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acknowledge with 4.2.0
by lebarber＠gmail.com 10 Aug '06

10 Aug '06

I just installed the new 4.2.0 release and I have discoved that when trying to acknowledge alerts, that the ack-alerts page does not seem to be working for the intermediate pages. When called from the top page you get a list of all the active alerts, and when called from the lowest level pages you get a list of alerts on that page (plus one more for some reason), on intermediate pages though, you just get a "No Active Alerts" message. Is this the way it is supposed to work. Thanks, Larry Barber

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[hobbit] Ghost report does not work in 4.2.0?
by brodie＠mcw.edu 10 Aug '06

10 Aug '06

Wow. I had an old path to the old OLD bb still there. WHOOOOPS. Weird that never affected anything before! Thanks for the tip to help me figure out what was going on........ --------------------------------------------------------- Kent C. Brodie - brodie at phys.mcw.edu Department of Physiology Medical College of Wisconsin (414) 456-8590 -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 4:31 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Ghost report does not work in 4.2.0? On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 04:25:00PM -0500, Brodie, Kent wrote: > Nothing, and nothing: > > [hobbit at coffman server]$ bb 127.0.0.1 ghostlist > [hobbit at coffman server]$ > [hobbit at coffman server]$ bb 127.0.0.1 ping > [hobbit at coffman server]$ Are you sure your Hobbit server is running 4.2.0 ? Because that "ping" should respond back with the Hobbit version number. Like henrik at osiris:~$ bb 172.16.10.2 ping hobbitd 4.2.0 henrik at osiris:~$ bb 172.16.10.100 ping hobbitd 4.2-RC-20060712.4 Your "bb" utility has to be 4.2.0 for that to work, though. bb --version should report: henrik at osiris:~$ bb --version Hobbit version 4.2.0 Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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content tests
by jonescr＠cisco.com 10 Aug '06

10 Aug '06

Is it possible to have the results of the HTTP test as well as the CONT test both displayed in the http status area? In other words, "cont=http;http://www.foo.com/blah/;SUCCESS" I'm not suggesting that the default be that way, I can think of many cases where it would be desirable to have a separate "http" and "content" columns. I'm just trying to have as few columns as possible :-) -Charles

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[hobbit] Ghost report does not work in 4.2.0?
by brodie＠mcw.edu 10 Aug '06

10 Aug '06

Nothing, and nothing: [hobbit at coffman server]$ bb 127.0.0.1 ghostlist [hobbit at coffman server]$ [hobbit at coffman server]$ bb 127.0.0.1 ping [hobbit at coffman server]$ --------------------------------------------------------- Kent C. Brodie - brodie at phys.mcw.edu Department of Physiology Medical College of Wisconsin (414) 456-8590 -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 4:19 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Ghost report does not work in 4.2.0? On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 03:45:35PM -0500, Brodie, Kent wrote: > Hi- I tried to run the Ghost Report. All I get is: "Failed to > retrieve ghostlist from server" on the BB display. I cannot find > anything in the log files. What does bb 127.0.0.1 ghostlist give you ? Also, try bb 127.0.0.1 ping Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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Alerts Report
by jonescr＠cisco.com 10 Aug '06

10 Aug '06

I would like to make a weekly report showing minimally, the total number of notifications sent out, hopefully more data as well like what services the alerts were for etc. Is there a way to get this data other than manually parsing the notifications.log? -Charles

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Ghost report does not work in 4.2.0?
by brodie＠mcw.edu 10 Aug '06

10 Aug '06

Hi- I tried to run the Ghost Report. All I get is: "Failed to retrieve ghostlist from server" on the BB display. I cannot find anything in the log files. --------------------------------------------------------- Kent C. Brodie - brodie at phys.mcw.edu Department of Physiology Medical College of Wisconsin (414) 456-8590

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Pre-configured VMware hobbitserver available for download
by henrik＠hswn.dk 10 Aug '06

10 Aug '06

I've put together a VMware virtual machine configured with Debian Linux and a Hobbit server installation. If you have the VMware Player installed (free download from www.vmware.com) this lets you have a demonstration / test / play-around-with-stuff Hobbit server running without setting up a dedicated server for it. Since VMware Player is available for MS-Windows, it will even let you run a Hobbit server on a Windows-based system, although at the cost of having a virtual server running (i.e. you'll need a bit of RAM to support it). For those who want to play with it, it is available from the Hobbitmon "Files" area on sourceforge.net. Choose the "hobbitdemo" package: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=128058&package_id=200… Just one warning: It's a 250 MB download. Regards, Henrik

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[hobbit] Windows Quota Monitoring
by bill.hart＠burkecorp.com 10 Aug '06

10 Aug '06

Etienne, It is writing to the event logs I see, but since they are just informational messages it doesn't really "alert" us to anything. I'll just check them manually since it looks like they are checked every hour and logged it should be easy to skim the logs by hand (since it's only one server here that we're watching this for). I just wondered if anyone had any neat automated stuff out there. Bill Hart Burke Corporation -----Original Message----- From: Etienne Grignon [mailto:etienne.grignon at gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 5:58 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Windows Quota Monitoring Hi Bill, 2006/8/9, Bill Hart <bill.hart at burkecorp.com>: > > > > I'm curious as to what other people are doing to monitor quotas, or if they > are. We currently have our 2003 Server set up simply for warning so that it > doesn't actually prevent people from doing stuff they need to, and it hasn't > been a problem yet, but I'd like to stay on top of who is exceeding quotas > and such. As far as I'm concerned it doesn't NEED to be a hobbit answer, > but if there is one out there, that would be great. I've done some > searching and will do some more, but thought I'd see if anyone out there had > any great ideas. > For monitoring the quotas, you may use the event logs. You should enable the Windows option which enable writing to the event logs when a quotas is exceeded so, you can get the alert from the msgs column. It is the easiest way to monitor Windows quotas without developing nothing. Regards, -- Etienne GRIGNON To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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Hobbit Client
by vadud3＠gmail.com 10 Aug '06

10 Aug '06

I am planning to make a solaris pkg for hobbit client. I am planning expire all bbclients from all 300 hosts (except the external scripts) and replace them with hobbit client 4.2. Do I need to build pkg for each version--6,7,8,9,10--of Solaris? I know I have to make separate pkg for sparc and x86 platforms. Thanks -- Asif Iqbal PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu

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Hobbit Monitor version 4.2 released
by henrik＠hswn.dk 10 Aug '06

10 Aug '06

I am pleased to announce the release of Hobbit version 4.2.0. This release comes after a full year of development since the previous release, and 2 months of dilligent testing by lots of dedicated people on the Hobbit mailing list. It is safe to say that this is the best tested release of Hobbit ever done. This release is very much focused on Hobbit clients. The highlights of this release are: * Full client support. The Hobbit clients now support monitoring of cpu-, disk- and memory-utilisation, as well as system logfiles, network ports and traffic, processes, file- and directory sizes, system clock synchronization, and much more. When a problem is detected on a host, the client data is automatically saved so it is available for later troubleshooting - even if the host has completely crashed. * Pull-style data collection for DMZ hosts. Clients normally connect to the Hobbit server to deliver their data. For DMZ hosts this is often not possible due to firewall restric- tions. For such hosts, Hobbit 4.2 supports server-pulling of the data. * Automatic updates of Hobbit client installations. Client installations of Hobbit 4.2 can be updated automatically without having to physically access the client hosts. Updates can be rolled out automatically from the Hobbit server, to individual clients or all of your monitored systems. * A new "Acknowledgment" webpage lets administrators acknowledge alerts easily, without having to know the ack-code required in previous releases. * A new "Critical systems" webpage allows detailed configuration of critical systems for large-scale operations. A web-based configuration tool enables the monitoring operations staff to easily configure individual hosts and/or services to appear on the Critical Systems view, and allows them to focus on the most important events at any given time. * A new "Metrics report" webpage allows for comparison of trend data across hosts, e.g. to view the effect of loadbalancing a service across multiple hosts. * Several independent projects have sprung up, including a BBWin (a client for MS-Windows based systems); DevMon (a data collection tool for SNMP-enabled devices); and The Shire (a repository for Hobbit add-ons, sample configurations, and other interesting things). Links to these can be found in the "About Hobbit" on-line help. Plus performance improvements, lots of other small enhancements and bugfixes. Hobbit 4.2.0 is available from the Hobbit project page on SourceForge.net: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=128058&package_id=140… If you are upgrading from a previous version of Hobbit, please refer to the RELEASENOTES file shipped with Hobbit 4.2.0 for instructions on updating. I hope You will enjoy it. Regards, Henrik

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