3.61, 3.10 The only difference I can see is "day" instead of "days". Regards, Patrik

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Real network service tests
by brian.daly＠criticalpath.net 01 Oct '09

01 Oct '09

The Man page for hobbit states that : When checking websites, it is possible to not only check that the webserver is responding, but also that the response looks correct by matching the response against a pre-defined pattern or a checksum Can anybody tell me how to configure this? I want to run a http test on a webserver. If the webserver does not return the response I am expecting then alert me that something has changed on the server. regards Brian

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Custom Purple Times
by pmeech＠gmail.com 01 Oct '09

01 Oct '09

Hi All, Firstly apologies if this is something I should have been able to locate on the mailing list; I've had a quick look but nothing appeared to answer it... I have an external test (shell script) that runs on my Xymon server (4.2.3), and logs into device web servers and gets a segment of HTML and performs some processing on it and sends to the xymon via the bb command. As there are 100 of these devices, I dont really want to be running this test every 10 minutes or so; and I also dont want to have 100 hosts going purple after 20 minutes. I realise I could call hobbitd with the --no-purple option; but purple is useful under many of the other tests. Is there a way of specifying no purple status on a per test basis? If I specify a hobbitlaunch time of greater than 20 minutes, would the test go purple waiting for hobbitlaunch to run the external again? Is there any other way that I could run this test once, every 4 hours and stop it going purple? As a last ditch resort I was considering storing the status messages (retrieved every 4 hours ideally via the shell script) in different files (per host) on the Xymon server and repeatedly sending this message every 10 minutes (hence preventing purple statuses). Although this would work, it doesnt seem a particularly clean method. Thanks for your time, Phil

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Disk growth in MB during graphs timespan, anybody done it?
by Craig.Cook＠carquest.com 01 Oct '09

01 Oct '09

>Interested in showing delta/growth of filesystems, in MB, not % as is default. Someone must have done this by now... ok if it's just in the legend and not a line in graph. This way on my monthly reports >you get both visual as shown currently, but for the time span shown, the delta in MB is shown. It is built into xymon, just not shown by default. When you click on your disk graph your url will contain "service=disk" as part of it. Change it to say "service=disk1" If you want to change the units displayed eg. MB - not KB, you will need to edit hobbitgraph.cfg, CDEF for the disk1 definition. Craig

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client data processed only every 5 minutes
by pnkumaresh＠gmail.com 01 Oct '09

01 Oct '09

Hi Guru's, I am monitoring windows server using bbwin. I can see the client data coming in every minute but hobbit server processes it only every 5 minutes ? is there a setting in hobbit server to change ? ************************************ Best Regards Kumaresh

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