[hobbit] monitoring of server itself

[Johan Booysen]

Ok, so I created a brand new virtual machine (RHEL5) and installed only the hobbit rpm (not the hobbit-client rpm), and it monitors itself (with no configuration changes made at all).

But this doesn't work on a physical server.

Any ideas why?

-----Original Message-----
From: Johan Booysen [mailto:johan at matrix-data.co.uk] 
Sent: 12 August 2008 10:35
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: RE: [hobbit] monitoring of server itself

I spoke too soon.  Damn.  So annoying.

-----Original Message-----
From: Johan Booysen [mailto:johan at matrix-data.co.uk] 
Sent: 12 August 2008 10:24
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: RE: [hobbit] monitoring of server itself

Heeheehee - I just copied over the following from the test lab server to the production server, and now the server is monitoring itself without hobbit-client being installed:

/usr/lib/hobbit/server/etc
/var/lib/hobbit

I have no idea why, but will try to figure out exactly what I did.

:)

-----Original Message-----
From: Johan Booysen [mailto:johan at matrix-data.co.uk] 
Sent: 12 August 2008 09:17
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: RE: [hobbit] monitoring of server itself

Oh dear - I'm installing hobbit using the rpms which I included in a local yum repository.

When trying to install hobbit-client on the server, the result is:

yum install hobbit-client
Loading "security" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package hobbit-client.i386 0:4.2.0-1 set to be updated
--> Processing Conflict: hobbit conflicts hobbit-client
--> Processing Conflict: hobbit-client conflicts hobbit
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: hobbit conflicts with hobbit-client
Error: hobbit-client conflicts with hobbit

:(

I guess I'm just going to have to take another real good look at the test lab server and see what I did to get it to monitor itself without having the client installed.  I knew I should have written it down as I went along!!

-----Original Message-----
From: Johan Booysen [mailto:johan at matrix-data.co.uk] 
Sent: 12 August 2008 09:12
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: RE: [hobbit] monitoring of server itself

Thanks for the replies to my question.

That’s kinda weird because on my test lab server I most definitely did not install the client - I just double-checked, and it monitored itself quite happily...

Strange, but there you go.

-----Original Message-----
From: McDonald, Dan [mailto:Dan.McDonald at austinenergy.com] 
Sent: 11 August 2008 18:21
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] monitoring of server itself

On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 17:18 +0100, Johan Booysen wrote:
> I’ve now installed hobbit on the production server, and added the 
> clients.  Everything looks ok, but the server (defined by default as 
> localhost in bb-hosts) does not seem to monitor its own cpu, disk, 
> memory, ports and processes.
> 
>  
> 
> I’m pretty sure my test lab server monitored those by default.  Or is 
> there anything specific one should do on the server itself?  I may 
> have confused myself…
> 

You need to install (and start) the client on the server.

Check ghosts to see if it is trying to report a different name...

>  
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
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Daniel J McDonald, CCIE #2495, CISSP #78281, CNX Austin Energy http://www.austinenergy.com