[hobbit] Implementation Assistance - New User

[Peter Welter]

Hi James,

I guess you are referring to the larrd column where the vmstat output
pops up. Of course you know Hobbit calls this one trends and the
vmstat graph data is delivered like this...

...snip...
[vmstat]
procs                      memory      swap          io     system         cpu
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in    cs us sy id wa
 0  0  27344  19528 169928 727420    0    0     2     3    5     4  0  0  3  0
 0  0  27344  19760 169928 727492    0    0     0     6  102    25  0  0 100  0
...snip...

and portions of the output result in the (default vmstat) CPU
Utilization graph (see the hobbitgraph definition file). In this file
you see graphdefinitions for vmstat0 through vmstat9 and then decide
which graph to pop up for your particular host (See bbhosts).

Hope this helps.

Regards

Peter

2006/11/3, James Wade <jkwade at futurefrontiers.com>:
> Thanks Peter.
>
> How do I see vmstat?
>
> I see iostatdisk, iostatcpu, & vmstat running
> on the client, but  how do I pull up the reports?
>
> With BB, I have a column entry for those.
>
> Thanks...James
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Welter [mailto:peter.welter at gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 10:42 AM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] Implementation Assistance - New User
>
> James,
>
> I can help you with some of your questions;
>
> 2006/11/3, James Wade <jkwade at futurefrontiers.com>:
> >
> > I need assistance with the clients. The server is working.
> >
> > 2)  I had larrd installed on Big Brother, and assumed that
> >  the larrd scripts on the clients could be disabled because
> >  Hobbit did iostat and vmstat. However, they turned purple.
> >
> >  So, I restarted the larrd scripts from within Hobbit. However,
> >  they still stay purple. They don't seem to update properly.
> >
> >  Do you have to use larrd on the clients or does Hobbit do
> >  an iostat, vmstat test like larrd?
> No, the Hobbit-client software gathers all data as you said (fi.
> iostat, vmstat) needed for the server to build the graph-part. The
> iostat-part is currently under development (search the mailinglist for
> more info) but I'm confident that Henrik will deliver some terrific
> work here (again). The vmstat, needed for fi. the load-graph should
> already work.
>
> >  3) Does anyone use Hobbit for clients? I'm considering just
> >  living my clients using Big Brother because of less implementation
> > hours.  What's the advantage to moving to hobbit?
> You can do that, there is no need to rush to change all clients
> immedeately, but you can change in  phases (first the test-systems,
> see the differences and new graphs). Imho, there are lots of
> improvements here, because a Hobbit-client show top-output for the
> cpu-test, ps-output for the process-check, etc. So the need to login
> at a system is hardly there, after you changed clients. Besides, the
> Hobbit-client is consuming less resources. Best of all, the output the
> os-commands generate is send to your hobbit server and can be seen and
> checked! At the bottom of each test, you see the link 'Client data'.
> Oh, I forgot another, even better feature: centralized management of
> thresholds! Disk, memory, cpu etc. It's the server to decide and not
> the client. So I think you will gain some time here ;-)
>
> >
> >  4) Are there any additional add-ins for hobbit, ie.. plugins
> http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/help/about.html#addons
>
> Peter
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