[hobbit] hobbit-clients.cfg not working?

[Gary Baluha]

I usually start my troubleshooting by making sure I have a "CLIENT:" entry
for the host in question, since the host needs to be working properly
first.  That, and making sure the IP is actually the IP the host is
reporting itself as.

Henrik can correct me if I'm wrong, but from my experience, Hobbit matches
the data coming in to it from the clients by IP address (as well as using
the IP address for network tests).  I haven't figured out exactly where the
name comes into play, but it seems to use the name from the second field
after the IP address is processed.  If the name and IP don't match and there
isn't a CLIENT: field, it seems to get confused.

My point being, the entry in the bb-hosts file might not be related to the
problem you are having, but it's a good starting point.

On 10/30/07, Stefan van der Walt <skjoldar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> That is the case, but that will typically break the whole reporting of the
> host, and not
> just one aspect of a hsot's monitoring?
>
> On 30/10/2007, Gary Baluha <gumby3203 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 10/30/07, Stefan van der Walt <skjoldar at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Yes.
> > > 10.254.8.140    cypher # conn cpu disk files memory msgs ports procs
> > > CLIENT:cypher
> > > It still does not work.
> >
> >
> > That still isn't the FQDN of the machine cypher.  If the machine is
> > literally cypher.xyz.com , I meant to add exactly CLIENT=cypher.xyz.com .
> > I have had this bite me a few times myself.
> >
> > On 25/10/2007, Gary Baluha <gumby3203 at gmail.com > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Have you tried adding "CLIENT= cypher.xyz.com" to the bb-hosts entry
> > > > for cypher?
> > > >
> > > > On 10/24/07, Stefan van der Walt <skjoldar at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Yes, the client data is uploaded without any problem and is
> > > > > displayed fine.
> > > > > it's just the new thresholds on the server side config that is not
> > > > > working.
> > > > >
> > > > > Second item is also properly configured.
> > > > >
> > > > > On 24/10/2007, Rich Smrcina < rsmrcina at wi.rr.com> wrote:
> > > > > > And the second item?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Does the setting for BBDISP in hobbitclient.cfg on the client
> > > > > match the
> > > > > > IP Address of the Hobbit server?
> > > > > >
> > > > >
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