In <434237B9.6080507 at steria.com> Fr�d�ric Mangeant <frederic.mangeant at steria.com> writes:

just a note, on systems with GNU coreutils 5.2, I get a bunch of messages like this when making Hobbit (all versions) :

head: -1' option is obsolete; use -n 1' since this will be removed in the future

OK, I've modified the build scripts to use this.

Thanks, Henrik

On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 03:06:36PM +0200, cits.bogajewski at daimlerchrysler.com wrote:

i am trying to implement the mailq check feature, but it seems that i am missing the right mailq script. If i use mailq.sh script from deadcat the values for mail queue size and length are reported properly, but no RRD file is created and thus no graph appears. Log files remains clean.

Within do_mailq.c there is a notice about "Erik's enhanced mailq script" Unfortunately i cant find this script. Maybe anybody is using this one and could provide it?

Heh :-) the "Erik" mentioned here is a colleague of mine who handles a bunch of Sendmail servers. That's a custom script for a virus-scanning mail-gateway we have, where we want to check on both incoming and outgoing mails - the default mailq scripts I've seen only looks at the outbound queue size. So Erik's enhanced mailq script is pretty specific to our setup, i think.

The normal mailq script I used for this was the one that comes with larrd 0.43c (the "bf/nmailq-bf.sh" script in LARRD).

Would you mind to think about the option to enhance disk checks for handling of absolute disk usage (KB/MB/GB) and not only the percent values?

It's already there - just ask for the "disk1" graph instead of "disk".

Or were you thinking of having the status (red/yellow/green) depend on the # of GB's used ?

Henrik

On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 09:49:31PM -0600, Alan Sparks wrote:

Alan Sparks wrote:

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Is there a setting for the Hobbit client (testing 4.1.2 rc1 at the moment) that controls line length on the reporting? I am trying to set up some process tests, but I note that the "ps" listings in the proc tests are truncated on the right, and missing a large part of some long process names (for instance,

Replying to my own message: I changed the hobbitclient-linux.sh script to run "ps -efw" and got the longer display. This incidentally is a CentOS 3.5 (RHEL3-like) box.

Seems to be the right thing to do. I've added the "w" to my hobbitclient-linux.sh standard setup.

Thanks, Henrik

On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 10:53:23AM +0200, Frédéric Mangeant wrote:

4.1.2-rc1 is working perfectly here.

Thanks, good to have confirmation for that.

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Other:

• A new utility "demotool" can be used to simulate a number of servers to Hobbit. This may be useful when demonstrating Hobbit to new users. Note: This is not included in the default build - to build it, run "make demo-build".

I'm very interested in "demotool", and built it. However, I don't know how to use it :

$ ./demotool --help (Re)loading config Segmentation fault

Is it supposed to be launched from hobbitlaunch.cfg ?

No, but the configuration is currently undocumented. I'll write up a brief description after the 4.1.2 release.

Regards, Henrik

On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 02:07:16PM +0200, Frédéric Mangeant wrote:

I just have a final question - I promise ;-) - before my 1k devices BB -> Hobbit migration...

How will Hobbit handle statuses which were disabled with BB ? Is running the "bbenadis" task enough ?

You'll have to re-disable them after starting Hobbit. But other than that, it works just like BB does.

The "disable" function is available both via the menu, or via the "info" column for each host.

Henrik