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TIME directive
by Kevin＠ewormhole.com 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

The man pages for the TIME directive give examples of it's use that specify start and stop times as in: TIME=*:0800:1700 and this works great for each day but what is the syntax for days of the week? I suspect the day goes where the asterisk is but what values go there? For instance, how do I specify Monday thru Friday, 8 am to 5 pm? Thanks kevin

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RC6 not paging.
by dan.mcdonald＠austinenergy.com 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

I imagine whatever my problem with hobbit-alerts is, it is contained in the hobbitlaunch.cfg that I'm using: [mcdonalddj at ldap2 etc]$ grep color /etc/hobbit/hobbitlaunch.cfg CMD hobbitd --pidfile=$BBSERVERLOGS/hobbitd.pid --restart= $BBTMP/hobbitd.chk --checkpoint-file=$BBTMP/hobbitd.chk --checkpoint-interval=600 --log=$BBSERVERLOGS/hobbitd.log --alertcolors="red" --okcolors="green,blue" --admin-senders=127.0.0.1, $BBSERVERIP CMD hobbitd_channel --channel=page --alertcolors="red" --okcolors="green,blue" --log=$BBSERVERLOGS/page.log hobbitd_alert Is that the correct syntax for specifying alertcolors and okcolors?

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Post RC6 patches
by kevin.grady＠gmail.com 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

Henrik, is there a list of post RC6 pacthes out there that need to be applied? I know I've seen at least one floating through the mailing list. I wanted to double check as I am now building out our soon to be production hobbit server. Thanks

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Hobbit 4.0 RC6 now available
by henrik＠hswn.dk 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

Hobbit 4.0 RC6 is now available on http://sourceforge.net/projects/hobbitmon/ This includes pre-built Debian packages for Debian/Sarge (i386 and SPARC platforms), as well as an RPM-package (built on Mandrake, but it will probably work on most recent RPM-based systems). These should be considered "experimental", although I am currently running the Debian packages on a full pre-production system at work, and the RPM package at home. Please let me know if you have any problems with these. As I mentioned in my 4.0 release status mail, this release-candidate is the final wrap-up before the official release. It includes a small number of important bugfixes, and a large number of portability and packaging improvements. Full changelog below. Yell if I broke something :-) Regards, Henrik Changes from RC-5 ----------------- Bugfixes: * Recovery messages were sent to all recipients, regardless of any color-restrictions on the alerts they received. Changed this so that recipients only get recovery messages for the alerts they received. * The "NOALERT" option was not applied when multiple recipients were listed in one rule. * bbtest-net now performs a syntax check on all URL's before adding them to the test queue. This should stop it from crashing in case you happen to enter a syntactically invalid URL in your bb-hosts file. * The acknowledgment log on the BB2 page could mix up data from different entries in the log. * The default mail-utility used to send out e-mail alerts is now defined per OS. Solaris and HP-UX use "mailx", others use "mail". * Client tests no longer go purple when a host has been disabled. * bb-larrdcolumn no longer dumps core if there are no RRD files. * With the right input, bb-larrdcolumn could use massive amounts of memory and eventually terminate with an out-of-memory error. * A memory leak in hobbitd_larrd handling of "disk" reports was fixed. * bb-infocolumn now accepts a "--repeat=N" setting to inform it of the default alert-repeat interval. If you use --repeat with hobbitd_alert, you should copy that option to bb-infocolumn to make it generate correct info-column pages. * If bbgen cannot create output files or directories, the underlying error is now reported in the error message. * The "merge-lines" and "merge-sects" tools used during installation could crash due to a missing initialization of a pointer. Improvements: * It is now possible to make Hobbit re-open all logfiles, e.g. after a log rotate. Use "server/hobbit.sh rotate". * The hobbit-mailack tool now recognizes the BB format of alert message responses, i.e. putting "delay" and "msg" in the subject line will work. * bbcmd defaults to running /bin/sh if no command is given * hobbitd_larrd now logs the sender IP of a message that results in an error. * A network test definition for SpamAssassin's spamd daemon was added. * The default web/*header files now refer to a HOBBITLOGO setting for the HTML used in the upper-left corner of all pages. The default is just the text "Hobbit", but you can easily replace this with e.g. a company logo by changing this setting in hobbitserver.cfg. * The Hobbit daemon's "hobbitdboard", "hobbitdxboard" and "hobbitdlist" commands now support a set of primitive filtering techniques to limit the number of hosts returned. * maint.pl uses the new Hobbit daemon filtering and a cookie defined by the header in webpages to show only the hosts found on the page where it was called from, or just a single host. * Hobbit should now compile on Mac OS X (Darwin). * The info- and graph-column names are now defined globally as environment variables "INFOCOLUMN" and "LARRDCOLUMN", respectively. This eliminates the need to have them listed as options for multiple commands. Consequently, the --larrd and --info options have been dropped. * Systems with the necessary libraries (RRDtool, PCRE, OpenSSL etc) in unusual locations can now specify the location of these as parameters to the configure script, overriding the auto-detect routine. See "./configure --help" for details. * A definition for the "disk1" graph in LARRD was added, this shows the actual use of filesystems instead of the normal percentage.

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recentgifs
by Kevin＠ewormhole.com 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

Can someone tell me where I specify the "--recentgifs=XX" option so that I can change the default of 24 hours? Also, is the XX number in minutes? Thank you KEvin

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[hobbit] Help with DOWNTIME tag - Fixed!
by tbarnes1＠hfhs.org 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

>>> tbarnes1 at hfhs.org 3/25/05 1:13:59 PM >>> >>> henrik at hswn.dk 3/25/05 3:36:39 AM >>> On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 11:43:59PM -0500, Terry Barnes wrote: > Just took the plunge to HOBBIT today and overall it is working very > nice. Big Brother has been great - this is going to be a winner! > > Reading through the bb-hosts manpage i discovered the DOWNTIME tag. > >[snip description of it not working] > >I think you're right - there is a bug in how this is handled. Glad you >spotted it. > >Attached is a patch for this. To apply it, save the attachment to >/tmp/postrc6-downtime.patch, and: > > cd hobbit-4.0-RC6 > patch -p0 </tmp/postrc6-downtime.patch > make > >Stop Hobbit, su to root and run "make install", then start Hobbit >again. > > > >Regards, >Henrik > >Yikes - I did this and now I have everything green alright - problem >is >there are no hosts listed. Everything is gone except the "Pages hosted >locally" page links. Tried enable/disable - no hosts listed on that >either. > >bb-display.log, bb-network.log and bb-retest.log shows >2005-03-25 13:03:52 Could not connect to bbd at x.x.x.x:1984 - Connection >refused >2005-03-25 13:03:52 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - Connection >failed >2005-03-25 13:03:52 hobbitd status-board not available (this line only >in bb-display.log) > >netstat -an|grep 1984 - returns nothing > >Any ideas? Fixed! - I found that even after stopping hobbit, some processes were still running. They were likely running when I did the make install. So - I stopped hobbit - had to kill hobbitlaunch which took everything else down, did a make clean, reran configure, make and make install. Restarted hobbit and verything is working again. Now - I have to wait till 11:00 pm to see if the Downtime fix works. Terry Barnes Siemens Com @ HFHS 248-853-4968 (Office) 586-405-8382 (Cellular) 248-844-3030 (Fax) 5864058382 at messaging.nextel.com (Text Pager) tbarnes1 at hfhs.org CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email contains information from the sender that may be CONFIDENTIAL, LEGALLY PRIVILEGED, PROPRIETARY or otherwise protected from disclosure. This email is intended for use only by the person or entity to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, disclosure, copying, distribution, printing, or any action taken in reliance on the contents of this email, is strictly prohibited. If you received this email in error, please contact the sending party by replying in an email to the sender, delete the email from your computer system and shred any paper copies of the email you printed. Note to Patients: There are a number of risks you should consider before using e-mail to communicate with us. These risks are described in our Privacy Policy at http://henryford.com. Review that policy carefully before continuing to communicate with us by e-mail. For greater Internet security, our policy describes the Henry Ford MyHealth electronic communication process - you may register at http://henryford.com. If you do not believe that our policy gives you the privacy and security protection you need, do not send e-mail or Internet communications to us.

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[hobbit] Help with DOWNTIME tag
by tbarnes1＠hfhs.org 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

>>> henrik at hswn.dk 3/25/05 3:36:39 AM >>> On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 11:43:59PM -0500, Terry Barnes wrote: > Just took the plunge to HOBBIT today and overall it is working very > nice. Big Brother has been great - this is going to be a winner! > > Reading through the bb-hosts manpage i discovered the DOWNTIME tag. > >[snip description of it not working] > >I think you're right - there is a bug in how this is handled. Glad you >spotted it. > >Attached is a patch for this. To apply it, save the attachment to >/tmp/postrc6-downtime.patch, and: > > cd hobbit-4.0-RC6 > patch -p0 </tmp/postrc6-downtime.patch > make > >Stop Hobbit, su to root and run "make install", then start Hobbit >again. > > > >Regards, >Henrik Yikes - I did this and now I have everything green alright - problem is there are no hosts listed. Everything is gone except the "Pages hosted locally" page links. Tried enable/disable - no hosts listed on that either. bb-display.log, bb-network.log and bb-retest.log shows 2005-03-25 13:03:52 Could not connect to bbd at x.x.x.x:1984 - Connection refused 2005-03-25 13:03:52 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - Connection failed 2005-03-25 13:03:52 hobbitd status-board not available (this line only in bb-display.log) netstat -an|grep 1984 - returns nothing Any ideas? Terry Barnes Siemens Com @ HFHS 248-853-4968 (Office) 586-405-8382 (Cellular) 248-844-3030 (Fax) 5864058382 at messaging.nextel.com (Text Pager) tbarnes1 at hfhs.org CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email contains information from the sender that may be CONFIDENTIAL, LEGALLY PRIVILEGED, PROPRIETARY or otherwise protected from disclosure. This email is intended for use only by the person or entity to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, disclosure, copying, distribution, printing, or any action taken in reliance on the contents of this email, is strictly prohibited. If you received this email in error, please contact the sending party by replying in an email to the sender, delete the email from your computer system and shred any paper copies of the email you printed. Note to Patients: There are a number of risks you should consider before using e-mail to communicate with us. These risks are described in our Privacy Policy at http://henryford.com. Review that policy carefully before continuing to communicate with us by e-mail. For greater Internet security, our policy describes the Henry Ford MyHealth electronic communication process - you may register at http://henryford.com. If you do not believe that our policy gives you the privacy and security protection you need, do not send e-mail or Internet communications to us.

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Help with DOWNTIME tag
by TBARNES1＠hfhs.org 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

Just took the plunge to HOBBIT today and overall it is working very nice. Big Brother has been great - this is going to be a winner! Reading through the bb-hosts manpage i discovered the DOWNTIME tag. This is great by its description. I have been preventing alerts at specified times of the day, but unfortunately things still go red, though no alerts go out. If I understand DOWNTIME correctly, it should allow failed tests during this downtime window to result in a blue status instead of red. I added it to bb-hosts on a host specific line similar to the following. 1.2.3.4 myhost.com # DOWNTIME=*:2259:0531test1 test2 test3 test4 test... I anxiously awaited the moment several processes stopped for dayend backups and processing, but the staus went red as usual. Am i coding this wrong or not understnding its implementation correctly? Thanks Terry Barnes Siemens Com @ HFHS 248-853-4968 (Office) 586-405-8382 (Cellular) 248-844-3030 (Fax) 5864058382 at messaging.nextel.com (Text Pager) tbarnes1 at hfhs.org CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email contains information from the sender that may be CONFIDENTIAL, LEGALLY PRIVILEGED, PROPRIETARY or otherwise protected from disclosure. This email is intended for use only by the person or entity to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, disclosure, copying, distribution, printing, or any action taken in reliance on the contents of this email, is strictly prohibited. If you received this email in error, please contact the sending party by replying in an email to the sender, delete the email from your computer system and shred any paper copies of the email you printed. Note to Patients: There are a number of risks you should consider before using e-mail to communicate with us. These risks are described in our Privacy Policy at http://henryford.com. Review that policy carefully before continuing to communicate with us by e-mail. For greater Internet security, our policy describes the Henry Ford MyHealth electronic communication process - you may register at http://henryford.com. If you do not believe that our policy gives you the privacy and security protection you need, do not send e-mail or Internet communications to us.

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Fwd: Re: [hobbit] maint.pl, only get the last host + ALL
by dhd733＠yahoo.se 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

lars ebeling <dhd733 at yahoo.se> wrote:Datum: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 08:10:06 +0100 (CET) Från: lars ebeling <dhd733 at yahoo.se> Ämne: Fwd: Re: [hobbit] maint.pl, only get the last host + ALL Till: hobbit <hobbit at hswn.dk> Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote: Could you try removing these two lines from the ~/server/web/hostsvc_header file: I did that and perhaps you could try it yourself. and let me know if that helps ? There were no changes to the better. Now I only get the same host and ALL Regards Lars Hobbithobbyist The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. --Bertrand Russell

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VMstat
by soumya＠in-corporate.pacenet-india.com 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

How do I get vmstat from the client? Which file should I use for vmstat. Thanks Soumya

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