[hobbit] Running logfetch 'by hand'

[Andrew Jackson]

Thanks Henrik,

I'll look at msgcache/hobbitfetch. I got the logfetch going at the end
of last week after leaving it for a while. The info I needed was, of
course, in the man page. I was trying to think of a nice way to say that
'I'm stupid and should have read the man page' to close the question
when I picked up your reply Monday morning. I've obviously been fighting
unix systems far too long and should take up knitting.

Thanks again.

Andy J.

-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] 
Sent: 08 October 2006 11:09
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Running logfetch 'by hand'

(this message was eaten by my spamfilter for some odd reason)

On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 12:38:16PM +0100, Andrew Jackson wrote:
> Just thought I'd raise this up again. What I am trying to do is
monitor
> a few machines outside our firewall. I am firing off
> hobbitclient-<OS>.sh using ssh from the hobbit server then submitting
> the output from the hobbit server like the suggestion in the
discussion
> on agentless clients. Unlike the agentless client example I have
> installed the hobbit client on the target machine and fire off the
> hobbitclient-<OS>.sh by using a command associated with the ssh key
> being used for access. In the agentless client discussion the output
> from the data submission which is used as the configuration file for
> logfetch is discarded. I can see it being generated in hobbitclient.sh
> when the client submits it's own data. I know I would have to get this
> file back to the client if I wanted log monitoring on my systems
outside
> the firewall. What I can't find is where the logfetch status file
> (second argument for logfetch in hobbitclient-<OS>.sh) comes from or
is
> updated. 

The second file is maintained by logfetch itself. It contains the
locations into the various logfiles that logfetch has processed in
earlier runs.

Instead of ssh'ing into the box, perhaps you could use the
msgcache/hobbitfetch utilities ? That lets you run the normal client on
a box together with msgcache, and then hobbitfetch contacts the client
to pick up the data. Log monitoring does work normally with that setup.


Regards,
Henrik


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