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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=860263020-09092009><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>re: client update -- it is a murky subject. It is
documented somewhere, but I forget where. what you do is tar up your
client directory and compress it, and then put it somewhere. then you can refer
to it in the client-local.cfg file. When the client checks in it will
check to see if there is a new version. If so, it downloads it and
installs it (by unpacking the tar ball). This works for Solaris, but does
not work for AIX. I would use it carefully. This also means that you
have to deal with each host individually in your client-local file, but this is
not a bad thing unless you have thousands of them.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=860263020-09092009><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>GLH</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Josh Luthman
[mailto:josh@imaginenetworksllc.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, September 09,
2009 3:24 PM<BR><B>To:</B> hobbit@hswn.dk<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [hobbit]
hobbit-clients configuration not taking<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>Confirmed - PROCS works on the host in which the server is getting
client data from.<BR><BR>I compiled on each client individually (see the last
link of my last post). Exact same commands on each - literally copy/paste
short of root passwords. I will recompile the two failing clients tonight
to see what happens.<BR><BR>I wasn't aware of any client update. Assuming
this is not default, but still, is there a man page detailing this?<BR><BR
clear=all>Josh Luthman<BR>Office: 937-552-2340<BR>Direct: 937-552-2343<BR>1100
Wayne St<BR>Suite 1337<BR>Troy, OH 45373<BR><BR>"When you have eliminated the
impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth."<BR>---
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<BR><BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Greg Hubbard <SPAN
dir=ltr><<A
href="mailto:glh.forums@gmail.com">glh.forums@gmail.com</A>></SPAN>
wrote:<BR>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>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.<BR> </DIV>
<DIV>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?</DIV>
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<DIV>GLH</DIV>
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<DIV class=im><SPAN class=gmail_quote>On 9/9/09, <B
class=gmail_sendername>Josh Luthman</B> <<A
href="mailto:josh@imaginenetworksllc.com"
target=_blank>josh@imaginenetworksllc.com</A>> wrote:</SPAN> </DIV>
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">Suggesting
that the bbc is capable of labeling tests. The hobbit-clients' data is
staying clear.<BR><BR><A href="http://two.myhost.com/"
target=_blank>two.myhost.com</A> does have data and it is [ps] and
[msgs:/var/log/messages]<BR><BR><A href="http://one.myhost.com/"
target=_blank>one.myhost.com</A> and <A href="http://three.myhost.com/"
target=_blank>three.myhost.com</A> has no data on the
server.<BR><BR>hobbitclient.log is full of:<BR>2009-09-09 14:38:44 Failed to
get a message, terminating<BR><BR>$bb <A href="http://server.fqdn.com/"
target=_blank>server.fqdn.com</A> ping #this command
works<BR>hobbit-4.2.0<BR><BR>This is running a CentOS release 5.2 (Final)
and CentOS release 5 (Final) respectively - "Red Hat Linux".<BR><BR>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<BR><A
href="http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Administration_Guide/Compiling_on_CentOS"
target=_blank>http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Administration_Guide/Compiling_on_CentOS</A><BR><BR>Perhaps
there is a package missing of some sort? Is there a way to get more
detailed logs from the hobbitclient.log?<SPAN><BR><BR clear=all>Josh
Luthman<BR>Office: 937-552-2340<BR>Direct: 937-552-2343<BR>1100 Wayne
St<BR>Suite 1337<BR>Troy, OH 45373<BR><BR>"When you have eliminated the
impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the
truth."<BR>--- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<BR><BR><BR></SPAN>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Greg Hubbard <SPAN
dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:glh.forums@gmail.com"
target=_blank>glh.forums@gmail.com</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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<DIV>Then what was this all about? I guess I read it wrong.</DIV>
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<DIV><I>"However on an bbc 1.9i btf (better then free) client it is
pushing PROCs to the server:<BR><BR>#cat
~bbuser/bbc1.9i-btf/etc/bbwarnsetup.cfg:<BR>...<BR>PROCS="bbrun"
# (YELLOW) WARN IF NOT
RUNNING<BR>PAGEPROC="cron"
# (RED) PAGE IF NOT RUNNING<BR>export PROCS PAGEPROC"<BR></I></DIV></DIV>
<DIV>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 <A
href="http://%3cxymon-server%3e/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?CLIENT=%3Cclient"
target=_blank>http://<xymon-server>/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?CLIENT=<client</A>>
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).</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>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.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></DIV></DIV><BR><BR
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<DIV class=h5><BR>-- <BR>Disclaimer: 1) all opinions are my own, 2)
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are paying for it, or your money cheerfully refunded.
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