[hobbit] hobit problem

[Hubbard, Greg L]

My pleasure.  Good luck! 

-----Original Message-----
From: Rebecca Henderson [mailto:rebecca_henderson at link.freedom.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 1:59 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: RE: [hobbit] hobit problem

I have it working now. The dev box helped me prove that the server needs

Manage the config files  "as you had said" for thresholds for AIX.
I just need to move that to production.
Thanks for all you help. You pointed me in the right direction.
Testing server side vs. client side management. Very grateful for your
assistance!


-----Original Message-----
From: hobbit at hswn.dk [mailto:hobbit at hswn.dk]
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 11:04 AM
To: Rebecca Henderson; hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: RE: [hobbit] hobit problem
Importance: Low

Becki,

You need to pick one approach, and use that.  And how do you know it is
not working?

If you put your settings in hobbit-clients.cfg, they are never sent to
the client.  Instead, the Hobbit server takes these parameters into
account when it receives data from each Hobbit client.

>From the Hobbit man page for client-local.cfg:

"The client-local.cfg file contains settings that are used by each
Hobbit client when it runs on a monitored host. It provides a convenient
way of configuring clients from a central location without having to
setup special configuration maintenance tools on all clients. 
The client-local.cfg file is currently used to configure what logfiles
the client should fetch data from, to be used as the basis for the
"msgs" status column; and to configure which files and directories are
being monitored in the "files" status column. 

Note that there is a dependency between the client-local.cfg file and
the hobbit-clients.cfg(5) file. When monitoring e.g. a logfile, you must
first enter it into the client-local.cfg file, to trigger the Hobbit
client into reporting any data about the logfile. Next, you must
configure hobbit-clients.cfg so the Hobbit server knows what to look for
in the file data sent by the client. So: client-local.cfg defines what
raw data is collected by the client, and hobbit-clients.cfg defines how
to analyze them. "

Try this:

Pick a host (maybe your Hobbit server) that has a working client.
Update the hobbit-clients file with some silly settings, just for that
host.  Maybe you can alarm on a disk partition that is over 1 percent
used, or something like that.  Then sit back and watch for the status
updates and the alarms to appear.

Unless I have it wrong, you may be getting confused by the presence of
two very different configuration methods, coupled with the fact that
Hobbit is the "strong silent type" and quietly ignores many input
errors.

GLH

-----Original Message-----
From: Rebecca Henderson [mailto:rebecca_henderson at link.freedom.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 12:04 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: RE: [hobbit] hobit problem

Hi,
 I tried this both ways, with the --local on the client and editing the
Server side hobbit-clients.cfg, reloaded the server and still does not
pick up the new params or the IGNORE?
Any suggestions?
Thank you in advance,
Becki

-----Original Message-----
From: hobbit at hswn.dk [mailto:hobbit at hswn.dk]
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 2:14 PM
To: Rebecca Henderson; hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: RE: [hobbit] hobit problem
Importance: Low

Ok, thanks

-----Original Message-----
From: hobbit at hswn.dk [mailto:hobbit at hswn.dk]
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 1:21 PM
To: Rebecca Henderson; hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: RE: [hobbit] hobit problem
Importance: Low

Actually, I think AIX has problems with the client fetch business.  You
are better off with configuring these thresholds on the Hobbit server
and let it do the calculations.

-----Original Message-----
From: Rebecca Henderson [mailto:rebecca_henderson at link.freedom.com]
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 3:13 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: RE: [hobbit] hobit problem

Well, that's a good question. I would think they would use the client
side.
How would I know for sure.

-----Original Message-----
From: hobbit at hswn.dk [mailto:hobbit at hswn.dk]
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 12:44 PM
To: Rebecca Henderson; hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] hobit problem
Importance: Low

Obvious question, but are the clients configured to use the local
config, or are they configured to use the server-side config?

On Dec 10, 2007 3:38 PM, Rebecca Henderson <[
mailto:rebecca_henderson at link.freedom.com ]
rebecca_henderson at link.freedom.com> wrote:




Hello,
I have a problem with aix clients. 
Here is my localclient.cfg
DEFAULT
        UP      1h
        LOAD    5.0 10.0
        DISK    * 97 99
        MEMPHYS 100 101
        MEMSWAP 50 80
        SWAP 70 90
        MEMACT  90 97
        DISK /var IGNORE
I have tried
HOST=myservername
         UP      1h
        LOAD    5.0 10.0
        DISK    * 97 99
        MEMPHYS 100 101
        MEMSWAP 50 80
        SWAP 70 90
        MEMACT  90 97
        DISK /var IGNORE
When I make changes to the localclient.cfg it never picks up the
changes.
Like
The IGNORE?
Am I doing something wrong?
Host name is ok, ip is ok. 
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Becki
 




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