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Trouble wiht show colums in hobbit
by luismycorreo＠gmail.com 21 Aug '09

21 Aug '09

Hello I'm running two hobbit servers, there are two virtual machines downloaded from SOURCEFORGE, but I hava some troubles, for example, one day I configure a bbwin client with the same name like the hobbit server and hobbit showing the information of the bbwin client as your own information, when I fixed it the colums netstat - svcs - uptime . who (now appears purple) still appears, this is the image, Somebody know, how fix it or how can I dissapear this colums?? Regards, Luis

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PROC test question
by marco.pizzoli＠gmail.com 21 Aug '09

21 Aug '09

Hi all, I am a hobbit newby. I have a question about the PROC test: is there a way to define a test about the presence of a particular proc executed by a particular user? I'm in a situation where I have some daemons that could be started by a lot of (machine)users and so I would like to check the user the proc run as. Thanks in advance Marco

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RRD crashing high availability hobbit
by j.sansford＠ntlworld.com 21 Aug '09

21 Aug '09

Hi again all, I need some help configuring/debugging why our hobbit servers are crashing (due to rrd, which I shall explain shortly) and how to get around this. We have 3 hobbit servers with proxies, however I will simplify this explanation with just 2 hobbits and no proxies (as we discovered the same thing happens). Detail of theoretical setup: 1) 2 datacentres. Each datacentre contains a single hobbit server instance. 2) Each client reports to their local datacentre hobbit server. 3) Each hobbit server is configured such that they know about the other hobbit (through BBDISPLAYS). The issue is that for what looks like most server side tests, such as vmstat etc, that we are getting feedback loops between the hobbit servers. For instance: A hobbit server in DC1 tests a client in DC1 using vmstat. The client reports back to hobbit in DC1 and hobbit then also reports this data to the hobbit in DC2. The hobbit in DC2 however is configured to report to DC1 and so bounces the message back (i think). Therefore the server tries to update the rrd twice within a second resulting in errors. Eventually this will crash the server. An example of the rrd error messages: 2009-08-20 11:04:04 RRD error updating /export/home/hobbit/data/rrd/h3-avm-dbx/ifstat.mac.rrd from 10.6.60.1: illegal attempt to update using time 1250762644 when last update time is 1250762644 (minimum one second step) 2009-08-20 11:04:06 RRD error updating /export/home/hobbit/data/rrd/h2-emu13/ifstat.mac.rrd from 10.6.60.1: illegal attempt to update using time 1250762646 when last update time is 1250762646 (minimum one second step) 2009-08-20 11:04:06 RRD error updating /export/home/hobbit/data/rrd/h2-emu13/ifstat.mac.rrd from 10.6.60.1: illegal attempt to update using time 1250762646 when last update time is 1250762646 (minimum one second step) 2009-08-20 11:04:06 RRD error updating /export/home/hobbit/data/rrd/h2-emu13/ifstat.mac.rrd from 10.6.60.1: illegal attempt to update using time 1250762646 when last update time is 1250762646 (minimum one second step) My question is - how can we stop this happening? Also, why is this happening? Is there a way we can disable rrd graphing on one server so just one hobbit server handles the graphing? I hope that makes sense. If you need further clarification please let me know. Cheers James

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hobbit monitoring summary report
by yf.liang＠yahoo.ca 20 Aug '09

20 Aug '09

Hi, Is there better way of reporting this? Purpose: to report how many active client and client-less monitoring are done by hobbit. My method: 1. for client installed monitoring, count the number of /home/hobbit/data/rrd/*/vmstat.rrd that are recent (ie. newer than a date file created earlier, say 5am) 2. for client-less monitoring, count the number of latest /home/hobbit/data/histlogs/*/conn/ or /home/hobbit/data/histlogs/*/http/ (if both exist, then count only one) that are recent (see def. above). (some clients may not be pingable; multiple web pages on the same server should be counted only once). Thanks, __________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Canada Toolbar: Search from anywhere on the web, and bookmark your favourite sites. Download it now http://ca.toolbar.yahoo.com.

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Centralized configuration through bbproxy
by sigurdur＠raforninn.is 20 Aug '09

20 Aug '09

Hi. I was wondering if centralized configuration for clients (most notably, bbwin) works properly through bbproxy from the central xymon server? I have many sites, all of which have a local xymon server which forwards messages through bbproxy to itself on a different port (so I can monitor locally) and sends information to my central xymon server. (Actually these servers are old hobbit server installations which I need to update sometime in the near future, they don't have the centralized option yet) I was wondering if anyone has any experience regarding configuring clients centrally on a central server, propagating the configuration through the bbproxy servers and onto the clients? If so, are you willing to share your experience in the matter (good/bad)? With regards, ----------------------------------------------------------- banner Sigurður Guðbrandsson Tæknimaður / Technician Raforninn ehf - Sudurhlid 35 - 105 Reykjavik Þjónusta og ráðgjöf fyrir læknisfræðilega myndgreiningartækni Medical Imaging Technology Consulting Group Netfang / Email: sigurdur at raforninn.is Sími / Phone: +354 552 2070 GSM / Mobile: +354 867 3573 Veffang / Web: http://www.raforninn.is/ ----------------------------------------------------------- Um tölvupóst frá Raferninum Please observe the following rules concerning this e-mail: www.raforninn.is/email

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Error running make on Solaris 2.6
by paulduff＠tpg.com.au 20 Aug '09

20 Aug '09

Hi all, I am trying to run the client compile on a Solaris 2.6 system. I am using the xymon-4.3.0-beta2 release and below is the output. oms001 /prod/vendor/xymon-4.3.0-beta2:> ./configure --client Configuration script for Xymon client This script asks a few questions and builds a Makefile to compile Xymon Checking your make-utility Xymon normally keeps all of the client configuration files on the Xymon server. If you prefer, it is possible to use a local client configuration file instead - if so, answer 'client' to the next question. NB: Local configuration requires the PCRE libs on each host. Server side client configuration, or client side [server] ? Checking for Large File Support ... ERROR: LFS support check failed for standard file support Checking for clock_gettime() requiring librt ... clock_gettime() not present, but this should be OK What userid will be running Xymon [xymon] ? Found passwd entry for user xymon:x:23312:1:Xymon Monitoring User:/prod/vendor/xymon:/bin/sh Where do you want the Xymon installation [/prod/vendor/xymon] ? OK, will configure to use /prod/vendor/xymon as the Xymon toplevel directory What is the IP-address of your Xymon server [127.0.0.1] ? x.x.x.x Using SunOS Makefile settings Created Makefile with the necessary information to build Xymon Some defaults are used, so do look at the Makefile before continuing. Configuration complete - now run make -s (GNU make) to build the tools oms001 /prod/vendor/xymon-4.3.0-beta2:> make CC="gcc" CFLAGS="-g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -DSunOS -I. -I`pwd`/include -DCLIENTONLY=1" LDFLAGS="" OSDEF="-DSunOS" RPATHOPT="-Wl,-R" PCREINCDIR="" SSLFLAGS="" SSLINCDIR="" SSLLIBS="" NETLIBS="-lresolv -lsocket -lnsl" LIBRTDEF="" BBTOPDIR="/prod/vendor/xymon" BBLOGDIR="" BBHOSTNAME="" BBHOSTIP="203.166.64.112" BBHOSTOS="" LOCALCLIENT="no" make -C lib client make[1]: Entering directory `/prod/vendor/xymon-4.3.0-beta2/lib' gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -DSunOS -I. -I/prod/vendor/xymon-4.3.0-beta2/include -DCLIENTONLY=1 -I. -I../include -c -o misc.o misc.c In file included from /prod/vendor/xymon-4.3.0-beta2/include/libbbgen.h:42, from misc.c:34: /prod/vendor/xymon-4.3.0-beta2/include/../lib/eventlog.h:38: error: syntax error before numeric constant make[1]: *** [misc.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/prod/vendor/xymon-4.3.0-beta2/lib' make: *** [lib-client] Error 2 oms001 /prod/vendor/xymon-4.3.0-beta2:> Any help would be great. Regards Paul

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BBWin - File Stays in TMP Dir and Xymon Test Goes Purple
by storerr＠nibco.com 19 Aug '09

19 Aug '09

I have a scheduled task running a vbscript to write a text file to the "c:\program files\bbwin\tmp". The text file is 6KB. The file is not open. BBWin (ver. 0.12) does not transfer the file out of the tmp directory and the test goes purple in Xymon (ver. 4.2.3). The first line of the text file is: green+25h 8/19/2009 8:59:13 am machine_name It is followed by some HTML code on a different line. I have the same script running on several other Windows servers (2003 R2 32bit) without issue. Any ideas why the file stays in the tmp directory and how to fix it? Thanks. Ray ________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email and any attachments are for the exclusive and confidential use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, distribute or take action in reliance upon this message. If you have received this in error, please notify us immediately by return email and promptly delete this message and its attachments from your computer system. We do not waive attorney-client or work product privilege by the transmission of this message.

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[hobbit] hobbit.sh not stopping server correctly
by j.sansford＠ntlworld.com 19 Aug '09

19 Aug '09

Hi Buchan, Apologies, I'll explain it in more detail. We are running on Solaris 10 and trying to configure Xymon as an SMF service (which essentially uses stop/start scripts). The stop script is basically: kill -TERM `cat /export/home/hobbit/logs/hobbitlaunch.pid` Where hobbitlaunch.pid is the PID of the hobbitlaunch process. When running this command we are left with many stray processes, not just a vmstat. For example: /usr/local/bin/ssh -l root 10.6.6.6 sysstat -m -c1 290 sh -c (/usr/local/bin/ssh -l root 10.6.6.5 sysstat -x -c1 290 >/export/home/hob Doing a bit more digging it seems these are related to an ext/netapp monitor perl script. Taking this out leaves less processes (although I don't want to leave it out forever so I'll have to do a bit of digging around to find out how to kill these gracefully) however because the iostats do not finish the SMF reports a failure rather than a disable when I try to stop the monitor. This means the SMF can't restart the bbserver if it ever crashes. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Buchan Milne" <bgmilne at staff.telkomsa.net> To: <hobbit at hswn.dk> Cc: <j.sansford at ntlworld.com> Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 3:52 PM Subject: Re: [hobbit] hobbit.sh not stopping server correctly > On Monday, 17 August 2009 11:04:36 j.sansford at ntlworld.com wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I think I have an issue with 4.2.3 where the hobbit.sh is not stopping the >> server correctly. Running "./hobbit.sh stop" doesn't stop all the hobbit >> processes > > Which processes remain? A vmstat running as the hobbit / xymon user? > >> and so I can't install this as a service currently. Could anyone >> help me to debug why this is happening? I'm not really sure where to go >> from here. > > It's a bit difficult with no information. A stray vmstat process after stopping > xymon is expected, and using the example init scripts provided in the debian > or rpm directories works on many distros ... > > Regards, > Buchan > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > >

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xymon - hobbitd_alert Program crashed Fatal signal caught!
by william.wagner＠ipacc.com 18 Aug '09

18 Aug '09

I have xymon 4.2.3 server running on solaris 10. This is a new xymon install and I have been setting up the initial alerts and changing hobbit-clients.cfg and hobbit-alerts.cfg. Alerts are generally working as I intended. However, at some point, I also began getting the following alert: Hobbit [398021] xymon:hobbitd_alert stopped reporting (PURPLE) red - Program crashed Fatal signal caught! The hobbitd_alert process continues to run (see below) and alerts continue to be generated. I have backed out almost all my changes to hobbit-alerts.cfg so it is "bare bones". The crashes continue. Any suggestions on how to troubleshoot this? I would enable debugging per the hobbitd_alert MAN page if I could determine how to do that. thanks in advance, Bill $ ptree 29939 29931 /export/home/xymon/server/bin/hobbitlaunch --config=/export/home/xymon/server/e 29939 hobbitd_channel --channel=page --log=/var/log/xymon/page.log hobbitd_alert --ch 29943 hobbitd_alert --checkpoint-file=/export/home/xymon/server/tmp/alert.chk --check $

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Windows Load AVS
by gleonard＠progrexion.com 17 Aug '09

17 Aug '09

I have a fairly beefy windows server that is hitting high cpu load avs more than I would think it should.. i am trying to determine if its actually the server or if I need to adjust my bbnt settings. if my server is a dual quad core, should i be setting the bbnt thresholds at 380% and 400% on the cpu utilization because of the quad core instead of 90%-100%? thanks in advance.. -Gavin Gavin Leonard [cid:image001.gif at 01CA1F4E.C22BC900] Director, Systems-Network Engineering T 801-828-1735 F 801-828-1704 E gleonard at progrexion.com<mailto:gleonard at progrexion.com> Research | Marketing | Sales Generation www.progrexion.com<http://www.progrexion.com/> This email and its contents are confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, delete this email and do not use or disclose the information within this email or its attachments. Thank you.

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