That was excellent advice! It is working nicely now. Thank you sir!

Kevin

From: Charles Jones [mailto:jonescr at cisco.com] Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2005 11:28 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Apache tag Importance: Low

Okay, first you must make the indicated addition to your apache httpd.conf (or you can make a hobbit.conf in apaches conf.d directory).

Then, you must restart apache for the change to take effect (/etc/init.d/httpd restart).

Then, manually test the server-stats url to make sure it's working, by using your browser and going to http://your.server.com/server-status?auto <http://your.server.com/server-status?auto> (you can also go to http://your.server.com/server-status/ <http://your.server.com/server-status/> to get some nice extended apache performance info). You should get back something like this:

Total Accesses: 131577

Total kBytes: 796036

CPULoad: 1.0401

Uptime: 21595

ReqPerSec: 6.09294

BytesPerSec: 37746.7

BytesPerReq: 6195.16

BusyWorkers: 43

IdleWorkers: 13

Scoreboard: RR__RWR___RR_R_RR_RRRRRRRRR_RRRRRRR__RRR_RRRRCRRRRR_RRRR.................... ............................................................................ ............................................................................ ............................ Now, assuming you are getting back the server-status info, time to make sure your bb-hosts is correctly configured to collect and graph the data. Heres what I have in mine:

1.2.3.4 my.server.com # conn ssh http://1.2.3.4 <http://1.2.3.4> apache=http://1.2.3.4/server-status?auto <http://1.2.3.4/server-status?auto> LARRD:*,apache:apache|apache1|apache2|apache3

From what you said of your setup, I'm guessing your only problem is using the wrong url for the apache tag (you used "apache=http://192.168.1.25/hobbit/ <http://192.168.1.25/hobbit/> " which just won't work - that's the kind of URL you would use for the http tag).

Hope this helped.

-Charles

Kevin Hanrahan wrote:

thanks for the reply. I did exactly as in the example before I wrote the previous email and got nothing. That is why I was asking for help or further clarification.

From: Charles Jones [mailto:jonescr at cisco.com <mailto:jonescr at cisco.com> ] Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 12:48 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk <mailto:hobbit at hswn.dk> Subject: Re: [hobbit] Apache tag Importance: Low

PERFORMANCE MONITORING TESTS

apache[=URL]

If you are running an Apache webserver, adding this tag makes bbtest-net <http://192.168.0.103/hobbit/help/manpages/man1/bbtest-net.1.html> (1) collect performance statistics from the Apache webserver by querying the URL http://IP.ADDRESS.OF.HOST/server-status?auto <http://IP.ADDRESS.OF.HOST/server-status?auto> . The response is sent as a data-report and processed by the Hobbit hobbitd_larrd module into an RRD file and an "apache" graph. If your webserver requires e.g. authentication, or runs on a different URL for the server-status, you can provide the full URL needed to fetch the server-status page, e.g. apache=http://LOGIN:PASSWORD at 10.0.0.1/server-status?auto <http://LOGIN:PASSWORD at 10.0.0.1/server-status?auto> for a password protected server-status page, or apache=http://10.0.0.1:8080/apache/server-status?auto <http://10.0.0.1:8080/apache/server-status?auto> for a server listening on port 8080 and with a different path to the server-status page.

Note that you need to enable the server-status URL in your Apache configuration. The following configuration is needed:

<Location /server-status> 
    SetHandler server-status 
    Order deny,allow 
    Deny from all 
    allow from 127.0.0.1 
</Location> 
ExtendedStatus On 

Change "127.0.0.1" to the IP-address of the server that runs your network tests.

Kevin Hanrahan wrote:

Please explain the apache performance tag further. I added the following to

my bb-hosts for a host running apache:

apache=http://192.168.1.25/hobbit/ <http://192.168.1.25/hobbit/>

It is in fact the hobbit host. I get no apache column or anything

related....where did I make my mistake?