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[hobbit] Packages for Solaris OS
by James.Gearing＠analog.com 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

I compiled the client on one Solaris 9 system. Then zipped up the client dir and have used it on Solaris 6,7,8,9,10 with out issue. You just have to copy gcc and make to one system, download and compile. Not sure if it will work on 5. Good luck! -----Original Message----- From: Camp.external at qimonda.com [mailto:Camp.external at qimonda.com] Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 8:46 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] Packages for Solaris OS Have tried getting gcc from www.sunfreeware.com ? -----Original Message----- From: Lardinois, Pierre [mailto:plardinois at be.tiauto.com] Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 7:47 AM To: 'hobbit at hswn.dk' Subject: [hobbit] Packages for Solaris OS Hello, We plan to install Hobbit Client on several unix servers & workstations, but we do not have any compiler installed on these machines. Are there any pre-installed packages of Hobbit Client for these OS : - Solaris 2.5.1 - Solaris 2.6 - Solaris 2.7 - Solaris 2.8 Thanks for your help. Regards, ___________________________________________________ Network Monitoring hobbit at support.tiauto.com Pierre Lardinois TI Automotive - Belgium/Liege The information contained in this transmission may contain privileged and confidential information. It is intended only for the use of the person(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution or duplication of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. 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

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Question/feature request
by lists-eric＠softlution.com 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

Hello, I have a question on Hobbit: how can I find out what the exact "Unexpected service response" is on a network test? I have an FTP test that fails momentarily for (to me) mysterious reasons... Would it be possible to put the actual value of the unexpected service response in the error message? Regards, Eric van de Meerakker.

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[hobbit] rrd question
by olivier.beau＠telecomitalia.fr 03 Jul '06

03 Jul '06

Concerning this new cgi, could we have access to a similar cgi just for the specific graph, having a second zoom gif underning the actual zoom gif ? -----Message d'origine----- De : Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Envoyé : lundi 3 juillet 2006 15:51 À : hobbit at hswn.dk Objet : Re: [hobbit] rrd question On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 02:54:56PM +0200, Beau Olivier wrote: > > Is it possible set change the default storage history in hobbit's rrd files ? > -> i'ld like to be able to zoom in a graph and have a precise view on the last 30 days, not just the last 48 hours.. It's possible with the new hobbit-hostgraphs tool available in the snapshots. It lets you select one or more hosts/graphs and a time period, and then it shows the graph for just that period of time. You can try it on http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/ - go to the "Systems" page and pick the "Report" -> "Metrics report" menu-item. Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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[hobbit] rrd question
by Craig_Whilding＠mentor.com 03 Jul '06

03 Jul '06

Just had a look and that really is an excellent utility I can see a lot of use for, hopefully convince the network guys to integrate with hobbit more readily too! Thanks, Craig -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: 03 July 2006 14:51 To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] rrd question On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 02:54:56PM +0200, Beau Olivier wrote: > > Is it possible set change the default storage history in hobbit's rrd files ? > -> i'ld like to be able to zoom in a graph and have a precise view on the last 30 days, not just the last 48 hours.. It's possible with the new hobbit-hostgraphs tool available in the snapshots. It lets you select one or more hosts/graphs and a time period, and then it shows the graph for just that period of time. You can try it on http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/ - go to the "Systems" page and pick the "Report" -> "Metrics report" menu-item. Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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Alternate to sendmail daemon on hobbit server
by vadud3＠gmail.com 01 Jul '06

01 Jul '06

Hi All Currently all alerts from hobbit server comes from the server and a reply back to server access the server on smtpd daemon. Then it process thru dot-forward and procmailrc. Then calls hobbit-mailack to ack. Current setup: 1. hobbitd alert ----> relay server ----> pager 2. pager ----> smtpd on hobbit server I want to set it up like this. Steps: 1. hobbitd alert ----> relay server ----> pager 2. pager ----> relay server ----> hobbitd What would be the hobbit way I can send the ack from relay server to hobbitd server without open smtpd on hobbitd? -- Asif Iqbal PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu

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[hobbit] Problems starting hobbit
by skasperowicz＠c-cor.com 01 Jul '06

01 Jul '06

Thanks Charles, I actually did run ipcs and ipcrm, which got me to my current problem ;). I have also edited /etc/system (Solaris machine) to add more shared memory segments, but I think this is another problem now. Maybe I should just recompile on a different machine and see if it works. Thanks, -Shaun ________________________________________ From: Charles Jones [mailto:jonescr at cisco.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 4:11 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Problems starting hobbit Don't know if it will help, but the last time I had this problem, the fix was completely stop hobbit, make sure all of the processes are gone, and run /usr/bin/ipcs. I had a bunch of shared memory segments that were hung, that I was able to remove using /usr/bin/ipcrm. Note the user in the ipcs output - do not remove segments belong to other users or you may break some other application you have running (I did that too) :-) If this does not help, you may need to edit your /etc/sysctl.conf and increase your shared memory. -Charles Kasperowicz, Shaun wrote: Henrik, In the other logfiles I have nothing. Hobbitlaunch.log is the only one getting any data. Hobbit user is owner of both /var/log/hobbit and everything under /usr/local/hobbit/. And when I run the bbcmd command you suggested, I get this: bash-2.03$ /usr/local/hobbit/server/bin/bbcmd hobbitd_channel --channel=stachg hobbitd_history 2006-06-28 15:15:16 Using default environment file /usr/local/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg 2006-06-28 15:15:16 Could not get shm of size 262144: No such file or directory 2006-06-28 15:15:16 Channel not available Looks like still more shared memory problems? Regards, -Shaun -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 5:38 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Problems starting hobbit On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 11:17:12AM -0700, Kasperowicz, Shaun wrote: Thanks Henrik, I was able to delete the stale shared memory segments and start hobbit. Still getting some errors in hobbitlaunch.log though: 2006-06-21 10:10:21 Setting up hobbitd channels 2006-06-21 10:10:21 Setting up logfiles 2006-06-21 10:10:26 Task bbhistory terminated, status 1 2006-06-21 10:10:26 Task bbpage terminated, status 1 2006-06-21 10:10:26 Task rrdstatus terminated, status 1 2006-06-21 10:10:26 Task rrddata terminated, status 1 2006-06-21 10:10:27 Task bbdisplay terminated by signal 9 2006-06-21 10:10:27 Task clientdata terminated, status 1 2006-06-21 10:10:27 Task bbcombotest terminated by signal 9 2006-06-21 10:10:32 Task clientdata terminated, status 1 2006-06-21 10:10:32 Task rrddata terminated, status 1 2006-06-21 10:10:32 Task rrdstatus terminated, status 1 2006-06-21 10:10:32 Task bbhistory terminated, status 1 I assume these are not normal? Hobbitd is running, but no web pages are being generated. It's definitely not normal. What's in the other logfiles besides hobbitlaunch.log ? Does you "hobbit" user have write access to the logfile directory and the ~hobbit/server/www/ directory ? What happens if you login as the hobbit user, then run ./server/bin/bbcmd hobbitd_channel --channel=stachg hobbitd_history

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[hobbit] Problems starting hobbit
by skasperowicz＠c-cor.com 30 Jun '06

30 Jun '06

I added --debug to hobbitlaunch.cfg, but I don't seem to be getting any more info in hobbitlaunch.log. I started hobbit and am seeing the same stuff: 2006-06-30 16:50:57 Task rrddata terminated, status 1 2006-06-30 16:50:57 Task rrdstatus terminated, status 1 2006-06-30 16:50:57 Task bbpage terminated, status 1 2006-06-30 16:50:57 Task clientdata terminated, status 1 2006-06-30 16:51:03 Task rrddata terminated, status 1 2006-06-30 16:51:03 Task rrdstatus terminated, status 1 2006-06-30 16:51:03 Task bbpage terminated, status 1 2006-06-30 16:51:03 Task clientdata terminated, status 1 2006-06-30 16:51:38 Task bbdisplay terminated by signal 9 2006-06-30 16:52:38 Task bbdisplay terminated by signal 9 The hobbitd.log just had a couple lines from a long time ago: 2006-06-15 11:31:57 Setup complete 2006-06-15 14:23:50 Setup complete Thanks, -Shaun -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 10:31 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Problems starting hobbit On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 03:29:37PM -0700, Kasperowicz, Shaun wrote: > 2006-06-28 15:15:16 Could not get shm of size 262144: No such file or directory > 2006-06-28 15:15:16 Channel not available > > Looks like still more shared memory problems? Perhaps. It doesn't sound right, since this would show up in the hobbitd startup also, and your last log-snippet didn't show that. Could you try editing your server/etc/hobbitlaunch.cfg file: The first entry with the "CMD hobbitd ...." line, add "--debug" at the end of that (very long) line so it becomes something like [hobbitd] ENVFILE /usr/lib/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg CMD hobbitd --pidfile=$BBSERVERLOGS/hobbitd.pid --restart=$BBTMP/hobbitd.chk --checkpoint-file=$BBTMP/hobbitd.chk --checkpoint-interval=600 --log=$BBSERVERLOGS/hobbitd.log --admin-senders=127.0.0.1,$BBSERVERIP --maint-senders=127.0.0.1 --debug That should dump a bit more detail about what is happening into hobbitlaunch.log. Is there a "hobbitd.log" file in the same directory as hobbitlaunch.log? Anything in that ? Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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Hobbit monitor: Security issue with Hobbit 4.2-beta client
by henrik＠hswn.dk 30 Jun '06

30 Jun '06

I was just notified by a Hobbit user that the current beta client has a security problem in the client "logfetch" utility, when installed as suid-root (which is the default if "make install" is executed as root). Impact ------ The effect of this is that any user who is able to login and create files on a system with the Hobbit client installed, can use the "logfetch" utility to get read access to any file on the system. Which versions are affected --------------------------- This issue affects all of the pre-release (alfa-, beta- and snapshot-versions) of the Hobbit client version 4.2 released until today (2006-Jun-30), when the client was installed as root and ~hobbit/client/bin/logfetch is suid-root. The 4.1.x releases of the Hobbit client does not include the "logfetch" utility, and are therefore NOT affected by this. Remedy ------ It is recommended that you remove the suid bit from the logfetch utility on systems where you have installed the Hobbit 4.2-beta client package. To do this: chmod 755 ~hobbit/client/bin/logfetch Note that this may cause logfile monitoring to break, if the client does not have read access to the monitored logfiles. Running logfetch as suid-root will most likely be removed in the final Hobbit 4.2 release of the client. Regards, Henrik Storner, the Hobbit developer

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whois to act like sslcert?
by Jason.Chambers＠geosoft.com 30 Jun '06

30 Jun '06

Hi Henrik, Is there any way to get a whois type function to act like sslcert to warn you when your dns is about to expire? I know it sounds cheesy, but I thought it would be a neat idea. Jason Chambers IT Helpdesk Support <http://www.geosoft.com/20> eosoft Inc. 85 Richmond St. West - 8th Floor Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5H 2C9 Tel: 416-369-0111 x344 Fax: 416-369-9599 www.geosoft.com

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[wishlist] Better support of the @@ tag in NCV trends
by cgoyard＠cvf.fr 30 Jun '06

30 Jun '06

Hi all, In do_ncv.c, I see this : 42: while (l && *l && strncmp(l, "@@\n", 3)) { If I understand correctly, that means the program will stop processing the status file if it encounter a "@@\n" line. Well, I tried and it seems to work that way (I have a status showing something like two counters followed by a bunch of SNMP values that I don't want to graph). It do not seem to be documented. Now the real cool thing would be to have start tag, so NCV values could be added last instead of first. (because humans like nice status reports and computer don't care to take the last bits). When the program hits the start tag, it forgets whatever it got and starts over. For people interrested, the status show this way : Thu Jun 29 18:41:21 CEST 2006 - 3623995988 incoming reqs - 845313333 outgoing reqs inreqs: 3623995988 outreqs: 845313333 @@ wwwServiceDescription.1 = CacheFlow 700/4.x.xxxx wwwServiceContact.1 = xxxxxxxxx at yyy.zz wwwServiceProtocol.1 = mgmt.xx.x.xx wwwServiceName.1 = myhostname wwwServiceType.1 = wwwCachingProxy (...) wwwSummaryInRequests.1 = 3624092091 wwwSummaryOutRequests.1 = 845335728 only the two first lines get a graph line. (the blank line before the @@ seems to be mandatory too) -- Charles

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