[hobbit] Newbie Issues

Josh Luthman josh at imaginenetworksllc.com
Wed Apr 1 22:01:54 CEST 2009


Let us know what it says when you type: ls -l `which fping`

>From your Hobbit server type: telnet 216.20.121.4 25

Josh Luthman
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On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Hubbard, Greg L <greg.hubbard at eds.com>wrote:

> Are you using fping?  Can the hobbit user run fping?  Seems like you
> have to do some fiddling because fping requires root, and the symptom is
> red connectivity tests for everything in the bb-hosts file.  This is a
> dim memory from when I first set up Hobbit several years ago...
>
> GLH
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Goodridge, David [mailto:DGoodridge at somervillema.gov]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 2:37 PM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: RE: [hobbit] Newbie Issues
>
> Hi Josh,
>
> Issue 1 - Now, if I look at status page, the status is red, but I can
> ping the ip from the hobbit server
>
> Bb-hosts for this test is as follows:
> 216.20.63.145  mec-dns1   # NET:brutus
> 216.20.63.147  mec-dns2   # NET:brutus
>
> Hobbit-alerts.cfg (omitted comments)
> ---------
> $pg-city-email=MAIL
> dgoodridge at somervillema.gov,edasilva at somervillema.gov
> $pg-sps-email=MAIL sharradan at k12.somerville.ma.us
>
> $IGNPAT=%(annex-nw|gozo|mis-server)
> $IGNPAT2=%(annex-nw|gozo|mis-server|sps*|finance)
> $SCHOOLS=%(sps|finance)
>
> EXPAGE=sps-servers COLOR=red
>        MAIL dgoodridge at somervillema.gov
>
> EXPAGE=sps-servers,achieve
> EXHOST=%(svf-nt|svfunix|somerville|spd-mail|spd-main)
> EXSERVICE=%(if_stat|http) TIME=12345:0800:17 00 COLOR=red
>        SCRIPT /bb/hms/server/ext/page-limit.pl 6175629776 at myairmail.com
>        $pg-city-email
>
> PAGE=sps-servers TIME=0123456:0000:2400
>        $pg-sps-email
>
> HOST=%(SIS-WEB-01|SIS-DATA-01)
>        MAIL
> jbreslin at k12.somerville.ma.us,sharradan at k12.somerville.ma.us
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 3:25 PM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] Newbie Issues
>
> Issue 1 - what is your hobbit-alert.conf
>
> Issue 2 - no hobbit uses the mail command.  Can you give us more detail
> as to what the email error is?
>
> On 4/1/09, Goodridge, David <DGoodridge at somervillema.gov> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm new to hobbit and linux so please bear with me.  I've looked at
> > some of the conf files, but can't seem to resolve a couple of issues.
> >
> > Issue 1 - keep getting critical messages even when status is green on
> > status screen.  Messages come every 5 minutes.
> >
> > Issue 2 - some messages are not getting thru.  has hobbit installed
> > it's own email server? i've run a mailq command and see a bunch of
> > messages saying "connection refused" to a specific server.  not sure
> > why it's trying to connect to that server.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dave
> >
>
>
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