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Server reporting to another server?
by stewartl42＠gmail.com 03 May '10

03 May '10

I have 2 hobbit servers, one for my test environment and one for Production. These are running on RHEL3. I need to get the production server to send updates for itself to the test server. That way we get an alert if the production system goes down. Normally, I would set HOBBITSERVERS in /etc/default/hobbit-client, to point to both, but the server-only RPM does not have this file. How do I get the serer to report to itself and to another hobbit server? -- 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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Custom script shows purple
by captkras＠gmail.com 01 May '10

01 May '10

We have a custom client side script that we wrote to test ldap connectivity (See below) % cat getent.sh #!/bin/sh COLUMN=ldap-con # Does the server have an LDAP conection COLOR=green # By default, everything is OK MSG="LDAP Connectivity Check" TESTVAL=`/usr/bin/getent group admins | wc -l` # Do whatever you need to test for something # As an example, go red if /tmp/badstuff exists. if [ $TESTVAL -eq 0 ] then COLOR=red MSG="${MSG} LDAP Configureation and Connectivity is BORKED UP " else MSG="${MSG} LDAP Configureation and Connectivity is OK " fi # Tell Hobbit about it $BB $BBDISP "status $MACHINE.$COLUMN $COLOR `date` ${MSG} " exit 0 And the following is our clientlocal.sh portion for this script: # LDAP Check - This command makes sure that this box is connected to the MGS LDAP Server [ldap-con] ENVFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/etc/hobbitclient.cfg CMD $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/ext/getent.sh LOGFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/logs/ldap.log INTERVAL 4h As can be seen, we have it running every 4 hours. The status check should be green, however, it goes to purple. Is there a way (and where/how) to change the default timeout for this, as I think the 4 hour time is making it puke. Both these scripts are on the client side. -- David S. Morgan CISSP, CCNP aka: captkras at gmail.com "When the Winds of Change Blow Hard Enough, the Most trivial of things can turn into deadly projectiles"

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how to make xymon to display nodes status as fast as ganglia
by pankaj.dorlikar＠gmail.com 01 May '10

01 May '10

hi, though ganglia and xymon are not comparable but how can i make xymon to update status of nodes as fast as ganglia. Also will it affect the xymon server load ? can somebody suggest me in detail ? thanks -- Pankaj V. Dorlikar

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Displaying summaries on bb2 page
by AVisram＠bgcpartners.com 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '10

Hi - I was wondering if there was a way to display remote server summaries on bb2 page. It does on the main page but not on bb2. I am using v4.2.3 of xymon Thanks, Ali http://www.bgcpartners.com CONFIDENTIAL: This e-mail has been sent to you by one of the BGC entities (collectively BGC) listed at the following link http://www.bgcpartners.com/legal/disclaimers/index.html#email_disclaimer. The link contains company and FSA registration numbers. This e-mail, including its contents and attachments, if any, are confidential. If you are not the named recipient please notify the sender and immediately delete it. You may not disseminate, distribute, or forward this e-mail message or disclose its contents to anybody else. Copyright and any other intellectual property rights in its contents are the sole property of BGC and its affiliates. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard-copy version. Although we routinely screen for viruses, addressees should check this e-mail and any attachments for viruses. We make no representation or warranty as to the absence of viruses in this e-mail or any attachments. Please note that to ensure regulatory compliance and for the protection of our customers and business, we may monitor and read e-mails sent to and from our server(s). The registered offices of the BGC entities are at 1 Churchill Place, London, E14 5RD. For any issues arising from this email please reply to the sender. The FSA register appears at http://www.fsa.gov.uk/register/. The FSA regulates the financial services industry in the United Kingdom and is located at 25 The North Colonnade, Canary Wharf, London, E14 5HS.

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hobbit crash
by olivier＠zimbra.minas.fr 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '10

hello sometimes hobbit 4.2.0 crash : GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (6.3.0.0-1.159.el4rh) Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu"...Using host libthread_db library "/lib64/tls/libthread_db.so.1". Core was generated by `hobbitd --pidfile=/var/log/hobbit/hobbitd.pid --restart=/opt/hobbit/server/tmp/'. Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted. Reading symbols from /lib64/libpcre.so.0...done. Loaded symbols for /lib64/libpcre.so.0 Reading symbols from /lib64/tls/libc.so.6...done. Loaded symbols for /lib64/tls/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 #0 0x0000002a957aa26d in raise () from /lib64/tls/libc.so.6 (gdb) backtrace #0 0x0000002a957aa26d in raise () from /lib64/tls/libc.so.6 #1 0x0000002a957aba6e in abort () from /lib64/tls/libc.so.6 #2 0x0000000000413da3 in sigsegv_handler (signum=Variable "signum" is not available. ) at sig.c:57 #3 <signal handler called> #4 0x0000002a957edf63 in mempcpy () from /lib64/tls/libc.so.6 #5 0x0000002a957e2798 in _IO_default_xsputn_internal () from /lib64/tls/libc.so.6 #6 0x0000002a957bf06b in vfprintf () from /lib64/tls/libc.so.6 #7 0x0000002a957d9319 in vsprintf () from /lib64/tls/libc.so.6 #8 0x0000002a957c4746 in sprintf () from /lib64/tls/libc.so.6 #9 0x00000000004075db in generate_outbuf (outbuf=0x7fbfffa408, outpos=0x7fbfffa410, outsz=0x7fbfffa41c, hwalk=0x14cbfe0, lwalk=0x14d6f40, acklevel=Variable "acklevel" is not available. ) at hobbitd.c:2227 #10 0x0000000000409419 in do_message (msg=0x275ff90, origin=Variable "origin" is not available. ) at hobbitd.c:2848 #11 0x000000000040d5d3 in main (argc=21687104, argv=Variable "argv" is not available. ) at hobbitd.c:4377 (gdb) someone can help me ? thx oau

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Top-Posting (was Re: [hobbit] Custom script shows purple)
by questy＠gmail.com 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '10

On the topic of Top-Posting... In the Gmail world, many times things that are replaced with - Show Quoted Text - in an alternate, smaller, insignificant font sometimes don't grab your eyes when responding. Sorry for that. Further, I'm on about six lists. I have one that despises top posting, one that despises bottom posting, and another that despises interstitial posting. I'm not motivated to keep up with it all. If it's a big enough problem, then I'll just stop posting altogether if that's what the community wants. --- Jerald M. Sheets jr. On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Xymon User in Richmond < hobbit at epperson.homelinux.net> wrote: > [Insert top-posting rant boilerplate here] > >

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BBwin Security role?
by rower.master＠gmail.com 29 Apr '10

29 Apr '10

Hi guys, I was looking at the bbwin command line tool bbwincmd.exe help page and something really get me worried. There we have : *Sending a drop bbwincmd.exe <bbdisplay>[:<port>] drop <hostname> [<testname>] Sending a hostname rename bbwincmd.exe <bbdisplay>[:<port>] rename <hostname> <newhostname> Sending a test rename bbwincmd.exe <bbdisplay>[:<port>] rename <hostname> <oldtestname> <newtestname Sending a download message. default download path is the filename requested it bbwincmd.exe <bbdisplay>[:<port>] download <hostname> <filename> [<path>] *I've tried from an agent to drop a test and thanks God doesn't work. I've tried from a linux xymon-client and thanks God again didin't work too. I don't know why this is in the documentation , but my question is why this kind of administration commands are available at the agents? In my opinion this is not a good idea. If one day this kind of thing work, how we can avoid the server to execute this? Is there something in the configuration? Regards, Mario.

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Can't generate spreadsheet
by hj.beckers＠kreis-steinfurt.de 29 Apr '10

29 Apr '10

When I try to generate a spreadsheet from a availability page I get the followind error: Could not generate report. Check that the /home/xymon/server/www/rep/ directory has permissions '-rwxrwxr-x' (775) and that is is set to group 8 Permissions and group ownership are as requested. Generating the same report as HTML report works - it is written into the above mentioned directory. Xymon version is 4.3.0-0.beta2 and operating system openSuSE 11.1. Any hints? hjb

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[hobbit] Can't generate spreadsheet
by mmoldvan＠csc.com 29 Apr '10

29 Apr '10

Couldn't reproduce your error, but for what it's worth, check which user your Apache processes are running as and make sure that user is either the owner or in the group of your /rep folder. You can change which user Apache runs as in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf (or equivalent) around line 227 of the file (see below). Good luck! Matt. # If you wish httpd to run as a different user or group, you must run # httpd as root initially and it will switch. # # User/Group: The name (or #number) of the user/group to run httpd as. # . On SCO (ODT 3) use "User nouser" and "Group nogroup". # . On HPUX you may not be able to use shared memory as nobody, and the # suggested workaround is to create a user www and use that user. # NOTE that some kernels refuse to setgid(Group) or semctl(IPC_SET) # when the value of (unsigned)Group is above 60000; # don't use Group #-1 on these systems! # User xymon Group xymon i.e. [root at somewhere /var/lib/xymon/www/rep]# ls -la drwxrwxr-x 17 xymon apache 4096 Apr 29 09:02 . [root at somewhere /var/lib/xymon/www/rep]# ps -fe | grep 'xymo.*http' root 1509 32081 0 09:04 pts/3 00:00:00 grep xymo.*http xymon 13315 656 0 04:02 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd xymon 13316 656 0 04:02 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd xymon 13317 656 0 04:02 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd xymon 13318 656 0 04:02 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd xymon 13319 656 0 04:02 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd xymon 13320 656 0 04:02 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd xymon 13321 656 0 04:02 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd xymon 13322 656 0 04:02 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd xymon 13504 656 0 04:03 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd xymon 14567 656 0 06:27 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd Unix System Administrator Computer Science Corporation General Dynamics Land Systems This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete without copying and kindly advise us by e-mail of the mistake in delivery. NOTE: Regardless of content, this e-mail shall not operate to bind CSC to any order or other contract unless pursuant to explicit written agreement or government initiative expressly permitting the use of e-mail for such purpose. From: "Hermann-Josef Beckers" <hj.beckers at kreis-steinfurt.de> To: hobbit at hswn.dk Date: 04/29/2010 08:59 AM Subject: [hobbit] Can't generate spreadsheet When I try to generate a spreadsheet from a availability page I get the followind error: Could not generate report. Check that the /home/xymon/server/www/rep/ directory has permissions '-rwxrwxr-x' (775) and that is is set to group 8 Permissions and group ownership are as requested. Generating the same report as HTML report works - it is written into the above mentioned directory. Xymon version is 4.3.0-0.beta2 and operating system openSuSE 11.1. Any hints? hjb This is an e-mail from General Dynamics Land Systems. It is for the intended recipient only and may contain confidential and privileged information. No one else may read, print, store, copy, forward or act in reliance on it or its attachments. If you are not the intended recipient, please return this message to the sender and delete the message and any attachments from your computer. Your cooperation is appreciated.

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[hobbit] Top-Posting (was Re: [hobbit] Custom script shows purple)
by DL1025＠att.com 29 Apr '10

29 Apr '10

Excellent. LOL ----- Original Message ----- From: Rich Smrcina <rsmrcina at wi.rr.com> To: hobbit at hswn.dk <hobbit at hswn.dk> Sent: Wed Apr 28 20:49:54 2010 Subject: Re: [hobbit] Top-Posting (was Re: [hobbit] Custom script shows purple) I was trying to form words on this silly controversy, but Vernon said it all very concisely. Good job, sir. *bows* On 04/28/2010 09:07 PM, Vernon Everett wrote: > Top posting? Bottom Posting? Who cares? Really? > What are we trying to achieve here? Stop and think about it for a moment. > > This is a forum for us to share knowledge, experience and know-how > with each other. > This forum is kept alive by posts from people who give up their time > to post. They don't have to post, they do it as a favour. A donation > of time, as it were. > Complaining about how people post to this forum, is like giving a > hundred bucks to charity, in ten dollar notes, and they complain the > want two fifties instead. > Would you give again? I know I wouldn't. > > Most people on this list are pretty smart, and know how to scroll up, > and some even know how to scroll down. > You get a response to your question posted by somebody who is doing us > all a favour. Take it and be happy. Don't complain about how you got it. > That's just being ungrateful. > > Regards > Vernon > > P.S. This response has also been bottom-posted for your convenience. > -- Rich Smrcina Phone: 414-491-6001 http://www.linkedin.com/in/richsmrcina Catch the WAVV! http://www.wavv.org WAVV 2011 To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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