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bb-service entry for OpenVPN
by jjj863＠gmail.com 28 Aug '06

28 Aug '06

I need to monitor OpenVPN service on a remote server (OpenVPN is already monitored as a PROC locally on that server) OpenVPN is SSL-based, so, I made up a service entry as below. The test is failing, got 'unexpected service response'm w/o any data. Because a shared HMAC secret is used for this OpenVPN server, a connection attempt w/o the HMAC secret will not be able to get the certificate (maybe this is why it fails?). [openvpn] expect "CONNECTED(00000003)" option ssl port 12345 Here is a few manual sessions using openssl. I'd be happy to label the service as 'up' if I get the CONNECTED(00000003) string. any ideas? /etc/hobbit# openssl s_client -ssl3 -connect vip1.vip.com:12345 CONNECTED(00000003) 30739:error:1408F10B:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_RECORD:wrong version number:s3_pkt.c:286: /etc/hobbit# openssl s_client -ssl2 -connect vip1.vip.com:12345 CONNECTED(00000003) 30742:error:1407F0E5:SSL routines:SSL2_WRITE:ssl handshake failure:s2_pkt.c:429:

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Informal survey about commercial support for Hobbit
by henrik＠hswn.dk 28 Aug '06

28 Aug '06

I've had a couple of enquiries about providing commercial support for Hobbit. In essence they need a guaranteed response to e-mail support queries, as a supplement to the mailing list where mails do get answered, but not always within a day or two. Making money off Hobbit never was my intention, but being paid for doing what is really a hobby for me does seem attractive. So this is just an informal survey: * Would you be interested in paying for Hobbit support? * What kind of support do you need? E-mail for solving problems, custom feature developments, or ... ? * What response-time requirements do you have? Since I'm in Europe and a lot of the Hobbit users are in the US or Australia, I have a problem with same-day response guarantees. * How much are you willing to spend on it ? Feel free to respond here on the list, or to me directly. Just to avoid raising any panic, let me emphasize that this will NOT in any way stop or detract from the support I offer here on the mailing list. I think the mailing list will always be the primary support channel, and a place for discussing Hobbit developments, beta versions and all the other related issues. It's just that some companies feel more comfortable using software when there is a "normal" support contract. Regards, Henrik

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hobbit-alerts.cfg :: match all RULEs or first/cloest match wins ?
by jjj863＠gmail.com 28 Aug '06

28 Aug '06

If one has the following in his hobbit-alerts.cfg, should the event on server1/server2 get sent to 'root' or 'support' or both? -------cut---------x----------cut---------x-----------cut----- HOST=* MAIL root HOST=server1,server2 MAIL support ------cut---------x----------cut---------x-----------cut-----

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Hobbitping/fping behaviour
by Guillaume.GALLIOT＠but.fr 28 Aug '06

28 Aug '06

Hello, I have updated my hobbit installation from 4.1.2 to 4.2.0 The new hobbitping gives different results in the web interface (about 40ms latency on a local network) than fping (0.15 ms),i tried to reproduce these results with ping,fping & hobbitping but they give me same results on command line (0.15ms) fping -e msrv999lno001 msrv999lno001 is alive (0.16 ms) PING msrv999lno001 (10.0.4.173) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from msrv999lno001 (10.0.4.173): icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.126 ms 64 bytes from msrv999lno001 (10.0.4.173): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.113 ms /usr/lib/hobbit/server/bin/hobbitping 10.0.4.173 10.0.4.173 is alive (0.18 ms) In the web interface I get 44 ms I reverted to fping and results are now the same on command line and web interface. Does anyone has the same issue ? /guillaume

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[hobbit] Setting client "class" for log file monitoring
by gmbfly98＠gmail.com 28 Aug '06

28 Aug '06

> The client by default uses the "uname -s" output, which will be > "linux". If you launch the client with > ~hobbit/client/runclient.sh --os=rhel3 > then it will use the [rhel3] setting. The list --os names is restricted > though, so for a more generic solution you can define your own "classes" > and run the client with a "--class=MYCLASS" option; then it will use > the [MYCLASS] section. Is there a way to make the "--class=MYCLASS" option permanent when starting a client? That is, do you have to specify --class everytime you use "runclient.sh", such as stopping, starting, restarting, etc?

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[hobbit] New version of beastat.pl netapp.pl and dbcheck.pl
by fduranti＠q8.it 28 Aug '06

28 Aug '06

> > > There's an error in the README ... > > If you're using hobbit 4.2 and NetApp with Ontap version > 6.5+ just do > > this: > > I've got it working now, and made a few tweaks so that the > nfs ops (the only thing we use) were tracked on their own > graph, instead of as a part of a group. Makes the graph > scaling easier on the eyes. ;) > I'll create some more definition for the next version so the user can just choose what to use... I'm also using only NFS on some filers and NFS/CIFS on some others or just ISCSI on another one... > > For snapshot there's not a simple way, you've to edit the > source code > > of hobbit and some will get wrong. At this moment I'm finishing to > > work to module for rrd implementation inside the hobbit_rrd > for them > > and I've something done but I'm waiting for some nice feature > > regarding custom rrd implementation from Henrik so you can have > > something in the next few days (snapshot, quotas, qtree, > and something > > more in the next future like full nfsstatistics and > interface/network statistics)... > > I was going to just hack up the do_disk.c file and see what I > could do, but sounds like waiting is the better option. > filerstats2bb used to put the .snapshots filesystem alongside > those in the disk column, which worked out pretty well except > for segregating the snapshot alerts to separate users. I've preferred to put the snapshot out of disk space report to have a clean situation ... A warning on the snapshot can be a problem related to an oracle snapshot/backup that didn't worked so I've to send alert to db admin to check them... If you want to give it a try I can send a patch working with 4.2.0 (it should work from 4.2.0 to the last snapshot) but this will include also the graphs rrd function for dbcheck.pl and beastat.pl script and is a work in progress so it could work but it could also do bad thing :P (well it's running now by one week on my test and production system without problems). > > > If you want data to be reported silently without having a > column just > > to create a graph in the trend you can also do: > > bbopscolumn = ops:data > > bbstatscolumn = stats:data > > Again, very cool. I now have an ops column on my front page, > displaying NFS data, and it is a welcome site. :) > > I was going to try and get a way to collect the disk > %utilization values for my volumes (those are displayed when > you collect data with statit for a period of time). That > would also be a extremely useful data point. I'm trying to define what data to get next... The ifinfo also seems interesting (it also seems the only method to get byte counter related to network interface). I think the next think I'll get will be: cluster status, nfsstat, graphs for snapmirrored volumes and data related to snapvaulted volumes. I've saw the statit command and it's nice the only thing not so good is the fact that it work in background and there can be some problem getting good data out of it because running wrong command could get wrong data on that. I was also checking the "stats show" command that seems to report the same kind of data and can be run like the sysstat so with a 300 seconds interval that will let me get the data at the next run of the script. I should try to understand what of all those data will really be usefull to monitor and how to graph them .... Francesco

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[hobbit] Memory usage BBWIn 0.8
by ivan.verbeeck＠vmma.be 28 Aug '06

28 Aug '06

Etienne, The server is a Windows 2003 server with SP1(Standard Edition - english). It's used as an application server with specific software(no webserver,no database) and there is no other monitoring tool or antivirus installed. I figured out the module that is the cause the problem and its the msgs.dll. If i remove that line from the the config the memory usages seems normal. The size of the event log is 58Mb (5days), with quite a lot of activity in the application log. Regards, Ivan -----Original Message----- From: Etienne Grignon [mailto:etienne.grignon at gmail.com] Sent: maandag 28 augustus 2006 12:02 To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Memory usage BBWIn 0.8 Hello, 2006/8/28, Ivan Verbeeck <ivan.verbeeck at vmma.be>: > Hello, > > I just checked the memory use of BBwin after appr. 60hours without any > external tests and its now > 14Mb. I also checked all the .ddl > versions and there all 0.8.0 or 0.8.1. (seems normal because it was > the first release on that machine). > Now i'm gone stop the service, remove all files and reinstall the > package, maybe there was something with the installation. > I'm not sure it will help to reinstall but you can try. Could you tell me what Windows are you using ? its language, its Service Pack level. What type of servers is it ? web ? database ? Is there some antivirus or others monitoring software installed ? What you can try if you have some times : 1) turn timer to 5s in BBWin.cfg 2) remove all load directives from BBWin.cfg 3) start the BBWin service, check the bbwin memory growth 4) add each bbwin load directive one by one and wait some times between each add so you will be able to detect which agent is taking memory I know it's not very elegant but it is the easiest way to determine where is the problem. Regards, -- Etienne GRIGNON To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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cont or http
by jjj863＠gmail.com 28 Aug '06

28 Aug '06

I have a few cont= test for a few hosts. It is now time for me to specify these CONT tests depend on some other tests. Should I say depends=(http:server2/test2) or should I say depends=(cont:server2/test2) ?

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Non-Green View display abnormalities - 4.2.0
by rgordonjr＠gmail.com 28 Aug '06

28 Aug '06

Hello all - I am noticing that in the "All Non-Green View" the section headers don't necessarily go with systems that are under them... for example... In the hosts file i have groupings like the following: group 1 system 1 system 2 system 3 group 2 system 4 system 5 system 6 group 3 systsm 7 system 8 system 9 .... In the "All-Non Green view" i see something like this.... group 1 system 7 system 4 group 3 systesm 1 systesm 5 ... Any ideas what would cause this mismatch? Thanks! -- --==[ Bob Gordon ]==--

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[hobbit] Memory usage BBWIn 0.8
by ivan.verbeeck＠vmma.be 28 Aug '06

28 Aug '06

Hello, I just checked the memory use of BBwin after appr. 60hours without any external tests and its now > 14Mb. I also checked all the .ddl versions and there all 0.8.0 or 0.8.1. (seems normal because it was the first release on that machine). Now i'm gone stop the service, remove all files and reinstall the package, maybe there was something with the installation. Regards, Ivan -----Original Message----- From: Etienne Grignon [mailto:etienne.grignon at gmail.com] Sent: vrijdag 25 augustus 2006 17:34 To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Memory usage BBWIn 0.8 Hello Ivan, 2006/8/25, Ivan Verbeeck <ivan.verbeeck at vmma.be>: > > Hello, > > Since the release of BBwin 0.8 i installed it on a couple of our > Windows > 2003 servers as a replacement for the BB Client. > On one of the machines i noticed that the memory usage of the > BBWin.exe process keeps growing. After appr. 2 weeks it was over the > 60Mb. I restarted the service, but after a few days it's back over the 20Mb. > The client checks a few svcs and runs 5 external tests (compiled perl > scripts). Any idea what can cause the problem? > Your mail worry me a little bit ... Could you check that this server is well installed with BBWin 0.8 ? there were a memory leak on the older BBWin releases but BBWin 0.8 should be ok. Could you post your BBWin.cfg file and tell me what Windows version are you using ? Sometimes BBWin may need more memory when a lot of events logs are send to the hobbit server. On my test servers, I run BBWin with a timer of 5 seconds (so it simulates many weeks of monitoring with a few days) for each agent so I can check if memory is growing. It never goes over 7 Mb. As Rich said, me be try some times to run without the perl externals even if it should never take memory in the BBWin process itselft. Regards, -- Etienne GRIGNON To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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