[hobbit] hobbit-clients configuration not taking

Greg Hubbard glh.forums at gmail.com
Wed Sep 9 22:07:20 CEST 2009


Good.  So if you tried PROC on "two" you should get something.  Something is
deeply wrong on the other two hosts.  And Xymon likes to silently ignore
errors.

My **guess** is that something crummy has happened to the failing clients.
Since there is not much to them they should be easy enough to check out.
Might be a good education.

Did you install from RPM, or compile your own copy of the client?  Are you
able to reinstall the client piece from a known working source?  Are you
using the "client update" piece where the client can fetch a tarball from
the server and install it on its own?

GLH


On 9/9/09, Josh Luthman <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com> wrote:
>
> Suggesting that the bbc is capable of labeling tests.  The hobbit-clients'
> data is staying clear.
>
> two.myhost.com does have data and it is [ps] and [msgs:/var/log/messages]
>
> one.myhost.com and three.myhost.com has no data on the server.
>
> hobbitclient.log is full of:
> 2009-09-09 14:38:44 Failed to get a message, terminating
>
> $bb server.fqdn.com ping #this command works
> hobbit-4.2.0
>
> This is running a CentOS release 5.2 (Final) and CentOS release 5 (Final)
> respectively - "Red Hat Linux".
>
> One thread on the archives was able to fix it by installing the Debian
> package.  Obviously I can't do that.  The strange part is I executed the
> exact same commands across all three - the same ones I put up here
>
> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Administration_Guide/Compiling_on_CentOS
>
> Perhaps there is a package missing of some sort?  Is there a way to get
> more detailed logs from the hobbitclient.log?
>
> Josh Luthman
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>
> "When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however
> improbable, must be the truth."
> --- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
>
>
>  On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Greg Hubbard <glh.forums at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Then what was this all about?  I guess I read it wrong.
>>
>> *"However on an bbc 1.9i btf (better then free) client it is pushing
>> PROCs to the server:
>>
>> #cat ~bbuser/bbc1.9i-btf/etc/bbwarnsetup.cfg:
>> ...
>> PROCS="bbrun"                           # (YELLOW) WARN IF NOT RUNNING
>> PAGEPROC="cron"                         # (RED) PAGE IF NOT RUNNING
>> export PROCS PAGEPROC"
>> *
>> What you might want to do is track down the "raw data" being sent by these
>> hosts to see if they contain a PROC secion.  I think you can get to it on
>> each host through the
>> http://<xymon-server>/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?CLIENT=<client<http://%3cxymon-server%3e/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?CLIENT=%3Cclient>>
>> link.  On Solaris you would look for a [ps] header, then a list of
>> processes.  This will show you that the data is getting pumped over.  (For
>> Linux, etc. there might be something different).
>>
>> And, if your config fragment is correct, you would not expect any PROC
>> checks for one or two, just for three, since you only defined them for three
>> and there are no PROC checks in the DEFAULT section.
>>
>
>


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