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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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[hobbit] Re: Devmon causing core dumps
by bgmilne＠staff.telkomsa.net 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

On Friday 31 October 2008 19:55:35 Robert Holden wrote: > When I run snmpwalk on my interfaces I get the following: > (I believe that the devmon template is using this ... notice that they are > all the same. Depending on the SNMP implementation (and may differ on different IOS versions). > A transform won't help) > IF-MIB::ifName.70 = STRING: AT5/0/0 > IF-MIB::ifName.71 = STRING: AT5/0/0 > IF-MIB::ifName.72 = STRING: AT5/0/0 > IF-MIB::ifName.73 = STRING: AT5/0/0 > IF-MIB::ifName.74 = STRING: AT5/0/0 One of our 7613's has: IF-MIB::ifName.1 = STRING: Gi3/1 [...] IF-MIB::ifName.128 = STRING: ATM10/1/0.0-atm subif IF-MIB::ifName.129 = STRING: ATM10/1/0-aal5 layer IF-MIB::ifName.130 = STRING: ATM10/1/0.0-aal5 layer IF-MIB::ifName.131 = STRING: VLAN-1 > (This could be used, but you would end up w/ very long names. G0/0 would > become GigabitEthernet0/0) > IF-MIB::ifDescr.70 = STRING: ATM5/0/0 > IF-MIB::ifDescr.71 = STRING: ATM5/0/0-atm layer > IF-MIB::ifDescr.72 = STRING: ATM5/0/0.0-atm subif > IF-MIB::ifDescr.73 = STRING: ATM5/0/0-aal5 layer > IF-MIB::ifDescr.74 = STRING: ATM5/0/0.0-aal5 layer On the same device as above: IF-MIB::ifDescr.1 = STRING: GigabitEthernet3/1 [...] IF-MIB::ifDescr.128 = STRING: ATM10/1/0.0-atm subif IF-MIB::ifDescr.129 = STRING: ATM10/1/0-aal5 layer IF-MIB::ifDescr.130 = STRING: ATM10/1/0.0-aal5 layer IF-MIB::ifDescr.131 = STRING: unrouted VLAN 1 > (This may be helpful ... somehow ignore all type 37 and type 49, and sub > interface 0 ??) > IF-MIB::ifType.70 = INTEGER: sonet(39) > IF-MIB::ifType.71 = INTEGER: atm(37) > IF-MIB::ifType.72 = INTEGER: atmSubInterface(134) > IF-MIB::ifType.73 = INTEGER: aal5(49) > IF-MIB::ifType.74 = INTEGER: aal5(49) But, in my case, I want to graph: IF-MIB::ifName.103 = STRING: ATM10/1/0.1-aal5 layer (it is the only interface which shows the correct traffic) > I will open a bug if you like. Is the issue that originated this thread > the same as the one I am experiencing? Well, there are two aspects to the bug: 1)Devmon should strip invalid characters out of interface names for the RRD data sent with the status message. 2)The Hobbit RRD collector module for devmon should not segfault if data is not in the format: <name_without_spaces> value[:value[:value]] Regards, Buchan

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[hobbit] IPv6
by henrik＠hswn.dk 30 Oct '09

30 Oct '09

In <ea6cc0c70811281053n3c27f49fpf78fd2b800a52bf5 at mail.gmail.com> "David A. Bandel" <david.bandel at gmail.com> writes: >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). It's not entirely trivial, but it can be done (of course). The actual changes needed to "talk" IPv6 in the network service tests is probably not a whole lot; may real concern is going through all of the places throughout Xymon where the code assumes that an IP- address looks like "1.2.3.4". >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 :-(. It is moving up on my priority list as well - it seems that IPv6 is (finally) seeing some real adoption. It won't be in the next version, but probably the one after that. Regards, Henrik

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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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