Hobbit Client on linux works fine but not on Sun nor Windows 🔗 link

Hello,
 
  I'm starting to deploy Hobbit on my company network to replace an  old
BigBrother install. I installed Hobbit on a server and started some test
with the client on different recent Linux 2.6.
  My first problem was that the config the alert for a specific host.
The only way I've found is to configure alerts on the localclient.cfg of
each client. If not, any information could be monitored by the server (I
used to configure hobbit-clients.cfg & bb-hosts on the server but it
never works :-/)
  Anyway, it works by choosing the configuration on the client. All my
Debian/Ubuntu are monitored at the moment.
 
  I installed the client on SunOS, it starts fine, I've configured the
localclient.cfg on the client, bb-hosts on the server. The only thing
monitored is the "conn"... looks at the Sun  localclient.cfg :
 
          DEFAULT
                  # Uptime mini
                  UP      1h
          
                  # Decalage d'horloge en sec
                  CLOCK   120
          
                  # Memoire
                  MEMPHYS 100 101
                  MEMSWAP 50 80
                  MEMACT  90 97
          
                  # Load average
                  LOAD    2.0 5.0
          
                  # Espace disque
                  DISK    /               70 90
          
                  # Processus
                  PROC    master  1       yellow
                  PROC    smbd    1       red
                  PROC    nmbd    1       red
                  PROC    ypbind  1       yellow
                  PROC    apache2 5    20   red
          
                  # Fichiers
                  FILE /var/adm/messages  SIZE>0 MTIME<1200 yellow
                  FILE /var/adm/messages  yellow  "timed out!"
          
                  # LOG
                  LOG %/var/adm/messages %(I/O|read).error COLOR=red

I have the same problem with BBWin, here is the bbwin.cfg : 
 
 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
  <configuration>
        <bbwin>
          <setting name="bbdisplay" value="yourfirstbbdisplay:1984" />
          <!-- <setting name="bbdisplay"
value="yoursecondbbdisplay:port" />-->
          <!-- BB Pager Part -->
          <!--<setting name="usepager" value="false" />
          <setting name="bbpager" value="yourfirstbbpager" />
          <setting name="bbpager" value="yourfirstbbpager" />
          <setting name="pagerlevels" value="red yellow" /> -->
          
          <!-- bbwin mode local or central -->
          <setting name="mode" value="local" />
          <setting name="configclass" value="win32" />
          
          <setting name="autoreload" value="true" />
          <setting name="timer" value="5m" />
          <load name="cpu" value="cpu.dll"/>
          <load name="disk" value="disk.dll"/>
          <load name="externals" value="externals.dll"/>
          <load name="memory" value="memory.dll"/>
          <load name="msgs" value="msgs.dll"/>
          <load name="procs" value="procs.dll"/>
          <load name="stats" value="stats.dll"/>
          <load name="svcs" value="svcs.dll"/>
          <load name="uptime" value="uptime.dll"/>
          <setting name="loglevel" value="3" />
          <setting name="logpath" value="C:\Program
Files\BBWin\logs\BBWin.log"/>
          <!--  If true, the agent will report reporting failures as
warning events -->
          <setting name="logreportfailure" value="false" />
        </bbwin>
        <cpu>
          <!-- If true, the agent  will always report with green status
-->
          <setting name="alwaysgreen" value="false" />
          <setting name="default" warnlevel="70" paniclevel="95"
delay="3" />
        </cpu>
        <disk>
          <!-- If true, the agent  will always report with green status
-->
          <setting name="alwaysgreen" value="false" />
          <!-- Level can be given by % or size unit mb, gb, tb -->
          <setting name="default" warnlevel="85%" paniclevel="95%" />
          <!-- custom rules examples -->
          <setting name="C" warnlevel="70%" paniclevel="400mb" />
          <!-- <setting name="E" ignore="true" />  -->
          <!-- If true, the agent will check remote drives -->
          <setting name="remote" value="false" />
          <!-- If true, the agent will that cd/dvdrom drives are empty
-->
          <setting name="cdrom" value="false" />
        </disk>
        <externals>
          <setting name="timer" value="3m" />
          <setting name="logstimer" value="60s" />
        <memory>
         <msgs>
          <setting name="alwaysgreen" value="false" />
          <match logfile="System" type="error" delay="1h"
alarmcolor="red" />
          <match logfile="System" type="warning" alarmcolor="yellow" />
          <match logfile="Application" type="error" delay="1h"
alarmcolor="red" />
          <match logfile="Application" type="warning"
alarmcolor="yellow" />
          <match logfile="Security" type="fail" />
          
          <!-- Some ignore rules examples 
          <ignore logfile="Application" eventid="1030" />
          <ignore logfile="System" source="W32Time" />
          -->
        </msgs>
        <procs>
          <!-- some procs rules example -->
          <setting name="drwtsn" rule="-1" alarmcolor="red" />
          <setting name="mmc.exe" rule="-1" alarmcolor="red" />
          <setting name="pageant.exe" rule="=1" comment="Putty agent
deamon" /> 
        </procs>
        <svcs>
          <!-- If true, the agent  will always report with green status
-->
          <setting name="alwaysgreen" value="false" />
          <!-- If true, the agent will restart all "automatic  services"
which would be stopped-->
          <setting name="autoreset" value="false" />
          <setting name="alarmcolor" value="yellow" />
          <setting name="Automatic Updates" value="started"
autoreset="true" alarmcolor="red" />
        </svcs>
        <uptime>
          <setting name="delay" value="30m" />
        </uptime>
  </configuration>

 
  Any ideas are retreived ?
 
   Thanks by advance,
 
        Johan
 

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On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 12:52:37PM +0200, user-08b3b26d089f@xymon.invalid wrote:

Don't use the local client configuration, if you can avoid it. Since you
do not provide any details about what exactly it is that "never works"
I cannot help you, but I would suggest looking into this first.

You *are* sending the client data to a Hobbit server, not the BB server?
BB servers are not compatible with the Hobbit client.

Please try to run the client(s) in the normal mode, that should give
you all of the standard columns, without requiring any configruation.


Regards,
Henrik

Henrik Stoerner a écrit :

I started the installation on the server by declaring a new client 
server on 'server/etc/bb-hosts' and then configure 
'server/etc/hobbit-clients.cfg'
The client never retrieved me any information except the "conn", "info" 
& "trends" status provided by the server itself!
I decided to re-install the hobbit client with configuration on the 
client itself : It worked each time : all extra columns appeared 
according processes I'm running!

I'm not running any BB servers or client now. I'm trying to migrate to 
Hobbit

Well, it's not, it gives only "conn", "info" & "trends". Only re-install 
the hobbit client with a local conf provided me the extra columns like 
"cpu", "disk", "ntp", "procs".

 Any ideas why Linux clients retrieve information to the Hobbit server 
only with local conf and why Sun & Windows doesn't retrieve extra 
informations like "cpu", "disk", "ntp" according the configuration I put 
bellow ?

     Thanks!

Sun  localclient.cfg :
 
          DEFAULT
                  # Uptime mini
                  UP      1h
         
                  # Decalage d'horloge en sec
                  CLOCK   120
         
                  # Memoire
                  MEMPHYS 100 101
                  MEMSWAP 50 80
                  MEMACT  90 97
         
                  # Load average
                  LOAD    2.0 5.0
         
                  # Espace disque
                  DISK    /               70 90
         
                  # Processus
                  PROC    master  1       yellow
                  PROC    smbd    1       red
                  PROC    nmbd    1       red
                  PROC    ypbind  1       yellow
                  PROC    apache2 5    20   red
         
                  # Fichiers
                  FILE /var/adm/messages  SIZE>0 MTIME<1200 yellow
                  FILE /var/adm/messages  yellow  "timed out!"
         
                  # LOG
                  LOG %/var/adm/messages %(I/O|read).error COLOR=red

I have the same problem with BBWin, here is the bbwin.cfg :
 
 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
  <configuration>
        <bbwin>
          <setting name="bbdisplay" value="yourfirstbbdisplay:1984" />
          <!-- <setting name="bbdisplay" 
value="yoursecondbbdisplay:port" />-->
          <!-- BB Pager Part -->
          <!--<setting name="usepager" value="false" />
          <setting name="bbpager" value="yourfirstbbpager" />
          <setting name="bbpager" value="yourfirstbbpager" />
          <setting name="pagerlevels" value="red yellow" /> -->
         
          <!-- bbwin mode local or central -->
          <setting name="mode" value="local" />
          <setting name="configclass" value="win32" />
         
          <setting name="autoreload" value="true" />
          <setting name="timer" value="5m" />
          <load name="cpu" value="cpu.dll"/>
          <load name="disk" value="disk.dll"/>
          <load name="externals" value="externals.dll"/>
          <load name="memory" value="memory.dll"/>
          <load name="msgs" value="msgs.dll"/>
          <load name="procs" value="procs.dll"/>
          <load name="stats" value="stats.dll"/>
          <load name="svcs" value="svcs.dll"/>
          <load name="uptime" value="uptime.dll"/>
          <setting name="loglevel" value="3" />
          <setting name="logpath" value="C:\Program 
Files\BBWin\logs\BBWin.log"/>
          <!--  If true, the agent will report reporting failures as 
warning events -->
          <setting name="logreportfailure" value="false" />
        </bbwin>
        <cpu>
          <!-- If true, the agent  will always report with green status -->
          <setting name="alwaysgreen" value="false" />
          <setting name="default" warnlevel="70" paniclevel="95" 
delay="3" />
        </cpu>
        <disk>
          <!-- If true, the agent  will always report with green status -->
          <setting name="alwaysgreen" value="false" />
          <!-- Level can be given by % or size unit mb, gb, tb -->
          <setting name="default" warnlevel="85%" paniclevel="95%" />
          <!-- custom rules examples -->
          <setting name="C" warnlevel="70%" paniclevel="400mb" />
          <!-- <setting name="E" ignore="true" />  -->
          <!-- If true, the agent will check remote drives -->
          <setting name="remote" value="false" />
          <!-- If true, the agent will that cd/dvdrom drives are empty -->
          <setting name="cdrom" value="false" />
        </disk>
        <externals>
          <setting name="timer" value="3m" />
          <setting name="logstimer" value="60s" />
        <memory>
         <msgs>
          <setting name="alwaysgreen" value="false" />
          <match logfile="System" type="error" delay="1h" 
alarmcolor="red" />
          <match logfile="System" type="warning" alarmcolor="yellow" />
          <match logfile="Application" type="error" delay="1h" 
alarmcolor="red" />
          <match logfile="Application" type="warning" alarmcolor="yellow" />
          <match logfile="Security" type="fail" />
         
          <!-- Some ignore rules examples
          <ignore logfile="Application" eventid="1030" />
          <ignore logfile="System" source="W32Time" />
          -->
        </msgs>
        <procs>
          <!-- some procs rules example -->
          <setting name="drwtsn" rule="-1" alarmcolor="red" />
          <setting name="mmc.exe" rule="-1" alarmcolor="red" />
          <setting name="pageant.exe" rule="=1" comment="Putty agent 
deamon" />
        </procs>
        <svcs>
          <!-- If true, the agent  will always report with green status -->
          <setting name="alwaysgreen" value="false" />
          <!-- If true, the agent will restart all "automatic  services" 
which would be stopped-->
          <setting name="autoreset" value="false" />
          <setting name="alarmcolor" value="yellow" />
          <setting name="Automatic Updates" value="started" 
autoreset="true" alarmcolor="red" />
        </svcs>
        <uptime>
          <setting name="delay" value="30m" />
        </uptime>
  </configuration>

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Johan,

For your BBWIN client, you have not specified the Hobbit server.

        <bbwin>
          <setting name="bbdisplay" value="yourfirstbbdisplay:1984" />
          <!-- <setting name="bbdisplay"
value="yoursecondbbdisplay:port" />-->

You will also need to edit the registry, per the BBWIN help file, to set the correct host name on each machine.

David

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Well done David, it fixed my BBwin problem.

I only have to find a way to fix the one for SunOS. I installed the 
client just like I did on Linux (compilation) but the client doesn't 
retrieve any information to the server :-/

David Gilmore a écrit :

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Hi All,

I have a server who's memory keeps going Yellow:

    Mon Oct 15 14:50:27 PDT 2007 - Memory low

    Memory              Used       Total  Percentage
   green Physical           7820M       8055M         97%
   yellow Actual             7341M       8055M         91%
   green Swap                  0M       8055M          0%

And so it is; these numbers do match the `free` numbers.  But it's  not really all being used, it's just the way Linux works.

I'm really only using ~1.5 Gb of 8 and the rest is 'Slab' - which is  kept around by the kernel as a cache.  But I have no Swap used so  we're good.

So how do I get Hobbit to see that and relax (not go to Yellow) until  we start using Swap?

Frank

In your hobbit-clients.cfg, add *above* the DEFAULT:

HOST=yourhost
MEMPHYS 99 100
MEMACT 99 100

This will set the thresholds for that host so that you wont get yellow until 99% and red at 100%

-Charles

Frank Flynn wrote:

Frank,

Look at the bottom of ~/server/etc/hobbit-clients.cfg

Josh

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