From: "Everett, Vernon" <Vernon.Everett at woodside.com.au> Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 1:46 AM To: <hobbit at hswn.dk> Subject: [hobbit] Sanity check for config files

Hi all

We have a number of teams, with a large number of servers per team, and I wanted to give each more autonomy over how they set up their Hobbit sub-page. (Also means less work for me)

Same needs here.

I was thinking of having a separate bb-hosts, hobbit-alerts.cfg and hobbit-clients.cfg for each team, and then include in the case of bb-hosts or run a cron job to concatenate the files, in the case of the others.

To my knowledge and practice, only bb-hosts support "include" directive. not hobbit-alerts.cfg and hobbit-client.cfg. I wish these two cfg files support include also.

Is there a way to "sanity check" any of these files before exposing hobbit to them?

So far, I am using "beacon" approach by bringing down a vmware session's interface for 6 minutes to trigger alarm at certain time each day.

This beacon approach will ensure lots of components in hobbit system monitoring system are functional.

tj

I would probably need to remove the <CR><LF>, which is pretty easy, but are there any other sanity checks available?

Regards Vernon

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Forgot to mention, when including multiple hobbit-clients.cfg file make certain that your "DEFAULT" stanza ends up at the end of the LAST included file.

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To my knowledge and practice, only bb-hosts support "include" directive. not hobbit-alerts.cfg and hobbit-client.cfg. I wish these two cfg files support include also.

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All three of these work, which is a good thing.

I will check it out on my test hobbit server.

Thanks for great tip.

tj

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To my knowledge and practice, only bb-hosts support "include" directive. not hobbit-alerts.cfg and hobbit-client.cfg. I wish these two cfg files support include also.

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Hi all

I appreciate the answers, but they have nothing to do with my question. If the file doesn't support the include directive, I can simply cron a task to merge the files.

What I wanted to know, is if there is a method of sanity-checking the files before presenting them to hobbit.

Remember, Windoze admins are going to be editing at least one of these files through Samba. Windoze editors leave <CR><LF> rubbish everywhere, and all sorts of unwanted formating. I need to sanitise these files before giving them do Hobbit. But this is the easy bit.

How do I check that these files are syntactictically correct from a Hobbit perspective?

Regards Vernon

-----Original Message----- From: Levin, Alexandre [mailto:alevin at reveredata.com] Sent: Friday, 4 July 2008 3:30 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] Sanity check for config files

I could add that I'm using the include directive in all config files

And practically the only change in the original config is the additional "include" directive.

Such schema allows easy maintain config files and do regular updates of the "current" hobbit server.

Alexandre Levin

-----Original Message----- From: T.J. Yang [mailto:tj_yang at hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 9:28 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Sanity check for config files

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All three of these work, which is a good thing.

I will check it out on my test hobbit server.

Thanks for great tip.

tj

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To my knowledge and practice, only bb-hosts support "include" directive. not hobbit-alerts.cfg and hobbit-client.cfg. I wish these two cfg files support include also.

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Hi Joshua

Thanks, for the help, but nope, that wasn't it. I restarted hobbit a few times before resorting to the mailing list. As I mentioned, I have managed to get graphing to work on a similar test on a Unix client.

Cheers Vernon

-----Original Message----- From: Joshua Krause [mailto:forums at triadbiz.rr.com] Sent: Thursday, 3 July 2008 10:01 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] Graphing BB-Win output

If you do a "ps -ef | grep hobbitd_rrd" and kill the two processes running " hobbitd_channel --channel=data" then wait a couple minutes and you should be good. You can also reset hobbit but killing the two processes for the hobbitd_rrd will do it also. Need to get the hobbitd_rrd channels restarted when trying to do ncv.

-Josh

-----Original Message----- From: Everett, Vernon [mailto:Vernon.Everett at woodside.com.au] Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 9:15 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Graphing BB-Win output

Hi all

Has anybody encountered any problems graphing BB-Win output? We have a custom test, which is generating standard output, and generating a line sessions=<value>

I have added the testname=ncv to hobbitserver.cfg:TEST2RRD= And added testname to hobbitserver.cfg:GRAPHS=

I have also added NCV_testname="sessions:GAUGE"

I then added the following to the hobbitgraph.cfg file. [testname] TITLE Test Sessions YAXIS No. of Sessions DEF:u=testname.rrd:sessions:AVERAGE LINE2:u#00CC00:Sessions COMMENT:\n GPRINT:u:LAST:Sessions \: %5.1lf%s (cur) GPRINT:u:MAX: \: %5.1lf%s (max) GPRINT:u:MIN: \: %5.1lf%s (min) GPRINT:u:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf%s (avg)\n

But no graph appears and no rrd file is generated.

I have created similar graphs of output from my Unix clients, and it all works, but not for my Windows clients running BB_Win.

Is there a trick to custom graphing output from BB-Win clients? Has anybody else encountered this? How did you get round it?

Thanks Vernon

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On fös, 2008-07-04 at 11:27 +0000, Lárus Rafn Halldórsson wrote:

Hello.

I am trying to get smstools to communicate to my Samba 55 USB modem on linux, to no awail..

I know this is not exactly the spot to ask about this, but as this is the first step to get hobbit to send SMS with Samba and smstools I shoot anyhow..

I turned off the pin request in a mobile before inserting the sim card into the Samba...

the system registers the modem as ttyUSB0 and i have that in the smsd.conf (device = /dev/ttyUSB0) but the system never seems to get response from the GSM modem... it does not respond to AT commands or anything.. green light is blinking on the unit (meaning it connects to the gsm network I think)

Hi Lárus, we are using gnokii to communicate with the GSM phone from the server, and Hobbit sms is working fine. We are however using an old Nokia phone and a special serial cable, so that will not help you much. Have you tried gnokii http://www.gnokii.org/ with this phone.

Also, where did you get the device. I am very interested in finding another GSM device with USB interface, because we will soon be moving our Hobbit server to a hardware where serial interface may not be an option. In that case, I would be trying to do the same thing as you are now. :)

-- Kindest Regards, Anna Jonna Ármannsdóttir, %& A: Because people read from top to bottom. Unix System Aministration, Computing Services, %& Q: Why is top posting bad? University of Iceland.

Hey,

I am having the same problem with graphs appearing (except not through BBWin by bbsend.exe from Windows). The status page for the 'citrixlicensing' works just fine but it will not show the graph and no rrd file (just the link to the non-existing graph). My settings:

hobbitserver.cfg

TEST2RRD="cpu,...........,citrixlicensing=ncv" GRAPHS="la,disk,.............,citrixlicensing" NCV_citrixlicensing="PercentInUse:GAUGE"

hobbitgraph.cfg

[citrixlicensing] TITLE Licensing Percent Used YAXIS % Used DEF:u=citrixlicensing.rrd:PercentInUse:AVERAGE LINE2:u#00CCCC:Percent In Use COMMENT:\n GPRINT:u:LAST:Percent \: %5.1lf%s (cur) GPRINT:u:MAX: \: %5.1lf%s (max) GPRINT:u:MIN: \: %5.1lf%s (min) GPRINT:u:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf%s (avg)\n

If anyone has a solution, that would be great.

Thanks.

On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 2:12 AM, Everett, Vernon < Vernon.Everett at woodside.com.au> wrote:

Hi Joshua

Thanks, for the help, but nope, that wasn't it. I restarted hobbit a few times before resorting to the mailing list. As I mentioned, I have managed to get graphing to work on a similar test on a Unix client.

Cheers Vernon

-----Original Message----- From: Joshua Krause [mailto:forums at triadbiz.rr.com] Sent: Thursday, 3 July 2008 10:01 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] Graphing BB-Win output

If you do a "ps -ef | grep hobbitd_rrd" and kill the two processes running " hobbitd_channel --channel=data" then wait a couple minutes and you should be good. You can also reset hobbit but killing the two processes for the hobbitd_rrd will do it also. Need to get the hobbitd_rrd channels restarted when trying to do ncv.

-Josh

-----Original Message----- From: Everett, Vernon [mailto:Vernon.Everett at woodside.com.au] Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 9:15 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Graphing BB-Win output

Hi all

Has anybody encountered any problems graphing BB-Win output? We have a custom test, which is generating standard output, and generating a line sessions=<value>

I have added the testname=ncv to hobbitserver.cfg:TEST2RRD= And added testname to hobbitserver.cfg:GRAPHS=

I have also added NCV_testname="sessions:GAUGE"

I then added the following to the hobbitgraph.cfg file. [testname] TITLE Test Sessions YAXIS No. of Sessions DEF:u=testname.rrd:sessions:AVERAGE LINE2:u#00CC00:Sessions COMMENT:\n GPRINT:u:LAST:Sessions \: %5.1lf%s (cur) GPRINT:u:MAX: \: %5.1lf%s (max) GPRINT:u:MIN: \: %5.1lf%s (min) GPRINT:u:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf%s (avg)\n

But no graph appears and no rrd file is generated.

I have created similar graphs of output from my Unix clients, and it all works, but not for my Windows clients running BB_Win.

Is there a trick to custom graphing output from BB-Win clients? Has anybody else encountered this? How did you get round it?

Thanks Vernon

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It appears that my issue is not as simply fixed as yours (too bad). I changed my status submit to the following different options but it still won't graph:

bbsend 10.10.10.10 "status CITRIX1.citrixlicensing red percentinuse:98.3" bbsend 10.10.10.10 "status CITRIX1.citrixlicensing red percentinuse=98.3"

No formatting, no spaces, and it still won't graph for some reason and no RRD file.

Any other thoughts Vernon or anyone else?

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 9:03 PM, Everett, Vernon < Vernon.Everett at woodside.com.au> wrote:

Hi all

Resolved this one. Turned out to be a PEBKAC If only people would listen when they write their scripts :-)

Note to others.

Although it "appears" to be on a single line, by itself on the output, <FONT COLOR="Black">sessions=1</FONT>

Is not the same as <FONT COLOR="Black"> sessions=1 </FONT>

And that was why graphing didn't work. (In case you missed that, the first method doesn't work, the second one does.)

Cheers Vernon

-----Original Message----- From: Everett, Vernon [mailto:Vernon.Everett at woodside.com.au] Sent: Friday, 4 July 2008 2:12 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] Graphing BB-Win output

Hi Joshua

Thanks, for the help, but nope, that wasn't it. I restarted hobbit a few times before resorting to the mailing list. As I mentioned, I have managed to get graphing to work on a similar test on a Unix client.

Cheers Vernon

-----Original Message----- From: Joshua Krause [mailto:forums at triadbiz.rr.com] Sent: Thursday, 3 July 2008 10:01 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] Graphing BB-Win output

If you do a "ps -ef | grep hobbitd_rrd" and kill the two processes running " hobbitd_channel --channel=data" then wait a couple minutes and you should be good. You can also reset hobbit but killing the two processes for the hobbitd_rrd will do it also. Need to get the hobbitd_rrd channels restarted when trying to do ncv.

-Josh

-----Original Message----- From: Everett, Vernon [mailto:Vernon.Everett at woodside.com.au] Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 9:15 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Graphing BB-Win output

Hi all

Has anybody encountered any problems graphing BB-Win output? We have a custom test, which is generating standard output, and generating a line sessions=<value>

I have added the testname=ncv to hobbitserver.cfg:TEST2RRD= And added testname to hobbitserver.cfg:GRAPHS=

I have also added NCV_testname="sessions:GAUGE"

I then added the following to the hobbitgraph.cfg file. [testname] TITLE Test Sessions YAXIS No. of Sessions DEF:u=testname.rrd:sessions:AVERAGE LINE2:u#00CC00:Sessions COMMENT:\n GPRINT:u:LAST:Sessions \: %5.1lf%s (cur) GPRINT:u:MAX: \: %5.1lf%s (max) GPRINT:u:MIN: \: %5.1lf%s (min) GPRINT:u:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf%s (avg)\n

But no graph appears and no rrd file is generated.

I have created similar graphs of output from my Unix clients, and it all works, but not for my Windows clients running BB_Win.

Is there a trick to custom graphing output from BB-Win clients? Has anybody else encountered this? How did you get round it?

Thanks Vernon

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Looks like that worked. Thanks!

Mike Wood UNIX System Administrator Kinetic Concepts, Inc. 6103 Farinon Drive San Antonio, TX, 78249 E-mail: mike.wood at kci1.com Office: (210) 255-6382 Mobile: (210) 825-5134

-----Original Message----- From: Tim McCloskey [mailto:devzero at cox.net] Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 9:13 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] DISK IGNORE problem?

Try: DISK %^/venice/kci11i.* IGNORE

The % defines the regex. The / after the caret is not a seperator, it means "/" as in /root, /tmp. No trailing / is needed.

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DISK %^/venice/kci11i.*/ IGNORE DISK %^/venice\/kci11i.*/ IGNORE DISK %/kci11i.*/ IGNORE DISK %/kci11i/ IGNORE

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