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WML page generation takes 50 seconds?
by stewartl42＠gmail.com 04 Jan '08

04 Jan '08

So, I'm running a hobbit server... Here are my stats. The problem is, WML page generation is taking almost a minute to complete. Does anyone else use this? Is there anything I can do to speed up the WML page generation? I'll disable it if I have to to keep my system healthy, but I have folks in the field who use the WML pages on blackberries and such. It's a really useful tool. Statistics: Hosts : 3732 Status messages : 8547 Purple messages : 0 Pages : 175 Error output: WARNING: Runtime 67 longer than BBSLEEP (60) TIME SPENT Event Starttime Duration Startup 1199449118.094911 - Load links done 1199449118.190114 0.095203 Load bbhosts done 1199449118.309925 0.119811 ACK removal done 1199449118.349265 0.039340 Load STATE done 1199449118.490628 0.141363 Color calculation done 1199449118.492804 0.002176 Hobbit pagegen start 1199449118.492829 0.000025 Hobbit pagegen done 1199449137.401277 18.908448 BB2 generation done 1199449137.433753 0.032476 BBNK generation done 1199449137.435480 0.001727 Summary transmission done 1199449137.435482 0.000002 WML generation done 1199449185.727154 48.291672 Run completed 1199449185.727156 0.000002 TIME TOTAL 67.632245 -- Stewart The revolution will not be televised. The revolution will be no re-run brothers; The revolution will be live.

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hobbit df disk issue
by forums＠triadbiz.rr.com 04 Jan '08

04 Jan '08

I have posted this once before but haven't really gotten a response from anyone on this question. I am having an issue with hobbit's disk column alarming on nfs mounts with ip's on linux boxes. It look like it reads the ip and sees it as one of the disk usage or available disk. This is what hobbit shows: red /hd2 (172% used) has reached the PANIC level (95%) Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda5 20G 1.7G 18G 9% / /dev/sda1 99M 12M 83M 12% /boot /dev/sda7 20G 129M 19G 1% /data /dev/sda8 74G 129M 70G 1% /hd3 /dev/sda6 20G 1.1G 18G 6% /usr/local 172.31.130.29:/ifs/storage1 17T 132G 17T 1% /hd2 Here is my output from the hobbitclients-linux.sh: echo "[df]" df -Ph -x none -x tmpfs -x shmfs -x unknown -x iso9660 | sed -e '/^[^ ][^ ]*$/{ N s/[ ]*\n[ ]*/ / }' Now something that I have found that is pretty odd is I have a solaris box that does an nfs mount and it shows it properly in it's disk: Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on /dev/md/dsk/d0 20G 6.5G 13G 34% / swap 9.1G 24K 9.1G 1% /var/run swap 9.1G 272K 9.1G 1% /tmp /dev/md/dsk/d4 24G 9K 24G 1% /data /dev/md/dsk/d3 20G 1.5G 18G 8% /usr/local 172.31.130.29:/ifs/storage1 16T 133G 16T 1% /hd2 Here is my output from the hobbitclients-sunos.sh: /bin/df -h |egrep -v "proc|fd|mnttab|objfs|ctfs|devices" Which I changed from this: echo "[df]" # All of this because Solaris df cannot show multiple fs-types, or exclude certain fs types. FSTYPES=`/bin/df -n -l|awk '{print $3}'|egrep -v "^proc|^fd|^mntfs|^ctfs|^devfs|^objfs|^nfs"|sort|uniq` if test "$FSTYPES" = ""; then FSTYPES="ufs"; fi set $FSTYPES /bin/df -F $1 -k | grep -v " /var/run" shift while test "$1" != ""; do /bin/df -F $1 -k | grep -v " /var/run" | tail +2 shift done The reason I did this is to get my size to show in MB instead of Kbytes. But for some reason the solaris box doesn't show the nfs mount with the ip as an alert. Anyone have any insight on this and a fix being that I am not good with sed and awk's and don't really know if that is my issue or not. Thanks Josh

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Custom paging script
by josh.krause＠twcable.com 04 Jan '08

04 Jan '08

Has anyone come up with a custom paging script that will only page out certain information? This E-mail and any of its attachments may contain Time Warner Cable proprietary information, which is privileged, confidential, or subject to copyright belonging to Time Warner Cable. This E-mail is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient of this E-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying, or action taken in relation to the contents of and attachments to this E-mail is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this E-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and permanently delete the original and any copy of this E-mail and any printout.

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[hobbit] 4.3 4release
by bewhite＠fellowes.com 04 Jan '08

04 Jan '08

It depends on the O/S you are going to be running on the hp9000 system. For the most part the chip of the computer makes no difference, it's the O/S on that chip. ......Bruce _____ From: Todd Kleinert [mailto:tkleinert at directpointe.com] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 2:08 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] 4.3 4release Very cool! If I understand this properly, I can run agents on any kind of pc/mainframe/mini-computer/etc. that will report to the main hobbit server. Where can I find these client pieces for HP Risc based systems (HP9000, I think it is, specifically)? Naturally, I configure a simple file on this server (something.cfg I presume), to setup what processes and things are monitored, right? I'm going to monitor some windows processes to get my feet wet, and then try it on a HP Risc. B. Todd Kleinert II Network Operations Technician 333 South 520 West, #200 Lindon, Utah 84042 Office: 801.805.9700 Fax: 801.805.9701 <http://www.directpointe.com/> CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION: E-mails from DirectPointe may contain confidential material for the sole use of the intended recipient. If you received this e-mail in error, please delete the e-mail and all attachments. Thank you. _____ From: Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 12:05 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] 4.3 4release Hobbit on 4.2.0 to 4.2.0 isn't going to change configuration. >From FC5 to FC8 I really wouldn't expect there to be any changes to the system structure that would complicate Hobbit necessary for any changes, either. Josh On 1/3/08, Todd Kleinert <tkleinert at directpointe.com <mailto:tkleinert at directpointe.com> > wrote: Yeah!! Nice! I just got the 4.2.0 working on fedora 8 (yeah, I reloaded over fedora 5, from the other day)..rpm's make it really easy to update things like this. What sort of impact will upgrading have on my existing .cfg files?? B. Todd Kleinert II Network Operations Technician 333 South 520 West, #200 Lindon , Utah 84042 Office: 801.805.9700 Fax: 801.805.9701 <http://www.directpointe.com/> CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION: E-mails from DirectPointe may contain confidential material for the sole use of the intended recipient. If you received this e-mail in error, please delete the e-mail and all attachments. Thank you. _____ From: Galen Johnson [mailto:Galen.Johnson at sas.com <mailto:Galen.Johnson at sas.com> ] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 10:28 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk <mailto:hobbit at hswn.dk> Subject: RE: [hobbit] 4.3 4release I think TJ Yang already has a list of companies using hobbit in his wiki...which I don't recall where it lives at the moment. =G= From: Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com <mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com> ] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 12:17 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk <mailto:hobbit at hswn.dk> Subject: Re: [hobbit] 4.3 4release If you do use Hobbit I ask that you help populate this Wiki article: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The_hobbit_Users_list <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The_hobbit_Users_list> Let's see how many hobbit users there are behind those URL hiding email addresses asking for help here! On 1/3/08, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk <mailto:henrik at hswn.dk> > wrote: Hi Bruce (and everyone else), don't worry, no offence at all. In some ways I think it is quite flattering that people keep asking when the next release will happen - it means that you are actually using Hobbit, and are interested to see some of the new stuff that has been discussed here. And I'm the first to admit that it has taken much longer than originally planned. It is being worked on. Sometimes life interferes for a while and slows everything down. But we're getting closer. Regards, Henrik On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 09:55:01AM -0600, White, Bruce wrote: > Josh, > > Sorry, I was under the impression this forum was for asking question about > hobbit and that was my question. I have posted the question exactly twice. > He never responded to the first and thought maybe he didn't see it. My > question was posted months after the topic first arose here with lots of > people asking the same question. In fact, if you check there is a long > thread on this topic which also contains people posting additions they want > to see in the new release. I'm sorry I offended > > Henrik - If you have felt badgered, my sincere apology. I have the greatest > respect for you and want you have accomplished. Hobbit has been a > remarkable and invaluable tool. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com <mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com> ] > Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2007 5:28 PM > To: hobbit at hswn.dk <mailto:hobbit at hswn.dk> > Subject: Re: [hobbit] 4.3 4release > > Honestly I believe asking when the release of 4.3 is going to be is > bothering all of the regulars. The question does nothing but this and > more then likely delay the release date. > Let Henrik do what he does well and be patient please. > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk <mailto:hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk> -- Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. --- Henry Spencer -- Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. --- Henry Spencer ---------------------------------------------------- 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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howto demotool
by philwild＠gmail.com 03 Jan '08

03 Jan '08

Hello hobbit users Has anyone used demotool? I think this would be a great pre production testing tool as well as useful for training. I can't find any documentation, can some one point me in the right direction or give me a short howto? when I run the tool on the command line I get ./demotool (Re)loading config Segmentation fault Thanks Phil

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[hobbit] Query: IPv6 support ?
by bewhite＠fellowes.com 03 Jan '08

03 Jan '08

Ditto here, no IPv6 and no plans to implement in the near future. ....Bruce _____ From: Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 4:29 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Query: IPv6 support ? Personally - not a single thing IPv6. We don't even have a plan to support it. On 1/3/08, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk <mailto:henrik at hswn.dk> > wrote: What are your views on IPv6 support in Hobbit ? How many of you have IPv6 enabled on your systems ? Do you have AAAA DNS records for your domains ? Although I haven't dug into the code, I think it would be fairly easy to make Hobbit work with IPv6 addresses and connections. But I don't want to do it unless someone really needs it. Oh - and this is obviously AFTER the 4.3 release. Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk <mailto:hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk> -- Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. --- Henry Spencer ---------------------------------------------------- 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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Not getting alerts or change of colors for message files
by croftale＠gmail.com 03 Jan '08

03 Jan '08

I am trying to get alerting for message files. I have checked the archives, but found nothing in there. I have tried various configurations. The two I have set up with hobbit clients right now are set up, one as a client with the server controlling, the other as a client that pushes its info. Neither seems to work. The client set to push (nodens), does not send any message file data and the indicator stays clear and the comment says: The client did not report any logfile data. On the client set so that the server controls (sirona), there is information for the logs, but nothing triggers a yellow or red. No entries in /var/log/messages<http://phanes/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?CLIENT=sirona.hq.openratings.com&SEC…> No entries in /var/log/secure <http://phanes/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?CLIENT=sirona.hq.openratings.com&SEC…> Full log /var/log/messages <http://phanes/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?CLIENT=sirona.hq.openratings.com&SEC…> Jan 2 08:27:03 sirona ecroft: NOTICE Full log /var/log/secure <http://phanes/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?CLIENT=sirona.hq.openratings.com&SEC…> Jan 2 07:56:19 sirona sshd[27841]: Connection closed by 10.0.14.249 Jan 2 08:01:20 sirona sshd[27897]: Connection closed by 10.0.14.249 Jan 2 08:06:21 sirona sshd[27943]: Connection closed by 10.0.14.249 The client-local.cfg file on the server has these entries. [sirona.hq.openratings.com] log:/var/log/messages:10240 trigger NOTICE trigger WARNING log:/var/log/secure:10240 ignore "Connection closed by" trigger BREAKIN [nodens.hq.openratings.com] log:/var/log/messages:10240 trigger NOTICE log:/var/log/secure:10240 ignore "Connection closed by" trigger BREAKIN The hobbit-clients.cfg file on the server has: HOST=sirona.hq.openratings.com LOG %.* WARNING COLOR=yellow LOG %.* NOTICE COLOR=red HOST=nodens.hq.openratings.com LOG %.* WARNING COLOR=yellow LOG %.* NOTICE COLOR=red DEFAULT # These are the built-in defaults. #LOG %.* WARNING COLOR=yellow LOG %.* WARNING COLOR=yellow LOG %.* NOTICE COLOR=red UP 1h LOAD 5.0 10.0 DISK * 91 95 MEMPHYS 100 101 MEMSWAP 50 80 MEMACT 90 97 PROC cron On nodens I have in the client-local.cfg [nodens.hq.openratings.com] log:/var/log/messages:10240 trigger NOTICE #ignore MARK log:/var/log/secure:10240 ignore Martian trigger BREAKIN #trigger TESTING And in the localclient.cfg HOST=nodens.hq.openratings.com PROC cron DISK /data1 96 99 LOG /var/log/messages NOTICE COLOR=red LOG /var/log/secure BREAKIN COLOR=red LOG /var/log/messages WARNING COLOR=yellow DEFAULT # These are the built-in defaults. UP 1h LOAD 5.0 10.0 DISK * 90 95 MEMPHYS 100 101 MEMSWAP 50 80 MEMACT 90 97 LOG /var/log/messages NOTICE COLOR=red LOG /var/log/secure BREAKIN COLOR=red clientlaunch.cfg on nodens is: [msgcache] DISABLED ENVFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/etc/hobbitclient.cfg CMD $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/bin/msgcache --no-daemon --pidfile=$HOBBITCLIENTHOME/logs/msgcache.pid LOGFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/logs/msgcache.log # The main client task [client] ENVFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/etc/hobbitclient.cfg CMD $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/bin/hobbitclient.sh --local LOGFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/logs/hobbitclient.log INTERVAL 5m # ORCA data collector. This is an experimental add-on module, # the data sent by this module are not processed by Hobbit 4.2. [orcadata] DISABLED ENVFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/etc/hobbitclient.cfg CMD $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/bin/orcahobbit --orca=/usr/local/orca/orcallator LOGFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/logs/hobbitclient.log � -- If the sane say the insane are insane, What if the sane are insane? Would that make the insane sane? Explains a lot in Washington! --E. Croft

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Highlights of the 4.3.0 version
by spa＠syntec.co.uk 03 Jan '08

03 Jan '08

Henrik, The new features sound good! But are they now documented? I checked the snapshot and none of man pages or the Changes page seem to have been updated since the 4.2.0 release. It makes it quite difficult to test and use the new features (which presumably is a requirement before releasing the new version)! ;-) Or am I missing something less obvious than using the source (TM)? I think it would be useful if the Changes page (http://www.hswn.dk/beta/snapshot/Changes) was kept more or less up-to-date for the snapshot releases. Knowing what has changed in hobbit-server betas seems pretty difficult without downloading frequent snapshots and doing diffs. Is there any chance of the source being put into a public subversion / CVS repository or something? I see there is already a public CVS repository for hobbit on SourceForge, but it only includes the hobbit-client code A public repository may encourage more contributed patches. I also see that last year you mentioned that you are "using RCS which is a predecessor to CVS". I don't know if this is still the case, but if so, it appears pretty simple to migrate to CVS using rcs2cvs as documented here: http://www.linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/CVS-RCS-HOWTO-3.html Or as the OP did in http://www.nabble.com/RCS-to-svn-t792119.html - he migrated RCS to SVN via CVS. Many thanks, Sebastian henrik (at) hswn.dk (Henrik Stoerner) wrote on Sun, 22 Jul 2007 00:08:12 +0200: >In another thread, someone asked about what new features are planned for >version 4.3.0. I've summarized them below; they have all been >implemented by now. Some of them have been contributed by others over >the past year - I'm pleased to have finally gotten their patches merged. > >There are some open bug-reports, and the plan now is to try and get >those fixed. Once that is done I'll ask you all to start testing the >beta-versions, and then a new release is hopefully available soon. > >This doesn't mean that I won't consider adding new stuff before the >4.3.0 release, but right now the plan is to get 4.3.0 shipped with >the current set of features. But if I've missed someone's favourite >patch or feature request, do let me know. > > >Major new features >------------------ >* PAGE setting for alert- and client-configuration handles hosts on > multiple pages, so any pagename can be used. >* Flap detection of statuses that change color rapidly. The status > is kept at the most critical level until it stops flapping. >* Holiday support for alerts, including variable holidays (Easter etc) >* Split NCV support - graph data from NCV can be split into multiple > RRD databases allowing for varying number of datasets. >* RRD database parameters are now configurable (i.e. number of > datapoints stored, whether to store min/max values etc). Note that > this only applies to newly created RRD files, not existing ones. >* Distributed worker modules allow sharing the load across multiple > Hobbit servers >* RRD updates are now cached for up to 30 minutes before being written > to disk. This makes the I/O load on large installations much lighter. >* Detection of statuses that are reported by multiple hosts >* Client backend-support for the z/OS and z/VSE clients by Rich Smirna > >Display things >-------------- >* Graph zooming now limits the lower/upper bounds of a graph (requires > rrdtool 1.2.x) >* The trends page default data-period can be configured to something > other than the default 48-hour view, and the user can select a > different period on-the-fly. >* Hosts can be sorted automatically on the overview webpage with a > "group-sorted" group definition. >* NOCOLUMNS setting in bb-hosts let you suppress certain columns on > a per-host basis >* Host-comments are displayed as tool-tips, to save screen space. > >Checks and graphs >----------------- >* Network tests can use a specific source IP instead of the default >* The validity-period of network tests is configurable, instead of > being fixed at the default 30-minute setting >* Client file checks can check for a symlink >* "trends" report for RRD handling allows generating custom-made > RRD files >* Hobbit host- and status-counts are tracked in an RRD file > >Miscellaneous >------------- >* NCV reports can handle color-icons before the name:value data >* hobbitlaunch tasks can be configured to run on certain hosts only >* Time-warp detection and warning >* Local unix-socket interface to Hobbit daemon >* hobbitd_capture can collect several statuses and hand off such a > batch to an external command >* Support for SHA-224/256/384/512 digests > > >Regards, >Henrik

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[bug] Duplicate TRACK in hobbitclients.cfg causes graph to fail
by charles.goyard＠orange-ftgroup.com 03 Jan '08

03 Jan '08

Hi, the following configuration in hobbit-clients.cfg : HOST=db1.int.xx PROC mysqld 1 300 yellow TRACK=mysqld PROC mysqld 1 500 red TRACK=mysqld causes the graph to only show sporadic dots. Removal of the duplicate "TRACK=mysqld" on the second line makes things work again. I use hobbit 4.2 with a somewhat recent snapshot hobbitd_rrd module (around Nov. 26th 2007, one with the write-caching). I unfortunatly don't have time to fix and provide a patch. Regards, -- Charles Goyard - charles.goyard at orange-ftgroup.com - (+33) 1 45 38 01 31 Orange Business Services - online multimedia // ingénierie

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[hobbit] custom paging script
by bewhite＠fellowes.com 03 Jan '08

03 Jan '08

I have a custom script, but it send out information based on the global variables available at script runtime. Check the help documents and see what is available in the global variables. .....Bruce _____ From: Joshua Krause [mailto:forums at triadbiz.rr.com] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 6:32 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] custom paging script Has anyone come up with a custom paging script that will only page out certain information? ---------------------------------------------------- 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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