[hobbit] New to Hobbit --- file monitoring

[Hubbard, Greg L]

How long did you wait?  It takes a bit (10 minutes or more) for changes
in client-local.cfg to propagate to the clients (they have to detect the
change, and then pull it in, then act on it, and this takes a couple of
poll cycles).
 
And, of course, you must have a working agent on the remote machine.
The Hobbit server can run network tests (pings, http, etc.) but it
requires remote agents in order to perform many of the client tests
(CPU, memory, disk, file, messages, ports, etc.)
 
GLH


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	From: Scott Mohnkern [mailto:mohnkern at gmail.com] 
	Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 3:00 PM
	To: hobbit at hswn.dk
	Subject: [hobbit] New to Hobbit --- file monitoring
	
	
	I'm relatively new to Hobbit, but I'm learning quickly.  I'm in
a mixed OS environment, with one Linux server, one linux notebook, 2
windows machines, a network printer and a VOIP box.  I've managed to get
the bb-hosts file so it monitors all the equipment, and I've got the
ports set so it's checking ports on the server. 
	
	What I'd like to do is do file checking, starting with just to
see if a file exists.  
	
	I added the following to /etc/hobbit/hobbit-clients.cfg
	
	FILE "/etc/passwd" GREEN NOEXIST TRACK
	
	Just to have it check to see if /etc/passwd existed.  (I may
have this reversed, but more on that later).
	
	Restarting hobbit, and it still showed "no files being checked"
	
	So I added the following to /etc/hobbit//client- local.cfg
	
	file:/etc/passwd
	
	Restarted Hobbit, still nothing.
	
	I'm clearly missing a piece to the puzzle.   There's also a
directory /usr/lib/hobbit but I can't imagine any configure files go
there. 
	
	
	If it helps, I'm running Ubuntu 7.10.
	
	So if I want to monitor for file existence, on the server, where
(and what) do I plug in?
	
	
	
	
	
	
	

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