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bb-ack.sh -- some or all red/purple tests missing?
by novosirj＠umdnj.edu 24 May '10

24 May '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm running Xymon 4.2.3 on Solaris 9. At least some of the time when I visit bb-ack.sh, I get nothing on the page ("No active alerts"). It's not true. Often times, I can go back to the front page (Views/Main View) and go back to the ack page all over and there will be something there (though, often, not everything will show). Any ideas on where to start troubleshooting this, or if there's some behavior of this script I'm not realizing? - -- - ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - Sr. Systems Programmer |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |novosirj at umdnj.edu - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/CST-Academic Svcs. - ADMC 450, Newark -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkv60D0ACgkQmb+gadEcsb7HlgCfbbPTwTcnemDMSvirzgWg0rr1 NDYAoLrBfxxvPY3fQ0wxbcdrBySEuFvA =SN1J -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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NetApp Test Frequency
by FRANCISCO.DE.LA.TORRE＠saic.com 24 May '10

24 May '10

Hi Jerald, The problems is there is no clientlaunch.cfg that resides on the netapp. How can I configure the server to run the test every 5 minutes, for example? Keep in mind, again, that no Hobbit software resides on the NetApp filer. On May 24th, you said: Take a look at the client home: $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/etc/clientlaunch.cfg Mimic what you see there. The entry generally looks like so: [fsstate] ENVFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/etc/hobbitclient.cfg CMD $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/ext/library.pl LOGFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/logs/library.log INTERVAL 3m (an example from one of my scripts) Also, hit the wiki: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Hobbit Lots of yummy instructions there too. --j On May 23, 2010, at 7:49 AM, De La Torre, Francisco wrote: > Hello all, > > I've installed the netapp.pl v1.21 script on my 4.2.3 server. > > The problem is I don't know how to configure for it to run every 5 minutes. Currently, the status is only updated after I manually run the script. > > Please let me know if you need any more info. > > Francisco de la Torre > SAIC > BP Petrotechnical Infrastructure Team > delatorref (at) saic.com >

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Memstat for Solaris (10)
by everett.vernon＠gmail.com 24 May '10

24 May '10

Hi all Just cobbled together a test to keep tabs on where memory is going on my Solaris 10 servers, in particular, how much is going to kernel and ZFS cache. (It might work for other Solaris versions, but I haven't tried. YMMV) Please let me know if you spot any bugs. It's 2 scripts. An mod to hobbitserver.cfg and hobbitgraph.cfg, and an update to clientlaunch.cfg Here goes. On the client, add this to clientlaunch.cfg [memstat] ENVFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/etc/hobbitclient.cfg CMD $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/ext/memstat.ksh LOGFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/logs/memstat.log INTERVAL 5m Client side scripts. # cat memstat.ksh #!/bin/ksh TEMPFILE=$BBTMP/memstat.tmp COLOUR=green ALERT=1 # 1= alert on high usage YELLOW=75 RED=90 date > $TEMPFILE echo >> $TEMPFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/ext/getmemstat.ksh > $TEMPFILE.data cat $TEMPFILE.data >> $TEMPFILE if [ $ALERT -eq 1 ] then cat $TEMPFILE.data | egrep "^Kernel|^Anon|^Exec" | cut -c52-56 | while read a do if [ $a -gt $YELLOW -a "$COLOUR" = "green" ] then COLOUR=yellow else [ $a -gt $RED ] && COLOUR=red fi done fi echo '<p><font size="1" color="black">' >> $TEMPFILE cat $TEMPFILE.data | egrep -v -- "-----|Summary|^$|^Total|^Physical" \ | sed "s/^Free //g" \ | sed "s/[(|)|%]//g" \ | awk '{ print $1" : "$NF }' >> $TEMPFILE echo '</font></p>' >> $TEMPFILE rm $TEMPFILE.data $BB $BBDISP "status $MACHINE.memstat $COLOUR $(cat $TEMPFILE)" rm $TEMPFILE # cat getmemstat.ksh #!/bin/ksh echo "::memstat" | mdb -k Hobbit user cannot run mdb, so we need to set permissions to 4755 and owner root on getmemstat.ksh chown root getmemstat.ksh chmod 4755 getmemstat.ksh On the server Add this to hobbitserver TEST2RRD="blah,blah,blah,memstat=ncv" GRAPHS="whatever was there, memstat" NCV_memstat="*:GAUGE" Add this to hobbitgraph.cfg [memstat] TITLE Kernel Memory Allocation YAXIS % -u 100 -l 0 DEF:a=memstat.rrd:Kernel:AVERAGE DEF:b=memstat.rrd:ZFS:AVERAGE DEF:c=memstat.rrd:Anon:AVERAGE DEF:d=memstat.rrd:Exec:AVERAGE DEF:e=memstat.rrd:Page:AVERAGE DEF:f=memstat.rrd:cachelist:AVERAGE DEF:g=memstat.rrd:freelist:AVERAGE AREA:a#00FF00:Kernel STACK:b#000099:ZFS STACK:c#009999:Anon STACK:d#FF00FF:Exec STACK:e#FFFF00:Page STACK:f#00FFFF:cachelist STACK:g#FF0000:freelist COMMENT:\n GPRINT:a:LAST:Kernel \: %5.1lf%s (cur) GPRINT:a:MAX: \: %5.1lf%s (max) GPRINT:a:MIN: \: %5.1lf%s (min) GPRINT:a:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf%s (avg)\n GPRINT:b:LAST:ZFS \: %5.1lf%s (cur) GPRINT:b:MAX: \: %5.1lf%s (max) GPRINT:b:MIN: \: %5.1lf%s (min) GPRINT:b:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf%s (avg)\n GPRINT:c:LAST:Anon \: %5.1lf%s (cur) GPRINT:c:MAX: \: %5.1lf%s (max) GPRINT:c:MIN: \: %5.1lf%s (min) GPRINT:c:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf%s (avg)\n GPRINT:d:LAST:Exec \: %5.1lf%s (cur) GPRINT:d:MAX: \: %5.1lf%s (max) GPRINT:d:MIN: \: %5.1lf%s (min) GPRINT:d:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf%s (avg)\n GPRINT:e:LAST:Page \: %5.1lf%s (cur) GPRINT:e:MAX: \: %5.1lf%s (max) GPRINT:e:MIN: \: %5.1lf%s (min) GPRINT:e:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf%s (avg)\n GPRINT:f:LAST:cachelist \: %5.1lf%s (cur) GPRINT:f:MAX: \: %5.1lf%s (max) GPRINT:f:MIN: \: %5.1lf%s (min) GPRINT:f:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf%s (avg)\n GPRINT:g:LAST:freelist \: %5.1lf%s (cur) GPRINT:g:MAX: \: %5.1lf%s (max) GPRINT:g:MIN: \: %5.1lf%s (min) GPRINT:g:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf%s (avg)\n Regards Vernon

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No Download Link For bbsql-server.vbs at
by nfranken＠theunlimitedworld.co.za 24 May '10

24 May '10

Hi All I cant find a download link for the bbsqlserver script at http://www.trantor.org/xymonton/doku.php/monitors:bbsql-server. Am I missing something? Regards Neil

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NetApp Test Frequency
by FRANCISCO.DE.LA.TORRE＠saic.com 23 May '10

23 May '10

Hello all, I've installed the netapp.pl v1.21 script on my 4.2.3 server. The problem is I don't know how to configure for it to run every 5 minutes. Currently, the status is only updated after I manually run the script. Please let me know if you need any more info. Francisco de la Torre SAIC BP Petrotechnical Infrastructure Team delatorref (at) saic.com <mailto:ferrees at saic.com>

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NTP tests taking a long time.
by stewartl42＠gmail.com 23 May '10

23 May '10

Is there any way to speed up the NTP tests? My run is taking longer than 300 seconds. 229 of that is NTP. Error output: WARNING: Runtime 322 longer than time limit (300) TIME SPENT Event Starttime Duration bbtest-net startup 1274487671.562962 - Service definitions loaded 1274487671.564364 0.001402 Tests loaded, hostname lookups done 1274487671.786542 0.222178 Test engine setup completed 1274487671.792157 0.005615 TCP tests completed 1274487681.995479 10.203322 PING test completed (1220 hosts) 1274487728.186588 46.191109 PING test results sent 1274487728.203649 0.017061 Test result collection completed 1274487728.203792 0.000143 LDAP test engine setup completed 1274487728.203793 0.000001 LDAP tests executed 1274487728.203795 0.000002 LDAP tests result collection completed 1274487728.203796 0.000001 DNS tests executed 1274487763.561146 35.357350 NTP tests executed 1274487993.128128 229.566982 Test results transmitted 1274487993.184690 0.056562 bbtest-net completed 1274487993.186144 0.001454 TIME TOTAL 321.623182 -- Stewart -- An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The first one orders a beer. The second orders half a beer. The third, a quarter of a beer. The bartender says "You're all idiots", and pours two beers.

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Need to suppress CIFS mount disk checks
by hobbit＠epperson.homelinux.net 21 May '10

21 May '10

My apologies to all for the original post of this, which had In-Reply-To and other headers that apparently caused some confusion. Here's a clean post. I need to suppress checking of CIFS mounts to avoid piling up IO-blocked processes when a mount hangs. What hobbit file/program controls the "df" command used for the disk check? The DF= and DFCMD= lines in hobbitclient.cfg are commented "DF,DFCMD and PS are for compatibility only, NOT USED by the Hobbit client", and sure enough when I add "-xcifs" to those lines I still get the CIFS mounts after restarting the hobbit-client service. I'm also not sure what to make of the fact that the "About Hobbit" page says that all configuration is centralized, yet the hobbitclient.cfg on my 4.2.0-6 and 4.2.0-7 clients says "include /var/lib/hobbit-client/runtime.cfg" (which exists on those machines), but on my 4.2.0-1 server says "include /var/run/hobbitclient-runtime.cfg" (which exists on that machine).

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rrd graph orientation
by mark＠krawec.net 21 May '10

21 May '10

Is there a way to move a graph (like the cpu) graph to the top of the display? Right now it's at the bottom of the page and I need to scroll through the list of processes to see the graph. I've looked at the hobbitgraph.cfg file and can't find a obvious way to move a graph to the top of the page. Thanks, Mark Krawec

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hobbitd_client on web page is purple
by kkelly＠lifetouch.com 20 May '10

20 May '10

Hobbitd_client is showing purple status on the web page, I would like to get rid of it. I have tried: Stop/start of xymon server with no luck. bb hostname "drop hostname hobbit_alert" no luck there either! Does anyone know how to clear this status? Thanks ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email _____________________________________________________________________

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AUTO: Chris Ahrens is out of the office (returning 06/01/2010)
by chris.ahrens＠macys.com 20 May '10

20 May '10

I am out of the office until 06/01/2010. Note: This is an automated response to your message "[hobbit] Memstat for Solaris (10)" sent on 5/20/10 2:17:56. This is the only notification you will receive while this person is away.

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