[hobbit] New to Hobbit --- file monitoring

[Scott Mohnkern]

Thanks, this was the critical piece of information I was missing.  There are
client configuration files in /etc/hobbit that I was editing, and clearly
they aren't the correct ones.  I need to edit the ones in
/usr/lib/hobbit/client.

Back to editing what I hope is the correct config file.  I should be able to
put

FILE "/etc/passwd" GREEN NOEXIST TRACK
 in ~/usr/lib/hobbit/client/etc/hobbit-clients.cfg

and then start the hobbit client with /usr/lib/hobbit/runclient.sh start

 and get reporting, yes?


On 10/31/07, Hubbard, Greg L <greg.hubbard at eds.com> wrote:
>
>  ~/hobbit/client/* is where the client stuff lives.  The server runs a
> local client.  On remote systems, you usually clone the ~/hobbit/client/*
> part to other machines (assuming the same architecture).  As you get more
> into it, you will figure out how to make client distributions.
>
> If you are seeing anything reported for CPU, memory, disk, etc. on your
> server, then the client is running.  You don't have to do anything to enable
> it.
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* Scott Mohnkern [mailto:mohnkern at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 31, 2007 3:52 PM
> *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk
> *Subject:* Re: [hobbit] New to Hobbit --- file monitoring
>
> This may be where I'm getting confused.  On the machine where hobbit is
> reporting data, (i.e. the machinename I use for the url) does the client
> need to be running?  Where are the config files for the client typically
> stored?  I've been editing files /etc/hobbit But I wonder if those are just
> the server files, and not the client files (assuming the client needs to be
> running as well on the machine that is the server.
>
> Scott
>
>
> On 10/31/07, Stef Coene <stef.coene at docum.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Wednesday 31 October 2007, Hubbard, Greg L wrote:
> > > How long did you wait?  It takes a bit (10 minutes or more) for
> > changes
> > > in client-local.cfg to propagate to the clients (they have to detect
> > the
> > > change, and then pull it in, then act on it, and this takes a couple
> > of
> > > poll cycles).
> > I tried to set up file monitoring today and after 1hr, I fixed it by
> > restarting the hobbit server.  Not reloading, restarting.  So, restart
> > your
> > hobbit server after you changed the config files and the change is not
> > detected.
> >
> > You can also take a look in the tmp directory of the client. There
> > should be a
> > logfetch file if the client picks up the new configuration.  There
> > should be
> > 2 files, one with the settings on the hobbit server and one with the
> > status
> > (this is a file used by the hobbit client to track the logfile).
> >
> >
> > Stef
> >
> > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to
> > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk
> >
> >
> >
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.xymon.com/pipermail/xymon/attachments/20071031/2069b17c/attachment.html>