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Alerting: Stop After
by annaj＠hi.is 03 Nov '08

03 Nov '08

Hi all, on the info web page for a host, is a column named Stop After. I would like to be able to configure this column. I have not noticed any information about this. See below: Alerting: Service Recipient 1st Delay Stop after Repeat Time of Day Colors conn annaj at hi.is (R) 15m - 4h W:0700:2259 yellow -- Kindest Regards, Anna Jonna Ármannsdóttir, %& A: Because people read from top to bottom. Unix System Aministration, Computing Services, %& Q: Why is top posting bad? University of Iceland.

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Hobbit: Hobbitping/Fping
by mathew.sanu＠gmail.com 03 Nov '08

03 Nov '08

Hi All, I have a couple of linux servers which are behind a firewall and needs to be monitored. I have allowed the port 1984 for flow of data from the client servers to the hobbit server, and i get all the data fine. However, I do not get to see a green for "conn", all i see is a '-'. This i typically understand is the hobbitping or the fping utility. Do these utilities work along with bbtest-net or individually? And if Yes, which ports needs to be allowed and from where to where..? If not, which port does hobbitping or fping use? At this point the firewall is opened for normal ping i.e, hobbit server can ping the linux clients. Quick info on my network. Hobbit server ip - 192.168.50.100 Other Linux/Unix servers are in the 192.168.50.* network. Linux servers behind the firewall, have a 10.* ip assigned, which at the firewall is natted to a 192.168.50.* ip. (these are typically the DMZ servers) Any help would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Sanu

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Integrate rrd files into hobbit
by icicimov＠gmail.com 03 Nov '08

03 Nov '08

Hi all, I was reading some posts about integrating external custom scripts into hobbit and was wondering is it possible to link existing rrd database files created by some other application and use hobbit for charting? If possible, what files do I need to eddit to make this work? The rrd file is created using rrdtool so another question would be about compatibility of the rrd file with the way the rrd files are being created in hobbit. Thanks in advance for any help. Igor

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Changing BBDISP per test
by frank.gruellich＠navteq.com 02 Nov '08

02 Nov '08

Hi, for some reason we have two external hobbit monitoring servers. Now we got a couple of machines in a firewalled subnet, bbtest-net on both external servers can not access them. So I set up an internal server, that forwards all test results to one of the external servers. Unfortunately I need some of the test results at the other external server. From my mind I can remember something like: 10.0.1.1 hostA # BBDISP=10.0.0.1 conn http://hostA/index.html 10.0.1.2 hostB # BBDISP=10.0.0.1 conn http://hostB/index.html 10.0.1.3 host # BBDISP=10.0.0.2 conn http://host/index.html (with 10.0.1.0/24 the firewalled network and 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.2 as two external hobbit servers), but I can't find any references to this anymore. Can someone help me please? Is this possible at all or do I need to setup a second internal server? Thanks in advance and kind regards, -- Navteq (DE) GmbH Frank Gruellich Map24 Systems and Networks Duesseldorfer Strasse 40a 65760 Eschborn Germany Phone: +49 6196 77756-414 Fax: +49 6196 77756-100 USt-ID-No.: DE 197947163 Managing Directors: Thomas Golob, Alexander Wiegand, Hans Pieter Gieszen, Martin Robert Stockman

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clientupdate & bbcombo
by bb4＠richter-it.net 02 Nov '08

02 Nov '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi there, I have actually 2 questions. 1. Is it possible to use the clientupdate feature in Hobbit to also deploy other things? 2. Is it possible to split a message that is sent to the server? So to speak, the opposite way of the bb-combo. Background: A colleague of mine has programmed a very complex MQ monitoring within 1 script and it shows up in 2 columns - mqC for all channel related stuff and mqQ for the queue related things. Now i want to know or better he wants to know if he can send the mqC stuff separated from the mqQ stuff. Thanks Torsten - -- +---------------------------------------------------------+ | E-mail : bb4 [at] richter-it.net | | | | Homepage: http://www.richter-it.net/ | +---------------------------------------------------------+ Download my public key from: http://www.keyserver.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x899093AC -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3-nr1 (Windows XP) iD8DBQFJDO9k7DlmxomQk6wRAkJ8AKCXNr0uEzFVJusndcIclddqWGeDhwCg3bxx oZ0pe8rqiVQEVtX3xZQgt34= =zWoL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[hobbit] client data wont report to 2nd server
by sigurdur＠raforninn.is 31 Oct '08

31 Oct '08

Hi Kevin. I don't think that there should be anything wrong with having two different versions of hobbit.. however I haven't tried it myself. This is a long shot, but hey .... Did you check /etc/default/hobbit-client ? Regards, Sigurður Guðbrandsson ________________________________ From: Hanrahan, Kevin [mailto:Kevin.Hanrahan at elavon.com] Sent: 30. október 2008 13:40 To: 'hobbit at hswn.dk' Subject: RE: [hobbit] client data wont report to 2nd server Hi Sigurður, Thanks for the reply. I was not clear in describing my problem and I also left out what might be a key piece of info. I have the following: Client A reports to server A Client B reports to server B I wanted to have client B report to server A and B The piece I forgot to mention was : Server A is running Hobbit 4.0 RC5 Server B is running Hobbit 4.2 does this matter? Is there a compatability problem with the newest client and an old version of Hobbit server? kh From: Sigurður Guðbrandsson [mailto:sigurdur at raforninn.is] Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 5:33 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] client data wont report to 2nd server Hello Kevin. As I understand your problem, you want one central server that contains everything that other servers in your organization monitor. (Useful when you have multiple clients on different sites that do not have access straight to the internet or the main hobbit server) This is something that I had to do a lot of investigation and testing to get it to function properly. The solution is a right mixture of hobbitd and bbproxy by using two ports on the server. Let me go into more detail. First the theory: You should have two ports open on the server, one for the bbproxy that will send out messages to two servers, localhost and the remote server. I chose 1984 (default) and 1985. So when the bbproxy receives a message from a client, it forwards it to the local host AND the external server, however there is one problem with this, all the network tests (done locally) get screwed up! The solution to this would be to have a different configuration file for those tests. Second, configuration settings: Start by copying your hobbitserver.cfg to another file, hobbitserverproxy.cfg, this enables the network tests to know where to send information. (The file should only have one ip address in BBSERVERIP, the eth0 IP. It should have the BBPORT 1984, it should contain BBDISP as $BBSERVERIP and BBDISPLAYS should be empty.) Now, on to editing the original hobbitserver.cfg. BBSERVERIP should be "127.0.0.1", BBPORT should be 1985, BBDISP should be "0.0.0.0" and BBDISPLAYS should be "$BBSERVERIP 12.34.56.78" (the ip of your external hobbit server). Now edit hobbitlaunch.cfg In the section [hobbitd], you should add '-listen=127.0.0.1:1985' to the CMD. The ENVFILE should stay the same. In the section [bbproxy], you should comment out the DISABLED line. Change the ENVFILE to the hobbitserverproxy.cfg file. Change the CMD and add '--bbdisplay=127.0.0.1:1985,12.34.56.78' (the ip of your external hobbit server) after the '--hobbitd' option. In the sections [bbnet] and [bbretest] you should change ENVFILE to hobbitserverproxy.cfg. Third, restarting hobbit: /etc/init.d/hobbitd restart Easy as pie :-) Hope you can use this information.. With regards, Sigurður Guðbrandsson ________________________________ From: Hanrahan, Kevin [mailto:Kevin.Hanrahan at elavon.com] Sent: 29. október 2008 12:26 To: 'hobbit at hswn.dk' Subject: RE: [hobbit] client data wont report to 2nd server yes, both client and server From: Ralph Mitchell [mailto:ralphmitchell at gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 5:32 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] client data wont report to 2nd server On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Hanrahan, Kevin <Kevin.Hanrahan at elavon.com> wrote: Hi all, I am trying to add a 2nd server to have the clients report to. I edited hobbitclient.cfg to be as such: BBDISP="0.0.0.0" # IP address of the Hobbit server BBDISPLAYS="192.168.1.1 192.168.1.2" # IP of multiple Hobbit servers. BBDISP must be "0.0.0.0". the first server gets all the client data but the 2nd server only gets the data from the tests in the "ext" directory....the stuff called out in clientlaunch.cfg. Things like disk, memory, cpu, etc never get to the 2nd server. What did I miss? Did you bounce Hobbit?? Ralph Mitchell ----------------------------------------- Note: The information contained in this e-mail and in any attachments is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. The recipient should check this e-mail and any attachments for the presence of viruses. Sender accepts no liability for any damages caused by any virus transmitted by this e-mail. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and delete the e-mail from your computer. Elavon (formerly NOVA Information Systems)

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Server name hyperlinks and oracle
by khemdev＠bc.edu 31 Oct '08

31 Oct '08

Greetings all, I was wondering if there is a way in Hobbit to make the server name hyperlinks (once clicked) connect to oracle database, run a query using the servername as the key and return the results back to the hobbit webpage? I know the bbgen can be passed -docurl=/bb-csvinfo.sh/ to grab info from a csv file, I was wondering if the same thing can be used to run a query on a database? Thanks in advance for the help, Dev Khemraj

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log monitoring for dmz hosts
by Craig.Cook＠gpi.com 31 Oct '08

31 Oct '08

Never mind. Looks like msgcache does allow updates to the local client. Craig

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bbwin max Message size?
by stewartl42＠gmail.com 31 Oct '08

31 Oct '08

I'm seeing an error with bbwin where the message description does not show up in hobbit. The description alone is about 1600 characters. It looks like this in hobbit... system: warning - 2008/10/30 11:03:13 - NETLOGON (5807) - n/a "" Is there a limit to the description size on individual log entries? -- Stewart -- Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9% Of everything you think, And of everything you do, Is for yourself - And there isn't one.

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log monitoring for dmz hosts
by Craig.Cook＠gpi.com 31 Oct '08

31 Oct '08

Is there a way to allow dmz clients (using msgcache) to monitor non default logs? Normally you specify the log file to monitor in client-local.cfg and what to alert on in client-local.cfg. Next time the client sends data to the server it gets notified about a new log file to start monitoring. Using msgcache this never happens... I can probably do a dodgy trick and define what I want in logfetch.<clientname>.log on the dmz client in its $client/tmp/ dir. Is there a better way? If I change the dmz client to be a "local" client I then have to define thresholds on the local client, I would like to avoid that... Craig

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