Hobbit Server 4.2 Install on RedHat 5
Enterprise
by www.impee.co.uk
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Amendment History
Date Issue Details of Change Author
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10/06/2008 1.1 Client install / config changes impee
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Table of Contents
1 Introduction and Summary ....................................................................................... 5
1.1 Introduction ........................................................................................................ 5
1.2 Purpose ............................................................................................................. 5
1.3 Scope ................................................................................................................ 5
2 Red Hat v5.1 - Install & Configuration ...................................................................... 6
Install & Configuration ....................................................................................................... 6
2.1 Extra Red Hat Configuration .............................................................................. 7
2.2 OS Update ......................................................................................................... 7
2.2.1 Configuring Package Updater .................................................................. 7
2.2.2 Updating Packages .................................................................................. 7
3 ClamAV v0.92.1 (antivirus) ........................................................................................ 8
3.1 Install ................................................................................................................. 8
3.1.1 Prerequisites ............................................................................................ 8
3.1.2 Install ClamAV ......................................................................................... 8
3.2 Uninstall ClamAV ............................................................................................... 9
3.3 Configuration ................................................................................................... 10
3.3.1 Editing Configuration files: ..................................................................... 10
3.3.2 Log File .................................................................................................. 16
3.4 Updating .......................................................................................................... 16
3.5 Testing Scan .................................................................................................... 17
3.6 Schedulling Freshclam using Crontab.............................................................. 17
4 Hobbit Server v4.2.0 ................................................................................................ 18
4.1 Install ............................................................................................................... 18
4.1.1 Prerequisites .......................................................................................... 18
4.1.2 Hobbit Installation .................................................................................. 20
4.2 Uninstall Hobbit ................................................................................................ 21
4.3 Configuring Apache for Hobbit ......................................................................... 21
4.3.1 Start Apache automatically when system restarts .................................. 21
4.4 Using the Hobbit Server ................................................................................... 22
4.4.1 Starting the Hobbit Server ...................................................................... 22
4.4.2 Confirming the Hobbit Server has started .............................................. 22
4.4.3 Autostart Hobbit Configuration ............................................................... 23
4.5 Cleaning up after a completed install ............................................................... 24
4.5.1 Delete Hobbit Source Code ................................................................... 24
4.5.2 Uninstall gcc Compiler ........................................................................... 24
5 Exim v4.63-3 (e-mail client) ..................................................................................... 25
5.1 Exim Install ...................................................................................................... 25
5.2 Exim configuration ........................................................................................... 25
6 Hobbit Server - Tests Configuration....................................................................... 26
6.1 Configuration ................................................................................................... 26
6.2 Hobbit Server’s own Test Configuration ........................................................... 29
7 Hobbit Windows Client v0.11 .................................................................................. 30
7.1 Client Installation ............................................................................................. 30
7.2 Client Configuration ......................................................................................... 30
7.3 Miscellaneous .................................................................................................. 31
7.3.1 Built-in Test Configuration ...................................................................... 31
7.3.2 Custom Tests......................................................................................... 33
8 Appendices .............................................................................................................. 35
8.1 Appendix 1 ....................................................................................................... 35
8.2 Appendix 2 ....................................................................................................... 35
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8.3 Appendix 3 ....................................................................................................... 49
8.4 Appendix 4 ....................................................................................................... 51
8.5 Appendix 5 ....................................................................................................... 52
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1 Introduction and Summary
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Purpose
The purpose of this document is to outline the installation and use of the Hobbit
Monitor. The document outlines the steps required to setup, install and
configure the server and client software necessary to obtain optimal monitoring
using the Hobbit server.
1.3 Scope
This is a detailed overview of how the Hobbit server is installed and configured.
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Red Hat v5.1 - Install & Configuration
Install & Configuration
Red Hat 5.1, 64bit, Enterprise Server, Kernel installed is 2.6.18
CD Media Red Hat 5.1 requires only 1-4 CDs, 5 + 6 are not used.
Usually no extra Drivers are required.
install in text mode linux text
Test cd media SKIP
Welcome Screen OK
Language selection English
Keyboard selection UK
Installation Number xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Partition Type Automatic Layout
Boot Loader
Use GRUB Boot Loader
Configuration
Boot Loader
OK
Configuration
Boot Loader
Use a GRUB Password
Configuration
Boot Loader
Ok
Configuration
Boot Loader
OK
Configuration
Yes
Configure Network Select top 2, Active on Boot and Enable IPV4 Support
Interface edit, default for each interface, manual address configuration
eht0 – 10.0.0.2
Subnet Mask: 255.xxx.xxx.xxx
Miscellaneous Network
DNS: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Settings
Gateway: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Hostname Configuration hobbit01
Time Zone Selection
Root Password
Package Selection Web Server + Customise Software Selection OK
Administration Tools
Editors
Gnome Desktop Environment
Graphical Internet
Graphics
Package Selection
Server Configuration Tools
System Tools
Text Based Internet
Web Server
Windows X System
Installation to Begin Install log will be kept in /root/intall.log - OK
Required install media Continue
Install duration 10
After Install, Server will Reboot
minutes
Setup Agent Select firewall configuration, Run Tool
Disable
Firewall Configuration
OK
Disable
SELinux
OK
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Extra Red Hat Configuration
Add host list entries at /etc/hosts
Host List Entries
hobbit01 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (ip address)
OS Update
Configuring Package Updater
Type init 5 at the command prompt to launch GUI
Launch GUI
Login to the GUI
Navigate to Applications > System Tools > Software Updater
Forward
Advanced Network Configuration
Tick 1st box and add the relevant proxy address e.g. proxy.my.server.name :80
Close
st
Select 1 option (I would like to receive updates from Red Hat Network…)
Forward
Login:
Pass:
Forward
Click Active subscription now…
Installation Number: xxxxxxxxxxx
System Name Specify the server name
Tick both boxes i.e. send hardware and software profiles.
Forward
Updating Packages
Navigate to Applications > System Tools > Software Updater
Forward
Click Apply updates
Answer onscreen questions as they appear
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3 ClamAV v0.92.1 (antivirus)
3.1 Install
3.1.1 Prerequisites
3.1.1.1 GCC Compiler
To install gcc compiler to compile Hobbit:
# yum install gcc
# yum install gcc-c++
3.1.1.2 GNU MP
Visit http://www.swox.com/gmp/ and download the latest version of GNU MP.
Copy the tar.gz to: # /tmp
Unpack install file: # gzip -d
HTTPProxyPort 8080
HTTPProxyUsername http://your_domain_name\jo.bloggs
HTTPProxyPassword
# If your servers are behind a firewall/proxy which applies User-Agent
# filtering you can use this option to force the use of a different
# User-Agent header.
# Default: clamav/version_number
#HTTPUserAgent SomeUserAgentIdString
# Use aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd as client address for downloading databases. Useful for
# multi-homed systems.
# Default: Use OS'es default outgoing IP address.
#LocalIPAddress aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd
# Send the RELOAD command to clamd.
# Default: no
#NotifyClamd /path/to/clamd.conf
# Run command after successful database update.
# Default: disabled
#OnUpdateExecute command
# Run command when database update process fails.
# Default: disabled
#OnErrorExecute command
# Run command when freshclam reports outdated version.
# In the command string %v will be replaced by the new version number.
# Default: disabled
#OnOutdatedExecute command
# Don't fork into background.
# Default: no
#Foreground yes
# Enable debug messages in libclamav.
# Default: no
#Debug yes
# Timeout in seconds when connecting to database server.
# Default: 30
#ConnectTimeout 60
# Timeout in seconds when reading from database server.
# Default: 30
#ReceiveTimeout 60
3.3.2 Log File
Create a new file called freshclam.log and give it full execute and write permissions:
/var/log/freshclam.log
3.4 Updating
Type: # freshclam
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This updates the antivirus database from the internet mirrors specified in file
freshclam.conf.
3.5 Testing Scan
# clamscan -r -l scan.txt
# more scan.txt
3.6 Schedulling Freshclam using Crontab
Typing the below will schedule a update procedure to run every 33 min past the hour
on a daily basis.
Type: # crontab –e
Next type: 33 * * * * /usr/local/bin/freshclam --quiet
CTRL O - to save the file
CTRL X - to exit the file
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4 Hobbit Server v4.2.0
4.1 Install
4.1.1 Prerequisites
1) Account
Ensure you are logged in as root.
2) Proxy
# export http_proxy=http://proxy.my.server.name 80/
This temporarily adds a proxy to shell, but a reboot wipes it.
Add the above line to the below to make it permanent.
/root/.bash_profile
3) Starting Apache
Hobbit is designed with a web-based front-end. So you must have a Web server
such as Apache running on the server where you install Hobbit. Type the below to
ensure Apache is running whilst Hobbit is installed and configured.
# /etc/init.d/httpd start
4) Hobbit User Account
A core element of Hobbit is a network daemon. To keep your system secure and limit
the amount of damage that can be done if someone finds a security problem in Hobbit
it is strongly recommended that you create a dedicated userid (hobbit) for the Hobbit
programs. This user should not be a member of any other groups on your system.
# adduser hobbit
# passwd hobbit
5) Package Installer
Install a package dependency installer; rpmforge-release.
http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/rpmforge-release
For 32bit machines - rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
For 64bit machines - rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el4.rf.x86_64.rpm
Copy one of the above install files to /tmp and type the below:
# rpm –i
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6) Packages and Libraries
Hobbit relies on a number of Open-Source libraries (fping, pcre, rrdtool, libpng,
openssl, openldap) and these must be installed before building Hobbit. With the
current Redhat configured install, not all the packages require installing.
Type the below to use yum to install these packages / libraries:
# yum install fping
# yum install rrdtool*
# yum install pcre-devel
# yum install libpng*
# yum install openssl*
# yum install openldap*
# yum install cppunit*
To install gcc compiler to compile Hobbit:
NOTE: This was already installed previously for ClamAV, if so, do not re-install it.
# yum install gcc
# yum install gcc-c++
Package names of the hobbit dependencies
fping rrdtool libpcre3
libpcre3-dev librrd0 librrds-perl
librrd0-dev libpng10-0 libpng10-dev
openssl libssl0.9.7 libssl-dev
libssl-dev libldap2 libldap2-dev
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4.1.2 Hobbit Installation
Download the latest version of hobbit source (tar.gz) file from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/hobbitmon/
Copy the tar.gz to: # /tmp
Unpack install file: # gzip -d .
Further, once the ./configure is complete, scroll back and check the screen for any
errors, if any are found, delete the Makefile located at /tmp/hobbit-4.2.0/ and try again
(only after fixing the stated problems/issues).
This script asks a few questions and builds a file called Makefile, to compile Hobbit.
The 2 questions that require manual input are:
What group-ID does your webserver use ?
apache
What is the IP-address of this host [127.0.0.1] ?
10.0.0.2
4.1.2.2 make
When the configure script finishes, it tells you to run make to build the Hobbit
programs.
# make
Check for any errors in the screen output.
4.1.2.3 make Install
When it is finished, you finish the installation by running make install.
# make install
Check for any errors in the screen output.
The first time you run make install, besides installing the Hobbit programs it also creates the
default directory structure /home/hobbit/ used by Hobbit, and installs an initial set of
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configuration files that you can use as the basis for setting up monitoring of your entire
network.
4.2 Uninstall Hobbit
Type the below command in the original install directory /tmp/hobbit-4.2.0/ to uninstall Hobbit.
# make clean
4.3 Configuring Apache for Hobbit
Hobbit uses a web-based front-end. So you need to configure your webserver so that it knows
where the Hobbit webpages can be found, and what CGI scripts can run as part of Hobbit.
This usually means adding a few lines to your webserver configuration that sets up a URL
which points at the ~/server/www/ directory, and which tells your webserver that the ~/cgi-bin/
directory holds CGI scripts that the webserver should run when they are requested.
You can find the necessary additions to the Apache configuration in:
# /home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbit-apacheconf
Copy all the text of the hobbit-apache.conf file and paste it to the bottom of the httpd.conf file:
# /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
These 2 lines must be added manually at the top of the file:
#LoadModule mod_placeholder /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_placeholder.so
Alias /hobbit/ "/home/hobbit/server/www/"
Note: If Hobbit was configured to put the Administration CGI scripts in a separate directory,
See Appendix 4.
Apache Hobbit account and password
4.3.1 Start Apache automatically when system restarts
# cd /etc/rc.d/
In the folders rc0.d – rc5.d, rename the file K15httpd to S15httpd
Now restart apache to get the changes effected.
# /etc/init.d/httpd reload
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4.4 Using the Hobbit Server
4.4.1 Starting the Hobbit Server
Login as the hobbit user and type the below command to start the Hobbit Server.
# ./server/hobbit.sh start
4.4.2 Confirming the Hobbit Server has started
Type: # ps -ef | grep hobbitd
You should see a list of several processes similar to:
hobbit 3395 3394 0 13:35 ? 00:00:00 hobbitd --pidfile=/var/log/hobbit/hobbitd.pid --restart=/home/hobbit/server/tmp/hobbitd.chk --
checkpoint-file=/home/hobbit/server/tmp/hobbitd.chk --checkpoint-interval=600 --log=/var/log/hobbit/hobbitd.log --admin-senders=127.0.0.1
10.0.0.2 --store-clientlogs=!msgs
hobbit 3396 3394 0 13:35 ? 00:00:00 hobbitd_channel --channel=stachg --log=/var/log/hobbit/history.log hobbitd_history
hobbit 3397 3394 0 13:35 ? 00:00:00 hobbitd_channel --channel=clichg --log=/var/log/hobbit/hostdata.log hobbitd_hostdata
hobbit 3398 3394 0 13:35 ? 00:00:00 hobbitd_channel --channel=page --log=/var/log/hobbit/page.log hobbitd_alert --checkpoint-
file=/home/hobbit/server/tmp/alert.chk --checkpoint-interval=600
hobbit 3399 3394 0 13:35 ? 00:00:00 hobbitd_channel --channel=status --log=/var/log/hobbit/rrd-status.log hobbitd_rrd --
rrddir=/home/hobbit/data/rrd
hobbit 3400 3394 0 13:35 ? 00:00:00 hobbitd_channel --channel=data --log=/var/log/hobbit/rrd-data.log hobbitd_rrd --
rrddir=/home/hobbit/data/rrd
hobbit 3401 3394 0 13:35 ? 00:00:00 hobbitd_channel --channel=client --log=/var/log/hobbit/clientdata.log hobbitd_client
hobbit 3410 3396 0 13:35 ? 00:00:00 hobbitd_history
hobbit 3411 3398 0 13:35 ? 00:00:00 hobbitd_alert --checkpoint-file=/home/hobbit/server/tmp/alert.chk --checkpoint-interval=600
hobbit 3412 3397 0 13:35 ? 00:00:00 hobbitd_hostdata
hobbit 3413 3399 0 13:35 ? 00:00:00 hobbitd_rrd --rrddir=/home/hobbit/data/rrd
hobbit 3414 3400 0 13:35 ? 00:00:00 hobbitd_rrd --rrddir=/home/hobbit/data/rrd
hobbit 3415 3401 0 13:35 ? 00:00:00 hobbitd_client
hobbit 3441 3366 0 13:35 pts/1 00:00:00 grep hobbitd
If the above if ok, view the hobbit webpage by pointing your browser to:
http://10.0.0.2/hobbit/ e.g. (http://hobbit01/hobbit/)
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4.4.3 Autostart Hobbit Configuration
Login as root.
The following is a script for making hobbit demon start and stop automatically when the
system restarts.
Copy all the text and paste it in to a new file called hobbit-server.
Place the new file at /etc/init.d/
###
###
#!/bin/bash
#
# hobbit-server This shell script takes care of starting and stopping
# hobbit monitoring server.
#
# chkconfig: - 99 45
# description: Hobbit monitoring server is\ # used to monitor Pathfire's systems.
# probe: true
# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
# Source networking configuration.
. /etc/sysconfig/network
# Check that networking is up.
[ "${NETWORKING}" = "no" ] && exit 0
PATH=$PATH:/bin:/usr/bin # FOR su
BBHOME=/home/hobbit
BBUSER=hobbit
case "$1" in
start)
su - $BBUSER -c "cd $BBHOME;./server/hobbit.sh start"
;;
restart)
su - $BBUSER -c "cd $BBHOME;./server/hobbit.sh restart"
;;
stop)
su - $BBUSER -c "cd $BBHOME;./server/hobbit.sh stop"
;;
status)
su - $BBUSER -c "cd $BBHOME;./server/hobbit.sh status"
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status}"
exit 1
;;
esac
exit 0
###
###
Give full executable permission for the hobbit-server file:
# chmod +x /etc/init.d/hobbit-server
Create a Symbolik link to the hobbit-server file for startup :
# ln -s ../init.d/hobbit-server S95hobbit-server
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Restart the Server:
# init 6
Only after confirming that everything is working ok, proceed with the next step.
4.5 Cleaning up after a completed install
4.5.1 Delete Hobbit Source Code
Type : # cd /
# cd tmp
# rm hobbit-4.2.0.tar.gz y
# rm -rf hobbit-4.2.0
4.5.2 Uninstall gcc Compiler
Type : # yum remove gcc
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5 Exim v4.63-3 (e-mail client)
5.1 Exim Install
Exim is a free e-mail client and it can be used wit Hobbit to send e-mail alerts / notifications
about status change to any client machine that is being monitored.
5.2 Exim configuration
Will be coming soon…
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6 Hobbit Server - Tests Configuration
For full instructions on configuring a Hobbit server see the documentation installed with the
server. The product documentation is available via the menus:
On the installed Hobbit server http://hobbit01/hobbit/
On the author’s Hobbit reference site http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/
6.1 Configuration
The Hobbit configuration is kept in the files in the /home/hobbit/server/etc/ directory. If you
look at this directory, you will see these files:
• bb-hosts is the one you will change the most. This file contains a list of all the hosts
you are monitoring, including information such as their IP-address, what network
services you are monitoring on the host, what URL's you are checking, what subpage
in the Hobbit web-pages this host is shown on etc. The file snippet shows the use of
pages and groups to define which page displays the appropriate servers. Server side
tests eg. smtp, imap and ldap are also configured against each server in this file.
group Hobbit Server
10.0.0.2 hobbit01 # BBDISPLAY BBPAGER BBNET bbd http://hobbit01 / ssh
group VitalApps Server
10.0.0.3 server01
page unitedkingdom UnitedKingdom
group London
10.0.0.4 server02
10.0.0.5 server03
10.0.0.6 server04 # noconn
10.0.0.7 server05 # noconn smtp !imap !pop3 ldap
group Manchester
10.0.0.8 server05
10.0.0.9 server06 # smtp !imap !pop3 ldap
group Birmingham
10.0.0.10 server07
• hobbit-clients.cfg is the configuration file for data reported by the Hobbit clients
installed on the hosts you are monitoring. This defines the color of the cpu-, disk-,
memory- and procs-columns, based on the information that is sent to Hobbit by the
clients.
• hobbit-alerts.cfg holds the alerting configuration. In this file, you setup the rules for
sending out alerts about services going down: Who gets the alert, how is it sent, how
often, whether to send alerts 24x7 or only between 10 AM and 4 PM on weekdays
etc.
• hobbitserver.cfg is the configuration file for the Hobbit server. This file defines a lot of
environment variables that are made available to all of the Hobbit programs when
they run. Some environment variables that are defined in the Big Brother system are
also setup by Hobbit, so that Big Brother extension scripts will work. The initial
configuration of hobbitserver.cfg is setup by the configure script when you install
Hobbit, and in most cases you will not need to change it. The only modifications to
this file are to produce extra graphs for the external tests such as exchange and
printq.
# TEST2RRD defines the status- and data-messages you want to collect RRD data
# about. You will normally not need to modify this, unless you have added a
# script to pick up RRD data from custom tests (the hobbitd_larrd --extra-script
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# and --extra-tests options).
# Note that network tests defined in the bb-services file are automatically
# included.
# The format here is "COLUMN=RRDSERVICE". If you leave out the "=RRDSERVICE"
# part, it is assumed to be the same as the COLUMN value.
#
# This is also used by the bb-hostsvc.cgi script to determine if the detailed
# status view of a test should include a graph.
TEST2RRD="cpu=la,disk,inode,qtree,memory,$PINGCOLUMN=tcp,http=tcp,dns=tcp,dig=tcp,tim
e=ntpstat,vmstat,iostat,netstat,
temperature,apache,bind,sendmail,mailq,nmailq=mailq,socks,bea,iishealth,citrix,bbgen,bbtest,bb
proxy,hobbitd,mess=ncv,
exchange=ncv,diskperf=ncv,ts=ncv,printq"
# This defines which RRD files to include on the "trends" column webpage,
# and the order in which they appear.
GRAPHS="la,disk,inode,qtree,memory,users,vmstat,iostat,tcp.http,tcp,netstat,mrtg::1,temperatur
e,ntpstat,apache,bind,s
endmail,mailq,socks,bea,iishealth,citrix,bbgen,bbtest,bbproxy,hobbitd,mess,exchange,diskperf,ts
,printq,ncv"
• hobbitlaunch.cfg is the configuration file for the hobbitlaunch tool. hobbitlaunch is the
master program in Hobbit, it is the only program you start to run the Hobbit server.
hobbitlaunch reads the hobbitlaunch.cfg file, and starts the programs listed here to
run the server. Some of the programs may run as daemons, some of the programs
may run at regular intervals. If you want to use some of the advanced options for the
bbgen or bbtest-net programs, you change the hobbitlaunch.cfg file to add these
options to the commandline. Modified to run the script makerrd.sh which creates the
RRD data used to draw graphs for the printq and pages external tests. For more
information on this see the section on custom graphs in the Hobbit documentation.
# "rrdstatus" updates RRD files with information that arrives as "status" messages.
# If you want RRD graphs of your monitoring data, then you want to run this.
[rrdstatus]
ENVFILE /home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
NEEDS hobbitd
CMD hobbitd_channel --channel=status --log=$BBSERVERLOGS/rrd-status.log hobbitd_rrd
--rrddir=$BBVAR/rrd --ext
ra-script=/home/hobbit/server/bin/makerrd.sh --extra-tests=printq
# "rrddata" updates RRD files with information that arrives as "data" messages.
# If you want RRD graphs of your monitoring BB data, then you want to run this.
[rrddata]
ENVFILE /home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
NEEDS hobbitd
CMD hobbitd_channel --channel=data --log=$BBSERVERLOGS/rrd-data.log hobbitd_rrd --
rrddir=$BBVAR/rrd --extra-s
cript=/home/hobbit/server/bin/makerrd.sh --extra-tests=printq
• hobbitgraph.cfg is a configuration file for the hobbitgraph CGI. It defines how the
graphs are generated from the data in the RRD files. Graph definitions that have
been added for the additional external tests.
[mess]
TITLE Message Rate
YAXIS Messages Per Sec
DEF:MessReceived=mess.rrd:MessReceived:AVERAGE
DEF:MessSent=mess.rrd:persecMessSent:AVERAGE
AREA:MessReceived#00FF00:Message Recv p/s
GPRINT:MessReceived:LAST: \: %5.1lf (cur)
GPRINT:MessReceived:MAX: \: %5.1lf (max)
GPRINT:MessReceived:MIN: \: %5.1lf (min)
GPRINT:MessReceived:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf (avg)\n
LINE1:MessSent#FF0000:Message Sent p/s
GPRINT:MessSent:LAST: \: %5.1lf (cur)
GPRINT:MessSent:MAX: \: %5.1lf (max)
GPRINT:MessSent:MIN: \: %5.1lf (min)
GPRINT:MessSent:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf (avg)\n
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[exchange]
TITLE Queue Status
YAXIS Queue Length
DEF:LQL=exchange.rrd:LocalQueueLength:AVERAGE
DEF:LRQL=exchange.rrd:LocalRetryQueueLeng:AVERAGE
DEF:RQL=exchange.rrd:RemoteQueueLength:AVERAGE
DEF:RRQL=exchange.rrd:RemoteRetryQueueLen:AVERAGE
DEF:CQL=exchange.rrd:CategorizerQueueLen:AVERAGE
LINE1:LQL#00FF00:Local Q Length
GPRINT:LQL:LAST: \: %5.1lf (cur)
GPRINT:LQL:MAX: \: %5.1lf (max)
GPRINT:LQL:MIN: \: %5.1lf (min)
GPRINT:LQL:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf (avg)\n
LINE1:LRQL#FF0000:Local Retry Q Length
GPRINT:LRQL:LAST: \: %5.1lf (cur)
GPRINT:LRQL:MAX: \: %5.1lf (max)
GPRINT:LRQL:MIN: \: %5.1lf (min)
GPRINT:LRQL:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf (avg)\n
LINE1:RQL#0000FF:Remote Q Length
GPRINT:RQL:LAST: \: %5.1lf (cur)
GPRINT:RQL:MAX: \: %5.1lf (max)
GPRINT:RQL:MIN: \: %5.1lf (min)
GPRINT:RQL:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf (avg)\n
LINE1:RRQL#FF00FF:Remote Retry Q Length
GPRINT:RRQL:LAST: \: %5.1lf (cur)
GPRINT:RRQL:MAX: \: %5.1lf (max)
GPRINT:RRQL:MIN: \: %5.1lf (min)
GPRINT:RRQL:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf (avg)\n
LINE1:CQL#FFFF00:Categoriser Q Length
GPRINT:CQL:LAST: \: %5.1lf (cur)
GPRINT:CQL:MAX: \: %5.1lf (max)
GPRINT:CQL:MIN: \: %5.1lf (min)
GPRINT:CQL:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf (avg)\n
[diskperf]
TITLE Disk Performance
YAXIS % Disk Usage Time
DEF:SecsRead=diskperf.rrd:AvgSecsPerRead:AVERAGE
DEF:SecsWrite=diskperf.rrd:AvgSecsPerWrite:AVERAGE
DEF:ReadBytesSec=diskperf.rrd:ReadBytesPerSec:AVERAGE
DEF:WriteBytesSec=diskperf.rrd:WriteBytesPerSec:AVERAGE
DEF:ReadsSec=diskperf.rrd:ReadsPerSecond:AVERAGE
DEF:WritesSec=diskperf.rrd:WritesPerSecond:AVERAGE
DEF:ReadTime=diskperf.rrd:ReadTime:AVERAGE
DEF:WriteTime=diskperf.rrd:WriteTime:AVERAGE
DEF:IdleTime=diskperf.rrd:IdleTime:AVERAGE
LINE1:SecsRead#00FF00:Average Disk Seconds Per Read
GPRINT:SecsRead:LAST: \: %5.1lf (cur)
GPRINT:SecsRead:MAX: \: %5.1lf (max)
GPRINT:SecsRead:MIN: \: %5.1lf (min)
GPRINT:SecsRead:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf (avg)\n
LINE1:SecsWrite#FF0000:Average Disk Seconds Per Write
GPRINT:SecsWrite:LAST: \: %5.1lf (cur)
GPRINT:SecsWrite:MAX: \: %5.1lf (max)
GPRINT:SecsWrite:MIN: \: %5.1lf (min)
GPRINT:SecsWrite:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf (avg)\n
LINE1:ReadTime#0000FF:% Disk Read Time
GPRINT:ReadTime:LAST: \: %5.1lf (cur)
GPRINT:ReadTime:MAX: \: %5.1lf (max)
GPRINT:ReadTime:MIN: \: %5.1lf (min)
GPRINT:ReadTime:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf (avg)\n
LINE1:WriteTime#FFFF00:% Disk Write Time
GPRINT:WriteTime:LAST: \: %5.1lf (cur)
GPRINT:WriteTime:MAX: \: %5.1lf (max)
GPRINT:WriteTime:MIN: \: %5.1lf (min)
GPRINT:WriteTime:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf (avg)\n
[ts]
TITLE Terminal Server Users
YAXIS Sessions
DEF:ActiveSessions=ts.rrd:ActiveSessions:AVERAGE
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DEF:InactiveSessions=ts.rrd:InactiveSessions:AVERAGE
DEF:TotalSessions=ts.rrd:TotalSessions:AVERAGE
LINE1:ActiveSessions#00FF00:Active Sessions
GPRINT:ActiveSessions:LAST: \: %5.1lf (cur)
GPRINT:ActiveSessions:MAX: \: %5.1lf (max)
GPRINT:ActiveSessions:MIN: \: %5.1lf (min)
GPRINT:ActiveSessions:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf (avg)\n
LINE1:InactiveSessions#0000FF:Inactive Sessions
GPRINT:InactiveSessions:LAST: \: %5.1lf (cur)
GPRINT:InactiveSessions:MAX: \: %5.1lf (max)
GPRINT:InactiveSessions:MIN: \: %5.1lf (min)
GPRINT:InactiveSessions:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf (avg)\n
LINE1:TotalSessions#FF0000:Total Sessions
GPRINT:TotalSessions:LAST: \: %5.1lf (cur)
GPRINT:TotalSessions:MAX: \: %5.1lf (max)
GPRINT:TotalSessions:MIN: \: %5.1lf (min)
GPRINT:TotalSessions:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf (avg)\n
[printq]
FNPATTERN printq(.*.rrd)
TITLE Print Queues
YAXIS Queue Length
DEF:=p@RRDIDX@=@RRDFN@:qlen:AVERAGE
LINE2:p@RRDIDX@#@COLOR@:@RRDPARAM@
GPRINT:p@RRDIDX@:LAST: \: %5.1lf (cur)
GPRINT:p@RRDIDX@:MAX: \: %5.1lf (max)
GPRINT:p@RRDIDX@:MIN: \: %5.1lf (min)
GPRINT:p@RRDIDX@:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf (avg)\n
• bb-services is a configuration file for the bbtest-net program. It defines how network
services are checked.
6.2 Hobbit Server’s own Test Configuration
The Hobbit Server’s own test configuration is automatically configured during install in the 2
files below:
1. The Servers own IP address file:
# /home/hobbit/client/etc/hobbitclient.cfg
BBDISP=”10.0.0.2” # IP address of the Hobbit server
2. The Servers own IP address and Host name file:
# /home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
BBSERVERHOSTNAME="hobbit01" # The hostname of your server
BBSERVERIP="10.0.0.2" # The IP-address of your server
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7 Hobbit Windows Client v0.11
The hobbit server is able to perform a number of test using server side scripts. To monitor
more detailed information such as CPU utilisation, disk space available etc., it is necessary to
install a Hobbit client on the machine that is being monitored. Clients are available for
Windows and Linux servers. The infrastructure is predominantly Windows based and so we
will concentrate on installing the Windows client.
The latest Hobbit Windows client, BBWin is version 0.7. This can be downloaded from
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=136450. It is available as a MSI
package.
It is subsequently necessary to make some configuration changes and optionally to add in
some custom tests as detailed below.
NOTE: For manual install and configuration of the Client, see Appendix 5.
7.1 Client Installation
Copy over the Hobbit client to the client machine and double click the msi file (or exe) to
install it on the client machine.
7.2 Client Configuration
To configure the Hobbit client for deployment with modified tests / thresholds, use the below
table for preference.
Changing Thresholds
Configuration Setting Changes
Printq edit – C:\Program Files\BBWin\bin\config\pringq.config - Change values
edit – C:\Program Files\BBWin\bin\config\termserv.config - Change
Termserv
values
Pagefaults edit – C:\Program Files\BBWin\bin\tests\pagefaults.vbs
edit - C:\Program Files\etc\bbwin.cfg - Change default warn levels, these
Disk are for any other drive except C:\
"C" has its own specific settings, so they must be changed independently
CPU edit - C:\Program Files\etc\bbwin.cfg - Change values
Memory edit - C:\Program Files\etc\bbwin.cfg - Change values
Msgs edit - C:\Program Files\etc\bbwin.cfg - Change values
Uptime edit - C:\Program Files\etc\bbwin.cfg - Change values
edit - C:\Program Files\etc\bbwin.cfg - add / remove Service name to
Services
list
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7.3 Miscellaneous
7.3.1 Built-in Test Configuration
The BBWin package provides information on cpu and disk usage, running processes and
services and event log messages. The default installed list of processes and services needs
modification for most systems. Example configuration for an exchange server is provided
below:
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7.3.2 Custom Tests
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Additional tests have been written to provide additional information from print, exchange and
terminal servers. The tests are written in VBScript and integrated with the Hobbit Windows
client via the ‘externals’ functionality.
Install the tests using the following procedure:
• Copy the config directory and contents to C:\Program Files\BBWin\
• Copy the appropriate flag files eg.exchange.flag to C:\Program Files\BBWin\
• Copy the ClientTests.wsf to C:\Program Files\BBWin\bin
• Copy the common and tests directories and contents to C:\Program Files\BBWin\bin\
• Edit BBwin.cfg:
--- add this line
• Restart the Big Brother Hobbit Client service.
• The tests will show up automatically on the Hobbit server – both statistics and graphs.
Tests currently implemented:
• Pages - Number of pages each printer has printed since the last reboot
• Printq - Number of items on each print queue
• Mess - Messages sent and received per second
• Exchange - Queues on the local exchange server
• Diskperf - Monitor some disk performance activity
• Ts - Number of active and inactive sessions on the terminal server
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8 Appendices
8.1 Appendix 1
Package Explanations:
fping Allows multiple PING ICMP messages to be sent simultaneously. Hobbit
uses fping when checking if systems are alive, so you need to install it
before running Hobbit. The configure-script will also check for this.
pcre Perl Compatible Regular Expression library - is a library for matching text-
strings.
rrdtool is a library for handling the Round-Robin Databases used to hold the
historical data Hobbit gathers. RRDTool can be used to examine the data
libpng is a library for generating images in the PNG format. It is used by rrdtool
(and hence Hobbit).
openssl is a library for communicating with network services that use SSL
encryption - e.g. secure websites. Although this library is not absolutely
required for Hobbit, it is strongly recommend that it is installed because
sooner or later it will probably be needed anyway.
openldap is used to query LDAP directory servers. If you would like to test that your
directory server is up and running, you will need this library.
8.2 Appendix 2
httpd.conf
The httpd.conf should look like this.
#LoadModule mod_placeholder /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_placeholder.so
Alias /hobbit/ "/home/hobbit/server/www/"
#
# This is the main Apache server configuration file. It contains the
# configuration directives that give the server its instructions.
# See for detailed information.
# In particular, see
#
# for a discussion of each configuration directive.
#
#
# Do NOT simply read the instructions in here without understanding
# what they do. They're here only as hints or reminders. If you are unsure
# consult the online docs. You have been warned.
#
# The configuration directives are grouped into three basic sections:
# 1. Directives that control the operation of the Apache server process as a
# whole (the 'global environment').
# 2. Directives that define the parameters of the 'main' or 'default' server,
# which responds to requests that aren't handled by a virtual host.
# These directives also provide default values for the settings
# of all virtual hosts.
# 3. Settings for virtual hosts, which allow Web requests to be sent to
# different IP addresses or hostnames and have them handled by the
# same Apache server process.
#
# Configuration and logfile names: If the filenames you specify for many
# of the server's control files begin with "/" (or "drive:/" for Win32), the
# server will use that explicit path. If the filenames do *not* begin
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# with "/", the value of ServerRoot is prepended -- so "logs/foo.log"
# with ServerRoot set to "/etc/httpd" will be interpreted by the
# server as "/etc/httpd/logs/foo.log".
#
### Section 1: Global Environment
#
# The directives in this section affect the overall operation of Apache,
# such as the number of concurrent requests it can handle or where it
# can find its configuration files.
#
#
# Don't give away too much information about all the subcomponents
# we are running. Comment out this line if you don't mind remote sites
# finding out what major optional modules you are running
ServerTokens OS
#
# ServerRoot: The top of the directory tree under which the server's
# configuration, error, and log files are kept.
#
# NOTE! If you intend to place this on an NFS (or otherwise network)
# mounted filesystem then please read the LockFile documentation
# (available at );
# you will save yourself a lot of trouble.
#
# Do NOT add a slash at the end of the directory path.
#
ServerRoot "/etc/httpd"
#
# PidFile: The file in which the server should record its process
# identification number when it starts.
#
PidFile run/httpd.pid
#
# Timeout: The number of seconds before receives and sends time out.
#
Timeout 120
#
# KeepAlive: Whether or not to allow persistent connections (more than
# one request per connection). Set to "Off" to deactivate.
#
KeepAlive Off
#
# MaxKeepAliveRequests: The maximum number of requests to allow
# during a persistent connection. Set to 0 to allow an unlimited amount.
# We recommend you leave this number high, for maximum performance.
#
MaxKeepAliveRequests 100
#
# KeepAliveTimeout: Number of seconds to wait for the next request from the
# same client on the same connection.
#
KeepAliveTimeout 15
##
## Server-Pool Size Regulation (MPM specific)
##
# prefork MPM
# StartServers: number of server processes to start
# MinSpareServers: minimum number of server processes which are kept spare
# MaxSpareServers: maximum number of server processes which are kept spare
# ServerLimit: maximum value for MaxClients for the lifetime of the server
# MaxClients: maximum number of server processes allowed to start
# MaxRequestsPerChild: maximum number of requests a server process serves
StartServers 8
MinSpareServers 5
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MaxSpareServers 20
ServerLimit 256
MaxClients 256
MaxRequestsPerChild 4000
# worker MPM
# StartServers: initial number of server processes to start
# MaxClients: maximum number of simultaneous client connections
# MinSpareThreads: minimum number of worker threads which are kept spare
# MaxSpareThreads: maximum number of worker threads which are kept spare
# ThreadsPerChild: constant number of worker threads in each server process
# MaxRequestsPerChild: maximum number of requests a server process serves
StartServers 2
MaxClients 150
MinSpareThreads 25
MaxSpareThreads 75
ThreadsPerChild 25
MaxRequestsPerChild 0
#
# Listen: Allows you to bind Apache to specific IP addresses and/or
# ports, in addition to the default. See also the
# directive.
#
# Change this to Listen on specific IP addresses as shown below to
# prevent Apache from glomming onto all bound IP addresses (0.0.0.0)
#
#Listen 12.34.56.78:80
Listen 80
#
# Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) Support
#
# To be able to use the functionality of a module which was built as a DSO you
# have to place corresponding `LoadModule' lines at this location so the
# directives contained in it are actually available _before_ they are used.
# Statically compiled modules (those listed by `httpd -l') do not need
# to be loaded here.
#
# Example:
# LoadModule foo_module modules/mod_foo.so
#
LoadModule auth_basic_module modules/mod_auth_basic.so
LoadModule auth_digest_module modules/mod_auth_digest.so
LoadModule authn_file_module modules/mod_authn_file.so
LoadModule authn_alias_module modules/mod_authn_alias.so
LoadModule authn_anon_module modules/mod_authn_anon.so
LoadModule authn_dbm_module modules/mod_authn_dbm.so
LoadModule authn_default_module modules/mod_authn_default.so
LoadModule authz_host_module modules/mod_authz_host.so
LoadModule authz_user_module modules/mod_authz_user.so
LoadModule authz_owner_module modules/mod_authz_owner.so
LoadModule authz_groupfile_module modules/mod_authz_groupfile.so
LoadModule authz_dbm_module modules/mod_authz_dbm.so
LoadModule authz_default_module modules/mod_authz_default.so
LoadModule ldap_module modules/mod_ldap.so
LoadModule authnz_ldap_module modules/mod_authnz_ldap.so
LoadModule include_module modules/mod_include.so
LoadModule log_config_module modules/mod_log_config.so
LoadModule logio_module modules/mod_logio.so
LoadModule env_module modules/mod_env.so
LoadModule ext_filter_module modules/mod_ext_filter.so
LoadModule mime_magic_module modules/mod_mime_magic.so
LoadModule expires_module modules/mod_expires.so
LoadModule deflate_module modules/mod_deflate.so
LoadModule headers_module modules/mod_headers.so
LoadModule usertrack_module modules/mod_usertrack.so
LoadModule setenvif_module modules/mod_setenvif.so
LoadModule mime_module modules/mod_mime.so
LoadModule dav_module modules/mod_dav.so
LoadModule status_module modules/mod_status.so
LoadModule autoindex_module modules/mod_autoindex.so
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LoadModule info_module modules/mod_info.so
LoadModule dav_fs_module modules/mod_dav_fs.so
LoadModule vhost_alias_module modules/mod_vhost_alias.so
LoadModule negotiation_module modules/mod_negotiation.so
LoadModule dir_module modules/mod_dir.so
LoadModule actions_module modules/mod_actions.so
LoadModule speling_module modules/mod_speling.so
LoadModule userdir_module modules/mod_userdir.so
LoadModule alias_module modules/mod_alias.so
LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so
LoadModule proxy_balancer_module modules/mod_proxy_balancer.so
LoadModule proxy_ftp_module modules/mod_proxy_ftp.so
LoadModule proxy_http_module modules/mod_proxy_http.so
LoadModule proxy_connect_module modules/mod_proxy_connect.so
LoadModule cache_module modules/mod_cache.so
LoadModule suexec_module modules/mod_suexec.so
LoadModule disk_cache_module modules/mod_disk_cache.so
LoadModule file_cache_module modules/mod_file_cache.so
LoadModule mem_cache_module modules/mod_mem_cache.so
LoadModule cgi_module modules/mod_cgi.so
LoadModule version_module modules/mod_version.so
#
# The following modules are not loaded by default:
#
#LoadModule cern_meta_module modules/mod_cern_meta.so
#LoadModule asis_module modules/mod_asis.so
#
# Load config files from the config directory "/etc/httpd/conf.d".
#
Include conf.d/*.conf
#
# ExtendedStatus controls whether Apache will generate "full" status
# information (ExtendedStatus On) or just basic information (ExtendedStatus
# Off) when the "server-status" handler is called. The default is Off.
#
#ExtendedStatus On
#
# If you wish httpd to run as a different user or group, you must run
# httpd as root initially and it will switch.
#
# User/Group: The name (or #number) of the user/group to run httpd as.
# . On SCO (ODT 3) use "User nouser" and "Group nogroup".
# . On HPUX you may not be able to use shared memory as nobody, and the
# suggested workaround is to create a user www and use that user.
# NOTE that some kernels refuse to setgid(Group) or semctl(IPC_SET)
# when the value of (unsigned)Group is above 60000;
# don't use Group #-1 on these systems!
#
User apache
Group apache
### Section 2: 'Main' server configuration
#
# The directives in this section set up the values used by the 'main'
# server, which responds to any requests that aren't handled by a
# definition. These values also provide defaults for
# any containers you may define later in the file.
#
# All of these directives may appear inside containers,
# in which case these default settings will be overridden for the
# virtual host being defined.
#
#
# ServerAdmin: Your address, where problems with the server should be
# e-mailed. This address appears on some server-generated pages, such
# as error documents. e.g. admin@your-domain.com
#
ServerAdmin root@localhost
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#
# ServerName gives the name and port that the server uses to identify itself.
# This can often be determined automatically, but we recommend you specify
# it explicitly to prevent problems during startup.
#
# If this is not set to valid DNS name for your host, server-generated
# redirections will not work. See also the UseCanonicalName directive.
#
# If your host doesn't have a registered DNS name, enter its IP address here.
# You will have to access it by its address anyway, and this will make
# redirections work in a sensible way.
#
#ServerName www.example.com:80
#
# UseCanonicalName: Determines how Apache constructs self-referencing
# URLs and the SERVER_NAME and SERVER_PORT variables.
# When set "Off", Apache will use the Hostname and Port supplied
# by the client. When set "On", Apache will use the value of the
# ServerName directive.
#
UseCanonicalName Off
#
# DocumentRoot: The directory out of which you will serve your
# documents. By default, all requests are taken from this directory, but
# symbolic links and aliases may be used to point to other locations.
#
DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"
#
# Each directory to which Apache has access can be configured with respect
# to which services and features are allowed and/or disabled in that
# directory (and its subdirectories).
#
# First, we configure the "default" to be a very restrictive set of
# features.
#
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
#
# Note that from this point forward you must specifically allow
# particular features to be enabled - so if something's not working as
# you might expect, make sure that you have specifically enabled it
# below.
#
#
# This should be changed to whatever you set DocumentRoot to.
#
#
# Possible values for the Options directive are "None", "All",
# or any combination of:
# Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks SymLinksifOwnerMatch ExecCGI MultiViews
#
# Note that "MultiViews" must be named *explicitly* --- "Options All"
# doesn't give it to you.
#
# The Options directive is both complicated and important. Please see
# http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#options
# for more information.
#
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
#
# AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files.
# It can be "All", "None", or any combination of the keywords:
# Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
#
AllowOverride None
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#
# Controls who can get stuff from this server.
#
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
#
# UserDir: The name of the directory that is appended onto a user's home
# directory if a ~user request is received.
#
# The path to the end user account 'public_html' directory must be
# accessible to the webserver userid. This usually means that ~userid
# must have permissions of 711, ~userid/public_html must have permissions
# of 755, and documents contained therein must be world-readable.
# Otherwise, the client will only receive a "403 Forbidden" message.
#
# See also: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/FAQ.html#forbidden
#
#
# UserDir is disabled by default since it can confirm the presence
# of a username on the system (depending on home directory
# permissions).
#
UserDir disable
#
# To enable requests to /~user/ to serve the user's public_html
# directory, remove the "UserDir disable" line above, and uncomment
# the following line instead:
#
#UserDir public_html
#
# Control access to UserDir directories. The following is an example
# for a site where these directories are restricted to read-only.
#
#
# AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
# Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec
#
# Order allow,deny
# Allow from all
#
#
# Order deny,allow
# Deny from all
#
#
#
# DirectoryIndex: sets the file that Apache will serve if a directory
# is requested.
#
# The index.html.var file (a type-map) is used to deliver content-
# negotiated documents. The MultiViews Option can be used for the
# same purpose, but it is much slower.
#
DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var
#
# AccessFileName: The name of the file to look for in each directory
# for additional configuration directives. See also the AllowOverride
# directive.
#
AccessFileName .htaccess
#
# The following lines prevent .htaccess and .htpasswd files from being
# viewed by Web clients.
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#
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
#
# TypesConfig describes where the mime.types file (or equivalent) is
# to be found.
#
TypesConfig /etc/mime.types
#
# DefaultType is the default MIME type the server will use for a document
# if it cannot otherwise determine one, such as from filename extensions.
# If your server contains mostly text or HTML documents, "text/plain" is
# a good value. If most of your content is binary, such as applications
# or images, you may want to use "application/octet-stream" instead to
# keep browsers from trying to display binary files as though they are
# text.
#
DefaultType text/plain
#
# The mod_mime_magic module allows the server to use various hints from the
# contents of the file itself to determine its type. The MIMEMagicFile
# directive tells the module where the hint definitions are located.
#
# MIMEMagicFile /usr/share/magic.mime
MIMEMagicFile conf/magic
#
# HostnameLookups: Log the names of clients or just their IP addresses
# e.g., www.apache.org (on) or 204.62.129.132 (off).
# The default is off because it'd be overall better for the net if people
# had to knowingly turn this feature on, since enabling it means that
# each client request will result in AT LEAST one lookup request to the
# nameserver.
#
HostnameLookups Off
#
# EnableMMAP: Control whether memory-mapping is used to deliver
# files (assuming that the underlying OS supports it).
# The default is on; turn this off if you serve from NFS-mounted
# filesystems. On some systems, turning it off (regardless of
# filesystem) can improve performance; for details, please see
# http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#enablemmap
#
#EnableMMAP off
#
# EnableSendfile: Control whether the sendfile kernel support is
# used to deliver files (assuming that the OS supports it).
# The default is on; turn this off if you serve from NFS-mounted
# filesystems. Please see
# http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#enablesendfile
#
#EnableSendfile off
#
# ErrorLog: The location of the error log file.
# If you do not specify an ErrorLog directive within a
# container, error messages relating to that virtual host will be
# logged here. If you *do* define an error logfile for a
# container, that host's errors will be logged there and not here.
#
ErrorLog logs/error_log
#
# LogLevel: Control the number of messages logged to the error_log.
# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
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#
LogLevel warn
#
# The following directives define some format nicknames for use with
# a CustomLog directive (see below).
#
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b" common
LogFormat "%{Referer}i -> %U" referer
LogFormat "%{User-agent}i" agent
# "combinedio" includes actual counts of actual bytes received (%I) and sent (%O); this
# requires the mod_logio module to be loaded.
#LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\" %I %O" combinedio
#
# The location and format of the access logfile (Common Logfile Format).
# If you do not define any access logfiles within a
# container, they will be logged here. Contrariwise, if you *do*
# define per- access logfiles, transactions will be
# logged therein and *not* in this file.
#
#CustomLog logs/access_log common
#
# If you would like to have separate agent and referer logfiles, uncomment
# the following directives.
#
#CustomLog logs/referer_log referer
#CustomLog logs/agent_log agent
#
# For a single logfile with access, agent, and referer information
# (Combined Logfile Format), use the following directive:
#
CustomLog logs/access_log combined
#
# Optionally add a line containing the server version and virtual host
# name to server-generated pages (internal error documents, FTP directory
# listings, mod_status and mod_info output etc., but not CGI generated
# documents or custom error documents).
# Set to "EMail" to also include a mailto: link to the ServerAdmin.
# Set to one of: On | Off | EMail
#
ServerSignature On
#
# Aliases: Add here as many aliases as you need (with no limit). The format is
# Alias fakename realname
#
# Note that if you include a trailing / on fakename then the server will
# require it to be present in the URL. So "/icons" isn't aliased in this
# example, only "/icons/". If the fakename is slash-terminated, then the
# realname must also be slash terminated, and if the fakename omits the
# trailing slash, the realname must also omit it.
#
# We include the /icons/ alias for FancyIndexed directory listings. If you
# do not use FancyIndexing, you may comment this out.
#
Alias /icons/ "/var/www/icons/"
Options Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
#
# WebDAV module configuration section.
#
# Location of the WebDAV lock database.
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DAVLockDB /var/lib/dav/lockdb
#
# ScriptAlias: This controls which directories contain server scripts.
# ScriptAliases are essentially the same as Aliases, except that
# documents in the realname directory are treated as applications and
# run by the server when requested rather than as documents sent to the client.
# The same rules about trailing "/" apply to ScriptAlias directives as to
# Alias.
#
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/cgi-bin/"
#
# "/var/www/cgi-bin" should be changed to whatever your ScriptAliased
# CGI directory exists, if you have that configured.
#
AllowOverride None
Options None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
#
# Redirect allows you to tell clients about documents which used to exist in
# your server's namespace, but do not anymore. This allows you to tell the
# clients where to look for the relocated document.
# Example:
# Redirect permanent /foo http://www.example.com/bar
#
# Directives controlling the display of server-generated directory listings.
#
#
# IndexOptions: Controls the appearance of server-generated directory
# listings.
#
IndexOptions FancyIndexing VersionSort NameWidth=* HTMLTable
#
# AddIcon* directives tell the server which icon to show for different
# files or filename extensions. These are only displayed for
# FancyIndexed directories.
#
AddIconByEncoding (CMP,/icons/compressed.gif) x-compress x-gzip
AddIconByType (TXT,/icons/text.gif) text/*
AddIconByType (IMG,/icons/image2.gif) image/*
AddIconByType (SND,/icons/sound2.gif) audio/*
AddIconByType (VID,/icons/movie.gif) video/*
AddIcon /icons/binary.gif .bin .exe
AddIcon /icons/binhex.gif .hqx
AddIcon /icons/tar.gif .tar
AddIcon /icons/world2.gif .wrl .wrl.gz .vrml .vrm .iv
AddIcon /icons/compressed.gif .Z .z .tgz .gz .zip
AddIcon /icons/a.gif .ps .ai .eps
AddIcon /icons/layout.gif .html .shtml .htm .pdf
AddIcon /icons/text.gif .txt
AddIcon /icons/c.gif .c
AddIcon /icons/p.gif .pl .py
AddIcon /icons/f.gif .for
AddIcon /icons/dvi.gif .dvi
AddIcon /icons/uuencoded.gif .uu
AddIcon /icons/script.gif .conf .sh .shar .csh .ksh .tcl
AddIcon /icons/tex.gif .tex
AddIcon /icons/bomb.gif core
AddIcon /icons/back.gif ..
AddIcon /icons/hand.right.gif README
AddIcon /icons/folder.gif ^^DIRECTORY^^
AddIcon /icons/blank.gif ^^BLANKICON^^
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#
# DefaultIcon is which icon to show for files which do not have an icon
# explicitly set.
#
DefaultIcon /icons/unknown.gif
#
# AddDescription allows you to place a short description after a file in
# server-generated indexes. These are only displayed for FancyIndexed
# directories.
# Format: AddDescription "description" filename
#
#AddDescription "GZIP compressed document" .gz
#AddDescription "tar archive" .tar
#AddDescription "GZIP compressed tar archive" .tgz
#
# ReadmeName is the name of the README file the server will look for by
# default, and append to directory listings.
#
# HeaderName is the name of a file which should be prepended to
# directory indexes.
ReadmeName README.html
HeaderName HEADER.html
#
# IndexIgnore is a set of filenames which directory indexing should ignore
# and not include in the listing. Shell-style wildcarding is permitted.
#
IndexIgnore .??* *~ *# HEADER* README* RCS CVS *,v *,t
#
# DefaultLanguage and AddLanguage allows you to specify the language of
# a document. You can then use content negotiation to give a browser a
# file in a language the user can understand.
#
# Specify a default language. This means that all data
# going out without a specific language tag (see below) will
# be marked with this one. You probably do NOT want to set
# this unless you are sure it is correct for all cases.
#
# * It is generally better to not mark a page as
# * being a certain language than marking it with the wrong
# * language!
#
# DefaultLanguage nl
#
# Note 1: The suffix does not have to be the same as the language
# keyword --- those with documents in Polish (whose net-standard
# language code is pl) may wish to use "AddLanguage pl .po" to
# avoid the ambiguity with the common suffix for perl scripts.
#
# Note 2: The example entries below illustrate that in some cases
# the two character 'Language' abbreviation is not identical to
# the two character 'Country' code for its country,
# E.g. 'Danmark/dk' versus 'Danish/da'.
#
# Note 3: In the case of 'ltz' we violate the RFC by using a three char
# specifier. There is 'work in progress' to fix this and get
# the reference data for rfc1766 cleaned up.
#
# Catalan (ca) - Croatian (hr) - Czech (cs) - Danish (da) - Dutch (nl)
# English (en) - Esperanto (eo) - Estonian (et) - French (fr) - German (de)
# Greek-Modern (el) - Hebrew (he) - Italian (it) - Japanese (ja)
# Korean (ko) - Luxembourgeois* (ltz) - Norwegian Nynorsk (nn)
# Norwegian (no) - Polish (pl) - Portugese (pt)
# Brazilian Portuguese (pt-BR) - Russian (ru) - Swedish (sv)
# Simplified Chinese (zh-CN) - Spanish (es) - Traditional Chinese (zh-TW)
#
AddLanguage ca .ca
AddLanguage cs .cz .cs
AddLanguage da .dk
AddLanguage de .de
AddLanguage el .el
AddLanguage en .en
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AddLanguage eo .eo
AddLanguage es .es
AddLanguage et .et
AddLanguage fr .fr
AddLanguage he .he
AddLanguage hr .hr
AddLanguage it .it
AddLanguage ja .ja
AddLanguage ko .ko
AddLanguage ltz .ltz
AddLanguage nl .nl
AddLanguage nn .nn
AddLanguage no .no
AddLanguage pl .po
AddLanguage pt .pt
AddLanguage pt-BR .pt-br
AddLanguage ru .ru
AddLanguage sv .sv
AddLanguage zh-CN .zh-cn
AddLanguage zh-TW .zh-tw
#
# LanguagePriority allows you to give precedence to some languages
# in case of a tie during content negotiation.
#
# Just list the languages in decreasing order of preference. We have
# more or less alphabetized them here. You probably want to change this.
#
LanguagePriority en ca cs da de el eo es et fr he hr it ja ko ltz nl nn no pl pt pt-BR ru sv zh-CN zh-TW
#
# ForceLanguagePriority allows you to serve a result page rather than
# MULTIPLE CHOICES (Prefer) [in case of a tie] or NOT ACCEPTABLE (Fallback)
# [in case no accepted languages matched the available variants]
#
ForceLanguagePriority Prefer Fallback
#
# Specify a default charset for all content served; this enables
# interpretation of all content as UTF-8 by default. To use the
# default browser choice (ISO-8859-1), or to allow the META tags
# in HTML content to override this choice, comment out this
# directive:
#
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
#
# AddType allows you to add to or override the MIME configuration
# file mime.types for specific file types.
#
#AddType application/x-tar .tgz
#
# AddEncoding allows you to have certain browsers uncompress
# information on the fly. Note: Not all browsers support this.
# Despite the name similarity, the following Add* directives have nothing
# to do with the FancyIndexing customization directives above.
#
#AddEncoding x-compress .Z
#AddEncoding x-gzip .gz .tgz
# If the AddEncoding directives above are commented-out, then you
# probably should define those extensions to indicate media types:
#
AddType application/x-compress .Z
AddType application/x-gzip .gz .tgz
#
# AddHandler allows you to map certain file extensions to "handlers":
# actions unrelated to filetype. These can be either built into the server
# or added with the Action directive (see below)
#
# To use CGI scripts outside of ScriptAliased directories:
# (You will also need to add "ExecCGI" to the "Options" directive.)
#
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#AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
#
# For files that include their own HTTP headers:
#
#AddHandler send-as-is asis
#
# For type maps (negotiated resources):
# (This is enabled by default to allow the Apache "It Worked" page
# to be distributed in multiple languages.)
#
AddHandler type-map var
#
# Filters allow you to process content before it is sent to the client.
#
# To parse .shtml files for server-side includes (SSI):
# (You will also need to add "Includes" to the "Options" directive.)
#
AddType text/html .shtml
AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .shtml
#
# Action lets you define media types that will execute a script whenever
# a matching file is called. This eliminates the need for repeated URL
# pathnames for oft-used CGI file processors.
# Format: Action media/type /cgi-script/location
# Format: Action handler-name /cgi-script/location
#
#
# Customizable error responses come in three flavors:
# 1) plain text 2) local redirects 3) external redirects
#
# Some examples:
#ErrorDocument 500 "The server made a boo boo."
#ErrorDocument 404 /missing.html
#ErrorDocument 404 "/cgi-bin/missing_handler.pl"
#ErrorDocument 402 http://www.example.com/subscription_info.html
#
#
# Putting this all together, we can internationalize error responses.
#
# We use Alias to redirect any /error/HTTP_.html.var response to
# our collection of by-error message multi-language collections. We use
# includes to substitute the appropriate text.
#
# You can modify the messages' appearance without changing any of the
# default HTTP_.html.var files by adding the line:
#
# Alias /error/include/ "/your/include/path/"
#
# which allows you to create your own set of files by starting with the
# /var/www/error/include/ files and
# copying them to /your/include/path/, even on a per-VirtualHost basis.
#
Alias /error/ "/var/www/error/"
AllowOverride None
Options IncludesNoExec
AddOutputFilter Includes html
AddHandler type-map var
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
LanguagePriority en es de fr
ForceLanguagePriority Prefer Fallback
# ErrorDocument 400 /error/HTTP_BAD_REQUEST.html.var
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# ErrorDocument 401 /error/HTTP_UNAUTHORIZED.html.var
# ErrorDocument 403 /error/HTTP_FORBIDDEN.html.var
# ErrorDocument 404 /error/HTTP_NOT_FOUND.html.var
# ErrorDocument 405 /error/HTTP_METHOD_NOT_ALLOWED.html.var
# ErrorDocument 408 /error/HTTP_REQUEST_TIME_OUT.html.var
# ErrorDocument 410 /error/HTTP_GONE.html.var
# ErrorDocument 411 /error/HTTP_LENGTH_REQUIRED.html.var
# ErrorDocument 412 /error/HTTP_PRECONDITION_FAILED.html.var
# ErrorDocument 413 /error/HTTP_REQUEST_ENTITY_TOO_LARGE.html.var
# ErrorDocument 414 /error/HTTP_REQUEST_URI_TOO_LARGE.html.var
# ErrorDocument 415 /error/HTTP_UNSUPPORTED_MEDIA_TYPE.html.var
# ErrorDocument 500 /error/HTTP_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR.html.var
# ErrorDocument 501 /error/HTTP_NOT_IMPLEMENTED.html.var
# ErrorDocument 502 /error/HTTP_BAD_GATEWAY.html.var
# ErrorDocument 503 /error/HTTP_SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE.html.var
# ErrorDocument 506 /error/HTTP_VARIANT_ALSO_VARIES.html.var
#
# The following directives modify normal HTTP response behavior to
# handle known problems with browser implementations.
#
BrowserMatch "Mozilla/2" nokeepalive
BrowserMatch "MSIE 4\.0b2;" nokeepalive downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0
BrowserMatch "RealPlayer 4\.0" force-response-1.0
BrowserMatch "Java/1\.0" force-response-1.0
BrowserMatch "JDK/1\.0" force-response-1.0
#
# The following directive disables redirects on non-GET requests for
# a directory that does not include the trailing slash. This fixes a
# problem with Microsoft WebFolders which does not appropriately handle
# redirects for folders with DAV methods.
# Same deal with Apple's DAV filesystem and Gnome VFS support for DAV.
#
BrowserMatch "Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider" redirect-carefully
BrowserMatch "MS FrontPage" redirect-carefully
BrowserMatch "^WebDrive" redirect-carefully
BrowserMatch "^WebDAVFS/1.[0123]" redirect-carefully
BrowserMatch "^gnome-vfs/1.0" redirect-carefully
BrowserMatch "^XML Spy" redirect-carefully
BrowserMatch "^Dreamweaver-WebDAV-SCM1" redirect-carefully
#
# Allow server status reports generated by mod_status,
# with the URL of http://servername/server-status
# Change the ".example.com" to match your domain to enable.
#
#
# SetHandler server-status
# Order deny,allow
# Deny from all
# Allow from .example.com
#
#
# Allow remote server configuration reports, with the URL of
# http://servername/server-info (requires that mod_info.c be loaded).
# Change the ".example.com" to match your domain to enable.
#
#
# SetHandler server-info
# Order deny,allow
# Deny from all
# Allow from .example.com
#
#
# Proxy Server directives. Uncomment the following lines to
# enable the proxy server:
#
#
#ProxyRequests On
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#
#
# Order deny,allow
# Deny from all
# Allow from .example.com
#
#
# Enable/disable the handling of HTTP/1.1 "Via:" headers.
# ("Full" adds the server version; "Block" removes all outgoing Via: headers)
# Set to one of: Off | On | Full | Block
#
#ProxyVia On
#
# To enable a cache of proxied content, uncomment the following lines.
# See http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_cache.html for more details.
#
#
# CacheEnable disk /
# CacheRoot "/var/cache/mod_proxy"
#
#
#
# End of proxy directives.
### Section 3: Virtual Hosts
#
# VirtualHost: If you want to maintain multiple domains/hostnames on your
# machine you can setup VirtualHost containers for them. Most configurations
# use only name-based virtual hosts so the server doesn't need to worry about
# IP addresses. This is indicated by the asterisks in the directives below.
#
# Please see the documentation at
#
# for further details before you try to setup virtual hosts.
#
# You may use the command line option '-S' to verify your virtual host
# configuration.
#
# Use name-based virtual hosting.
#
#NameVirtualHost *:80
#
# NOTE: NameVirtualHost cannot be used without a port specifier
# (e.g. :80) if mod_ssl is being used, due to the nature of the
# SSL protocol.
#
#
# VirtualHost example:
# Almost any Apache directive may go into a VirtualHost container.
# The first VirtualHost section is used for requests without a known
# server name.
#
#
# ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host.example.com
# DocumentRoot /www/docs/dummy-host.example.com
# ServerName dummy-host.example.com
# ErrorLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-error_log
# CustomLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-access_log common
#
# This file is for Apache 1.3.x and Apache 2.0.x
#
# Add this to your Apache configuration, it makes
# the Hobbit webpages and cgi-scripts available in the
# "/hobbit" and "/hobbit-cgi" URLs.
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# NB: The "Alias" line below must NOT be used if you have
# the Hobbit webfiles as the root URL. In that case,
# you should instead set this:
#
# DocumentRoot /home/hobbit/server/www
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes MultiViews
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
ScriptAlias /hobbit-cgi/ "/home/hobbit/cgi-bin/"
AllowOverride None
Options ExecCGI Includes
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
ScriptAlias /hobbit-seccgi/ "/home/hobbit/cgi-secure/"
AllowOverride None
Options ExecCGI Includes
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
# Password file where users with access to these scripts are kept.
# Create it with "htpasswd -c /home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitpasswd USERNAME"
# Add more users / change passwords with "htpasswd /home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitpasswd
USERNAME"
#
# You can also use a group file to restrict admin access to members of a
# group, instead of anyone who is logged in. In that case you must setup
# the "hobbitgroups" file, and change the "Require" settings to require
# a specific group membership. See the Apache docs for more details.
AuthUserFile /home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitpasswd
AuthGroupFile /home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitgroups
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Hobbit Administration"
# "valid-user" restricts access to anyone who is logged in.
Require valid-user
# "group admins" restricts access to users who have logged in, AND
# are members of the "admins" group in hobbitgroups.
# Require group admins
8.3 Appendix 3
./configure output:
[root@hobbit01 hobbit-4.2.0]# ./configure
Configuration script for Hobbit
This script asks a few questions and builds a Makefile to compile Hobbit
Checking your make-utility
Checking pre-requisites for building Hobbit
Checking for fping ...
Hobbit has a built-in ping utility (hobbitping)
However, it is not yet fully stable and therefore it
may be best to use the external fping utility instead.
I found fping in /usr/sbin/fping
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Do you want to use it [Y/n] ?
y
Checking to see if '/usr/sbin/fping 127.0.0.1' works ...
127.0.0.1 is alive
OK, will use '/usr/sbin/fping' for ping tests
NOTE: If you are using an suid-root wrapper, make sure the 'hobbit'
user is also allowed to run fping without having to enter passwords.
For 'sudo', add something like this to your 'sudoers' file:
hobbit: ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/local/sbin/fping
Checking for RRDtool ...
test-rrd.c: In function âmainâ:
test-rrd.c:30: error: too few arguments to function ârrd_graphâ
make: *** [test-compile] Error 1
Not RRDtool 1.0.x, checking for 1.2.x
Found RRDtool include files in /usr/include
Found RRDtool libraries in /usr/lib
Linking RRD with PNG library: -L/usr/lib -lpng
Checking for PCRE ...
Found PCRE include files in /usr/include
Found PCRE libraries in /usr/lib
Checking for OpenSSL ...
Found OpenSSL include files in /usr/include
Found OpenSSL libraries in /usr/lib
Hobbit can use the OpenSSL library to test SSL-enabled services
like POP3S, IMAPS, NNTPS and TELNETS. If you have the OpenSSL
library installed, I recommend that you enable this.
Do you want to be able to test SSL-enabled services (y) ?
Checking for LDAP ...
test-ldap.c: In function âmainâ:
test-ldap.c:16: warning: implicit declaration of function âldap_initâ
test-ldap.c:16: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
Found LDAP include files in /usr/include
Found LDAP libraries in /usr/lib
Hobbit can use your OpenLDAP LDAP client library to test LDAP servers.
Do you want to be able to test LDAP servers (y) ?
Enable experimental support for LDAP/SSL (OpenLDAP 2.x only) (y) ?
Checking for Large File Support ...
Large File Support OK
Setting up for a Hobbit server
What userid will be running Hobbit [hobbit] ?
Found passwd entry for user hobbit:x:500:500::/home/hobbit:/bin/bash
Where do you want the Hobbit installation [/home/hobbit] ?
OK, will configure to use /home/hobbit as the Hobbit toplevel directory
What URL will you use for the Hobbit webpages [/hobbit] ?
Where to put the Hobbit CGI scripts [/home/hobbit/cgi-bin] ?
(Note: This is the filesystem directory - we will get to the URL shortly)
What is the URL for the Hobbit CGI directory [/hobbit-cgi] ?
(Note: This is the URL - NOT the filesystem directory)
********************** SECURITY NOTICE ****************************
If your Hobbit server is accessible by outsiders, then you should
restrict access to the CGI scripts that handle enable/disable of
hosts, and acknowledging of alerts. The easiest way to do this is
to put these in a separate CGI directory and require a password to
access them.
Even if your Hobbit server is on a secured, internal network, you
may want to have some operations (like disabling a host) be password-
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protected - that lets you see who disabled or acknowledged an alert.
Where to put the Hobbit Administration CGI scripts [/home/hobbit/cgi-secure] ?
(Note: This is the filesystem directory - we will get to the URL shortly)
What is the URL for the Hobbit Administration CGI directory [/hobbit-seccgi] ?
(Note: This is the URL - NOT the filesystem directory)
** Note that you may need to modify your webserver configuration.
** After installing, see /home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbit-apache.conf for an example configuration.
To generate Hobbit availability reports, your webserver
must have write-access to a directory below the Hobbit
top-level directory. I can set this up if you tell me
what group-ID your webserver runs with. This is typically
'nobody' or 'apache' or 'www-data'
If you dont know, just hit ENTER and we will handle it later.
What group-ID does your webserver use ?
apache
Where to put the Hobbit logfiles [/var/log/hobbit] ?
What is the name of this host [hobbit01] ?
What is the IP-address of this host [127.0.0.1] ?
10.0.0.2
Where should I install the Hobbit man-pages (/usr/local/man) ?
Using Linux Makefile settings
Created Makefile with the necessary information to build Hobbit
Some defaults are used, so do look at the Makefile before continuing.
Configuration complete - now run make (GNU make) to build the tools
8.4 Appendix 4
If you configured Hobbit to put the Administration CGI scripts into a separate
directory:
If you configured Hobbit to put the Administration CGI scripts into a separate directory
(recommended for better security), you will also need to setup the password-file that
controls access to this directory. Use the htpasswd command both to create the
password file and to add or delete users.
NOTE: It will first be necessary to create the directory structure for this.
Type the below:
# /usr/bin/htpasswd -c /usr/local/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitpasswd admin
Provide a new password when prompted as below:
New password:
Re-type new password:
Adding password for user admin
#
The -c option should only be used the first time, to create the password file.
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See the Apache documentation for details about how to use htpasswd.
8.5 Appendix 5
Manual Hobbit client Install & configuration
• Logon to the server where the client is to be installed.
• Copy the current version of Hobbit Windows client to the server.
• Unzip the Hobbit client into a temporary directory.
• Start the installation by double clicking on the msi file.
• Accept all of the defaults and complete the setup. [change install directory if required]
• Open Windows Explorer and browse to C:\Program Files\BBWin\etc.
• Open BBWin.cfg in Notepad.
• Edit the 4th line which starts replacing the
"yourfirstbbdisplay" with "hobbit01"
• Save the changes and close Notepad.
• Start Regedit.
• Expand HKLM->Software->BBWin->hostname.
• Double click on hostname and enter the name by which you wish Hobbit to refer to
this server. This must match with the name entered in the bb-hosts file on the Hobbit
server.
• Close Regedit.
• Open Services.
• The Big Brother Hobbit Client service should be installed and set to automatic. Start
the service.
• Close services.
• The installation is now complete.
Additional settings can be made by further modification to BBWin.cfg and additional files to
run further external scripts.
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