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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I think it is based on the result of a
uname –s command.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>So Redhat
comes back as Linux, HPUX is HP-UX, Solaris is SunOS, etc.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>I believe this also then <span
class=GramE>matches</span> the actual client script the hobbit client runs as
in hobbitclient-hp-ux.sh.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
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style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>…..Bruce<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Linder, Doug
(SABIC Innovative Plastics, consultant) [mailto:Doug.Linder@sabic-ip.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, May 22, 2008 11:49
AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> hobbit@hswn.dk<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [hobbit] Random hobbit
newbie questions</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Lucida Sans Typewriter"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Typewriter"'>Hi Everyone, I'm
relatively new to Hobbit. I like it a lot, but I do have a few random
questions. I've been reading the documentation a lot and haven't found
the answers, so I hope the answers don't turn out to be "see the
man page". :)</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Lucida Sans Typewriter"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Typewriter"'>I have to say I
really like the documentation to Hobbit. At first glance it seems a bit
short, but on reading it I find that it manages to be packed with information
which is written in a nice concise, efficient, jargon-free, and human-readable
way. The comments in the config files are also excellent, although
sometimes the information in there is slightly different from what's in
the documentation page for that file - sometimes there's info in one place that
isn't in the other. I wish more documentation in the IT field were
written like this. My only suggestion is that it would be helpful
for us new folks to have some kind of general overview that describes (or
better yet, shows in a flowchart) how data flows between client, server, the
various tests, the web server, how the various config files fit in, and so
on. The information is currently in there but it takes a good bit of
reading and experimenting before you really start to "get it".</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Lucida Sans Typewriter"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Typewriter"'>Questions:</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Lucida Sans Typewriter"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Typewriter"'>1) In the
hobbit-clients.cfg file, I this is in the comments:</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Typewriter"'>#
Defaults: MEMPHYS warnlevel=100 paniclevel=101 (i.e. it will never go red)<br>
#
MEMSWAP warnlevel=50 paniclevel=80<br>
#
MEMACT warnlevel=90 paniclevel=97</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Typewriter"'># Note: The
words "PHYS", "ACT" and "SWAP" are also
recognized.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Lucida Sans Typewriter"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Typewriter"'>And then later
on, there is this bit:</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Lucida Sans Typewriter"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Typewriter"'># These are the
built-in defaults.<br>
# SWAP 20 40<br>
# MEMSWAP 50 80</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Lucida Sans Typewriter"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Typewriter"'>Is there a
difference between MEMSWAP and SWAP? If not, why is it listed twice in
the defaults? If so, what is the difference?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Lucida Sans Typewriter"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Typewriter"'>2) In the
documentation page for hobbit-clients.cfg, there is this statement:</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Lucida Sans Typewriter"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Typewriter"'>"CLASS=classname
- Rule match by the client class-name. You specify the class-name for a host
when starting the client through the "--class=NAME" option to the
runclient.sh script. If no class is specified, the host by default goes into a
class named by the operating system."</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Lucida Sans Typewriter"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Typewriter"'>Unfortunately I
can't find any details about what the default names of the "classes named
by the operating system" are, so I don't know which strings to put after
"CLASS=" in my hobbit-clients.cfg file. Is there a list
somewhere?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Lucida Sans Typewriter"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Typewriter"'>3) There are a
couple columns in the default configuration that I don't want, like
"files". On the page in question, the status icon for every
system is "clear" (white). I want to use the "drop"
option to the bb command to do this. I issued this command for every host
on the page in question:</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Lucida Sans Typewriter"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Typewriter"'>bb localhost
"drop <hostname> files"</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Lucida Sans Typewriter"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Typewriter"'>That works for a
minute or two. On the next page refresh, almost all of the hosts have the
column empty (just a dash), but a few of them are back to "clear"
already. After one or two refreshes, all the systems are back at clear
status. How can I get hobbit to drop the column forever, permanently,
completely, without leaving old history files around and stuff?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Lucida Sans Typewriter"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Typewriter"'>Thanks for any
tips!</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>---</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Doug Linder</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>UNIX Systems Administrator</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:#999999'>CompuCom Systems, Inc.</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:#999999'>SABIC Innovative Plastics</span></font><font size=2
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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