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[hobbit] TEXT field, feature request/modification?
by David.Gore＠verizonbusiness.com 09 May '06

09 May '06

Henrik, The TEXT field is a nice addition. Unfortunately, some of our custom scripts that monitor logs, ports, files etcetera, output a very nice page of how to troubleshoot the problem, contact responsible parties etcetera. Would it be too much to make the TEXT field HTML friendly, so we can embed a link? That way we can direct the end-user to the info on our troubleshooting pages. ~David

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OpenLDAP performance and replication monitoring with Hobbit
by bgmilne＠staff.telkomsa.net 09 May '06

09 May '06

We run a number of OpenLDAP servers, currently we have about 11 in production (depending how you count clusters) and a few in DR sites etc. We have been doing performance monitoring in the past (ie running scripts via snmp, monitoring with mrtg), but it seemed logical to move it to Hobbit and do everything in one place (useful for the syncrepl monitoring below). We have two separate instances that we manage, only one currently uses Hobbit for production monitoring (the other installation has hobbit installed, which is publicly accessible at present, but isn't used for production monitoring). The instance with the publicly accessible installation has OpenLDAP 2.1 and 2.2 servers, the other one has OpenLDAP 2.3 servers (using sync replication). So, I have written an extension script using perl-ldap (and Date::Manip) which we are now using via Hobbit's ncv module for performance monitoring. Replication status of sync-repl slaves is also checked (green for in sync, yellow for out of sync, clear if the sync-repl master could not be contacted to check the contextCSN, green if it is not a sync-repl slave). The script is available here: http://www.zarb.org/~bgmilne/bb-openldap.pl An extract from hobbitgraph.cfg is available here: http://www.zarb.org/~bgmilne/hobbitgraph-ol.cfg Some examples: http://196.25.211.20/hobbit/ldap/ldap.html Slave running OpenLDAP 2.2.x: http://196.25.211.20/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?HOSTSVC=io.ol Master cluster running OpenLDAP 2.1.x: http://196.25.211.20/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?HOSTSVC=metis.ol The only problem is with the parsing in ncv when a slave is out of sync. For slaves using sync-repl (no examples publicly available for now), the "&green Not a syncrepl slave" can be something like: &yellow dc=mydomain,dc=com out of sync 4 weeks 4 days 15:5:11 behind or &green dc=mydomain,dc=com in sync (with one such line for each syncrepl database, we have two or more on our production OL 2.3 boxen) Now, I could s/:/;/g or similar, but it would be nice if there were a way to prevent ncv from parsing a line (since I would also like to be able to graph the CIM extension results with ncv, but it has output and &green/&yellow/&red's all over). Regards, Buchan -- Buchan Milne ISP Systems Specialist B.Eng,RHCE(803004789010797),LPIC-2(LPI000074592)

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ShellExecute api call
by Al.Jeffcoat＠orhs.org 09 May '06

09 May '06

Hello All, I've got a programmer here trying to send a status message to hobbit from a windows machine. He's having a problem executing the bb code. I myself am not a programmer, so I figured I'd pass on his e-mail and see if anyone else knows the answer to his problem. TIA, Al --- Quote --- There is a problem doing this from within a program. The shellexecute function requires you to pass the program name and parameters seperate. E.G., program = "bb.exe" parameters = "hobbit status kn306109.dtr-status red <center>DTR-STATUS</center> Last Failure = 05/04/20 06 00:00:01 Last Success = 05/08/2006 00:00:01 Copies = 50" (hobbit is not part of the program name and that is why it can't be part of program name) If I try to simulate this on command line with bb "hobbit status kn306109.dtr-status red <center>DTR-STATUS</center> Last Failure = 05/04/20 06 00:00:01 Last Success = 05/08/2006 00:00:01 Copies = 50" I get bb: incorrect number of arguments --- /Quote --- I know the format of a message, and if I change his message to read bb hobbit "status kn306109.dtr-status red <center>DTR-STATUS</center> Last Failure = 05/04/20 06 00:00:01 Last Success = 05/08/2006 00:00:01 Copies = 50" It works fine. My thought was to write a "wrapper" batch file. I'm open to any other ideas.

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hobbitclient on solaris: using iostat for cpu stat
by grossi＠acantho.net 09 May '06

09 May '06

Hi Henrik, I have seen that hobbit clients collects cpu stats via vmstat, now i think that the cpu information provided by "iostat -c" is more accurate, because it has the "%waiting for i/o" columns, wich is also in the linux version of vmstat. do you think you can add this information? -- Gianluca

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Kernel crash
by michael_frey＠glic.com 09 May '06

09 May '06

System is a VMware image of Linux Red Hat 7.2 12 hours after upgrading to the latest Hobbit, I get the following: Michael Frey Intel Senior Systems Engineer The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America 3900 Burgess Place, 2-West Bethlehem, PA 18017 E-Mail: Michael_frey at glic.com Phone: 610-807-7889 Fax: 610-807-6003 ----------------------------------------- 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.

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fping failure
by jeffnewman75＠gmail.com 08 May '06

08 May '06

All, Every now and then, all of my hosts go red on conn and fail, then come right back up. Below is and excerpt from bb-network.log. As you can see, it's at no set time, no set date, it just plain fails. Any thoughts? 2006-03-06 23:20:29 Execution of '/usr/sbin/fping -Ae' failed with error-code 98 2006-03-06 23:20:29 Cannot open fping output file /usr/local/hobbit/server/tmp/fping-stdout.17520 2006-03-24 02:51:27 Execution of '/usr/sbin/fping -Ae' failed with error-code 98 2006-03-24 02:51:27 Cannot open fping output file /usr/local/hobbit/server/tmp/fping-stdout.17576 2006-04-15 18:24:31 Execution of '/usr/sbin/fping -Ae' failed with error-code 98 2006-04-15 18:24:31 Cannot open fping output file /usr/local/hobbit/server/tmp/fping-stdout.18026 2006-04-27 18:48:05 Execution of '/usr/sbin/fping -Ae' failed with error-code 98 2006-04-27 18:48:05 Cannot open fping output file /usr/local/hobbit/server/tmp/fping-stdout.17520 2006-05-04 17:14:08 Execution of '/usr/sbin/fping -Ae' failed with error-code 98 2006-05-04 17:14:08 Cannot open fping output file /usr/local/hobbit/server/tmp/fping-stdout.18026 -Jeff

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AW: [hobbit] who uses Hobbit
by Alexander.Sprotte＠eventim.de 08 May '06

08 May '06

CTS Eventim AG (inkl. FIFA WorldCup 2006 Ticketing und Tochtergesellschaften) bbtest-net version 4.1.2 Statistics: Hosts total : 281 Hosts with no tests : 4 Total test count : 532 Status messages : 486 Alert status msgs : 0 Transmissions : 34 Mit freundlichen Grüssen Alexander Sprotte ------------------------------------------------------ CTS EVENTIM Solutions GmbH Alexander Sprotte [mailto:alexander.sprotte at eventim.de] IT-Teamleiter Contrescarpe 75 A D-28195 Bremen Fon: +49-421-3666 690 Fax: +49-421-3666 98 696 Mobil: +49-173-20 88 033 Tickets über EVENTIM-Vorverkaufsstellen Hotline: 01805 - 570 000 (0,12 Euro/Min.) www.eventim.de & www.getgo.de ________________________________________ Von: Elena.Lalley at dot.gov [mailto:Elena.Lalley at dot.gov] Gesendet: Freitag, 5. Mai 2006 13:53 An: hobbit at hswn.dk Betreff: [hobbit] who uses Hobbit Would you help me to create a short but true and impressive list of sites where Hobbit is installed for middle-sized to large networks? I can start 1. Washington, DC - Department of Transportation, Federal highway Administration; It will help to keep the product here and persuade to install it in other government agencies. I know some trial installation sites but the proof is in numbers. Thank you Elena Lalley UNIX group manager

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[hobbit] who uses Hobbit
by EES2Y＠hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu 08 May '06

08 May '06

University of Virginia Medical Center bbgen for Hobbit version 4.1.2p1 Statistics: Hosts : 1404 Status messages : 9996 Purple messages : 0 Pages : 136 -Eric Schwimmer Network Engineer UVA HSCS Network Engineering > -----Original Message----- > From: Elena.Lalley at dot.gov [mailto:Elena.Lalley at dot.gov] > Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 7:53 AM > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: [hobbit] who uses Hobbit > > Would you help me to create a short but true and impressive > list of sites where Hobbit is installed for middle-sized to > large networks? > > > > I can start > > 1. Washington, DC - Department of Transportation, Federal > highway Administration; > > > > It will help to keep the product here and persuade to install > it in other government agencies. I know some trial > installation sites but the proof is in numbers. > > > > Thank you > > > > Elena Lalley > > UNIX group manager > >

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[hobbit] who uses Hobbit
by dstuffle＠deltafaucet.com 08 May '06

08 May '06

Delta Faucet Company, Indianapolis, Indiana bbgen for Hobbit version 4.0.4 (I know, I need to upgrade..) Statistics: Hosts : 462 Status messages : 2397 Purple messages : 0 Pages : 14 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ David Stuffle dstuffle at deltafaucet.com Delta Faucet Company -----Original Message----- From: Elena.Lalley at dot.gov [mailto:Elena.Lalley at dot.gov] Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 7:53 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] who uses Hobbit Would you help me to create a short but true and impressive list of sites where Hobbit is installed for middle-sized to large networks? I can start 1. Washington, DC - Department of Transportation, Federal highway Administration; It will help to keep the product here and persuade to install it in other government agencies. I know some trial installation sites but the proof is in numbers. Thank you Elena Lalley UNIX group manager This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the company. Finally, the recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The company accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email.

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Testing PPTP connection
by david＠stenhouseconsulting.com 08 May '06

08 May '06

Is it possible to test a PPTP connection from within hobbit. I am currently testing the firewalls with ICMP, but that does not always correspond to being able to establish a VPN connection. I need to be able to pass username, password, and domain. David Gilmore Consultant Stenhouse Consulting, LLC. 4 Traverse St Providence, RI 02906 401.453.6900 x12 401.454.7581 (fax)

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