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Fwd: Re: [hobbit] auto-restart clients
by dhd733＠yahoo.se 24 Apr '05

24 Apr '05

Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote: Now the trick is to get that script run automatically when the system starts up. How you do that depends on the Unix flavour - often the script is installed in /etc/init.d/bigbrother, and then you need to create links from /etc/rc2.d/S99bigbrother -> /etc/init.d/bigbrother Since there also were stop in the script you should also link the script to /etc/rc1.d/K01bigbrother to automatically stop bigbrother Ie. ln -s /etc/init.d/bigbrother /etc/rc1.d/K01bigbrother Regards Lars Hobbithobbyist "If you run UNIX and you don't have a UPS, you should see a psychiatrist...." --Byte Magazine (years ago)

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[hobbit] auto-restart clients
by ajeffco＠orhs.org 23 Apr '05

23 Apr '05

For our AIX servers, we have an /etc/rc.local script that starts things on startup. In that script, we have the following command: su - bbuser -c "/path/to/bbclient/runbb.sh start" (If you create that script new, then make sure to make it executable, chmod +x /etc/rc.local) And then execute the following command: mkitab "local:2:once:/etc/rc.local 2>&1 > /utils/logs/rc.local.output" This will create an entry in the /etc/inittab file for the rc.local file. Any output from that script gets created in /utils/logs/rc.local.output, it's useful to see if something isn't working right. And I have the same issue here, we have some servers that the app is so badly written that we have to reboot weekly. We also have others whose uptime is 300+ days. Hope that helps, __________________________________ Al Jeffcoat IBM Certified Support Specialist, AIX Enterprise SAN and Storage Administrator System Programmer II -----Original Message----- From: Kevin.Hanrahan at novainfo.com [mailto:Kevin.Hanrahan at novainfo.com] Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2005 12:30 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] auto-restart clients Gentlemen, Thank you for the responses. I should have mentioned that most of the machines are solaris and a few are AIX -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2005 11:52 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] auto-restart clients On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 11:41:15AM -0400, kevin hanrahan wrote: > For reasons which I cannot understand, our unix admins feel the need > to reboot their machines constantly. I don't think there is an uptime > exceeding 2 weeks!! However when that happens, the BB client stops > reporting and I eventually get the purple alerts from Hobbit. Can > someone tell me how to get the clients to auto-restart? Also, I am not > a coder so please don't tell me to "write a script to make them start > at reboot" because that is obvious....i just don't know how. Thank you > for all input on this. Normally a script like this would suffice: #!/bin/sh case "$1" in "start") su -c "/usr/local/bb/bbc/runbb.sh start" bb ;; "stop") su -c "/usr/local/bb/bbc/runbb.sh stop" bb ;; esac exit 0 Now the trick is to get that script run automatically when the system starts up. How you do that depends on the Unix flavour - often the script is installed in /etc/init.d/bigbrother, and then you need to create links from /etc/rc2.d/S99bigbrother -> /etc/init.d/bigbrother Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk Note: The information contained in this email and in any attachments is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. The recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. Sender accepts no liability for any damages caused by any virus transmitted by this email. If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and delete the email from your computer. This e-mail is and any response to it will be unencrypted and, therefore, potentially unsecure. Thank you. NOVA Information Systems, Inc. To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk This e-mail message and any attached files are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the addressee(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, any review, use, or distribution of this e-mail message and any attached files is strictly prohibited. This communication may contain material protected by Federal privacy regulations, attorney-client work product, or other privileges. If you have received this confidential communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail message and permanently delete the original message. To reply to our email administrator directly, send an email to: postmaster at orlandoregional.org . If this e-mail message concerns a contract matter, be advised that no employee or agent is authorized to conclude any binding agreement on behalf of Orlando Regional Healthcare by e-mail without express written confirmation by an officer of the corporation. Any views or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Orlando Regional Healthcare.

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[hobbit] auto-restart clients
by Kevin.Hanrahan＠novainfo.com 23 Apr '05

23 Apr '05

Gentlemen, Thank you for the responses. I should have mentioned that most of the machines are solaris and a few are AIX -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2005 11:52 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] auto-restart clients On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 11:41:15AM -0400, kevin hanrahan wrote: > For reasons which I cannot understand, our unix admins feel the need > to reboot their machines constantly. I don't think there is an uptime > exceeding 2 weeks!! However when that happens, the BB client stops > reporting and I eventually get the purple alerts from Hobbit. Can > someone tell me how to get the clients to auto-restart? Also, I am not > a coder so please don't tell me to "write a script to make them start > at reboot" because that is obvious....i just don't know how. Thank you > for all input on this. Normally a script like this would suffice: #!/bin/sh case "$1" in "start") su -c "/usr/local/bb/bbc/runbb.sh start" bb ;; "stop") su -c "/usr/local/bb/bbc/runbb.sh stop" bb ;; esac exit 0 Now the trick is to get that script run automatically when the system starts up. How you do that depends on the Unix flavour - often the script is installed in /etc/init.d/bigbrother, and then you need to create links from /etc/rc2.d/S99bigbrother -> /etc/init.d/bigbrother Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk Note: The information contained in this email and in any attachments is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. The recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. Sender accepts no liability for any damages caused by any virus transmitted by this email. If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and delete the email from your computer. This e-mail is and any response to it will be unencrypted and, therefore, potentially unsecure. Thank you. NOVA Information Systems, Inc.

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Fwd: Re: [hobbit] auto-restart clients
by dhd733＠yahoo.se 23 Apr '05

23 Apr '05

Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote: Now the trick is to get that script run automatically when the system starts up. How you do that depends on the Unix flavour - often the script is installed in /etc/init.d/bigbrother, and then you need to create links from /etc/rc2.d/S99bigbrother -> /etc/init.d/bigbrother If you are running HP_UX replace /etc with /sbin Link with: ln -s /etc/init.d /bigbrother /etc/rc2.d/S99bigbrother Regards Lars Hobbithobbyist "If you run UNIX and you don't have a UPS, you should see a psychiatrist...." --Byte Magazine (years ago)

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auto-restart clients
by kevin＠ewormhole.com 23 Apr '05

23 Apr '05

Hello all, For reasons which I cannot understand, our unix admins feel the need to reboot their machines constantly. I don't think there is an uptime exceeding 2 weeks!! However when that happens, the BB client stops reporting and I eventually get the purple alerts from Hobbit. Can someone tell me how to get the clients to auto-restart? Also, I am not a coder so please don't tell me to "write a script to make them start at reboot" because that is obvious....i just don't know how. Thank you for all input on this. kevin

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Windows Client
by Gerard＠ets.biz 23 Apr '05

23 Apr '05

Stew, >On the agent side, though I am not a programmer by trade, I am trying to >develop a windows client. Just working on it when I have the time. I'll >post something when I get it, however I expect it won't be for a month or >two. We are looking into development for the Windows platform, but focusing more on WMI scripts for testing given services/Applications (i.e. Exchange / RPC / SQL Server, that kind of stuff) Although we planned to just continue using the BBClient, there might be value in coordinating efforts here. We are evaluating the methods available to us in managing this; with the following considerations: About 30 servers each with about 10 tests, hence upward of 300 scripts (given each bbclient has a different install path / log directory), with the added burden of rolling out updates or amendments to these scripts. We are finding that management of client side tests has become cumbersome with as little as 30 servers, and would like to work toward a unified deployment and or deployment method. Also, I am sure there are a number of people involved in monitoring Microsoft servers; I would be interested to hear how you achieved this, in addition to any indication of interest in the development of a client / test architecture. -Gerard Lill -----Original Message----- From: Stew Lambert [mailto:slambert at lambertsolutions.com] Sent: Friday, 22 April 2005 14:49 To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [Bayesian SPAM] - RE: [hobbit] Comments wanted - OK to drop BB support in Hobbit? - Bayesian Filter detected spam I think you've done an amazing job. Cutting the ties with Qwest is a good thing. I bought the PE version during a big sale last year, and haven't heard a thing from them (upgrades, etc). They should have given you a big check and thrown bbgen into BB. Just my personal opinion. On the agent side, though I am not a programmer by trade, I am trying to develop a windows client. Just working on it when I have the time. I'll post something when I get it, however I expect it won't be for a month or two. Thanks for everything Henrik. <snip> > > To be honest, I wonder if the quest version of BB is > > actually selling/successful... ie, are there still loads > > of new BB users sprouting up, or is it just old BTF > > license users who are using/maintaining old BB > > installations.... > > There haven't been many commercial updates, and it looks > like Quest is starting to move away from giving the source > out. One thing I've noticed is that traffic on the BB mailing list appears to have dropped significantly after the Hobbit mailinglist started, and the beta-testing really got going. There are currently 169 adresses subscribed to the Hobbit list, and a handful more only on the announcement-list. I guess I must be doing something right :-) Regards, Henrik 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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Fwd: RE: [hobbit] Trends
by dhd733＠yahoo.se 23 Apr '05

23 Apr '05

U.Kirbach at EnBW.com wrote: Hello Lars the definition of disk1 in etc/hobbitgraph.cfg ignores / overlookes, that these values are already in Kilobyte. Apply this patch to hobbitgraph.cfg to the [disk1] stanza Ok that fixed the scalingproblem, but still I only get the rootfilesystem Regards Lars Hobbithobbyist "If you run UNIX and you don't have a UPS, you should see a psychiatrist...." --Byte Magazine (years ago)

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clamd-test
by dhd733＠yahoo.se 23 Apr '05

23 Apr '05

Hi All, I have installed CLAMAV on my hobbitserver. I added clamd in bb-hosts. The test didn't perform well. After that I added options banner to the clamd-section in bb-services the test seems to work. Regards Lars Hobbithobbyist "If you run UNIX and you don't have a UPS, you should see a psychiatrist...." --Byte Magazine (years ago)

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[hobbit] Comments wanted - OK to drop BB support in Hobbit?
by pwilliamson＠mandtbank.com 22 Apr '05

22 Apr '05

>>> mailinglists at websitemanagers.com.au 04/21/05 8:22 AM >>> > Well, I don't see any problem with this, but I would like to > see bbclient compatibility remain. I don't think hobbit yet > has the right amount of client tests to be able to ignore > what BB has. ie, even just the standard BB client works > better than the current hobbit version (not that I've tried > it, since you keep telling us it doesn't work)... but add to > that all the stuff on www.deadcat.net, and, well... you > know, thats a lot to try and replicate... Losing deadcat stuff would be a bad thing. I guess that's part of breaking away. Hobbit will just need to spring something up like deadbunny or some other typical pet for a Hobbit. > To be honest, I wonder if the quest version of BB is > actually selling/successful... ie, are there still loads > of new BB users sprouting up, or is it just old BTF > license users who are using/maintaining old BB > installations.... We haven't seen any BTF releases, > and I've not seen anything anywhere to indicate that > there have been any commercial updates/changes either. There haven't been many commercial updates, and it looks like Quest is starting to move away from giving the source out. I got an e-mail a couple of weeks ago, inviting me to try the new BBPe 3.1. Interestingly enough, there is a pdf on their site that goes through the differences between the Pe and BTF versions, and there's really only one - integration with SpotLight and FogLight. Apparently the QA cycle for the new features is much longer than when it used to be purely BTF. Paul

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[hobbit] getting config files via "bb $BBDISP "config file" failes
by U.Kirbach＠EnBW.com 22 Apr '05

22 Apr '05

> From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] > Subject: Re: [hobbit] getting config files via "bb $BBDISP > "config file" failes > > On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 01:42:51PM +0200, U.Kirbach at EnBW.com wrote: > > > i tried on my debian linux (okay - debian running as Colinux on > > WindowsXP Pro my test environment for hobbit + bb) to pull config > > files for the bb client from hobbit server. > > > > I don't get any config files transfered. > > Looks like I forgot to put the full path onto the filename when > opening the config file. The patch below should solve that - it will > be in 4.0.3. Hello Henrik, applied the attached patch for hobbit 4.0.2 and retrieving config files runs smoothly now. Thanks Mit freundlichen Grüßen Uwe Kirbach -- Uwe Kirbach EnBW Service GmbH Betrieb Enterprise Systeme und Infrastruktur Systemmanagement Unix Durlacher Allee 93 76131 Karlsruhe Tel: +49 (0)721-63-14139

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