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Hobbit HTTP test RED - works with BB
by bhogue＠bmhvt.org 13 Dec '06

13 Dec '06

I'm migrating from BB to Hobbit. I'm using the same bb-hosts file on both. All is working well except for the HTTP test on two of my web servers (Apache/WebSphere on iSeries.) I saw a similar thread but it didn't help my problem. Excerpts from the Apache logs are below. It appears that Hobbit does a HTTP/1.1 GET while BB does a HTTP/1.0 GET. I'm guessing it has to do with the Request-URI / absoluteURI but could not figure out how to resolve it (I tried reading through the 160 pages of the HTTP/1.1 RFC.) Is there a way to make this work or use HTTP/1.0 for the HTTP test? The bb-hosts entry is: (I've tried using the FQDN and IP with the same result) 192.168.66.40 TEST # http://192.168.66.40:10015/ms4webconnect/jsp/logon.jsp Apache Access Log (BB testing): 192.168.66.51 - - [13/Dec/2006:00:29:11 -0500] "HEAD /ms4webconnect/jsp/logon.jsp HTTP/1.0" 500 - "-" "BigBrother/1.9e" 192.168.66.50 - - [13/Dec/2006:00:29:26 -0500] "GET /ms4webconnect/jsp HTTP/1.1" 404 215 "-" "Hobbit bbtest-net/4.2.0" 192.168.66.50 - - [13/Dec/2006:00:29:26 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 727 "-" "-" Apache Error Log (Hobbit testing): [Wed Dec 13 16:17:11 2006] [error] [client 192.168.66.50] ZSRV_MSG0018: File /www/ms4http/htdocs/ms4webconnect does not exist [Wed Dec 13 16:17:11 2006] [error] [client 192.168.66.50] ZSRV_MSG0016: URI in request GET /ms4webconnect/jsp/logon.jsp HTTP/1.1 is not valid Hobbit Message: Wed Dec 13 19:32:23 2006: Not Found Date: Wed, 13 Dec http://192.168.66.40:10015/ms4webconnect/jsp/logon.jsp - Not Found Date: Wed, 13 Dec HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 21:28:04 GMT Server: Apache Vary: Accept-Encoding Content-Length: 336 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Seconds: 0.10 Thanks in advance for your help, Bill Hogue Network Manager Brattleboro Memorial Hospital 17 Belmont Avenue Brattleboro, VT 05301 Phone 802.257.8283 Fax 802.251.8461 _______________________________________________________________ The information contained in, or attached to, this e-mail, may contain confidential information and is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed and may be subject to legal privilege. If you have received this e-mail in error you should notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail, delete the message from your system and notify your system manager. Please do not copy it for any purpose, or disclose its contents to any other person. The views or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the company. The recipient should check this e-mail and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The company accepts no liability for any damage caused, directly or indirectly, by any virus transmitted in this email. _______________________________________________________________

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pageset question
by TIM.EVANS＠jpmchase.com 13 Dec '06

13 Dec '06

Hi Henrik, I've tried to get pagesets working and I am having issues getting the servers to show up in the subpage or group section of the page I created. I can only get a server to show up by using OS:*. Is there anything I am missing? I am running bbgen 4.1.2 and I also tried it on a server running bbgen 4.2 with the same results. I have gone over the bbgen man pages and used the same pageset as in the example This is the bb-hosts pageset section ospage unix Unix Servers ossubpagepage unix-aix AIX ossubpagepage unix-sun SUN This is the server line in bb-hosts 0.0.0.0 nsk-208 # OS:unix-sun 0.0.0.0 nsk-209 # OS:* When I run bbgen I get the following error. bbgen --pageset=os /opt/hobbit/server/www/os 2006-12-13 15:34:26 Warning: Cannot find any target page named 'unix-sun' in set 'os' - dropping host 'nsk-208' Any help is much appreciated. Thanks, Tim ----------------------------------------- This transmission may contain information that is privileged, confidential, legally privileged, and/or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the information contained herein (including any reliance thereon) is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. Although this transmission and any attachments are believed to be free of any virus or other defect that might affect any computer system into which it is received and opened, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that it is virus free and no responsibility is accepted by JPMorgan Chase & Co., its subsidiaries and affiliates, as applicable, for any loss or damage arising in any way from its use. If you received this transmission in error, please immediately contact the sender and destroy the material in its entirety, whether in electronic or hard copy format. Thank you.

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cpu utilization iostat
by jkwade＠futurefrontiers.com 13 Dec '06

13 Dec '06

Hello All, Is there a way to change the interval count on the iostat command that Hobbit uses for cpu utilization? Thanks..James

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availability report
by c.rehberger＠oclcpica.org 13 Dec '06

13 Dec '06

Hi, I've added new services in bb-services. My problem is, that these services and others are not correct shown in an "availability report"!! They are always been shown as 100% ok! When I create an "event log report" or have a look in the history of these services I see that there are really entries which shows me problems of these services. Can you help me? Chris -- Christian Rehberger System Consultant · OCLC PICA GmbH Grünwalder Weg 28g · 82041 Oberhaching · Germany t +49-(0)89-61308 333 · f +49-(0)89-61308 399 e c.rehberger at oclcpica.org · w http://www.oclcpica.org

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DOWTIME specification? (snapshot of 10 aug. 06)
by Dominique.Frise＠unil.ch 13 Dec '06

13 Dec '06

Hi, The bb-hosts man-page says: DOWNTIME=[columns:]day:starttime:endtime:cause[,day:starttime:endtime:cause] But the info column decodes: DOWNTIME=[days:]columns:starttime:endtime:cause[,day:starttime:endtime:cause] Examples: bb-hosts: 1.2.3.4 kawa2 # DOWNTIME=http,orcl:246:0000:0130:Backups info column: Planned downtime: http, orcl:246:0000:0130:Backups (wrongly decoded) bb-hosts: 1.2.3.4 kawa2 # DOWNTIME=246:http,orcl:0000:0130:Backups info column: Planned downtime: Tue/Thu/Sat:http, orcl:0000:0130:Backups (correctly decoded) Which one is right? Dominique UNIL - University of Lausanne

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How to unsubscribe
by vadud3＠gmail.com 12 Dec '06

12 Dec '06

On 12/12/06, Bhupendra Patel <mukhi65 at yahoo.com> wrote: > I have requested for unsubscribe my email list, but i > am still getting lost email about hobbit. please take > me off the list. Your email is not relevant to the original subject. I just changed it. Send an empty email to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk to unsubscribe > > Thanks. > > --- Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 11:27:08PM +0100, Stef Coene > > wrote: > > > On Thursday 07 December 2006 23:01, Trent Melcher > > wrote: > > > > Has anyone thought about or implemented a > > configuration database backend > > > > for hobbit, primarily a database replacement for > > the hobbit-clients.cfg > > > > and hobbit-alerts.cfg to start....these are a > > couple that I would like > > > > to buils a webfront to and be able to give > > limited access to users so > > > > they could modify thresholds and alerting > > capabilities when needed. > > > > > > > > I did this about 4 years back for Big Brother > > using Informix, I was > > > > able to setup thresholds and a replacement for > > the bb-host file inside a > > > > couple tables in a database. However back then > > Big Brother was mostly > > > > shell scripts and flat files for all its > > configuration. So adding hooks > > > > into it for talking to a databse was easy. With > > hobbit its all compiled > > > > code and Im not sure where to start, plus I > > don't have access to an > > > > Informix database or the API's for it anymore so > > Im looking at mysql and > > > > its api's for writing code in C. > > > > > > We are thinking about using mysql for storing > > trends and status messages. > > > > > > > Be careful with the status messages, at least if you > > want to store the > > current status in a DB. Historical status messages - > > those that are > > currently stored in the histlogs/ directory - are > > OK, but for the > > current status log I think that the overhead > > associated with updating > > each status log in a DB every 5 minutes will be very > > high. And the > > number of times you'll actually be retrieving these > > data will probably > > be very small. > > > > Copying the historical statuslogs (or the current > > ones) is very easy to > > do with an extra Hobbit worker module hanging off > > the "status" or > > "stachg" channels. You do not need to make any > > modifications to Hobbit > > itself - you basically run "hobbitd_channel > > --channel=stachg MYDBPROGRAM" > > and your program is fed all of the status messages > > on it's STDIN. > > > > > > As for the trends data, I believe there are some > > patches to the rrdtool > > library that will let you store the RRD files in a > > DB. Check the rrd-users > > mailing list. > > > > > > My personal favourite for a DB backend would be > > SQLite, since this > > eliminates all requirements for an external DB > > ressource. You don't > > want your monitoring to stop working when the DB > > becomes inaccessible. > > > > > > > > Regards, > > Henrik > > > > > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail > > to > > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > > > > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Yahoo! Music Unlimited > Access over 1 million songs. > http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > > > -- Asif Iqbal PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu

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Configuration database backend.
by tmelcher＠saionline.com 12 Dec '06

12 Dec '06

Has anyone thought about or implemented a configuration database backend for hobbit, primarily a database replacement for the hobbit-clients.cfg and hobbit-alerts.cfg to start....these are a couple that I would like to buils a webfront to and be able to give limited access to users so they could modify thresholds and alerting capabilities when needed. I did this about 4 years back for Big Brother using Informix, I was able to setup thresholds and a replacement for the bb-host file inside a couple tables in a database. However back then Big Brother was mostly shell scripts and flat files for all its configuration. So adding hooks into it for talking to a databse was easy. With hobbit its all compiled code and Im not sure where to start, plus I don't have access to an Informix database or the API's for it anymore so Im looking at mysql and its api's for writing code in C. I guess Im looking to see if anyone has started some development in this area? Thanks Trent Trent Melcher Unix/Linux Systems Administrator Securities America Financial Corporation (402) 399-9111 x2774 tmelcher at saionline.com Securities America, Inc., a Registered Broker/Dealer, Member NASD/SIPC. Advisory services offered through Securities America Advisors, Inc., an SEC Registered Investment Advisory .

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RRD problem with a Custom Script
by Gudmundur.Ingvarsson＠landsbanki.is 12 Dec '06

12 Dec '06

Hello Hobbit lovers. I'm hoping someone can help me with this dilemma I'm facing. I created these settings and the script to count the number of connections to a specific IP.PORT from a few machines. The status comes correctly into Hobbit and it does go to the warning and critical levels if they are exceeded and the monitor works quite well. What isn't working is the RRD graph. On one hand it seems the rrd file is not being generated although Hobbit does link to a graph in the status page. But no graph is displayed and clicking on the hobbit graph rb-conn link gives four magnifying glasess and hourly, daily etc lines. But again, no graphs. On the other if I use the NCV feature hobbit does generate the RRD but not only links it wrong in the web-gui but also writes the information wrong into it. The Output from the RRD file  <rrd> <version> 0001 </version> <step> 300 </step>  <lastupdate> 1165934698 </lastupdate>  <ds> <name> Heildartegngingarfr </name> <type> DERIVE </type> <minimal_heartbeat> 600 </minimal_heartbeat> <min> 0.0000000000e+00 </min> <max> NaN </max>  <last_ds> 8 </last_ds> <value> 1.9800664452e+00 </value> <unknown_sec> 0 </unknown_sec> </ds> Can anyone help me please, I've banged my head against my desk for a couple of days now but still nothing happens. I must be missing something which I have not been able to find on this mailing list or anywhere else. Am I doing this all wrong? Should I be using the --extra-scripts option for hobbitd_rrd or just the NCV or should I skip both and kick the Hobbit!? Below are all the settings I have for this. This is the line as it comes into Hobbit @@HOBBITDCHK-V1||myhostname|rb-conn|666.666.666.666|green||green|1165925931|1165925328|1165927731|0|0|-1|0|status myhostname.rb-conn green Tue Dec 12 12:18:51 CUT 2006\n\n\tCurrent connections from myhostname to RB currently at 75 (OK)\n\t|| This is from hobbitgraph.cfg [rb-conn] TITLE Kjarna tengingar til RB YAXIS Tegningar DEF:p=rb-conn.rrd:rb-conn:AVERAGE AREA:p#DD0000:Connections COMMENT:\n GPRINT:p:LAST: \: %5.1lf%s (cur) GPRINT:p:MAX: \: %5.1lf%s (max) GPRINT:p:MIN: \: %5.1lf%s (min) GPRINT:p:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf%s (avg)\n >From hobbitserver.cfg TEST2RRD="cpu=la,disk,inode,qtree,memory,$PINGCOLUMN=tcp,http=tcp,dns=tcp,dig=tcp,time=ntpstat,vmstat,iostat,netstat,temperature,apache,bind,sendmail,mailq,nmailq=mailq,socks,bea,iishealth,citrix,bbgen,bbtest,bbproxy,hobbitd,files,procs=processes,ports,clock,lines,rb-conn" GRAPHS="la,disk,inode,qtree,files,processes,memory,users,vmstat,iostat,tcp.http,tcp,ncv,netstat,ifstat,mrtg::1,ports,temperature,ntpstat,apache,bind,sendmail,mailq,socks,bea,iishealth,citrix,bbgen,bbtest,bbproxy,hobbitd,clock,lines,rb-conn" NCV_rb-conn = "Heildartegngingarfr:GAUGE" >From clientlaunch.cfg on the client machine [rb-conn] ENVFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/etc/hobbitclient.cfg CMD $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/ext/RB-Connections.sh 80 150 LOGFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/logs/rbcon.log INTERVAL 5m And the script from the ext directory on the client machine (Called RB-Connections.sh) #!/bin/ksh # This script is an extension for the BB client running on # your server. It will feed data about the local kjarna connections # into Hobbit. COLUMN=rb-conn # Name of the column OUTPUT=$(netstat -an | grep 555.555.555.555.3120 | wc -l|awk '{ print $1}') WARN="$1" PANIC="$2" if [[ $OUTPUT -ge $PANIC ]] then COLOR="red" STATUS="Critical" elif [[ $OUTPUT -ge $WARN ]] then COLOR="yellow" STATUS="Warning" else COLOR="green" STATUS="OK" fi # Tell Hobbit about it $BB $BBDISP "status $MACHINE.$COLUMN $COLOR `date` Current connections from $MACHINEDOTS to RB currently at $OUTPUT ($STATUS) " exit 0 Fyrirvari/Disclaimer http://www.landsbanki.is/disclaimer

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alerting
by jonbjorn＠mbl.is 12 Dec '06

12 Dec '06

Hi all. How do I get hobbit to send alert (email, sms) when http connection times out and the color is white ? regards JB

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[hobbit] Ghost Clients report
by massimo.morsiani＠gilbarco.com 12 Dec '06

12 Dec '06

Hi all, looking at "Ghost Clients" report page I have: Hostname Sent from Report age Connected 10.28.64.54 0:49 Florence 10.28.64.54 0:49 flrwscrd9.flr.gilbarco.com 10.28.66.17 0:22 INTERNAL 10.28.64.54 0:50 Link 10.28.64.54 0:49 Outside 10.28.64.54 0:49 Tunnel 10.28.64.54 0:49 Uplink 10.28.64.54 0:49 where flrwscrd9 is the only "real ghost" client. What are all the other entries? Note that 10.28.64.54 is the IP address of my Hobbit server. Any explanation/suggestion/similar situation? Regards. Massimo Morsiani Information Technology Dept. ------ Gilbarco S.p.a. via de' Cattani, 220/G 50145 Firenze tel: +39-055-30941 fax: +39-055-318603 email: massimo.morsiani at gilbarco.com web: http://www.gilbarco.it This message (including any attachments) contains confidential and/or proprietary information intended only for the addressee. Any unauthorized disclosure, copying, distribution or reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may constitute a violation of law. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by responding to this e-mail, and delete the message from your system. If you have any questions about this e-mail please notify the sender immediately.

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