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color=#0000ff size=2>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).</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>And, of course, you must have a working agent on the remote
machine. The Hobbit server can run network tests (pings, http, etc.) but
it requires remote agents in order to perform many of the client tests (CPU,
memory, disk, file, messages, ports, etc.)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>GLH</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Scott Mohnkern
[mailto:mohnkern@gmail.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, October 31, 2007 3:00
PM<BR><B>To:</B> hobbit@hswn.dk<BR><B>Subject:</B> [hobbit] New to Hobbit ---
file monitoring<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>I'm relatively new to Hobbit, but I'm learning quickly. I'm
in a mixed OS environment, with one Linux server, one linux notebook, 2
windows machines, a network printer and a VOIP box. I've managed to get
the bb-hosts file so it monitors all the equipment, and I've got the ports set
so it's checking ports on the server. <BR><BR>What I'd like to do is do file
checking, starting with just to see if a file exists. <BR><BR>I added
the following to /etc/hobbit/hobbit-clients.cfg<BR><BR>FILE "/etc/passwd"
GREEN NOEXIST TRACK<BR><BR>Just to have it check to see if /etc/passwd
existed. (I may have this reversed, but more on that
later).<BR><BR>Restarting hobbit, and it still showed "no files being
checked"<BR><BR>So I added the following to /etc/hobbit//client-
local.cfg<BR><BR>file:/etc/passwd<BR><BR>Restarted Hobbit, still
nothing.<BR><BR>I'm clearly missing a piece to the puzzle. There's
also a directory /usr/lib/hobbit but I can't imagine any configure files go
there. <BR><BR><BR>If it helps, I'm running Ubuntu 7.10.<BR><BR>So if I want
to monitor for file existence, on the server, where (and what) do I plug
in?<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>