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list Allan Spencer · Tue, 02 Aug 2005 10:49:10 +1000 ·
Hai All,

Just been looking on Henriks' demo site and noticed the config report bit under one of the menus so I went looking to try and do the same. About the only thing I can find is the header and footer files in the web directory but I cant see anything else about how to get this (but I may be blind)

Can someone tell me if this is possible or is this something cool Henrik has done :)

Cheers folks

Allan
list Robert Taylor · Mon, 1 Aug 2005 22:24:50 -0400 ·
Allan,

I have a pretty simple script that should be capable of doing what you
are looking for.  Basically it just reads in a file and prints the
output to the screen.  I'll send it along to you if you would like.

Robert
quoted from Allan Spencer

-----Original Message-----
From: Allan [mailto:user-42a3456c44ef@xymon.invalid] Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 8:49 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] Config Report

Hai All,

Just been looking on Henriks' demo site and noticed the config report bit under one of the menus so I went looking to try and do the same. About the only thing I can find is the header and footer files in the web directory but I cant see anything else about how to get this (but I may be blind)

Can someone tell me if this is possible or is this something cool Henrik

has done :)

Cheers folks

Allan
list Allan Spencer · Tue, 02 Aug 2005 13:30:54 +1000 ·
quoted from Robert Taylor
Taylor, Robert wrote:
Allan,

I have a pretty simple script that should be capable of doing what you
are looking for.  Basically it just reads in a file and prints the
output to the screen.  I'll send it along to you if you would like.

Robert

-----Original Message-----
From: Allan [mailto:user-42a3456c44ef@xymon.invalid] Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 8:49 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] Config Report

Hai All,

Just been looking on Henriks' demo site and noticed the config report bit under one of the menus so I went looking to try and do the same. About the only thing I can find is the header and footer files in the web directory but I cant see anything else about how to get this (but I may be blind)

Can someone tell me if this is possible or is this something cool Henrik

has done :)

Cheers folks

Allan

That would be cool thanks.

Altho just been looking at the one Henrik has on his site and I don't know if we want all the current info that comes up for some of the things. Eg it lists all the current procs on some things, also the disk one comes up with all the disk values.

We're probably just after more of a basic that details the basics, network tests and alerts so I can pass it up the food chain so to speak. They dont need to know all the extra info, it would confuse them anyway then I'd have to explain what it all means hehe

Allan
list Henrik Størner · Tue, 2 Aug 2005 07:45:18 +0200 ·
quoted from Allan Spencer
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 10:49:10AM +1000, Allan wrote:
Just been looking on Henriks' demo site and noticed the config report bit under one of the menus so I went looking to try and do the same. About the only thing I can find is the header and footer files in the web directory but I cant see anything else about how to get this (but I may be blind)
It's created dynamically by pulling a bunch of information from the bb-hosts file and the running Hobbit daemon.

Looking at it now, it seems I'll have to rework it slightly to make
it look nicer with all the info from the new client.
Can someone tell me if this is possible or is this something cool Henrik has done :)
I try to do cool stuff :-)

Seriously, this report is something that was created for a specific
request I had at work. Some of the paper-pushers there insisted on
having a hard-copy print-out of what is being monitored by Hobbit as
part of the operational documentation (never mind that monitoring is
fairly dynamic and frequently changes after that documentation has
been produced ...) So this report was done so that I don't have to
collect that information by hand.

I've noted your suggestion that it would be nice to leave out parts
of the report - I think that is fairly easy to implement, so I'll have
a look at that.


Regards,
Henrik
list Tom Kauffman · Tue, 2 Aug 2005 09:34:10 -0500 ·
I haven't looked at this one yet (I'm in the process of swapping out the
bulk of our AIX boxen, due to end of lease) -- but if you want *real*
overkill on system configs, look at cfg2html. I run this once a week, on
Sundays, and stuff the resulting html on my hobbit server in www/notes
so I can access it by clicking the system name link.

Available for HP-UX, AIX, and Solaris (and maybe others -- I just do
AIX) at //http:groups.yahoo.com/group/cfg2html.

Tom
quoted from Henrik Størner

-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 12:45 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Config Report

On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 10:49:10AM +1000, Allan wrote:
Just been looking on Henriks' demo site and noticed the config report 
bit under one of the menus so I went looking to try and do the same. 
About the only thing I can find is the header and footer files in the 
web directory but I cant see anything else about how to get this (but
I 
may be blind)
It's created dynamically by pulling a bunch of information from the 
bb-hosts file and the running Hobbit daemon.

Looking at it now, it seems I'll have to rework it slightly to make
it look nicer with all the info from the new client.
Can someone tell me if this is possible or is this something cool
Henrik 
has done :)
I try to do cool stuff :-)

Seriously, this report is something that was created for a specific
request I had at work. Some of the paper-pushers there insisted on
having a hard-copy print-out of what is being monitored by Hobbit as
part of the operational documentation (never mind that monitoring is
fairly dynamic and frequently changes after that documentation has
been produced ...) So this report was done so that I don't have to
collect that information by hand.

I've noted your suggestion that it would be nice to leave out parts
of the report - I think that is fairly easy to implement, so I'll have
a look at that.


Regards,
Henrik
list Vernon Everett · Wed, 3 Aug 2005 08:33:36 +0800 ·
Cfg2html sounds quite useful.
Is there any way to get hold of the Solaris version without selling my
soul to Yahoo?

Regards
    Vernon 
quoted from Tom Kauffman
-----Original Message-----
From: Kauffman, Tom [mailto:user-3feba9e60a8b@xymon.invalid] Sent: Tuesday, 2 August 2005 10:34 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Config Report

I haven't looked at this one yet (I'm in the process of swapping out the
bulk of our AIX boxen, due to end of lease) -- but if you want *real*
overkill on system configs, look at cfg2html. I run this once a week, on
Sundays, and stuff the resulting html on my hobbit server in www/notes
so I can access it by clicking the system name link.

Available for HP-UX, AIX, and Solaris (and maybe others -- I just do
AIX) at //http:groups.yahoo.com/group/cfg2html.

Tom
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list Allan Spencer · Thu, 04 Aug 2005 16:44:09 +1000 ·
quoted from Allan Spencer
Allan wrote:
Taylor, Robert wrote:
Allan,

I have a pretty simple script that should be capable of doing what you
are looking for.  Basically it just reads in a file and prints the
output to the screen.  I'll send it along to you if you would like.

Robert

-----Original Message-----
From: Allan [mailto:user-42a3456c44ef@xymon.invalid] Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 8:49 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] Config Report

Hai All,

Just been looking on Henriks' demo site and noticed the config report bit under one of the menus so I went looking to try and do the same. About the only thing I can find is the header and footer files in the web directory but I cant see anything else about how to get this (but I may be blind)

Can someone tell me if this is possible or is this something cool Henrik

has done :)

Cheers folks

Allan

That would be cool thanks.

Altho just been looking at the one Henrik has on his site and I don't know if we want all the current info that comes up for some of the things. Eg it lists all the current procs on some things, also the disk one comes up with all the disk values.

We're probably just after more of a basic that details the basics, network tests and alerts so I can pass it up the food chain so to speak. They dont need to know all the extra info, it would confuse them anyway then I'd have to explain what it all means hehe

Allan
Ahh ok cool I just stumbled accross getting the config report to work. All I had to do was duplicate/create one of the .sh files in the cgi-bin directory and point it at the hobbit-confreport.cgi file and off it went :)

Allan
list Antonio Marques · Thu, 4 Aug 2005 12:09:29 -0300 ·
You can´t sell you soul...
http://www.cfg2html.com/

Regards

2005/8/4, Allan <user-42a3456c44ef@xymon.invalid>:
quoted from Allan Spencer
Allan wrote:
Taylor, Robert wrote:
Allan,

I have a pretty simple script that should be capable of doing what you
are looking for.  Basically it just reads in a file and prints the
output to the screen.  I'll send it along to you if you would like.

Robert

-----Original Message-----
From: Allan [mailto:user-42a3456c44ef@xymon.invalid] Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005
8:49 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] Config Report

Hai All,

Just been looking on Henriks' demo site and noticed the config report
bit under one of the menus so I went looking to try and do the same.
About the only thing I can find is the header and footer files in the
web directory but I cant see anything else about how to get this (but
I may be blind)

Can someone tell me if this is possible or is this something cool Henrik

has done :)

Cheers folks

Allan

That would be cool thanks.

Altho just been looking at the one Henrik has on his site and I don't
know if we want all the current info that comes up for some of the
things. Eg it lists all the current procs on some things, also the
disk one comes up with all the disk values.

We're probably just after more of a basic that details the basics,
network tests and alerts so I can pass it up the food chain so to
speak. They dont need to know all the extra info, it would confuse
them anyway then I'd have to explain what it all means hehe

Allan
Ahh ok cool I just stumbled accross getting the config report to work.
All I had to do was duplicate/create one of the .sh files in the cgi-bin
directory and point it at the hobbit-confreport.cgi file and off it went :)

Allan

list Peter Welter · Tue, 16 Aug 2005 18:09:39 +0200 ·
Hi Allan and everyone on the list,

Sorry, but I fail to see what I have to do for getting the config
report to work after installing hobbit version 4.1.1 on my
test-linux-box. Should it not work, like everything else, out of the
box?

I adapted the /var/lib/hobbit/www/menu/menu_items.js to add the menu
option for hobbit-configreport.sh, but after selecting this option,
the cgi-bin script says "Unable to find host information".

Thanks for any help,

Peter
quoted from Antonio Marques


2005/8/4, Allan <user-42a3456c44ef@xymon.invalid>:
Allan wrote:
Taylor, Robert wrote:
Allan,

I have a pretty simple script that should be capable of doing what you
are looking for.  Basically it just reads in a file and prints the
output to the screen.  I'll send it along to you if you would like.

Robert

-----Original Message-----
From: Allan [mailto:user-42a3456c44ef@xymon.invalid] Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005
8:49 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] Config Report

Hai All,

Just been looking on Henriks' demo site and noticed the config report
bit under one of the menus so I went looking to try and do the same.
About the only thing I can find is the header and footer files in the
web directory but I cant see anything else about how to get this (but
I may be blind)

Can someone tell me if this is possible or is this something cool Henrik

has done :)

Cheers folks

Allan

That would be cool thanks.

Altho just been looking at the one Henrik has on his site and I don't
know if we want all the current info that comes up for some of the
things. Eg it lists all the current procs on some things, also the
disk one comes up with all the disk values.

We're probably just after more of a basic that details the basics,
network tests and alerts so I can pass it up the food chain so to
speak. They dont need to know all the extra info, it would confuse
them anyway then I'd have to explain what it all means hehe

Allan
Ahh ok cool I just stumbled accross getting the config report to work.
All I had to do was duplicate/create one of the .sh files in the cgi-bin
directory and point it at the hobbit-confreport.cgi file and off it went :)

Allan

list Peter Welter · Tue, 16 Aug 2005 21:04:57 +0200 ·
I seems to work now; I get a perfect overview of the implementation.
Must be browser cache or something like that :-(

What remains is why this is not part of the default installation (RPM
-rebuild from src distro)?
quoted from Peter Welter
Sorry, but I fail to see what I have to do for getting the config
report to work after installing hobbit version 4.1.1 on my
test-linux-box. Should it not work, like everything else, out of the
box?
list Henrik Størner · Tue, 16 Aug 2005 22:47:30 +0200 ·
quoted from Peter Welter
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 09:04:57PM +0200, Peter Welter wrote:
I seems to work now; I get a perfect overview of the implementation.
Must be browser cache or something like that :-(

What remains is why this is not part of the default installation (RPM
-rebuild from src distro)?
I simply forgot to add that menu item to the default menu-file. Thanks
for pointing that out.


Regards,
Henrik
list Craig Whilding · Wed, 14 Jun 2006 13:08:04 +0100 ·
Hi Henrik,

 
With my config report option it seems to stop at a random point for some
pages and only shows some of the hosts or some parts of a hosts config.

 
On a page with two printers where only the conn test is currently tested
it only shows the printer.

 
How could I debug this to try and find a reason as there appears to be
no pattern.

 
Thanks,

 
Craig Whilding

IT Systems Administrator
Edward Court 
Altrincham Business Park 
Altrincham 
WA14 5GL 
Tel: + 44 (0)XXX XXX XXXX
email: user-9ce31bfa66c3@xymon.invalid 
www.mentor.com
<file:///C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\cwhildin\Application%20Data\Micro
soft\Signatures\www.mentor.com>
list Stephane Boisvert · Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:48:51 -0400 ·
Hi Everyone,

	 I don't know if im the only one having this issue. But  in the config report when using BBWIN 0.12 in centralized mode I always have wrong values. If I put my MEMPHYS at 50 70 I always see the same config report telling that the trigger on MEMPYS is at 80% 90% ....but the alerting is working fine ... 

Anyone have an idea ?

Thanks


Stéphane Boisvert
list Jm54601 · Thu, 9 Oct 2008 10:19:38 -0700 (PDT) ·
Is there an environment variable I can pass to the config report to only report on a given list of hosts?
list Larry Barber · Thu, 9 Oct 2008 12:52:03 -0500 ·
I don't know about an environment variable, but if you activate the config
report on a subpage you will only get the machines that are on that page.

Thanks,
Larry Barber
quoted from Jm54601

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 12:19 PM, user-747f2264746a@xymon.invalid <user-747f2264746a@xymon.invalid>wrote:
Is there an environment variable I can pass to the config report to only
report on a given list of hosts?

list Jm54601 · Thu, 9 Oct 2008 11:33:19 -0700 (PDT) ·
Right, but unfortunately these hosts are on a bunch of different pages.  The documentation alludes to a cookie that does the page functionality, but I can't find it to manipulate it.
quoted from Larry Barber


----- Original Message ----
From: Larry Barber <user-6ef9c2864140@xymon.invalid>
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Sent: Thursday, October 9, 2008 12:52:03 PM
Subject: Re: [hobbit] config report


I don't know about an environment variable, but if you activate the config report on a subpage you will only get the machines that are on that page. 

Thanks,
Larry Barber


On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 12:19 PM, user-747f2264746a@xymon.invalid <user-747f2264746a@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Is there an environment variable I can pass to the config report to only report on a given list of hosts?
list Henrik Størner · Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:49:56 +0000 (UTC) ·
quoted from Jm54601
In <user-62cf65423595@xymon.invalid> "user-747f2264746a@xymon.invalid" <user-747f2264746a@xymon.invalid> writes:
Is there an environment variable I can pass to the config report to only report on a given list of hosts?
It reports on the hosts below the page in the Hobbit page
hierarchy that it is invoked from. This is controlled by
the "pagepath" cookie.


Regards,
Henrik
list Jm54601 · Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:21:05 -0700 (PDT) ·
Thanks, Henrik.  Is there any way I can feed an arbitrary list of hosts to report on?  The list of about 150 hosts I need to report on are located on several different pages.  We're monitoring about 1300 hosts, and I need the config for a subset.
quoted from Henrik Størner


----- Original Message ----
From: Henrik Stoerner <user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid>
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 3:49:56 AM
Subject: Re: [hobbit] config report

In <user-62cf65423595@xymon.invalid> "user-747f2264746a@xymon.invalid" <user-747f2264746a@xymon.invalid> writes:
Is there an environment variable I can pass to the config report to only report on a given list of hosts?
It reports on the hosts below the page in the Hobbit page
hierarchy that it is invoked from. This is controlled by
the "pagepath" cookie.


Regards,
Henrik