[hobbit] New to Hobbit --- file monitoring

[Scott Mohnkern]

25 minutes and counting.

I'm actually trying to monitor on the server.  (So machine X is where the
hobbit server is running and machine X has the file I'm trying to monitor).

Scott


On 10/31/07, Hubbard, Greg L <greg.hubbard at eds.com> wrote:
>
>  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.
>
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> 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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