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Nagios client, Hobbit server anyone?
by Martin.Ward＠colt.net 12 Nov '08

12 Nov '08

Hi all, I have been presented with an 'interesting' problem in that I have been tasked with taking over the monitoring of a number machines (circa two dozen) that currently run Nagios clients (NRPE I guess but don't know for certain yet). I have been told that these machines have a few hundred (probably more like forty or fifty, but I don't know yet) separate checks that are performed by the Nagios client and the results passed back to the server. These Nagios checks work fine and have done so for a few years. The managers would prefer to keep the Nagios client up and running until I can provide them with a working, proven alternative. I therefore have a few options open: 1. Install my own Nagios server and run Hobbit and Nagios side-by-side. Not a good option by any means. Why have two different monitoring applications? 2. Convert the Nagios scripts to Hobbit ones. This would likely entail running both monitoring clients on each machine and copying/rewriting the monitor scripts one at a time, checking the results with both Nagios and Hobbit to ensure that alerts and reports are happening correctly. Once all scripts are converted, remove the Nagios client. This has clear benefits but is naturally going to take time, and pain, and will require that I have two monitor consoles, albeit temporarily. 3. Write a program that acts like a Hobbit proxy server, listening on the Nagios port and translating the Nagios reports and alerts in to Hobbit ones. This has benefits in that there will only be one bit of code to write, albeit a potentially large bit. I will have written the code so if it breaks I can fix it. The downside is that there is going to be a considerable amount of time involved in writing the proxy program and I will have to learn how Nagios packets are written and how the Hobbit proxy works. 4. I see if anyone more able than I has done anything remotely like this that I can beg or borrow to use. 5. Something else that I haven't thought of... I thought I'd try option 4 first! |\/|artin -- Martin W. Ward TAC Network Systems Team Leader COLT Unit 12, Powergate Business Park Volt Avenue, Park Royal, London NW10 6PW, United Kingdom Tel: + 44 (0)20 7863 5218 Internal: 8 441 5218 Fax: + 44 (0)20 7863 5610 Email: martin.ward at colt.net www.colt.net Data | Voice | Managed Services ************************************************************************************* The message is intended for the named addressee only and may not be disclosed to or used by anyone else, nor may it be copied in any way. The contents of this message and its attachments are confidential and may also be subject to legal privilege. If you are not the named addressee and/or have received this message in error, please advise us by e-mailing security at colt.net and delete the message and any attachments without retaining any copies. Internet communications are not secure and COLT does not accept responsibility for this message, its contents nor responsibility for any viruses. No contracts can be created or varied on behalf of COLT Telecommunications, its subsidiaries or affiliates ("COLT") and any other party by email Communications unless expressly agreed in writing with such other party. Please note that incoming emails will be automatically scanned to eliminate potential viruses and unsolicited promotional emails. For more information refer to www.colt.net or contact us on +44(0)20 7390 3900.

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Hobbit Installation
by t.muelhauser＠sro.ch 12 Nov '08

12 Nov '08

Hey, i want to install hobbit on a SUSE Linux 11.0. Can you tell me where it would be best place to install it? (/etc, /usr/local) Thank you Tobias Mülhauser SRO AG, Spital Langenthal, St. Urbanstrasse 67, 4901 Langenthal Tobias Mülhauser, Informatiker i.A., Tel. 062 916 36 62, Fax 062 923 90 09 t.muelhauser at sro.ch <mailto:t.muelhauser at sro.ch> , www.sro.ch <http://www.sro.ch/>

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[hobbit] [Hobbit/Xymon] PDF Reports
by jason＠hands4christ.org 12 Nov '08

12 Nov '08

Yes, I would be interested. :) Thanks, Jason ------Original Message------ From: Johann Eggers To: hobbit at hswn.dk ReplyTo: hobbit at hswn.dk Sent: Nov 12, 2008 5:08 AM Subject: RE: [hobbit] [Hobbit/Xymon] PDF Reports > -----Original Message----- > From: Thomas Séglard [mailto:tsg at bluekiwi-software.com] > Sent: Mittwoch, 12. November 2008 10:59 > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: [hobbit] [Hobbit/Xymon] PDF Reports > > Hello, > > some months (year ?) ago, I wrote a few php/shell code lines to generate > on-demand/automatised PDF reports with the help of the RRD data produced > by Hobbit. At the time of coding, I've used 'libfpdf' but it's a pain to > include PNG with alpha-channel. > > I'm now in charge of a new platform and I setup Hobbit to monitor > everything, of course :) Besides, I discovered the library 'tcpdf' which > is very good and efficient. So, I decided to bring back my reports and > have them to work with 'tcpdf'. Modifications were easy since 'tcpdf' is > based on 'libfpdf' and now everything works again :) But this time, I > really want to share this work with you on the Shire or whatever. I need > to know if some of you are interested by these reports... Thus, just let > me know. > > Best regards, > > ThomaS Yes, yes!! Could you describe what kind of reports you are generating? Thx -Johann To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

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Hobbit configuration query
by u_naren79＠yahoo.com 12 Nov '08

12 Nov '08

Hi, I had installed the Hobbit 4.2.0 on HP-UX server and it is working. But how can i get rid of the default column http,info,bbd and bbgen from the hobbit web page. And also i am looking for step by step procedure for how to configured the tablespace monitoring for oracle database so that it can display in hobbit web page. Thanks, Narendra

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Why alert recipient in GROUP=web is not shown in info ?
by tj_yang＠hotmail.com 12 Nov '08

12 Nov '08

I found the email address defined in GROUP=web mail webmaster at foo.com is not showing up in info column of Alerting section (See R1). Is this just me or others have same problem ? R1: http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?HOST=voodoo.hswn.dk&SERVICE=info tj

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[hobbit] Sun Grid Engine monitoring
by rdeal＠jcvi.org 11 Nov '08

11 Nov '08

We have several queues, primary are default, fast, medium. The config file is pretty simple: Unscaled[_]: y Target[sge_1]: `/local/packages/IT/MRTG/bin/qgraph.sh both` MaxBytes[sge_1]: 625 AbsMax[sge_1]: 100000000 ShortLegend[sge_1]: Jobs YLegend[sge_1]: jobs Options[sge_1]: absolute, gauge, noinfo, nopercent, growright, integer, unknaszero Title[sge_1]: Current Jobs on JCVI GRID Legend1[sge_1]: Running Legend2[sge_1]: Queued Legend3[sge_1]: Peak running Legend4[sge_1]: Peak queued LegendI[sge_1]: running LegendO[sge_1]: queued Colours[sge_1]: GREEN#00eb0c,BLUE#0000ff,GRAY#AAAAAA,VIOLET#ff00ff PageTop[sge_1]: <H1>Current Jobs on JCVI GRID</H1> <TABLE> <TR><TD>Maintainer:</TD> <TD>rdeal at tigr.org</TD></TR> <TR><TD>Description:</TD><TD>Number of current SGE Jobs running on the JCVI SGE GRID</TD></TR> </TABLE> routers.cgi*Options[sge_1]: noabsmax nodetail Target[sge_7]: `/local/packages/IT/MRTG/bin/qgraph.sh medium` MaxBytes[sge_7]: 354 AbsMax[sge_7]: 100000000 ShortLegend[sge_7]: Jobs YLegend[sge_7]: jobs Options[sge_7]: absolute, gauge, noinfo, nopercent, growright, integer, unknaszero Title[sge_7]: Current Jobs in medium.q and fast.q Legend1[sge_7]: Medium Legend2[sge_7]: Fast Legend3[sge_7]: Peak medium Legend4[sge_7]: Peak fast LegendI[sge_7]: medium LegendO[sge_7]: fast Colours[sge_7]: GREEN#00eb0c,BLUE#0000ff,GRAY#AAAAAA,VIOLET#ff00ff PageTop[sge_7]: <H1>Current Jobs on JCVI GRID</H1> <TABLE> <TR><TD>Maintainer:</TD> <TD>rdeal at tigr.org</TD></TR> <TR><TD>Description:</TD><TD>Number of current SGE Jobs in the fast.q and medium.q</TD></TR> </TABLE> routers.cgi*Options[sge_7]: noabsmax nodetail The script is rather simple: #!/bin/sh # case "$1" in test ) echo 50 echo 20 ;; total ) echo $T echo 0 ;; running ) echo $R echo 0 ;; msc ) T=`/usr/local/bin/qstat -q fast.msc.q -s r | /usr/bin/tail +3 | /usr/bin/wc -l` R=`/usr/local/bin/qstat -q msc.q -s r | /usr/bin/tail +3 | /usr/bin/wc -l` echo $R echo $T ;; medium ) T=`/usr/local/bin/qstat -q fast.q -s r | /usr/bin/tail +3 | /usr/bin/wc -l` R=`/usr/local/bin/qstat -q medium.q -s r | /usr/bin/tail +3 | /usr/bin/wc -l` echo $R echo $T ;; fast ) T=`/usr/local/bin/qstat -q default.q -s r | /usr/bin/tail +3 | /usr/bin/wc -l` R=`/usr/local/bin/qstat -q fast.q -s r | /usr/bin/tail +3 | /usr/bin/wc -l` echo $R echo $T ;; desktop ) T=`/usr/local/bin/qstat -q desktop.q -s r | /usr/bin/tail +3 | /usr/bin/wc -l` R=`/usr/local/bin/qstat -q fast.q -s r | /usr/bin/tail +3 | /usr/bin/wc -l` echo $R echo $T ;; jtc ) T=`ssh wasp "use sgejcvi; qstat -g dt" | /usr/bin/tail +3 | /usr/bin/wc -l` R=`ssh wasp "use sgejcvi; qstat -s r" | /usr/bin/tail +3 | /usr/bin/wc -l` echo $R echo $T ;; * | both ) T=`/usr/local/bin/qstat -g dt | /usr/bin/tail +3 | /usr/bin/wc -l` R=`/usr/local/bin/qstat -s r | /usr/bin/tail +3 | /usr/bin/wc -l` echo $R echo $T ;; esac echo foo echo SGE The two graphs configured above: > From: Martin Flemming <martin.flemming at desy.de> > Reply-To: <hobbit at hswn.dk> > Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:46:29 +0200 (CEST) > To: <hobbit at hswn.dk> > Subject: Re: [hobbit] Sun Grid Engine monitoring > > > Hmm, i didn't run mrtg ... > > How can i do it for sge ? > > .. i want to graph e.g jobs in the queue for each node, project or queue .. > > ... everything i can do :-) > > Or is it maybe possible to create graphs with the data of sge.sh script ? > > thanks & cheers > > martin > > On Fri, 10 Oct 2008, michael nemeth wrote: > >> Ok! well I run mrtg too so I can do that. Also I thought I try creating >> graphs for the sge.sh when >> it's implemented. I've done custom graphs before (clearcase). >> As I said I know little about SGE and the SGE support person knows little >> about hobbit. >> >> Deal, Richard wrote: >>> What did you want to graph. I use mrtg to graph global she stats >>> >>> Sent from a portable system with a small keyboard. >>> >>> On Oct 9, 2008, at 5:51 PM, "Martin Flemming" <martin.flemming at desy.de> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Yep, i use it too ... but unfortunatley it's without trending graphs .. >>>> >>>> Got anybody a solution for it ? >>>> >>>> .. i'm very interested :-) >>>> >>>> cheers, >>>> martin >>>> >>>> On Thu, 9 Oct 2008, rdeal wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> It is called sge.sh >>>>> http://www.deadcat.net/viewfile.php?fileid=920 >>>>> And we run it under hobbit now. >>>>> Richard >>>>> >>>>>> From: Galen Johnson <Galen.Johnson at sas.com> >>>>>> Reply-To: <hobbit at hswn.dk> >>>>>> Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 14:57:10 -0400 >>>>>> To: "hobbit at hswn.dk" <hobbit at hswn.dk> >>>>>> Subject: RE: [hobbit] Sun Grid Engine monitoring >>>>>> >>>>>> Where on deadcat? I can't find anything that mentions it (a search >>>>>> on grid on >>>>>> Deacat turns up something for the California power grid). Most >>>>>> monitors from >>>>>> deadcat should work with little to no modification for Hobbit. >>>>>> Also, Hobbit >>>>>> will monitor whatever you tell it so the sky's the limit there...or >>>>>> in this >>>>>> case the scripter is the limit. >>>>>> >>>>>> =G= >>>>>> >>>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>>> From: michael nemeth [mailto:michael.nemeth at lmco.com] >>>>>> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 2:46 PM >>>>>> To: hobbit at hswn.dk >>>>>> Subject: [hobbit] Sun Grid Engine monitoring >>>>>> >>>>>> While I not been involved in the effort yet,we are about to bring as >>>>>> "farm" under Sun Grid Engine in to production. Anyone doing any >>>>>> monitoring like this? I saw a script on deadcat. I really know >>>>>> little about it but said Id check into what monitoring and metrics >>>>>> could >>>>>> be done by hobbit. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to >>>>>> hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to >>>>>> hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to >>>>> hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> Gruss >>>> >>>> Martin Flemming >>>> >>>> >>>> ______________________________________________________ >>>> Martin Flemming >>>> DESY / IT office : Building 2b / 008a >>>> Notkestr. 85 phone : 040 - 8998 - 4667 >>>> 22603 Hamburg mail : martin.flemming at desy.de >>>> ______________________________________________________ >>>> >>>> To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to >>>> hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk >>>> >>>> >>> >>> To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to >>> hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to >> hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk >> >> >> >> > > Gruss > > Martin Flemming > > > ______________________________________________________ > Martin Flemming > DESY / IT office : Building 2b / 008a > Notkestr. 85 phone : 040 - 8998 - 4667 > 22603 Hamburg mail : martin.flemming at desy.de > ______________________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > >

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iostat
by Vernon.Everett＠woodside.com.au 11 Nov '08

11 Nov '08

Hi all Searched the list, but never really found anything. Has anybody managed to get iostat data and graphs working for RedHat linux? Looking to graph the basics for a system for physical disks. r/s, w/s, avgrq-sz, await All the rest is nice to have. Anybody done this? Regards Vernon NOTICE: This email and any attachments are confidential. They may contain legally privileged information or copyright material. You must not read, copy, use or disclose them without authorisation. If you are not an intended recipient, please contact us at once by return email and then delete both messages and all attachments.

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Xymon Themes
by tj_yang＠hotmail.com 11 Nov '08

11 Nov '08

I put some info about Xymon Themes that I know on hobbitmon/sandbox/themes http://hobbitmon.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/hobbitmon/sandbox/themes/ tj

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What is the syntax for GROUP=web,web2 ?
by tj_yang＠hotmail.com 11 Nov '08

11 Nov '08

# You can also associate a GROUP id with a rule. The group-id is passed to# the alert module, which can then use it to control who gets an alert when# a failure occurs. E.g. the following associates the "httpd" process check# with the "web" group, and the "sshd" check with the "admins" group:# PROC httpd 5 GROUP=web# PROC sshd 1 GROUP=admins# In the hobbit-alerts.cfg file, you could then have rules like# GROUP=web# MAIL webmaster at foo.com# GROUP=admins# MAIL root at foo.com The above notes in hobbit-clients.cfg explain for httpd process less than 5, send alert to web(webaster at foo.com) But I don't know what is the correct syntax to specify more than one recepients ? is it "GROUP=web,web2,web3" or "GROUP=web web2 web3" or else ? Thanks for your pointerT.J. Yang _________________________________________________________________ Stay up to date on your PC, the Web, and your mobile phone with Windows Live http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/119462413/direct/01/

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Hobbit server/client, Nagios server ?!
by martin.flemming＠desy.de 11 Nov '08

11 Nov '08

Hi ! ... some spinning around this quite recently thread .... > RE: [hobbit] Nagios client, Hobbit server anyone? > > http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2008/11/msg00212.html "Hobbit Server/Client and Nagios Server" I need something which triggers an alarm from an hobbit-client or hobbitserver (prefer) to our NAGIOS-Server .. .. the reason ? Our Operating-Crew and our hole IT-Division (execept me and my Admin-Colleagues) are using NAGIOS as our first Monitoring-Tool, but i for my own use Hobbit/Xymon ... :-) So, after Hobbit is monitoring, maybe less fewer (?), the half of our 3000 Machines, Hobbit/Xymon is switching from "My" to "OUR" Tool ... that's means more,authoritative and accurate work for me ... .. and using the big advantage of Hobbit/Xymon to adavance the Monitoring of our whole Division "against" our Customers ... ... maybe something trigger an alarm while sending alarm-mails or something around, as told several time before, i'm not a brillant coder :-( .. or maybe traps .. ? Some suggestions ? .. are very welcome :-) thanks & cheers martin Gruss Martin Flemming ______________________________________________________ Martin Flemming DESY / IT office : Building 2b / 008a Notkestr. 85 phone : 040 - 8998 - 4667 22603 Hamburg mail : martin.flemming at desy.de ______________________________________________________

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