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[hobbit] Hobbit startup script.
by Craig.Cook＠carquest.com 16 Jun '09

16 Jun '09

>Sorry I wasn't asking how to do it, just why the script has to run as >hobbit when you install out of the box. It's a security thing. It is not good practice to run applications as root. If someone exploits a "let to be discovered" bug in Xymon they will not be able to crash it and become root. Craig

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Xmon 4.3 - serious RRD update problem?
by asparks＠doublesparks.net 15 Jun '09

15 Jun '09

Testing Xymon 4.3 beta2 on CentOS 4.7 (x86_64 and i686) systems. I've noticed the updates to RRD files are not synchronized to disk in a timely manner. For instance, for a random host, the rrd files list as follows: -rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit hobbit 38624 Jun 12 17:10 ifstat.eth0.1005.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit hobbit 38624 Jun 12 16:50 ifstat.eth0.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit hobbit 19640 Jun 12 17:00 la.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit hobbit 19640 Jun 12 17:05 memory.actual.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit hobbit 19640 Jun 12 17:20 memory.real.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit hobbit 19640 Jun 12 17:25 memory.swap.rrd -rw-r--r-- 1 hobbit hobbit 304400 Jun 12 17:40 netstat.rrd There is a huge disparity in timestamps on these files. Curiously, if I refresh the trends page for the host a time or two, the files will suddenly come up to date. I assume there is some write caching behavior in some part of Xymon that is not flushing data until a timeout, or until (perhaps) something tells it to? This causes graphs to have some missing data until the user hits refresh. Also, we use DRRAW, which will not see timely updates. Is this a known issue in the beta? -Alan

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CERT tag and Firefox
by lebarber＠gmail.com 15 Jun '09

15 Jun '09

Does anybody out there know how to export an SSL certificate from Firefox for use with the CERT tag in bb-hosts? The man pages tell you how to do it with IE, but I don't have access to an IE instance. Thanks, Larry Barber

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Using CERT with Firefox
by lebarber＠gmail.com 15 Jun '09

15 Jun '09

Does anybody out there know how to export an SSL certificate (for use with the 'CERT' keyword in bb-hosts) using Firefox and where it belongs in the Hobbit directories? The man pages tell you how to it with IE, but I don't have access to IE. Thanks, Larry Barber

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changing the ssh port for clients as ssh runs on different port than 22 but for some clients
by pankaj.dorlikar＠gmail.com 15 Jun '09

15 Jun '09

hello, i have xymon 4.2.2 running with 288 clients out of which 4-5 clients have ssh configured to run on different port than port 22.gso where and how do i change the configuration so that ssh test should not indicate red for those nodes. how to remove some test showing purple staus on client and server also. help.. -- Pankaj V. Dorlikar

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BBWin Ext Scripts after 30min are unavaliable
by camorae＠googlemail.com 15 Jun '09

15 Jun '09

Hi guys, im monitoring with some external scripts on my BBWin and when i try to set up the "check time" higher (like one time a day) I noticed that the column get unavaliable after 30 minutes for this client. Is it a know issue? I also tryed to put this paragraphs (i readed it here somewhere) in the hobbit-client.cfg: MAXMSG_DATA="5242880" MAXMSG_CLIENT="5242880" MAXMSG_STATUS="5242880" Nothing works... do i have to setup something else on server/client side? TIA

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Installing Xymon Client
by Cedric.Lang＠orlandohealth.com 12 Jun '09

12 Jun '09

I was wondering if anyone has had any issues with installing the new xymon client. Recently, I installed the client on a server that was running the old hobbit client just fine. Once I installed the xymon client and I ran the start command, I received the following: su - xymon -c "/xymon/xymon-4.3.0-beta2/client/runclient.sh start" Cannot write to the /xymon/xymon-4.3.0-beta2/client/logs directory So I tried to run the ./configure.client but during the setup it said that the following was missing: Checking for the PCRE libraries Checking for PCRE ... PCRE include- or library-files not found. These are REQUIRED for hobbitd PCRE can be found at http://www.pcre.org/ If you have PCRE installed, use the "--pcreinclude DIR" and "--pcrelib DIR" options to configure to specify where they are. I don't remembering having to do all this to just get the hobbit client running. What am I missing? Thanks. ________________________________ 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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[hobbit] ZONESTAT and MPSTAT graphs show as broken links
by John.Browning＠sas.com 12 Jun '09

12 Jun '09

Kevin, Let's try and keep traffic on the list. I didn't do anything different than what the instructions said except I found this on a posting which worked for me. This is what should be in your bb-hosts file for your host. 10.x.x.x foo # TRENDS:*,zonestat:zonestatcpu|zonestatmem|zonestatnproc|zonestatsize|zonersssize,mpstat:mpstatusr|mpstatsys|mpstatwt|mpstatidl Hope this helps! -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Kelly [mailto:kkelly at lifetouch.com] Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 10:25 AM To: John Browning Subject: RE: [hobbit] ZONESTAT and MPSTAT graphs show as broken links John - I hope it is okay to contract you directly, but I have had no luck with posting it. I am having trouble with the zonestat.sh not showing up. Just wondering how you managed to get yours working? Did you do anything that different than what the instructions say to do? Thanks in advance! -Kevin -----Original Message----- From: John Browning [mailto:John.Browning at sas.com] Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 1:45 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] ZONESTAT and MPSTAT graphs show as broken links Figured it out. Problem was with the BB-HOSTS line, needed TRENDS:*,mpstat..etc -------------------------------------------- John Browning UNIX Systems Administrator R&D DataCenter www.sas.com<http://www.sas.com/> SAS(r) ... THE POWER TO KNOW(r) To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk ______________________________________________________________________ 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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Centralized monitoring and custom checks
by marney＠teramedica.com 12 Jun '09

12 Jun '09

Hi, We're evaluating Xymon to monitor our Java application at client sites. We will be writing custom checks, but we'd like to set thresholds for colors (and alerts) at the server. It seems like HOBBIT-CLIENTS.CFG would be the place to do this, but I don't see how I would list my custom service check there. I should add: more than half our clients' servers are Windows (rest are Solaris or AIX), so I've been playing with bbwin. It seems to have an option "bbwinupdate" where it pulls config files from the Xymon server. I think that would work for us, but it doesn't help us for the Unix boxes. Thanks, Mike Arney Database Engineer marney at teramedica.com<mailto:kbrahm at teramedica.com> www.teramedica.com<http://www.teramedica.com>

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[hobbit] False red alerts for disk
by Craig.Cook＠carquest.com 12 Jun '09

12 Jun '09

>Did you solve it by increasing the max size of the messages? I increased these in hobbitserver.cfg (if they are not there add them in) MAXLINE= MAXMSG_STATUS= MAXMSG_CLIENT= I have not seen the weird disk errors since. Craig

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