Hobbit 4.2 - beta release 20060605 available
So - the beta release of Hobbit 4.2 is out there, available on http://sourceforge.net/projects/hobbitmon/ The source tar.gz file is there, and there are pre-built Debian packages for i386 and Sparc. RPM's will appear shortly.
I have just about cleared the list of bugs reported on the mailing list, so anything you notice that doesn't seem right - do report it so we can get a final version without too many glitches.
Compared to the alfa-version released about one month ago, this version includes much better documentation - especially about the new Critical systems view and editor, but also some Release notes that explain what you will have to do in order to configure your existing system to use all of the new stuff.
Other notable changes:
- The Hobbit client now reports the local system time, and a new CLOCK setting in hobbit-clients.cfg lets you check that it isn't too far off from the real time (i.e. the time on the Hobbit server).
- The clients can now do a simple count of lines in a logfile that match a given expression, and create a graph of the linecount. Useful to catch e.g. disk errors being logged at an increasing rate, or firewall log messages indicating a sudden increase in probes from the Internet.
- An IRIX client implementation has been added. It doesn't have the vmstat graphs yet - some work is needed to get those from "sar", since IRIX systems do not have a vmstat command.
- The Unix clients can automatically update themselves. See the clientupdate(1) man-page. Hopefully this means that you'll never have to re-install the Hobbit client on your systems again.
- Ping tests now use "hobbitping" instead of fping.
- The client now supports large files (> 2GB).
The plan for now is to have just this one beta-release. Depending on how many bugs are reported, I might arrange for a single Release-candidate version, or I may choose to just do the full release right away. It all depends on how well this release works. So do give it a try.
Regards, Henrik
Henrik Stoerner wrote:
So - the beta release of Hobbit 4.2 is out there, available on http://sourceforge.net/projects/hobbitmon/ The source tar.gz file is there, and there are pre-built Debian packages for i386 and Sparc. RPM's will appear shortly.
If anyone is interested, I have rpm builds for i386 RedHat 7.3, RedHat 9, RHEL/CentOS 2.1/3/4, and Fedora 1/2/3/4/5 up in the RE-test repository at http://rpm.razorsedge.org/.
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On 6/6/06, Mike Arnold <hobbit at razorsedge.org> wrote:
If anyone is interested, I have rpm builds for i386 RedHat 7.3, RedHat 9, RHEL/CentOS 2.1/3/4, and Fedora 1/2/3/4/5 up in the RE-test repository at http://rpm.razorsedge.org/.
Cool :)
Thanks for posting the RPMs....
-- --==[ Bob Gordon ]==--
Hi Henrick,
i have installed 4.2-beta from scratch
in rrd-status.log return this error
2006-06-07 15:48:07 xfree: Trying to free a NULL pointer2006-06-07 15:48:07 Worker process died with exit code 134, terminati ng and core files are generated,
I have rrdtool-1.0.49 installed
Marco
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 03:46:40PM +0200, Marco Avvisano wrote:
Hi Henrick,
i have installed 4.2-beta from scratch
in rrd-status.log return this error
2006-06-07 15:48:07 xfree: Trying to free a NULL pointer2006-06-07 15:48:07 Worker process died with exit code 134, terminating and core files are generated,
That is a bug in hobbitd_rrd. Could you run the core file through gdb as described in http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/help/known-issues.html#bugreport
Thanks, Henrik
Anyone else have these problems?
- the Beta patch page has a link for all-patches, but the link does not work (file not found)
and
- I tried to apply the client-whitespace.patch, but the patch is against the file logfetch.c v1.23 and the one that comes with the Beta is logfetch.c v1.22.
All the other patches went in with no problems.
Thanks
-Brett
ps: Just want to say good work Henrik and your work is GREATLY APPRECIATED!
-- Brett Morrow, NSSL/SPC Alternate Program Manager INDUS Corporation National Severe Storms Laboratory (405) 366-0515 Brett.Morrow at noaa.gov http://www.induscorp.com
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 03:04:29PM -0500, Brett Morrow wrote:
Anyone else have these problems?
- the Beta patch page has a link for all-patches, but the link does not work (file not found)
Sorry - put it in the wrong file. Should be fixed now.
- I tried to apply the client-whitespace.patch, but the patch is against the file logfetch.c v1.23 and the one that comes with the Beta is logfetch.c v1.22.
I've updated that patch so the diff is against the version in the beta release, so please try again.
ps: Just want to say good work Henrik and your work is GREATLY APPRECIATED!
Thanks :-)
Regards, Henrik
participants (5)
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Brett.Morrow@noaa.gov
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henrik@hswn.dk
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hobbit@razorsedge.org
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marco.avvisano@regione.toscana.it
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rgordonjr@gmail.com