[hobbit] hobbit-clients.cfg

[Hubbard, Greg L]

The syslog messages are from bootpd.  Does this client use DHCP or
something to get an IP address?

Why are you running hobbit as root?  It is supposed to be run as a
non-privileged user on the client.  I don't know that that would make
much difference, other than the root user may not have the right
environment variables defined.

The hobbitclient.log is where you would expect to see messages about
communications problems. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Manocchia, Robert [mailto:Robert-Manocchia at IDEXX.com] 
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 9:41 AM
To: 'hobbit at hswn.dk'
Subject: RE: [hobbit] hobbit-clients.cfg

Here is a list of the log files on the client along with their location.
There is nothing but Hobbit launch info in the clientlaunch.log file and
nothing in the other one.

/usr/local/libexec/hobbit/client/logs > ll total 32
-rw-------   1 root       sys            484 Jun  1 10:19
clientlaunch.log
-rw-------   1 root       sys              6 Jun  1 10:19
clientlaunch.pid
-rw-------   1 root       sys              0 May 31 18:21
hobbitclient.log

There are just two hosts in the bb-hosts file, this one and the server.
They are correct.

 I checked the syslog and see a number of these messages from just this
morning.

May 29 08:16:53 dione bootpd[5656]: Option 43: Client specified
unacceptable option length (81 octets)



Robert Manocchia
UNIX System Administrator
IDEXX Laboratories
207 556-6860
EMail Robert-Manocchia at idexx.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Hubbard, Greg L [mailto:greg.hubbard at eds.com]
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 10:33 AM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: RE: [hobbit] hobbit-clients.cfg

Hobbit debugging 101 commences, I guess.  There should be some log files
in client/log -- look them over.  There aren't many.

How many hosts are there in your bb-hosts?  Could this system have been
given the wrong name or something like that?  You also might look at the
server logs too.

I am not much of a Hobbit expert, but others on the list are...

GLH 

-----Original Message-----
From: Manocchia, Robert [mailto:Robert-Manocchia at IDEXX.com]
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 9:22 AM
To: 'hobbit at hswn.dk'
Subject: RE: [hobbit] hobbit-clients.cfg

I confirmed that there were no hosts listed in the Ghost clients report.
I also checked twice that the client was running and I was able to
telnet to <Hobbitserver> 1984.

  Is there anything else I can check.

Robert Manocchia
UNIX System Administrator
IDEXX Laboratories
207 556-6860
EMail Robert-Manocchia at idexx.com

-----Original Message-----
From: henrik at hswn.dk [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk]
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 1:40 AM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] hobbit-clients.cfg

On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 10:15:16PM -0400, Manocchia, Robert wrote:
> I have the hobbit client running on HPUX 11.11 and I can see three 
> tests (conn, info, and trends). I have added the following to the 
> hobbit-clients.cfg file on the server.
> 
> HOST=dione.namerica.idexxi.com
>         UP      1h
>         LOAD    2.8 4.0
>         DISK    * 85 95
> 
> Which appears before the defaults keyword.
> 
> I restarted both the server and the client but still do not see the UP
LOAD
> and DISK columns.

Sounds like you haven't got the Hobbit client running on that server, or
at least - it isn't reporting into Hobbit with the right hostname.

Check the "Reports->Ghost clients" report and see if your host is listed
there - it will be, if the client uses a different hostname than what
you have in bb-hosts. In that case, put a CLIENT:clientname entry in
bb-hosts so Hobbit knows how to connect the two names.

If it's not in the Ghost client list, then you must check if the client
is running at all, and if it can connect to the Hobbit server to send
data (from the client, run "telnet HOBBITHOST 1984" and see if it will
connect).

BTW, there won't be an UP or LOAD column - these data are presented as
part of the "cpu" status.

And there's no need to restart anything when changing this
configuration.


Regards,
Henrik


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