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Hobbit Server API
by merlin_rbs＠hotmail.com 03 Mar '08

03 Mar '08

Hi All, We are using hobbit to monitor our infrastructure and would like to extend it to monitor some custom application statistics for our product. Our product is hosted within our client’s network and all communications are through HTTPS. Rather than hosting the hobbit agent, I would like to send the hobbit information directly from our application. Does have a server side API which can allows application to update monitoring information directly? Thanks in advance, Ryan ________________________________ Sounds like? How many syllables? Guess and win prizes with Search Charades! _________________________________________________________________ Get Hotmail on your mobile, text MSN to 63463! http://mobile.uk.msn.com/pc/mail.aspx

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esxtop
by merlin_rbs＠hotmail.com 03 Mar '08

03 Mar '08

Thanks Thomas, Sorry for not replying sooner to let anyone know how it went. I dont seem to receive any mail letting me know the post has been updated. I unfortunately have been rather busy on some other prioiryt tasks but will mail out my results as soon as I have any. Regards, Ryan From: merlin_rbs at hotmail.com To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: esxtop Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:03:59 +0000 Hi All, Was hoping someone could help me or at least steer me in the right direction when monitoring "memory usage" on an esx server. I have searched the web and newgroups only to find people talking about using esxtop and changing the hobbitclient-linux.sh script, when monitoring load and CPU. Unfortunately when changing the startup script to use esxtop the memory monitor column fails. I considered writing a basic script to monitor the memory (example below), but am not sure how I would create the graphs to trend the mem usage. ################### #!/bin/sh COLUMN=mem COLOR=green cat /proc/vmware/mem |grep "Machine memory free" > /tmp/meminfo.txt $BB $BBDISP "status $MACHINE.$COLUMN $COLOR `date` `cat /tmp/meminfo.txt` " exit 0 ################### Does anyone have any better ideas or are doing anything different that could help resolve this dilemma? Thanks in advance, Ryan Sounds like? How many syllables? Guess and win prizes with Search Charades! _________________________________________________________________ Telly addicts unite! http://www.searchgamesbox.com/tvtown.shtml

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[hobbit] BBWIN 0.9 CPU Always 100%
by bewhite＠fellowes.com 01 Mar '08

01 Mar '08

Hi, It turns out that one of my Windows guys renamed the BBWIN.cfg file from under the agent and that caused it to keep reloading itself. I stopped the agent and started it again and the problem went away. Thanks for the assistance, Bruce _____ From: Etienne Grignon [mailto:etienne.grignon at gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 11:00 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] BBWIN 0.9 CPU Always 100% Hi, 2008/2/28, White, Bruce <bewhite at fellowes.com <mailto:bewhite at fellowes.com> >: Hi all, I'm running BBWIN 0.9 on an 8-way Win2003 server and it is always reporting the CPU at 100%, but when you sign in to the server, performance monitor shows CPU at very little utilization. Has anyone seen this behavior before? Is there anything I can do to correct this? Could you post your bbwin.cfg file (cpu section) and one text snapshot of your current status in the cpu column ? Also, could you check the msgs column to see if a lot of events are being parsed. All the time I got the problem, it was because an application generated thousands of events in a minute so the msgs agent was very busy. Regards, -- Etienne GRIGNON ---------------------------------------------------- Note: The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. Fellowes, Inc. ----------------------------------------------------

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Hobbit in the News !
by s_aiello＠comcast.net 29 Feb '08

29 Feb '08

I got my Linux Magazine (http://www.linux-mag.com) March 2008 issue yesterday. And imagine my surprise in the DIY section that there is an article on Hobbit !! Here's to a tremendous piece of software actually getting recognition. Just figured I would share, ~Steve

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bbcmd --area option
by s_aiello＠comcast.net 29 Feb '08

29 Feb '08

Should bbcmd honor the --area option ? per the hobbitserver.cfg: areas are invoked by using the "--area" option for all tools, or via the ENVAREA setting in the hobbitlaunch.cfg(5) file. Presently it doesn't seem to hobbit 4.2.0 (all-in-one patch): $ bin/bbcmd --area DB 2008-02-27 16:48:59 Using default environment file /export/home/bb4/client/etc/hobbitclient.cfg 2008-02-27 16:48:59 execvp() failed: No such file or directory If it did.. would make debugging ext script a touch easier for me. ~Steve

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.sh files downloading
by mail＠johankooijman.com 29 Feb '08

29 Feb '08

Goodmorning all, I've just installed hobbit for about the 20th time. The former 19 tries were all succesfull. This time however, I have a problem with the webpages. The machine is a CentOS 5.1 machine, running Apache 2.2.3 (from standard repo). I've installed the RPM, but also tried compiling, Hobbit. The monitor itself works, it generates pages fine. The problem happens when I click one of the icons, for example the one that leads to http://hostname/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?HOST=hostname&SERVICE=bbtest. My browser wants to download the file, instead of displaying it. I've copied the hobbit-apache.conf from the installdirectory directly into the apache conf.d directory. I can't find anything in that file related to this problem. Any help is much appreciated! -- Met vriendelijke groeten / With kind regards, Johan Kooijman T +31(0) 6 43 44 45 27 F +31(0) 76 201 1179 E mail at johankooijman.com

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ipmi digestion script w/ graph?
by baugust＠stanford.edu 29 Feb '08

29 Feb '08

I don't want to reinvent the wheel, but if this wheel doesn't exist, I guess I'll go invent it. :) Does anyone have a script to take the system temperature data from the IPMI interface (say, on a Dell box), report it to Hobbit, and pass the data to RRD so we get lovely temperature graphs? -- --Ben Benjamin P. August System Administrator - VPUE Stanford University

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Bug in bbgen coredumping
by tlewick＠tradebotsystems.com 29 Feb '08

29 Feb '08

I posted something on this earlier, but just now found the steps on how to report a bug. Details: Installed hobbit 4.2.0 on Suse10.1 server, installed fine. Later applied allinone patch, ran make, make install, and that succeeded, but when restarting hobbit I noticed bbgen was crashing. Here is the gbd output: gdb bin/bbgen.coredumping tmp/core GNU gdb 6.6 Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "x86_64-suse-linux"... Using host libthread_db library "/lib64/libthread_db.so.1". warning: core file may not match specified executable file. Reading symbols from /usr/lib64/libpcre.so.0...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib64/libpcre.so.0 Reading symbols from /lib64/libc.so.6...done. Loaded symbols for /lib64/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 Core was generated by `./bbgen.coredumping'. Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted. #0 0x00002b7342165b95 in raise () from /lib64/libc.so.6 (gdb) bt #0 0x00002b7342165b95 in raise () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #1 0x00002b7342166f90 in abort () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #2 0x000000000041f353 in sigsegv_handler (signum=<value optimized out>) at sig.c:57 #3 <signal handler called> #4 0x000000000040a82f in calc_pagecolors (phead=0x5417b0) at process.c:96 #5 0x0000000000402b1f in main (argc=1, argv=0x7fff68bb7dc8) at bbgen.c:594

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hobbit-clients.cfg include directive
by s_aiello＠comcast.net 28 Feb '08

28 Feb '08

I was curious if the hobbit-clients.cfg honored include directives. The reason I ask, is that our standard for defining LA thresholds is based on the numbers of CPUs. I edited my client's hobbitclient-<os>.sh to add a new section, [cpucount]. I figured I could write a server side script that could process that data & set the correct threshold accordingly. I just don't want to write a script that writes directly to the etc/hobbitclients.cfg file, and prefer writing to an external file that I can then include. So far only my linux & sun servers have the cpucount section, and these are the commands I used: Linux: $GREP processor /proc/cpuinfo | $WC SunOS: /usr/sbin/psrinfo -p ~Steve

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Problem with Event Log Report
by jonescr＠cisco.com 28 Feb '08

28 Feb '08

I've just had a confirmed report of a Hobbit 4.2 install where the Event Log Report is not functioning properly. There were a slew of red alerts in the past 24 hours, yet try as I might, I am unable to get any of them to display. The events do exist as I can see them in the availability report, as well as the specific service history link. I'm using the default 1440 mins, and "red" for color. I tried all colors ".*" as well as "red|yellow|green" and still nada. I checked out the hobbit logs, and see a few of these in the cgierror.log: *** attempt to put segment in horiz list twice I also see a few of these "Weird file" messages, but they aren't from today: 2008-02-27 23:34:45 Weird file '/users/hobbit//data/hist/ProdSite-1.conn' skipped Any pointers on the best way to troubleshoot this? -Charles

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