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.
<br><br>Back to editing what I hope is the correct config file. I should be able to put <span class="q"><br><br>FILE "/etc/passwd" GREEN NOEXIST TRACK<br></span> in ~/usr/lib/hobbit/client/etc<div id="mb_8">/hobbit-
clients.cfg <br><br>and then start the hobbit client with /usr/lib/hobbit/runclient.sh start
<br><br> and get reporting, yes?<br></div><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/31/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Hubbard, Greg L</b> <<a href="mailto:greg.hubbard@eds.com">greg.hubbard@eds.com</a>> wrote:</span>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">~/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.</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">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.</font></span></div><br>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span class="q"><b>From:</b> Scott Mohnkern
[mailto:<a href="mailto:mohnkern@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">mohnkern@gmail.com</a>] <br></span><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, October 31, 2007 3:52
PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:hobbit@hswn.dk" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">hobbit@hswn.dk</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [hobbit] New to Hobbit
--- file monitoring<br></font><br></div><div><span class="e" id="q_115f7eaab0b2e604_3">
<div></div>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.
<br><br>Scott<br><br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/31/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Stef
Coene</b> <<a href="mailto:stef.coene@docum.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">stef.coene@docum.org</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On
Wednesday 31 October 2007, Hubbard, Greg L wrote:<br>> How long did you
wait? It takes a bit (10 minutes or more) for changes<br>> in
client-local.cfg to propagate to the clients (they have to detect
the<br>> change, and then pull it in, then act on it, and this takes a
couple of <br>> poll cycles).<br>I tried to set up file monitoring today
and after 1hr, I fixed it by<br>restarting the hobbit server. Not
reloading, restarting. So, restart your<br>hobbit server after
you changed the config files and the change is not <br>detected.<br><br>You
can also take a look in the tmp directory of the client. There should be
a<br>logfetch file if the client picks up the new
configuration. There should be<br>2 files, one with the settings
on the hobbit server and one with the status <br>(this is a file used by the
hobbit client to track the logfile).<br><br><br>Stef<br><br>To unsubscribe
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