[hobbit] N00b starting to use Hobbit

johan.boye at latecoere.fr johan.boye at latecoere.fr
Fri Sep 21 12:25:11 CEST 2007


> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Klomp, H. [mailto:klomph at nlr.nl] 
> Envoyé : jeudi 20 septembre 2007 16:46
> À : hobbit at hswn.dk
> Objet : RE: [hobbit] N00b starting to use Hobbit
> 
> Hi, 
> 
> The hobbit client isn't listening on any port, but sending 
> the information to the hobbit server. 
> On the hobbit server yoy should see the client data. 
> It's always good to look at your ghost clients in hobbit. 
> Sometimes the client sends the data with a different name than
> the name you expect from the system. 


Where I could I find the data on the server and the ghost client name ?
Is there  a log or something very explicit?



> Regards, 
> 
> H. Klomp 
> National Aerospace Laboratory NLR 
> Dedicated to innovation in aerospace
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sigurður Guðbrandsson [mailto:sigurdur at raforninn.is] 
> Sent: donderdag 20 september 2007 15:48
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: RE: [hobbit] N00b starting to use Hobbit
> 
> Hi.
> 
> Did you configure the file /etc/default/hobbit-client to 
> include the correct IP address on the linux machines?
> 
> I think that the client doesn't listen if you've configured 
> the client to send the data instead of cache'ing it.
> (unless you are using a server on each machine, in which case 
> you have to proxy it forward to the main server).
> 
> As for starting the client, I usually just run once 
> '/etc/init.d/hobbit-client start' to get it running.
> 
> The user "hobbit" should not have any extra special priv's 
> unless you've configured your system to be anal in security.
> 
> I use the hobbit-client package on my Linux clients and I 
> don't have any hobbitd processes running, only hobbitlaunch.
> >From that information I would gather that you have installed 
> a server. Thus to get the information about your system out
> to the main hobbit, linux wise, you have to configure your 
> hobbitlaunch.cfg file to act as a proxy and forward all the
> messages to the main hobbit monitor.
> 
> I don't know if this answers any of your questions, but this 
> is the answer to the question that I think you're asking.
> 
> With regards,
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: johan.boye at latecoere.fr [mailto:johan.boye at latecoere.fr] 
> Sent: 20. september 2007 13:23
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: RE: [hobbit] N00b starting to use Hobbit
> 
> In fact, any of my hobbitd is running on the clients.
> I started them with "client/runclient.sh start" but nothing 
> listen in port 1984.
> /etc/services should be modified or something else ?
> The user "hobbit" should have special priviledges ?
> 
> It happens to me on linux & with bbwin on Windows.
> 
>    Thanks by advance
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Message d'origine-----
> > De : Sigurður Guðbrandsson [mailto:sigurdur at raforninn.is] Envoyé : 
> > mercredi 19 septembre 2007 14:52 À : hobbit at hswn.dk Objet : RE: 
> > [hobbit] N00b starting to use Hobbit
> > 
> > Hi.
> > 
> >  Did you configure the clients properly? That is, did you configure 
> > the correct IP address in the config files? Also, is there 
> a firewall 
> > blocking this anywhere?
> > 
> >  As for the port, you can change that in hobbitserver.cfg 
> file. Just 
> > remember to restart the hobbit server. And do tell the 
> clients to send 
> > to that port.
> > 
> > With regards,
> 
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