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list Jon Bjorn Njalsson · Thu, 21 Apr 2005 14:35:23 -0000 ·
I just migrated from bb to hobbit server and I was wondering where is hobbit´s incoming log directory (bb had $BBVAR/logs).

regards
Jon Bjorn
list Michael Lowery · Thu, 21 Apr 2005 09:40:08 -0500 ·
/var/logs/hobbit is where mine are kept.
quoted from Jon Bjorn Njalsson
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Bjorn Njalsson [mailto:user-5c8e7718045c@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 9:35 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] hobbit log dir
 
I just migrated from bb to hobbit server and I was wondering where is hobbit´s incoming log directory (bb had $BBVAR/logs).
 
regards
Jon Bjorn
list Larry Barber · Thu, 21 Apr 2005 10:42:44 -0400 (EDT) ·
Hobbit doesn't save these by default, you need to enable the appropriate
channel in hobbitlaunch.cfg. 

Thanks,
Larry Barber
quoted from Michael Lowery

On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 09:35 -0500, user-5c8e7718045c@xymon.invalid wrote:
I just migrated from bb to hobbit server and I was wondering where is
hobbit´s incoming log directory (bb had $BBVAR/logs).
 
regards
Jon Bjorn
list Jon Bjorn Njalsson · Thu, 21 Apr 2005 14:53:19 -0000 ·
Is there no directory where bbclient information is gaterd. In bigbrother I hade exhangeservers sending in information about
private and public database sizes, the log file would contain f ex

green 20.4.2005 16:29:02

Exchange Database size check (GB):
&green PrivateDatabase: 12.99
&green PublicDatabase : 3.22

and I was able to graph that with larrd. I am able to let hobbit display this graph but hobbit isn´t getting the feed from the client.
quoted from Michael Lowery


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Lowery, Michael 
  To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid 
  Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 2:40 PM
  Subject: RE: [hobbit] hobbit log dir


  /var/logs/hobbit is where mine are kept.

   
  -----Original Message-----
  From: Jon Bjorn Njalsson [mailto:user-5c8e7718045c@xymon.invalid] 
  Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 9:35 AM
  To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
  Subject: [hobbit] hobbit log dir

   
  I just migrated from bb to hobbit server and I was wondering where is hobbit´s incoming log directory (bb had $BBVAR/logs).

   
  regards

  Jon Bjorn
list Ian Marsh · Thu, 21 Apr 2005 16:10:19 +0100 ·
You'll need to write an extension script to process the information as it's received by Hobbit and output the appropriate data to the lard subsystem. There are instructions on the 'hobbitd_larrd' manpage in the 'Custom RRD Data' section. Note that there is an error on each of the grep/awk lines in the example script; each line is missing a back tick to close the command. I ended up writing my own version of the script in Perl which will be easier for me/someone to maintain. It took a couple of hours for me to get this working this morning but having a graph for the Exim (MTA) queue size is already proving very useful!

Thanks,
Ian Marsh
quoted from Jon Bjorn Njalsson


From: Jon Bjorn Njalsson [mailto:user-5c8e7718045c@xymon.invalid] Sent: 21 April 2005 15:53
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] hobbit log dir

 
Is there no directory where bbclient information is gaterd. In bigbrother I hade exhangeservers sending in information about

private and public database sizes, the log file would contain f ex

 
green 20.4.2005 16:29:02

 
Exchange Database size check (GB):
&green PrivateDatabase: 12.99
&green PublicDatabase : 3.22

and I was able to graph that with larrd. I am able to let hobbit display this graph but hobbit isn´t getting the feed from the client.

 
	----- Original Message ----- 
	From: Lowery, Michael <mailto:user-89d72f0c2e3d@xymon.invalid>  
	To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid 
	Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 2:40 PM

	Subject: RE: [hobbit] hobbit log dir

	 
	/var/logs/hobbit is where mine are kept.

	 
	-----Original Message-----
	From: Jon Bjorn Njalsson [mailto:user-5c8e7718045c@xymon.invalid] 	Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 9:35 AM
	To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
	Subject: [hobbit] hobbit log dir

	 
	I just migrated from bb to hobbit server and I was wondering where is hobbit´s incoming log directory (bb had $BBVAR/logs).

	 
	regards

	Jon Bjorn
list Henrik Størner · Thu, 21 Apr 2005 16:25:52 +0000 (UTC) ·
In <015501c54681$db881020$user-bec392c0a84b@xymon.invalid> "Jon Bjorn Njalsson" <user-5c8e7718045c@xymon.invalid> writes:
Is there no directory where bbclient information is gaterd. 
Welcome to Hobbit. One thing Hobbit does very differently is that all
of the status-reports are kept only in memory - writing them to disk 
is just too slow.

If you really must, you can enable the [bbstatus] task in
hobbitlaunch.cfg to get the file-based status-logs, but I really
cannot recommend doing that - and it is not necessary to do what you
want.
quoted from Ian Marsh

In bigbrother I hade exhangeservers sending in information about
private and public database sizes, the log file would contain f ex
green 20.4.2005 16:29:02
Exchange Database size check (GB):
&green PrivateDatabase: 12.99
&green PublicDatabase : 3.22
and I was able to graph that with larrd. I am able to let hobbit display 
this graph but hobbit isn't getting the feed from the client.

Have a look at the hobbitd_larrd man-page, the "Custom RRD data"
section. It should be really simple to write a Hobbit RRD extension to
pick out those two data-items and have them tracked in an RRD file.
If you cannot work it out, write again and I'll give you a hand with
it.

BTW, the script you're using - is that something you wrote yourself or
picked up from Deadcat ? I do try to make Hobbit work "out of the box"
with some of the popular extensions from Deadcat, so if this is
something that would be useful to others then I can add the graphing
of this status-message into Hobbit.


Regards,
Henrik
list Henrik Størner · Thu, 21 Apr 2005 16:27:48 +0000 (UTC) ·
quoted from Ian Marsh
In <user-9139bec9ec88@xymon.invalid> "Marsh, Ian" <user-ba159ca7ed42@xymon.invalid> writes:
There are instructions on the 'hobbitd_larrd' manpage in the 'Custom
RRD Data' section. Note that there is an error on each of the
grep/awk lines in the example script; each line is missing a back
tick to close the command.
Hey, you're right! Fixed.


Henrik