[hobbit] purple clients problem

Whilding, Craig Craig_Whilding at mentor.com
Fri Jan 13 15:20:57 CET 2006


If you start the client with --hostname=MYHOSTNAME (e.g --hostname=ariadne.imada.sdu.dk) it will report using this FQDN and you wont have to change bb-hosts.

Craig 

-----Original Message-----
From: Longina Przybyszewska [mailto:longina at imada.sdu.dk] 
Sent: 13 January 2006 14:11
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] purple clients problem

still I have some linux clients that use single name instead of FQname -
they run the same software now ;)
I wouldn't like to mess the bb-hosts file since all our workstations 
suppose to be identical!

So, how is made the first line in client's msg.txt:

client aida.linux
  or
client ariadne,imada,sdu,dk.linux

Regards
Longina

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Longina Przybyszewska, system programmer
Dept. of Math. & Comp. Sci. - IMADA
University of Southern Denmark, Odense
Campusvej 55,DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark

tel: +45 6550 2359 - http://www.imada.sdu.dk         email: longina at imada.sdu.dk
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On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Longina Przybyszewska wrote:

> UPS. I have just noticed that there are bbrun processes running
> on those 2 servers from old BB installation.
> I think  it explains all my the troubles -... make upgrades carefully...
>
> By the way , is there a special bb_channel for BBclient-Hobbitserver
> communication?
>
> regards
> Longina
>
>
>
> --
> Longina Przybyszewska, system programmer
> Dept. of Math. & Comp. Sci. - IMADA
> University of Southern Denmark, Odense
> Campusvej 55,DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark
>
> tel: +45 6550 2359 - http://www.imada.sdu.dk         email: 
> longina at imada.sdu.dk
> --
>
> On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Longina Przybyszewska wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Henrik Stoerner wrote:
>> 
>>>> in bb-hosts:
>>>> ----
>>>> 130.225.128.126   sieglinde.imada.sdu.dk
>>>> 130.225.128.167   zaira.imada.sdu.dk
>>>> 
>>>> ----
>>>> in ghosts:
>>>> 130.225.128.126 reported host sieglinde
>>>> 130.225.128.167 reported host zaira
>>>> -----
>>> 
>>> The hostname you see in the "ghosts" list is the hostname the the
>>> clients use when they report data. This *must* match the one found
>>> in the bb-hosts file, or Hobbit will simply discard the client message
>>> because it doesn't know which host it belongs to.
>>> 
>>> So you can either change your clients to use the "--hostname" option
>>> (e.g. use "--hostname=sieglinde.imada.sdu.dk" when calling
>>> runclient.sh), or add "CLIENT:sieglinde" to the entries in the
>>> bb-hosts file.
>> 
>> It seems to partly(!) explain my puzzle:)
>> The way client presents to the server obviously was changed in the last 
>> upgrade (the day since my problems started).
>> The workstations which were down during my hobbit uprade could after 
>> restart continue with old hobbit_client until they become først PURPLE then 
>> '-' and were not upgraded.
>> 
>> Still I don't understand why my 2 servers (sparc/solaris9) stay GREEN on 
>> display even if there is an obvious name mismatch - AND there is no shade 
>> for incoming data from both servers in clientdata.log! (I am running 
>> hobbitd_client with --debug option)
>> 
>> in bb-hosts:
>> ----
>> 130.225.128.9      bach.imada.sdu.dk            # ssh dns rpc=mount,nfs
>> 130.225.128.10     mozart.imada.sdu.dk          # http://www.imada.sdu.dk
>> 
>> in ghosts:
>> ----
>> 130.225.128.9   reported host bach
>> 130.225.128.10  reported host mozart
>> 
>> in ...client/tmp/msg.txt:
>> ----bach----
>> client bach.sunos
>> [date]
>> Fri Jan 13 13:37:05 MET 2006
>> ....
>> 
>> ----mozart----
>> client mozart.sunos
>> [date]
>> Fri Jan 13 12:43:58 CET 2006
>> ....
>> 
>> on DISPLAY:
>> ----
>> fredag 13 januar 2006, 13:39:17 CET - Disk partitions on 
>> mozart.imada.sdu.dk OK
>> fredag 13 januar 2006, 13:39:17 CET up: 164 day(s), 4 users, 77 procs, 
>> load=11
>> 
>> regards
>> Longina
>> 
>> --
>> Longina Przybyszewska, system programmer
>> Dept. of Math. & Comp. Sci. - IMADA
>> University of Southern Denmark, Odense
>> Campusvej 55,DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark
>> 
>> tel: +45 6550 2359 - http://www.imada.sdu.dk         email: 
>> longina at imada.sdu.dk
>> --
>> 
>



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