[hobbit] HPUX Client problems

Henrik Stoerner henrik at hswn.dk
Tue Sep 27 22:38:34 CEST 2005


On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 03:16:24PM -0500, Adam Scheblein wrote:
> 
> I recently put the HPUX client onto 5 11.11 boxes and the clients seem 
> to be running, but the server (running the latest snapshot) is not 
> reporting that it is getting any information from these servers.  I have 
> tried looking in the logs, and there doesn't seem to be anything out of 
> place... Any ideas??

The most common cause of this is that the hostname used by the clients
doesn't match what's in your bb-hosts file on the server.

The clients pick up the hostname reported by "uname -n" - and often,
that is without the domain part. So your clients are reporting as
host "foo", but the Hobbit server expects it to be "foo.bar.com".

Either run the client with "--hostname=foo.bar.com", or put a
"CLIENT:foo" tag on the host in the bb-hosts file on the Hobbit 
server. (Note that the --hostname commandline option goes on the
runclient.sh command that starts the client, and it is only 
available with the client version from the snapshots - not in 
the 4.1.1 clients).


Regards,
Henrik




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