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Alerts
by NMaharaj＠tcta.co.za 10 Sep '07

10 Sep '07

Hi all, Im new to Hobbit and am trying to configure the alerts. What must I add for all alerts to be sent to 1 email address ?

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Extra Services
by NMaharaj＠tcta.co.za 10 Sep '07

10 Sep '07

Hi, The current hobbit menu has bbd, bbgen, bbtest, conn, cpu, disk etc etc .. I would like to add 2 more onto this page. I have edited the hobbitserver.config file and added this in like SVCCODES=scmb:15000,merva:7117 etc etc Than I added this to the hosts file to monitor this service on that particular host but this does not appear on the web page. Any ideas as to which other file I need to update ?

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WELCOME to hobbit@hswn.dk
by rajashekar.g＠BIRLASOFT.COM 09 Sep '07

09 Sep '07

Hi All, My new role is to monitor hobbit for alerts. Since two days, red alerts shown by hobbit consistently for 2 to 3 minutes and recovers automatically. In log the following message is displayed, Application URL - server timeout We can ping the servers and there is no problem with servers or bussiness. what does " server timeout " mean? How to minimize it? How critical is it? Thanks in advance Regards -Raj ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************* "This message and any attachments are solely for the intended recipient and may contain Birlasoft confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient,any disclosure,copying, use, or distribution of the information included in this message and any attachments is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us by reply e-mail(administrator at birlasoft.com)and immediately and permanently delete this message and any attachments. Thank you." *********************************************************************************************************************************************************************

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[hobbit] qpage on AIX - a solution!
by alevin＠reveredata.com 09 Sep '07

09 Sep '07

-----Original Message----- From: Smith, Jim <JMSmith at stvincenthealth.com> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 4:30 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk <hobbit at hswn.dk> Subject: [hobbit] qpage on AIX - a solution! Greetings! I'm sure I'm not the only one who has experienced difficulties with "qpage" on the AIX platform. I finally found the solution to the "got byte: \377" problem in an old message on the Big Brother message board. In "qpage" version 3.3, which is the latest version (although it is several years old), a minor change has to be made in the source file "ixo.c". In this file, there is a function named "remote_connect". In its local variable declarations, a variable named "c" is cast as a char. It has to be changed to an int. Execute a "make clean" and then "make". It works perfectly after that. I have been using "qpage" on Solaris for over four years and I love it! But I've been wanting to switch everything to a retired AIX server and this issue has been making me nuts for months! I hope someone out there finds this information as useful as I did! Jim Smith SVHS Little Rock, AR NOTICE: This email contains confidential or proprietary information which may be legally privileged. It is intended only for the named recipient(s). If an addressing error has misdirected the email, please notify the author by replying to this message. If you are not the named recipient, you are not authorized to use, disclose, distribute, copy, print or rely on this email, and should immediately delete it from your computer system.

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[hobbit] Virtual IP's
by htaute＠media24.com 08 Sep '07

08 Sep '07

Veritas Cluster for Solaris V5 -----Original Message----- From: Dean Casey [mailto:dcasey at pathfire.com] Sent: 08 September 2007 01:05 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] Virtual IP's What clustering software are you using? You could make the Hobbit client a cluster resource, that is part of the service group & dependent on the virtual IP. Dean Casey _____ From: Henri Taute [mailto:htaute at media24.com] Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 8:31 AM To: 'hobbit at hswn.dk' Subject: [hobbit] Virtual IP's Hi Can anybody assist me in setting up the hobbitclient for a virtual IP. We have applications that belong to service-groups with a virtual IP for each service-group.. We have three clustered servers that these applications can run on. So does not matter on what server the service-group/application runs it is always the same IP. I would like the hobbitclient to follow the virtual IP to what ever machine it is running on. Thanks Henri Taute Media24 Content Production Tel: +27 21 4062495 Fax: +27 21 4063143 Cell: +28 82 8276124 E-mail: htaute at media24.co.za ____________________________________________________________________________ This email and its contents are subject to an email legal notice that can be viewed at: http://www.naspers.com/email/disclaimer.html. Should you be unable to access the link provided, please email us for a copy at Helpdesk at Media24.com. Hierdie e-pos en sy inhoud is onderhewig aan 'n regskennisgewing oor elektroniese pos wat gelees kan word by http://www.naspers.com/epos/vrywaring.html. 'n Afskrif kan aangevra word by Helpdesk at Media24.com. ____________________________________________________________________________

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Virtual IP's
by htaute＠media24.com 08 Sep '07

08 Sep '07

> Hi > > Can anybody assist me in setting up the hobbitclient for a virtual IP. We > have applications that belong to service-groups with a virtual IP for each > service-group.. We have three clustered servers that these applications > can run on. So does not matter on what server the > service-group/application runs it is always the same IP. I would like the > hobbitclient to follow the virtual IP to what ever machine it is running > on. > > Thanks > > Henri Taute > Media24 Content Production > Tel: +27 21 4062495 > Fax: +27 21 4063143 > Cell: +28 82 8276124 > E-mail: htaute at media24.co.za > ____________________________________________________________________________ This email and its contents are subject to an email legal notice that can be viewed at: http://www.naspers.com/email/disclaimer.html. Should you be unable to access the link provided, please email us for a copy at Helpdesk at Media24.com. Hierdie e-pos en sy inhoud is onderhewig aan 'n regskennisgewing oor elektroniese pos wat gelees kan word by http://www.naspers.com/epos/vrywaring.html. 'n Afskrif kan aangevra word by Helpdesk at Media24.com. ____________________________________________________________________________

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Email alerts question
by q＠tippett.com 07 Sep '07

07 Sep '07

Hello all, I am trying to tie my ticketing system into our monitoring process. I am currently having to do this through email. Ideally I would have any alert that self recovers close the open ticket it created. My problem is as follows: When hobbit sends an alert it has an id number in brackets. When hobbit sends a recovery message no alert id is included, so I have no way to reference a recovery with the original alert. Is there any way to have a recovery message include the original alert id? Or some other way of having a simple link between the original message and the recovery email? Q

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Multiple yellow to red
by Galen.Johnson＠sas.com 07 Sep '07

07 Sep '07

Hey, I'll admit I haven't put a lot of legwork into this but...is it possible to configure hobbit to go red on a test after a certain number of cycles at yellow? I have some tests that I don't mind if they are yellow for small period but if they are there too long I need to know. I could probably handle this with a script but it'd be nice if hobbit could handle it out of the box...maybe extend COLOR or DURATION... HOST=* COLOR=3*yellow blah blah blah MAIL admin at foo.com That would alert after it was yellow for 3 cycles...or would a DURATION alert work...hurmmmmmm... =G=

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Hobbit Server H.A. idea: hobbit client rework
by tj_yang＠hotmail.com 07 Sep '07

07 Sep '07

I am interested to see Hobbit server to have High Availability soluation. There were some discussions on the list. Following is another idea. The current design does allow hobbit client to send message to two hb server at the same time. See following, hbclient> grep ^BBDISP hobbitclient.cfg BBDISP="0.0.0.0" # IP address of the Hobbit server BBDISPLAYS="hbs.test.com hbs2.test.com" # IP of multiple Hobbit servers. BBDISP must be "0.0.0.0". hbclient> But this duplication can impose network traffic penalty on a site with large hb clients installation. The data from hbs to hbs2 can be mirrored using DRBD(hb server on Linux) or AVS(Hobbit server on Soalris). 1. Rework hb client send to hbs2.test.com in BBDISPLAYS list ONLY if hbs.test.com is not reachable ? 2. or adding a new variable BBDISPBK when BBDISP or BBDISPLAYS servers are not reachable ? Comments ? T.J. Yang _________________________________________________________________ Get a FREE small business Web site and more from Microsoft� Office Live! http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/aub0930003811mrt/direct/01/

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FW: [hobbit] scripting help
by Jason.Chambers＠geosoft.com 07 Sep '07

07 Sep '07

This email didn't make it onto the list, so I thought I forward it here. Jason Chambers I.T. Helpdesk Associate Geosoft Inc. 85 Richmond St W - Toronto, ON, CA - M5H 2C9 - Tel: 416.369.0111 ext 344 - Fax: 416.369.9599 -----Original Message----- From: Jason Chambers Sent: September-07-07 9:05 AM To: 'Buchan Milne' Subject: RE: [hobbit] scripting help Hi Buchan, I didn't see it until you mentioned it. Email got blocked by our spam filter for some silly reason. ;) It looks like bbhostgrep does not like : entries in the 4.2.0 release. I think I might need to use bbhostshow and parse it manually, as buggy that might be :\ unless I am missing something. Jason Chambers I.T. Helpdesk Associate Geosoft Inc. 85 Richmond St W - Toronto, ON, CA - M5H 2C9 - Tel: 416.369.0111 ext 344 - Fax: 416.369.9599 -----Original Message----- From: Buchan Milne [mailto:bgmilne at staff.telkomsa.net] Sent: September-07-07 8:51 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Cc: Jason Chambers Subject: Re: [hobbit] scripting help On Friday 07 September 2007 14:35:54 Jason Chambers wrote: > Hi Iain, > > I really don't want to install an smnp client on each windows machine, > which may or may not affect the performance of a mission critical servers, > to do the polling of data, when I can actually get the hobbit server to > fire a script. > > Also, what or how I am executing this script is not the question I am > placing here. I'm just wondering how I can read parameters after the test > name in bb-hosts (my planned version of blades:(blade port number):(ip > address)) that is very similar to the setup of how Henrik has badtest:x:x:x Did you even look at the example script I sent? Did you reply saying what it didn't do that you need? Or, are you looking for someone to teach you how to read and write scripts (in which case I think you're looking in the wrong place).

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