Re: [hobbit] Re: disk monitoring

[Buchan Milne <bgmilne (at) staff.telkomsa.net>]

On Monday 21 August 2006 17:59, Michael Magua wrote:
> On 8/21/06, Michael Magua <m.magua (at) gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I have specified on the server to monitor a host's disks however it is
> > not working. On the server I have in ~/server/etc/bb-hosts:
> >
> > 10.1.1.254 mail # conn ssh smtp pop3 disk


Monitoring of disks does not need to be configured on the server. If the 
client sends the data, it will be monitored, and you should see a disk 
column, with the data reported by the client.

> >
> > And in ~/server/etc/hobbit-clients.cfg I have:
> >
> > HOST=mail
> >         DISK    / 90 95
> >         DISK    /boot 90 95

This is only the threshholds, and it won't help until you have some disk usage 
data reported by the client.

> > This is not being reported...
> >
> > Thanks
> > Michael
>
> Oh and on the client I have this in the log file:
>
> [hobbit (at) mail ~]$ tail -f client/logs/hobbitclient.log
> 2006-08-21 17:45:10 Failed to get a message, terminating
> 2006-08-21 17:50:11 Failed to get a message, terminating
> 2006-08-21 17:55:11 Failed to get a message, terminating

This may indicate that the client can't connect to the hobbit server. Test 
from the client with something like:

su - hobbit -c '$HOME/bin/bb xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx ping'

(replace xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx with the IP address or hostname of your hobbit server 
as you have configured it on the client).

You should get something like this back:
hobbitd 4.2.0

If you get an error, you should look at the usual culprits (if you used a 
hostname, test with the IP, if it doesn't work with the IP, check firewalls 
etc).

If it does work, it may be that the entry for the host in bb-hosts differs 
from the hostname the client is sending, check in the Ghost reports 
(Reports->Ghost Clients), and either correct the bb-hosts entry, the hostname 
the client uses, or map the hostname the client sends to its bb-hosts entry 
with the CLIENT keyword see bbhosts(5).


Regards,
Buchan

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Buchan Milne
ISP Systems Specialist
B.Eng,RHCE(803004789010797),LPIC-2(LPI000074592)