[hobbit] xymon pluggin not working on server

[Rich Smrcina]

There may be more permissions to fix in the client directory structure. 
Check /var/lib/hobbit/client.

Also, is the hobbitd_client process running?

On 12/23/2009 03:51 PM, David Hay Currie wrote:
>
> I had a problem with xymon server (lost power while upgrading to 
> Ubuntu9.10) and I had to re-install from scratch the OS.
>
> That part was easy enough, but I tried to keep all the history data, 
> and I copied the folders into the new install.
>
> Today I realized that the folders have not been updated since I 
> rebuilt the server because of wrong permissions, so I changed the 
> owner to hobbit:hobbit as the other folders have, and the permission 
> to 755.
>
> In my Ubuntu install the files are located in
>
> /var/lib/hobbit
>
> The folders I did this are: hist, histlogs, hostdata, rrd.
>
> I discover this today trying to figure out why the client is not 
> working on the server. Fixing the permissions, fix my history reports 
> (though I will have 36 days of no reports), but still the client 
> information for the xymon server is not showing up, and neither are 
> the extra scripts.
>
> With the client information I mean CPU, Disk, memory, apt.
>
> It looks like if the client was not reporting to the server (which 
> should be localhost). I could not find how to check it out.
>
> I know how to configure BBWin since most of my network computers are 
> Windows, but don’t know much about the linux client, and it has always 
> worked from the default install for me.
>
> Thanks
>
> *David Hay Currie*
>
> *IT Manager*
>
> *Leisure Fitness*
>
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>


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