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Ignore line in hobbit-alerts.cfg
by Paul.Root＠qwest.com 16 Dec '08

16 Dec '08

Hi, I'm running 2.4.0 on Solaris 10. We have a machine that restarts a service at 2am, It's backup by 2:20. We put the ignore statement in like this: HOST=%$HG-PRIMARY COLOR=red EXSERVICE=memory DURATION>7 MAIL $NG-IM-ADMIN IGNORE HOST=iadpimp1-vsnl.interprise.com SERVICE=proc TIME=*:0200:0230 MAIL $NG-IM-ONCALL FORMAT=SMS The host is in the HG-PRIMARY group as iadpimp1-vsnl(.*) But we still get the page. We tested it with a made up service and it worked perfectly. Tonight, I'm trying the DOWNTIME= directive in bb-hosts, but that's kind of a big net. I would rather continue monitoring all other functions. Oh, both the client and the server are zones. Not that that should matter. Any ideas about what going on? Thanks, Paul. Paul Root 612-664-3385 651-707-7043 IM/MNS Infrastructure This communication is the property of Qwest and may contain confidential or privileged information. Unauthorized use of this communication is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the communication and any attachments.

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server fails to receive all of client message
by mailinglists＠websitemanagers.com.au 16 Dec '08

16 Dec '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I have a hobbit server which has been running for a long time quite nicely. Recently, I noticed it was consuming approx 8G worth of data per month (from all the remote clients reporting their data). This was costing quite a bit of money (we pay per MB), so I modified all the client to report using a different IP (and hence provider which has much cheaper rates). Anyway, the problem is that approximately since then, a number of client reports are not completely received. Sometimes some of the ps output is truncated, sometimes the ports sections is truncated, etc. This leads to false positive alerts (ie, procs goes red because some monitored procs are not running since they were after the truncated section). I've increased the timeout on the hobbitd (--timeout=60) but this doesn't seem to have helped. The only common factor between the clients which have this problem are: 1) Most of them are running bbproxy and passing status messages from a number of clients. 2) The rest of them are on very slow connections, or frequently very busy connections. Around the same time I actually 'fixed' bbproxy to on the remote sites, prior to this the clients were reporting directly to both hobbit servers. I've looked for an option to stop bbproxy from 'cacheing and combining' multiple clients into a single connection, but this doesn't seem to be possible. I don't seem to get any logs/alerts from hobbit when this happens. Can anyone suggest where I should look, what I can do to try and resolve this? (My main problem is that I've started ignoring the late night SMS notifications, and I'm sure I will end up missing something important because of that). Running hobbit version 4.2.0 from package 4.2.0-1 on the server. Thanks, Adam - -- Adam Goryachev Website Managers www.websitemanagers.com.au -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIHn+dGyoxogrTyiURAg/tAJ9Lgz930wMxCssZwOKQI6Tb05bncACfcRxJ Z6ofUwHrkxKvfJ9aSEVg4Nc= =pxM2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Ubuntu606-hobbit-client_4.2.0-1_i386.deb FAIL TO INSTALL
by elisa.balatresi＠noze.it 16 Dec '08

16 Dec '08

I all, I try to install Ubuntu606-hobbit-client_4.2.0-1_i386.deb. After dpkg -i Ubuntu606-hobbit-client_4.2.0-1_i386.deb. I got this error: Configuring hobbit-client (4.2.0-1) ... Please configure HOBBITSERVERS in /etc/default/hobbit-client invoke-rc.d: initscript hobbit-client, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing hobbit-client (--configure): sub process post-installation script exit with error code 1 I tried to configure /etc/default/hobbit-client, but after apt-get install -f (or any other apt-get install <package> I got the same error and the file /etc/default/hobbit-client loss the configuration I prevously made. Any help or suggestion? Thanks in adavance Elisa -- Elisa Balatresi - [ n o z e S.r.l. ] Via Giuntini, 25/29 - 56023 Navacchio - Cascina (PI) Tel +39 050 754380 - Fax +39 050 754381 mailto:elisa.balatresi at noze.it - http://www.noze.it

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client push
by yf.liang＠yahoo.ca 15 Dec '08

15 Dec '08

Hi, How do I get the client to download files (etc/hobbitclient.cfg, ext/, etc) from the hobbit server and restart? For example, I've added/changed the hobbit servers in: etc/hobbitclient.cfg: BBDISP="0.0.0.0" # IP address of the Hobbit server BBDISPLAYS="10.11.12.13 20.21.22.23" # Thanks, --------------------------------- Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail

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bug : reload of hobbitlaunch.cfg on trunk
by obeau79＠gmail.com 15 Dec '08

15 Dec '08

Hello, I defined several jobs in hobbitlaunch.cfg, all DISABLED. I fired up hobbit, and then started enabling those jobs one by one. I do see in hobbitlaunch.log a "Loading tasklist configuration from ..." a couple seconds after saving the new version of hobbitlaunch.cfg But the job never starts. And even stranger : enabling/disabling an ENABLED job does work normaly. Right now, i working arround this, by doing a stop/start of hobbit. Olivier Beau

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Last chance to test 4.2.2 before release
by henrik＠hswn.dk 15 Dec '08

15 Dec '08

I have no further bugfixes lined up for 4.2.2, so this is the last chance to do any testing before it is officially released - which I plan to do this coming week-end. So the adventurous ones are very welcome to grab the current branch https://hobbitmon.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/hobbitmon/branches/4.2.2 and try out the code now. If you don't feel like getting a Subversion client up and running, a plain tar-file is available at http://hobbitmon.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/hobbitmon/branches/4.2.2.tar.gz… The changes since RC1 are: Merged: * Devmon patch from trunk * hobbitping endless loop on network send failure - backport from trunk * Darwin user-info query by configure scrips. http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2008/02/msg00173.html * Limit size of alert-message texts sent to a script to 4 KB. http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2008/01/msg00015.html * Fix 64-bit bug in acknowledgement log scanning. http://www.hobbitmon.com/hobbiton/2008/09/msg00038.html * Prepare for using newer versions of C-ARES - backport changes from trunk. * Several NCV bug fixes from Graham Nayler: Accept signed values, fix potential crashes and memory leak, skip over &COLOR text in front of dataset-names. http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2008/12/msg00011.html * BBWin clock-parsing fix from Graham Nayler to make CLOCK checks work with BBWin 0.12 clients running in centralized mode. * FIXED: min/max duration of alerts on info page. NOTE: The solution given in http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2008/11/msg00415.html is not correct. * Missing footer-files added. Not merged: * IGNORE pattern problem. http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2008/11/msg00416.html I cannot reproduce this. The current code has some extra debugging built into it, so if it shows up elsewhere there's a better chance of figuring out what is happening. Regards, Henrik

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Separate Hobbit server to monitor main Hobbit server
by tleavitt＠unameits.com 13 Dec '08

13 Dec '08

I set up a separate Hobbit server to monitor our main Hobbit server installation. It's working, but it's unclear to me how I get it to monitor all the same functionality on the main server, as it does for itself... if someone could shoot me a quick pointer, that 'd be appreciated. Regards, Thomas Leavitt

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Would xymon survive?
by michael.nemeth＠lmco.com 12 Dec '08

12 Dec '08

I gave I high successful Xymon presentation that got me management support to have it evaluated by a larger group of people . Actually the management support was very strong ! One Sysadmin, expressed the worry that since xymon is basic a one programmer product what would happen if Henrik could no longer support it. I told them about the movement for more than one programer to support it via the Subversion archive on Sourceforge, Still if Henrik was gone would some one support it? Would Henrik company allow outsider to maintain it. Ok, in other words would xymon survive? As an aside I ran across a free product yesterday (don't remember what) that would sell a commercial license , that was basically a disclaimed for commpany that just HAD to have commercial licenses. Might not be a bad idea Henrik?

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Windows Server 2008 ifstat and RRD
by b-kennedy1＠raytheon.com 12 Dec '08

12 Dec '08

Hi. I have started monitoring 4 Windows Server 2008 servers with BBWin 0.11, and I have been seeing a bunch of rrd errors in the rrd log file. An example of one is below. 2008-12-12 09:22:53 RRD error updating /home/hobbit/data/rrd/ifstat.108.0.108.0.rrd: illegal attempt to update using time 1229095372 when last update time is 1229095372 (minimum one second step) Has anyone else seen this? I believe this is causing the rrd graphs to stop working about once a week. These errors only show up for the 4 Win2008 servers and none others. Thank you. Regards, Bryan

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restrat a proccess on red test return
by michael.nemeth＠lmco.com 12 Dec '08

12 Dec '08

I KNOW I saw this fairly recently but cann't find it searching. A user wants to restart a process if it disappears . I don't like such automated things particular if they have to be done at the root level, but I was ask it it could be done.

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