hello, i get green for conn now but red for bbd saying

Service unavailable (Connection refused)

for 13.1.1.4 after i add testip to it.how to solve this?also what to do to get clear status of procs ,ports,files etc to green..

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: pankaj dorlikar <pankaj.dorlikar at gmail.com> Date: Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 2:39 PM Subject: Fwd: [hobbit] conn:red but host is ok also clear for files,http and procs To: hobbit at hswn.dk

hello, i get files,procs and ports as clear touugh all other tests are working fine.... also i get error of "/xymon/server/web/hostsvc_footer is either missing or invalid, please create this file with your custom header" error..how to craete that file?can anybody show this file to me?

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kristian Nielsen <knielsen at knielsen-hq.org> Date: Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 2:07 PM Subject: Re: [hobbit] conn:red but host is ok also clear for files,http and procs To: hobbit at hswn.dk

pankaj dorlikar <pankaj.dorlikar at gmail.com> writes:

i have 2 hosts having ips 13.1.1.4 and 13.1.1.2 ( internal network) which are reachable by ip address from xymon server.In dns its hostname resolves to its old ip address of 192.168.2.106 &2.107 resp.I get

So if I understand you correctly, the host you are testing has wrong information in DNS, so you want Hobbit to monitor it using IP addresses, ignoring DNS?

bbd:bbd ok : Ping failed, or dialup host/service Service bbd on tb1.stp.cdac.ernet.in is OK Dialup host/service, or test depends on another failed te

Host appears to be down

conn :conn NOT ok Service conn on tb1.stp.cdac.ernet.in is not OK : Host does not respond to ping

So I assume you have something like this in bb-hosts:

13.1.1.2 tb1.stp.cdac.ernet.in # bbd ssh

To get Hobbit to use the IP address and not lookup the name in DNS, you can use `testip', changing the line to this:

13.1.1.2 tb1.stp.cdac.ernet.in # testip bbd ssh

Then Hobbit will ping 13.1.1.2 (which I understand works) instead of tb1.stp.cdac.ernet.in (which I understand does not work).

If you have http tests, you need to similarly change this:

http://tb1.stp.cdac.ernet.in/

into this:

http://tb1.stp.cdac.ernet.in=13.1.1.2/

i get files,ports and procs as clear for every host including server How and where to configure for each of these tests.can anybody give its detailed explainnation?also can i know the meaning of all types of reports...

The clear is probably due to the ping test failing. Hobbit takes failing conn test to mean the host is down, and then does not bother to report all the other services red.

Hope this helps,

• Kristian.

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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kristian Nielsen <knielsen at knielsen-hq.org> Date: Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 5:14 PM Subject: Re: Fwd: [hobbit] conn:red but host is ok also clear for files,http and procs To: hobbit at hswn.dk

pankaj dorlikar <pankaj.dorlikar at gmail.com> writes:

hello, i get green for conn now but red for bbd saying

Service unavailable (Connection refused)

for 13.1.1.4 after i add testip to it.how to solve this?also what to do to

Well, do you have the Hobbit server running on 13.1.1.4? That is what bbd is testing. Ie. you probably only want to use the bbd test on one host, the one that is running the Hobbit server.

get clear status of procs ,ports,files etc to green..

The reason these are clear is that there are no tests defined for these by default.

If you have some processes, tcp ports, or log files that you want to monitor, you can add them in hobbit-clients.cfg. If not, just ignore them.

Also, it sounds like it would be useful for you to take a step back and make a list of exactly what services that you have running and want monitored, and then map that list onto the tests that Hobbit can run.

• Kristian.

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