[hobbit] Problem configuring HobbitFetch - solved

Gar Nelson Gar.Nelson at noaa.gov
Fri Oct 17 19:22:02 CEST 2008


McDonald, Dan wrote:
> 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]
>         *ENABLED*
>         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
>
>   
That was it, thanks!  I needed to enable hobbitfetch on the server, and
to also specify my server IP.  I did that and bounced the server, and
now I'm getting the external system data columns.

Gar

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