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Alerting naming limitation
by jkwade＠futurefrontiers.com 01 Aug '08

01 Aug '08

I have a strange problem on alerting. I have windows pages going to a windows admin. However, he got a page from a unix box last night. I have all his hosts explicitly listed so he should not have gotten the page. The machine names are similiar, and I'm not using any "regular expressions" for him, just the hostnames. So, I was wondering if hobbit had a character limit on host names. example: mysadw002 is a windows server mysadu002 is a unix server Only the "w" and "u" denote if its a windows or unix server. I have mysadw002 listed for him to get a page on. He received a page last night for mysadu002. Thanks for the help...James

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Implement bb in perl
by joshua.gatcomb＠gmail.com 01 Aug '08

01 Aug '08

Salutations, For an insane reason beyond my control, it would be advantageous to me to re-implement the bb client executable (send single message to Hobbit) in perl. I have looked at bb.c which includes libbbgen.h which includes sendmsg.h etc etc While I know I could eventually get through all the C, it would be easier for me if there was a design document explaining the client message format. Then using the man page on bb, I could just implement it from scratch. Does anyone know if alternatives to the compiled bb executable exist (preferrably one in perl)? Does anyone know if a design document that explains the message format or is the source the reference? Does anyone have any pointers for the best way to go through this exercise of insanity? Cheers, Joshua Gatcomb

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http://www.sysadminday.com/
by lars.ebeling＠leopg9.no-ip.org 01 Aug '08

01 Aug '08

Today is the 9:th sysadmin appreciation day http://www.sysadminday.com/ -- Regards Lars Ebeling http://leopg9.no-ip.org Hobbithobbyist "I am not young enough to know everything." -- Oscar Wilde

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bb-nfs-client.sh, etc.
by tleavitt＠unameits.com 01 Aug '08

01 Aug '08

... if your ISP blocks these because the attachements have .sh extensions, then I can resend them to you, or figure out (next week) how to upload them to the Shire. Thomas

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bb-nfs-client.sh (script in ext)
by tleavitt＠unameits.com 01 Aug '08

01 Aug '08

I'm trying to get this running, so that I can monitor the NFS status of various hosts, and I'm getting the same error that everyone else (except T.J. Yang on Solaris) seems to be getting... all the servers are reported as being down. I'm also not seeing the "nfs" column appear in the Hobbit home page, and when I click "history" by going directly to the NFS page (which indicates that the script is at least executing, although it produces no log file output), I get "Cannot open history file" as well. But, primarily, I'd just like to get this to work properly, first. I can probably stumble through the process of debugging the script, but if anyone else can clue me in, I'd appreciate it. Client is running CentOS 4.6, patched and up to date. This is my clientlaunch.cfg entry: [bb-nfs] ENVFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/etc/hobbitclient.cfg CMD $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/ext/bb-nfs-client.sh LOGFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/logs/bb-nfs-client.log INTERVAL 5m I've created a blank "bb-def.sh" and put it in the "etc" directory. Thanks in advance. Thomas

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Joern Klinckmann/PLZ/CSC is out of the office.
by jklinckmann＠csc.com 31 Jul '08

31 Jul '08

I will be out of the office starting 01.08.2008 and will not return until 04.08.2008. For Motorola account specific issues, please contact Simon Ball (sball7 at csc.com) For Motorola account UNIX escallations, call my mobil. For Berlin related problems, please get in touch with Ronald Pawlik. In very urgent cases, please call my mobil. Many thanks.

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[hobbit] "Hobbit" name legal stuff; slight name change will h appen
by Mark.Deiss＠acs-inc.com 31 Jul '08

31 Jul '08

Well, with everything that already has gotten leveraged under monitoring (stock ticker, weather, California electrical power grid, etc); I expect someone is using Hobbit to monitor books, movies, and merchandise. Which may cause the movie lawyers to freak. I am assuming that the lawyers would not be extending the naming issue to the current way that the software is constructed. If it may extend to this level, I think the H.O.B.B.I.T alternate naming convention would cause some indigestion in the future when a Windows implementation (client and/or server)is fielded. It may be worthwhile to have a new name convention that is carried over into the convention used in the software itself. I always kind of like the Big Brother name with the follow on Perl implementation of Big Sister. How about a name to ensure a reaction from everyone: Big Mother-In-Law (just kidding Mothers'-In-Law). As for the comment in your other missive about your circumstances and the mail group: it's depressing how the Big Brother project has withered away. Mr. Croteau and Mr. MacGuire disappearing somewhere into the Quest commercial maw. The BB support lists falling into disuse and Quest pulling the plug on the archive list. -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 12:30 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] "Hobbit" name legal stuff; slight name change will happen Hi everyone, some lawyers behind the movie company that produced the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy have contacted me about using the name "Hobbit" for the Hobbit monitor project. Fortunately, it seems that these people are actually quite sensible. They just want to make sure that there is no risk of anyone assuming that the "Hobbit monitor" has anything to do with the books, movies, merchandise etc. that they produce. So they've suggested that beginning with the next release, "Hobbit monitor" is renamed to either "Hobbi monitor" (without the 't'), or "H.O.B.B.I.T. Monitor" . Or something else, but they want to know if I pick something else. The full correspondance can be seen at http://www.hobbitmon.com/hobbitdocs/legal/ My current preference is to use the "H.O.B.B.I.T." version; this is most like the current name, and it would also fit with all of the current URL's used for various Hobbit functions (e.g. the "hobbitmon.sf.net" project page). I'm going to write the lawyers and get a definite OK that I can use "hobbitmon" in URL's and such; I doubt that I can get Sourceforge to accept a project named "h.o.b.b.i.t." since that would probably cause havoc with the DNS entries ... But I'd like to hear if there are other suggestions or opinions. Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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SCRIPT using expect
by eric.jacobs＠thomastechsolutions.com 31 Jul '08

31 Jul '08

I have been asked by those who must be obeyed to see if I can get Hobbit to make a configuration change on a switch if a certain connection test goes red. Been trying to do so via an "expect" script. Script runs fine when run manually but fails from within Hobbit. First attempt failed because script apparently didn't wait long enough after spawning a telnet session. So I slowed it down and it got session started but apparently didn't "send" password. Has anyone done anything like this? Even if I get it to work, a few other questions arise. 1. Will it continue to run script if connection failure continues? 2. If I turn "RECOVER" on, can I run an alternate script upon recovery? Eric Jacobs

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librrd.so.2 & librrd.so.4
by Darren.Cotton＠ses-engineering.com 31 Jul '08

31 Jul '08

I have just updated my rrdtool to version 1.3.0-1 and as expected I had some simple issues with librrd.so.2 which hobbit requires. rrdtool 1.3.0-1 doesn't have this - but it does have librrd.so.4. I have simply placed a symbolic link in the /lib to point from the .2 to the .4 and I have checked my hobbit install and it seems happy - all graphing working. Additionally I checked the library dependencies of hobbitd_rrd, hobbitd_larrd and hobbitgraph.cgi and they appear happy now. Does anyone know of any issues I could experience here before I roll out to my production server? Darren DISCLAIMER: This e-mail contains proprietary information some or all of which may be legally privileged. It is for the intended recipient only. If an addressing or transmission error has misdirected this e-mail, please notify the author by replying to this e-mail. If you are not the intended recipient you must not use, disclose, distribute, copy, print, or rely on this e-mail.

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http checking return "DNS error" message
by tj_yang＠hotmail.com 31 Jul '08

31 Jul '08

Recently I have a DNS servers change on hobbit server. Ever since then http service checking are Tue Jul 29 14:56:47 2008 So far I have done following. 1. make sure dns is in /etc/nsswitch.conf host entry. 2. ping terminal.sub.test.com works. 3. /etc/resolv.conf is configured with new dns servers and their ips. 4. clean out "/var/opt/hobbitserver42/tmp/*..status files and restart hobbit server. Is there any better way to debug the issue ? 1. Example error message. Wed Jul 30 07:50:51 2008: DNS error http://terminal.sub.test.com/ - DNS error Seconds: 0.00 2. The batch http checking showing flip-flop on all the machines with http checking. Tue Jul 29 14:56:47 2008 terminal.sub.test.com http red From -> To green Tue Jul 29 14:56:47 2008 ltelinux3-sol.sub.test.com http red From -> To green Tue Jul 29 14:56:47 2008 ltelinux2-sol.sub.test.com http red From -> To green Tue Jul 29 14:56:47 2008 itsupport.corp.test.com http red From -> To green Tue Jul 29 14:56:47 2008 isdweb1.sub.test.com http red From -> To green Tue Jul 29 14:56:47 2008 isdeclinux3-rsa.sub.test.com http red From -> To green Tue Jul 29 14:56:47 2008 isdeclinux2-rsa.sub.test.com http red From -> To green Tue Jul 29 14:56:47 2008 isdeclinux1-rsa.sub.test.com http red From -> To green Tue Jul 29 14:56:47 2008 dd403.sub.test.com http red From -> To green Tue Jul 29 14:56:47 2008 dd402.sub.test.com http red From -> To green Tue Jul 29 14:56:47 2008 dd401.sub.test.com http red From -> To green Tue Jul 29 14:56:47 2008 dd400.sub.test.com http red From -> To green Tue Jul 29 14:56:47 2008 li66nsdbm.test.com http red From -> To green Tue Jul 29 14:56:47 2008 iclinux01-sol.corp.test.com http red From -> To green Tue Jul 29 14:56:47 2008 hobbit2.sub.test.com http red From -> To green Tue Jul 29 14:56:47 2008 bs713.sub.test.com http red From -> To green Tue Jul 29 14:56:20 2008 terminal.sub.test.com http green From -> To red Tue Jul 29 14:56:20 2008 ltelinux3-sol.sub.test.com http green From -> To red Tue Jul 29 14:56:20 2008 ltelinux2-sol.sub.test.com http green From -> To red Tue Jul 29 14:56:20 2008 itsupport.corp.test.com http green From -> To red Tue Jul 29 14:56:20 2008 isdweb1.sub.test.com http green From -> To red Tue Jul 29 14:56:20 2008 isdeclinux3-rsa.sub.test.com http green From -> To red Tue Jul 29 14:56:20 2008 isdeclinux2-rsa.sub.test.com http green From -> To red Tue Jul 29 14:56:20 2008 isdeclinux1-rsa.sub.test.com http green From -> To red Tue Jul 29 14:56:20 2008 dd403.sub.test.com http green From -> To red Tue Jul 29 14:56:20 2008 dd402.sub.test.com http green From -> To red Tue Jul 29 14:56:20 2008 dd401.sub.test.com http green From -> To red Tue Jul 29 14:56:20 2008 dd400.sub.test.com http green From -> To red Tue Jul 29 14:56:20 2008 li66nsdbm.test.com http green From -> To red Tue Jul 29 14:56:20 2008 iclinux01-sol.corp.test.com http green From -> To red Tue Jul 29 14:56:20 2008 hobbit2.sub.test.com http green From -> To red Tue Jul 29 14:56:20 2008 bs713.sub.test.com http green From -> To red T.J. Yang _________________________________________________________________ With Windows Live for mobile, your contacts travel with you. http://www.windowslive.com/mobile/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_mobile_07…

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