[hobbit] Troubleshooting windows clients

[Daniel Elswit]

Thanks very much!  This was my issue.  It works now.

--Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: FARRIOR, Andy [mailto:Andy.Farrior at victoriacollege.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 9:22 AM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Troubleshooting windows clients



If you look at the "hobbitd" status for your Hobbit server, you may find
a list of "Ghost reports".

If you do, then that could mean the clients are reporting hostnames that
Hobbit doesn't recognize.

If that's the case you can do one of two things:
 1 - modify the registry setting on each client to match the hostname in
bb-hosts:
   [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\BBWin]
   "hostname"="%computername%.yourdomain.com"

 2 - add the "CLIENT" tag to the end of your windows clients in
bb-hosts.
    0.0.0.0   win-server.yourdomain.com  # CLIENT:WIN-SERVER


Hope that helps.
Andy






-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Elswit [mailto:de21 at cornell.edu] 
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 9:22 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: [hobbit] Troubleshooting windows clients

Hello... now that I've got Hobbit running, I'm trying to get my Windows
clients talking to it. Where does the data from the Windows client go
when
it comes into the server?  I found an msg. file on the client that had
all
the correct info... I'm assuming that gets transferred by bbwin to the
server.  The client's cfg file is pointing to the server and I'm able to
telnet to port 1984 on the server from the system running the client, so
I'm
suspecting something's up on the server side.  The event log on the
Win32
client shows that the various dlls have successfully loaded with no
errors.
Also nothing unusual appears in the logs on the server.  What I get is
just
the connection, info, and trend - no CPU, ram, and other stats.  I've
modified the hobbit-clients.cfg file to include:

HOST=%win.* #Windows hosts
	LOAD	80 90 	# Load thresholds in %
	DISK	C 50 80	# Hard drive (can be drive or share)
	MEMPHYS	90 100
	MEMSWAP	90 95
	MEMACT	90 97
	PORT	"LOCAL=%([.:]135)$" state=LISTENING TEXT=rpc
	PROC	BBWin.exe 1 1
	PROC	svchost.exe 3 4
	LOG	%.* %.*error.* COLOR=yellow

Thanks!

--Dan



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