Where do i need to tell hobbit/snmptt what traps i want to alarm out
on? I am a little fuzzy on where i need to configure that stuff at.
And is there a way to customize the message that is sent to hobbit.
Say someone logs in and does a config change. Can I just have "Config
Change" sent to hobbit?

Thanks Josh

**** trap column is there***

On Sep 14, 2007, at 12:26 PM, Ralph Mitchell wrote:

On 9/14/07, Joshua Krause <joshuakrause at triad.rr.com> wrote:

...

I think i know why i may not be getting the trap column but needed some insight on fixing it. The trap is coming in with the
hostname of:

gsonc-spg-ups-1.eng.gbo.twcable.com

But the hostname in the bb-hosts file is just:

gsonc-spg-ups-1

How could i go about parsing out the " .eng.gbo.twcable.com " from
the hostname coming across in the trap?

Thanks Josh

On Sep 14, 2007, at 11:03 AM, Joshua Krause wrote:

...

I am having an issue with getting the trap column to show up on a host. I have everything setup the way the documentation said to. And all of my log files are logging except for the trap.log, which looks to be generated when the hobbitlaunch.cfg is ran. Anyone have anything that might be able to help me?

Try the "CLIENT:hostname" tag in the bb-hosts file:

x.x.x.x gsonc-spg-ups-1 # CLIENT:gsonc-spg- ups-1.eng.gbo.twcable.com

I think that's supposed to take care of this situation.

Ralph Mitchell

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Hi guys!

I'm currently documenting hobbit installation and configuration base on our company requirements. However, I'm stuck on the information about the minimum hardware requirement of the Hobbit server. I can't seem to find it into the internet. Anyone who has this info?

Right now, Our hobbit server is installed in a Clone Desktop PC with P4 Dual Core (1.6 GHz), 80 GB of HDD, and 1GB of RAM. It runs pretty fast since it just monitors about 30 clients.

But what I need is the minimum hardware requirement just for the sake of documentation.If you know this one, kindly share.

By the way, thanks to all of you guys who gave me some help and advise when I presented Hobbit to my boss, it is now official that we will use Hobbit for our server monitoring.

Regards,

Ryan

Hi

I can't tell you what minimum spec is, but I know my first production installation of Hobbit was on a $0.00 budget. I couldn't get any management buy-in for a monitoring system. (This changed once they saw Hobbit in action).

I ran Hobbit on a notebook I built from scavenged components in our "scrap" pile. It was a P3 800, with 256Mb of RAM. I installed Mandrake (Mandriva) Linux on it. OK, we never had that many servers we were monitoring, but you could use that as a minimum spec. It did run, and I don't think CPU utilisation ever went much over 10%.

Anybody out there used something of lower spec?

Regards Vernon

Charles Goyard <charles.goyard at orange-ftgroup.com> wrote on 17/09/2007 03:21:58 PM:

Ryan Jay B. Lapuz wrote :

...

I'm currently documenting hobbit installation and configuration base

on our

...

company requirements. However, I'm stuck on the information about the minimum hardware requirement of the Hobbit server. I can't seem to find it into the internet. Anyone who has this info?

It depends on the number of clients, but a 5 years old box will make you happy up to, say, 1000 clients. (Henrik has a 3000+ boxes setup hosted on a (very) old Sun server).

In fact, the real hotspot is the hard drive, if you encounter lots of status changes and graph much data. Get fast hard drives.

I have a nice 2x Xeon 3.2GHz with SCSI drives, it show idle 90% of the time, and 6% waiting for IO.

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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I was running Big Brother (much more CPU intensive) on an IBM 43P under AIX 5.1. 192 MB memory, 9.6 GB disk, 233 MHz single cpu. This was monitoring about 10 tests each on something over 50 hosts and doing network tests on another 50 routers and switches.

In addition, it was running cricket 1.04 (http://cricket.sourceforge.net/) for the same 50 routers and switches.

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-----Original Message----- From: Ryan Jay B. Lapuz [mailto:rlapuz at fcpp.fujitsu.com] Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 3:05 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Hobbit Minimum HW requirement

Hi guys!

I'm currently documenting hobbit installation and configuration base on our company requirements. However, I'm stuck on the information about the minimum hardware requirement of the Hobbit server. I can't seem to find it into the internet. Anyone who has this info?

Right now, Our hobbit server is installed in a Clone Desktop PC with P4 Dual Core (1.6 GHz), 80 GB of HDD, and 1GB of RAM. It runs pretty fast since it just monitors about 30 clients.

But what I need is the minimum hardware requirement just for the sake of

documentation.If you know this one, kindly share.

By the way, thanks to all of you guys who gave me some help and advise when I presented Hobbit to my boss, it is now official that we will use Hobbit for our server monitoring.

Regards,

Ryan

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Thanks guys!

I have another question. Just now, Hobbit reported that our DNS server is down as well as its Conn service, and other services went white (clear: no data). I checked our DNS server and nothing seems to be wrong. Then I found out that the one of our technician conflicted the IP Address of our Hobbit server. I just don't understand why only our DNS server reported some errors while there are other servers that are under monitor by that Hobbit server. Is there a connection with the DNS check of Hobbit server to our DNS server?

Thanks again and regards, Ryan

----- Original Message ----- From: "Moore, Joe" <jmoore at ugs.com> To: <hobbit at hswn.dk> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 9:45 PM Subject: RE: [hobbit] Hobbit Minimum HW requirement

Ryan Jay B. Lapuz wrote:

I'm currently documenting hobbit installation and configuration base on our company requirements. However, I'm stuck on the information about the minimum hardware requirement of the Hobbit server. I can't seem to find it into the internet. Anyone who has this info?

My suggestion: If this is a "funded project", that is to say, something that your company is willing to spend money on, you can consider the minimum hardware requirement to be "The smallest new server you can buy from your preferred hardware vendor". I wouldn't run a production monitoring system on something that doesn't have hardware support.

For example, my company has a lot of Dell logos in the datacenter. The smallest "Enterprise" Dell server is currently the PowerEdge 860, out-of-the box in a minimal config, it has a 3GHz pentium D, 1GB of ram, and a single 80GB hard drive. (and list price according to Dell's public website is $2300 + change, including a 1-year RHEL subscription)

So as of today, I would write up the minimum hardware requirement as "1 3GHz CPU, 1GB ram, and 80 GB Hard drive space". That's more than sufficient for most hobbit installations.

My $0.02 --Joe

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The trap column will only display the last alert it receives. If a trap for a particular host hasn't been generated within Hobbit's "no response from client" window, the trap column will be set to "green". This is to keep the column from going "purple".

If three traps for a given host are processed, it will only display the color of the last trap. If you are just using Hobbit, it will log any color changes. If you are using the SQL logging in SNMPTT, you'll have a history of SNMP traps.

So if you receive these traps in sequence: green red green

The trap column will update with the first "green" status. It will turn "red" and send an alert when it receives the second status. The trap column will turn back to green when it receives the last status.

It's very possible that when you go to check on Hobbit after receiving an alert for the "red" status, that the column will have changed back to "green" assuming the last trap happened shortly after the second trap.

There's no intelligence in the trap.pl client that checks the status of the previous alert or the type of previous alert (you can receive two different traps in sequence that are "red" or CRITICAL) to determine if it should update the status or not. You have to rely on the SQL logging if you want to see that since it logs every alert individually.

Andy

-----Original Message----- From: Joshua Krause [mailto:joshuakrause at triad.rr.com] Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 12:04 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] trap column not showing up

I have my traps working now. But my question is where to set the time
period of how long they stay a certain color?

On Sep 14, 2007, at 7:28 PM, FARRIOR, Andy wrote:

After you convert you MIBs using "snmpttconvertmib", you have to edit the various lines in the snmptt.conf.* files that start with "EVENT"
and change the status from "Normal" to something more useful. For
instance, by default, all of Cisco's traps have a status of "Normal".

Here's a list of common event status settings and their corresponding Hobbit alert color:

Normal - green INFORMATIONAL - green MINOR - yellow WARNING - yellow SEVERE - red MAJOR - red CRITICAL - red

Example:

The Cisco "linkDown" traps:

EVENT linkDown .1.3.6.1.2.1.11.0.2 "Status Events" Normal EVENT linkDown .1.3.6.1.6.3.1.1.5.0.2 "Status Events" Normal

If you want this to generate an alert, change "Normal" to
"WARNING" (for yellow) or "CRITICAL" (for red)

The Dell and APC traps are usually predefined with the various status settings.

Hope that helps, Andy

-----Original Message----- From: Joshua Krause [mailto:joshuakrause at triad.rr.com] Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 12:21 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] trap column not showing up

Where do i need to tell hobbit/snmptt what traps i want to alarm out on? I am a little fuzzy on where i need to configure that stuff at. And is there a way to customize the message that is sent to hobbit. Say someone logs in and does a config change. Can I just have "Config Change" sent to hobbit?

Thanks Josh

**** trap column is there***

On Sep 14, 2007, at 12:26 PM, Ralph Mitchell wrote:

...

On 9/14/07, Joshua Krause <joshuakrause at triad.rr.com> wrote:

...

I think i know why i may not be getting the trap column but needed some insight on fixing it. The trap is coming in with the hostname of:

gsonc-spg-ups-1.eng.gbo.twcable.com

But the hostname in the bb-hosts file is just:

gsonc-spg-ups-1

How could i go about parsing out the " .eng.gbo.twcable.com " from the hostname coming across in the trap?

Thanks Josh

On Sep 14, 2007, at 11:03 AM, Joshua Krause wrote:

...

I am having an issue with getting the trap column to show up on a host. I have everything setup the way the documentation said to. And all of my log files are logging except for the trap.log, which looks to be generated when the hobbitlaunch.cfg is ran. Anyone
have anything that might be able to help me?

Try the "CLIENT:hostname" tag in the bb-hosts file:

x.x.x.x gsonc-spg-ups-1 # CLIENT:gsonc-spg- ups-1.eng.gbo.twcable.com

I think that's supposed to take care of this situation.

Ralph Mitchell

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