Okay, first you must make the indicated addition to your apache httpd.conf (or you can make a hobbit.conf in apaches conf.d directory).

Then, you must restart apache for the change to take effect (/etc/init.d/httpd restart).

Then, manually test the server-stats url to make sure it's working, by using your browser and going to http://your.server.com/server-status?auto (you can also go to http://your.server.com/server-status/ to get some nice extended apache performance info). You should get back something like this:

Total Accesses: 131577 Total kBytes: 796036 CPULoad: 1.0401 Uptime: 21595 ReqPerSec: 6.09294 BytesPerSec: 37746.7 BytesPerReq: 6195.16 BusyWorkers: 43 IdleWorkers: 13

Scoreboard: RR__RWR___RR_R_RR_RRRRRRRRR_RRRRRRR__RRR_RRRRCRRRRR_RRRR........................................................................................................................................................................................................

Now, assuming you are getting back the server-status info, time to make sure your bb-hosts is correctly configured to collect and graph the data. Heres what I have in mine:

1.2.3.4 my.server.com # conn ssh http://1.2.3.4 apache=http://1.2.3.4/server-status?auto LARRD:*,apache:apache|apache1|apache2|apache3

From what you said of your setup, I'm guessing your only problem is using the wrong url for the apache tag (you used "apache=http://192.168.1.25/hobbit/" which just won't work - that's the kind of URL you would use for the http tag).

Hope this helped.

-Charles

Kevin Hanrahan wrote:

thanks for the reply. I did exactly as in the example before I wrote the previous email and got nothing. That is why I was asking for help or further clarification.

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*From:* Charles Jones [mailto:jonescr at cisco.com] *Sent:* Saturday, February 05, 2005 12:48 AM *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk *Subject:* Re: [hobbit] Apache tag *Importance:* Low

PERFORMANCE MONITORING TESTS

apache[=URL] If you are running an Apache webserver, adding this tag makes /bbtest-net <http://192.168.0.103/hobbit/help/manpages/man1/bbtest-net.1.html>(1)/ collect performance statistics from the Apache webserver by querying the URL *http://IP.ADDRESS.OF.HOST/server-status?auto*. The response is sent as a data-report and processed by the Hobbit hobbitd_larrd module into an RRD file and an "apache" graph. If your webserver requires e.g. authentication, or runs on a different URL for the server-status, you can provide the full URL needed to fetch the server-status page, e.g. *apache=http://LOGIN:PASSWORD at 10.0.0.1/server-status?auto* for a password protected server-status page, or *apache=http://10.0.0.1:8080/apache/server-status?auto* for a server listening on port 8080 and with a different path to the server-status page.

Note that you need to enable the server-status URL in your Apache
configuration. The following configuration is needed:

    <Location /server-status>
        SetHandler server-status
        Order deny,allow
        Deny from all
        allow from 127.0.0.1
    </Location>
    ExtendedStatus On

Change "127.0.0.1" to the IP-address of the server that runs your
network tests.

Kevin Hanrahan wrote:

...

Please explain the apache performance tag further. I added the following to my bb-hosts for a host running apache:

apache=http://192.168.1.25/hobbit/

It is in fact the hobbit host. I get no apache column or anything related....where did I make my mistake?