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On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Rich Smrcina <rsmrcina at wi.rr.com> wrote:

Yes, indeed.

Hubbard, Greg L wrote:

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Congratulations! Thanks for your ongoing dedication...

GLH

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Henrik wrote:

In <a16736ddb213d7495439d967ea3c0ff8 at imap> L.M.J <linuxmasterjedi at free.fr> writes:

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On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:12:44 +0100, Henrik Storner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:

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I am pleased to announce that Xymon version 4.2.2 is now available from Sourceforge.

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Great, thanks for the news. Is it safe to compile it and replace the old Hobbit binaries? or is there any cleanest way to upgrade my current Hobbit server?

Should work just fine, as long as you configure it the same as you did with the original 4.2.0 sources - same userid, directories etc.

Could I compile the binaries and simply copy them directly in to the correct bin/ directories so as to use my current 4.2.0 configs or are there major changes to the config files?

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One more Hurray for Henrik! Although the year must have been hard for him, medical reasons etc, he managed to produce a whole new release of Hobbit, sorry Xymon (Guess it will take a while for me to get used to ;-) Also a "Thank you" for everyone on the mailing list, for their support by answering questions, supplying patches, suggestions or ideas.

This is very good for the community, to see that a product like Xymon is alive!

The new release, the new features (f.e. notifications report), including incorporated patches and/or fixes is absolutely worth the upgrade!

Merry x-mas to you all,

Peter

2008/12/16 Henrik Størner <henrik at hswn.dk>

In <1F7B01020EC4D04DA17703634B9E888E09BFE673 at ULPGCTMVMAI003.EU.COLT> "Ward, Martin" <Martin.Ward at colt.net> writes:

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Henrik wrote: =20 In <a16736ddb213d7495439d967ea3c0ff8 at imap> L.M.J=20 <linuxmasterjedi at free.fr> writes: =20

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On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:12:44 +0100, Henrik Storner <henrik at hswn.dk>=20 wrote:

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I am pleased to announce that Xymon version 4.2.2 is now available from Sourceforge. =20 Great, thanks for the news. Is it safe to compile it and replace the=20 old Hobbit binaries? or is there any cleanest way to upgrade=20 my current=20 Hobbit server? =20 Should work just fine, as long as you configure it the same as you did with the original 4.2.0 sources - same userid,=20 directories etc.

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Could I compile the binaries and simply copy them directly in to the correct bin/ directories so as to use my current 4.2.0 configs or are there major changes to the config files?

The only config file changes are additions to the hobbitgraph.cfg file (new definitions from BBWin, Devmon and hobbit-perl-client), and the corresponding new items listed in the TEST2RRD and GRAPHS setting in hobbitserver.cfg.

So compiling and then copying your binaries over - or just doing a "make install", this will not overwrite your existing config - should work fine.

Regards, Henrik

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Re: Adam Goryachev 2008-12-16 <4947D3A4.3050300 at websitemanagers.com.au>

Henrik Storner wrote:

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It is available at the Sourceforge project site, https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=128058&package_id=140...

Any chance of some packages similar to the 4.2.0 ones for debian? Specifically the server package and the client package?

BTW, for the debian package maintainer in debian, will this version end up in lenny, or will lenny only have 4.3.0 ? What about debian testing? Will 4.2.2 go there after the current testing -> stable ?

Lenny will ship with 4.2.0. There will be 4.2.2 packages in unstable soon, and backports of these to lenny as soon as backports.org opens its doors for lenny packages.

I'll also update the 4.3 package in experimental over the next weeks.

Christoph

cb at df7cb.de | http://www.df7cb.de/

In <494B2D68.7030900 at websitemanagers.com.au> Adam Goryachev <adam at websitemanagers.com.au> writes:

Henrik Storner wrote:

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I am pleased to announce that Xymon version 4.2.2 is now available from Sourceforge.

Just wondering, but when comparing my old config to the new config, you have changed the comments line to this:

PORT [LOCAL=addr] [EXLOCAL=addr] [REMOTE=addr] [EXREMOTE=addr]

[STATE=state] [EXSTATE=state] [MIN=mincount] [MAX=maxcount] [COLOR=color] [TRACK=id] [TEX T=displaytext]

Basically, changed min/max/col to MIN/MAX/COLOR, but further down in the file, the examples still have the old lower case values. Do these need to change to the uppercase between 4.2.0 and 4.2.2, along with col=>COLOR ? or will either work in 4.2.2 but the next version will force the new style / etc ??

It's case-insensitive, so both will work - now and in future versions.

Regards Henrik

I have removed most of what has been added recently. I started with the items that were less default than the standard. This wasn't the fix. I did remove an external script that is used as well. I will continue to remove and see if I can find something.

Regards,

Bryan Kennedy

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Hi,

Strange.

Have few tried removing all the hosts you added in your monitoring in the last 2 months ? (it could be a client sending bad statuses..)

Do you have any NCV or external scripts for rrd ? (di you tried disabling those ?)

Olivier

On 21/01/2009 18:30, Bryan A Kennedy wrote:

Hi. We are running Hobbit v4.2.0 on a Red Hat Ent Linux WS rel 4 server. We have been running it for about two years without any issues (Great tool!). A month and a half ago, the trends graphs stopped graphing. I restart Hobbit/Xymon and the graphs start working for a few hours, then stop. The issue is with the status channel graphs. The memory used by this process starts low as expected, then continues to grow until I restart it again. A process listing of that process shows

hobbit 24705 0.0 27.1 1099080 1095804 ? S 03:05 0:00 hobbitd_channel --channel=status --log=/home/hobbit/logs/rrd-status.log hobbitd_rrd --rrddir=/home/hobbit/data/rrd

It is using 27.1% of the memory (4GB total memory) and I just restarted Hobbit/Xymon 8 hours ago. I have upgraded the kernel on the server, and tried various debugging options. I have tried removing changes that happened around the time of the graphing stop, but nothing has shown the issue.

Looking in the rrd-status.log I do see entries with garbled data 2009-01-21 11:19:11 Bad data in channel, skipping it 2009-01-21 11:19:11 Dropping (more) garbled data 2009-01-21 11:22:35 Bad data in channel, skipping it 2009-01-21 11:22:35 Dropping (more) garbled data

I am at a loss as to what the problem is. I do plan an upgrade to Xymon v4.2.2, but wanted to see if I could fix this issue first. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance for your time.

Regards,

Bryan Kennedy

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Thank you Henrik. I applied the patch and that fixed the garbled data messages. We are still working on the graphing issue, but believe we have found the issue with network settings on our end.

Regards,

Bryan Kennedy

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On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:30:01AM -0600, Bryan A Kennedy wrote:

Hi. We are running Hobbit v4.2.0 on a Red Hat Ent Linux WS rel 4 server. We have been running it for about two years without any issues (Great tool!). A month and a half ago, the trends graphs stopped graphing. I restart Hobbit/Xymon and the graphs start working for a few hours, then stop. [snip] Looking in the rrd-status.log I do see entries with garbled data 2009-01-21 11:19:11 Bad data in channel, skipping it 2009-01-21 11:19:11 Dropping (more) garbled data 2009-01-21 11:22:35 Bad data in channel, skipping it 2009-01-21 11:22:35 Dropping (more) garbled data

This brings memories of a bug that I fixed a while back, but I can see that it has only been fixed in the development version - not in the 4.2.x series.

I think this patch - should work for both 4.2.0 and 4.2.2 - will fix your problem. I'll add this for 4.2.3.

Regards, Henrik

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