February 2009 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

protocol that use hobbit for communication
by hajjioui.youness＠gmail.com 19 May '09

19 May '09

hi, SNMP is the protocol used by monitoring systems to get data from clients... does hobbit use SNMP or there is an other protocol?! thanks :-)

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perl script
by gjohnson＠trantor.org 13 May '09

13 May '09

I've added the perl script example that Henrik provided late January to the tutorials page on The Shire. http://www.trantor.org/theshire/doku.php/tutorials:ssmodule Hopefully, Henrik won't mind. (I may be "borrowing" some of Henrik's content for the other tutorials yet to be written...of course, if someone would like to volunteer the tutorials I'd be happy to consider them for addition). If you have other ideas about tutorials or FAQs, please let me know. I'm trying to make more time for the site (interestingly, I showed a manager from one of our other groups Hobbit in passing one day...he just happened to have been looking for an easy to setup/configure monitoring solution...he's been singing the praises of Hobbit since) =G=

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big brother replacement
by joe＠tmsusa.com 11 Apr '09

11 Apr '09

Hello list, It's that time of year again - we're looking for alternatives to our aging bb infrastructure - although it's been helped by the bbgen extensions, it is showing it's age, and is getting harder to support as time goes by. Of all the potential replacements we've looked at, I don't really like any of them - the commercial bb stuff is uninspiring, and their linux support is lacking. The other solutions tend to be heavyweight j2ee and database apps, or oddities like nagios. What I'd really love to find is something like an up-to-date version of big brother+bbgen, something like hobbit. Unfortunately, last I checked, hobbit still lacked a crucial capability that we depend on, the built-in bb failover mechanism. We have 2 data centers, several hundred miles apart, with bb servers in several lans at both sites. Each bb server has a twin at the other location, and they both monitor the servers in both data centers, but only one of the bb servers does reporting, as determined by the failover state. The bb failover has worked marvelously, and has kept bb firmly in place so far, despite the other advantages of hobbit. So, the $64 question: Is there anything in hobbit, or on the horizon, which will allow hobbit to serve as a drop-in replacement for bb, including the failover capability? Thanks for your words of wisdom. Joe

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Installing Hobit Client in HPUX
by Davis.Jacob＠McKesson.com 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

Hi, A quick introduction, I am Davis Jacob a member of the System Engineering team. I am getting a problem when trying to install the client in HPUX machine. When I untar the client version, I get this message; tar -xvf hobbit_hpux.tar x ./etc/rc.config.d/hobbit-client, 880 bytes, 2 tape blocks x ./sbin/init.d/hobbit-client, 3497 bytes, 7 tape blocks x ./usr/local/libexec/hobbit/client/bin/bb, 82172 bytes, 161 tape blocks x ./usr/local/libexec/hobbit/client/bin/bbcmd, 69884 bytes, 137 tape blocks x ./usr/local/libexec/hobbit/client/bin/bbhostgrep, 86268 bytes, 169 tape blocks x ./usr/local/libexec/hobbit/client/bin/bbhostshow, 69884 bytes, 137 tape blocks x ./usr/local/libexec/hobbit/client/bin/hobbitclient-aix.sh, 1452 bytes, 3 tape blocks x ./usr/local/libexec/hobbit/client/bin/hobbitclient-darwin.sh, 1164 bytes, 3 tape blocks x ./usr/local/libexec/hobbit/client/bin/hobbitclient-freebsd.sh, 1462 bytes, 3 tape blocks x ./usr/local/libexec/hobbit/client/bin/hobbitclient-hp-ux.sh, 1565 bytes, 4 tape blocks x ./usr/local/libexec/hobbit/client/bin/hobbitclient-linux.sh, 1363 bytes, 3 tape blocks x ./usr/local/libexec/hobbit/client/bin/hobbitclient-netbsd.sh, 1399 bytes, 3 tape blocks x ./usr/local/libexec/hobbit/client/bin/hobbitclient-openbsd.sh, 1396 bytes, 3 tape blocks x ./usr/local/libexec/hobbit/client/bin/hobbitclient-osf1.sh, 1346 bytes, 3 tape blocks x ./usr/local/libexec/hobbit/client/bin/hobbitclient-sunos.sh, 1652 bytes, 4 tape blocks x ./usr/local/libexec/hobbit/client/bin/hobbitclient.sh, 1387 bytes, 3 tape blocks x ./usr/local/libexec/hobbit/client/bin/hobbitlaunch, 78076 bytes, 153 tape blocks x ./usr/local/libexec/hobbit/client/bin/hpux-meminfo, 20732 bytes, 41 tape blocks x ./usr/local/libexec/hobbit/client/etc/clientlaunch.cfg, 349 bytes, 1 tape blocks x ./usr/local/libexec/hobbit/client/etc/hobbitclient.cfg, 1783 bytes, 4 tape blocks x ./usr/local/libexec/hobbit/client/runclient.sh, 2962 bytes, 6 tape blocks x ./usr/local/var/run/hobbitclient-runtime.cfg, 0 bytes, 0 tape blocks But I don't see any installable in it. The HPUX version running is B.11.11 Can you please help me with this. Thanks in advance, Davis

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license question
by Jan.Vojtko＠comparex.cz 19 Mar '09

19 Mar '09

Hi, we would like to use hobbit as the part of our monitoring system delivered to our customers. Can we do it? Thanks and Regards Jan ----------------------------------------------------------- Jan Vojtko Professional services Project manager COMPAREX CZ s.r.o. Dědinská 29/893 161 00 Praha 6 Phone: +420 224 318 781 Phone: +420 220 102 541 Mobile: +420 725 859 470 Fax: +420 224 322 292 E-mail: jan.vojtko at comparex.cz www: http://www.comparex.cz -----------------------------------------------------------

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Temperature Graphs
by pnixon＠gmail.com 18 Mar '09

18 Mar '09

Hey all, I'm trying to monitor some temperatures from Windows boxes and I have the external script set up to send the message to Xymon, and it's trying to create the graph, but It's not seeing any data, even over the course of several hours worth of data. Does anyone know the exact formatting necessary to create the graphs? Also, is it possible to graph multiple items on one graph? Thanks! --Pat

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remote/commandline Acknowledge Alerts
by martin.flemming＠desy.de 18 Mar '09

18 Mar '09

Hi ! I've got some colleagues who don't want to use the Webinterface to disable/enable Alerts or send Acknowledge Alerts for 30 or 50 machines at once ..... so, is there any chance to do that, remote ( with wget or curl .. maybe ..) or per commandline on the hobbitserver ? thanks & cheers, Martin

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File Monitoring (MTIME & SIZE)
by MFisher＠hra.com 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '09

Hi All, I am trying to monitor files which should NOT be modified. If have the SIZE and MTIME parameter setup as follows: HOST=testhost.test.com FILE /etc/passwd TYPE=file OWNER=0 GROUP=0 MODE=644 SIZE=123456 MTIME>86400 red This basically means that if the file is modified within the last 24 hours, or if the SIZE is different than 123456 it should go red... It never goes to any other status other than green. I also have the /etc/passwd entry in the clients-local.cfg file as well\ Any Ideas?

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[hobbit] no iostat rrds?
by craig＠cookitservices.com 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

iostat graphs on Solaris in hobbit are broken. http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2007/07/msg00335.html Even after these patches there seems to be a parsing issue on some filesystems. ie. some filesystems get a solid graph line, some filesystems are a broken line. "Random" data seems to be missing from the rrd's. I have not located where the bug is yet though. Craig Cook

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xymon RPMS for RHEL/Centos 3/4/5
by bgmilne＠staff.telkomsa.net 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

I got around to adding some migration support to xymon in the Mandriva packages, and it seems to work adequately for a relatively simple setup. So, I have (as usual) rebuilt the packages for RHEL/Centos. For now, they are in a separate repo, e.g.: http://staff.telkomsa.net/packages/rhel5/xymon/ http://staff.telkomsa.net/packages/rhel4/xymon/ http://staff.telkomsa.net/packages/rhel3/xymon/ SRPM is here: http://staff.telkomsa.net/packages/SRPMS/xymon/xymon-4.2.3-1.rhel5.src.rpm Please note that you may see a message about files being save as .rpmsave, you should copy those back before starting xymon after the upgrade. Also note that any extension scripts may not be migrated correctly (it's better to package them as well :-)). If you do upgrade from Hobbit to Xymon with these packages, please let me know of anything else that did not work correctly. If I get sufficient feedback, I will eventually move these packages to the hobbit repo (or, make them have the same content). Regards, Buchan P.S. I am taking a few days of paternity leave starting now ... but I will try and answer mail

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