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Peculiar Hobbit problem
by rsmrcina＠wi.rr.com 01 Sep '06

01 Sep '06

I checked the Hobbit display this morning and noticed that it had not been updated since 2:22AM. When I checked the hypervisor (IBMs z/VM), I noticed that the Hobbit virtual machine appears to be in a loop. It was using up alot of CPU time. I could not log on to Hobbit via ssh or the console, so I had to reboot it. When I checked the logs after it came up, I saw this in bb-display.log: 2006-09-01 02:22:59 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - timeout 2006-09-01 02:22:59 hobbitd status-board not available 2006-09-01 02:24:08 WARNING: Runtime 119 longer than BBSLEEP (60) 2006-09-01 02:24:57 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - timeout I scanned the filesystem for core files, but found only /proc/sys/net/core, /dev/core and one in the kernel modules tree. Any thoughts on how to further debug this? -- Rich Smrcina VM Assist, Inc. Phone: 414-491-6001 Ans Service: 360-715-2467 rich.smrcina at vmassist.com Catch the WAVV! http://www.wavv.org WAVV 2007 - Green Bay, WI - May 18-22, 2007

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Todays snapshot (1/9) don't compile
by lars.ebeling＠leopg9.no-ip.org 01 Sep '06

01 Sep '06

Probably caused by work in progress, but: /home/hobbit/snapshot/include -I/usr/local/include -DBBGEN_SSL -I/usr/local/inc lude -c -o bbtest-net.o bbtest-net.c bbtest-net.c: In function `load_tests': bbtest-net.c:510: error: `MULTIPING_POOL' undeclared (first use in this function ) bbtest-net.c:510: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once bbtest-net.c:510: error: for each function it appears in.) make[1]: *** [bbtest-net.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/hobbit/snapshot/bbnet' make: *** [bbnet-build] Error 2 Regards Lars Ebeling Hobbithobbyist http://leopg9.no-ip.org ¤ "If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning." --Catherine Aird

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Solaris 10 service monitoring
by rgordonjr＠gmail.com 01 Sep '06

01 Sep '06

Hello - I'm running into an issue where I need to monitor the individual services ( svcs -a ) instead of the processes (ps -ef) on multiple Solaris 10 clients. I didn't see anything in the man pages about it (although I may have missed it) so I was wondering if anyone has been able to set Hobbit up to do so? Sample output from svcs -a $ svcs -a |head -20 STATE STIME FMRI legacy_run Jul_28 lrc:/etc/rcS_d/S00umask_sh legacy_run Jul_28 lrc:/etc/rcS_d/S29wrsmcfg legacy_run Jul_28 lrc:/etc/rcS_d/S51installupdates disabled Jul_28 svc:/system/sysidtool:net disabled Jul_28 svc:/system/sysidtool:system disabled Jul_28 svc:/network/rpc/keyserv:default disabled Jul_28 svc:/network/rpc/nisplus:default disabled Jul_28 svc:/network/nis/server:default online Jul_28 svc:/milestone/multi-user-server:default online Jul_28 svc:/system/zones:default online Aug_15 svc:/application/hobbit:default I need to be able to alarm if zones goes offline or if nisplus goes online (for example)... Thanks! -- --==[ Bob Gordon ]==--

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new install
by faldredge＠firstam.com 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

Are there any detail instructions for installing hobbit? I have tried (three times) with no success. The environment: Solaris 9, full dist +OEM user: hobbit home: /export/home/hobbit Installed: (from Free for Solaris) gcc make (GNU) pcre rrdtool libpng openssl openldap Thanks in advance for your help.

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New Install
by faldredge＠firstam.com 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

HELP!!! I'm trying to do a complete new install of "hobbit 4.2.0". I want to believe I have followed all the instructions. I have tried the install twice with the same results. This is at the end of the output of the make command. - this is the error message - Undefined first referenced symbol in file ldap_start_tls_s ldaptest.o ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to bbtest-net collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [bbtest-net] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/export/home/hobbit/hobbit-4.2.0/bbnet' make: *** [bbnet-build] Error 2

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Can a host be "aliased" multiple times in bb-hosts?
by greg.hubbard＠eds.com 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

Shire folk: I was trying to search the archives for this but didn't get anywhere. What I want to do is have some hosts appear in a couple of different places in my Web page hierarchy. From the description of the "prefer" tag, it appears that this can be done and code was written to help Hobbit avoid confusion. But when I put my host alias in the file, the Hobbit server started complaining that my host was in the file twice. Can this be done? If so, where should I look in the docs to figure it out? GLH

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[hobbit] bug in PROC "TEXT=" tag?
by gmbfly98＠gmail.com 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

Strange thing I've noticed with Hobbit 4.2.0's processing of the "TEXT=" tag for the PROC test... If I have TEXT=somestring, it shows up fine. But if I have TEXT=some other string, it shows up as just "some". However, if I do TEXT="some other string", it shows up as "some other string. (note the opening ", but no closing "). Is this perhaps a bug, or am I misinterpreting the doco?

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CPU graphs from Windows clients shown as load average not percent utilization
by quentin.white＠endeavour-capital.com 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

All my Windows clients (using BBNT.exe) and my netapp filer are report CPU in percentage, eg. filer: Thu Aug 31 11:22:19 BST 2006 - up: 60 days, 23:18 CPU Usage= 12% windows server: Thu Aug 31 11:24:41 GDT 2006 [xxxxxxxx] up: 21 days, 1 users, 52 procs, load=87%, PhysicalMem: 2048MB(56%) However, on the CPU column the graph being used is for load average. It graphs correctly so for the example above the graph would plot at 0.87 load (max being 1.0). My question is how to specify that I want certain hosts be have their CPU graphed as a percentage rather than load average? Does hobbit have a % graph already in hobbitgraph.cfg (maybe la1)?? Thanks, Quentin Quentin White Systems Administrator Endeavour Capital LLP Regulated by the FSA Email: quentin.white at endeavour-capital.com ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ The information in this email is provided for the addressee's information purposes only and is not as an offer or solicitation for the purchase or sale of any financial instrument. This message may contain confidential or privileged information. You must delete and not use it if you are not the intended recipient. The information may not be passed on or reproduced without Endeavour Capital LLP's written consent. Email transmission across the internet is not secure and the information contained in this email may not be complete or error-free. Accordingly you should not act or rely on the correctness of such information. All liability of Endeavour Capital LLP and its associated companies for any loss or damage resulting from such reliance or other e-mail use is excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. To the extent this communication is issued to persons in the United Kingdom and constitutes a financial promotion, or an invitation or inducement to participate in a collective investment scheme (within the meaning of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000), it is issued to and directed at persons who are either intermediate customers or market counterparties for the purposes of the FSA Conduct of Business Sourcebook, and no other person should act or rely upon it. Endeavour Capital LLP is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority. 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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New Feature Request: Getting file from client/etc hobbit-clients directory...
by fduranti＠q8.it 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

A centralized monitor system is really a nice thing to have but it could be also a nice feature to be able to get files from clients just like the client could get files in the etc directory of hobbit server... Writing the database and weblogic clients I've put in options to include other configuration files in the main config file for those clients. This was a feature needed by my database administrator and sap administrator group (will also be used by my weblogic administrators) so that each of them can edit their warning/alert levels without having to go through a big config file or affecting others database warning/alert level. For now i'm getting the file manually but it could be nice if the server could get files from the clients (limited for example to the client/etc directory for security reason) just like the client do with the server... Francesco

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[hobbit] Looking for suggestions on hobbit SLA reporting
by KauffmanT＠nibco.com 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

Thanks, Henrik. I may well change the availability report code. Is there any way to make this a compile/config time option in the future? (More accurately -- would you consider doing this?) As for the additional color -- I was just yanking your chain :-) You've done such a great job and added so much to hobbit in 4.2, and thanks to you and the guys out there that had the time to wring it out there have been no real issues. I just need to get off my backside and tweak some of the testing and further define what we *really* need to care about after hours. I also need to be able to tell the management team that certain columns reflect actual SLA, while other columns indicate percentage of time not in a critical state. Thanks again for such a flexible package! Tom -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 5:04 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Looking for suggestions on hobbit SLA reporting On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 04:10:41PM -0400, Kauffman, Tom wrote: > First -- from a management perspective, our primary application (SAP > R/3) is either available for use or down. We have a stated objective of > some % uptime. Scheduled outages are charged just like unscheduled. So > if we take the system for a scheduled 12-hour upgrade, we get charged > with 12 hours against our total availability. > > This means that 'blue' status is the same as 'red' -- the guys in the > field can't use it, it's not available, and management doesn't care that > it's a scheduled outage. [snip] > Henrik, is there a (relatively) easy way to convince the sla report > funtion to consider 'blue' and/or 'clear' as 'red' for reporting? You'll have to change the Hobbit source to do that, but it is fairly simple. In the lib/availability.c file around line 500 is where it decides what colors go into the availability percentage. That line reads: repinfo->reportavailability = 100.0 - repinfo->reportpct[COL_RED] - repinfo->reportpct[COL_CLEAR]; As you can see, "clear" and "red" go together. So you just need to add "blue" to the list, so it becomes repinfo->reportavailability = 100.0 - repinfo->reportpct[COL_RED] - repinfo->reportpct[COL_CLEAR] - repinfo->reportpct[COL_BLUE]; > The second problem -- 'red' doesn't always mean "it's dead, Jim"; it can > also mean "somebody better look at this quick, BEFORE it dies". But we > don't want to page on yellow, even on this system. > > Suggestions? Well, that *is* what the yellow color was intended for. You do know that you can configure the alerts to go out on yellow for just a single system or test? > (Is there any way to add 'hot pink' as a status between 'yellow' and > 'red'? :-) Or "orange" ... in theory, yes - but I am not at all sure how many places in the Hobbit code would need changing to make sure they are all right when there's suddenly one more color to handle. Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email and any attachments are for the exclusive and confidential use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, distribute or take action in reliance upon this message. If you have received this in error, please notify us immediately by return email and promptly delete this message and its attachments from your computer system. We do not waive attorney-client or work product privilege by the transmission of this message.

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