[hobbit] drop test not sticking...

[Dean Casey]

Since these are standard tests, as long as you have the host itself
listed in the bb-hosts file, they will re-appear unless you use the
"no<test>" tag - noconn noprocs nports, etc - as outlined in the help
files. Use those tags at the appropriate level in the bb-hosts file and
all will be well.

 

Dean Casey 

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From: Benjamin Gagnon [mailto:benjamin.gagnon at yahoo.ca] 
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 6:06 AM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] drop test not sticking...

 

Thank you very much for your solution.  I have dropped both procs and
ports so far.  

I hacked the hobbit-client-<OS>.sh script on the client, restarted the
client then dropped the tests once again from the server.  Those 2 tests
are now gone.

I'm not sure how to get rid of msgs and files though.  Doesn't appear to
be any entry for these in the hobbit-client-<OS>.sh script.  Anyone?
There are no uncommented FILE or LOG entries in the client's
localclient.cfg or in the server's hobbit-clients.cfg files.

I'm confused as to why it is so difficult to remove standard client-side
tests that I do not wish to perform at this point in time.  

Benjamin

----- Original Message ----
From: Buchan Milne <bgmilne at staff.telkomsa.net>
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Cc: Benjamin Gagnon <benjamin.gagnon at yahoo.ca>
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 4:23:55 AM
Subject: Re: [hobbit] drop test not sticking...

On Monday 19 March 2007, Benjamin Gagnon wrote:
> Hi, I'm having a problem with dropping a host's test.
>
> I perform the following command from the server (there are no output
errors
> or errors in the error log)...
>
>  bb 127.0.0.1 "drop opsappsl.lac-bac.gc.ca ports"
>
> Within a couple of minutes the ports column gets dropped and then a
couple
> of minutes later the column reappears.  So the drop command works ok
but
> the settings do not stick.
>
> I've RTFM'd and searched the web for answers to no avail. Anyone have
any
> ideas?

To remove a test:
1)Remove the test from the configuration file for the server that is
running 
the test (so that no new data is generated)
2)Drop the test (to prevent the test from going purple now that it
receives no 
data)

However, note that the ports test is not run from the Hobbit server, the
ports 
data is supplied by the client ...

If you were dropping the entire host, this would make sense, but I can't
see 
why you would want to drop the ports test for one host (and ... this is
a bit 
tricky). Maybe you can explain?

You could accomplish this by hacking up the hobbit-client-<OS>.sh script
on 
the client.

Regards,
Buchan

-- 
Buchan Milne
ISP Systems Specialist - Monitoring/Authentication Team Leader
B.Eng,RHCE(803004789010797),LPIC-2(LPI000074592)

 

 

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