[hobbit] Problems with Windows Monitoring in Hobbit

[Malcolm Hunter]

> I am a system engineer working in a Windows based environment. Beside 
> NetIQ AppManager, we are monitoring a part of our servers with Hobbit.
> The central Hobbit server is a Linux RedHat 4.0 machine.
> 
> 
> The Problem I'm facing is the following:
> 
> All of our monitored Windows servers are configured in the "central" mode 
> in the local stored config file (BBWin.cfg) as you can see.
> <!-- bbwin mode local or central /> -->
> <setting name="mode" value="central" />
> <setting name="configclass" value="win32" />
> 
> Normaly in the Web interface they are reporting like this:
> 
> 
> But when I change from "central" to "local", for enabling for example 
> process monitoring, which by the way works fine, the columns files, ports 
> and timediff are changing their color to purple, because hobbit obviously 
> is no longer able to get/update those data for those columns.
> 
> 
> I've tried many things to get those columns to "green" or at least to 
> "clear" state, but now I resign.
> 
> So what I have to do to get those columns working as they do, when the 
> central mode is configured?
> 
> The BBWin Agent version we are using is 0.11.0.83
> 
> 
> Could please someone help?


You need to drop them. BBWin doesn't support them in Local mode.

On the server:

bb 127.0.0.1 "drop STBAD10201 files"
bb 127.0.0.1 "drop STBAD10201 ports"
bb 127.0.0.1 "drop STBAD10201 timediff"

bb is in $BBHOME/bin.

Regards,
Malcolm


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