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[hobbit] Newbie Issues
by DGoodridge＠somervillema.gov 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

Hi Josh, Issue 1 - Now, if I look at status page, the status is red, but I can ping the ip from the hobbit server Bb-hosts for this test is as follows: 216.20.63.145 mec-dns1 # NET:brutus 216.20.63.147 mec-dns2 # NET:brutus Hobbit-alerts.cfg (omitted comments) --------- $pg-city-email=MAIL dgoodridge at somervillema.gov,edasilva at somervillema.gov $pg-sps-email=MAIL sharradan at k12.somerville.ma.us $IGNPAT=%(annex-nw|gozo|mis-server) $IGNPAT2=%(annex-nw|gozo|mis-server|sps*|finance) $SCHOOLS=%(sps|finance) EXPAGE=sps-servers COLOR=red MAIL dgoodridge at somervillema.gov EXPAGE=sps-servers,achieve EXHOST=%(svf-nt|svfunix|somerville|spd-mail|spd-main) EXSERVICE=%(if_stat|http) TIME=12345:0800:17 00 COLOR=red SCRIPT /bb/hms/server/ext/page-limit.pl 6175629776 at myairmail.com $pg-city-email PAGE=sps-servers TIME=0123456:0000:2400 $pg-sps-email HOST=%(SIS-WEB-01|SIS-DATA-01) MAIL jbreslin at k12.somerville.ma.us,sharradan at k12.somerville.ma.us Thanks, Dave -----Original Message----- From: Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 3:25 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Newbie Issues Issue 1 - what is your hobbit-alert.conf Issue 2 - no hobbit uses the mail command. Can you give us more detail as to what the email error is? On 4/1/09, Goodridge, David <DGoodridge at somervillema.gov> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm new to hobbit and linux so please bear with me. I've looked at > some of the conf files, but can't seem to resolve a couple of issues. > > Issue 1 - keep getting critical messages even when status is green on > status screen. Messages come every 5 minutes. > > Issue 2 - some messages are not getting thru. has hobbit installed > it's own email server? i've run a mailq command and see a bunch of > messages saying "connection refused" to a specific server. not sure > why it's trying to connect to that server. > > Thanks, > Dave > -- Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. --- Henry Spencer To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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[hobbit] Newbie Issues
by DGoodridge＠somervillema.gov 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

Hi Josh, Issue 2 - over 3000 items in mailq. This is just 1 of the messages. I don't know why it's trying to connect to that host. Where would this be set?? F162513EF9 992 Wed Apr 1 14:56:39 bb at brutus.somerville.ma.us (delivery temporarily suspended: connect to harbor.somerville.ma.us[216.20.121.4]: Connection refused) sharradan at k12.somerville.ma.us -- 4188 Kbytes in 3159 Requests. Thanks, Dave -----Original Message----- From: Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 3:25 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Newbie Issues Issue 1 - what is your hobbit-alert.conf Issue 2 - no hobbit uses the mail command. Can you give us more detail as to what the email error is? On 4/1/09, Goodridge, David <DGoodridge at somervillema.gov> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm new to hobbit and linux so please bear with me. I've looked at > some of the conf files, but can't seem to resolve a couple of issues. > > Issue 1 - keep getting critical messages even when status is green on > status screen. Messages come every 5 minutes. > > Issue 2 - some messages are not getting thru. has hobbit installed > it's own email server? i've run a mailq command and see a bunch of > messages saying "connection refused" to a specific server. not sure > why it's trying to connect to that server. > > Thanks, > Dave > -- Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. --- Henry Spencer To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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Newbie Issues
by DGoodridge＠somervillema.gov 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

Hello, I'm new to hobbit and linux so please bear with me. I've looked at some of the conf files, but can't seem to resolve a couple of issues. Issue 1 - keep getting critical messages even when status is green on status screen. Messages come every 5 minutes. Issue 2 - some messages are not getting thru. has hobbit installed it's own email server? i've run a mailq command and see a bunch of messages saying "connection refused" to a specific server. not sure why it's trying to connect to that server. Thanks, Dave

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Remove test columns
by john.hamblin＠motion-it.co.uk 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

Hi, I have created a couple of test scripts which added columns to my main display "PCInfo" and "test" respectively. I no longer want these columns to show up as they are not reporting and their scripts have been removed. How do I do this? I tried running: /~/server/bin/bb 127.0.0.1 "drop HOSTNAME test" But this hasn't made any difference. Any ideas please? Thanks, John

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How do I prevent red/purple alert storm from Xymon server ?
by tj_yang＠hotmail.com 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

New entry added. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Other_Docs/HOWTO#… Please contribute if you have better idea on "how to fix" section. T.J. Yang _________________________________________________________________ Express your personality in color! Preview and select themes for Hotmail®. http://www.windowslive-hotmail.com/LearnMore/personalize.aspx?ocid=TXT_MSGT…

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Problem with "TITLE exec:" in hobbitgraph.cfg
by hobbit＠general-failure.com 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

I'm having trouble getting "TITLE exec:" working (currently running xymon 4.2.3 on debian lenny). The hobbitgraph.cfg snippet: [mrtg] .. TITLE exec:/usr/local/hobbit/bin/lun-title.sh .. .. the file /usr/local/hobbit/bin/lun-title.sh: -rwxr-xr-x 1 hobbit hobbit 395 2009-03-30 11:46 lun-title.sh ------------<cut>------------ #!/bin/sh HOSTNAME="$1"; shift GTYPE="$1"; shift LEGEND="$1"; shift RRD="$1"; shift echo "RRD=$RRD, rest is $*" >>/tmp/title.log MRTGSET="`echo $RRD | sed -e's/\.rrd$//'`" echo "MRTGSET=$MRTGSET" >>/tmp/title.log # MRTGTITLE=`grep -i "Title\[$MRTGSET\]:" /etc/lun-title.cfg | cut -d: -f2-` MRTGTITLE="IOPS per lun" echo "TITLE=$MRTGTITLE" >>/tmp/title.log echo "$MRTGTITLE $LEGEND" exit 0 ------------<cut>------------ So the title should (at the moment) always be "IOPS per lun" but I've got the feeling that the script isn't even executed since it isn't logging to the /tmp/title.log file. I can't find anything wrong in /var/log/xymon/* files. The graph itself works fine but the title is random 'crap' with every refresh (see attached example). Any help would be appreciated

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Access to Xymon data via library functions?
by Martin.Ward＠colt.net 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

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[hobbit] local client 4.2.0 and logs/files report
by geraud.guibert＠free.fr 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

hello everyone, i'm just installing the hobbit version 4.2.0 from source (--local type only) on servers, to replace the old packages that differ from one plaftorm to another at least, most of the default services work nicely, except for the <msgs>+<logs>+<files> :-( am i wrong or it's normal when instaling only the local client part ? does the client never fetch the client-local.cfg on the server, or is there a way to force it ? at last, i've found an undoubtly known and short work-around (logfetch related instead of an additional 'checklog' plugin), but i would prefer the clean and offcicial method ;-) thx in advance Geraud Guibert

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HA-Hobbit with Linux HA 2
by Harald.Husemann＠materna.de 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

Hi folks, as written to the list a few days ago, we're running Hobbit on a Linux HA-2 cluster with DRBD. Runs very nice, and the setup is not very complicated, so as promised, here are some notes if you like to make your Hobbit high available: (This is more or less a summary of our installation, and not tested but written from memory - maybe someone can test it and write a real step-by-step guide) 1. Install Linux-HA on both nodes 2. Build a DRBD resource for the Hobbit files, as described in http://www.drbd.org/docs/about/ 3. Setup a Hobbit group 4. Setup a failover IP resource in the Hobbit group, with a DNS entry if you have DNS 5. Install apache, and setup an apache failover resource in the Hobbit group for it 6. Setup a colocation constraint, and bind the Hobbit group to the DRBD resource 7. Setup an order constraint, to have DRBD started before Hobbit starts 8. Setup a Hobbit user as usual, and link its home directory to the DRBD resource. This way, all Hobbit config files, datafiles, etc. are on DRBD , and you don't have to fiddle around with syncing the configs etc. 9. Configure Hobbit sources as usual, with some notes: - Use the failover IP as Hobbit's server IP - Everywhere you would enter the Hobbitserver's name, enter the name of the failover IP (e.g., for the web-based stuff) 10. Try to start Hobbit: It should run as normal. 11. Stop it, switch everything to the other node, and try to start Hobbit again. If everything's okay, stop it, and you're ready for the final step: 12. Copy the attached script "hobbit" to /usr/lib/ocf/resource.d/heartbeat/ ON BOTH NODES 13. Setup a Hobbit resource (e.g. by using the hb_gui and selecting "hobbit", which should be visible after a restart of the GUI). 14. Start the Hobbit resource That's it, now, your Hobbit should be redundant and monitored by the OCF system. Some final notes: - Be sure to use the failover IP as BBDISPLAY on all your clients - NEVER start/stop/restart Hobbit with hobbit.sh, since you could end up with two running Hobbit instances (the cluster will see that hobbitd is down, and start it itself). reload is (obviously) okay, since it will not restart the process. - If you like to monitor your Hobbit nodes themselves, install a second Hobbit (client) instance under a different user (e.g. hobbitmon), which is not under cluster control. Without this, only the active node will be monitored, since the server (and the client) runs only on this node. HTH, hh -- Harald Husemann Netzwerk- und Systemadministrator Operation Management Center (OMC) MATERNA GmbH Information & Communications Westfalendamm 98 44141 Dortmund Geschäftsführer: Dr. Winfried Materna, Helmut an de Meulen, Ralph Hartwig Amtsgericht Dortmund HRB 5839 Tel: +49 231 9505 222 Fax: +49 231 9505 100 www.annyway.com <http://www.annyway.com/> www.materna.com <http://www.materna.com/>

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[hobbit] xymon ready to replace bb?
by bgmilne＠staff.telkomsa.net 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

On Thursday 26 March 2009 15:40:16 Galen Johnson wrote: > While I don't want to minimize TJ's work, I don't believe people realize > that Xymonton, the Xymon repository for custom tests, is actually built on > top of Dokuwiki. This is exactly the type of information the tutorials page > was meant to capture. It might be helpful if we had a one stop shop for > all things Xymon instead of going one place for scripts and another for > docs. Hmm, well, Sourceforge now has hosted applications for projects, including mediawiki wiki's. If something is to be a one-stop-shop, I think sourceforge is currently in a better position to do this. However, I think a hobbitmon project admin is required to enable the mediawiki application. Other available hosted applications include: Gallery LimeSurvey phpBB Wordpress (and many more) I've enabled mediawiki for Devmon, but haven't gotten around to putting any content there yet: http://apps.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/devmon/ Regards, Buchan

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