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[hobbit] How do I update xymon client's configuration file from xymon server ?
by tj_yang＠hotmail.com 03 Feb '09

03 Feb '09

Just discover one catch documented at here http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Other_Docs/HOWTO#… All the external scripts on hobbit client need to be reviewed and to make sure they can send messages to two hobbit server. T.J. Yang From: tj_yang at hotmail.comTo: hobbit at hswn.dkDate: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:47:07 -0600Subject: Re: [hobbit] How do I update xymon client's configuration file from xymon server ? >Why would you need to update that client?See http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Other_Docs/HOWTO#…>Whatever it is, there is no built in way for the Xymon server to modify config files of the clients, sorry! Xymon server does support "client binary update" ,see http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/help/manpages/man1/clientupdate.1.html I am thinking of only upgrade hobbitclients.cfg file in a newer version of xymon client binary tar ball got created on xymon server. a possible workaround solution but better than login into thousand of machines to do the change. tj _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™ Hotmail®…more than just e-mail. http://windowslive.com/howitworks?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t2_hm_justgotbetter_how…

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report of a possible bug
by craner＠haskins.yale.edu 03 Feb '09

03 Feb '09

Xymon/Hobbit version 4.2.2 hobbitd_client crashed trying to process a file via the LOG option. gdb output is: xymon at litt:~/server> gdb bin/hobbitd_client tmp/core GNU gdb 6.6.50.20070726-cvs Copyright (C) 2007 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-suse-linux"... Using host libthread_db library "/lib64/libthread_db.so.1". Reading symbols from /usr/lib64/libpcre.so.0...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib64/libpcre.so.0 Reading symbols from /lib64/libc.so.6...done. Loaded symbols for /lib64/libc.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_client'. Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted. #0 0x00002b7bb21ebb45 in raise () from /lib64/libc.so.6 (gdb) bt #0 0x00002b7bb21ebb45 in raise () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #1 0x00002b7bb21ed0e0 in abort () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #2 0x00000000004189c3 in sigsegv_handler (signum=<value optimized out>) at sig.c:57 #3 <signal handler called> #4 0x000000000040e831 in scan_log (hinfo=<value optimized out>, classname=0x2b7bb251d457 "linux", logname=0x2b7bb252a7dd "/var/log/ list-rdiff-backups.out", logdata=0x2b7bb252a7fe "<...SKIPPED...>\n 10.5 GB\nTue Oct 7 03:46:09 2008 0 bytes", ' ' <repeats 11 times>, "10.5 GB\nThu Oct 2 03:45:36 2008 0 bytes", ' ' <repeats 11 times>, "10.5 GB\n./leigh/u1/:", ' ' <repeats 11 times>, "Time", ' ' <repeats 23 times>, "S"..., section=<value optimized out>, summarybuf=0x62f0a0) at client_config.c:1404 #5 0x0000000000406256 in msgs_report (hostname=0x2b7bb251d44c "litt", clientclass=0x2b7bb251d457 "linux", os=<value optimized out>, hinfo=0x62b500, fromline=0x7ffff8d58dd0 "\nStatus message received from 172.20.3.33\n", timestr=0x2b7bb251d47c "Tue Feb 3 11:40:18 EST 2009", msgsstr=0x0) at hobbitd_client.c:876 #6 0x000000000040b19a in handle_linux_client (hostname=0x2b7bb251d44c "litt", clienttype=0x2b7bb251d457 "linux", os=OS_LINUX, hinfo=0x62b500, sender=<value optimized out>, timestamp=<value optimized out>, clientdata=0x2b7bb251d45d "client litt.linux linux\n[date") at client/ linux.c:60 #7 0x000000000040b95b in main (argc=<value optimized out>, argv=0x7ffff8d594f8) at hobbitd_client.c:1793 (gdb) quit The file "/var/log/list-rdiff-backups.out" is a 170 line/10K ASCII file. Richard S. Crane ------- Director, Technology and Planning Haskins Laboratories THE SCIENCE OF THE SPOKEN AND WRITTEN WORD 300 George Street / New Haven CT 06511 USA (203) 865-6163 X 275 / FAX (203) 865-8963 http://www.haskins.yale.edu

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The Shire
by Galen.Johnson＠sas.com 02 Feb '09

02 Feb '09

The Shire is temporarily unavailable. Some weird hardware issue is causing the system to periodically freeze and I won't have a chance to look at it until later this evening. It should be noted that as soon as I can get back into the system, I will be copying the content (or having it copied) to xymonton.trantor.org and setting up a redirect. This location has been offered by Adam and I've been slack about getting it moved over. =G=

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Aventail ssl VPN package?
by dan.mcdonald＠austinenergy.com 02 Feb '09

02 Feb '09

I have a couple of Aventail SSL VPN appliances. It is, essentially, a hardened Debian 3.1 distro. Where would I be able to find a xymon .deb file that would run on it? Linux 2.6.16.33 #1 SMP Wed Apr 2 10:47:02 PDT 2008 i686 GNU/Linux -- Dan McDonald, CCIE #2495, CISSP# 78281, CNX www.austinenergy.com

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Exporting events
by craner＠haskins.yale.edu 02 Feb '09

02 Feb '09

Is there a way to export the eventlog records? CSV ideally, but other forms would be fine. Thanks, Richard Crane ------- Haskins Laboratories / (203) 865-6163 X 275 / FAX (203) 865-8963 300 George Street/New Haven, CT 06511

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Mail Alerts
by nfranken＠theunlimitedworld.co.za 02 Feb '09

02 Feb '09

Hi All Once again I have a question. If I want to mail alerts in hobbit how to specify which mail server to use. I can set up the alerts but I cant find where I configure the required smtp server. Very basic but so essential. Help anyone... Thanks a million in advance. Regards Neil

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Corruption in hist files
by stef.coene＠docum.org 02 Feb '09

02 Feb '09

Hi, I have a hobbit server running as vmware guest that changes it's clock at random when you reboot. The clock has jumped a few times to 2010. This gives problems with the hist files. I wrote a perl script to clean up the hist files: - delete lines in the future - fixes the layout so the last number on a line is the seconds between the current and the next line. If anyone is interested, let me know. I think it would be great if the trimhistory utility can do this also. Stef

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Hobbit Protocol
by nfranken＠theunlimitedworld.co.za 02 Feb '09

02 Feb '09

Hi All I am interested in developing some specialized services for Hobbit (i.e monitoring M$ SQL servers). Where can I get some documentation on how to communicate with the hobbit server directly? Or in other words how do I get the hobbit protocol specification? Obviously if I am successful I would make this available to all. Regards Neil

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Antwort: [hobbit] [trunk] snmp: ifmib question
by hj.beckers＠kreis-steinfurt.de 02 Feb '09

02 Feb '09

Olivier Beau <obeau79 at gmail.com> schrieb am 29.01.2009 15:12:12: ... > > I started playing with xymon's snmp > (hobbit-snmpmibs.cfg and hobbit-snmphosts.cfg) > Where do I find those files? Yours hjb

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[hobbit] Hobbit server itself not reporting most services
by bgmilne＠staff.intekom.com 02 Feb '09

02 Feb '09

----- "Jason Hand" <jason at hands4christ.org> wrote: > M y Hobbit server is only reporting bbd, conn, http, info,smtp,ssh and > trends. At one point it reported the others like cpu, disk, memory, > etc... but at some point in the last few weeks I noticed that it is no > longer reporting the status of those. Nothing I know of has changed > and there is nothing I can see in the config files that should be > preventing it from reporting. > > Any ideas what is wrong? Did you change the hostname ? Does the server appear in the ghost clients list? The data is provided by the hobbitclient.sh script, which is (by default) run every 5 minutes by hobbitd from the hobbitclient task in hobbitlaunch.cfg. Regards, Buchan

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