[hobbit] ghostlist

[Hubbard, Greg L]

I thought "ghosts" were clients that send in data, but their name is not
a match in the bb-hosts file.  If you decide to get rid of a client, you
have to a) update bb-hosts to suspend polling, and b) update the client
so either the agent does not run, or so that it sends its data
elsewhere.
 
GLH


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	From: Ralph Mitchell [mailto:ralphmitchell at gmail.com] 
	Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 11:57 AM
	To: hobbit at hswn.dk
	Subject: Re: [hobbit] ghostlist
	
	
	On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Phil Wild <philwild at gmail.com>
wrote:
	

		Perhaps there is something wrong with my install then, I
notice changes to the bb-hosts file as they are picked up (i.e. without
having to force the change with s restart or HUP) yet I have waited over
24 hours and the output from bb ghostlist is still reporting an entry as
a ghost. A full restart of hobbit resolves the issue.


	I'm getting the same thing, though up to now it wasn't bothering
me...  :)
	

	It has been at least 3 days since I last updated my bb-hosts
file to remove a couple of systems.  I also did "bb localhost 'drop
xxx'".  There's no information left in the data directory belonging to
those systems, and yet they still show up in the ghostlist.  
	
	The removed systems also show up in the Ghost Client report in
the web page.  After 5 minutes, they disappear, then return some time
later.  Even after they drop out of the Ghost Client report, they still
show up in "bb localhost ghostlist".
	
	This is in a test system running the Jan 25 2008 snapshot of
4.3.0.
	
	Ralph Mitchell
	

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