Fwd: [hobbit] addon: os and critical icon
On 8/9/07, Flyzone Micky <flyzone at technologist.com> wrote:
Hi, i have made some edit on the hobbit-sources. When working in a enterprise, i found useful to see also two icons next the hostname: os and critical. Os could be windows,linux,aix,etc....
I can vouch for the usefulness of an OS icon in the display.
For many sites, there are Windows and Unix admins. This helps them know immediately to "call for help" or to try and login themselves.
Saw an issue that only affected RedHat Linux servers, but I did not realize for a couple of weeks. Once the OS icon feature went in, the scope of the issue to RedHat was obvious.
I am thinking the OS might be known from the client, rather than having to define it on the server. But a manual configuration would be nice, for devices that might be monitored, but without clients.
Scott Walters -PacketPusher
It's not an icon, but the "info" screen tells you the OS. I assume this is just the version of the client that was compiled and installed. You can also use the DESCR directive in the bb-hosts file to add a description to the info screen. You could also use the NAME directive to add an OS indication to the display line.
-----Original Message----- From: scottrwalters at gmail.com [mailto:scottrwalters at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Scott Walters Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2007 5:52 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Fwd: [hobbit] addon: os and critical icon
On 8/9/07, Flyzone Micky <flyzone at technologist.com> wrote:
Hi, i have made some edit on the hobbit-sources. When working in a enterprise, i found useful to see also two icons next the hostname: os and critical. Os could be windows,linux,aix,etc....
I can vouch for the usefulness of an OS icon in the display.
For many sites, there are Windows and Unix admins. This helps them know immediately to "call for help" or to try and login themselves.
Saw an issue that only affected RedHat Linux servers, but I did not realize for a couple of weeks. Once the OS icon feature went in, the scope of the issue to RedHat was obvious.
I am thinking the OS might be known from the client, rather than having to define it on the server. But a manual configuration would be nice, for devices that might be monitored, but without clients.
Scott Walters -PacketPusher
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I am in the process of writing an hb server side add-on script (learn from rootlogin.pl) to do OS counting. Ie, adapting "rootlogin" perl script do some OS counting from incoming bb messages stream. hoping to get a page that can list out OS versions and subtotals of different OS that hobbit server currently monitored. There is no ETA for oscount.pl, it could be faster if my management push for it ;)
ps: I think ntop has some OS icons for hb community to reuse, if we really want to implement OS icons, I might need OS icons for my oscount.pl project
T.J. Yang
From: "Haertig, David F (Dave)" <haertig at avaya.com> Reply-To: hobbit at hswn.dk To: <hobbit at hswn.dk> Subject: RE: [hobbit] addon: os and critical icon Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 18:15:17 -0600
It's not an icon, but the "info" screen tells you the OS. I assume this is just the version of the client that was compiled and installed. You can also use the DESCR directive in the bb-hosts file to add a description to the info screen. You could also use the NAME directive to add an OS indication to the display line.
-----Original Message----- From: scottrwalters at gmail.com [mailto:scottrwalters at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Scott Walters Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2007 5:52 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Fwd: [hobbit] addon: os and critical icon
On 8/9/07, Flyzone Micky <flyzone at technologist.com> wrote:
Hi, i have made some edit on the hobbit-sources. When working in a enterprise, i found useful to see also two icons next the hostname: os and critical. Os could be windows,linux,aix,etc....
I can vouch for the usefulness of an OS icon in the display.
For many sites, there are Windows and Unix admins. This helps them know immediately to "call for help" or to try and login themselves.
Saw an issue that only affected RedHat Linux servers, but I did not realize for a couple of weeks. Once the OS icon feature went in, the scope of the issue to RedHat was obvious.
I am thinking the OS might be known from the client, rather than having to define it on the server. But a manual configuration would be nice, for devices that might be monitored, but without clients.
Scott Walters -PacketPusher
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T.J. Yang wrote:
I am in the process of writing an hb server side add-on script (learn from rootlogin.pl) to do OS counting. Ie, adapting "rootlogin" perl script do some OS counting from incoming bb messages stream. hoping to get a page that can list out OS versions and subtotals of different OS that hobbit server currently monitored. There is no ETA for oscount.pl, it could be faster if my management push for it ;)
ps: I think ntop has some OS icons for hb community to reuse, if we really want to implement OS icons, I might need OS icons for my oscount.pl project
T.J. Yang
If you are using hobbit clients, you should be able to pull much of what you want from hobbitdboard and bb clientlog.
bb 127.0.0.1 "hobbitdboard test=cpu fields=BBH_OS"|sort |uniq -c 6 11 linux 66 sunos
To get more detail you can pull it with bb clientlog.
for i in bb 127.0.0.1 "hobbitdboard fields=hostname" | sort -u
do
bb 127.0.0.1 "clientlog $i section=uname,osversion"
done
John
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