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Change link from http to https in alert-email
by mprice＠hst.nasa.gov 08 Nov '06

08 Nov '06

Hello, In my alert emails to the admins at the bottom of the email is the URL link to the hobbit server alert page. http://neuron/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?HOST=v43mgt&SERVICE=msgs The problem is that its suppose to be https and not http, so the link doesnt work. I changed the variable BBWEBHOST in the hobbitserver.cfg file hoping that would fix it. BBWEBHOST="https://$BBSERVERWWWNAME" But it didnt. how can fix this??? thanx, michael

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[hobbit] custom rrd data graph
by Al.Jeffcoat＠orhs.org 08 Nov '06

08 Nov '06

I just went through a very similar situation in the last 4 days. Some things with underscores worked, some things didn't. There was a suggestion to put spaces between the DS and VALUE, which also had mixed results. The final fix was to remove underscores from everything, and that solved my problem across the board. My users would have rather had the underscores due to some naming similarities, however, they are living with it to get the graphs :-). Funny how much power a graph has. Al _____ From: Shifter [mailto:the.shifter at gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 7:58 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] custom rrd data graph Hi all, I've spent a good deal of time today perusing the archives and man pages hoping to glean the answers to my problem of creating a custom rrd data (not status) graph. The process should be similar but darn near everything I've seen deals with status graphs. Here's the contents of my ext script on the client: (stuff to put a value into /tmp/pcpu.txt) $BB $BBDISP "data $MACHINE.pcpu `cat /tmp/pcpu.txt`" The contents of /tmp/pcpu.txt: pcpu_idle : 97.16 On the server side of things I've modified the hobbitserver.cfg files' TEST2RRD and GRAPHS lines to append "pcpu_idle=ncv". I also have this line in the same file: NCV_pcpu_idle="pcpu_idle:GAUGE" hobbitgraph.cfg also includes this definition: [pcpu] TITLE ESX CPU Utilitization YAXIS % Used -u 100 -r DEF:cpu_idl=pcpu.rrd:cpu_idl:AVERAGE CDEF:pbusy=100,cpu_idl,- LINE2:pbusy#00CC00:% CPU busy GPRINT:pbusy:LAST: \: %5.1lf (cur) GPRINT:pbusy:MAX: \: %5.1lf (max) GPRINT:pbusy:MIN: \: %5.1lf (min) GPRINT:pbusy:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf (avg)\n I don't have a pcpu.rrd file in the rrd/host directory which I would expect to see. I don't see any error messages in the client logs about not being able to communicate. Am I missing something obvious? Any help would be appreciated, thanks. Sage This e-mail message and any attached files are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the addressee(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, any review, use, or distribution of this e-mail message and any attached files is strictly prohibited. This communication may contain material protected by Federal privacy regulations, attorney-client work product, or other privileges. If you have received this confidential communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail message and permanently delete the original message. To reply to our email administrator directly, send an email to: postmaster at orlandoregional.org . If this e-mail message concerns a contract matter, be advised that no employee or agent is authorized to conclude any binding agreement on behalf of Orlando Regional Healthcare by e-mail without express written confirmation by an officer of the corporation. Any views or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Orlando Regional Healthcare.

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getcwd cannot access parent directories
by bill.hart＠burkecorp.com 08 Nov '06

08 Nov '06

Hello all, I recently had the opportunity to re-install my hobbit server on FC6. As usual, this led me to exploring more features of Hobbit, and updating the clients to the full 4.2 release as well. After I got the server up, and possibly after the client was updated, this error started showing up in the log file on an RHEL AS3 server: shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory There is no time stamp on it, so I can't tell if it's before or after the clientupdate happened or not, but it does happen every 5 minutes, which is when the client would be reporting in. We have 2 other servers that are also RHEL AS3 on the same hardware with similar installs, and they are not exhibiting this behavior. I checked the archives and there was a thread about a year ago about this happening on Debian, but I didn't see any real resolution, just that the client worked but kicked up the error (which is what we're seeing). Does anyone have any suggestions or tips ? Thanks, Bill Hart Computer Support Supervisor Burke Corporation

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Suggestions -- New Implementer
by jkwade＠futurefrontiers.com 08 Nov '06

08 Nov '06

Hello All, I've just moved over my Big Brother monitoring to Hobbit and I'm looking for suggestions for the files, ports, and procs category. Are there any default recommendations? Thanks..James

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Big Brother to Hobbit vmstat, iostat, netstat purple
by jkwade＠futurefrontiers.com 08 Nov '06

08 Nov '06

I've converted over from Big Brother to Hobbit. How do I get rid of my vmstat, iostat, netstat on the columns? I did have larrd running which put the columns on the main page. Thanks.James

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bbcombotest considers BLUE as down
by frederic.mangeant＠steria.com 08 Nov '06

08 Nov '06

Hi Henrik bbcombotest considers that green, yellow and clear are the only colors showing a "up" status. I needed to consider also blue as up, so I've modified bbdisplay/bbcombotest.cfg like that : --- bbcombotest.c.old 2006-11-08 08:56:19.000000000 +0100 +++ bbcombotest.c 2006-11-08 08:56:48.000000000 +0100 @@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ } if (*color == -1) return -1; - else return ( (*color == COL_GREEN) || (*color == COL_YELLOW) || (*color == COL_CLEAR) ); + else return ( (*color == COL_GREEN) || (*color == COL_YELLOW) ||(*color == COL_BLUE) || (*color == COL_CLEAR) ); } Maybe this could be an option ? Something like running bbcombotest with the "--okcolors=green,clear,blue" option ? Regards, -- Frédéric Mangeant Steria GDU Sophia Antipolis

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[hobbit] AIX 4.3.3 going purple on netstat test after 3-5 day s
by CHRIS.MORRIS＠RWEnpower.com 07 Nov '06

07 Nov '06

Jeff, Are you saying that on your problem clients, the command hangs and so the ~/client/tmp/msg.<hostname>.txt file doesn't get updated or that it fails to be updated at the server end? Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeff Newman [SMTP:jeffnewman75 at gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 2:55 PM > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: [hobbit] AIX 4.3.3 going purple on netstat test after 3-5 > days > > All, > > I sent an earlier message about both 4.2.0 and 4.2.0 with the latest > patches going totally purple after 3-5 days. The process hobbit gets > hung up on is netstat -an | grep ^tcp > > I have the following settings applied on the server: > MAXMSG_CLIENT="900000" > MAXMSG_STATUS="900000" > MAXMSG_STACHG="900000" > MAXLINE_STACHG="900000" > > I have 4 AIX 4.3.3 clients with this "going purple" problem, with no > errors in any logs that I can find. > > Any help would be apprieciated. > > Thanks, > Jeff > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > **************************************************************************** The information contained in this email is intended only for the use of the intended recipient at the email address to which it has been addressed. If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this document in error and that any review, dissemination or copying of the message or associated attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please contact the sender by return email or call 01793 877777 and ask for the sender and then delete it immediately from your system.Please note that neither RWE npower nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any). *****************************************************************************

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Problem with TIME specification in hobbit-alerts.cfg?
by eric-list-1＠softlution.com 07 Nov '06

07 Nov '06

Hello, I'm still having problems with alert configuration in Hobbit. I've configured notifications as follows: > # On which colors should we alert? > $ALERT_COLORS=COLOR=purple,red > > # Mail rule > $MAIL_BEHEER=MAIL beheer at softlution.com FORMAT=TEXT REPEAT=10069920 RECOVERED NOTICE > > # SMS rule > $SMS_SUPPORT=SCRIPT /Hobbit/server/ext/pg/smsalert support FORMAT=SMS REPEAT=30 TIME=W:0800:0900,W:1700:2300,60:0800:2300 DURATION>5 RECOVERED NOTICE > > PAGE=<page> $ALERT_COLORS > $SMS_SUPPORT > > HOST=%.* $ALERT_COLORS > $MAIL_BEHEER hobbitd_alert --dumpconfig and hobbitd_alert --test seem to think this configuration is fine. smsalert is basically a wrapper around smstools' sendsms command, I've added phone number aliases so the actual phone numbers don't show up in the info column pages, and I've added basic logging with timestamps and sendsms exit codes. It has worked fine so far.) However, this morning at 8:00 AM no SMS was sent on a red condition which had already lasted for hours (it started at 00:44 AM) and is shown on the page <page>. A mail alert was sent as soon as the condition started, but an SMS is never sent and neither notifications.log nor my smsalert.log show any attempt to send an SMS. Am I doing something wrong here? Best regards, Eric.

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HTTP Red
by jkwade＠futurefrontiers.com 07 Nov '06

07 Nov '06

Hello All, I've moved everything over from Big Brother now to Hobbit. I'm having problems with a couple http servers which are coming back "red". All the other http servers are fine. If I go to the URL's on the systems, they are fine. I'm monitoring multiple URL's on several systems. In this case the other systems are fine, but two are having problems. Has anyone seen something similar? Could it be a timing issue? ie.The URL's are slow responding because they are in use to much? Thanks.James

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Problem with graphs...
by pierre.ronnefalk＠relacom.com 07 Nov '06

07 Nov '06

Hi, I cant se any hourly/daily/weekly/Monthly graphs........ande there is no files in hobbit/data/rrd (i ques, that the data should be there). Mvh Pierre Ronnefalk [#################### RELACOM CORPORATE EMAIL FOOTER ####################] 1. This communication is confidential and is only intended for use of the individual or entity to which it is directed. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, please delete it without forwarding any of it's content. 2. Opinions and thoughts expressed in this email might be personal opinions from the sender and not necessary representing Relacom. 3. For further information please visit: http://security.relacom.com/email/ [############################################################################]

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