[hobbit] SUMMARY: BBWin load question (RESOLVED but is this a bug)

McGraw, Robert P rmcgraw at purdue.edu
Wed Apr 23 15:05:59 CEST 2008


Thanks to John for pointing out that the bug was in my eyes. 

Solution was to be sure that the DEFAULT section of the hobbit-client.cfg
has to be at the end of the file.

I have look at the documentation may time and I had never seen the lines
that DEFAULT has to be at the end.  

Robert


> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Glowacki [mailto:jg2727 at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 12:03 PM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] BBWin load question (RESOLVED but is this a bug)
> 
> 
> You should have DEFAULT section last. HOST entries should be defined
> before DEFAULT.
> 
> There is a comment in the hobbit-clients.cfg.
> # The special DEFAULT section can modify the built-in defaults - this must
> # be placed at the end of the file.
> 
> 
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:04 AM, McGraw, Robert P <rmcgraw at purdue.edu>
> wrote:
> > I have finally resolved this problem. In my hobbit-client.cfg file I had
> a
> >  DEFAULT entry which had a LOAD entry. The default entry was at the
> beginning
> >  of the file and all my hosts below.
> >
> >  It seems that bbwin.c was getting the LOAD values of the DEFAULT and
> not the
> >  LOAD value for the host. Since the call to get the LOAD values is a
> standard
> >  hobbit subroutine call I assume that this is not a bbwin.c problem but
> a
> >  hobbit problem. Once I commented out the entries in the DEFAULT things
> >  started working fine.
> >
> >  So either there is a bug in how hobbit scans hobbit-client.cfg or the
> >  DEFAULT is not working as I would have thought.
> >
> >  QUESTIONS: How does hobbit scan the hobbit-client.cfg file and how does
> it
> >  handle entries in the DEFAULT group.
> >
> >
> >  To resolve I went to bbwin.c and added the following lines so that I
> could
> >  print the load, loadyellow and loadread values to see the values they
> were
> >  being used.
> >
> >  sprintf(msgline, "load: %f, loadyellow: %f, loadred: %f\n", load1,
> >  loadyellow, loadred);
> >  addtobuffer(cpumsg, msgline);
> >
> >
> >  I find having the load, loadyellow and loadred values printed on the
> web
> >  page is kind of nice since these values can change with different hosts
> it
> >  is nice to see the values that is causing the alarm.
> >
> >
> >
> >  Robert
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >  > -----Original Message-----
> >  > From: McGraw, Robert P [mailto:rmcgraw at purdue.edu]
> >  > Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 10:25 AM
> >  > To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> >  > Subject: RE: [hobbit] BBWin load question
> >  >
> >  >
> >  >
> >  > > -----Original Message-----
> >  > > From: Etienne Grignon [mailto:etienne.grignon at gmail.com]
> >  > > Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 8:07 AM
> >  > > To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> >  > > Subject: Re: [hobbit] BBWin load question
> >  > >
> >  > >
> >  > > Hello Robert,
> >  > >
> >  > > 2008/4/10, McGraw, Robert P <rmcgraw at purdue.edu>:
> >  > > >
> >  > > >  Running BBWin on Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition
> >  > > Service
> >  > > >  Pack 2 (build 3790)
> >  > > >
> >  > > >  Running Hobbit 4.2.0 on the server
> >  > > >
> >  > > >  BBWin is running in central mode
> >  > > >
> >  > > >  The following is from the cpu bbdisplay
> >  > > >
> >  > > >  Thu Apr 10 15:22:48 2008 up: 0 days, 0 users, 58 procs, load=6%
> >  > > >  yellow Load is HIGH
> >  > > >  CPU states:
> >  > > >      total  06%
> >  > > >      cpu00  5.7%
> >  > > >      cpu01  4.3%
> >  > > >      cpu02  4.9%
> >  > > >      cpu03  6.0%
> >  > > >
> >  > > >  This is my hobbit-client.cfg
> >  > > >
> >  > > >  HOST=mailrelay.math.purdue.edu
> >  > > >         UP 30m
> >  > > >         LOAD 40 70
> >  > > >         DISK    * 90 95
> >  > > >         PROC AGDigestSvc.exe  1 1
> >  > > >         PROC AgDomSvc.exe  1 1
> >  > > >
> >  > > >  Can someone tell me what I am getting the yellow condition for
> the
> >  > > LOAD? I
> >  > > >  thought the LOAD values were in percentages
> >  > > >
> >  > >
> >  > > Sorry for the delay. Are you sure  HOST=mailrelay.math.purdue.edu
> >  > > really match your host ? Could you check in the procs column if the
> >  > > specified procs rules are applied ?
> >  >
> >  > I have about 15 rules and they are working like a champ.
> >  >
> >  > Tue Apr 15 10:16:17 2008 - Processes OK
> >  >
> >  > green AGDigestSvc.exe (found 1, req. between 1 and 1)
> >  > green AgDomSvc.exe (found 1, req. between 1 and 1)
> >  > green AGFiltSvc.exe (found 1, req. between 1 and 1)
> >  > green AgGreySvc.exe (found 1, req. between 1 and 1)
> >  > green AgIPLogSvc.exe (found 1, req. between 1 and 1)
> >  > green AgLogSvc.exe (found 1, req. between 1 and 1)
> >  > green AGRptSvc.exe (found 1, req. between 1 and 1)
> >  > green AGSMTPSvc.exe (found 1, req. between 1 and 1)
> >  > green AGSPOO~1.EXE (found 1, req. between 1 and 1)
> >  > green AGSvcMon.exe (found 1, req. between 1 and 1)
> >  > green AGSysChk.exe (found 1, req. between 1 and 1)
> >  > green AGUpSvc.exe (found 1, req. between 1 and 1)
> >  > green DkService.exe (found 1, req. between 1 and 1)
> >  > green D4.exe (found 2, req. between 1 and 2)
> >  > green AGSMTPSvc.exe (found 1, req. between 1 and 1)
> >  >
> >  > >
> >  > > Could you tell me what bbwin patch did you apply on your hobbit 4.2
> >  > > sources ? I mean, was it before or after January 31th ?
> >  >
> >  > I just installed BBWin within the last couple weeks and followed the
> >  > instruction from your web page.
> >  >
> >  > Tue Apr 15 10:16:17 2008 up: 4 days, 0 users, 57 procs, load=28%
> >  > red Load is CRITICAL
> >  > CPU states:
> >  >      total  28%
> >  >      cpu00  8.0%
> >  >      cpu01  13.5%
> >  >      cpu02  17.0%
> >  >      cpu03  70.6%
> >  >
> >  > >
> >  > > Thanks,
> >  > >
> >  > > --
> >  > > Etienne GRIGNON
> >  > >
> >  > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to
> >  > > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk
> >  > >
> >  >
> >  > Thanks very much for your help. Let me know and I will be glad to do
> any
> >  > sniffing that you suggest.
> >  >
> >  > Robert
> >  >
> >  >
> >  > FYI
> >  >
> >  > The client is
> >  >
> >  > OS:   Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition Service Pack 2
> >  > (build 3790)
> >  >
> >  > And the server is
> >  >
> >  > OS:   SunOS zorn.math.purdue.edu 5.10 Generic_120011-14 sun4u sparc
> >  > SUNW,Sun-Fire-280R
> >  >
> >
> >
> 
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