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[hobbit] missing subjects on alert emails
by dhd733＠yahoo.se 04 Mar '05

04 Mar '05

The same goes for HP-UX Regards Lars Brian Lynch <brianlynch at gmail.com> wrote: > ---------- > Från: Brian Lynch[SMTP:BRIANLYNCH at GMAIL.COM] > Skickat: den 4 mars 2005 08:22:08 > Till: hobbit at hswn.dk > Ämne: Re: [hobbit] missing subjects on alert emails > Automatiskt vidarebefordrat av en regel > Thanks, Henrik. That was the problem. - Brian On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 07:50:28 +0100, Henrik Stoerner wrote: > On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 08:01:44PM -0800, Brian Lynch wrote: > > Has anyone seen the problem where 'MAIL' recipients receive messages > > with no subject? Am I missing a configuration option here? Note that > > alerts are sent fine, but the subject is empty. > > Let me guess: You're running Hobbit on Solaris, right ? > > Change the MAIL command in etc/hobbitserver.cfg to be "mailx". The > Solaris "mail" command doesn't support the "mail -s SUBJECT" syntax > used by Hobbit. > > 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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missing subjects on alert emails
by brianlynch＠gmail.com 04 Mar '05

04 Mar '05

Has anyone seen the problem where 'MAIL' recipients receive messages with no subject? Am I missing a configuration option here? Note that alerts are sent fine, but the subject is empty. Here is the config line from hobbit-alerts.cfg. Note that I blanked out the company domain. HOST=%sac-p* SERVICE=* EXSERVICE=conn MAIL brian.lynch at xx.xx.com COLOR=red,yellow

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[hobbit] RC5 available on sourceforge
by dhd733＠yahoo.se 04 Mar '05

04 Mar '05

Have a nice weekend at Linuxforum. Btw, I'm trying to install Debian, I have 3x9 Gb disk, any suggestions for diskpartioning. /Lars Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote: > ---------- > Från: Henrik Stoerner[SMTP:HENRIK at HSWN.DK] > Skickat: den 4 mars 2005 08:04:14 > Till: hobbit at hswn.dk > Ämne: [hobbit] RC5 available on sourceforge > Automatiskt vidarebefordrat av en regel > To clear the list of patches, I've packed up an RC5 which is now available http://sourceforge.net/project/hobbitmon/ and on http://www.hswn.dk/beta/ This solves all of the problems that have been reported with alerts in RC4. It also fixes the crashes that have been reported with the hobbitd_alert module, and when very large status messages were sent to hobbitd. Since I'm off to Linuxforum 2005 - www.linuxforum.dk - I probably will not be as much online this week-end as I usually am. So enjoy this release and don't break anything important, please :-) Henrik Changes from RC-4 -> RC-5 ------------------------- Bugfixes: * Very large status- or data-messages could overflow the shared memory segment used for communication between hobbitd and the worker modules. This would cause hobbitd to crash. Such messages are now truncated before being passed off to worker modules. * hobbitd_alert no longer crashes when trying to send a message. * Recovery messages were sent, even when no alert message had been sent. This caused unexpected "green" messages. * The router dependency "route" tag handling was broken. Improvements: * The "starthobbit.sh" script now refuses to start Hobbit if it is already running. * The "starthobbit.sh" script was renamed to just "hobbit.sh". It now also supports a "reload" command that causes hobbitd to reload the bb-hosts file. * The bb-hist CGI now supports the NAME tag for naming hosts. * The history CGI's showed the Host- and service-names twice when in Hobbit mode. Once is enough. * A "NOALERT" setting in hobbit-alerts.cfg was implemented, so it is easier to define recipients who only get notice-messages and not alerts. * The input parameter check for CGI scripts was relaxed, so that special characters are permitted - e.g. when passing a custom hostname to a CGI. Since we do not use any shell scripts in CGI handling, this should not cause any security problem. Building Hobbit: * The /opt/sfw directory is now searched for libraries (Solaris). * The order of libssl and libcrypto has been swapped, to avoid linker problems on some platforms. To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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RC5 available on sourceforge
by henrik＠hswn.dk 04 Mar '05

04 Mar '05

To clear the list of patches, I've packed up an RC5 which is now available http://sourceforge.net/project/hobbitmon/ and on http://www.hswn.dk/beta/ This solves all of the problems that have been reported with alerts in RC4. It also fixes the crashes that have been reported with the hobbitd_alert module, and when very large status messages were sent to hobbitd. Since I'm off to Linuxforum 2005 - www.linuxforum.dk - I probably will not be as much online this week-end as I usually am. So enjoy this release and don't break anything important, please :-) Henrik Changes from RC-4 -> RC-5 ------------------------- Bugfixes: * Very large status- or data-messages could overflow the shared memory segment used for communication between hobbitd and the worker modules. This would cause hobbitd to crash. Such messages are now truncated before being passed off to worker modules. * hobbitd_alert no longer crashes when trying to send a message. * Recovery messages were sent, even when no alert message had been sent. This caused unexpected "green" messages. * The router dependency "route" tag handling was broken. Improvements: * The "starthobbit.sh" script now refuses to start Hobbit if it is already running. * The "starthobbit.sh" script was renamed to just "hobbit.sh". It now also supports a "reload" command that causes hobbitd to reload the bb-hosts file. * The bb-hist CGI now supports the NAME tag for naming hosts. * The history CGI's showed the Host- and service-names twice when in Hobbit mode. Once is enough. * A "NOALERT" setting in hobbit-alerts.cfg was implemented, so it is easier to define recipients who only get notice-messages and not alerts. * The input parameter check for CGI scripts was relaxed, so that special characters are permitted - e.g. when passing a custom hostname to a CGI. Since we do not use any shell scripts in CGI handling, this should not cause any security problem. Building Hobbit: * The /opt/sfw directory is now searched for libraries (Solaris). * The order of libssl and libcrypto has been swapped, to avoid linker problems on some platforms.

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hobbitd_alert crash
by ctbeers＠syr.edu 04 Mar '05

04 Mar '05

hobbitd_alert crashed earlier this afternoon. Hobbit started to send out alerts like this red - Program crashed Fatal signal caught! See http://host.domain.com/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?HOSTSVC=host,domain,com.hob… Since I had not applied the post RC4 patch to my RC4 instance, I figured I must have run into the hobbitd_alert bug. So I stopped hobbit, applied the patch to the source, make clean, make, make install. Restarted hobbit. Now it appears to be working because the alert module is sending out actual alerts (mrtg alerts and vmio to high alerts). However, I am still getting those hobbitd_alert crashed messages, but its running with a ps -ef.... How can I get rid of the 100 or so per hour of hobbitd_alert crashed emails that are being sent out. -- Christopher T. Beers Lead UNIX Architect - System Infrastructure Services (SIS) Syracuse University | 250 Machinery Hall | Syracuse, NY 13244 (315) 443-4103 Office | (315) 443-1621 Fax | p-ctbeers at syr.edu Pager

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[hobbit] bbmap
by Dan.McDonald＠austinenergy.com 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

>From: Kevin Hanrahan [mailto:Kevin at ewormhole.com] > Has anyone gotten BBMAP or any other kind of map overlay program to work >with Hobbit? Somewhat >The intructions for BBMAP are difficult to understand and rely >on BB path defs and It would be nice to have a map style view. Thanks bug me to work on it some more in a couple of days and I'll try to get the remainder of the kinks worked out. It takes considerable modification to get it to work with Hobbit. I've also extended it tremendously to look at a toplogy table that I generate using bb-eigrp and bb-ospf.

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Alerts problems
by Kevin.Hanrahan＠novainfo.com 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

I just installed the post-RC4.patch and I am also getting alert messages every minute but it is setup to alert every 30 minutes Kevin Hanrahan 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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Newbe question
by trotunda＠opushealthcare.com 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

Can I feed bb from a script (my own) or even C code to report back to the server status of my own programs? Do I really need BB agents? Tim

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[hobbit] unexpected green mails
by Kevin.Hanrahan＠novainfo.com 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

Green smiles = change of state < 24 hours Green diamonds = no change of state > 24 hours (this parameter is now configurable) -----Original Message----- From: Robin Wood [mailto:discardable1 at gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 3:20 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] unexpected green mails I've just put rc4 on so I'll see if anything does get fixed, two questions though, first why would things stop reporting? I'm monitoring 3 different boxes, one local, 2 remote on different hosts, what constitutes "stopping reporting"? I have my internet connection all night so it can't be that, especially as one box is the box that has the monitor on it. The other is why are some of my green entries smilies and others diamonds? Ta Robin On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 12:58:09 +0100, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 08:35:09AM +0000, Robin Wood wrote: > > Just some extra info, this is the top of a mail I was getting: > > > > Subject: BB [182299] otherdomain.com:ssh stopped reporting to BB > > Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 06:23:42 +0000 (GMT) > > From: bb at mydomain.co.uk (BigBrother) > > > > green  Mon Feb 28 05:53:31 2005 ssh ok > > OK, this isn't a "green" mail - it's purple! The clue is the subject > "otherdomain.com:ssh stopped reporting". The "green" is just the last > statusreport that was sent before it stopped reporting any further > status. > > > 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 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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[hobbit] Alerts problems
by blysik＠shutterfly.com 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

> > I just installed the post-RC4.patch and I am also getting > alert messages > > every minute but it is setup to alert every 30 minutes > > Hmm - there's been one more report like that. So I probably messed up > something. > > Will look at it later tonight. Yeah, I just noticed the same thing. Alerts every minute. -- Bruce Z. Lysik <blysik at shutterfly.com> Operations Engineer

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