[hobbit] Hobbit client sending data but server seems to not get data.

Henrik Stoerner henrik at hswn.dk
Thu Apr 20 22:01:36 CEST 2006


On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 03:28:00PM -0400, Langford, Kenneth wrote:
> 
> I am switching my clients over from using the big brother client to using the hobbit client.  I am having problems with 2 of my clients that are running Red Hat 9.  They seem to be sending data but the server is not collecting the data.  Other client systems are working. Any ideas of where I need to look?????

Most common cause for this is that the clients are reporting data with a
hostname which is different than what you have in the bb-hosts file.
Typically, one side has the fully-qualified hostname, and the other
only has the raw hostname (without domain).

The client uses the "uname -n" command to determine what name it uses to
report data. Check if this matches the name you have in bb-hosts. If it
doesn't, you can either start the client with the
"--hostname=my.host.name" option, or you can put a CLIENT:clienthostname
tag on the host definition in the bb-hosts file.


Henrik




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