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[hobbit][bbwin-users] bbwin files graph
by massimo.morsiani＠gilbarco.com 10 Aug '09

10 Aug '09

Hi all, I'm using BBWin 0.12 in central mode with Xymon 4.2.3 and I need to monitor&graph the number of files in some specific folders on my Windows systems. What is proper syntax I have to write in client-local.cfg and hobbit-clients.cfg? Is there anyone that can help me? Thanks in advance. Regards. Massimo Morsiani Information Technology Dept. ------ Gilbarco S.r.l. via de' Cattani, 220/G 50145 Firenze, Italy tel: +39-055-30941 fax: +39-055-318603 email: massimo.morsiani at gilbarco.com web: http://www.gilbarco.it Please be advised that this email may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, copy or re-transmit this email. If you have received this email in error, please notify us by email by replying to the sender and by telephone (call us collect at +1 202-828-0850) and delete this message and any attachments. Thank you in advance for your cooperation and assistance. In addition, Danaher and its subsidiaries disclaim that the content of this email constitutes an offer to enter into, or the acceptance of, any contract or agreement or any amendment thereto; provided that the foregoing disclaimer does not invalidate the binding effect of any digital or other electronic reproduction of a manual signature that is included in any attachment to this email.

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init.d scripts for Xymon under Ubuntu 8.04 (hardy)
by thomleavitt＠gmail.com 07 Aug '09

07 Aug '09

Background: I'm running Xymon release 4.3.0-0.beta2. Installed via tarball. I've been trying to adapt the init.d scripts provided with Karmic Koala (along with the stuff in /etc/hobbit and /usr/share/hobbit/), and I have Xymon starting (client and server), but for some reason, the bb.html generated is blank (doesn't list any clients). I want something more sophisticated than a simple call to hobbit.sh or runclient.sh, etc., so that's why I'm going with the stuff released in karmic. I'm not a super savvy guy script wise, and I'm not fully conversant in how bb.html is generated (by bbgen)... Scripts below. Regards, Thomas Note: /etc/hobbit consists of symlinks to files stored in /home/xymon/server/etc /etc/init.d/hobbit #!/bin/sh # Startup script for the Hobbit monitor # # This starts the "hobbitlaunch" tool, which in turn starts # all of the other Hobbit server programs. ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: hobbit # Required-Start: $remote_fs $network # Should-Start: $all # Required-Stop: $remote_fs # Default-Start: 2 3 4 5 # Default-Stop: 0 1 6 # Short-Description: Hobbit system monitor server # Description: Hobbit system monitor, server part. # (Also monitors the local host.) ### END INIT INFO PIDFILE=/var/run/hobbit/hobbitlaunch.pid DAEMON=/home/xymon/server/bin/hobbitlaunch NAME="hobbitd" DESC="Hobbit Server" HOBBITSERVERHOME=/home/xymon/server test -x $DAEMON || exit 0 . /lib/lsb/init-functions . /usr/share/hobbit/init-common.sh # Include hobbitclient defaults if available if [ -f /etc/default/hobbit-client ] ; then . /etc/default/hobbit-client fi case "$1" in "start") create_includefiles log_daemon_msg "Starting $DESC" "$NAME" start-stop-daemon --exec $DAEMON --chuid xymon --umask 022 --start \ -- \ --config=/etc/hobbit/hobbitlaunch.cfg \ --env=/etc/hobbit/hobbitserver.cfg \ --log=$HOBBITSERVERHOME/logs/hobbitlaunch.log \ --pidfile=$PIDFILE log_end_msg $? ;; "stop") log_daemon_msg "Stopping $DESC" "$NAME" start-stop-daemon --exec $DAEMON --pidfile $PIDFILE --stop --retry 5 log_end_msg $? ;; "status") if test -s $PIDFILE then kill -0 `cat $PIDFILE` if test $? -eq 0 then echo "Hobbit (hobbitlaunch) running with PID `cat $PIDFILE`" exit 0 else echo "Hobbit not running, removing stale PID file" rm -f $PIDFILE exit 1 fi else echo "Hobbit (hobbitlaunch) does not appear to be running" exit 3 fi ;; "restart") if test -s $PIDFILE then $0 stop sleep 1 $0 start else log_action_msg "hobbitlaunch does not appear to be running, starting it" $0 start fi ;; "reload"|"force-reload") if test -s $PIDFILE then create_includefiles log_action_msg "Reloading hobbitd config" kill -HUP `cat /var/run/hobbit/hobbitd.pid` else log_action_msg "hobbitd not running (no PID file)" fi ;; "rotate") for PIDFILE in /var/run/hobbit/*.pid do test -e $PIDFILE && kill -HUP `cat $PIDFILE` done ;; *) echo "Usage: $0 start|stop|restart|force-reload|reload|status|rotate" break; esac exit 0

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xymon 4.2.3 client compile error on solaris 10
by william.wagner＠ipacc.com 07 Aug '09

07 Aug '09

Can anyone explain the following client compile error? thanks, Bill # gmake MAKE="gmake" CC="gcc" CFLAGS="-g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -DSunOS -I. -I`pwd`/include -DCLIENTONLY=1" LDFLAGS="" `pwd`/build/ge nconfig.sh Checking for socklen_t Checking for snprintf Checking for vsnprintf Checking for rpc/rpcent.h Checking for sys/select.h Checking for u_int32_t typedef Checking for PATH_MAX definition Checking for SHUT_RD/WR/RDWR definitions config.h created CC="gcc" CFLAGS="-g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -DSunOS -I. -I`pwd`/include -DCLIENTONLY=1" LDFLAGS="" OSDEF="-DSunOS" RPATHOPT="" PCREINCDIR="" SSLFLAGS="" SSLINCDIR="" SSLLIBS="" NETLIBS="-lresolv -lsocket -lnsl" LIBRTDEF="" BBTOPDIR="/export/home/xymon" BBLOGDIR="" BBHOSTNAME="" BBHOSTIP="10.90.2.100" BBHOSTOS="" LOCALCLIENT="no" gmake -C lib client gmake[1]: Entering directory `/opt/xymon-4.2.3/lib' gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -DSunOS -I. -I/opt/xymon-4.2.3/include -DCLIENTONLY=1 -I. -I../include -o test-endianness test -endianness.c gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -DSunOS -I. -I/opt/xymon-4.2.3/include -DCLIENTONLY=1 -I. -I../include -c -o osdefs.o osdefs .c gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -DSunOS -I. -I/opt/xymon-4.2.3/include -DCLIENTONLY=1 -I. -I../include -c -o cgiurls.o cgiur ls.c gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -DSunOS -I. -I/opt/xymon-4.2.3/include -DCLIENTONLY=1 -I. -I../include -DCLIENTONLY -c -o colo r-client.o color.c gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -DSunOS -I. -I/opt/xymon-4.2.3/include -DCLIENTONLY=1 -I. -I../include -c -o digest.o digest .c gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -DSunOS -I. -I/opt/xymon-4.2.3/include -DCLIENTONLY=1 -I. -I../include -c -o encoding.o enco ding.c gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -DSunOS -I. -I/opt/xymon-4.2.3/include -DCLIENTONLY=1 -I. -I../include -DBBTOPDIR=\"/export/ho me/xymon\" -DBBLOGDIR=\"\" -DBBHOSTNAME=\"\" -DBBHOSTIP=\"10.90.2.100\" -DBBHOSTOS=\"\" -DBUILD_HOME=\"/export/home/xymon/client\" -c -o e nviron-client.o environ.c gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -DSunOS -I. -I/opt/xymon-4.2.3/include -DCLIENTONLY=1 -I. -I../include -c -o errormsg.o erro rmsg.c gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -DSunOS -I. -I/opt/xymon-4.2.3/include -DCLIENTONLY=1 -I. -I../include -c -o ipaccess.o ipac cess.c gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -DSunOS -I. -I/opt/xymon-4.2.3/include -DCLIENTONLY=1 -I. -I../include -c -o loadhosts.o loadh osts.c loadhosts.c: In function `bbh_item_id': loadhosts.c:523: warning: return discards qualifiers from pointer target type gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -DSunOS -I. -I/opt/xymon-4.2.3/include -DCLIENTONLY=1 -I. -I../include -c -o md5.o md5.c gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -DSunOS -I. -I/opt/xymon-4.2.3/include -DCLIENTONLY=1 -I. -I../include -c -o memory.o memory .c gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -DSunOS -I. -I/opt/xymon-4.2.3/include -DCLIENTONLY=1 -I. -I../include -c -o misc.o misc.c gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -DSunOS -I. -I/opt/xymon-4.2.3/include -DCLIENTONLY=1 -I. -I../include -c -o rbtr.o rbtr.c gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -DSunOS -I. -I/opt/xymon-4.2.3/include -DCLIENTONLY=1 -I. -I../include `./test-endianness` -c -o rmd160c.o rmd160c.c gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -DSunOS -I. -I/opt/xymon-4.2.3/include -DCLIENTONLY=1 -I. -I../include -c -o sendmsg.o sendm sg.c gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -DSunOS -I. -I/opt/xymon-4.2.3/include -DCLIENTONLY=1 -I. -I../include `./test-endianness` -c -o sha1.o sha1.c gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -DSunOS -I. -I/opt/xymon-4.2.3/include -DCLIENTONLY=1 -I. -I../include -c -o sig.o sig.c gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -DSunOS -I. -I/opt/xymon-4.2.3/include -DCLIENTONLY=1 -I. -I../include -c -o stackio.o stack io.c gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -DSunOS -I. -I/opt/xymon-4.2.3/include -DCLIENTONLY=1 -I. -I../include -c -o strfunc.o strfu nc.c gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -DSunOS -I. -I/opt/xymon-4.2.3/include -DCLIENTONLY=1 -I. -I../include -c -o suid.o suid.c gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -DSunOS -I. -I/opt/xymon-4.2.3/include -DCLIENTONLY=1 -I. -I../include -DCLIENTONLY -c -o time func-client.o timefunc.c ar cr hobbitclient.a osdefs.o cgiurls.o color-client.o digest.o encoding.o environ-client.o errormsg.o ipaccess.o loadhosts.o md5.o memory .o misc.o rbtr.o rmd160c.o sendmsg.o sha1.o sig.o stackio.o strfunc.o suid.o timefunc-client.o ranlib hobbitclient.a || echo "" gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/xymon-4.2.3/lib' CC="gcc" CFLAGS="-g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -DSunOS -I. -I`pwd`/include -DCLIENTONLY=1" LDFLAGS="" RPATHOPT="" SSLFLAGS="" SSL INCDIR="" SSLLIBS="" NETLIBS="-lresolv -lsocket -lnsl" LIBRTDEF="" BBHOME="/export/home/xymon/client" gmake -C common client gmake[1]: Entering directory `/opt/xymon-4.2.3/common' gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -DSunOS -I. -I/opt/xymon-4.2.3/include -DCLIENTONLY=1 -c -o bb.o bb.c gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -DSunOS -I. -I/opt/xymon-4.2.3/include -DCLIENTONLY=1 -o ../client/bb bb.o ../lib/hobbitclient. a -lresolv -lsocket -lnsl Undefined first referenced symbol in file clock_gettime ../lib/hobbitclient.a(timefunc-client.o) ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to ../client/bb collect2: ld returned 1 exit status gmake[1]: *** [../client/bb] Error 1 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/xymon-4.2.3/common' gmake: *** [common-client] Error 2 #

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CPU Load on AIX
by Cedric.Lang＠orlandohealth.com 07 Aug '09

07 Aug '09

I have setup the Hobbit client on an AIX box running o/s level 6.2 and everything is working except the CPU test. Even with a load on the server, no load is reporting to Hobbit. Thus, no graphing is taken place. The server has been up for 41 days, but still not registering anything under cpu load. It shows the days up, number of users, number or procs, but load remains at 0.00 Has anyone ever seen this problem? I haven't been able to find any other post that was remotely similar to my issue. The only thing different about this particular AIX server than others is the O/S level. Not sure if that's part of the issue but it's the only anomaly in the whole equation. Please, if you have any advice or suggestions, I'm open. Cedric ________________________________ This e-mail message and any attached files are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the addressee(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, any review, use, or distribution of this e-mail message and any attached files is strictly prohibited. This communication may contain material protected by Federal privacy regulations, attorney-client work product, or other privileges. If you have received this confidential communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail message and permanently delete the original message. To reply to our email administrator directly, send an email to: postmaster at orlandohealth.com . If this e-mail message concerns a contract matter, be advised that no employee or agent is authorized to conclude any binding agreement on behalf of Orlando Health by e-mail without express written confirmation by an officer of the corporation. Any views or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Orlando Health.

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how to get immidiate display status change on reboot of a server in xymon
by pankaj.dorlikar＠gmail.com 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

hello, on server reboot xymon dont give any status cahnge as it is a quick reboot.How to know this reboot status? -- Pankaj V. Dorlikar

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ping times difference
by thomas＠bergauer.org 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

Hi! I am using Xymon 4.3.0 beta2 and observing an phenomenon which is not clear to me: If I ping a host on the machine the hobbit server is running on, I get ping times of 9ms (constantly). When I watch the hobbit conn page of this host, it reports 60ms response time (this value us also shown in the rrd graph) -- but the ping is done from the same host than the manual one. Could somebody explain me where the different ping times come from? Thomas

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Monitoring Netware -
by stella＠rider.edu 05 Aug '09

05 Aug '09

Hello, I downloaded the Netware Client at http://www.hswn.dk/beta/snapshot/contrib/netware based on a msg from January. I'd rather avoid having to load the MRTG NLM as there are reports of the NLM failing. We are running netware 6 SP3. So far so good, and the script is collecting data (this is running on the hobbit server) but the data is not being processed. The scripts run and a msg.my.host.name.tmp is created. The contents look like: client my,host,name.netware_snmp netware_snmp [nlm] ... [df] ... But I'm getting on clientdata.log the following: 2009-08-05 17:28:31 No client backend for OS 'netware_snmp' sent by xx.xx.xx.xx Also, in hobbitlaunch, I had to add env and needs hobbitd or else I would get the following: 2009-08-05 17:33:27 Could not connect to bbd at xx.xx.xx.xx:1984 - Connection refused 2009-08-05 17:33:27 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - Connection failed 2009-08-05 17:33:27 Cannot fetch Hobbit status, ignoring --no-down My hobbitlaunch section looks like: [netwareclient] ENVFILE /usr/local/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg NEEDS hobbitd LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/netwareclient.log CMD $BBHOME/ext/hobbitclient-netware.sh INTERVAL 5m Any clues? TIA...

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[hobbit] Monitoring "internet"
by Craig.Cook＠carquest.com 05 Aug '09

05 Aug '09

>You can use the bbcombotest to merge the result of all your http content/status check in a single check. >in bbcombotest.cfg you can put something like: > >internet.connect = internet.cont1 && internet.cont2 && internet.cont3 > >remember to change the hobbitlaunch.cfg to include the launch of bbcombotest Yes, you need to use bbcombotest. I would not recommend this though: internet.connect = internet.cont && internet2.cont && internet3.cont Something like this is safer... internet.connect = (internet1.cont + internet2.cont + internet3.cont) >= 2 I have used this method before to monitor major 4 web sites and seen one of them fail to respond. The other 3 were fine so I knew our internet connection was okay. Craig

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Monitoring "internet"
by stella＠rider.edu 05 Aug '09

05 Aug '09

Hello, We have a request to monitor 'internet' connectivity. (When it comes from higherups...) Just pinging up the line might not be good enough as we've had issues with our providers in the recent past. So I figured ping several well known hosts out in the cloud and if all are out, then we have no 'internet'. I came out with the following. Seems to work, but figure I run it thru the list in case someone else has done this already... page internet Internet Connectivity 127.0.0.1 INTERNET # conn=ip1,ip2,ip3,ip4,ip5 TIA...

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DNS not ok using xymon but ok using BB
by william.wagner＠ipacc.com 05 Aug '09

05 Aug '09

I have recently installed xymon 4.2.3 on a solaris 10 platform. I also have BB running on another solaris 10 server. The BB server has been running for years. My issue: I am monitoring seven DNS servers. BB reports all seven as DNS OK. However xymon reports five servers as 'not ok'. I am unable to determine why the DNS test fails on these servers. I have tested by changing hobbitlaunch.cfg to use: CMD bbtest-net --no-ares --debug --report --ping --checkresponse I did not see any useful information from the log: 2009-08-04 15:33:30 Adding to combo msg: status <server>.dns red  Tue Aug 4 15:33:07 2009 dns NOT ok status <server>.dns red  Tue Aug 4 15:33:07 2009 dns NOT ok Any ideas? thanks, Bill Wagner

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