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scalability of hobbit/xymon ?
by nico＠crysto.org 08 Jul '09

08 Jul '09

Hi, In my company, we are currently monitoring ~7000 devices (unix, microsoft, network, firewall, storage) in 13 datacenters in different countries (Spain, Italy, Germany, Belgium, France, Amsterdam, Belgium, UK). The architecture is simple: one hobbit cluster using Heartbeat in each datacenter (= 13 clusters) reporting to a central cluster by bbproxy and some custom scripts to concatenate/consolidate the bb-hosts files correctly. My question is for the future, we need to support 20 000 devices and i would like to know if hobbit is able to do that. (scalability). Indeed, my company doesn’t trust that it’s possible, and they want to move to HP BSM or EMC Smarts .... :-( Any experience about that is welcome. Regards, Nico

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scalability of hobbit/xymon ?
by nico＠crysto.org 08 Jul '09

08 Jul '09

Hi, In my company, we are currently monitoring ~7000 devices (unix, microsoft, network, firewall, storage) in 13 datacenters in different countries (Spain, Italy, Germany, Belgium, France, Amsterdam, Belgium, UK). The architecture is simple: one hobbit cluster using Heartbeat in each datacenter (= 13 clusters) reporting to a central cluster by bbproxy and some custom scripts to concatenate/consolidate the bb-hosts files correctly. My question is for the future, we need to support 20 000 devices and i would like to know if hobbit is able to do that. (scalability). Indeed, my company doesn¹t trust that it¹s possible, and they want to move to HP BSM or EMC Smarts .... :-( Any experience about that is welcome. Regards, Nico

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SAR showing no values
by tainted.soul69＠googlemail.com 08 Jul '09

08 Jul '09

Trying for help again as I'm desperate and stuck on this one. My sar column is showing up emptry. No values whatsoever. I've gone through the bb-sar.sh file and everythlng looks ok. Just wondering does anyone in fact have sar graphs running on their UNIX estate? clientlaunch.cfg : [sar] ENVFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/etc/hobbitclient.cfg CMD $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/ext/bb-sar.sh LOGFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/logs/bb-sar.log INTERVAL 5mde Text Below is what I am seeing on the SAR page. You can see there the values are blank? Nothing showing up? Wed Jul 8 11:32:25 GMT 2009 - sar output -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [-u] CPU Utilization SunOS lon-15ha35 5.10 Generic_118833-36 sun4u 07/08/2009 11:30:00 %usr %sys %wio %idle -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [-b] Buffer Activity SunOS lon-15ha35 5.10 Generic_118833-36 sun4u 07/08/2009 11:30:00 bread/s lread/s %rcache bwrit/s lwrit/s %wcache pread/s pwrit/s -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [-d] Disk Activity SunOS lon-15ha35 5.10 Generic_118833-36 sun4u 07/08/2009 11:30:00 device %busy avque r+w/s blks/s avwait avserv -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [-q] Average Queue Length and Percent of Time Occupied SunOS lon-15ha35 5.10 Generic_118833-36 sun4u 07/08/2009 11:30:00 runq-sz %runocc swpq-sz %swpocc -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [-w] System Swapping and Switching Activity SunOS lon-15ha35 5.10 Generic_118833-36 sun4u 07/08/2009 11:30:00 swpin/s bswin/s swpot/s bswot/s pswch/s -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [-c] System Calls SunOS lon-15ha35 5.10 Generic_118833-36 sun4u 07/08/2009 11:30:00 scall/s sread/s swrit/s fork/s exec/s rchar/s wchar/s -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [-a] Use of File Access Routines SunOS lon-15ha35 5.10 Generic_118833-36 sun4u 07/08/2009 11:30:00 iget/s namei/s dirbk/s -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [-v] Status of Text, Process, Inode and File Tables SunOS lon-15ha35 5.10 Generic_118833-36 sun4u 07/08/2009 11:30:00 proc-sz ov inod-sz ov file-sz ov lock-sz -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [-m] Message and Semaphore Activity SunOS lon-15ha35 5.10 Generic_118833-36 sun4u 07/08/2009 11:30:00 msg/s sema/s -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [-g] Paging Activity SunOS lon-15ha35 5.10 Generic_118833-36 sun4u 07/08/2009 11:30:00 pgout/s ppgout/s pgfree/s pgscan/s %ufs_ipf -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [-k] Kernel Memory Allocation SunOS lon-15ha35 5.10 Generic_118833-36 sun4u 07/08/2009 11:30:00 sml_mem alloc fail lg_mem alloc fail ovsz_alloc fail -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [-p] Paging Activity SunOS lon-15ha35 5.10 Generic_118833-36 sun4u 07/08/2009 11:30:00 atch/s pgin/s ppgin/s pflt/s vflt/s slock/s -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [-r] Unused Memory Pages and Disk Blocks SunOS lon-15ha35 5.10 Generic_118833-36 sun4u 07/08/2009 11:30:00 freemem freeswap

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hobbit on RH 5.3 server
by rmcgraw＠purdue.edu 08 Jul '09

08 Jul '09

On the RH 5.3 hosts I have installed just the client side of hobbit.4.2.0. After a reboot I get the following in the /var/log/messages file: Jul 7 15:41:37 galileo kernel: type=1400 audit(1246995697.604:109): avc: denied { append } for pid=8951 comm="ifconfig" path="/local/hobbit/client/tmp/msg.galileo.math.purdue.edu.txt.8937" dev=dm-3 ino=294968 scontext=system_u:system_r:ifconfig_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:default_t:s0 tclass=file Jul 7 15:41:37 galileo kernel: type=1400 audit(1246995697.604:110): avc: denied { append } for pid=8951 comm="ifconfig" path="/local/hobbit/client/logs/hobbitclient.log" dev=dm-3 ino=294969 scontext=system_u:system_r:ifconfig_t:s0 tcontext=user_u:object_r:default_t:s0 tclass=file Jul 7 15:41:37 galileo kernel: type=1400 audit(1246995697.624:111): avc: denied { append } for pid=8955 comm="ifconfig" path="/local/hobbit/client/tmp/msg.galileo.math.purdue.edu.txt.8937" dev=dm-3 ino=294968 scontext=system_u:system_r:ifconfig_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:default_t:s0 tclass=file Jul 7 15:41:37 galileo kernel: type=1400 audit(1246995697.624:112): avc: denied { append } for pid=8955 comm="ifconfig" path="/local/hobbit/client/logs/hobbitclient.log" dev=dm-3 ino=294969 scontext=system_u:system_r:ifconfig_t:s0 tcontext=user_u:object_r:default_t:s0 tclass=file Right after a boot I get the following: [14][root at galileo]:hobbit/client/logs# ls -alZ drwxr-xr-x bb bb user_u:object_r:default_t:s0 ./ drwxr-xr-x bb bb user_u:object_r:default_t:s0 ../ -rw-r--r-- bb bb system_u:object_r:default_t:s0 clientlaunch.galileo.math.purdue.edu.pid -rw-r--r-- bb bb user_u:object_r:default_t:s0 clientlaunch.log -rw-r--r-- bb bb user_u:object_r:default_t:s0 hobbitclient.log If I then manually run the init.d/hobbit start script then it shows: 35][root at galileo]:hobbit/client/logs# ls -alZ drwxr-xr-x bb bb user_u:object_r:default_t:s0 ./ drwxr-xr-x bb bb user_u:object_r:default_t:s0 ../ -rw-r--r-- bb bb user_u:object_r:default_t:s0 clientlaunch.galileo.math.purdue.edu.pid -rw-r--r-- bb bb user_u:object_r:default_t:s0 clientlaunch.log -rw-r--r-- bb bb user_u:object_r:default_t:s0 hobbitclient.log and I do not get the error messages in /var/log. I know that this is being caused by SELinux, but not sure the best way to resolve this problem? Thanks Robert _____________________________________________________________________ Robert P. McGraw, Jr. Manager, Computer System EMAIL: rmcgraw at purdue.edu Purdue University ROOM: MATH-807 Department of Mathematics PHONE: (765) 494-6055 150 N. University Street West Lafayette, IN 47907-2067

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Msgs - Log entries emoved before 30 minutes
by bb＠buglecreek.com 07 Jul '09

07 Jul '09

I am monitoring /var/log/messages for certain entries. It seems to work fine, except that entries on the msgs page are removed before 30 minutes. They seem to only hang around for about 15 -20 minutes. If you click on full log, you only see entries that are less than about 20 minutes. I thought they should be there for about 30 minutes. Is this configurable? I don't see anywhere to change it. I would like for them to be visible for at least 30 minutes, longer if possible.

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client file check
by SKreien＠la-z-boy.com 07 Jul '09

07 Jul '09

Hi everyone... Does anyone know how the client file check works? My client is running as a non-privileged user and trying to check a file in the Postgres directory, which of course it doesn't have access to. I would let it use sudo if I could, but adding sudo to the ls command in the client config doesn't do anything. So what mechanism does the client use to do file checks? Thanks, Scot Kreienkamp

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[hobbit] Unregister
by Dan.McDonald＠austinenergy.com 07 Jul '09

07 Jul '09

On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 18:03 -0400, Josh Luthman wrote: > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe (at) hswn.dk Note that this doesn't always work. I tried to unsubscribe while I was on vacation, and my ack bounced after a couple of days. Two weeks later, my mailbox was stuffed... -- Daniel J McDonald, CCIE # 2495, CISSP # 78281, CNX www.austinenergy.com

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Solaris Client Install
by mv652＠softhome.net 07 Jul '09

07 Jul '09

This is my second 'main' question that I have split. I am trying to setup a Xymon 4.3.0 client on a Solaris 10 system, but it fails during compiling after I run 'make'. The main problem seems to be with "ld", but I'd appreciate your opinions if I have something major missing or misconfigured. The "configure client" before 'make' runs ok, except for an error message after "Checking for Large File Support": Checking for Large File Support ... ERROR: LFS support check failed for standard file support Checking for clock_gettime() requiring librt ... clock_gettime() requires librt I am defintiely using GNU make: # /usr/local/bin/make -v GNU Make 3.81 gcc was already pre-installed: $ /usr/local/bin/gcc -v Reading specs from /usr/local/lib/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.10/3.4.6/specs Configured with: ../configure --with-as=/usr/ccs/bin/as --with-ld=/usr/ccs/bin/ld --enable-shared --enable-languages=c,c++,f77 Thread model: posix gcc version 3.4.6 The error during 'make' is: ... <output truncated> config.h created loadhosts.c: In function `bbh_find_item': loadhosts.c:228: warning: return discards qualifiers from pointer target type loadhosts.c: In function `bbh_item_id': loadhosts.c:619: warning: return discards qualifiers from pointer target type msort.c: In function `msort': msort.c:119: warning: passing arg 4 of `qsort' from incompatible pointer type Undefined first referenced symbol in file main /usr/local/lib/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.10/3.4.6/crt1.o ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to setup-newfiles collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [setup-newfiles] Error 1 make: *** [build-build] Error 2 Advice or points in the right direction appreciated.. Mario

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Xymon New Server Advice
by mv652＠softhome.net 07 Jul '09

07 Jul '09

Hi, I have two main questions but thought it best to split them up in two separate mails. My first question is regarding an 'upgrade' or 'new install' of Xymon. I've been using Xymon 4.2.3 on a 'test' system for the past few months. Now that I feel more comfortable working with the system, creating external scripts etc. I'd like to move it into a 'production' server. a) Which Linux distribution is known to be the most stable to manage the Xymon server. Note* - I don't want to start any flame wars regarding various distributions, just an honest assesment of the distribution that should give me least problems with binaries, dependancies etc. b) Is the 4.3.0 beta 2 version stable enough to put into production? Are there any major known issues I need to be aware of? c) Would you recommend an upgrade or rather a clean install of the Xymon server? - I'm not too concerned about losing the past months stats at this stage. d) Is there anything else I need to take into consideration? Thanks, Mario

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sla-reports/xymon
by DKDeckert＠Hormel.com 06 Jul '09

06 Jul '09

Has anyone used the script for sla reports from Big brother in xymon. We cannot use the data the way xymon gives it and in big brother the reports were much easer to read. We have 5 machines we want on the report for all times....and we want it in a simple sla report..... Im trying to use the sla-report.pl script but with no sucess. Just wondering if anyone has tried and was sucessfull Notice: This communication is an electronic communication within the meaning of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. � 2510. Its disclosure is strictly limited to the recipient(s) intended by the sender of this message. This transmission and any attachments may contain proprietary, confidential, attorney-client privileged information and/or attorney work product. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution, reliance on, or use of any of the information contained herein is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. Please destroy the original transmission and its attachments without reading or saving in any matter and confirm by return email.

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