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Re: [hobbit] Hobbit client 4.2 running in local mode - FILE, LOG and DIR tests

Henrik Stoerner a écrit : 
The local-mode client is not very well documented.
Your FILE, DIR and LOG checks fail because the client-side utilities
don't know what to check. Normally they would receive this information
from the Hobbit server and store it locally in the $BBTMP/logfetch.$MACHINEDOTS.cfg
directory. But since you're running in local mode that does not happen,
and the end result is that you have none of these checks active.

So what you need to do basically is to put the "dir:..." etc lines
into the file ~hobbit/client/tmp/logfetch.`uname -n`.cfg

Thanks, it works.


Now I have another question :-)

My main idea is to deploy the Hobbit client (in local mode) by providing tar files for every Unix flavor, with the less configuration possible on the Hobbit server.
Would it be possible to either :
- handle the content of the ~client/etc/localclient.cfg file, including DIR, FILE and LOG when running in local mode, or
- handle ~client/tmp/logfetch.localhost.cfg instead of ~client/tmp/logfetch.`uname -n`.cfg ?

I'm trying to make the local-mode client so difficult to configure
that you'll just give up and use the server-side config :-))

I'd like to use it, but people here have been using Big Brother clients (ie. locally confugured) for years...

It shouldn't, unless you have configured a "clientversion:..."
setting in the client-local.cfg file (in your case: the
~hobbit/client/tmp/logfetch.HOSTNAME.cfg file). But if you don't want to fetch the client configuration from the server, I
really wonder why you'd want to fetch the whole client package
remotely ... ?

I was just trying this feature...

Regards,

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Frédéric Mangeant

Steria EDC Sophia-Antipolis