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Checking if both links for Cisco CEF are down?
by d.tom.schmitt＠L-3com.com 05 Oct '09

05 Oct '09

Using the 'route:' keyword, is there a way to create dependencies when you are using a Cisco router with 2 T-1s using Cisco Express Forwarding (CEF)? I have a remote router that has 2 T-1s balancing using CEF. Behind this router are multiple devices that need to not alert if both T-1s are down. This would be very similar to have a single T-1 line to the remote site except I have to be able to group both T-1s together. Can you do something like: Near end router: Ethernet port Local-Eth Near end router: Serial 0 and Serial 1 Local-S0 and Local-S1 To Far end router: Serial 0 and Serial 1 respectively Remote-Eth Far end router: Ethernet port Remote-S0 and Remote-S1 To Rest of the network at the remote site e.g. Remote-Switch Can you group devices together using ()'s? Something like: I want Remote-Switch to depend upon both T-1s being down: 10.10.10.10 Local-Eth 10.10.20.20 Local-S0 10.10.20.21 Local-S1 10.10.20.22 Remote-S0 10.10.20.23 Remote-S1 10.10.30.30 Remote-Eth 10.10.30.31 Remote-Switch # route:Remote-Eth,(Remote-S0,Remote-S1),Local-Eth Would this work? This says that the Remote-Switch needs to have the Remote-Eth (Ethernet) connection as a dependency. It also needs both T-1s up and the Local-Eth (Ethernet) connection up. CEF is a Cisco balancing protocol for multiple same connections to a remote location. If one T-1 is down, the other T-1 will be tasked with handling all the traffic. When the down T-1 returns, it again participates in the traffic load. Thanks, Tom Schmitt

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Critical systems view editing
by sholmes42＠mac.com 05 Oct '09

05 Oct '09

Quick, and I hope, simple question. In Hobbit 4.2.0 I am just learning about setting up the critical systems view. It appears that you can't have more than one test defined for a given host or have a host cloned from more than one master record. Is that true? The documentation only talks about having one test in the test field and my testing indicates that that is also true. So, if I have two critical services on one host or set of hosts (e.g. smbd and httpd) how would I get those into the critical systems page? Thanks, Steve Holmes Purdue University

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Checking DB2 databases
by URMM＠VM.MARIST.EDU 05 Oct '09

05 Oct '09

Can anyone tell me if the dbcheck.pl script will work for a DB2 database? I found an old note in the archive that mentions that it will support DB2. However, when I downloaded the package and read the README files, there is no mention of it. Is anyone actually using it for DB2, or perhaps something else? Martha McConaghy Marist College

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network interfaces showing up in trends graphs
by kkelly＠lifetouch.com 02 Oct '09

02 Oct '09

Does anyone know how to get rid of these interfaces so they don't show up? Running xymon 4.2.3 on solaris ______________________________________________________________________ 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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HOBBITMENU issue on xymon 4.3.0 debian stable
by pkc_mls＠yahoo.fr 02 Oct '09

02 Oct '09

Hi all, I'm running xymon client and server on debian stable (5.0). Both were installed via the packages. (ie no compilation). I have an error in the log that comes each 5 minutes in the bb-display.log: xgetenv: Cannot find value for variable HOBBITMENU The menu is replaced with &HOBBITMENU. I searched through the source code, but I couldn't find any reference to this HOBBITMENU. Has anyone already solved this ? thanks.

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AUTO: Norbert Kriegenburg is out of the office (returning 14.10.2009)
by norbert.kriegenburg＠de.ibm.com 02 Oct '09

02 Oct '09

I am out of the office until 14.10.2009. Note: This is an automated response to your message "?Re: [hobbit] devmon stops working on non reachable device" sent on 2/10/09 0:18:13. This is the only notification you will receive while this person is away.

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[hobbit] Graphing with broken numbers
by bgmilne＠staff.telkomsa.net 01 Oct '09

01 Oct '09

----- "thorsten erdmann" <thorsten.erdmann at daimler.com> wrote: > Hi > > I try to get some temperature graphs of my UPS. The UPS test produces > broken numbers like this: What do you mean by "broken"? Do you mean non-integers? > > Temperature status: > > Warning level: 35 C > Alarm level : 40 C > > Device Temp(C) Temp(F) > ------------------------------------------- > Ambient 20.7 69 > > > Devmon version 0.3.1-beta1 running on s068a300 > > > I manged to get the numbers into a graph if I alter the output to not > showing 20.7, instead showing 21. > The graph show up several lines like > > Ambient_______20. > Ambient_______21. I am not sure what you are trying to depict here, are you meaning that the DS names are Ambient______20 ? The output of 'rrdtool info /path/to/temp.rrd |grep ^ds' or similar may help to illustrate more accurately. Which collector are you using? Regards, Buchan

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Load threasholds when bbwin in 'central' mode
by Craig_Whilding＠mentor.com 01 Oct '09

01 Oct '09

I decided to try out 4.3 beta 2 along with the central mode for 'bbwin' clients. Unfortunately when doing this I discovered many of the windows boxes were alerting red because the load was higher than my defaults of 4 and 8... Now I've upped these to 95 and 100 to represent the percentage the windows boxes are using but this means the unix boxes could be broken and I wont know without setting individual alert thresholds. Is there a way to change the windows 'load' to be 'load percentage' or something so each type of box is using a different monitoring type? I know there were discussions about having UNIX boxes sending in a load percentage but that this was a difficult thing to achieve correctly. Our hostnames are normally dictated by service rather than platform unfortunately so I can't always just put so8/w2k etc pcre expressions in the thresholds to differentiate OS type. Regards, Craig Whilding

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core dump
by vadud3＠gmail.com 01 Oct '09

01 Oct '09

I had a core dump with bb on non-global solaris 10 zone on T1000 bash-3.00# gdb ~hobbit/client/bin/bb core GNU gdb 6.6 Copyright (C) 2006 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 "sparc-sun-solaris2.8"... Reading symbols from /lib/libresolv.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libresolv.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/libsocket.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libsocket.so.1 Reading symbols from /lib/libnsl.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libnsl.so.1 Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.1 Reading symbols from /platform/sun4v/lib/libc_psr.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-T1000/lib/libc_psr.so.1 Reading symbols from /lib/ld.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/ld.so.1 Core was generated by `/home/hobbit/client/bin/bb 0.0.0.0 @'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. #0 0xff109644 in doformat () from /lib/libc.so.1 (gdb) bt #0 0xff109644 in doformat () from /lib/libc.so.1 #1 0xff10ac90 in strftime () from /lib/libc.so.1 #2 0x00013594 in errprintf (fmt=0x1da28 "xmalloc: Out of memory!\n") at errormsg.c:47 #3 0x00013a28 in xmalloc (size=121384) at memory.c:121 #4 0x0001362c in errprintf (fmt=0x1da28 "xmalloc: Out of memory!\n") at errormsg.c:61 #5 0x00013a28 in xmalloc (size=121384) at memory.c:121 #6 0x0001362c in errprintf (fmt=0x1da28 "xmalloc: Out of memory!\n") at errormsg.c:61 #7 0x00013a28 in xmalloc (size=121384) at memory.c:121 #8 0x0001362c in errprintf (fmt=0x1da28 "xmalloc: Out of memory!\n") at errormsg.c:61 #9 0x00013a28 in xmalloc (size=121384) at memory.c:121 #10 0x0001362c in errprintf (fmt=0x1da28 "xmalloc: Out of memory!\n") at errormsg.c:61 #11 0x00013a28 in xmalloc (size=121384) at memory.c:121 #12 0x0001362c in errprintf (fmt=0x1da28 "xmalloc: Out of memory!\n") at errormsg.c:61 #13 0x00013a28 in xmalloc (size=121384) at memory.c:121 #14 0x0001362c in errprintf (fmt=0x1da28 "xmalloc: Out of memory!\n") at errormsg.c:61 #15 0x00013a28 in xmalloc (size=121384) at memory.c:121 ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- #16 0x0001362c in errprintf (fmt=0x1da28 "xmalloc: Out of memory!\n") at errormsg.c:61 #17 0x00013a28 in xmalloc (size=121384) at memory.c:121 #18 0x0001362c in errprintf (fmt=0x1da28 "xmalloc: Out of memory!\n") at errormsg.c:61 #19 0x00013a28 in xmalloc (size=121384) at memory.c:121 #20 0x0001362c in errprintf (fmt=0x1da28 "xmalloc: Out of memory!\n") at errormsg.c:61 #21 0x00013a28 in xmalloc (size=121384) at memory.c:121 #22 0x0001362c in errprintf (fmt=0x1da28 "xmalloc: Out of memory!\n") at errormsg.c:61 #23 0x00013a28 in xmalloc (size=121384) at memory.c:121 #24 0x0001362c in errprintf (fmt=0x1da28 "xmalloc: Out of memory!\n") at errormsg.c:61 #25 0x00013a28 in xmalloc (size=121384) at memory.c:121 #26 0x0001362c in errprintf (fmt=0x1da28 "xmalloc: Out of memory!\n") at errormsg.c:61 #27 0x00013a28 in xmalloc (size=121384) at memory.c:121 #28 0x0001362c in errprintf (fmt=0x1da48 "xrealloc: Out of memory!\n") at errormsg.c:61 #29 0x00013a68 in xrealloc (ptr=0x0, size=195584) at memory.c:151 #30 0x00017d80 in strbuf_addtobuffer (buf=0x302a0, newtext=0x51cc0 ' ' <repeats 34 times>, "(sparc) 2.6.0,REV=10.0.3.2004.12.15---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- .20.59\n", newlen=76) at strfunc.c:109 #31 0x00012b44 in main (argc=3, argv=0xffbff51c) at bb.c:118 (gdb) Let me know if I should have sent the backtrace directly to Henrik instead. -- Asif Iqbal PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

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[hobbit] Graphs stop update 24 hours after client reboot; start again 24 hours later.
by patrik＠jalbum.net 01 Oct '09

01 Oct '09

Returning to this old thread as I ran into this issue today. Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:23:17 +0000 (UTC), Henrik wrote: >"Brand, Thomas R." <TRBrand (at) cvs.com> writes: >>I need some help/suggestions to figure out why my "cpu load" and "users >>& processes" graphs stop updating about 24 hours after the systems >>reboot. The updates stop for anywhere from 12 to 24 hours, then simply >>start back up again. >>Only the "CPU load" and the "Users and Processes" graphs are having the >>problem; disk, memory, cpu utilization, network traffic don't miss a >>beat. >The only explanation I can come up with is that the format of >some of the "cpu" status message is different for the first 24 hours >after a reboot. >Could you send me an example of the cpu status shortly after a reboot, >and one when the graphs are working ? >What OS are these boxes ? Running openSUSE 11.1 (x86_64). Client output that does not update the rrd: [top] top - 14:39:44 up 1 day, 4:40, 3 users, load average: 2.42, 2.88, 2.89 Client output that does update the rrd: [top] top - 14:42:51 up 40 days, 2:41, 3 users, load average: 4.19, 3.61, 3.10 The only difference I can see is "day" instead of "days". Regards, Patrik

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