[hobbit] Re: Status not available

[Brian Lynch]

OK... I enabled the modules one at a time until I reached
'larrdstatus'.   When I enabled that module, hobbitd began crashing
again.  Here is the contents of the hobbitlaunch.cfg.

#
# The hobbittasks.cfg file is loaded by "hobbitlaunch".
# It controls which of the Hobbit modules to run, how often, and #
with which parameters, options and environment variables. #

# This is the main Hobbit daemon. You cannot live without this one. [hobbitd]
	HEARTBEAT
	ENVFILE /opt/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
	CMD hobbitd --debug --restart=$BBTMP/hobbitd.chk
--checkpoint-file=$BBTMP/hobbitd.chk --checkpoint-interval=600
--log=$BBSERVERLOGS/hobbitd.log --admin-senders=127.0.0.1,$BBSERVERIP


# "bbstatus" saves status-logs in text- and html-format, like the old
Big Brother
# daemon does. Unless you are using add-ons that directly access the
log-files, you
# will not need to run this module, and it is recommended that you
keep it disabled # since storing the raw logs on disk can cause a
significant load on your server.

[bbstatus]
	DISABLED
	ENVFILE /opt/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
	NEEDS hobbitd
	CMD hobbitd_channel --channel=status --log=$BBSERVERLOGS/status.log
hobbitd_filestore --status --html


# "bbhistory" keeps track of the status changes that happen, in a
manner that is # compatible with the Big Brother history logs. You
probably do want to run this.

[bbhistory]
	ENVFILE /opt/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
	NEEDS hobbitd
	CMD hobbitd_channel --channel=stachg --log=$BBSERVERLOGS/history.log
hobbitd_history


# "bbdata" saves information sent using the BB "data" protocol, like
the old Big Brother
# daemon does. Unless you are using add-ons that directly access the
data-files, you
# will not need to run this module, and it is recommended that you
keep it disabled # since storing the raw data on disk can cause a
significant load on your BB server. # LARRD uses data-files, but since
LARRD is handled by the hobbitd_larrd module, you do # not need to run
the "bbdata" module to get LARRD graphs.

[bbdata]
	DISABLED
	ENVFILE /opt/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
	NEEDS hobbitd
	CMD hobbitd_channel --channel=data   --log=$BBSERVERLOGS/data.log
hobbitd_filestore --data


# "bbnotes" saves web note-files, that are sent using the BB "notes"
protocol. This is # disabled by default; if you use the BB "notes"
protocol, then you should enable this.

[bbnotes]
	DISABLED
	ENVFILE /opt/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
	NEEDS hobbitd
	CMD hobbitd_channel --channel=notes  --log=$BBSERVERLOGS/notes.log
hobbitd_filestore --notes


# "bbenadis" updates the files used to indicate that a host or test
has been enabled or disabled. # These files are used by bbgen and the
"maint.pl" script to determine what is currently enabled # and
disabled, so you probably want to run this module.

[bbenadis]
	ENVFILE /opt/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
	NEEDS hobbitd
	CMD hobbitd_channel --channel=enadis --log=$BBSERVERLOGS/enadis.log
hobbitd_filestore --enadis


# "bbpage" sends out alerts. Note that this module is NOT compatible
with the old Big Brother # system - it uses a different configuration
file to determine how alerts get sent. If you want # alerts to go out
via pager, e-mail or some other means, then you must run this module.

[bbpage]
	ENVFILE /opt/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
	NEEDS hobbitd
	CMD hobbitd_channel --channel=page   --log=$BBSERVERLOGS/page.log hobbitd_alert


# "larrdstatus" updates RRD files with information that arrives as
"status" messages. # If you want RRD graphs of your monitoring data,
then you want to run this.

[larrdstatus]
	ENVFILE /opt/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
	NEEDS hobbitd
	CMD hobbitd_channel --channel=status
--log=$BBSERVERLOGS/larrd-status.log hobbitd_larrd --rrddir=$BBVAR/rrd

# "larrddata" updates RRD files with information that arrives as
"data" messages. # If you want RRD graphs of your monitoring BB data,
then you want to run this.

[larrddata]
	DISABLED
	ENVFILE /opt/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
	NEEDS hobbitd
	CMD hobbitd_channel --channel=data  
--log=$BBSERVERLOGS/larrd-data.log hobbitd_larrd --rrddir=$BBVAR/rrd


# "bbdisplay" runs the bbgen tool to generate the Hobbit webpages from
the status information that # has been received. Big Brother updated
the webpages once every 5 minutes. The default here is to # run it
every minute for faster updates, but you can change it if you have a
highly loaded server # and dont need updates that often.

[bbdisplay]
	ENVFILE /opt/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
	NEEDS hobbitd
	GROUP generators
	CMD bb-display.sh
	LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/bb-display.log
	INTERVAL 1m

# "larrdcolumn" is responsible for updating the contents of the LARRD
overview page, found on the # "trends" column for each host. Since the
set of graphs does not change very often, we run this # less
frequently than the normal webpage updates. We also make sure (with
the "GROUP" setting) # that they don't run simultaneously with the
infocolumnn and bbdisplay tasks. [larrdcolumn]
	DISABLED
	ENVFILE /opt/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
	NEEDS hobbitd
	GROUP generators
	CMD bb-larrdcolumn --hobbitd --rrddir=$BBVAR/rrd --column=trends
	LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/bb-display.log
	INTERVAL 15m

# "infocolumn" is responsible for updating the contents of the INFO
pages, found on the # "info" column for each host. Since the content
does not change unless there is a
# configuration change, we update these less frequently than the
normal webpage updates. # We also make sure (with the "GROUP" setting)
that they don't run simultaneously with
# the larrdcolumnn and bbdisplay tasks.
[infocolumn]
	DISABLED
	ENVFILE /opt/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
	NEEDS hobbitd
	GROUP generators
	CMD bb-infocolumn --hobbitd --column=info
	LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/bb-display.log
	INTERVAL 15m


# "bbnet" runs the bbtest-net tool to perform the network based tests
- i.e. http, smtp, ssh, dns and # all of the various network protocols
we need to test.

[bbnet]
	ENVFILE /opt/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
	NEEDS hobbitd
	CMD bbtest-net --report --ping --checkresponse
	LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/bb-network.log
	INTERVAL 5m


# "bbretest" picks up the tests that the normal network test consider
"failed", and re-does those # tests more often. This enables Big
Brother to pick up a recovered network service faster than # if it
were tested only by the "bbnet" task (which only runs every 5
minutes). So if you have # servers with very high availability
guarantees, running this task will make your availability # reports
look much better.

[bbretest]
	ENVFILE /opt/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
	NEEDS hobbitd
	CMD $BBHOME/ext/bbretest-net.sh
	LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/bb-retest.log
	INTERVAL 1m




On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 10:10:12 -0800, Brian Lynch <brianlynch at gmail.com> wrote:
> Henrik,
> 
> Tried the patch and hobbitd still crashed.
> 
> Tried the disable module test.  Disabled all the modules you mentioned
> above and hobbitd has not crashed since 8:30 PST this morning.  I'll
> try adding back in modules until it crashes.
> 
> - Brian
> 
> On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 09:33:51 +0100, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
> > I've found something that might explain it, but I am certainly not
> > sure if it's the cause of your problems. This bug would only trigger
> > if some client of yours was sending in very large "data" messages,
> > like 100 KB or more.
> >
> > Could you try the attached patch and let me know if it solves your
> > problem?
> >
> > If not, I would like you to try and disable all of the hobbitd worker
> > modules in hobbitlaunch.cfg - i.e. bbstatus, bbhistory, bbdata,
> > bbnotes, bbenadies, bbpage, larrdstatus and larrddata. Restart hobbit
> > and see if it still crashes. If it doesn't then we've narrowed down
> > the problem - if it does, then the problem is somewhere else than
> > where I've been looking so far.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Henrik
> >
> >
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