Sending hobbit messages to BB 🔗 link

Hi guys,

I've been trying to find info on this, but to no avail.

Can Hobbit send messages to a BBPAGE host? I have an existing BB setup,
and would like to retain the paging host if possible.

I've been looking at bbproxy, but this seems to run instead of hobbitd
to simply relay messages ??

Am I missing something here?? Any suggestions, or kicks in the right
direction would be greatly appreciated.

Doug

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On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 10:53:22AM +0100, Doug Anderson wrote:

Sorry, not possible. BB only triggers alerts via the bb "page" protocol,
and Hobbit never generates these messages.

Correct. The "bbproxy" name (instead of "hobbitproxy" is for historical
reasons - it was originally implemented for BB).


Regards,
Henrik

How do I debug this error message in bb-display.log ?
Lost track of the changes that may cause this issue.

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On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 08:11:10AM -0500, T.J. Yang wrote:

Most likely, you modified one of the web templates. Look for "&SERVICE"
in the ~hobbit/server/web/ directory files.

You should probably use the "&BBSVC" token instead.


Regards,
Henrik

I excluded lofs and objfs in DF output.

bash-3.00# diff hobbitclient-sunos.sh.orig hobbitclient-sunos.sh.solaris10
25c25
< FSTYPES=`/bin/df -n -l|awk '{print $3}'|egrep -v 
"^proc|^fd|^mntfs|^ctfs|^devfs|^objfs|^nfs"|sort|uniq`
---

FSTYPES=`/bin/df -n -l|awk '{print $3}'|egrep -v 
"^objfs|^lofs|^proc|^fd|^mntfs|^ctfs|^devfs|^objfs|^nfs"|sort|uniq`
bash-3.00#

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This was what happened,

bash-3.00$ grep SERVICE *
bulletin_header:                { text: "bbtest", url: 
"/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?HOST=hobbit.test.com&SERVICE=bbtest" },

bash-3.00$

I think I got "&SERVICE" from copy the link directly from Hobbit Server 
page.

Henrik, thanks again for your pointer.


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&SERVICE problem is now fixed, and it bring me back to the reality that
I havn't resolve "hobbitd status-board not available" issue.

Any pointer where I should looks from ?

bash-3.00$ tail bb-display.log
2006-10-24 10:19:28 xgetenv: Cannot find value for variable SERVICE
2006-10-24 10:19:28 xgetenv: Cannot find value for variable SERVICE
2006-10-24 10:19:28 xgetenv: Cannot find value for variable SERVICE
2006-10-24 10:19:28 xgetenv: Cannot find value for variable SERVICE
2006-10-24 10:19:28 xgetenv: Cannot find value for variable SERVICE
2006-10-24 10:19:28 xgetenv: Cannot find value for variable SERVICE
2006-10-24 10:19:28 xgetenv: Cannot find value for variable SERVICE
2006-10-24 10:19:28 xgetenv: Cannot find value for variable SERVICE
2006-10-24 10:19:28 xgetenv: Cannot find value for variable SERVICE
2006-10-24 10:22:29 hobbitd status-board not available
bash-3.00$


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On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 10:30:20AM -0500, T.J. Yang wrote:

This message is from bbgen, which generates the static Hobbit overview
pages. It connects to the hobbit daemon to retrieve the current status
of all tests; this message means that it could not connect to the
server.

What are your BBDISP and BBDISPLAYS settings in hobbitserver.cfg ? What
do you have in the [bbdisplay] task in hobbitserver.cfg ?

Are the Hobbit webpages being updated ? Check the timestamp in the upper 
right hand corner of the webpage.

What happens if you run these commands.

   $ bbcmd
   $ $BB $BBDISP "hobbitdboard"
   $ exit


Henrik

actually change from double quote to single quote fix the problem.
above line is from YUI syntax. double qoute somehow will enalbe the attemp 
to translate
the "&SERVICE" variable.

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From: user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid (Henrik Stoerner)
Reply-To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] "hobbitd status-board not available" on Sparc Solaris 
10
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 17:51:13 +0200

Sorry to include this longer output, I like to provide  the timestamp and 
frequence .

bash-3.00$ grep status /var/opt/hobbit/log/hobbit/bb-display.log
2006-10-23 14:52:18 hobbitd status-board not available
2006-10-23 15:04:36 hobbitd status-board not available
2006-10-23 17:19:15 hobbitd status-board not available
2006-10-23 17:45:00 hobbitd status-board not available
2006-10-23 18:43:30 hobbitd status-board not available
2006-10-23 19:00:59 hobbitd status-board not available
2006-10-23 19:11:13 hobbitd status-board not available
2006-10-23 19:27:44 hobbitd status-board not available
2006-10-23 19:42:10 hobbitd status-board not available
2006-10-23 20:17:09 hobbitd status-board not available
2006-10-23 20:27:27 hobbitd status-board not available
2006-10-23 21:07:37 hobbitd status-board not available
2006-10-23 21:37:25 hobbitd status-board not available
2006-10-23 22:03:06 hobbitd status-board not available
2006-10-23 22:10:20 hobbitd status-board not available
2006-10-23 23:28:29 hobbitd status-board not available
2006-10-23 23:51:10 hobbitd status-board not available
2006-10-24 00:01:27 hobbitd status-board not available
2006-10-24 00:25:05 hobbitd status-board not available
2006-10-24 00:45:36 hobbitd status-board not available
2006-10-24 00:56:55 hobbitd status-board not available
2006-10-24 01:55:32 hobbitd status-board not available
2006-10-24 02:15:59 hobbitd status-board not available
2006-10-24 02:33:32 hobbitd status-board not available
2006-10-24 02:39:42 hobbitd status-board not available
2006-10-24 03:35:09 hobbitd status-board not available
2006-10-24 03:36:10 hobbitd status-board not available
2006-10-24 03:40:17 hobbitd status-board not available
2006-10-24 03:50:35 hobbitd status-board not available
2006-10-24 04:06:59 hobbitd status-board not available
2006-10-24 04:29:32 hobbitd status-board not available
2006-10-24 04:53:11 hobbitd status-board not available
2006-10-24 04:58:20 hobbitd status-board not available
2006-10-24 05:05:29 hobbitd status-board not available
2006-10-24 05:08:33 hobbitd status-board not available
2006-10-24 05:15:43 hobbitd status-board not available
2006-10-24 05:19:51 hobbitd status-board not available
2006-10-24 05:25:58 hobbitd status-board not available
2006-10-24 06:29:41 hobbitd status-board not available
2006-10-24 06:51:19 hobbitd status-board not available
2006-10-24 06:58:30 hobbitd status-board not available
2006-10-24 07:22:59 hobbitd status-board not available
2006-10-24 07:55:46 hobbitd status-board not available
2006-10-24 08:00:53 hobbitd status-board not available
2006-10-24 08:23:32 hobbitd status-board not available
2006-10-24 08:37:48 hobbitd status-board not available
2006-10-24 08:42:58 hobbitd status-board not available
2006-10-24 09:04:49 hobbitd status-board not available
2006-10-24 09:22:20 hobbitd status-board not available
2006-10-24 09:39:44 hobbitd status-board not available
2006-10-24 10:22:29 hobbitd status-board not available
bash-3.00$ grep status /var/opt/hobbit/log/hobbit/bb-display.log  |wc
      51     306    2805
bash-3.00$

This is really cool command, bbcmd. now I know who to inherit BB variable 
for debugging purpose.

   $ $BB $BBDISP "hobbitdboard"

most of the  time this command runs ok with text output like following
<snip>
zippy1|info|green||0|0|0|0|0||0|
zippy1|conn|green|OrdAstLe|1156952148|1161707454|1161709254|0|0|173.61.2.141|-1|green 
<!-- [flags:OrdAstLe] --> Tue Oct 24 11:30:05 2006 conn ok
zippy3|trends|green||0|0|0|0|0||0|
zippy3|info|green||0|0|0|0|0||0|
zippy3|conn|green|OrdAstLe|1161328583|1161707454|1161709254|0|0|173.61.2.141|-1|green 
<!-- [flags:OrdAstLe] --> Tue Oct 24 11:30:05 2006 conn ok
zither|trends|green||0|0|0|0|0||0|
zither|info|green||0|0|0|0|0||0|
zither|conn|green|OrdAstLe|1161328583|1161707454|1161709254|0|0|173.61.2.141|-1|green 
<!-- [flags:OrdAstLe] --> Tue Oct 24 11:30:05 2006 conn ok
bash-3.00$

   $ exit


Henrik

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Hi Henrik-

We're having the same sporadic status-board not available messages on
sparc Solaris 10 as T.J. Thought you might want to compare output from
two completely separate installations having this problem...thanks!

BBDISP and BBDISPLAYS settings in hobbitserver.cfg:
BBDISP="$BBSERVERIP"
BBDISPLAYS=""

Further up in the config file we have BBSERVERIP set to:
BBSERVERIP="10.16.124.244"

Hobbit webpages are being updated. Clicking on refresh immediately
clears status not available errors and brings up an up to date status
page.

Here is a short snipped from the bbcmd output you asked for:

$ bbcmd
$ $BB $BBDISP "hobbitdboard"
2006-10-24 11:32:29 Using default environment file
/usr/local/hobbit/server/etc/
hobbitserver.cfg
$ $BB $BBDISP "hobbitdboard"
cx2681-spa|trends|green||0|0|0|0|0||0|
cx2681-spa|info|green||0|0|0|0|0||0|
cx2681-spa|conn|green|OrdAstLe|1160433168|1161714616|1161716416|0|0|10.1
6.124.24                                                   4|-1|green
<!-- [flags:OrdAstLe] --> Tue Oct 24 11:30:02 2006 conn ok
cx2681-spb|trends|green||0|0|0|0|0||0|
cx2681-spb|info|green||0|0|0|0|0||0|
cx2681-spb|conn|green|OrdAstLe|1160433168|1161714616|1161716416|0|0|10.1
6.124.24                                                   4|-1|green
<!-- [flags:OrdAstLe] --> Tue Oct 24 11:30:02 2006 conn ok
farley|trends|green||0|0|0|0|0||0|
farley|info|green||0|0|0|0|0||0|
farley|conn|green|OrdAstLe|1160433469|1161714616|1161716416|0|0|10.16.12
4.244|-1                                                   |green <!--
[flags:OrdAstLe] --> Tue Oct 24 11:30:02 2006 conn ok
L0319p02|trends|green||0|0|0|0|0||0|
l0319p02|info|green||0|0|0|0|0||0|
l0319p02|conn|green|OrdAstLe|1160436178|1161714616|1161716416|0|0|
10.16.124.244|-1|green <!-- [flags:OrdAstLe] --> Tue Oct 24 11:30:02
2006 conn o                                                   k
l0319p02|memory|green||1160436170|1161714637|1161716437|0|0|10.17.
4.24|-1|green Tue Oct 24 11:32:50 PDT 2006 - Memory OK
l0319p02|files|clear||1160436170|1161714637|1161716437|0|0|10.17.4
.24|-1|clear Files status at Tue Oct 24 11:32:50 PDT 2006
l0319p02|msgs|green||1160436470|1161714637|1161716437|0|0|10.17.4.
24|-1|green System logs at Tue Oct 24 11:32:50 PDT 2006
l0319p02|ports|clear||1160436170|1161714637|1161716437|0|0|10.17.4
.24|-1|clear Tue Oct 24 11:32:50 PDT 2006 - Ports NOT ok
l0319p02|procs|clear||1160436170|1161714637|1161716437|0|0|10.17.4
.24|-1|clear Tue Oct 24 11:32:50 PDT 2006 - Processes NOT ok
l0319p02|disk|green||1160436170|1161714637|1161716437|0|0|10.17.4.
24|-1|green Tue Oct 24 11:32:50 PDT 2006 - Filesystems OK
l0319p02|cpu|green||1160436170|1161714637|1161716437|0|0|10.17.4.2
4|-1|green Tue Oct 24 11:32:50 PDT 2006 up: 21 days, 0 users, 97 procs,
load=0.0                                                   8

 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 8:51 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] "hobbitd status-board not available" on Sparc
Solaris 10

On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 10:30:20AM -0500, T.J. Yang wrote:

This message is from bbgen, which generates the static Hobbit overview
pages. It connects to the hobbit daemon to retrieve the current status
of all tests; this message means that it could not connect to the
server.

What are your BBDISP and BBDISPLAYS settings in hobbitserver.cfg ? What
do you have in the [bbdisplay] task in hobbitserver.cfg ?

Are the Hobbit webpages being updated ? Check the timestamp in the upper

right hand corner of the webpage.

What happens if you run these commands.

   $ bbcmd
   $ $BB $BBDISP "hobbitdboard"
   $ exit


Henrik

T.J. Yang

<snip>

zippy3|info|green||0|0|0|0|0||0|
zippy3|conn|green|OrdAstLe|1161328583|1162037588|1162039388|0|0|173.61.2.141|-1|green 
<!-- [flags:OrdAstLe] --> Sat Oct 28 07:11:45 2006 conn ok
zither|trends|green||0|0|0|0|0||0|
zither|info|green||0|0|0|0|0||0|
zither|conn|green|OrdAstLe|1161906159|1162037588|1162039388|0|0|173.61.2.141|-1|green 
<!-- [flags:OrdAstLe] --> Sat Oct 28 07:11:45 2006 conn ok
bash-3.00$ $BB $BBDISP "hobbitdboard"
bash-3.00$ echo $?
0
bash-3.00$


I ran "$BB $BBDISP "hobbitdboard" command manually, most of the time it 
return something.
But sometimes it return nothing.  the exit status of the command is 0, same 
as successful one.

What is next step to debug this issue ?
Too bad, I am still new to dtrace on Solaris 10 to debug this problem.

   $ exit


Henrik

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