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NetApp Test Frequency
by FRANCISCO.DE.LA.TORRE＠saic.com 23 May '10

23 May '10

Hello all, I've installed the netapp.pl v1.21 script on my 4.2.3 server. The problem is I don't know how to configure for it to run every 5 minutes. Currently, the status is only updated after I manually run the script. Please let me know if you need any more info. Francisco de la Torre SAIC BP Petrotechnical Infrastructure Team delatorref (at) saic.com <mailto:ferrees at saic.com>

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NTP tests taking a long time.
by stewartl42＠gmail.com 23 May '10

23 May '10

Is there any way to speed up the NTP tests? My run is taking longer than 300 seconds. 229 of that is NTP. Error output: WARNING: Runtime 322 longer than time limit (300) TIME SPENT Event Starttime Duration bbtest-net startup 1274487671.562962 - Service definitions loaded 1274487671.564364 0.001402 Tests loaded, hostname lookups done 1274487671.786542 0.222178 Test engine setup completed 1274487671.792157 0.005615 TCP tests completed 1274487681.995479 10.203322 PING test completed (1220 hosts) 1274487728.186588 46.191109 PING test results sent 1274487728.203649 0.017061 Test result collection completed 1274487728.203792 0.000143 LDAP test engine setup completed 1274487728.203793 0.000001 LDAP tests executed 1274487728.203795 0.000002 LDAP tests result collection completed 1274487728.203796 0.000001 DNS tests executed 1274487763.561146 35.357350 NTP tests executed 1274487993.128128 229.566982 Test results transmitted 1274487993.184690 0.056562 bbtest-net completed 1274487993.186144 0.001454 TIME TOTAL 321.623182 -- Stewart -- An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The first one orders a beer. The second orders half a beer. The third, a quarter of a beer. The bartender says "You're all idiots", and pours two beers.

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Need to suppress CIFS mount disk checks
by hobbit＠epperson.homelinux.net 21 May '10

21 May '10

My apologies to all for the original post of this, which had In-Reply-To and other headers that apparently caused some confusion. Here's a clean post. I need to suppress checking of CIFS mounts to avoid piling up IO-blocked processes when a mount hangs. What hobbit file/program controls the "df" command used for the disk check? The DF= and DFCMD= lines in hobbitclient.cfg are commented "DF,DFCMD and PS are for compatibility only, NOT USED by the Hobbit client", and sure enough when I add "-xcifs" to those lines I still get the CIFS mounts after restarting the hobbit-client service. I'm also not sure what to make of the fact that the "About Hobbit" page says that all configuration is centralized, yet the hobbitclient.cfg on my 4.2.0-6 and 4.2.0-7 clients says "include /var/lib/hobbit-client/runtime.cfg" (which exists on those machines), but on my 4.2.0-1 server says "include /var/run/hobbitclient-runtime.cfg" (which exists on that machine).

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rrd graph orientation
by mark＠krawec.net 21 May '10

21 May '10

Is there a way to move a graph (like the cpu) graph to the top of the display? Right now it's at the bottom of the page and I need to scroll through the list of processes to see the graph. I've looked at the hobbitgraph.cfg file and can't find a obvious way to move a graph to the top of the page. Thanks, Mark Krawec

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hobbitd_client on web page is purple
by kkelly＠lifetouch.com 20 May '10

20 May '10

Hobbitd_client is showing purple status on the web page, I would like to get rid of it. I have tried: Stop/start of xymon server with no luck. bb hostname "drop hostname hobbit_alert" no luck there either! Does anyone know how to clear this status? Thanks ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email _____________________________________________________________________

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AUTO: Chris Ahrens is out of the office (returning 06/01/2010)
by chris.ahrens＠macys.com 20 May '10

20 May '10

I am out of the office until 06/01/2010. Note: This is an automated response to your message "[hobbit] Memstat for Solaris (10)" sent on 5/20/10 2:17:56. This is the only notification you will receive while this person is away.

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Unknown token error question
by rmcgraw＠purdue.edu 17 May '10

17 May '10

I am getting the following lines in clientdata.log but not sure what file it is referencing that has the Unknown token. 2010-05-17 17:37:07 Unknown token 'client' ignored at line 464 2010-05-17 17:37:07 Unknown token 'server' ignored at line 465 What file is it referencing? Thanks Robert _____________________________________________________________________ Robert P. McGraw, Jr. Manager, Computer System EMAIL: rmcgraw at purdue.edu Purdue University ROOM: MATH-807 Department of Mathematics PHONE: (765) 494-6055 150 N. University Street West Lafayette, IN 47907-2067

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Question about MySQL Replication Script
by deger＠cobercafe.net 17 May '10

17 May '10

I tried to get this script working but it never seems to send data back to the hobbit server. I ran the script in debug mode, and it seems to sending the correct information, but not sure why it not showing up on the hobbit. [root at cs101 ext]# ./mysql-replication.pl /home/hobbit/client/bin/bb 10.1.5.18 "status 10,1,5,39.replication green Mon May 17 20:14:22 2010 Mirroring OK Node: node master T1 at mysql-bin.000302:949148896 (10.1.5.39) slave RUNNING (10.1.5.44) slave ON TIME at mysql-bin.000302:949164080 (10.1.5.44) master T2 at mysql-bin.000302:949179136 (10.1.5.39) " #!/usr/bin/perl -w # # mysql replication monitoring # generic attempt use strict; #use Data::Dumper; my $DEBUG = 0; $ENV{BBPROG} = "bb-mysql-replication"; my $TESTNAME = "mysqlrep"; my $BBHOME = $ENV{BBHOME}; my $BB = $ENV{BB}; # full path to the bin/bb util my $BBDISP = $ENV{BBDISP}; # IP of the BBDISPLAY server my $BBVAR = $ENV{BBVAR}; my $MACHINE = $ENV{MACHINE}; # hostname, fqdn my $COLOR = "clear"; # global color for the test my $MSG = ""; # body of the message my $HEAD = ""; # first line of the message (has to be short, optional) my $DATA = ""; # data for NCV records (hobbit only) if ($DEBUG == 1) { $BBHOME = "/tmp" unless $BBHOME; $BBDISP = "127.0.0.1" unless $BBDISP; $BBVAR = "/tmp" unless $BBVAR; $MACHINE = "host.priv.com" unless $MACHINE; } # The Fine Manual : sub clear; # sets status color to clear sub green; # ~ to green sub yellow; # ~ to yellow sub red; # ~ to red sub setcolor; # safely sets status color # setcolor("yellow") sub head; # sets the first status line # head("foo OK") sub msg; # adds text to the body of the status message # msg("foo" [, "bar", ...]) sub data; # adds NCV-formatted data to the status message # data(ds, value) sub sendreport; # sends the report to the BB server # sendreport() sub resetreport; # wipes the report (head, body, data, color) # resetreport() # You can always use $MSG, $HEAD, $DATA and $COLOR directly. ######## # Put your code here ######## # What you need : # on the remote masters and slaves, create: # for mysql 4.x : grant replication client on *.* to 'user'@'monitorhost' identified by 'password'; # grant select on test.* to 'user'@'monitorhost' identified by 'password'; # for mysql 3.x : grant process on *.* to 'user'@'monitorhost' identified by 'password'; # grant select on test.* to 'user'@'monitorhost' identified by 'password'; # use DBI; my $ERR; my $legalERR = "[^a-zA-Z0-9.:,_ -]"; my ($status, $maitreSql, @slaves, $esclaveSql, $login, $pass, %auth, $node); my ($positionMaitre_t1, $positionMaitre_t2, $positionEsclave, $slaveRunning, $error); my $conffile="/usr2/hobbitlocal/etc/bb-mysql-replication.cfg"; my $OKOFFSET = 100; readConfig(); foreach $node ( keys %auth ) { msg "Node: $node\n"; green; # let's be optimit ;) $maitreSql = $auth{$node}{master}; @slaves = keys %{ $auth{$node}{slaves} }; $login = $auth{$node}{user}; $pass = $auth{$node}{pass}; $MACHINE = $maitreSql; $positionMaitre_t1 = getSqlMasterStatus($maitreSql,$login,$pass,"test"); if (not defined $positionMaitre_t1) { $ERR =~ s/$legalERR/ /go; msg(sprintf("master ERROR (%s) &red %s", $maitreSql, $ERR)); head "mirroring FAILURE"; sendreport; resetreport; next; } sleep 2; foreach $esclaveSql (@slaves) { ($positionEsclave, $slaveRunning,$error) = getSqlSlaveStatus($esclaveSql,$login,$pass,"test"); next if not defined $positionEsclave; $auth{$node}{slaves}{$esclaveSql}{pos} = $positionEsclave; $auth{$node}{slaves}{$esclaveSql}{running} = $slaveRunning; } sleep 2; # on reprend la position sur le maître $positionMaitre_t2 = getSqlMasterStatus($maitreSql,$login,$pass,"test"); if (not defined $positionMaitre_t2) { head "mirroring FAILURE"; $ERR =~ s/$legalERR/ /go; msg(sprintf("master ERROR (%s) &red %s", $maitreSql, $ERR)); sendreport; resetreport; next; } msg(sprintf("master T1 at % 40s (%s)", $positionMaitre_t1, $maitreSql)); foreach $esclaveSql (@slaves) { $positionEsclave = $auth{$node}{slaves}{$esclaveSql}{pos}; $slaveRunning = $auth{$node}{slaves}{$esclaveSql}{running}; if (not defined $positionEsclave) { $ERR =~ s/$legalERR/ /go; msg "slave ERROR ($esclaveSql) &red $ERR"; next; } elsif ($slaveRunning eq "Yes") { msg "slave RUNNING ($esclaveSql)"; if ( ($positionMaitre_t1 le $positionEsclave) and ($positionEsclave le $positionMaitre_t2) ) { msg(sprintf("slave ON TIME at % 40s (%s)", $positionEsclave, $esclaveSql)); } else { my($masterfile, $masteroffset, $slavefile, $slaveoffset); ($masterfile, $masteroffset) = split(/:/, $positionMaitre_t1, 2); ($slavefile, $slaveoffset) = split(/:/, $positionEsclave, 2); msg(sprintf("slave LATE at % 40s (%s) &yellow", $positionEsclave, $esclaveSql)); if($masterfile eq $slavefile) { if ($masteroffset - $slaveoffset < $OKOFFSET) { green; } else { yellow; } } else { $masterfile =~ s/.+\.(\d+)$/$1/; $slavefile =~ s/.+\.(\d+)$/$1/; if($masterfile - $slavefile != 1) { yellow; } elsif($masteroffset < $OKOFFSET) { green; } else { yellow; } } } } else { msg "slave STOPPED ($esclaveSql) &red"; red; } if($error ne "") { red; $error =~ s/$legalERR/ /go; msg "slave ERROR $error"; } } msg(sprintf("master T2 at % 40s (%s)", $positionMaitre_t2, $maitreSql)); if ($COLOR eq "green") {head "Mirroring OK"} else {head "Mirroring FAILURE"} sendreport; resetreport; } exit 0; ############### ############### ######################## # conffile has format : # node;masterhost;slavehost1[,slavehost2,...];user;pass # (so it works in multiple slave setups) # example: # authcluster;auth-sql01.priv.com;auth-sql02.priv.com;monitor;coUIc # radius;rad-sql01.priv.com;rad-repsql01.priv.com,rad-backup01.priv.com;monitor;coUIc # add comment lines with '#' sub readConfig { my ($node, $master, $slaves, $user, $pass, @conf, $line); if (! open(CONF, "$conffile")) { head("monitoring error"); msg("Erreur à l'ouverture de $conffile : $!"); red; sendreport; exit 1; } @conf = <CONF>; close(CONF); foreach $line (@conf) { if (substr($line, 0, 1) eq "#") { next } elsif (substr($line, 0, 1) eq "\n") { next } else { ($node, $master, $slaves, $user, $pass) = split(/\s*;\s*/, $line, 5); if ($pass) { chomp $pass; $auth{$node}{master} = $master; foreach my $slave (split(",", $slaves)) { $auth{$node}{slaves}{$slave}{pos} = undef; $auth{$node}{slaves}{$slave}{running} = "not tested"; } $auth{$node}{user} = $user; $auth{$node}{pass} = $pass; } else { msg("&red invalid config : $line"); red; } } } #print Dumper \%auth; } # Retourne les infos relatives au sql maitre # <- (Position); sub getSqlMasterStatus { my ($host,$user,$pass,$base) = @_; my $port; ($host, $port) = split(/:/, $host, 2); if(not defined $port) { $port = 3306; } my $dbLink = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:$base:$host:$port:mysql_connect_timeout=10","$user","$pass"); if (! $dbLink) { $ERR = $DBI::errstr; red; return (undef); } my $query = $dbLink->prepare("SHOW MASTER STATUS"); if (! $query->execute()) { $ERR = $DBI::errstr; red; return (undef); } my @results = $query->fetchrow_array; return "$results[0]:$results[1]"; } # Retourne les infos relatives au sql slave # <- (Exec_Master_Log_Pos, Slave_IO_Running&&Slave_SQL_Running) sub getSqlSlaveStatus { my ($host,$user,$pass,$base) = @_; my ($port, $slaverunning); ($host, $port) = split(/:/, $host, 2); if(not defined $port) { $port = 3306; } my $dbLink = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:$base:$host:$port:mysql_connect_timeout=10","$user","$pass"); if (!$dbLink) { red; $ERR = $DBI::errstr; return (undef); } my $query = $dbLink->prepare("SHOW SLAVE STATUS"); $query->execute(); if (! $query->execute()) { $ERR = $DBI::errstr; red; return (undef); } my @results = $query->fetchrow_array; ## sloppy but works :-/ ## mysql 3.23 if ((scalar @results) == 12) { return ("$results[4]:$results[5]",$results[6], $results[10]); } ## mysql 4.0 elsif ((scalar @results) == 18) { if($results[9] eq "Yes" and $results[10] eq "Yes") { $slaverunning = "Yes" } else { $slaverunning = "No"; } return ("$results[8]:$results[16]", $slaverunning, $results[14]); } ## mysql 4.1 elsif ((scalar @results) == 33) { if($results[10] eq "Yes" and $results[11] eq "Yes") { $slaverunning = "Yes" } else { $slaverunning = "No" } return ("$results[9]:$results[21]", $slaverunning, $results[19]); } ## mysql x.q ? else { red; msg("Unsupported mysql version"); return (undef, "unknown"); } } ################### ################### #### # send the report #### sub sendreport { $MACHINE =~ s/\./,/g; my $date = localtime; my $cmd = "$BB $BBDISP \"status $MACHINE.$TESTNAME $COLOR $date $HEAD\n$DATA\n$MSG\""; if($DEBUG == 1) { print "$cmd\n"; } else { system($cmd); } } sub resetreport { $MSG = $DATA = $HEAD = ''; $COLOR = 'clear'; } # sets the global color of the test # prevents downgrading severity # clear == green < yellow < red sub setcolor { my $newcolor = shift; if ($newcolor eq "red") { $COLOR = "red"; } elsif ($COLOR eq "green" or $COLOR eq "clear") { $COLOR = "$newcolor"; } return $COLOR; } sub clear { setcolor 'clear' } sub green { setcolor 'green' } sub yellow { setcolor 'yellow' } sub red { setcolor 'red' } sub data { my ($n, $v) = @_; $DATA .= "$n: $v\n"; } sub head { $HEAD = "@_"; } sub msg { $MSG .= join("\n", @_) . "\n"; }

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how to monitor switches and increase the polling time
by pankaj.dorlikar＠gmail.com 17 May '10

17 May '10

Hi, since we are monitoring ober 300 servers at a time in a custer, we want to know and analyser the network traffic in ethernet and infiniband switch .how we can monitor it using xymon system monitoring.os is rhel 5.2 and xymon version is 4.2.2 Practical problem happening is that some of the nodes reboots but xymon doesnt show it. it may be because that happens in betwwen the polling period of the server. how to overcome this issue?same thing happens for disk and ncpu and external tests also that it does not identify and show these problems as it must be occuring in betwwn polling period .How to make it fast as ganglia -- Pankaj V. Dorlikar

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Additional test not showing
by David.Hurst＠t-systems.co.za 17 May '10

17 May '10

Hi All, I am (very) new to Hobbit, and have searched for an answer to this one - but the answers I seem to find include writing a script to obtain certain information and post it to Hobbit. Basically, this pertains to the tests being done on my mainframe (z/OS). I have the z/OS monitor running there (works great) & have changed some code to pass some database information back to my hobbit server (only very simple information at the moment - until I get this working), so it looks like this in the "client data" on the server : client mf.zos zos [osversion] z/OS 01.10.00 HBB7750 JES2 z/OS1.10 [date] Thu May 13 06:59:10 CST 2010 [uptime] Uptime: 11 Days, 11 Hours, 6 Minutes [cpu] CPU Utilization 10% [paging] ............ [databases] ADADB029 Database 029 The [databases] at the bottom is a new test that I am performing, but for the life of me cannot get it to display in a new column on my hobbit web page. How do I tell Hobbit that there is a new "section" in the data which is passed from my mainframe that must be displayed? Or do I need to write a script to strip the information off and post it into hobbit that way? To write a script to strip the info off the mainframe data just doesn't quite make sense to me ... I am running Xymon4.3.0-0.beta2. Regards Dave Disclaimer: This message and/or attachment(s) may contain privileged or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient you may not disclose or distribute any of the information contained within this message. In such case you must destroy this message and inform the sender of the error. T-Systems does not accept liability for any errors, omissions, information and viruses contained in the transmission of this message. Any opinions, conclusions and other information contained within this message not related to T-Systems' official business is deemed to be that of the individual only and is not endorsed by T-Systems. This message and/or attachment(s) may contain privileged or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient you may not disclose or distribute any of the information contained within this message. In such case you must destroy this message and inform the sender of the error. T-Systems does not accept liability for any errors, omissions, information and viruses contained in the transmission of this message. Any opinions, conclusions and other information contained within this message not related to T-Systems' official business is deemed to be that of the individual only and is not endorsed by T-Systems. T-Systems - Business Flexibility

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