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hobbitping oddities
by EES2Y＠hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu 18 May '06

18 May '06

Had a some unexpected behaviour from hobbitping that I thought I'd let you know about. When a host goes down, hobbitping will report it red, but the next poll cycle, it will report green again. The next poll cycle it will go red once more (this time with a message in the conn page that the host has been down for 3 consecutive polling cyclings), then it goes green again, etc etc. This wouldn't be quite so troublesome if it didn't page us once for every red conn message :) This is on hobbit 4.1.2p1, and all of our hosts are using the badconn:1:1:2 flag. Regards. -Eric > -----Original Message----- > From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] > Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 8:35 AM > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: Re: [hobbit] fping tuning > > On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 10:00:25AM +0200, Fr?d?ric Mangeant wrote: > > many thanks for writing hobbitping ! It works fine on my > test system > > (Gentoo Linux x86, glibc 2.3.6, GCC 3.4.6). > > > > Is it / will it be possible to run it on top of a 4.1.2p1 > installation ? > > Shouldn't be a problem, since it's a very simple stand-alone tool. > Just build it - you've already done that - and copy over the > hobbitping > binary to your 4.1.2 installation. Then change the FPING setting in > hobbitserver.cfg to run hobbitping instead of fping. > > Make sure you have hobbitping installed suid-root. > > > Regards, > Henrik > > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > >

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[hobbit] Files suggestion
by David.Gore＠verizonbusiness.com 18 May '06

18 May '06

ERROR: No such file or directory When the files test fails to find the file it is looking for should this report as a yellow or red alarm, not green OK for the 'files' column. ~David

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bb send status LIFETIME Value
by fduranti＠q8.it 18 May '06

18 May '06

We have some status messages (for example threshold from mrtg router monitoring) that are sent only when the threshold are passed so it's possible that some of them are sent out only 1 times in a month or even less. It should be usefull to have the possibility to put a LIFETIME "unlimited" on a certain status message so that it will never become purple because the LIFETIME has passed. It's possible to set a really big number of week for lifetime but it can be a good idea to have a proper setting for doing this. Thanks Francesco Duranti

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temperature script graphing
by Craig_Whilding＠mentor.com 18 May '06

18 May '06

Hi, I've used this script (http://www.deadcat.net/viewfile.php?fileid=501) from deadcat for temperature monitoring on Linux boxes that run Dell Openmanage. Ive edited it to work with a hobbit client but left the generation stuff alone. It produces something similar to the following: Device Temp(C) Temp(F) Threshold(C) ------------------------------------------------------ CPU Planar 32 89 55 Ambient 20 68 38 BP Bottom Temp 24 75 60 ------------------------------------------------------ Status green: All devices look okay Now instead of graphing Ambient = 20 etc its graphing Ambient_______20 = 68 etc. Is this due to the way the script used printf statements to line everything up? Is this the correct temperature referred to in the docs for getting temperature graphs? Thanks. Craig Whilding

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AW: [hobbit] Re: AW: Purple not prolongating to BB2 page
by lehnert＠adtech.de 18 May '06

18 May '06

Hi Kolbjørn, a little late, but can you please give me an example, on how to do such a test? This would wipe away all my Purple BB2page problems. Thank you, Pascal -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Kolbjørn Barmen [mailto:kolbjorn.barmen at uninett.no] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 17. Mai 2006 09:17 An: hobbit at hswn.dk Betreff: [hobbit] Re: AW: Purple not prolongating to BB2 page On Tue, 16 May 2006, lehnert at adtech.de wrote: > Hi Dominique, > > thanks we got back the Purple BB2page, but I think not yet in the right order. > The Purble page should have a higher prio than the Yellow page. Nah... > What do you think? Nothing stops you from making a test that checks for purple status and flag red or yellow if it finds any :) -- Kolbjørn Barmen UNINETT Driftsenter To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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Unable to Re Enable Disabled Test (Hobbit 4.1.2p1)
by david＠stenhouseconsulting.com 17 May '06

17 May '06

Hi all, I recently disabled a couple of tests when I had some issues with the WinBB client. Now that I have fixed the problem with the WinBB client, and re enabled the tests, I am still getting a BLUE status icon, and it has been like that for days. Any suggestions? David Gilmore Consultant Stenhouse Consulting, LLC. 4 Traverse St Providence, RI 02906 401.453.6900 x12 401.454.7581 (fax)

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nodisp tag
by jeff＠myinternetservices.com 17 May '06

17 May '06

The nodisp tag does not seem to work. IE have bb-host file like this: 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.1 # !ldap !telnet !smtp ssh ntp ftp nodisp page page-name page-title 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.1 # prefer noconn Also tried it with the nodisp first. What happens is that the host gets displayed on the main page AND on the subsequent sub page where what I want is it displayed only on the sub page. hobbit version: 4.1.2p1 -- Jeff Stuart Network Admin MyInternetServices.com 1-800-300-HOST

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Client install suggestion?
by David.Gore＠verizonbusiness.com 17 May '06

17 May '06

Would it be a good idea to just generate the single hobbitclient-`uname -s`.sh when doing a './configure --client', instead of all the configs for all the architectures? -- David Gore

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Apache Utilization Graph quit graphing 8-(
by crlangfo＠ugs.com 17 May '06

17 May '06

Hi all, I have work with big brother for several years but have only been working with hobbit about six weeks so I do not know all the ends and outs of it yet. I am using 4.1.2p1 on a Suse Enterprise 9 system. I have been using it to monitor our web servers. Yesterday about 10:50AM the Apache Utilization graph seems have stopped getting data. The other three Apache graphs are working as expected. I have looked at the Apache.rrd dump. I found that at 10:50 the Accesses and kBytes Transferred fields went to NaN. The apache server status page looks to be ok as you can see below. Any ideas where I need to look next to fix this???? Apache Server Status for cipgweb Server Version: Apache/2.0.54 (Unix) mod_jk/1.2.6 Server Built: Feb 21 2006 16:01:48 Current Time: Wednesday, 17-May-2006 08:18:01 EDT Restart Time: Monday, 15-May-2006 08:53:26 EDT Parent Server Generation: 1 Server uptime: 1 day 23 hours 24 minutes 35 seconds Total accesses: 278236 - Total Traffic: 15.1 GB CPU Usage: u1.13 s1.18 cu84.69 cs0 - .051% CPU load 1.63 requests/sec - 92.5 kB/second - 56.8 kB/request 4 requests currently being processed, 9 idle workers .____WW_._W....__W....._........................................ ................................................................ ................................................................ ................................................................ Scoreboard Key: "_" Waiting for Connection, "S" Starting up, "R" Reading Request, "W" Sending Reply, "K" Keepalive (read), "D" DNS Lookup, "C" Closing connection, "L" Logging, "G" Gracefully finishing, "I" Idle cleanup of worker, "." Open slot with no current process

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AW: [hobbit] Purple not prolongating to BB2 page
by lehnert＠adtech.de 17 May '06

17 May '06

Hi Dominique, thanks we got back the Purple BB2page, but I think not yet in the right order. The Purble page should have a higher prio than the Yellow page. What do you think? best regards, Pascal -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Dominique Frise [mailto:Dominique.Frise at unil.ch] Gesendet: Dienstag, 16. Mai 2006 16:27 An: hobbit at hswn.dk Betreff: Re: [hobbit] Purple not prolongating to BB2 page Michael Frey wrote: > > Running Hobbit Monitor 4.2-alfa-20060423 on Linux box. > > All is well, except NO purple alerts are prolongating to the 'Non-Green' > page, bb2.html. > > All other alerts show up as they should, but when I browse through my > pages, hosts are showing tests as purple. > > The hosts that show purple, are valid hosts, and conn is showing green. > > Michael Frey > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > > > * > This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that > is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under > applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended > recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, > copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If > you have received this message in error, please notify the sender > immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any > attachments. Thank you. > * > This has been fixed. Try latest snapshot at http://www.hswn.dk/beta/ Dominique UNIL - University of Lausanne To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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