Re: [hobbit] alerts won't stop

["Larry Barber" <lebarber (at) gmail.com>]

Sorry if I got a little snippy. I found the problem, and its a little
embarrassing. It seems that because our *Exchange* mail servers are a little
unreliable that attempts at resending alerts was causing my main Hobbit
server to overload, so I moved the paging off to another server using
bbproxy. I have been neglecting to update the configuration on the new
server. Oops. Red face. I guess Henrik just made it too easy to do stuff
like that. If it had been a more convoluted process and less transparent, I
wouldn't have forgotten that I did it.

Thanks,
Larry Barber

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Galen Johnson <Galen.Johnson (at) sas.com>
wrote:

>  I understand your frustration but I only see one reference to the drop
> command..and a follow up with "I don't think that's it.".  I've actually had
> to do the drop multiple times in the past…once for the hostname and once for
> the fully qualified hostname…just to be sure.
>
>
>
> If nothing else, from the top of  your hobbit structure (I'm assuming it's
> all under one branch and not spread out all over the file system) run a find
> on the host name you're having problems with; such as 'find . -name
> \*hostname\*'…note, don't use the fqdn for this but just the host name.
>  That will at least let you know if the data is still around.
>
>
>
> =G=
>
>
>
> *From:* Larry Barber [mailto:lebarber (at) gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Monday, March 03, 2008 10:49 AM
>
> *To:* hobbit (at) hswn.dk
> *Subject:* Re: [hobbit] alerts won't stop
>
>
>
> If you would read the initial messages in the thread, you will see that I
> have done that, several times, both for the box as a whole and for the
> specific test (conn) that is causing the problem. I have RTFM.
>
> I did find an entry for the box in the hobbitd.chk file, I stopped hobbit,
> removed the line that referenced said box and restarted hobbit, we will see
> if this cures the problem. It is not a method that I would recommend,
> however.
>
> Thanks,
> Larry Barber
>
> On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Galen Johnson <Galen.Johnson (at) sas.com>
> wrote:
>
> under the server install, I believe you want to just do: ./bin/bb
> localhost "drop hostname" after making sure that it's no longer in bb-hosts.
>
>
>
> =G=
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* Josh Luthman [mailto:josh (at) imaginenetworksllc.com]
> *Sent:* Monday, March 03, 2008 10:32 AM
>
>
> *To:* hobbit (at) hswn.dk
> *Subject:* Re: [hobbit] alerts won't stop
>
>
>
> If you have the admin scripts you can use the clean script.  If you don't
> have the script then you need to use the hobbit del host command...I'm lazy
> and using the GUI so I can't help you here =(
>
> The problem is that it is still purple, therefor it alerts you.  You need
> to get rid of the purple messages.
>
> Josh
>
> On 3/3/08, *Larry Barber* <lebarber (at) gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm still having trouble with Hobbit sending out "purple" alert messages
> for a machine that was disabled weeks ago. I've removed all mention of the
> box from the Hobbit configuration files and have even restarted Hobbit,
> although I dislike doing so. Does anybody have any ideas on how to stop
> this? It's beginning to annoy people.
>
> Thanks,
> Larry Barber
>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 3:31 PM, Smith, Jim <JMSmith (at) stvincenthealth.com>
> wrote:
>
> *Let us know!*
>
> * *
>
> * *
>  ------------------------------
>
> *From:* Larry Barber [mailto:lebarber (at) gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 20, 2008 3:24 PM
>
>
> *To:* hobbit (at) hswn.dk
> *Subject:* Re: [hobbit] alerts won't stop
>
>
>
> Can't really say, the false alerts only come out one a day (had repeat set
> to 1 day in hobbit-alerts).
>
> Thanks,
> Larry Barber
>
> On Feb 20, 2008 2:46 PM, Smith, Jim <JMSmith (at) stvincenthealth.com> wrote:
>
> *Have you solved the issue yet, Larry?*
>
> * *
>
> *Jim Smith*
>
> * *
>
> * *
>  ------------------------------
>
> *From:* Smith, Jim
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 20, 2008 12:27 PM
> *To:* 'hobbit (at) hswn.dk'
> *Subject:* RE: [hobbit] alerts won't stop
>
>
>
> *Oh.  Well, make sure you have removed those servers from
> server/etc/bb-hosts and try running **bb localhost "drop <servername>"**on your Hobbit server again (as the previous poster recommended).
> *
>
> * *
>
> * *
>  ------------------------------
>
> *From:* Larry Barber [mailto:lebarber (at) gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 20, 2008 12:10 PM
> *To:* hobbit (at) hswn.dk
> *Subject:* Re: [hobbit] alerts won't stop
>
>
>
> Don't think that is it, the test that is getting reported as purple is
> "conn".
>
> Thanks,
> Larry Barber
>
> On Feb 20, 2008 12:03 PM, Smith, Jim <JMSmith (at) stvincenthealth.com> wrote:
>
> *If those machines have a Hobbit or Big Brother client installed and still
> running, there is your problem.*
>
> * *
>
> *Jim Smith*
>
> * *
>
> * *
>  ------------------------------
>
> *From:* Larry Barber [mailto:lebarber (at) gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 20, 2008 11:40 AM
> *To:* hobbit
> *Subject:* [hobbit] alerts won't stop
>
>
>
> I have removed some machines from hobbit, taken all mention of them from
> the configuration files and issued the "drop" command using bb. I am still
> getting notified of their "purple" status every day, and it has been several
> weeks since I removed them from Hobbit. How can I stop these alerts from
> being generated?
>
> Thanks,
> Larry Barber
>
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