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NOTICE in alert configuration
by jon＠shadowsoft.com 20 Oct '08

20 Oct '08

Could someone elaborate on the NOTICE bit in the alert configuration... Is it an ONLY deal, an AND deal, or an OR deal... this is to say, if you put "NOTICE" on a line, does it match ONLY notice alerts, only those alerts which are also NOTICE alerts, or does it match the usual stuff plus NOTICE alerts? Thanks, Jon

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badTEST configuration
by tk＠westend.com 20 Oct '08

20 Oct '08

Hi, is it possible to specify badTEST so that a test goes yellow instead red after the first failure but never turns red no matter how oftern it fails? Best regards Thomas -- Thomas Kähn NetCologne Network Engineering & Design Gesellschaft für Telekommunikation mbH Im Süsterfeld 6 Telefon: 0241/701333-18 52072 Aachen Fax: 0241/911879 Handelsregister: HRB 25580, Amtsgericht Köln Geschäftsführer: Werner Hanf, Dipl.-Ing. Karl-Heinz Zankel

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Hobbit Architecture and monitoring Queries
by k.rakeshnair＠gmail.com 20 Oct '08

20 Oct '08

Hi all, I was trying to write scripts for tesing specific programs running. But I dont understand what is the format that the data must me sent to the Server manually. I tried off with "$bin/bb --debug HOSTIP MSG" command it says that the msg is send but its not reflected in the hobbit monitoring page of the server. Some other doubts related to Hobbit are : 1. What is the proper execution plan of hobbit monitoring the clients. 2. Is it that the client contact the server to give the data / is the client collects the data after certain intervals and and when the Hobbit server on refreshing contacts the client and retreives the data ?? (in short----How does a Hobbit client POST the data to the Hobbit server ???) 3. What is the proper format in which Hobbit server recieves/updates the status or data send by Client?? Nowhere I have seen a way that server uses for receiving the info from the client. 4.What are hobbit-agents? Please reply ASAP. Thanks Rakz

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Running hobbit in Solaris zone ?
by tj_yang＠hotmail.com 19 Oct '08

19 Oct '08

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Problem configuring HobbitFetch
by Gar.Nelson＠noaa.gov 17 Oct '08

17 Oct '08

I have my Hobbit server behind a firewall. The Hobbit server appears to be running fine. I'm getting cpu, disk, files, etc data from client systems on the same network segment. With systems outside the firewall, I am only getting the conn, info, and trends - nothing else. I'm using hobbit-4.2.0.tar.gz source on RHEL4 WS boxes, both server and clients. On my outside client, /usr/local/hobbit/client/tmp has; hobbit_vmstat.ggw-s-log.ggw.noaa.gov.10947 msg.ggw-s-log.ggw.noaa.gov.txt The file creation dates are current, and being updated. In /usr/local/hobbit/client/etc/clientlaunch.cfg I've changed [msgcache] DISABLED to ENABLED In .../hobbitclient.cfg, BBDISP="127.0.0.1" selinux is set to permissive. The hobbit client has been restarted. The msgcache.log shows a normal start and listening on 0.0.0.0:1984 The clientlaunch.log does not show any errors. The hobbitclient.log does not show any errors. (existing entries are old errors.) Hobbit is configured to use uid = "bb". User bb can ssh without a password from the internal server to the external client. Tested on IP, and all variations of the full URL, and configured alias URLs. In /usr/local/hobbit/server/etc/bb-hosts, the external client has "pulldata" listed after the # The hobbit server has been restarted. I must be missing something, but I'm not having much luck figuring out what it is. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Gar

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nagios vs hobbit
by steer＠turkeys.net.au 17 Oct '08

17 Oct '08

In my opinion, no competition at all! I've just taken on a new job where they use Nagios for monitoring. I've never used nagios before so it's a pretty steep learning curve. The setup is basic and it's may job to flesh it out and provide some detail - graphs, reports etc. Every time I have to add a new monitor or get asked to graph something, I keep thinking 'This would be so much easier with hobbit!'

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I/O Statistics per Filesystem
by RaAL＠sm-shoemart.com 17 Oct '08

17 Oct '08

Hi All, Is there a scripts in hobbit that monitors disk I/O performance in linux box per filesystem and with graphical presentation ? What I have now is I/O performance but per block or system wide. Is anyone knows a scripts how to get the disk I/O performance per filsystem ? Thanks in advance : ) Raymund A. Layoso Jr. System Administrator Technical Support Group - Information Technology Services SM Retail Inc. SM Corporate Office, Bldg D 1000 Bay Boulevard, SM Central Business Park Bay City, Pasay City 1300 CORPORATE DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message, including any attached file, is confidential and legally privileged. It is solely for the intended recipient and if you received this e-mail by mistake, you should notify the sender immediately and delete this message from your system. You are further prohibited from disseminating, distributing or copying this e-mail. This e-mail cannot be guaranteed to be secure and error-free as it could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late, or incomplete, or contain viruses or other malicious programs. The company does not accept any liability for such improper, erroneous or delayed receipt of the e-mail or for the presence of such viruses and malicious programs. Any views, opinions or factual assertions contained are those of the author and not necessarily of the company. The company prihibits unofficial use of its e-mail and consequently disclaims and accepts no liability for any damage caused by any libelous and defamatory statements transmitted via this e-mail.

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Create Customized schedule for alerts
by vpn.cluster.ha＠gmail.com 16 Oct '08

16 Oct '08

Hi, I have set of servers that I want the alerts go as followed I need the first alert to go after 5 minutes , then every 30 minutes for two hours , then every four hours till it recovers. I tried some thing like DURATION>5 REPEAT=30m,60m,90m,120m,4h RECOVERED but it didn`t work.. Any ideas .. Thanks Tom

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adminscripts
by James.Roberts＠hants.gov.uk 16 Oct '08

16 Oct '08

I am trying to run the admin stripts. I am finding the the hostnames of my servers are not showing. However the service tests are.... Very strange!

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Disk I/O check for Linux
by jdustin＠usm.maine.edu 15 Oct '08

15 Oct '08

>>> On 10/13/2008 at 7:30 PM, in message <48F511FC.B63 : 18 : 56163>, <RaAL at sm-shoemart.com> wrote: > > > The only I/O measurement built into Hobbit is the data collected from > "vmstat", which gives you an overall measure of the amount of time > spent waiting for disk I/O. This graph is not displayed by default; > you can make them appear on the "trends" page by adding > TRENDS:*,vmstat:vmstat1|vmstat5 > to each of the host entries in bb-hosts. That will give you a "CPU > utilisation" graph that includes the I/O wait time, and a "Block I/O" > graph showing the number of blocks read from/written to a disk device. Sorry for hijacking this thread, but this is *mostly* on-topic. Is there a way to make the above TRENDS setting for all hosts? I tried looking at hobbitgraph.cfg and hobbitserver.cfg, but could not determine any applicable syntax. PS - I like the added graphs. Thanks for any assistance you can provide. -- -- Jon Dustin - Network Specialist University of Southern Maine Portland, ME 207-780-4152

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