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[hobbit] bbfix functionality in hobbit
by gmbfly98＠gmail.com 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

Is there any method with hobbit to have the client automatically restart services, like bbfix does for BB? We would like to be able to restart services that tend to fail often (such as SSH tunnels) automatically through Hobbit. Without writing a custom external script, I can't seem to find any information about doing this. Thanks

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[hobbit] Sigsegv in Bbtest-net
by tschenk＠pironet-ndh.com 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

Thanks ;) Regards, Thomas > > This is a bug which gets triggered if you do a traceroute when the > ping test fails. Patch attached. > > > Regards, > Henrik > >

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Clientupdate minimum version
by jeffrey.chandler＠gmail.com 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

Hello, I couldn't find any documentation regarding this, but is there a minimum version for the clientupdate to work properly? I have just upgraded my server to the RC for 4.2, but I am still using the BigBrother client and deploying the client to my servers step by step, and would prefer not to have to deploy clients again once a "stable" version is released. Thanks, Jeffrey Chandler

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Suppressing tests?
by James.Gearing＠analog.com 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

Does anyone know of a simple way, maybe in the bb-hosts file to suppress tests? I'd like to suppress the "info" and "conn" and a few other custom test column names, for some, but not all clients. Im using hobbit server 4.2 with BB 1.9i clients.

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[hobbit] clientupdate?
by David.Gore＠verizonbusiness.com 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

Henrik, What is the status (this release? next release?) of clientupdate to automatically update the client? We read the man page and configured it, hoping it would work. Obviously, it would save us a lot of time. Here is what we get on the client: tail -f hobbitclient.log 2006-07-19 13:30:59 connect to bbd failed - Connection refused 2006-07-19 13:30:59 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - Connection failed Cannot fetch new client tarfile tar: blocksize = 0 ls -al ../tmp -rw-r--r-- 1 nmsbb staff 0 Jul 19 13:36 .inprogress.update -r-xr-x--- 1 nmsbb staff 165540 Jul 19 13:30 .update.omzimp01.1153315859.tmp Anything we can do to help, or hack this to get it to work? ~David

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Sigsegv in Bbtest-net
by tschenk＠pironet-ndh.com 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

Hi, bbtest-net version 4.2-RC-20060712 SSL library : OpenSSL 0.9.7e 25 Oct 2004 LDAP library: OpenLDAP 20320 Statistics: Hosts total : 444 Hosts with no tests : 28 Total test count : 665 Status messages : 640 Alert status msgs : 0 Transmissions : 9 Bbtest-net crashed the second time today, first time it was red for about 3 minutes, the second time it was down about 20 minutes before I restarted it manually. I am not sure what triggered the crash. (gdb) bt #0 0xb7cea83b in raise () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #1 0xb7cebfa2 in abort () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #2 0x08064361 in sigsegv_handler (signum=0) at sig.c:57 #3 <signal handler called> #4 0xb7d3c087 in memcpy () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #5 0x08065532 in strbuf_addtobuffer (buf=0x0, newtext=0x1 <Address 0x1 out of bounds>, newlen=137255296) at strfunc.c:113 #6 0x080655e1 in addtostrbuffer (buf=0x1, newtext=0x82e5980) at strfunc.c:124 #7 0x080629ca in addtostrstatus (p=0x1) at sendmsg.c:658 #8 0x0804eb86 in send_results (service=0x8080098, failgoesclear=1) at bbtest-net.c:1716 #9 0x0805096c in main (argc=4, argv=0xbfbe2d74) at bbtest-net.c:2261 Regards, Thomas

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[hobbit] bbfix functionality in hobbit
by JMSmith＠stvincenthealth.com 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

My personal opinion is that having Hobbit (or Big Brother) take action other than sending an alert goes beyond the scope of what it is intended for...as a monitoring system. I had thought about the same thing at one point, but was talked out of it. -----Original Message----- From: Gary B. [mailto:gmbfly98 at gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 9:22 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] bbfix functionality in hobbit Is there any method with hobbit to have the client automatically restart services, like bbfix does for BB? We would like to be able to restart services that tend to fail often (such as SSH tunnels) automatically through Hobbit. Without writing a custom external script, I can't seem to find any information about doing this. Thanks To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk NOTICE: This email contains confidential or proprietary information which may be legally privileged. It is intended only for the named recipient(s). If an addressing error has misdirected the email, please notify the author by replying to this message. If you are not the named recipient, you are not authorized to use, disclose, distribute, copy, print or rely on this email, and should immediately delete it from your computer system.

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[hobbit] bbfix functionality in hobbit
by JMSmith＠stvincenthealth.com 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

Basically, it was just the scope argument. And I know all about on-call weeks...my one backup-analyst and I rotate weeks so I'm on-call half the year! But my first focus would be to attack the issue on its home server. For instance, if it is a Unix server I would investigate creating some kind of script that could be put in /etc/inittab to restart a dead process. If all else fails, however, you gotta do what you gotta do to get some sleep at night! -----Original Message----- From: Gary B. [mailto:gmbfly98 at gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 9:33 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] bbfix functionality in hobbit > My personal opinion is that having Hobbit (or Big Brother) take action > other than sending an alert goes beyond the scope of what it is intended > for...as a monitoring system. I had thought about the same thing at one > point, but was talked out of it. I would tend to agree myself, except 1) some people are asking about such functionality, and 2) it would be nice during oncall weeks to not have to get up and restart processes such as procallator, etc. I would be interested in hearing what talked you out of this, however. If nothing else, I can use it to talk other people out of it ;-) > -----Original Message----- > From: Gary B. [mailto:gmbfly98 at gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 9:22 AM > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: [hobbit] bbfix functionality in hobbit > > Is there any method with hobbit to have the client automatically > restart services, like bbfix does for BB? We would like to be able to > restart services that tend to fail often (such as SSH tunnels) > automatically through Hobbit. Without writing a custom external > script, I can't seem to find any information about doing this. > > > Thanks > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > > > NOTICE: This email contains confidential or proprietary information which may be legally privileged. It is intended only for the named recipient(s). If an addressing error has misdirected the email, please notify the author by replying to this message. If you are not the named recipient, you are not authorized to use, disclose, distribute, copy, print or rely on this email, and should immediately delete it from your computer system. > > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk NOTICE: This email contains confidential or proprietary information which may be legally privileged. It is intended only for the named recipient(s). If an addressing error has misdirected the email, please notify the author by replying to this message. If you are not the named recipient, you are not authorized to use, disclose, distribute, copy, print or rely on this email, and should immediately delete it from your computer system.

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[clientversion] section
by rsmrcina＠wi.rr.com 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

I noticed a [clientversion] section of the 'Client Data', is the actual version information supposed to appear there? If so, it isn't. This is SLES9 with hobbit-4.2-RC-20060712. -- 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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Question about CLASS= & classname
by steve.aiello＠ge.com 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

Was just curious if anyone had any information, or docs I missed that details CLASS= more. Thanks, > -----Original Message----- > From: Aiello, Steve (GE, Corporate, consultant) > Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 9:52 AM > To: 'hobbit at hswn.dk' > Subject: Question about CLASS= & classname > > > Per the hobbit-clients.cfg documentation I read the following: > CLASS=classname Rule match by the client class-name. You specify > the class-name for a host when starting the client through the > "--class=NAME" option to the runclient.sh script. If no class is > specified, the host by default goes into a class named by the > operating system. > > My questions: > The default classname setting of the operating system, which > value is it ? When I look at the client data of a host I see > the following: > [uname] > Linux serverName 2.6.16-gentoo-r7 i686 > [osversion] > Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 > > Is the default value of classname set to [uname] or > [osversion]. Also is it the full name ? If so do I define my > CLASS="Linux serverName 2.6.16-gentoo-r7 i686" ? Can regular > expresion be used, CLASS=%Linux.* ? > > Can a host be defined to more than one class, i.e. > 1.2.3.4 serverName # ssh CLASS:Linux CLASS:webServer > > If a host can have more than one class definition, what > happens when you get CLASS configuration parameter collision ? > > Also, it may bee helpful to have the Info report show which > class the device falls under. > > Thank you, > Steve >

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