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list Gordon Thiesfeld · Thu, 17 Feb 2005 16:23:35 -0600 ·
I installed the post-RC2 patch and 30 minutes later hobbitd went purple.
The last entry in hobbitd.log is:
2005-02-17 15:43:56 hobbitd servername MACHINE='server,domain,com' not
listed in bb-hosts, dropping hobbitd status

I checked bb-hosts, and it's in there:
1.2.3.4   server.domain.com # testip BBDISPLAY BBPAGER BBNET bbd ssh
http://server.domain.com /hobbit/ https://1.2.3.4 smtp
apache:http://127.0.0.1/server-status?auto

Did I botch the patch?
list Charles Jones · Thu, 17 Feb 2005 15:31:06 -0700 ·
quoted from Gordon Thiesfeld
Thiesfeld, Gordon wrote:
I installed the post-RC2 patch and 30 minutes later hobbitd went purple.
The last entry in hobbitd.log is:
2005-02-17 15:43:56 hobbitd servername MACHINE='server,domain,com' not
listed in bb-hosts, dropping hobbitd status

I checked bb-hosts, and it's in there:
1.2.3.4   server.domain.com # testip BBDISPLAY BBPAGER BBNET bbd ssh
http://server.domain.com /hobbit/ https://1.2.3.4 smtp
*apache:http://127.0.0.1/server-status?auto
• Did I botch the patch?
 
Shouldn't that be "apache=http://127.0.0.1/server-status?auto"; ?  If you 
have a typo maybe its making hobbitd crash...it seems particular about 
the apache keyword.

-Charles
list Gordon Thiesfeld · Thu, 17 Feb 2005 16:39:06 -0600 ·
I corrected the entry and restarted, but still purple.

 
Thanks
quoted from Charles Jones

 
From: Charles Jones [mailto:user-e86b4aeade4e@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 4:31 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] hobbitd purple

 
Thiesfeld, Gordon wrote: 

I installed the post-RC2 patch and 30 minutes later hobbitd went purple.
The last entry in hobbitd.log is:
2005-02-17 15:43:56 hobbitd servername MACHINE='server,domain,com' not
listed in bb-hosts, dropping hobbitd status
 
I checked bb-hosts, and it's in there:
1.2.3.4   server.domain.com # testip BBDISPLAY BBPAGER BBNET bbd ssh

http://server.domain.com <http://server.domain.com>;  /hobbit/
https://1.2.3.4 <https://1.2.3.4>;  smtp
apache:http://127.0.0.1/server-status?auto
<http://127.0.0.1/server-status?auto>; 
 
Did I botch the patch?
  

Shouldn't that be "apache=http://127.0.0.1/server-status?auto
<http://127.0.0.1/server-status?auto>; " ?  If you have a typo maybe its
making hobbitd crash...it seems particular about the apache keyword.

-Charles
list Henrik Størner · Thu, 17 Feb 2005 23:59:16 +0100 ·
quoted from Gordon Thiesfeld
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 04:23:35PM -0600, Thiesfeld, Gordon wrote:
I installed the post-RC2 patch and 30 minutes later hobbitd went purple.
The last entry in hobbitd.log is:
2005-02-17 15:43:56 hobbitd servername MACHINE='server,domain,com' not
listed in bb-hosts, dropping hobbitd status

I checked bb-hosts, and it's in there:
1.2.3.4   server.domain.com # testip BBDISPLAY BBPAGER BBNET bbd ssh
http://server.domain.com /hobbit/ https://1.2.3.4 smtp
apache:http://127.0.0.1/server-status?auto
Someone else said he had the same problem - quite odd, but there must
be something wrong somewhere. I'm also a bit puzzled why this has
popped up with the RC2 release, because there were no changes that
should change this behaviour.
Did I botch the patch?
Unlikely.

If you could send me your bb-hosts and hobbitserver.cfg files, I'll
see if I can make it happen on my own system. That would ease
debugging.


Regards,
Henrik
list Henrik Størner · Fri, 18 Feb 2005 14:52:12 +0100 ·
quoted from Henrik Størner
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 11:59:16PM +0100, Henrik Stoerner wrote:
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 04:23:35PM -0600, Thiesfeld, Gordon wrote:
I installed the post-RC2 patch and 30 minutes later hobbitd went purple.
If you could send me your bb-hosts and hobbitserver.cfg files, I'll
see if I can make it happen on my own system. That would ease
debugging.
Thanks Gordon, with your config it happens on my system as well.
And it's such a silly bug that I'm ashamed to admit I wrote it :-/

Henrik
list Geoff Steer · Sat, 19 Feb 2005 01:00:23 +1100 ·
We're looking at upgrading our current BB installation and hopbbit looks
like a winner.
Out current alerting is done via SNMP to an external site that generates
trouble tickets and SMS messages from the SNMP trap data.

Are there any plans to have SNMP alerting as an option?

Regards
Geoff Steer
Firstwave technology P/L
list Henrik Størner · Fri, 18 Feb 2005 15:45:32 +0100 ·
quoted from Geoff Steer
On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 01:00:23AM +1100, Geoff Steer wrote:
We're looking at upgrading our current BB installation and hopbbit looks
like a winner.
Out current alerting is done via SNMP to an external site that generates
trouble tickets and SMS messages from the SNMP trap data.

Are there any plans to have SNMP alerting as an option?
I don't have any immediate plans for this. It would probably not be
terribly difficult to come up with a script to send out an SNMP trap,
which Hobbit can run to do alerts - which is my main excuse for not
adding SNMP trap support to Hobbit right now.

Sometime later this year, I'll probably look into adding some SNMP
support to Hobbit, in the form of an SNMP module that can query
SNMP-enabled devices for status information, thereby integrating
support for SNMP devices into Hobbit. (SNMP has always been somewhat
of a kludge in BB, you have to craft some ad-hoc script to call
snmpget or snmpwalk, and parse the output in the script). When that
happens, it will probably be pretty simple to implement a native SNMP
alert mechanism in Hobbit.

But don't hold your breath ... right now, setting up an alert script
to send out SNMP traps is the way to get something going.


Regards,
Henrik
list Daniel J McDonald · Fri, 18 Feb 2005 18:07:53 -0600 ·
quoted from Henrik Størner
On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 15:45 +0100, Henrik Stoerner wrote:
On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 01:00:23AM +1100, Geoff Steer wrote:
Sometime later this year, I'll probably look into adding some SNMP
support to Hobbit, in the form of an SNMP module that can query
SNMP-enabled devices for status information, thereby integrating
support for SNMP devices into Hobbit.
Hopefully snmp V3 support... 
quoted from Henrik Størner
 (SNMP has always been somewhat
of a kludge in BB, you have to craft some ad-hoc script to call
snmpget or snmpwalk, and parse the output in the script). 
Right now I use bbmrtg.pl for this.  mrtg is a fine polling engine, but
it does have scaling issues.  And it really needs to be database driven
and self-reconfiguring.
quoted from Henrik Størner
When that
happens, it will probably be pretty simple to implement a native SNMP
alert mechanism in Hobbit.

But don't hold your breath ... right now, setting up an alert script
to send out SNMP traps is the way to get something going.
I'm not holding my breath, but would like to eventually see snmp V3
support, which mrtg doesn't have currently, due to limitations of the
perl module they use to poll.

-- 
Daniel J McDonald, CCIE # 2495, CNX
Austin Energy

user-290ce4e24e19@xymon.invalid
list Henrik Størner · Sat, 19 Feb 2005 08:22:28 +0100 ·
quoted from Daniel J McDonald
On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 06:07:53PM -0600, Daniel J McDonald wrote:
On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 15:45 +0100, Henrik Stoerner wrote:
On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 01:00:23AM +1100, Geoff Steer wrote:
Sometime later this year, I'll probably look into adding some SNMP
support to Hobbit, in the form of an SNMP module that can query
SNMP-enabled devices for status information, thereby integrating
support for SNMP devices into Hobbit.
Hopefully snmp V3 support... 
Oh, I don't plan to implement a full SNMP client by myself. The
Net-SNMP library is already there, and supports both SNMP v1, v2c
and v3.


Henrik
list Gordon Thiesfeld · Thu, 24 Feb 2005 15:29:41 -0600 ·
I've upgraded to RC3 with the patch and this is fixed.
quoted from Henrik Størner
-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 7:52 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] hobbitd purple

On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 11:59:16PM +0100, Henrik Stoerner wrote:
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 04:23:35PM -0600, Thiesfeld, Gordon wrote:
I installed the post-RC2 patch and 30 minutes later hobbitd went
purple.
If you could send me your bb-hosts and hobbitserver.cfg files, I'll
see if I can make it happen on my own system. That would ease
debugging.
Thanks Gordon, with your config it happens on my system as well.
And it's such a silly bug that I'm ashamed to admit I wrote it :-/

Henrik