[hobbit] Problem configuring HobbitFetch

[McDonald, Dan]

On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 10:18 -0600, Gar Nelson wrote:
> I have my Hobbit server behind a firewall.  The Hobbit server appears to
> be running fine. I'm getting cpu, disk, files, etc data from client
> systems on the same network segment.  With systems outside the firewall,
> I am only getting the conn, info, and trends - nothing else.
> 
> I'm using hobbit-4.2.0.tar.gz source on RHEL4 WS boxes, both server and
> clients.

Did you set enable hobbitfetch on the server?  By default it isn't
enabled.

In hobbitlaunch.cfg, you need something like:

# "hobbitfetch" is used when you have clients that cannot connect to your Hobbit server,
# but the Hobbit server can connect to the client. Normally the clients will initiate
# a connection to the Hobbit server to deliver the data they collect, but this is
# forbidden in some firewall setups. By enabling the hobbitfetch task, hosts that have
# the "pulldata" tag in the bb-hosts file will be polled by hobbitfetch for their data.
#
# NOTE: On the clients you must enable the "msgcache" task, since this is what 
#       hobbitfetch is talking to.
[hobbitfetch]
#       DISABLED
        ENVFILE /usr/lib/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
        CMD $BBHOME/bin/hobbitfetch --server=127.0.0.1 --no-daemon --pidfile=$BBSERVERLOGS/hobbitfetch.pid
        LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/hobbitfetch.log


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

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