[hobbit] RE: Hobbit Emails empty

Thu May 15 00:38:40 CEST 2008

On the bbnt1-08d client there is a checkmark available for FQDN.
Checking that and adding the fully qualified name to the bb-hosts file
is what fixed the issue/

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From: Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 2:59 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] RE: Hobbit Emails empty

As I said above I don't know what the alerts send me as far as a body.
Could you outline what needs done for the content to be included in the
alerts?  You need to have FQDNs and what checked?

Thanks for the above post!

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Kevin Doyle <kdoyle at peak5.com> wrote:

Sure thing... this may be documented but I found it so quickly I hadn't
even gone ot the man pages yet! :-)

Here is the relevant section of hobbitserver.cfg

Originally BBWEBHOST had http://$BBSERVERWWWNAME
<http://$bbserverwwwname/>  I changed it to https:// and the emails had
the correct link.

# Specific to this host

BBOSTYPE="$BBSERVEROS"          # Hosttype (operating system). Not used
by server-side, but clients use this.

MACHINEDOTS="$BBSERVERHOSTNAME" # This systems hostname

MACHINEADDR="$BBSERVERIP"       # This systems IP-address

# URL's generated/used by bbgen

BBWEBHOST="https://$BBSERVERWWWNAME"            # Just the host part of
the URL - http://www.foo.com

BBWEBHOSTURL="$BBWEBHOST$BBSERVERWWWURL"        # Prefix for all static
Hobbit pages - http://www.foo.com/bb

BBWEBHTMLLOGS="$BBWEBHOSTURL/html"              # Prefix for the Hobbit
HTML logs (only if BBLOGSTATUS=STATIC)

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From: Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 2:33 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk

Subject: Re: [hobbit] RE: Hobbit Emails empty

Kevin,

Would you mind posting the configuration change you made here, please?
It makes it nice for those who read over the mailing list logs in the
future.

Josh

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Kevin Doyle <kdoyle at peak5.com> wrote:

Nevermind... got that one too. A change in the hobbitserver.cfg file and
I am all set

Thanks everybody!

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From: Kevin Doyle [mailto:kdoyle at peak5.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 2:13 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk

Subject: RE: [hobbit] RE: Hobbit Emails empty

Ok, after some trial and error, I figured this out. Hobbit will only get
the full message from the client if you are using FQDN in bb-hosts and
have the check box on the client checked.

Now is there a way to change the http link that is sent out in the
message? My server uses https rather than http.

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From: Kevin Doyle [mailto:kdoyle at peak5.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 11:29 AM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: RE: [hobbit] RE: Hobbit Emails empty

So where would I look to see what message is being logged by the client?
It appears this is not being sent to sendmail?

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From: Lars Ebeling [mailto:lars.ebeling at leopg9.no-ip.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 11:12 AM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] RE: Hobbit Emails empty

I am also using bbclient 1.08d without any problems

Lars

	----- Original Message ----- 

	From: Josh Luthman <mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com>  

	To: hobbit at hswn.dk 

	Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 6:45 PM

	Subject: Re: [hobbit] RE: Hobbit Emails empty

	Thinking about it I am using the Windows BB client too!  It is
on one server that I normally just cuss and disable the tests for, but
it is reporting =)

	On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Hubbard, Greg L
<greg.hubbard at eds.com> wrote:

	I have no problems with the Windows BB client -- I think Henrik
did an excellent job with "backwards" compatibility.

	GLH

________________________________

		From: Galen Johnson [mailto:Galen.Johnson at sas.com] 
		Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 11:34 AM 

		To: hobbit at hswn.dk
		Subject: RE: [hobbit] RE: Hobbit Emails empty

		I don't think hobbit plays well with the BB windows
client (I don't recal where I saw this).  Have you tried putting BBWin
on one of the servers to see if that gives you any output?

		=G=

		From: Kevin Doyle [mailto:kdoyle at peak5.com] 
		Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 11:00 AM
		To: hobbit at hswn.dk
		Subject: RE: [hobbit] RE: Hobbit Emails empty

		Some further information. My clients (mostly Windows2003
servers are running the Big Brother client, version 1-08d

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		From: Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com] 
		Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 8:47 AM
		To: hobbit at hswn.dk
		Subject: Re: [hobbit] RE: Hobbit Emails empty

		Kevin,

		Try this:

		HOST=*
		     MAIL kdoyle (at) peak5.com <http://peak5.com/>
COLOR=RED REPEAT=20 RECOVERED

		Josh

		On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Kevin Doyle
<kdoyle at peak5.com> wrote:

		Yes here is the relevant line in my hobbit-alerts.cfg

		#
		# The hobbit-alerts.cfg file controls who receives
alerts
		# when a status in the BB system goes into a critical
		# state (usually: red, yellow or purple).
		#
		# This file is made up from RULES and RECIPIENTS.
		#
		# A RULE is a filter made from the PAGE where a host
		# is located in BB; the HOST name, the SERVICE name,
		# the COLOR of the status, the TIME of day, and the
		# DURATION of the event.
		#
		# A RECIPIENT can be a MAIL address, or a SCRIPT.
		#
		# Recipients can also have rules associated with them,
		# that modify the rules for a single recipient, e.g.
		# you can define a rule for alerting, then add an
		# extra criteria e.g. so a single recipient does not get
		# alerted until after 20 minutes.
		#
		# A sample rule:

		HOST=* Color=red
		     MAIL kdoyle (at) peak5.com FORMAT=TEXT COLOR=RED
REPEAT=20 RECOVERED

		#      MAIL cio at foo.com DURATION>60 COLOR=red
		#      SCRIPT /usr/local/bin/sendsms 1234567890
FORMAT=SMS

		Can you share your ~/server/etc/hobbit-alerts.cfg
please?

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		From: Kevin Doyle 
		Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 1:12 PM
		To: 'hobbit at hswn.dk'
		Subject: Hobbit Emails empty

		I have a test Hobbit server running on CentOS 5.0 I am
running Hobbit 4.1.2p2 and everything appears to be fuinctioning correct
except alerting. When I trigger an alert, I get an email with only a
subject and no body. I expected to get some information about the alert
and the link to the monitored device. I am sure I am missing something
fairly simple but I am new to Linux and Hobbit. 

		Any Ideas?

		Kevin P. Doyle

		Sr. Systems Administrator

		Peak5

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Direct: 937-552-2343
1100 Wayne St
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Troy, OH 45373

Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
--- Henry Spencer 

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Office: 937-552-2340
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Troy, OH 45373

Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
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