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Hobbit newbie
by axg＠syntec.co.uk 18 Jan '07

18 Jan '07

Hi All, I'm new to hobbit (after the lad that was running it on our network upped and went) and am having a couple of problems. I have successfully loaded a couple of windoze clients, although I can't get a 'conn' icon to appear (although the existing machines all return conn icons). I've also added a client to a linux machine, but I can't get that to return a thing! (the host name is correct) I'm new to the linux/unix environment, but I'm learning a lot as the days pass! Thanks for any help! Andy G -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.16.14/636 - Release Date: 18/01/2007 04:00

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Linux Client
by mprice＠hst.nasa.gov 18 Jan '07

18 Jan '07

Hello, I tried reading through all the documentation, but I just got a ltitle confused.. I installed hobbit on a linux server as a client. Works great. But i would like to customize the LOG filters... Do I do that in the hobbit-client.cfg on the server or do I do it in the localclient.cfg on the client??? Or both?? thanks, michael -- Michael A. Price Performance Network Engineering NASA/GSFC Code 440.8/LMB Greenbelt, Maryland 20770 Phone: 240-684-1356 Cell: 410-507-7476 e-mail: mprice at hst.nasa.gov ----------------------------------------------

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relation between GRAPHS and TRENDS
by gn1＠sanger.ac.uk 18 Jan '07

18 Jan '07

Hi, I'm utterly confused by the GRAPHS and TRENDS variable behaviours. I would thought that GRAPHS define the default graphs to add to the trends columns while TRENDS provides a mean to override the default value for a specified host. It seems that only TRENDS support the "test:test1|test2" syntax so it is not possible to specify such tests in the global GRAPHS variables. Am I right there or am I missing something? I'd like to globally define "vmstat:vmstat1|vmstat5,netstat:netstat|netstat1|netstat2|netstat3" without having to modify 2000 hosts entries... If this is a missing feature it is heavily missed here ;) Cheers, Gildas

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Snapshot does not compile
by lars.ebeling＠leopg9.no-ip.org 18 Jan '07

18 Jan '07

gcc -g -O -D_REENTRANT -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DHPUX -I. -I /home/hobbit/snapshot/include -I/usr/local/include -I. -I../include -c -o sha 2.o sha2.c sha2.c:57:20: stdint.h: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [sha2.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/hobbit/snapshot/lib' make: *** [lib-build] Error 2 Regards Lars Ebeling http://leopg9.no-ip.org Hobbithobbyist "It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt." -- Mark Twain

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LOG monitoring with hobbit
by mprice＠hst.nasa.gov 17 Jan '07

17 Jan '07

Hello, I figured out my LOG monitoring configuration issues and I have it working!!!! Now, What patterns are a good start for matching in /var/log/messages ??? CRITICAL ?? WARNING ?? NOTICE ?? thanks, michael -- Michael A. Price Performance Network Engineering NASA/GSFC Code 440.8/LMB Greenbelt, Maryland 20770 Phone: 240-684-1356 Cell: 410-507-7476 e-mail: mprice at hst.nasa.gov ----------------------------------------------

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[hobbit] hobbit monitoring
by Thomas.Kern＠hq.doe.gov 17 Jan '07

17 Jan '07

Okay. Thanks. I will discuss with my Oracle guru what he wants to monitor and how HE will be getting the numbers out of Oracle. /Thomas Kern /301-903-2211 > -----Original Message----- > From: Stef Coene [mailto:stef.coene at docum.org] > Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 10:56 AM > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: Re: [hobbit] hobbit monitoring > > On Wednesday 17 January 2007 16:31, Kern, Thomas wrote: > > We are beginning to run Oracle under SLES9 on an IBM > mainframe and I use > > hobbit to monitor some of these linux systems. I will be > including the > > Oracle server soon. I would be interested in what Oracle > values you are > > going to monitor and how you got them out of Oracle. > That's the job of my collega, the oracle guru ;) > > For the data getting out of oracle, we wrote our own perl > library to do fancy > stuff. This is primarly for backup, but can also be used to > query oracle. > The problem is I can not publish these libraries :( > > > Stef > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > > > >

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why rrd/do_disk.c couldn't store/extract correct CUR value to RRD?
by jjj863＠gmail.com 17 Jan '07

17 Jan '07

In order to piggy-back some database disk usage monitor onto Hobbit's default 'disk' check, I modifed hobbitclients-linux.sh to call a script under [df] section, so the following is appended to the regular df output. The rrd graph shows and alerts get generated when a threshold is overstepped. However, for some reason MAX/MIN/CUR data is decimal, while the CUR is not closer to the AVERAGE than to the real data as reported. rrd/do_disk.c shows each line of the df output is tokenized using space character. I can't figure out what caused the CUR (as stored in disk,db_12_web_DATA.rrd as well) is not the real integer, nor even close to the real integer reported. /db_12_web_DATA_dat 100 70 30 70% /db_12_web_DATA /db_12_web_LOG_dat 100 97 3 97% /db_12_web_LOG Since the alert is generated, so I'd think Hobbit server does extract the correct 'pused' at some point /db_12_web_LOG (97% used) has reached the PANIC level (95%)

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[hobbit] hobbit monitoring
by Thomas.Kern＠hq.doe.gov 17 Jan '07

17 Jan '07

We are beginning to run Oracle under SLES9 on an IBM mainframe and I use hobbit to monitor some of these linux systems. I will be including the Oracle server soon. I would be interested in what Oracle values you are going to monitor and how you got them out of Oracle. /Thomas Kern /301-903-2211 > -----Original Message----- > From: Stef Coene > The "problem" with the ncv module is that I want to use > hobbit to create > graphs. Lots of graphs (you would be surprised how many > usefull counters an > oracle database has). > This is too complex to handly it with the ncv worker module. > > Stef

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question about groups
by rleon＠racenter.com 17 Jan '07

17 Jan '07

I have a question. If I specify a group in the clients file and have a wildcard in the alerts file. I am still getting alerts even though I am not in the group. Is there a way for me not to get an alert for an fs if I am not in that group? And also if I disable an alarm to blue does that disable all disk tests or just for that fs? This is what I have. Hobbit-clients Dbfs GROUP=database ]hobbit-alerts Admins HOST=%^hp* SERVICE=conn,disk,bad_disk,procs MAIL me at mydomain.com GROUP=database MAIL mydb at mydomain.com Thanks Richard

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hobbit monitoring
by stef.coene＠docum.org 17 Jan '07

17 Jan '07

Hi, Some time ago I promised information about aix monitoring and possible updates to hobbit. We are going to use hobbit for monitoring, but most of the monitor scripts for AIX will be integrated in a custom written perl library that is also used for making and monitoring backups. And I can not publish the full library (I wrote it myself, but my boss will not be happy if I do this) and so I also can not publish the monitor scripts :( Same for trending, hobbit is not powerfull enough for our needs. And we don't have the C knowledge to change hobbit. One of the problems is that there is 1 rrd file / check. But we have checks where the number on 1 page we want to graph can change over time. Stef

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